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June Abernathy Spotlight Supervisor Spot Op Books Teresa Aguilera Owner & CEO Standby and Go Productions Andrés Albornoz Entertainment Drafting Specialist Grid CAD and Rendering Corp Liz Albright Associate Lighting Director Fox News Jeff Alder Lighting Designer Author April Allain Technical Product Specialist Advatek Lighting Butch Allen Vice President of Global Business Development TAIT Jon Allen Director/Show Caller SkySeaStone Productions Aron Altmark Founder Visual Endeavors (Hovercraft Ventures) Ann Archbold Associate Dean/College of Liberal Arts University of Nevada, Reno Manuel Avila Garcia Production Director Loren Barton Screens/Technical Producer Lumentech Jillian Beggs Program Director Behind the Scenes Roy Bickel Rigging Expert Origin Productions Inc Marshall Bissett Freelance Writer & Photographer Retired Co Founder TMB Keith Bohn Technical Development Director & PROLYTE Brand Manager Area Four Industries America David Bond Head of Sales Moveket North America Bob Bonniol Director Innovation, Video & Interactive ACT Entertainment Zak Borovay Projection, Media, and Aerial Drone Designer Image Engineering Joe Branam The Rigger's Rigger Retired Allen Branton Lighting Designer Bennett Brian Principal Reed Rigging Javid Butler Certified Measurement & Verification Professional hc/lambda Hilary Cabezas Stage Manager Encore Global Richard Cadena Trainer to the Stars Academy of Production Technology Sam Caughron RuPaul Drag Race Live Stage Manager Joe Champelli Director of Automation PRG Jessica Chranowski Founder Pure Life Therapy Andrew Cochrane Immersive Creator and Consultant Patti Connors Thurston Marketing Director Freelance Natalie Day Stage Manager Freelance Tyler DeLong Managing Partner DeLong Rigging Solutions Scott De Vos Founding Partner De Lux Productions Alex Kyle DiPietropaolo Lighting Designer Lighting Design Group Colleen Doherty Lighting Designer Derek Epstein Senior Production Rigging Manager Encore Simon Evans Senior Director of Creative AV TAO Hospitality Victor Fable Lighting Designer Ocular Velocity Marcel Fairbairn Founder GearSource.com John Featherstone Principal Lighting Designer Lightswitch Mark Fetto Vice President, Lighting OSA International Stuart Fingerhut Senior Creative Director Hartmann Studios Deanna Fitzgerald Lighting Designer The Heart Of Light Sherry Fox Freelance Event Producer Luther Frank Light Artist/Production Designer House Lumina Brackley Frayer Lighting Designer Emeritus Professor UNLV Rohan Garricks Director DGB Live LLC/thesmartermanager Brandon Gauthier Lighting Designer, Programmer, Creative Technologist ETC Ethan Gilson Owner Entertainment Rigging Services Herrick Goldman Principal Designer HG Lighting/Evoke Collaborative Maia Gomez Lighting Designer Lightswitch Bob Goodwin Director of Standards and Training Rigging International Group Lois Gordon Associate Lighting Director Fox News Brad Gray Account Representative Christie Lites Kody Green Senior Automation Engineer Wender Corporation Paul "Arlo" Guthrie Lighting & Production Designer Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters Michelle Habeck UT Live Design and Production Area Head Live Design and Production Marcus Hammond Southwest Territory Manager - Lighting AC Americas Bob Harmon Owner Eggshell Lighting Sean “Sharky” Harper Project Manager PRG Erica D. Hayes Lighting Designer | Video Director | Professor at California Baptist University IATSE 728 Alison Heiser Owner Open Heart Counseling Mark Heiser Career Coach Hobnail Consulting Bud Horowitz Lighting Designer Kerstin Hovland Creative Director Electronic Countermeasures Sharon Huizinga Associate Professor of Lighting