The Lighting Design Archive
An open-access home for performance lighting design. Browse plans, sections, cue lists and production paperwork shared by lighting designers — each preserved in [Humanities Commons](https://hcommons.org) and free for anyone to read, study, teach from and cite.
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Machinal
Jordan Lee
Expressionist lighting design for Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, built around hard side-light and a mechanised, repetitive cueing structure. Includes plan, section and a full cue ...
expressionismside lightSophie Treadwellcue list
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Blackout Cabaret
Priya Anand
A touring-friendly lighting design for a small-scale cabaret, designed to adapt to unknown venues with a minimal fixture list and generic patch.
cabarettouringsmall scalegeneric rig
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Hamlet
Alex Rivera
Full lighting plan, channel schedule and colour call for a thrust-stage production of Hamlet. Rig based on an ETC Eos console with a mix of conventional and moving-head fixtures.
ShakespearetragedyETC Eosthrust stage
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Why archive lighting design?
Open access
Every record is free to read, download and cite — no account, no paywall.
Permanent & citable
Files are preserved by Humanities Commons and given a DOI, so they stay findable for the long term.
By designers, for designers
A growing resource for students, researchers, historians and working artists to see how designs were made.
The archive is a project of the Lighting Department at RADA. Have work to share? Find out how to contribute.