Madison's (lighting designer) training comes from experimentation, collaboration and through her work as the Production Manager and Technical Director for several performing arts organizations, including the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Venue 9 and Il Teatro in San Francisco, California. For the past 12 years she has been creating environments using lights, sets and sound. She has done design work for numerous dance and theater companies, including; Tania Isaac Dance, Group Motion, Sebestainne Mundheim, Kate Watson-Wallace, Thaddeus Phillips' Lucidity Suitcase, Scrap Performance Group, Myra Bazell, Silvana Cardell, ASH Contemporary Dance, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Curtain Call Creations, Marianela Boan, Sarah Jones, Opus I, Megan Bridge, ContempraDance Theater, Gwendolyn Bye, Rebecca Malcolm-Niab, Travesty Dance, Passion Y Arte, Martha McDonald, Merge Dance, Hannibal, Greg Giovanni, The Bald Mermaids, Rain Pyror, Rhodessa Jones, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Working Women Theater Festival San Francisco, Integrated Arts and others. MadisonÕs work has brought her to traditional theaters and black box theaters as well as non-traditional and site-specific venues such as warehouses, lots, empty houses, churches and outdoor locations.
Collaborators
Josh Cicetti
JOSH CICETTI (composer/ sound designer) is a composer who has played with a number of Philly bands. He has toured the U.S. and U.K. with the Heartache Disease, Lucky #13 and God Like Diablo, and opened up for Interpol, the Fall and the Liars. He has composed music for Kate Watson-Wallace and Scrap Performance Group. He is currently writing/playing in two new projects, Pink Pix and Dead Churches, and continuing his collaboration with Kate Watson-Wallace He also plays with the Philly band Gildenworks.
Ricardo Rivera
RICARDO RIVERA (video installation) began experimenting with video in 1998 as a live video performer (VJ Kaboom) and installation artist. Today, he is founder and principal of klip//collective, a group dedicated to creating high-end, large-scale, site-specific video installations. His range of work varies from permanent commissions to one-night music events to multimedia performance installations. He has permanent installations in W Hotels across the country, Crobar Club (NYC), Sonar Lounge (Baltimore), China Grille (Chicago), and Electric Factory (Philadelphia), among others. He has done temporary installations at The Philadelphia Museum of Art in a tribute to Salvador Dali and at the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, in a group show entitled Temporary Cities. www.klip.tv
