Lighting Design — Hudson Schlumberger

01 Approach

What I am trying to do with light

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02 Lighting Design · 2025

The Comedy of Errors

DirectorPam McDaniel

CompanyWestRep Stage

RoleLighting Designer

RigLorem ipsum — fixture count, console, notable units

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The full company of The Comedy of Errors beneath a hand-painted banner — The full company. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

The idea

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A single figure in a pool of blue light beneath the banner — A pool of blue. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

From paper to the stage

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01 — Research & palette

02 — Light plot

03 — Pre-vis

On stage

The company lit beneath the hand-painted banner — Under the banner. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

A scene played out into the house among the audience seats — Into the house. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

The printed light plot on the tech table — The plot, printed and marked up in tech.

Placeholder — the Eos magic sheet.

Tech rehearsal seen from the lighting desk — Tech, from the desk.

In performance

The company of The Comedy of Errors mid-scene on the timber set — *The Comedy of Errors*, WestRep Stage, 2025 — production trailer.

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03 Lighting Design · 2025

The Wolves

DirectorAllen O’Reilly

CompanyRobin Aren Productions

VenueSouthampton Cultural Center

RoleLighting Designer

RigThe house rep plot — designed within a fixed hang

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A pitch, indoors

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The rig for The Wolves seen from the house, over a turf deck — The rig, from the house.

The team huddled together mid-scene — The huddle. Photo: Robin Aren Productions

A player alone in goal under a cool wash — In goal. Photo: Robin Aren Productions

The team gathered around the orange slices — Orange slices. Photo: Robin Aren Productions

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04 Video Design · 2026

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

DirectorJustin P. Cowan

CompanyWestRep Stage

RoleVideo Designer & Video Engineer

LightingOliver Wason

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The icon wall. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

Making the content

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Placeholder — sequence storyboard.

A green screen shoot for the production's video content — Green screen shoot for content.

Building the video content in QLab — Building content in QLab.

The video desk during technical rehearsal — The video desk at tech.

Preshow ads

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A lawyer in a pale suit addressing camera against a magenta and orange gradient

A man at a bench of beakers in front of a glowing green laboratory set

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05 Assistant Scenic Design · 2024

The Mound Builders

DirectorPam McDaniel

CompanyWestRep Stage

RoleAssistant Scenic Designer

Scenic designMaureen Freedman

LightingDavid Sexton

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The white model

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The white model part-assembled on the workbench — The white model coming together.

The finished white model inside its presentation box — The white model, in the box.

In the shop

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Decking laid out and under construction in the scene shop — Decking in the shop.

Building the table for the set — Table build.

Finishing work on a side table — Finishing a side table.

Stacked crates built as set dressing — Crates.

The finished set

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The completed set standing on stage — The set, built.

On the finished set, dressed and lit — On set.

The set seen from the house — From the house.

In performance

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Four characters around the kitchen table at night, blue light through the windows — At the kitchen table. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

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The sitting room with settee, standard lamp and survey maps pinned to the wall — The sitting room. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

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A character at the office desk with a dictaphone, projector and telephone — The office. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

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06 Props Supervision · 2025

Curse of the Starving Class

DirectorSal Trapani

CompanyWestRep Stage

RoleProps Supervisor

Scenic designMaureen Freedman

LightingEvan Anderson

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The lamb

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A clay form sculpted on a cutting mat as the mould for the carcass — Sculpting the mould.

The finished lamb carcass hanging in the scene shop — The lamb carcass.

Bottles of stage blood and spray paint on a spattered shop floor — Stage blood and spray.

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The slatted wooden pen built for the live lamb, with the lamb inside — The lamb pen.

Two characters arguing across the lamb pen on stage — Over the lamb pen. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

On-stage food

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A character among overturned chairs with artichokes strewn across the floor — Artichokes on the floor. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

The kitchen set from the house, artichokes scattered across the deck — Artichokes, from the house.

The door

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Laying the threshold on the rehearsal room floor — Threshold in the rehearsal room.

The built door laid flat on the floor, painted in panels — The door, built.

A character kneeling among the wreckage of the broken door — The broken door. Photo: Anastasiia Vladymyrenko

In performance

Two characters on the finished kitchen set, the lamb carcass downstage — In performance.

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07 Assisting

Assistant design

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Sunday in the Park with George Assistant Lighting Designer — Oliver Wason, dir. Justin P. Cowan · WestRep Stage 2025

Legally Blonde: The Musical Assistant Lighting Designer — Oliver Wason, dir. Russell Garrett · WestRep Stage 2024

08 How I work

Script to strike

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01 Read & researchLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

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03 Plot & paperworkUt enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco.

04 Pre-visDuis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit.

05 Hang & focusExcepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa.

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Placeholder — a cue list excerpt, with intent alongside each cue.

See the paperwork → All 27 credits →

09 Early work · 2017–2021

Where the designing started

Five lighting designs at Fordham Preparatory School, all directed by Thomas O’Sullivan — Newsies, The Laramie Project, Grease, Romeo & Juliet and Godspell.

Romeo & Juliet, 2020

DirectorThomas O’Sullivan

SchoolFordham Preparatory School

RoleLighting Designer

ConsoleETC Element — busked live at every performance

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A red wash across the back wall with violet light on the deck, Romeo and Juliet — *Romeo & Juliet*, Fordham Prep, 2020 — lit on an ETC Element and busked live each night.

Designs, from
first read to strike

What I am trying to do with light