EPISODE 186:
THEATRE LIGHTING DESIGN: FEES, CONTRACTS, AND COPYRIGHT WITH BEVERLY EMMONS
Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 3/17/2025
Release Date: 3/17/2025
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Lighting designer Beverly Emmons discusses a range of topics on the business of theatrical lighting design. Topics: ⭐️ W2, 1099, and copyright ⭐️ Adding riders onto your contract ⭐️ Theatre Law which aims to protect investors’ money ⭐️ The history of the theatre design union - United Scenic Artists ⭐️ A reminder for your professional career to get in the door and be a nice guy |
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Links and Resources
Video Version
TBD
Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
Beverly Emmons
https://performingartslegacy.org/emmonsbeverly/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverly-emmons-57339135/
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/beverly-emmons-25645
The Lighting Archive
https://thelightingarchive.org/
Don Holder Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXHdU1JVmRE&t=34s
Ken Billington Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuojA4i6y5c
Jules Fisher
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jules-fisher-7001
Kermit Blumgarden - producer
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kermit-bloomgarden-14214
Ted Mann - producer
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/theodore-mann-15532
Broadway Grosses
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/
Atlantic Theatre joins IATSE
https://deadline.com/2025/03/atlantic-theater-iatse-1236348882/
Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas
https://archive.org/details/theatrelightingi0000rees/page/n9/mode/2up
Broadway Theatre Manager - Peter Bogyo
https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781621536246
https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781621536253
(affiliate link)
USA 829
https://www.usa829.org/
Beverly Emmons (Lighting Designer) has designed for Broadway, Off-B’way and Regional Theater, Dance and Opera both in the USA and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, A Day In Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf and Doonesbury. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award., Off B’way she lit Vagina Monologues and has designed many productions with Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. She has worked with the Ensemble For The Romantic Century for 10 years on many productions. For Robert Wilson, she has designed lighting for productions spanning 13 years; most notably in America, Einstein on the Beach and the Civil Wars Pt V. Ms Emmons’ designs for dance have included works for Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
She has been awarded seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards. She participated on the 2010-2013 Tony Nominating Committee. In 2024 she was awarded the Ming Cho Lee Lifetime achievement award by the Henry Hewes Critics Association.
Additionally she has created and curated TheLightingArchive.org a website that makes historical lighting documents accessible to students and scholars on the Internet.
Instagram Handles
@bemmonsld12gmail
@ethansteimel
@nicolevsteimel
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Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
Beverly Emmons
https://performingartslegacy.org/emmonsbeverly/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverly-emmons-57339135/
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/beverly-emmons-25645
The Lighting Archive
https://thelightingarchive.org/
Don Holder Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXHdU1JVmRE&t=34s
Ken Billington Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuojA4i6y5c
Jules Fisher
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jules-fisher-7001
Kermit Blumgarden - producer
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kermit-bloomgarden-14214
Ted Mann - producer
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/theodore-mann-15532
Broadway Grosses
https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/grosses-broadway-nyc/
Atlantic Theatre joins IATSE
https://deadline.com/2025/03/atlantic-theater-iatse-1236348882/
Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas
https://archive.org/details/theatrelightingi0000rees/page/n9/mode/2up
Broadway Theatre Manager - Peter Bogyo
https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781621536246
https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781621536253
(affiliate link)
USA 829
https://www.usa829.org/
Beverly Emmons (Lighting Designer) has designed for Broadway, Off-B’way and Regional Theater, Dance and Opera both in the USA and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, A Day In Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf and Doonesbury. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award., Off B’way she lit Vagina Monologues and has designed many productions with Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. She has worked with the Ensemble For The Romantic Century for 10 years on many productions. For Robert Wilson, she has designed lighting for productions spanning 13 years; most notably in America, Einstein on the Beach and the Civil Wars Pt V. Ms Emmons’ designs for dance have included works for Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
She has been awarded seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards. She participated on the 2010-2013 Tony Nominating Committee. In 2024 she was awarded the Ming Cho Lee Lifetime achievement award by the Henry Hewes Critics Association.
Additionally she has created and curated TheLightingArchive.org a website that makes historical lighting documents accessible to students and scholars on the Internet.
Instagram Handles
@bemmonsld12gmail
@ethansteimel
@nicolevsteimel
