The KOI Awards, organised by Clay Paky alongside the Society of Television Lighting Designers (STLD), the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and Ambersphere Solutions, will be held following the first day of the PLASA Show on the evening of Sunday 5 October at London's fabulous Art Deco Troxy Theatre.
Submissions for each sector are now closed and the shortlist of nominations for each of the sector categories have been agreed by the judging panels as follows:
Theatre Nominations:
Dance: Natasha Katz - The Winter's Tale, Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House; Paul Keogan - No Man's Land, English National Ballet at The Barbican; Ed Yetton - The Little Match Girl, Arthur Pita at DanceEast, Ipswich
Musicals: Jon Clark - American Psycho, The Almeida; Paule Constable - The Light Princess, Lyttelton, National Theatre; Adam Silverman - Urinetown, St. James Theatre
Opera: Joachim Klein - Bluebeard's Castle, Oper Frankfurt at Edinburgh Festival Theatre; Ian Scott - Owen Wingrave, Snape Maltings; Mimi Jordan Sherin - Rodelinda, English National Opera at the Coliseum
Plays: Lucy Carter - Emil and the Detectives, Olivier, National Theatre; Tim Lutkin - The Crucible, The Old Vic; Andy Purves - The Believers, The Drum at Theatre Royal Plymouth and touring
Video: David Haneke - The Fall of the House of Usher, Welsh National Opera; Tim Reid - 1984, Nottingham Playhouse and touring; Ethan Wang - Rice, Cloud Gate Theatre Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Sadler's Wells
TV Nominations:
Entertainment: Oli Richards - Jonathan Ross; Tom Sutherland - Britain's Got Talent Auditions; Chris Rigby - Alan Carr Chatty Man
Drama: David Higgs - The Escape Artist; Martin Kempton - Not Going Out; Chris Ramage - Emmerdale The Flood
Events: Ben Cracknell - The Olivier Awards; Nigel Catmur - Children In Need Rock; Al Gurdon - Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Small Studio: Dave Evans - The One Show New Studio; Hugh French - Channel 4 News; Lee Allen - Blue Peter
Graphics: Sam Murphy/Dave Gibson - Bt Sport; Ruben Garcia - Children In Need Rock; Luke Halls Don Giovanni.
Concert Touring Nominations:
Arena: Andy Hurst - Prodigy; Cate Carter - Elbow; Chris Bushell - Arcade Fire
Stage: Jonathan 'Leggy' Armstrong - Basement Jaxx; Rob Sinclair - Goldfrapp; Will Potts - Disclosure.
Events: Jonny Milmer - Jaguar; Luc Peumans - Peter Pan; Matt Button - Castrol
Video Graphic Display: Cate Carter, Paul 'Pablo' Beckett, and Blue Leach - Elbow; Chris 'Squib' Swain, Anna Ginsberg and Adam Young - Bombay Bicycle Club; Gabriel Coutu-Dumont - Justin Timberlake; John Kricfalusi - Miley Cyrus
Sharing in KOI's determination to forge closer ties between the world of lighting design and the lighting industry as a whole are main sponsors Ayrton, Osram, Hawthorn, MA Lighting, Robert Juliat and XL Video.
In addition, the lighting industry's support for Knight Of Illumination event has flourished with 2014 seeing the welcome addition of table sponsors from every part of the industry including: AC Entertainment, Avolites, Chauvet, Creative Technology, d3, ETC, Fix8, Gallowglass, Gearsource, Green Hippo, HSL, Martin Professional, Philips Entertainment, Pharos, PLASA, PRG, Rosco, Stage Electrics, TMB, TSL and Wireless Solutions alongside main sponsors: Hawthorn, MA Lighting, Osram, Robert Juliat and XL Video.
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