Entertainment technology, designed and integrated.
Stageworks is a Midwest-based technical design and systems practice. Lighting, audio, video, show control, networking and more, planned together, documented thoroughly and built to run every night.
Photo: Ross Zentner · After the War: 1919
On stage
154 productions · 16 companies · since 2011
Systems thinking
Built to work together.
Lighting, audio, video and control share networks, power, cabling and cue structure. We plan them together from the start, on the platforms your venue already runs, so integration happens in drafting instead of in tech week.
Capabilities
Lighting design and programming
Design development, plots and paperwork, console programming, previz, and focus.
Audio engineering and sound design
System design and tuning, mixing, playback, wireless coordination, and comms.
Video and show control
Media playback, cue integration, timecode, and triggering across departments.
Networks and systems integration
Entertainment networking, DMX and sACN architecture, patch, and documentation that outlives the show.
Drafting, documentation and technical direction
Vectorworks drafting, production paperwork, load-in planning, and venue documentation.
Platforms
ETC Eos family, Hog, QLab, TheatreMix and Adobe Creative Cloud, among others.
Selected work
Recent productions
Show Control Engineer · Associate Lighting Designer
After the War: 1919
Mobilize the Poets
Lighting design: AntiShadows Theatrical Design
Photo: Ross Zentner
Show Control Engineer · Associate Lighting Designer · Technical Consultant
Come From Away
Fireside Dinner Theatre
Lighting design: AntiShadows Theatrical Design
Photos: The Fireside Dinner Theatre and Ross Zentner
Technical Director
The Miller’s Daughter
Hometown Opera Company
Photo courtesy of Hometown Opera Company
Lighting Designer · Technical Director
Ride the Cyclone
Rochester Repertory Theatre
Photo: Alyssa Keller
How we work
Documentation first
You get drawings, paperwork, and a system someone else could pick up. Every show leaves a record.
Calm in tech
The point of the preparation is that tech is boring. Problems get solved in the drafting, not at 11pm on the deck.
Scoped up front
Scope, schedule and deliverables are agreed in writing before load-in. Everyone knows what they’re getting and when.
Have a production coming up?
Tell us the venue, the dates and what you’re trying to do. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit and what it would take. We reply within 48 hours.