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LIGHTING DESIGN
THEATRE PLANNING + DESIGN
At Studio T+L
our twin passions are
Theatre and Light
OUR PROFILE
Experience + Collaboration
Studio T+L, LLC is a dedicated group of lighting designers and
theatre consultants. We believe thoughtful, creative lighting
design, fully integrated with the architecture, completes a space.
By listening to our client’s desires and collaborating with the
architect we develop a holistic design that makes the most of each
project’s practical requirements and aesthetic goals.
We listen carefully to understand our client’s unique needs. We
put our client’s best interests first and work with the entire project
team to uphold those interests. In collaborating with our clients,
architects, and engineers, our mission is to bring each project to
life with a thoughtful, original, appropriate lighting design
Theatre + Light
Our designers bring an intimate knowledge of the physics and
psychology of light, a theatrical sensibility, and an extensive history
of successful projects to every design they undertake. Our work
combines artistry, technical skill, and environmental awareness with
real world issues of cost, maintenance, constructability, and code
compliance to provide winning solutions.
Dedication + Innovation
Studio T+L exists because we love what we do. We pride
ourselves on fruitful collaborations and on providing superior
service to our clients.
Our designers are continually examining the latest products and
research to assure that our designs, even the historic ones, look
to the future regarding maintenance, energy efficiency, and code
compliance.
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From the first idea for a
new or renovated theatre to
the opening night gala, we
collaborate with our clients
to design superb spaces
that meet their artistic and
production goals.
By combining bold creativity with
strong technical skills, we offer clients
highly imaginative solutions that
meet their aesthetic, sustainability,
and maintenance requirements.
OUR SERVICES
Lighting Design
• Establishing lighting design criteria
• Developing lighting design concepts
• Fixture selection, layout, and specification
• Custom fixture design and specification
• Lighting calculations
• Mock-ups and field tests
• Lighting control system design, specification, and
programming
• Equipment cost estimates
• Energy analysis
• Fixture focusing
Theatre Planning
• Architectural feasibility studies
• Facility programming, space planning and allocation, critical
adjacencies
• Budgeting
• Stage/Audience relationship
• Seating and sightline geometry
• Stagehouse planning and design
• Backstage planning and design, including dressing rooms,
rehearsal rooms, scenery and costume shops, storage, and
loading docks
• Front of house planning, including ticket booths, coat
rooms, concession stands, and other audience amenities
Theatre Systems Design + Specification
• Seating layout and seating systems
• Manual and motorized rigging systems
• Orchestra pit and stage lifts
• Orchestra shells
• Stage lighting control systems
• Stage lighting fixtures
• Stage and acoustic drapery
• Repertory light plots
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OUR EXPERIENCE
Studio T+L’s team includes award-winning designers who are
recipients of the the Obie Award, the Bessie Award, the IESNY
Lumen Citation, and the IES Award of Merit. Our work has
been profiled in Lighting & Sound America , Lighting Design +
Application, Design Bureau, and Architectural SSL. Our designers
also teach at some of the country’s most prestigious design
schools.
The following pages showcase some of our recent and favorite
projects, provide biographies of our staff, and include a full list of
our projects.
Henry Kissinger Global Conference Room
Paley Center for Media
New York, NY
Architect: Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design
Partnership
Lighting Design: Studio T+L
The Kissinger Global Conference Room is a high-tech,
media-based room for teleconferencing, meetings, and
presentations. The meeting room includes a forty-person
elliptical conference table with built-in teleconferencing,
presentation technology with a video projection screen
at each end of the room, a full room audio system, three
state of the art robotic ceiling-mounted cameras, and
microphones for all forty positions at the conference
table.
The lighting challenge was to provide a flexible lighting
design that included high-quality video lighting without
using unsightly studio fixtures. The solution involved a
combination of wall washing, indirect light from a cove,
and carefully placed accent lights to provide the required
illumination without causing discomfort to the meeting
attendees.
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Fordham University Church
Bronx, NY
Lighting Design: Studio T+L
The goals of the renovation to the lighting in the
University Church were to enhance illumination levels
throughout, and to enliven and accent this historic 1845
church.
