It has been my complete honor and privilege to help to bring Designers’ visions to reality.
About JJW:
I started theater around the age of 3. My Grandfather was the Department Chair and Director of a Community College Theatre Department, and my Grandmother was the Costumer and Choreographer. My babysitting would be sitting in the back row of the orchestra and watching rehearsals. It was a natural progression to helping on stage, and at the age of 10 I was helping to paint scenery. By 12 I was hanging and focusing lights.
Around the year 2000 I moved to NY and started designing Lights Off-Off-(Off!) Broadway. I learned quickly that I enjoyed the process of hanging, focusing, and the logistics of making a rig work, more than creating the design itself and I quickly shifted my professional direction to helping designers realize their visions, instead of creating my own.
Off-Off Broadway led to Off, which led to Events and Industrials, which led to Fashion; and over a decade ago I started on the Great White Way.
Since then it has been my complete honor and privilege to help to bring Designers’ visions to reality. To me the only thrill greater than turning on a Lighting rig for the first time, is watching the curtain rise on opening night, and seeing all of the collective work displayed on stage for everyone to enjoy. I absolutely love what I do, and I work to bring that passion to every project I have the fortune to participate in.
Our Mission:
JJWPE’s Goal, our purpose, is to bring a Lighting Designers vison to reality. We focus on every minutiae of the process, from helping with story-boarding and the conceptual process, though the full installation, on-going maintenance, and ultimately the take-down and clean up. We pride ourselves on our attention to safety, accurate and up-to-date paperwork, staying within budget, working closely and successfully with other departments, and most of all attention to detail and a can-do attitude that leaves the design staff completely fulfilled.