Chris Van Goethem started in 1983 as a technician in a rental company, as most of us in this time. By self-education he became stage manager and travelled around Europe with a lot of Belgian companies. Later on he started to work as consultant and educator in technical theatre.
Clifton Taylor has designed on Broadway and for opera, theater, and ballet companies worldwide. He speaks regularly in the US, Asia, Europe, and South America on lighting design and adult learning. He is one of the founders of Studio School of Design, an online and in-person design school based in New York which is seeking to widen access to high-quality design learning. https:// studioschoolofdesign.org
Bastiaan Schoof
With a background in theatre, Bastiaan Schoof works in different fields of lighting. For his Happy Tunnel collective, he designs light art for public spaces, especially for tunnels. Next to that, as a senior teacher, he teaches lighting design for the bachelor program at the University of Arts in Amsterdam. And in 2012, when Amsterdam Light Festival started, for 10 years he was involved as a the technical and artistic advisor/curator. In 2021 he founded his own light expo “I Light You“ in Utrecht, which will have its second edition in January 2023. Also, he is involed in Institute of Lighting Design in the Netherlands (iLo). He also still designs, now for Une Loue pour l’Homme, a French circus.
