Episodios

  • 193: America The Beautiful (Except The Financial Setup for Freelancers) with Jane Cox (Part 2 of 2)

    193: America The Beautiful (Except The Financial Setup for Freelancers) with Jane Cox (Part 2 of 2)
    Jul 4 2025
    Part two of the conversation with Broadway lighting designer Jane Cox. Topics: ⭐️ Keeping overhead low ⭐️ Paying theatre designers hourly ⭐️ Penny Remsen - Jane’s lighting mentor ⭐️ Paying for assistants / drafting out of the design fee ⭐️ Two recent design fees - one for an opera, one for an off Broadway musical Video Version https://youtu.be/1qBXKh3-QfM Artistic Finance https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance False Steps - Off-Broadway Play https://www.falsestepscomedy.com/ Jane Cox https://janecoxlight.squarespace.com/ https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jane-cox-115195 Sam Pinkleton https://sampinkleton.com/ Stacey Derosier https://www.staceyderosier.com/ Accountants for Theatre Artists https://www.artisticfinance.com/resources.html Planned Parenthood https://www.plannedparenthood.org/donor-services The Watershed https://thewatershed.org/donate/ Roundabout Workforce Development Program https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/education/career-training/theatrical-workforce-development-program 1/52 Project https://www.oneeveryfiftytwo.org/ Tech 25 in Pittsburgh (Jordan Gilliam) https://www.tech25.org/ Website temporarily down as of July 2025 Brighter Boston (Aja Jackson) https://www.brighterboston.org/ Design Action https://www.design-action.com/ LA Opera https://laopera.org/ Teeth The Musical https://teeththemusical.com/ Playwrights Horizons https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/ Elsa Hiltner's Designer Pay Resource https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myTM4B4VGfv21iJovNLYiIopUtsDClzSGLsFOsAZHi4/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Penny Remsen https://www.umass.edu/theater/about/directory/penny-remsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/penny-remsen-1b53b8a/ Ben Stanton https://benstanton.com/ Justin Townsend https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/justin-townsend-117237 Brian MacDevitt https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/brian-macdevitt-25766 NYU Graduate Design School https://tisch.nyu.edu/design University of Massachussets Amherts https://www.umass.edu/theater/ Jane Cox is a theater maker, an educator and a lighting designer working in theater, opera, dance and music. Jane won a Tony, a Drama Desk and the Henry Hewes award in 2024 for her lighting for Appropriate, and has three Tony nominations for Macbeth (‘22), Jitney (‘17) and Machinal (‘14). Her creative career has been built on relationships; some of the extraordinary theatrical artists who have shaped her creative life include Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Doyle, Elise Thoron, Shariffa Ali, Caitríona MacLaughlin, Sam Pinkleton, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stacey Derosier and Sam Gold. Jane is also inspired by her brilliant students and young alumni Recent designs include a co-design for Michael R Jackson and Anna K Jacob’s Teeth with Stacey Derosier; Donnacha Dennehy’s Land of Winter at the Irish Arts Center; The Weir at the Abbey Theater in Dublin (her home town); Felon: An American Washi Tale; and The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi and Don Giovanni at San Francisco Opera. Upcoming projects include Marina Carr’s new trilogy at the Abbey in Dublin and the Rocky Horror Show on Broadway. Other highlights have been co-organizing and hosting the 2023 symposium and creative convening The Future of Race in Design at the Park Avenue Armory with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Mimi Lien and Mikaal Sulaiman; organizing a series of events with returning citizens in conjunction with performances of Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts; working with the engineer Naomi Leonard, composer Dan Trueman and co-designer Tess James on Rhythm Bots, a project investigating collective motion and rhythmic connection with robots; and receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award from USITT in 2025. Jane has been a member of the Monica Bill Barnes dance company for more than twenty years and has been working with fellow lighting designer Tess James in many capacities for fifteen. She is a Professor of the Practice and Director of the Program in Theater and Music Theater at Princeton University, where she is also the co-director for the Fund for Irish Studies and a member of CreativeX. She is married to brilliant conceptual artist Evan Alexander and they have a fantastic teenage daughter who so far shows no interest in going into theatre. Instagram Handles @janecoxlight @ethansteimel @nicolevsteimel
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  • 192: America The Beautiful (Except the Financial Setup for Freelancers) with Lighting Designer Jane Cox

