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Broadway

English

Lighting Programmer

Year2025
Lighting DesignerReza Behjat
VenueTodd Haimes Theatre; Roundabout Theater
RoleLighting Programmer
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Photo: Joan Marcus

Broadway Trailer

Photo: Joan Marcus

Photo: Maria Baranova

Photo: Maria Baranova

Photo: Maria Baranova

Case Study

Excerpt from "QolourTopics" with LD Reza Behjat

Collaboration between me, the automation team, and my programmer, Harrison Freni, on English is to figure out how we're keeping the same look and balance as the turntable is shifting. It has been a really rewarding process, but also very complex. All our queues are like so many parts, and delay what is coming in at what speed, and at what speed the turntable is starting to move. What is the acceleration? There have been so many, many layers into that. It is fascinating, but I don't think you know how complex it is, if you watch it. You feel like, oh, this turntable spins. It's OK, and the scene is still happening. But then you have to understand how difficult it is to keep that working, as the turntable moves 100 degrees.

Creative Team

Director
Knud Adams
Set Designer
Marsha Ginsberg
Lighting Designer
Reza Behjat
Costume Designer
Enver Chakartash
Sound Designer
Sinan Refik Zafar
Production Manager
Nic Forero for Aurora Productions

Lighting Team

Associate Lighting Designer
Colleen Doherty
Production Electrician
Brian Maiuri
House Head Electrician
Brian Maiuri