The lighting program called for increased light levels in
the pews, improved lighting for video taping and webcasting throughout the sanctuary, and new lighting to
reveal the architectural features of the church.
Our design replaced most of the incandescent fixtures
in the sanctuary with LED fixtures to reduce power
consumption and simplify maintenance. We also added
new fixtures to light statuary in the transepts, new LED
fixtures grazing the walls of the church, new lamp arrays
in the existing pendant fixtures, and a new dimming and
control system.
Church of the Holy Innocents
New York, NY
Original Architect: Charles Patrick Keely
Lighting Design: Studio T+L
The re-lighting of this 1868 church began with the
restoration of the mural by Constantino Brumidi, who is
best known for the murals he painted in the U.S. Capitol.
The roughly 20’ x 40’ mural is evenly illuminated from the
sides with continuous, linear LED fixtures. To maintain
visual harmony, we also designed new lighting in the
sanctuary, and new lamp arrays in the existing pendants
throughout the nave. All of the lights are connected to a
new control system with presets for mass, daily activities
and special events.
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Kenneth Cole Private Showroom
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Studio T+L
Studio T+L collaborated with Kenneth Cole Productions
to develop a dramatic, private showroom to showcase
the new season for fashion magazine editors. The
showroom draws on our theatre lighting background by
using theatrical style fixtures, a dimming system and high
contrast lighting to create a completely new Kenneth
Cole environment.
Coach Private Showroom
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Studio T+L
Studio T+L lights Coach’s private showroom for the
quarterly reveal of the upcoming season’s products.
While the fashions, displays, and floorplans change with
each show, the lighting design always creates a dramatic,
high-contrast environment to focus attention on the new
season’s clothing, bags, and accessories.
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Levoy Theatre
Millville, NJ
Architect: R2Architects
The renovation to the Levoy Theatre updated all of the
100-year old theatre’s systems and interior finishes. The
proscenium was moved 12’ downstage to provide a
larger stagehouse that was outfitted with over 50 doublepurchase line sets, 300+ dimmers, 200 stage lights, stage
drapery, and an orchestra pit lift. New dressing rooms
and a green room were built below the stage. The suite
of dressing rooms is connected to the stage in three
locations - stage left, stage right, and upstage. The floors
of the orchestra and balcony were re-pitched to improve
sightlines, and the aisles were reconfigured for improved
access and ADA compliance.
Union City High School
Union City, NJ
Architect: RSC Architects
The new Union City High School includes a performing
arts complex consisting of a 970 seat proscenium theatre
and a 99 seat black box theatre, both with architectural
lighting by Studio T+L.
In addition to lighting design, Studio T+L provided
theatre consulting services for both theatres. The
proscenium theatre is fully outfitted with an overstage
tension wire grid, 200 stage dimmers and a computer
control system, stage draperies, and custom acoustic
reflectors over the stage and in the auditorium.
The black box theatre has a full pipe grid, 100 stage
dimmers with a computer control system, stage
draperies, and platforms and chairs for flexible seating
layouts. The theatres are supported by a suite of dressing
rooms, individual control booths and a scene shop.
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Rewarding Lives
New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Exhibit Designer: The Moderns
Lighting Designer: Jason Livingston
prior to Studio T+L
Rewarding Lives, an exhibit of photography by Annie
Liebovitz was installed in New York, San Francisco and
Los Angeles. Photographs were individually lit within
the translucent fabric structures, which were sculpted
with colored light from over 125 theatrical fixtures with
glass color filters. Each installation received a substantial
amount of daylight. As the day progressed, the balance
between exterior daylight and interior exhibit light slowly
shifted, creating a dynamic environment of light, shadow
and color.
I Heart Radio Theatre
New York, NY
Architect: Meridian Design
The I Heart Radio Theatre (formerly the PC Richard &
Son Theater) is a private venue for Clear Channel Radio’s
New York City stations. The 5,500 square foot street level
performance space hosts top recording artists performing
exclusive private concerts for station listeners.
