Natasha Katz won her 6th Tony this past season for A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

And when she gave her speech, beaming brighter than a Vari-Lite VL3000, you’d have thought it was her very first time.

I don’t know tons about lighting, but I do know when someone truly loves what they’re doing.

Natasha is one of the industry’s leading ‘painters of light’ (and not the Thomas Kinkade type).  She’s a true artist and has applied her electric brushes to like, 50 shows, including An American in Paris, Motown, School of Rock, A Chorus Line, a whole bunch of Disney shows, and the very first show I worked on, My Fair Lady.  

Listen to Natasha enlighten us all with her thoughts on design and the theater including:

• How a simple internship unexpectedly lit the way to her career.
• What she writes in scripts when she reads them for the first time.
• Why she and all lighting designers have to be chameleons.
• The difference between working for a corporation like Disney and an independent Producer like, oh, I don’t know . . . me.
• What Producers and Authors need to know before hiring a designer.

I’ve been lucky enough to work with Natasha a few times (including on Altar Boyz), and not only does she light the @#$% out of shows, she’s always just such a joy to be around.  Tune into this podcast, and you’ll not only want to work with her, you’ll just want to hang out with her too.

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Sorry about the sound issues in this podcast. We found the bug and fixed it in later episodes. It gets better, I promise 🙂