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Caroline
Yacono
Luna Stage Company
Production Manager & Lighting Designer
I was on staff at Luna from 2005-2008. All the shows featured below are during my tenure as production manager. I worked alongside with the crews I hired installing electrics, rigging, building and painting the shows.
I also worked closely with the artistic director & managing director particularly on budgeting for the season and managing the production budget for each show/event. In addition I also did the lighting design for the following productions featured below; The Normals, The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit , Nocturne, The New Moon Director's Lab, Sesame Workshop Fundraiser: Luna Stage Welcomes Elmo & Gordon
Backstage
featured The New Moon Director's Lab at Luna Stage in an article titled A Guide to Director Training Programs
January 26-February 1
2006
Know Dog
The New Moon Director's Lab- Repertory One Acts / Lighitng Designer & Production Manager
Production Photos
The Picasso Project
The New Moon Director's Lab- Repertory One Acts / Lighting Designer & Production Manager
Production Photos
Nocturne
Nocturne was produced twice at Luna Stage, first as a part of the The New Moon Director's Lab and then as a fully realized production & billed as a part of the main-stage season. Nocturne was nominated for Best Lighting Design of a Play by the New Jersey Star Ledger theatre awards.
Lighting Designer & Production Manager
Production Photos
Luna Stage
Production Manager
Additionally Lighting Designer - The Normals / Stepin Fetchit / Sesame Workshop
Press Photos / Production Photos
 The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit 2006 |  Death of a Salesman 2007 |  The Kreutzer Sonata 2006 |
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 The Whipping Man 2006 |  The Man In Room 306 2008 |  Little Beasts 2008 |
 The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit 2006 |  The Normals 2007 |  Honor & the River 2007 |
 Sesame Workshop Fundraiser |  Robeson in Space 2005 |  Robeson In Space / NYT 2005 original photograph published in Times article / Rehearsal Photo |
 Robeson in Space 2005 The New York Times Press Release |  Robeson in Space 2005 The Montclair Times Review |  Robeson in Space 2005 The NJ Star Ledger Review |
ALD / Lighting Design
The Montclair Art Museum
I was the assistant to the lighting designer to Steve Rust from 2004-2007 for the annual Art in Bloom Luncheon & black tie gala fundraiser & the event lighting designer in the subsequent years until 2011. Events included: All That Jazz, An Evening In Paris, The Andy Warhol Factory Party, Jazz for Art Sake starring multi-Grammy Award Winner Christian McBride, An Affair to Remember starring Bebe Neuwirth, The Black & White Gala and more. I did the circuiting layout, power distribution, cable runs, order for the additional rental equipment and perishables, scissor lift rental, hired crew, scheduled & ran calls each year.
Assistant Lighting Designer / Event Photos: An Evening in Paris
Assistant Lighting Designer / Event Photo: The Black & White Gala
Additionally I was charged with scenic lanterns placement and rigging, and my crew & I did the labor.
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Lighting Rig Front Boom
Lighting Rig Back Boom
Danmari Ltd. presents
Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre
In the video below you can see my lighting design work with Yass as he was filmed before a live audience for NJN State of the Arts at The Westminster Arts Center on the Campus of Bloomfield College. I have also designed for Yass at the The Ailey Citigroup Theatre in NYC, Annually for First Night Montclair at The Montclair Art Museum & at Sussex County Community College
Lighting Designer
Yass Hakoshima, an internationally renowned mime, began his career with the Yokoyama Ballet troupe in Japan. In the U.S., he studied modern dance with Erick Hawkins and mime with Etienne Decroux. Hakoshima and his wife and partner Renate Boue created the Yass Hakoshima Mime Theatre in Montclair, NJ in 1976. Included is a recent performance featuring live music by the Claring Chamber players.
Aired: 02/15/12
Rating: NR
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Vital Theatre
New York, New York
Idiot's Delight Winner of the off off broadway review award (oobr) for Best Lighting Design
Shakin' the Mess Outa Misery Nominated for the NYC Innovative Theatre Award in Lighting Design
Cocus & Doot and Shakin' the Mess Outa Misery were on a repertory lighting plot & stage.
Lighting Designer
Cocus & Doot
Pre-show Preset
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Production Photo
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New York City Off & Off Off Broadway Lighting Design
Raritan Valley Community College
Raritan, NJ
Lighting Design
Student-Faculty Dance Concert
Choreographed & Performed By
Loretta Di Bianca Fois & Sabatino Verlezza
Montclair State University
Production Manager & Lighting Designer
Convocation Ceremonies'
Yoga Montclair
Lighting & Rigging Consultation, Design, Installation
Commercial Property Design & Performance Studio
The Pittsburgh Playhouse / Point Park University
Lighting Designer
The Sea
Production Photos
Pre-show Preset
Lighting Design & Production Management Gallery
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