This multi-use space is primarily a rock concert hall, but is
also the home base for Clear Channel to capture content,
such as their Stripped series, for national distribution. It
also functions as a corporate meeting room and screening
room.
The theater is equipped with over 200 stage dimmers,
conventional and moving light fixtures, and over 8,000
LED nodes embedded in the side walls, curved ceiling
panels and upstage wall. The LEDs are controlled via
a media server that can send color, texture and video
images to the entire system, fully enveloping the
audience in the excitement of the performance.
The P.C. Richard & Son Theater was a finalist in the 2010
ESTA Rock Our World Awards.
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OUR DESIGNERS
Jason Livingston LC LEED Green Associate
Principal
Jason directs our consulting at Studio T+L and is responsible for the overall planning,
programming and design of our projects. With over 20 years of experience as a theatrical
and architectural lighting designer and theatre consultant, he has designed and managed
projects ranging from 99 seat black box theatres to 4,100 seat municipal theatres. His
architectural lighting design encompasses high-end retail, university libraries, performing arts,
and corporate facilities. He was awarded a 2012 Award of Merit by the IES for relighting the
University Church at Fordham University and a 2003 Lumen Award by the New York Section of
the IES for his work on Rewarding Lives for American Express in New York City. His work has
been profiled in Lighting & Sound America , Lighting Design + Application, Design Bureau,
and Architectural SSL.
Since 1993, Jason has been teaching theatrical and architectural lighting design in New York
City. He currently teaches architectural lighting design at Parsons School of Design and Pratt
Institute. He also taught stage lighting at New York University for 10 years and architectural
lighting at Fashion Institute of Technology for 5 years.
He is the author of Designing With Light: The Art, Science, and Practice of Architectural
Lighting Design (Wiley, 2014), and is a coauthor of Design Guide 1 - Color and Illumination
(IES, 2016).
Jason is a member of the IES Color Committee and the IES Education Review Council. He
holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from University of Miami and an MFA in Lighting Design from New
York University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, Illuminating Engineering
Society, International Association of Lighting Designers, and United States Institute for Theatre
Technology.
Paul Bartlett
Associate
Paul provides guidance on space planning, operations, and outfitting for our theatre clients.
Over the course of his career, Paul has been a stagehand, actor, director, designer, and
manager. His 25 years of production management include production coordinator at Brooklyn
Academy of Music, production manager/tour manager with Columbia Artists Management,
and Production Manager of the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College.
Paul holds a BA in Theater and History from Vasser College and an MFA in Lighting Design
from New York University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829
Lenore Doxsee
Associate
Lenore’s work at Studio T+L includes Levoy Theatre and Bristol Memorial Theatre. She also
continues her freelance theatre design career, where her 25 years of experience as a lighting
and scenery designer includes resident lighting designer for Target Margin Theater where she
received an Obie Award for their production of Mamba’s Daughters in 1998. Regionally and
abroad she has designed for Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage Company, La Jolla
Playhouse, Singapore Repertory Theatre, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Pittsburgh Opera, Spoleto USA, and elsewhere.
Since 1992 Lenore has dedicated part of her career to training the next generation of
designers. She teaches design at New York University in the Department of Drama,
Undergraduate and has taught design at Williams College and the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
Lenore holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Williams College and an MFA in Lighting Design from
New York University. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
Ed McCarthy
Associate
At Studio T+L, Ed’s work includes I Heart Radio Theater, Clear Channel Rich Media Overlay
Studio, University Church at Fordham University, and Paley Center for Media. As a theatre and
television designer Ed is in great demand. He is currently the Associate Lighting Designer for
all companies of Mama Mia! in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. He adapted the lighting for the
Broadway production of Corem Boy, the British import from the National Theatre in London.
Ed’s other Broadway credits include Associate Lighting Designer on Wonderful Town, The
Phantom of the Opera, Dame Edna The Royal Tour, and Dance of the Vampires. Ed has been
the Lighting Director for numerous telecasts of the Grammy Awards, Latin Grammys, Tony
Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, and Kennedy Center Honors. At PBS, he has been a Lighting
Director for Live From Lincoln Center for eighteen years.
