This project was many years in the making both figuratively and literally. I have been training or working in lighting design for over 50 years now and all of that went into this book. The actual work of putting it on paper was a challenge that I first contemplated almost ten years ago. The final part of this undertaking happened in the last 12 months. That means there are a lot of people I feel I need to thank, but don’t worry I have already made peace with the idea that I will not remember nor be able to include all of them.

My journey down this path began even earlier when my father, as the story goes, took me to a theatre where he was working on a production. I was an infant in arms and he walked me around backstage pointing ...

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