Women In Lighting, a group open to all women working in lighting, covering all fields such as engineering, architecture, art, entertainment, manufacturing, education, research and journalism, will present their annual session at LDI 2025 in which four women will discuss how the role of the lighting designer in the entertainment industry has seen significant growth in recent decades. The session will be held on the Battle of the Busk stage on the LDI show floor and open free to all attendees on Monday, December 8, 2:30-4:00pm.
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Jessica Creager, Naomi Gold, Aria Hailey, and Tiffany Keyes will be discussing how the role of the lighting designer in the entertainment industry has seen significant growth in recent decades, expanding to a spectrum of primarily creative concept work to a position demanding specialist software knowledge and close collaboration with programmers and network magicians. Ever more complex show control systems, ever larger pixel-mapped fixtures, and ever larger-scale multimedia integration, have stretched the notion of design well beyond sketched ideas and forced a process of creative vision that must be developed hand-in-hand with an increasing number of highly skilled technicians who can realize intricate lighting cues, timecode sequences, and myriad network protocols with precision. For the lighting designer, the focus has become less about manually operating a system of lights, and more about orchestrating a creative process where design intent, technical expertise, and software-based precision converge to deliver increasingly ambitious and immersive experiences.
Following the session, attendees are invited to Rosa Stunde (the pink hour) at the ACT Entertainment Booth #4212, Rosa Stunde has been running for more than ten years and began at an unplanned event initiated by Solveig Busler (now with Schnick Schnack Systems, then ProSystems Group) and Marc Lorenz (now with Ayrton, then freelance) at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt, on the ProSystems Group stand, where a small group of industry women met by chance and discovered they didn’t know each other. This is the first time Rosa Stunde will be held at LDI.
Women In Lighting is sponsored by ACT Entertainment and Ayrton.