Lighting Design Process--Inspiration

The Lighting Designer is Eben Alguire. He is a graduate student in the SDSU MFA in Design and Technical Theatre. His adviser is faculty member Craig Wolf. Lighting design is an important part of any production, as it can help create a mood and atmosphere on the stage. Lighting designers often start by collecting images that embody an aspect that they would like to bring to the stage; it may be a color or a quality of light, or the way that the light falls on the subjects in the image. For Symphony of Clouds, Eben collected these images in his first round of research.