Ed also teaches television lighting in the Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Ed holds a BS in Business and an MFA in Lighting Design from New York University. He is
a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees Local 1.
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OUR WORK
LIGHTING DESIGN
Retail + Hospitality
New Victory Theatre Public Spaces
New York, NY
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
Complete redesign of 6,750 SF of lobby
space at New York’s prominent, family
oriented theatre
Coach
New York, NY
Private showroom
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Various Locations
Kenneth Cole Reaction – Gran Plaza
Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico
Kenneth Cole Productions, Designer
En Japanese Brasserie
New York, NY
Re-lighting of main dining room and lounge
Comedy Garden at Madison Square
Garden*
New York, NY
CPR Group, Designers
Architectural/performance lighting system for
New York’s largest comedy club
Bergdorf Goodman*
New York, NY
In-house lighting consultant and designer for
high-end retailer
1991 – 1997
Kenneth Cole Private Showroom
New York, NY
Kenneth Cole Productions, Designer
Commercial + Office
AppNexus Auditorium
New York, NY
Habjan Architecture + Interior Design
Multi-media auditorium
Paley Center for Media
Henry Kissinger Global Conference Room
New York, NY
Lee H. Skolnick Architecure + Design
3,200 SF multi-media conference room
DVDojo*
New York, NY
CRP Group, Designers
Lighting of private digital video training
facility
Appalachian State University Library *
Boone, NC
Kohn Pedersen Fox, Architects
250,000 sq. ft. LEED Silver university library
Worship
Church of the Holy Innocents
New York, NY
Re-lighting of historic 1869 church
University Church
Fordham University
Bronx, NY
Re-lighting of historic 1845 church
* Jason Livingston prior to Studio T+L
Exhibit + Event
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
Washington, D.C.
Multi-media public education center
CVS Health Experience Center
Chicago, IL
DesignContact
Multi-media corporate sales center
Pelopidas Event Space
St. Louis, MO
Peter Hyde Design
3,200 SF television studio and event space
Rewarding Lives – Annie Liebowitz Exhibit*
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco
The Moderns, Designers
• 2003 Illuminating Engineering Society New
York Section Lumen Citation
• Profiled in Colors: Architecture in Detail by
Oscar Ojeda and James McCown © 2004
• Los Angeles installation profiled in June
2004 issue of Lighting & Sound America
• San Francisco installation profiled in
July 2004 issue of Lighting Design +
Application
Lighting design for many of the theatres listed below, including:
AppNexus Auditorium
I Heart Radio Theatre
Levoy Theatre
Dixon Place
Middletown High School
Newark Arts High School
Signature Theatre
Union City High School
Watchung Hills Regional High School
Pelopidas Event Space
* Jason Livingston prior to Studio T+L
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OUR WORK
THEATRE CONSULTING
Commercial + Civic Theatres
AppNexus Auditorium
New York, NY
Habjan Architecture + Interior Design
Multi-media auditorium
Buttenwieser Hall
92nd Street Y
New York, NY
Renovation of 200-seat dance theatre
Levoy Theatre
Millville, NJ
R2Architects
Renovation of 1900’s era 680-seat theatre
Signature Theatre*
Arlington, VA
VOA Architects
300-seat and 100-seat black box theatres
• Profiled in Lighting & Sound America
July 2007
Milwaukee Auditorium*
Milwaukee, WI
VOA Architects
Conversion of 1906 convention hall to a
4,100-seat municipal auditorium
• Profiled in Lighting & Sound America
August 2004
Dixon Place
New York, NY
Meyer/Gifford Architects
New 130-seat black box theatre,
rehearsal room, offices, lobby and cafe.
