Speakers

Sharon has been a lighting designer, programmer and educator for over 20 years, living and working around the world and in many different areas of our industry.

She is the Program Director for The Academy of Live Technology @ Rock Lititz, a new program offering a BFA degree in Live Experience Design and Production as well as short course intensives and an Associate Professor of Lighting at University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)

She lived in Amsterdam for several years where she was up to various things including working for the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, for ETC as the Field Project Coordinator for Northern Europe, lecturing for the Academy voor Theatre en Dans Amsterdam and designing lighting, projection and scenery for multiple European/Russian tours with Deva Premal & Miten.

There were also American and Canadian chapters that included lots of lighting design for theatre and dance, some Olympics and Paralympics, some NYC and Broadway, some Detroit Auto show, one tiny house built, and being Lighting Director for the Home States Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

Touring Credits include Designs for Diana Krall, Jesse Cook, Lighting Direction for Norah Jones, Ballet British Columbia, more technical things for Cirque Du Soleil, some production management, some years as a booking agent covering US/Can/Mexico and enough experience on the promoter’s side to know that those guys work really hard.