Showlight Announces More Speakers

	(l-r) Top row: Nick Schlieper, Sophya Acosta, Luciana Suppicich. Bottom row: Phil Supple, Bryan Raven, Luc Peumans

The countdown to Showlight 2025, May 19 - 22 at Le Parc des Expositions et Congres de Dijon, is upon us and it's time to announce the next round of speakers engaged to share their experiences over three days.

Nick Schlieper, one of Australia's most highly awarded designers, will examine the considerable challenges posed by lighting Cine-Theatre, a style of production which utilizes live feed video combined with pre-recorded footage with which the performers constantly interact. The term was coined by a critic, writing about a ground-breaking production of The Picture Of Dorian Gray in Sydney, in 2020 and applied to subsequent productions of Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula.

Argentinian lighting designers, Sophya Acosta and Luciana Suppicich from Sophya Acosta Lighting Design Studio, specialize in creating unique moments within the spacial and technical constraints of small venues. Together they will disclose how these restrictions can inspire the most extraordinary ideas.

Phil Supple has created outdoor lighting designs for large scale performances, artworks, public and private commissions for over 25 years. Celebrating the rewards of an outdoor lighting design practice, he will explore the delivery of landscape lighting and lighting artworks under transitional, dynamic, and sometimes unruly conditions in both urban and rural contexts.

Bryan Raven, erstwhile MD of White Light and champion of sustainability, takes a positive and optimistic view of the battle against climate change and the wider sustainability topic with examples taken from his experiences with White Light and working with various organizations in the live events sector.

With over 30 years of experience in creating immersive visual experiences, founder and creative director of Painting with Light, Luc Peumans, will use the new-style immersive musical experience of the musical, 40-45, to show how he blended emotional storytelling with high-tech motion technology, innovative lighting and multimedia design to maintaining the fluidity and intensity of the narrative.