Jason Lindahl, Video Technician and Designer, is Dead at 27

Jason Lindahl, a video projection technician and designer, died July 4. He was 27.

According to the New York Daily News, his body washed up in the Hudson River, near 179th Street. His death is being treated as a suicide.

Lindahl was born in Normal, Illinois. He graduated from Normal West High School in 2003 and in 2007 received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Moving to New York in 2007, he worked as a design assistant at the design firm Lightswitch; he recently started his own company, JCLindahl in New York. He was a multimedia design assistant to Howard Werner on the recent touring production of Dreamgirls; most recently was a video technician on the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Ghost.

A member of IATSE, he was also the media designer for 2007 and 2011 United States national exhibits at the Prague Quadrennial Scenographic Exposition.

Lindahl is survived by his wife, Ya Han Tsui, a daughter, his parents and grandparents, and a sister and brother-in-law.