108: Lighting Up The Dance Floor with Lighting Designer Marsha Stern

Artistic Finance

Lighting designer Marsha Stern joins the show to talk finances as a lighting designer in NYC nightclubs.

Topics:

⭐️ Her time working in NYC nightclubs in the 1980s

⭐️ Being on payroll for venues versus freelance income

⭐️ Saving for retirement by putting in to social security

⭐️ Transitioning to working in architecture and "architainment"

⭐️ Entry into the entertainment industry via a music career, and shifting focus back to music since the pandemic.

Bonus Episode Includes:

⭐️ Marsha’s autographed backstage passes

⭐️ Leasing Vari*lites before you could buy them

⭐️ LDI - Marsha and I will both be there to record a LIVE episode

⭐️ Lighting at Radio City Music Hall and calling six followspots at once

Bonus Episode:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/108-marsha-stern-69193239?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Video of the Interview:

https://youtu.be/KFSmWk1_cUw

Marsha on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/marsha.stern.58/

Marsha on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marsha-stern-5390585/

The Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor®

https://heartbeatofthedancefloor.com

Roy Thode:

https://roythode.com

Studio 54:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_54

LDI:

https://www.ldishow.com/

Dennis Size episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfd8v39G8aE&ab_channel=ArtisticFinance

Ken Billington episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuojA4i6y5c&t=61s&ab_channel=ArtisticFinance

Anne Militello - Lighting Designer:

https://vortexlighting.com/anne-militello

Women In Lighting Design presentation by Anne Militello:

https://womeninlighting.com/extras/entry/pioneers-of-light-a-history-of-women-in-lighting-design

Paul Gregory - creator of Focus Lighting:

https://www.focuslighting.com/news/2018/4/11/paul-gregory-for-architectural-lighting-magazine-10-years-later

Destiney Powell episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFysg4gfCPU&ab_channel=ArtisticFinance

Links from the Patreon episode:

Michael Strickland episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYs0rrXZ0k&ab_channel=ArtisticFinance

Geezers of Gear:

http://geezersofgear.com/website/the-evolution-of-automated-lighting-part-1

LD at Large:

https://plsn.com/category/podcasts/ld-at-large-podcast/

Become a patron:

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Interview by Ethan Steimel