Dominika Fišerová Kuntzmannová

Dominika Fišerová Kuntzmannová worked as a lighting technician in Czech public theaters between 2014 and 2024. She participated in several seasons of the open-air theater festival in Pilsen and also collaborated with Les Ballets Bubeníček. Between 2017 and 2022, Dominika […]

Saskia Louwaard

Saskia Louwaard (1969) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and then scenography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She worked as a scenographer in Belgium with, among others, Tom van Dijck, Tom van Bauwel, Stef de […]

Isabel Nielen

Isabel Nielen, Lighting Design (1964) While studying at art school, Isabel developed a fascination for scenography and lighting. In 1990, she became the assistant to the English lighting designer Steve Kemp, while also starting her own freelance lighting design practice. […]

Kathleen Locus

Kathleen studied Sinology and Anthropology and built a career in the fields of development cooperation, health promotion and education. The common thread throughout her professional career is her experience in project management: from setting up and formulating projects to successfully […]

Ulf Nielsen

Ulf Nielsen sits on the board of both the Swedish Theater Technology Association (STTF) and the Swedish Lighting Designers Association (SLF). Ulf has a background at Malmö Music Theater as lighting director and also as lighting designer for various productions […]

Caroline Mathieu

Caroline Mathieu is a lighting designer, scenographer, performer, and researcher in the fields of theatre and dance. She studied product development and obtained a master-after-master degree in theatre studies, followed by training in scenography at the Royal Academy of Fine […]

Anders Larsson (STTF)

Anders Larsson leads the Lighting design working group. Anders Larsson has worked as theatre technician and lighting designer in the Performing Arts sector since mid-1980s. Between 1990 and 2004, Anders Larsson worked as the lighting director at the House of […]

Bri Newesely

Bri Newesely leads the set design working group. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bri Newesely: Born in Innsbruck (Austria). Fine Arts and Architecture at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Set Design at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin (Germany). Since 1996, freelance set designer, […]

Bastiaan Schoof

Bastiaan Schoof has been a senior lecturer in lighting and light design at the University of Arts Amsterdam since 2016. He is also one of the members of the Dutch Institute of Light Design (iLo). He participates in the Canon […]

Chris Van Goethem (RITCS-EhB)

Chris van Goethem leads the Canon II project and the Lighting Technology working group. Chris Van Goethem started in 1983 as a technician in a rental company, as most of us in this time. By self-education he became stage manager […]

Emma Reynders

Emma Reynders works as a lecturer for the Information Management courses at Erasmus University College Brussels. There, she teaches content retrieval, information languages and ontologies. From her training as an archivist, she has expertise in analysing work processes and information […]

Nick Hunt

After a career as a professional lighting technician and designer, Nick started teaching lighting design at Rose Bruford College. He went on to become Head of the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts for twelve years, and he now […]

Ondrĕj Svoboda

Director of the Theatre Institute, Czech Cultural Institute (NIK), Prague Ondrĕj Svoboda graduated at the University of Olomouc. Since 1997, he has been working in the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI), since 2004 as a Deputy Director for the Theatre […]

Stefan Gräbener

Dr. Stefan Gräbener works as a lecturer in the theatre and event technology course of BHT (Berliner Hochschule für Technik) since 2016. From 2000 to 2016 he taught as assistant professor at the architectural department and as lecturer in the […]