University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music Ajinkya Hukerikar Virtual Production Technologist Zero Density Ben Ikwuagwu CEO & Co-Founder Soundcheck Live Seth Jackson Lighting & Production Designer Seth Jackson Creative David Jacques Lighting Designer Freelance Elynmarie Kazle President Foundation For Stage Managers Ned Keitt Outreach Training Specialist ETC Scott Kinnebrew Consultant Freelance Matthew Klaismeier Technical Support Senior Specialist Acuity/Pathway Connectivity Warren Kong Principal & Managing Director Lightswitch Jennifer Kramer Props MoreGood Productions Michael La Chance Director of Technical Production Wilson Dow Thomas Ladd Business Development Consulting Director Pathway Connectivity Ralph Larmann Photographer Light Fantastic (editor) Hans Lau Director of Change Management at DADCO DADCO Cort Lawrence Show Designer & Director Raw Cereal Ed Leahy Chicago Flyhouse Head Trainer/Cruise Ship Division Manager Leo Lei Assistant Professor of Lighting Design and Production University of Florida Lyra Letourneau Creative Director Pangolin Justin Levene CTO Hirehop Equipment Rental Software Joyce Liao Lighting Designer David Lincecum Vice President/International Operations High End Systems Chris Lose Lighting Director Q3 Las Vegas INC. Kevin Lowther Journeyman Stagehand IATSE #15 Bob Luther Founder Lex Products Amy D Lux Multidisciplinary Designer LoboLux Design Ebony Madry Wasted Potential Project Manager, Lighting Designer Scott Mann Principal, Creative Technologist NoiseChop Matthew Martin Product Manager Pathway Connectivity Solutions Nancy May Event & Production Executive Anne E. McMills Head of Lighting Design and Technology San Diego State University Chris Medvitz Principal & Managing Director Lightswitch Anne Militello Lighting Designer Vortex Lighting Sherrice Mojgani Associate Professor Department of Theater & Dance, Tulane University Tara Molson VJ Visual Artform Peter Morse Lighting/Production Designer Peter Morse Productions Patrick Murphy Executive Director ILDA Chris Musgrave Founder Musgrave Advanced Dynamics Susan Nicholson Lighting Designer Susan Nicholson Design Tracy Nunnally Owner/President Vertigo Patrick O'Keefe Market Manager, Entertainment Lex Products Tania Ordoñez Prieto Senior Manager Entertainment Technical Operations Celebrity Cruises Sven Ortel Arizona State University Immersive & Entertainment Design Scott C. Parker Spotlight Product Planner Vectorworks Nik Peacock Trainer Vectorworks Alex Pendleton Manager, Pro AV Design Engineering team Netgear David S. Perkins Founder and Architect Imaginary Labs Inc Troy Peters SEAS Productions Chief Experience Officer Tori Piper Lighting Programmer Anders Rahm Co-Founder, Partner Raw Cereal Jeff Reder Owner Clark-Reder Engineering John Reynolds Freelancer Gaffer/Lighting Director Lighting Design Group Kevin Ring National Director of Technology Evolve Technology Marti Romances Creative Director and Co-Founder Territory Studio, San Francisco Dylan Roscover The Experiential Co. 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Americas Meg Sump Master Electrician Bart Swinnen CEO Luminex Aaron Tacy Associate Lighting Designer The Lost Boys George Tellos Lighitng Designer LIGHTING ART - ARTIC DESIGN LP Robert Thomson Associate Professor of Lighting Design Carnegie Mellon University Matthew Tirschwell President / CEO Tirschwell Lighting Design Red Walter ADJ Group Senior Project Specialist Christina Watanabe Lighting Designer University of Nevada Las Vegas Ryan Whitmer VJ & Studio Animator Visual Artform Cosmo Wilson Lighting Designer Cosmo Enterprises Chris Wood Lighting Designer and Fabricator Steve Woods Professor of Theatre & Chair of the Stage Design Program Southern Methodist University
