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PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS
With a dad, mom and step-dad in the lighting business, lighting is in Stoltz’s blood.
Stoltz learns as much as he can from classes, internships and industry
connections. He would sit down and learn every board he could, “if I
had the chance,” he says.
“even when I see
lighting shows designed
by the best of
the best, I still have a
few things I’d add.”
—Cody Stoltz
Do they set up the board for you and give
you some lights and let you run with it?
Whenever they have something new there,
I just go up and take a couple of minutes to pull
some moving lights out and hook them up to
the console. No one really shows me anything
unless I really can’t figure it out, so I had to learn
everything from a manual, which can be hard.
I used to proof manuals, so I feel your pain.
If you could, though, would you sit down
with every board and learn it?
If I had the chance.
Do you see yourself as more a lighting programmer
or do you want to be a designer?
Even when I see lighting shows designed
by the best of the best, I still have a few things
I’d add. I want to design a system from the
ground up and run it.
To that end, didn’t you recently attend a
training session at High End Systems?
Everyone at High End was really cool and
friendly. They say down and taught me oneon-one.
Mitch Peebles was the one who was
teaching me and he hooked up a console to
visualizer and he showed almost everything
on the Hog console. It was a great.
I also heard that you had a good experience
when Rush was in town. Can you tell
me about that?
Howard Ungerleider, the lighting designer,
put me on the headset and I got to
listen to all the cues. It was great and I learned
a lot. And if it wasn’t for Howard, I probably
wouldn’t have gotten to go to High End.
You’re already networking. You’ve got a
bright future in this industry.
I hope so.
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2008 September PLSN 53