EPISODE 122:
A Freelance Perspective - LIVE from LDI with Marsha Stern, Amy D Lux, and Jen Schriever
Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 11/14/2022
Release Date: 11/14/2022
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A broadcast of our LIVE recording from LDI in Las Vegas.
Three lighting designers discussing finances from a freelance perspective. Topics: ⭐️ Retirement plans. ⭐️ The cost of filing taxes. ⭐️ Earning a living in lighting. ⭐️ How much current jobs are paying. |
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Links and Resources
Student Worksheet
Women In Lighting
Ayrton Digital Lighting
Live Design International (LDI)
Lighting Up The Dance Floor with Lighting Designer Marsha Stern | Artistic Finance
Financial Independence with Amy D Lux | Artistic Finance
Jen Schriever
Lighting Designer
jenschriever.com
Jen Schriever
Jen Schriever. She/her. Broadway: A Strange Loop, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Recent Off-Broadway: Power Strip (LCT 3); A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons); Superhero (2ST); What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW); Thom Pain, Night is a Room (Signature); Collective Rage, School Girls… (MCC); Usual Girls, Bobbie Clearly, On the Exhale (Roundabout); Dan Cody’s Yacht, In the Body of the World (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Amateurs (Vineyard); Strange Interlude (TransportGroup); The Moors (Playwrights Realm); Eclipsed, ToasT, A Second Chance (The Public). Tour: An Officer and a Gentleman’s and Blue Man Group national. Opera: Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan); Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata (Mariinsky, Russia). Adjunct Professor: Purchase College. Mom: Henry.
Marsha Stern
Lighting Designer
Marsha Stern
Marsha Stern
The Heartbeat of The Dance Floor Podcast | Marsha Stern
Marsha Stern, a lighting designer, programmer, technician and production manager who’s career began in the music business and spans the NYC Nightclub and Special Events circuit from the late 70’s through the mid 90’s when she began to pioneer using entertainment technologies in architectural lighting design, now known as Architainment.
Marsha incorporated as Marsha Stern Lighting Design & Consulting, Inc. in April 1999, actively working as an independent designer, programmer and consultant until 2017 when she joined Acclaim Lighting, the architectural division of ADJ Group.
2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic brought everything to a grinding halt, including her tenure with ADJ Group. During the past 2 years Marsha has delved into a couple of her passion projects which resulted in creating a legacy website dedicated to Roy Thode an iconic DJ from the glory days of disco and a podcast, The Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor®. “I’m embracing what seems to be my third career as a Nightlife Historian, which combines my life experiences from both the musical and lighting/production world.” These new projects are under the umbrella of Backlit Productions, LLC which Marsha formed in Florida in 2011 for her music-oriented ventures.
Amy D Lux
Multidisciplinary Designer
@LoboLuxDesign
@LoboLuxDesign
Amy D Lux
LoboLuxDesign.com
@UtopiaDreamscape
@UtopiaDreamscape
Utopia Dreamscape
Amy D Lux is the founder and principal designer of LoboLux, a Multidisciplinary Design + Consultant firm. With technical knowledge spanning from design development to programming, wiring, installation, and integrating advanced lighting and controls for theatrical, architainment, immersive, and the built environment, LoboLux can provide a full scope of services and partnerships to provide a beautiful, successful, and well documented project. LoboLux also offers graphic design and marketing services to develop training modules, lead speaking engagements, and write articles to help architects, engineers, field techs, programmers, sales teams, and end users understand complex subjects in a modality that is aligned with their standard syntax and methods.
Women In Lighting
Ayrton Digital Lighting
Live Design International (LDI)
Lighting Up The Dance Floor with Lighting Designer Marsha Stern | Artistic Finance
Financial Independence with Amy D Lux | Artistic Finance
Jen Schriever
Lighting Designer
jenschriever.com
Jen Schriever
Jen Schriever. She/her. Broadway: A Strange Loop, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Recent Off-Broadway: Power Strip (LCT 3); A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons); Superhero (2ST); What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW); Thom Pain, Night is a Room (Signature); Collective Rage, School Girls… (MCC); Usual Girls, Bobbie Clearly, On the Exhale (Roundabout); Dan Cody’s Yacht, In the Body of the World (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Amateurs (Vineyard); Strange Interlude (TransportGroup); The Moors (Playwrights Realm); Eclipsed, ToasT, A Second Chance (The Public). Tour: An Officer and a Gentleman’s and Blue Man Group national. Opera: Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan); Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata (Mariinsky, Russia). Adjunct Professor: Purchase College. Mom: Henry.
Marsha Stern
Lighting Designer
Marsha Stern
Marsha Stern
The Heartbeat of The Dance Floor Podcast | Marsha Stern
Marsha Stern, a lighting designer, programmer, technician and production manager who’s career began in the music business and spans the NYC Nightclub and Special Events circuit from the late 70’s through the mid 90’s when she began to pioneer using entertainment technologies in architectural lighting design, now known as Architainment.
Marsha incorporated as Marsha Stern Lighting Design & Consulting, Inc. in April 1999, actively working as an independent designer, programmer and consultant until 2017 when she joined Acclaim Lighting, the architectural division of ADJ Group.
2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic brought everything to a grinding halt, including her tenure with ADJ Group. During the past 2 years Marsha has delved into a couple of her passion projects which resulted in creating a legacy website dedicated to Roy Thode an iconic DJ from the glory days of disco and a podcast, The Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor®. “I’m embracing what seems to be my third career as a Nightlife Historian, which combines my life experiences from both the musical and lighting/production world.” These new projects are under the umbrella of Backlit Productions, LLC which Marsha formed in Florida in 2011 for her music-oriented ventures.
Amy D Lux
Multidisciplinary Designer
@LoboLuxDesign
@LoboLuxDesign
Amy D Lux
LoboLuxDesign.com
@UtopiaDreamscape
@UtopiaDreamscape
Utopia Dreamscape
Amy D Lux is the founder and principal designer of LoboLux, a Multidisciplinary Design + Consultant firm. With technical knowledge spanning from design development to programming, wiring, installation, and integrating advanced lighting and controls for theatrical, architainment, immersive, and the built environment, LoboLux can provide a full scope of services and partnerships to provide a beautiful, successful, and well documented project. LoboLux also offers graphic design and marketing services to develop training modules, lead speaking engagements, and write articles to help architects, engineers, field techs, programmers, sales teams, and end users understand complex subjects in a modality that is aligned with their standard syntax and methods.
