Margie Heymann, Author at Rosco Spectrum

Consultant: After working more years at Rosco than she can remember – first as a product manager and then as a Business Development Manager for Southeast Europe – Margie Heymann now works as a consultant for Rosco from her home office in New York. Margie’s Spectrum posts will often feature her years of experience with Rosco products – especially color filters – and her relationships with some of the biggest names in lighting design.

Author Archives: Margie Heymann

An Interview With Christopher Caines
Choreographer, Lighting Designer, And… Neighbor

Thanks to Airbnb, Rosco’s Margie Heymann ended up renting space inside the apartment of Choreographer/Lighting Designer Christopher Caines. While they were neighbors, Margie interviewed Christopher about his approach to lighting for dance.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann July 25, 2017 Questions?

Lighting Through The Glass Ceiling
Reflections on Tharon Musser

Rosco’s Margie Heymann shares her memories about legendary lighting designer Tharon Musser and the impact she had on stage lighting and on Rosco.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann March 31, 2017 Questions?

Opera “Made In Italy” – Performed In China

A look into the lighting choices of LD Franco Marri for a production of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser,” which opened the 2016 Opera Festival at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann May 19, 2016 Questions?

Remembering Patrick Latronica – Maestro di Colore

Rosco’s Margie Heymann remembers the work of her friend Patrick Latronica and provides several examples of his “bold, assured and original use of color.”

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann February 9, 2016 Questions?

Telling The Story By Changing The Colors On The Cyc

Lighting designer Alessandro Carletti used color to express the psychological mood of the characters in Teatro San Carlo’s production of “The Abduction from the Serraglio.” See his colour palette and learn why he chose the colours that he did.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann January 21, 2016 Questions?

A Spotlight on the Colorful Physics of Lighting

Italian lighting designer Liliana Ladeluca and composer Andrea Basevi created a mini-opera named Operina della Luce, to teach children (and even adults) the basics of the physics of light and color.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann November 6, 2015 Questions?

There’s More Than One Way to Stage a CATS

Italy is not especially renowned for its productions of modern musicals. Its fame lies in having invented the form of musical theatre called “opera.” When Saverio Marconi, the acclaimed director of the Compagnia della Rancia, finally obtained the rights to CATS after six years of negotiations with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group – he…

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann September 26, 2013 Questions?

All The Colours Of Europe

from Margie Heymann From June 8 until July 1 Europe will be alight with the colors of the team shirts and national flags of the 16 countries competing for the title of UEFA 2012 European Football Champion. We thought that it would be fun to give each team a color from E-Colour+, our traditional European…

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann June 5, 2012 Questions?

Women in Stage Entertainment Have Gotten WiSE

Lighting Designer Paule Constable founded WiSE in order to identify, examine and address some of the problems that affect the female lighting designer, technician, and industry member in what is still basically a male-dominated industry.

Entertainment Lighting Margie Heymann October 15, 2010 Questions?