From Pat MacKay, the mother of us all, she who spawned LDI back in 1988, there has always been a strong presence of women on the staff. A tradition we are proud to continue, from Jessi Cybulski, LDI show manager, to Marian Sandberg, content director for all our digital products, to sales managers such as Kelly Turner and Jo Zola, to name just a few.
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This article is vastly different than one from last week regarding the lack of women in technical theatre. This article does not make any claims or arguments, it just simply points out all the amazing women and the things that they will be doing or presenting on at LDI this year. LDI is a conference for people who participate in live design, such as lighting designers. LDI was founded in 1988 and is still running strong today. Their conference this year is in Las Vegas the week prior to Thanksgiving. This article highlights many of the women who will be speaking and presenting at the conference. This article highlights women due to the nature of LDI and its founder Pat MacKay. Aside from being founded by one of technical theatre’s most iconic women, LDI has a long history of women in leadership roles. Reading this article has given me such high hopes for my future in this industry.
Bianca summed up LDI pretty well.
This article was a nice showcase and glimpse into some of the talented women that are in the field of lighting and projection design. There was a Carnegie Mellon Alum as the cover photo (go CMU and Peggy Eisenhower!) Peggy and Jules Fisher (also a CMU Alum, but he went to Carnegie Mellon for Engineering) were nominees in this past Tony Award Season. It's great to see that there is a strong Alum system out in the industry along with some amazing women in the industry. The industry is changing and women and men are equally out (not to say that men are worse designers or technicians!!! They definitely are equal creators in this field). Men and women bring different perspectives and skills into the industry and diversity is always a good thing. Along with conferences, like LDI, and the entertainment industry as a whole, CMU shows a diversity of students in their design program! I don't personally only feel empowered by being surrounded by other females (I think that you need diversity) but it is comforting to know that you aren't the only one in this field. The industry seems to be heading in a good direction in regards to gender equality and diversity. Articles like this one are nice to see, and it's nice to see women in the industry being spotlit (but still we can't forget the other incredibly talented and hard-working men in the field as well)
I really appreciated how this article just pointed out all of the amazing women that will be at LDI this year without feeling like it needed to make any sort of argument or persuasion for why they deserve to be there. One f the categories that was mentioned quickly,but that I find especially positive is the fact that there are a lot of women represented in the teaching categories. So often conferences preach about gender diversity and inclusion of the attendees, but still have almost exclusively men running the classes and events. It is always a little disheartening to not see any women get to share their knowledge, and is also disheartening as a student to not see yourself represented in any of those positions. I did not know that LDI had such a strong female leader at its start, but I am glad I read this article and now know about all of the awesome women going to LDI this year.
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