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(914) 522-8415 • CAThacker@aol.com • Fax (561) 423-0109
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| NOW | Lighting Designer, The Lighting Unit, Inc. | |||||||||||||
| Projects include live audience PBS specials in the Registry Hall at Ellis Island and Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo; live presentation of Comcast Newsmakers of the Year Awards 2001 at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia; and live presentation of the debate by candidates McGreevey and Schundler for Governor of New Jersey at Pfleeger Concert Hall, Rowan University. | ||||||||||||||
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| 1989-2000 | Lighting Designer and Director, The Lighting Design Group | |||||||||||||
| Engaged on a project basis. Remarkable variety of studios, budgets, work rules and programming, from sports to food to comedy to politics. | ||||||||||||||
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| 1992-1993 | Instructor of Video Production | |||||||||||||
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Department of Communication, S.U.N.Y., The College at New Paltz |
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| 1974-1988 | Lighting Director, National Broadcasting Company | |||||||||||||
| Responsible for design and implementation of lighting for television programs. Specified lighting equipment and placement. Planned circuiting, coloring, control and cueing of lighting. Directed cueing via headset for control boards and follow spots. | ||||||||||||||
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1982-1988 | Late Night with David Letterman
Designed lighting for first 1,000 shows, including three-camera show aboard 747 airplane in flight with all power from batteries. |
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1984 | NBC Sportsworld: Boxing, Panama City, Panama
With no prior information, assisted by a translator during Noriega's regime, aired a new civic facility’s first live sporting event. |
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1981 | Tomorrow Coast to Coast with Tom Snyder
Delivered lighting on extremely tight schedule for talk show and two production numbers, serving a different performance artist daily and matching, as nearly as possible, the artist’s concert “look”. |
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| 1973-2000 | Lighting Designer, Cheryl Thacker Lighting Design | |||||||||||||
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Lighting designer and director, primarily for theatre and television. |
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Broadway
Lighting Designer, The Runner Stumbles and Unexpected Guests, both at the Little Theatre (now the Helen Hayes). |
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Off-Broadway Credits include Fugue in a Nursery at the Orpheum, Say Goodnight, Gracie at the Actors’ Playhouse, The Club at Circle in the Square, Nightclub Cantata at Top of the Gate, The Shortchanged Review at the Mitzi Newhouse, When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? at the Eastside Playhouse, and The Sea Horse at the Westside Theatre. |
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| EDUCATION | ||||||||||||||
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MFA New York University School of the Arts, in Theatre Design
BA Birmingham-Southern College in Drama/Speech and English, |
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