Head of Video Design

With careers that straddle musical theatre, major concert touring, opera, dance, and branding ‘experience’ this talented pair (with wife Colleen) seeks to weave light, image, and architecture into production design that imprints itself permanently in the psyche... Recent credits include the Video and Production designs for Nickelback’s All The Right Reasons World Tour; Multimedia Design for Sinatra Live at the London Palladium; Scenic Video Design for Grammy Winning rockers 3 Doors Down’s 2005/2006 World Tour; Projection and Multimedia design for the World Premiere of the Opera Frobisher, at Calgary Opera; The award winning projection design for Wagner’s Parsifal at the Seattle Opera (2002 Projection Design of The Year Award); Video Content Design for Barry Manilow’s Emmy Award winning show, Music & Passion, at the Las Vegas Hilton; Production/Video/Lighting Design for the new breakout band, Cartel, in their Live DVD release. Additional credits include Burn The Floor - World Tour (Production Design); Victor/Victoria - National Tour (Lighting Design, also at Papermill Playhouse); Laurie Anderson’s Moby Dick World Tour (Lighting Direction); Godspell National Tour (Video Design); Footloose National Tour (Projection Design); The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert (Production/Video/Lighting Design) (2003 Triangle Award); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express Las Vegas (Lighting Direction); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita (Las Vegas, Houston, and Tour Lighting & Projection Design) They have designed media shows and technology to control the world’s largest flat screen, in Beijing, constructed for the 2008 Olympic Games. They have designed large scale projection and media installations in architectural projects in Osaka, Tokyo, and Las Vegas. This year saw their epic scale design for Nokia Nseries “What Computers Have Become” structure at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the Consumer Electronics show. Bob and Colleen are on the faculty of The Theatre Department at The California Institute for the Arts, where they teach multimedia and projection design curriculum. They have been Contributing Editors for Entertainment Design Magazine, Lighting Dimensions, and are regular columnists in Live Design Magazine. Their production resource, MODE Studios is located in Seattle, WA. www.modestudios.com

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