    192: America The Beautiful (Except the Financial Setup for Freelancers) with Lighting Designer Jane Cox
    Jun 12 2025
    Lighting designer Jane Cox discusses life as a freelance theatre designer who has also taken on some full time academic work. Topics: ⭐️ Parenting while working in the arts ⭐️ Paying student loans with a credit card ⭐️ Prioritizing the needs of the community above the market rate ⭐️ The financial system working against theatre design as a career ⭐️ Jane’s tax rate as a freelancer nearing 50%, and having it lower once she started working a full time W2 job. Video Version https://youtu.be/jA1IOCWmHFs Artistic Finance https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance Jane Cox https://janecoxlight.squarespace.com/ https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jane-cox-115195 Appropriate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_(play) Linda Essig https://www.artisticfinance.com/147.html Penny Remsen https://www.umass.edu/theater/about/directory/penny-remsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/penny-remsen-1b53b8a/ Irish Session https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_traditional_music_session Cory Pattak's Podcast https://in1podcast.com/ Light Talk Podcast https://lighttalk.libsyn.com/ NYU Graduate Design School https://tisch.nyu.edu/design University of Massachussets Amherts https://www.umass.edu/theater/ Clifton Taylor https://cliftontaylor.com/ Jennifer Tipton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tipton False Steps - Off-Broadway Play https://www.falsestepscomedy.com/ Jane Cox is a theater maker, an educator and a lighting designer working in theater, opera, dance and music. Jane won a Tony, a Drama Desk and the Henry Hewes award in 2024 for her lighting for Appropriate, and has three Tony nominations for Macbeth (‘22), Jitney (‘17) and Machinal (‘14). Her creative career has been built on relationships; some of the extraordinary theatrical artists who have shaped her creative life include Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Doyle, Elise Thoron, Shariffa Ali, Caitríona MacLaughlin, Sam Pinkleton, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stacey Derosier and Sam Gold. Jane is also inspired by her brilliant students and young alumni Recent designs include a co-design for Michael R Jackson and Anna K Jacob’s Teeth with Stacey Derosier; Donnacha Dennehy’s Land of Winter at the Irish Arts Center; The Weir at the Abbey Theater in Dublin (her home town); Felon: An American Washi Tale; and The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi and Don Giovanni at San Francisco Opera. Upcoming projects include Marina Carr’s new trilogy at the Abbey in Dublin and the Rocky Horror Show on Broadway. Other highlights have been co-organizing and hosting the 2023 symposium and creative convening The Future of Race in Design at the Park Avenue Armory with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Mimi Lien and Mikaal Sulaiman; organizing a series of events with returning citizens in conjunction with performances of Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts; working with the engineer Naomi Leonard, composer Dan Trueman and co-designer Tess James on Rhythm Bots, a project investigating collective motion and rhythmic connection with robots; and receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award from USITT in 2025. Jane has been a member of the Monica Bill Barnes dance company for more than twenty years and has been working with fellow lighting designer Tess James in many capacities for fifteen. She is a Professor of the Practice and Director of the Program in Theater and Music Theater at Princeton University, where she is also the co-director for the Fund for Irish Studies and a member of CreativeX. She is married to brilliant conceptual artist Evan Alexander and they have a fantastic teenage daughter who so far shows no interest in going into theatre. Instagram Handles @janecoxlight @ethansteimel @nicolevsteimel
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    1 h y 5 m
  • 191: 6k Investing Special - Q4.0

    191: 6k Investing Special - Q4.0
    Jun 4 2025
    An update on the $6,000 of investments we made in May of 2021. Four lighting designers and a bond investment CEO review how our investments compare to the S&P 500. Video Version https://youtu.be/_hiXSC5HY6A Artistic Finance https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance False Steps: A Ballroom Comedy https://www.falsestepscomedy.com/ ETFs: IVV - iShares Core S&P 500 Stocks: VST - Vistra Corp LAC - Lithium Americas TAP - Molson Coors Beverage (owners of Blue Moon) SKLZ- Skillz Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin Wine: Vinovest Real Estate - REITS: REG - Regency Centers Corp -Previously UBA SRG - Seritage Growth Properties VICI - Experiential Real Estate - Previously MGM Properties STAG - STAG Industrial Art: Bret Slater - Artist https://www.bretslater.com/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/64295618 VTSAX - Total USA Stock Market Index Fund https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VTSAX/ Coinbase - COIN https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COIN/ Masterworks https://www.masterworks.com/ Bridget Riley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley Kroger - KR https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KR/ Nvidia - NVDA https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/ Daktronics - DAKT https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DAKT/ Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maithreyi-gopalakrishnan/ https://www.liquidificorp.com/ Ebony Madry: https://www.instagram.com/ebmadry/?hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebony-madry-6a9651139/ Amy D Lux: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-d-lux-953a7318a/ https://utopiadreamscape.com/author/luvlogica/ Gary Archer https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-archer-31482933/ https://www.instagram.com/lightdesign2020/ Ethan Steimel https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethansteimel/ https://www.instagram.com/artisticfinance/?hl=en Instagram Handles @ebmadry @liquidifi @officialamydlux @lightdesign2020 @ethansteimel @artisticfinance
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    1 h y 9 m
  • 190: Tracking Hourly Pay As Theatre Designers with Set Designer Vincent Gunn

    190: Tracking Hourly Pay As Theatre Designers with Set Designer Vincent Gunn
    May 28 2025

    Set designer Vincent Gunn talks about the benefits of tracking the hours that you work.

