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Gavin Shams LX

Entertainment Lighting Design

Alice By Heart

March 2025

Marcus D. Hurlbut Theater, St. Margaret's Episcopal School 

Associate LD, Programmer, Master Electrician, Board Op 

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Finding Wonderland: Escaping War Through the Heart of Alice

A talented cast of 22 Upper School students told a reimagined version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in this story about resilience, imagination and the power of finding escape in the imaginary worlds we create. 

Production Team

  • Director: Daniel Pacheco 

  • Music Director: Alex (Lex) Leigh

  • Choreography: Carly Taberski

  • Scenic: Gordon Richins

  • Costuming: Kirk Kelly

  • Lighting Designer: Jacob Olson

  • Associate LD/Master Electrician, Programmer/ Board Op: Gavin Shams

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Behind the scenes of behind the scenes 

LED Tape

One of the stand out elements of lighting was the use of 12 volt RGBW LED tape throughout the set. Lighting and scenic worked very closely together in order to make this happen.

In total, 256 ft of LED tape was used in the set. The sections included: all 4 columns, 2 sections of the decks, and the clock. each one of these sections were all independently patched in order to have the most flexibility for controlling color/ intensity. 

In addition to overseeing all of the routing/ installation of the tape. I was also responsible for building the DMX decoder which was needed in order to incorporate the tape into the lighting rig and have it controlled from the console via DMX. 
 

DMX decoder installed behind the set, backstage.

Building of the DMX decoder

First test of the first installed run.

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