Concert + Recital Halls
I Heart Radio Theater
New York, NY
Meridian Design Associates
200-seat, multi-purpose rock venue and
dance club
• Profiled in Lighting & Sound America
June 2011
• Featured in Architectural SSL Magazine
May 2011
• Finalist in the ESTA Rock Our World
Awards 2010
• Profiled in Architectural SSL Magazine
November 2009
Chapin Hall*
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
HillierArchitecture
250-seat recital hall
East Campus Recital Hall*
Kean University
Union, NJ
KSS Architects
300-seat recital hall
Higher Education
Collins Auditorium
Fordham University
Bronx, NY
Meyer/Gifford Architecture
New dimming and rigging for a 500-seat
auditorium
Chapin Hall*
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
HillierArchitecture
250-seat recital hall
East Campus Recital Hall*
Kean University
Union, NJ
KSS Architects
300-seat recital hall
Alexander Kasser Theatre*
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ
HillierArchitecture
500-seat multi-purpose theatre
• Published in Lighting & Sound America
March 2005
K-12 Education
La Scuola d’Italia
New York, NY
DMR Architects
New rigging, drapery, and stage lighting
systems in a new recital hall
Newark Arts High School
Newark, NJ
SSP Architectural Group
New rigging and stage lighting systems in a
multi-use auditorium
Watchung Hills Regional High School*
Warren, NJ
Feitlowitz & Kosten Architects
1,000-seat multi-use auditorium
Middletown High School*
Middletown, CT
DeCarlo & Doll, Architects
700-seat multi-use theatre
Union City High School
Union City, NJ
RSC Architects
New high school with a 970-seat proscenium
theatre and a 99-seat black box theatre
• 2010 Project of Distinction Award from
Council of Education Facilities Planners
International (CEFPI)
• Winner Best Architecture Project of 2009
from Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal
Black Box Theaters
Dixon Place
New York, NY
Meyer/Gifford Architects
New 99-seat black box theatre,
rehearsal room, offices lobby and cafe
Signature Theatre*
Arlington, VA
VOA, Architects
300-seat and 100-seat black box theatres
Union City High School
Union City, NJ
Rivardo Schnitzer Capazzi, Architects
970-seat multi-use theatre and 99-seat black
box theatre
• 2010 Project of Distinction Award from
Council of Education Facilities Planners
International (CEFPI)
• Winner Best Architecture Project of 2009
from Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal
Thomas G. Pullen School*
Landover, MD
Ziger/Sneed, Architects
500-seat multi-use theatre and 100-seat black
box theatre
Outdoor Theaters
Stephen Capistro Theatre Renovation*
Middlesex County, NJ
ALSA Architecture, LLC
Renovation of lighting and rigging systems
The Tom Ridge Pavilion at the Mountain
Laurel Center for the Performing Arts*
Bushkill, PA
Quad3, Architects
5,000-seat semi-enclosed amphitheater
* Jason Livingston prior to Studio T+L
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Television Studios
Pelopidas Event Space
St. Louis, MO
Peter Hyde Design
3,200 SF television studio and event space
Clear Channel Rich Media Overlay Studio
New York, NY
Green screen television studio
Feasibility Studies
Margaret Williams Theatre
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ
RSC Architects
Feasibility study for the renovation of a 500-seat
University theatre.
New Paradigm Theatre
Standord, CT
Fletcher Thompson Architects
Feasibility study for a new 300-seat theatre, with
support spaces and offices.
Ford’s Theatre
Woodbridge, NJ
RSC Architects
Feasibility study for a new 500-seat theatre, with
shops, offices, and community meeting rooms.
Landmark Center for Performing Arts
Landmark School
Prides Crossing, MA
Sgarzi Associates
Conversion of gymnasium into 180 seat theatre
with lobby, dressing rooms, shop, classrooms and
offices
Levoy Theatre
Millville, NJ
R2Architects
Renovation of 1900’s era 680-seat theatre
Bristol Memorial Theatre
Bristol, CT
Schoenhardt Architects
Feasibility study for the renovation and expansion
of a 900-seat theatre
Elmwood Playhouse
Nyack, NY
Feasibility study for the renovation and addition to
three-building complex
Greenfield Community College
Greenfield, MA
Baer Architecture Group
Feasibility study for Visual and
Performing Arts Center
Clarkstown High School North
New City, NY
Metropolis Architects
Conversion of band room into
99-seat black box theatre
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