    Topics:

    ⭐️ Valuing your time

    ⭐️ Investing the money in your retirement account

    ⭐️ Writing things down and getting them out of your head

    ⭐️ Designers thinking about work even when they’re not at work

    Video Version

    https://youtu.be/g1BZrnh3l7A

    Artistic Finance

    https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

    Vincent Gunn

    https://www.vincentgunn.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-gunn-3a45aab2/

    https://www.instagram.com/vincentgunndesign/?hl=en

    Hours Tracker

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P-ujmcgDcdZYxW78hqBa3HgiBdlI0gGK0LGG2RoNZqw/edit?usp=sharing

    NEA Budget Cut Tracker

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cHCTXssMWuMweRLUjGQKtsck_rg7v4tMg7cpfzDQil8/htmlview?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeulUJ--0GngJ37kmfk-9enz2w9TczbBkJ8hs4U-ZuBgeaGYyF4TCzLnnQi4Q_aem_6SEys-aWiD8H-wxOGseuWw%23gid%3D0

    Liability Insurance for Lighting Folx

    https://www.artisticfinance.com/136.html

    Liability Insurance for Performers

    https://www.artisticfinance.com/141.html

    Vincent (he/him) is a New Jersey based Scenic Designer. He has designed shows for various theatre companies in the New York area and beyond including York Theatre Company, Centenary Stage Company, Vanguard Theater Company, St. Bart's Players, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Post Theatre Company, the Metropolitan Playhouse, the New London Barn Playhouse, and various educational venues. He has assisted designers on productions at venues such as The New York Philharmonic, LABrynth Theater Company, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Roundabout Black Box, BAM Fisher, La Mama ETC and INTAR. Vincent has a B.A. in Theatre Design and Production from Fordham University. vincentgunn.com @vincentgunndesign

    Instagram Handles

    @ethansteimel

    @nicolevsteimel

    @vincentgunndesign
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    1 h y 24 m
  • 189: Work Life Balance As A Theatre Designer in Chicago with Jason Lynch

    189: Work Life Balance As A Theatre Designer in Chicago with Jason Lynch
    May 20 2025

    TheatrIcal lighting designer Jason Lynch talks about freelancing in Chicago.

    Topics:

    ⭐️ LLCs

    ⭐️ Estate Sales

    ⭐️ Keeping our humanity

    ⭐️ Investing in the S&P 500

    ⭐️ Some of Jason’s recent design fees

    ⭐️ Moving to a big theatre city, that’s not New York

    Video Version

    https://youtu.be/y5PApxbBG_I

    Artistic Finance

    https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

    Jason Lynch

    https://www.jasondlynch.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondlynch/

    https://www.instagram.com/jasonlynch.design/

    Vehicle Expenses Tracker

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDb48wLKWWnkGigyu52tYYGWRHDV2h-Ai7AizNCrtb8/edit?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZh7dkkg9Htl1oE4M46Emo-Cw8yEahk7n90sRBCDy5R32W5D1xbTHSjvYI_aem_adKVVnGYaIN_xPS6bS21wQ&gid=1052323773#gid=1052323773

    IRS.gov

    https://www.irs.gov/

    Lynn Nottage - "Why I'll Never Make It" Interview

    https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/why-i-ll-never-make-it/lynn-nottage-writes-through-some-of-life-s-hardest-moments/366

    SPY

    https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/

    Arrived - Real Estate Investing

    https://arrived.com/

    Lofty - Real Estate Investing

    https://www.lofty.ai/

    OSF - Oregon Shakespeare Festival

    https://www.osfashland.org/

    Indiana Rep

    https://www.irtlive.com/

    Estate Sales

    https://www.estatesales.net/

    JASON LYNCH is a Chicago-based lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and other live performance art.

    Regional: Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, City Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Northlight Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Old Globe, Trinity Repertory Company, among others.

