This book offers a bridge between the basic skills of being a lighting designer to the early steps as a professional lighting designer through inspiration and practical advice from established lighting designers at various stages of their careers.

Interviewees include Neil Austin, Natasha Chivers, Jon Clark, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Rich Howell, Howard Hudson, Mark Jonathan, Amy Mae, Bruno Poet, Jackie Shemesh and Johanna Town.

From them as well as the authors' experience, you gain insights into:

how they approach each design; the various challenges of lighting shows; how they deal with those challenges, from working with a new director to seeing a set model for the first time; how they approach artistic elements such as colour, shadow, darkness; how they move from getting enough work to pay the bills to lighting some of the world's biggest shows; how they manage artistic collaborations, including with associate lighting designers, programmers, electricians