One type of job I’m just getting into is building and focusing booth lighting rigs. It’s a different world when the plot comes from a room somewhere and is clearly the product of hours of phone calls between the booth client, the scenic company building the booth and the in-house lighting design team of a big lighting company. It’s a different way of working that requires you work thoughtfully, collaborate with the scenic team and exercise patience as the elements of the build spring up over the hours it takes to implement a design.

Then it’s time to focus and make the lights work as the designer intended and make the appropriate and necessary changes on the ground.

And then the people come and you do the day to day maintenance of the rig.

I didn’t think I would like doing booths. But they have become a good distraction from the usual General Session days.