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I have credits on over 120 television shows and series in Australia and Overseas as a Lighting Director, Gaffer, Board Operator, Moving Light Programmer, Lighting Assistant and Production Electrician. I am familiar with all formats having shot on 35mm, Super 16, HD and SD.

Based in Sydney and the ACT, I provide services to not only the Australian East Coast but also to clients in Europe and the USA. 

I regularly work on large international broadcasts, such as the Olympics for NBC (2000, 2004, 2006) and Seven (2004, 2006, 2008) and the Funeral of Pope John Paul II in Rome in 2005 (NBC).

I was a member of the NBC Olympics studio crew that was nominated for three and awarded two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Technical Team (Studio) at the 22nd, 26th and 28th Sports Emmy Awards, for the Sydney, Athens and Torino Olympics Broadcasts.

Chief Entertainment approached me earlier this year asking me to design a new music show to be shot in Sydney and broadcast live through the Telstra Bigpond Music Network . 'Monday Night Live' has now been running for several weeks with talent including David Campbell, Ben Lee, Scribe, Amy Pearson, Shannon Noll, Small Mercies, Paul Kelly, Angus & Julia Stone and The Waifs. 

The lighting rig is simple yet effective - and incorporates 16 pieces of Colour Web 250, an array of Profiles, Pars and Fresnels controlled by a Hog 1000. Dimitri Levie acts as the Lighting Director with James Frost his able assistant . 

Monday Night Live's site can be found at http://bigpondmusic.com/mondaynightlive

MTV Australia 'The Lair'   

In 2006 I was approached by MTV asking me to look at lighting a new live music show to be shot in Sydney. The Lair was conceived and went to air on Australia Day 2007. It is now on air every Thursday live from Sydney's Metro on George Street with up to four acts performing up to three songs each within the hour. The concept of the show sees it more as a film of a party as apposed to a TV show - and consequently it is lit the same.

The lighting rig includes 84 channels of dimming, Source 4 pars and profiles, an array of 1k Fresnels, LED Floods and Mac 250 Wash fixtures controlled by a Hog 1000 driven by Dimitri Levie. Lighting Assistants James Frost and Jo Espey are kept busy with roving hosting positions and repo-ing between the acts which can be very interesting in a live to air environment!

The Lair's webpage can be visited at www.myspace.com/mtvthelair.

In February I was approached by La Trobe University in Melbourne asking me to design and deliver a second five day course teaching the skills of today's Broadcast Lighting Director to the lighting staff at Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) in Vietnam. This course would be an 'advanced' Lighting Director course, following the 'basic' Lighting Director course I delivered in September 2006. Under the guidance of the University's Dr Peter White, I developed a syllabus consisting of seven learning outcomes which would give students a thorough understanding of how TV is lit in the western world. 

In April I delivered the course to twenty-five members of HTV's lighting team at their new studio complex in Ho Chi Minh City. During the week I also lit several of HTV's shows including the Grand Final of 'Nokia Superband' (aka Vietnam Idol) and other teen based talk shows.   

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