A conversation with lighting designer Don Holder.
Topics:
⭐️ Advice for young designers
⭐️ Managing finances as a freelancer
⭐️ Advantages of filing taxes as a C Corp
Video Version
Artistic Finance
https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance
Don Holder
https://www.donaldholderlighting.com/welcome/portfolio/index.html
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/donald-holder-25700
The Lion King
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark
Eastern Standard - Don's first Broadway design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Standard
Imero Fiorentino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imero_Fiorentino
Bill Klages - TV Lighting Designer
https://www.livedesignonline.com/news/memoriam-bill-klages
Randy Nordstrom
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635210/
Frank Brault
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankbrault
George Tsypin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tsypin
Jennifer Tipton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tipton
LDI - Free registration with promo code ARTISTICFINANCE
LDI AF Recording - The Art of Tailoring A Show
LDI AF Recording - Financial Independence for Creatives
Sylie Scowcroft
https://www.financialgrove.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvie-scowcroft-55670361/
Madelline Song In Two Languages at Once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoEuuMEkng
Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 60 Broadway productions and has been nominated for fourteen Tony awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for 'The Lion King' in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of 'South Pacific'. Recent Broadway productions include: 'The Pirates of Penzance' (Spring 2025), 'Tootsie', 'Kiss Me Kate', 'McNeal', 'Anastasia', 'My Fair Lady', 'Oslo', 'Straight White Men', 'She Loves Me', 'Fiddler On The Roof', 'The King and I', 'On The Twentieth Century' and many others. Projects at the NY Metropolitan Opera include: 'Champion', 'Rigoletto', 'Porgy and Bess', 'Samson et Delilah', 'Otello', 'The Magic Flute' and the premiere of 'Two Boys'. He has worked at most of the nation's leading resident theatres, and has designed over 100 Off-Broadway productions. His television/film work includes the theatrical lighting for 'Spirited' (Apple Studios), seasons one and two of 'Smash' (N
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