DMX
Gear
The Commish
DAA
Potpourri
100

Number of addresses in 1 universe of DMX control.

What is 512?

100

This lighting conventional tungsten halogen instrument can project a gobo. 

What is an Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight?

100

The current lighting Commissioner and Associate Commissioner

Who is Autum Casey and Deanna Fitzgerald

100

The 2003 DAA Allen Lee Hughes presented a session in the light lab at that conference talking about this companies line of Gobos. 

What is Rosco? 

100

A light-emitting diode is more commonly known as.

What is an LED?

200

666

What is the absolute address of 154 in the second universe?


200

Invented the Fresnel lens for light houses. 

Who is Augustin-Jean Fresnel? 

200

Commissioner Rich Dunham's book on lighting. 

What is Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals?

200

This 2021 DAA winner in Lighting and Education among their many credits co-curated in 1995 ONSTAGE: A Century of African American Stage Design at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Who is Kathy Perkins?

200

The author of this book (A Method of Lighting the Stage), who pioneered the 3-point lighting system. 

Who is Stanley McCandless?



300

Resistor attached to pins 2 and 3 in a Dmx Terminator.

What is a 120ohm resistor?

300

This designer is credited with creating the first Par Can. (according to  The History of Lighting Aesthetics session.)

Who is Abe Feder? 

300

This commissioner who teaches at UC Santa Barbara, has designed for theatre dance and theme parks wrote the Lighting Job Descriptions Projects article for TD&T.

Who is Vickie Scott

300

This 2017 DAA recipient's company's first branded console was the "Concept" in 1982 was considered 4wrd thinking.

Who is Fred Foster?

300

The Lighting Designer accepting a Tony Award for lighting "Long Day's Journey Into Night"

Who is Natasha Katz?

400

The absolute address of a fixture set to 285 in universe 15.

What is 7453?

400

The first memory console used on the broadway stage used in the production of A Chorus Line by designer Tharon Musser. It was designed by Gordon Pearlman.

What is the LS-8.

400

The first woman to serve as a Lighting Commissioner.

Who is Cindy Limauro?


400

This 2006 DAA recipient has lit for Theatre, Dance, TV but they wrote the book on Concert Lighting, literally.  

Who is Jim Moody?

400

Website started in part by Beverly Emmons where you can download plots and paperwork from current and past designers. It also has literature on classic lighting gear. 

What is the Lighting Archive?

500

The first version of DMX was ratified in this year and was created by this organization. 

What is 1986 and USITT?

500

According to its Data Sheet the VL4000 Spot maximum number of control channels.

What is 57?

500

The number of Current or Past Lighting Commissioners or Associate Commissioners that have projects in the USITT Practical Projects for Teaching Lighting Design Volume 2 on sale now in the USITT store. (between 1-10)

What is 5? 


500

This 2014 recipient was the first African-American woman to be inducted into USA829 in 1969 and first African-American woman to light a show on broadway in 1973. She designed such shows as  Waltz of the Stork, Amen Corner, and the Paul Robeson one-man show 

Who is Shirley Prendergast?

500

This Pioneer of Lighting design designed over 200 Broadway shows, was a part of the Federal Theater Project and designed the Sound of Music in 1959.

Who is Jean Rosenthal?