| Glossary
of Technical Theatre Terms
Listing of over 1400 jargon terms
Strand
Archive
Historical information about early Strand Electric lighting equipment
Stage Lighting 101
Primer for students and seasoned designers - covers all the basics
Organisations
- Manufacturers - Suppliers -
Designers
Moving Lights - Historical / Reference - Misc
Control Software - Design Software
Organisations / Groups
- ABTT (Association
of British Theatre Technicians)
- ALD - Association
of Lighting Designers (UK)
- ALIA
(Australasian Lighting Industry Association)
- The Blue Room Technical Forum (UK)
- ESTA (Entertainment Services
& Technology Association)
- IATSE International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (USA)
- Lightnetwork
- Lighting discussion forum
- Luminapolis - Lighting design blog & information (German / English)
 UK Professional Lighting & Sound Association
- USITT (United
States Institute for Theatre Technology)
Manufacturers
- LUMINAIRES (GENERICS)
- MOVING LIGHTS
- LAMPS
- EFFECTS LUMINAIRES / DISCO
- LED LIGHTING
- EFFECTS / GOBOS / ELECTRICAL PROPS & PRACTICALS
(for Pyrotechnics, Smoke etc. see
Theatrical Effects page)
- COLOUR MEDIA
- CONTROL / DIMMING
- EQUIPMENT - ACCESS
- EQUIPMENT - FLIGHTCASES / TOURING
- EQUIPMENT - DESIGN AIDS
- EQUIPMENT - RIGGING
- EQUIPMENT - TOOLS
Suppliers (see also Manufacturers
above)
General - UK suppliers
- Used
Lighting Secondhand lighting equipment (UK)
- AC Lighting
- AJS Theatre Lighting
and Stage Supplies Ltd (Hampshire, UK)
- Arcstream (London,
UK) Lighting, Lasers and Audio Visual
- ASG
Stage Products (Lancashire, UK)
- Ashcroft Services Ltd (Croydon, UK)
- Audio
Light Systems Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- Barbizon Europe Ltd. (Herts, UK)
- Big House Events (Scotland, UK)
- Black Light (Glasgow & Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK)
- BlueParrot
Production - Lighting equipment and services (Cheltenham,
Bristol, UK)
- Central
Theatre Supplies (Birmingham, UK)
- Cerebrum Lighting
- Earlsmann Limited (Devon, UK)
- The Electric Company (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
- EMF Technology Projection & FX (London, UK)
- Enlightenment (Redditch, UK)
- Expression Events Lighting & Sound Hire (Southampton, UK)
- Fourth Phase (London,
UK)
- GearSource
Europe (UK - Secondhand equipment)
- Glantre Engineering Ltd (Berkshire, UK)
- Gradav Theatre Services (London,
UK)
- Kave Theatre Services (Sussex & Derbyshire, UK)
- Lancelyn Theatre Supplies (Wirral
/ Oxford, UK)
- Lighting
Effects Distribution LED lighting
- Lightology Stage Lighting & Display Fixtures (Chicago, IL, but will ship internationally)
- Live Systems -
Audio and Lighting (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Midnight
Design Hire & Sales Catalogue
- The Moving
Light Company (London, UK)
- New
Image Lighting (Manchester, UK)
- Northern
Light (Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
- Northern
Stage (Oldham, UK)
- Optifanatics Specialists
in projected lighting effects - unique collection (Surrey, UK)
- Premier Lighting and Lampshades Home and outdoor lighting retailers, fabric lampshades made to order. Chandelier ranges. (UK)
- Primarc (Reading,
UK) Lamps and accessories for TV/Film/Theatre
- Pro
Sound & Light Effects lighting & PA hire (Exeter, Devon)
- Profile Solutions UK (Cheshire, UK)
- Puxley (Exeter, Devon UK)
- RKDO Sound & Light (Kent, UK)
- Solas - LED Solutions (Scotland, UK)
- Sound and Light Guys Sound reinforcement and lighting services (UK)
- Sound Barrier Systems Lighting and PA hire (UK)
- Soundlighting.co.uk Excellent
pricing on a limited range of sound, lighting & disco kit
(UK Mail Order)
- Stagetec
- Stage
Electrics (Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, London, Plymouth
UK)
- Stage Engage (Exeter, Nottingham)
