EPISODE 167 BONUS:
DANCING FINANCIALLY AS A LIGHTING DESIGNER WITH ROMA FLOWERS
Host: Ellen Lampert-Gréaux & Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 10/17/2024
Release Date: 10/17/2024
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Ellen Lampert-Gréaux and Ethan talk with Roma Flowers, a lighting designer for dance and theatre based in Texas.
Topics: ⭐️ Opening a 401k when young ⭐️ Legacy and generational wealth ⭐️ Keeping overhead low in the lean times ⭐️ Partnering with someone better than you at finances ⭐️ Reporting income on taxes to pay into social security |
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Links and Resources
Video Version
https://youtu.be/mLgNZFIOOe0
Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
LDI
https://www.ldishow.com/
Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-lampert-gr%C3%A9aux-2abb351b/
Roma Flowers
https://raflowers.wixsite.com/lightingdesign
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roma-flowers-682b8087/
Taxes
https://www.artisticfinance.com/96.html
Solo 401k
https://www.investopedia.com/best-solo-401k-companies-5089155#:~:text=Fidelity%20is%20our%20best%20overall,wide%20range%20of%20investment%20choices
Sleep No More
https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/sleep-no-more/
Then She Fell
https://thenshefell.com/
Meow Wolf
https://meowwolf.com/
Roma Flowers
Lighting & Projection Designer
Roma Flowers, a theatrical lighting and projection designer and screendance maker has worked with theatre, concert and dance and video productions for over thirty years. She has designed the lighting for such diverse performing artists as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, The Dance Theatre of Harlem, DanceExchange, the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Doug Varone Dance among others. Her work has been seen throughout the United States and Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, continental Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Roma is a recipient of the prestigious New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. Bessie) for her lighting designs, the KOI-USA Knight of Illumination Projection Design Award for “A Bon Coeur”, an evening-length work, created and performed by master dance artist, Helanius J. Wilkins. Roma’s screendance collaboration with Helanius J. Wilkins, “Dirt”, was awarded Best Experimental film in both the New York World Film Festival and the Fine Arts Film Festival. Roma as video designer was a member to the creative design team for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2023 premiere of “The Factotum”. As Lighting Designer, her work was included in Houston’s Stages production of “Thunder Knocking on the Door” which was nominated for the 2023 Houston Press Theatre award. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
Creative Director for Live Design & LDI
Ellen Lampert-Greaux is the creative director for Live Design and LDI. She was on the five-person team that founded LDI in 1988, and has produced the conference and special events for the show since its debut. She has also produced the Envision Symposium; Backstage Las Vegas; and XLIVExLDI. She is also an award-winning writer (FOLIO: EDDY Award in 2021, 2022, 2023) and editor who specializes in entertainment design and technology, writing regularly for livedesignonline.com, as well as a freelance writer on technology and architectural lighting. She is a host on several podcasts: Light Talk, Zone 1, and now Artistic Finance.
Instagram Handles
@nicolevsteimel
@ethansteimel
@live.design
@ldishow
https://youtu.be/mLgNZFIOOe0
Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
LDI
https://www.ldishow.com/
Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-lampert-gr%C3%A9aux-2abb351b/
Roma Flowers
https://raflowers.wixsite.com/lightingdesign
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roma-flowers-682b8087/
Taxes
https://www.artisticfinance.com/96.html
Solo 401k
https://www.investopedia.com/best-solo-401k-companies-5089155#:~:text=Fidelity%20is%20our%20best%20overall,wide%20range%20of%20investment%20choices
Sleep No More
https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/sleep-no-more/
Then She Fell
https://thenshefell.com/
Meow Wolf
https://meowwolf.com/
Roma Flowers
Lighting & Projection Designer
Roma Flowers, a theatrical lighting and projection designer and screendance maker has worked with theatre, concert and dance and video productions for over thirty years. She has designed the lighting for such diverse performing artists as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, The Dance Theatre of Harlem, DanceExchange, the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Doug Varone Dance among others. Her work has been seen throughout the United States and Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, continental Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Roma is a recipient of the prestigious New York Dance and Performance Award (a.k.a. Bessie) for her lighting designs, the KOI-USA Knight of Illumination Projection Design Award for “A Bon Coeur”, an evening-length work, created and performed by master dance artist, Helanius J. Wilkins. Roma’s screendance collaboration with Helanius J. Wilkins, “Dirt”, was awarded Best Experimental film in both the New York World Film Festival and the Fine Arts Film Festival. Roma as video designer was a member to the creative design team for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2023 premiere of “The Factotum”. As Lighting Designer, her work was included in Houston’s Stages production of “Thunder Knocking on the Door” which was nominated for the 2023 Houston Press Theatre award. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
Creative Director for Live Design & LDI
Ellen Lampert-Greaux is the creative director for Live Design and LDI. She was on the five-person team that founded LDI in 1988, and has produced the conference and special events for the show since its debut. She has also produced the Envision Symposium; Backstage Las Vegas; and XLIVExLDI. She is also an award-winning writer (FOLIO: EDDY Award in 2021, 2022, 2023) and editor who specializes in entertainment design and technology, writing regularly for livedesignonline.com, as well as a freelance writer on technology and architectural lighting. She is a host on several podcasts: Light Talk, Zone 1, and now Artistic Finance.
Instagram Handles
@nicolevsteimel
@ethansteimel
@live.design
@ldishow