- Stage
Lighting.co.uk - Lighting equipment
- Teknique
Systems Ltd. Architectural and LED lighting
(Scotland)
- TMB - Electrical,
lighting and rigging equipment
- Used Lighting - Secondhand equipment
- White
Light (London, UK)
General - European suppliers
General - USA/Canada suppliers - Angstrom Lighting (Hollywood, CA, USA)
- AtFull (Canada)
- BSL Productions (MD, USA) Travels/Ships internationally
- Chauvet Lighting
Effects etc. (Hollywood, Florida, USA)
- City Theatrical (New
York, USA)
- D'Entertainment
Group (Illinois, USA, but will ship internationally)
- Discount
Stage -
(USA, but will ship internationally) Mail order tools & accessories
- LiveWire - Electroluminescent Wire / EL Wire (USA)
- Exhibit
and Display Truss - (Pickering, Ontario, Canada)
- Eyedialogue (Charlotte,
NC, USA)
- Fourth Phase (USA site)
- Kinetic
Lighting (Culver City, CA)
- Koster Design Sales, Service, Design (MO, USA)
- Lighting & Production
Resources (Orlando, FL, USA)
- Lighting
Zone.com - Online Sales - very reasonable prices (USA)
- Lightwaves
Concept - Track lighting and LED Light specialists
(Manhattan, USA)
- Multi-Lite (USA/Germany/China) International lamp sales
- Parlights (MD, USA) Lighting & Rigging
- Performance
Lighting Inc (Chicago, IL) Lighting services &
sales
- Pro Lighting Supply Online (MO, USA)
- RZI Lighting (New
Orleans, USA)
- Solaris
Network - New and used lighting and audio and resources
(Georgia, USA)
- Solutions
Lighting - LED lighting (Oklahoma, USA)
- TMB - Electrical, lighting
and rigging equipment
- Wiedamark Effects lighting / LEDs
General - Other international suppliers
Lighting Services
Practicals
Designers
- ALD - Association of
Lighting Designers (UK)
- Durham Marenghi
- Lightheart Design
(Jon Primrose)
- Andrew Gardner
- Sean Hennessy New York-based
theatre Lighting Design services as well as lighting for corporate events,
dance, music, and other theatrical entertainment.
- Ben M Rogers London-based lighting, video & scenic designer
- David L Sadler
- Graham Walne
See also the Theatre
Skills videos presented by Graham.
- Patrick
Woodroffe
- Project
2000 International Design Archive
Moving Lights
- GENERAL
- Moving Lights
comparison charts & loads of reference material
- Redmonkey- Moving
Light Programming Reference pages
Historical / Reference
Misc
Control Software & PC-DMX512
Interfaces
See also the SOUND LINKS
page for more on Show Control
- Ace Visual & Sound Systems
Ltd. Creators of 'ShowMagic' PC Software for controlling Lighting,
Sound, Video and RS232/Midi devices for Theatrical, Entertainment,
Architectural and Show Control applications.
- DMX Soft (PC control and DMX interfaces)
- Horizon PC Lighting control
software
- LightFactor - PC Lighting control software
- PC DMX512 Interfaces
- JPK - PC/DMX
interfaces. Very reasonably priced
- Madrix Matrix control software
- The Fun Company - Creators of E.GO show control software
- Showcad - PC lighting controller
- Wet Electrics
- Production Designer Multimedia software
- West
Side Systems - LX Design tools for Palm OS
Design
(CAD / Visualisation / Paperwork) Software
See
also the SCENIC LINKS page
for more on 3D Visualisation
- Autodesk - AutoCAD
- CAD
Symbols - free download from Modelbox, UK
- Maclux Pro -
Mac LX design software
- Vectorworks / Minicad software
from Nemetschek
- Modelbox UK CAD specialists
- Lightconverse Visualisation software
- Luxart Conception
makers of Microlux visualisation software
- LX Designs
- LXDesigner software
- LD Assistant
Design software
- LD Calculator
- Lightwright
software
- Starlite Systems
Stardraw Lighting Design software
- Turbocad - 2D/3D
CAD package from IMSIsoft
- West
Side Systems - LX Design tools for Palm OS
- WYSIWYG
from Cast Lighting
Vision
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