    Lynch was also the recipient of the 2022 Equity Jeff Award for his work on Choir Boy at Steppenwolf Theatre and the 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, which recognizes emerging theatrical designers within the Chicago area. Jason is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE and The Gersh Agency. jasondlynch.com, @jasonlynch.design

    Instagram handles:

    @jasonlynch.design

    @ethansteimel

    @nicolevsteimel
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    1 h y 39 m
  • 188: Finances As A Projection Designer with Sven Ortel

    188: Finances As A Projection Designer with Sven Ortel
    May 14 2025

    Projection designer Sven Ortel talks about career finances.

    Topics:

    ⭐️ Being persistent

    ⭐️ Insisting you get credit for your work

    ⭐️ Organizing your taxes and writing it down

    ⭐️ Separating the production budget from the design budget

    Video Version

    https://youtu.be/YDxUvU-in4U

    Artistic Finance

    https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

    Sven Ortel

    https://www.svenortel.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/svenortel/

    https://www.instagram.com/svenortel/

    Is the credit "Projection Design" or "Video Design?"

    https://www.projctn.com/about-projection-design

    Projection Design Costs

    https://www.projctn.com/projection-design-costs

    Trudy C Durant

    https://tcdurant.com/home.aspx

    Notion

    https://www.notion.com/

    Caite Hevner Episode

    https://www.artisticfinance.com/93.html

    Since 2000, Sven Ortel has been exploring and advancing the use of imagery and projection in the live arts. His primary interest is how digital and emerging technologies can create engaging narrative experiences. He is particularly drawn to complex scenic and production design challenges that place live audiences at the center of the experience, and he enjoys collaborating with other experts and creatives.

    Originally from Cologne, Germany, Sven earned his BA in Lighting Design in London, where he designed media for Simon McBurney’s seminal production of *Measure for Measure* at the National Theatre in 2004. He then created many projection designs for opera, dance, musicals, and plays across Europe and eventually in the US. In 2012, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on Disney’s *Newsies*. In 2014, he received a Drama League nomination for his designs in Julie Taymor’s *A Midsummer Night's Dream* at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.

    Notable recent projects include NHKS4220 at New York’s Artechouse, *Thoughts of a Colored Man* (Broadway, Drama Desk nomination), *Parade* (Broadway, Outer Critics Circle nomination and winner of Best Revival of a Musical), and *Once Upon a One More Time* (Broadway), as well as the multimedia installation *Lamentations at Liesbeck*, which premiered at Mesa’s Mix Center.

    Sven always seeks innovative ways to tell stories through media and create cohesive visual environments that fully engage live audiences.

    He has worked at public research universities for the past ten years, focusing on educating the next generation of designers, artists, and thought leaders. His work in academia focuses on adapting effective creative processes prevalent in the performing arts, particularly projection design, to address the design challenges found in other live experiences, especially in emerging forms of rich media like immersive and XR productions. This research is central to his role as a professor of practice in immersive and entertainment design at Arizona State University and as a faculty member at Mesa's innovative multidisciplinary Mix Center.

    Outside of his professional work, Sven is a passionate landscaper dedicated to restoring and stewarding the land. He also loves camping, running, hiking, and mountain biking—more info at svenortel.com or linked-in.

    Instagram Handles

    @svenortel

    @ethansteimel

    @nicolevsteimel
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    1 h y 28 m
  • 187: Designer Pay & Transparency - Broadway, Off Broadway, and West End with Isabella Byrd

    187: Designer Pay & Transparency - Broadway, Off Broadway, and West End with Isabella Byrd
    May 6 2025

    Discussing designer pay and transparency with Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End lighting designer Isabella Byrd.

    Topics:

    ⭐️ Dealing with the IRS

    ⭐️ Union pension, healthcare, and the union ledger

    ⭐️ Commercial theatre fees (aka Broadway) versus off-Broadway fees (aka non-profit theatre)

    ⭐️ CDs, as in Certificates of Deposit

    Video Version

    https://youtu.be/HJ1wBWuLwKQ

    Artistic Finance

    https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

    Isabella Byrd

    https://www.isabellabyrd.design/

    https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/isabella-byrd-527907

    Drift

    https://studiodrift.com/work/drifter/

    The Shed

    https://www.theshed.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwvr--BhB5EiwAd5YbXqw-o1AZJ4K0bhxLrH613ZH2yPapTv6-Lw54hGG-7dZ_7bVzULR3pBoC8hkQAvD_BwE

    Death Sex And Money - Podcast

    https://slate.com/podcasts/death-sex-money

    Zenith American - USA 829 Benefits Hub

    https://www.zenith-american.com/

    USA 829

    https://www.usa829.org/Membership-Info/Benefit-Funds

    CD Rates - Bask Bank

    https://www.baskbank.com/products/certificates-of-deposit

    Entertainment Community Fund

    https://entertainmentcommunity.org/services-and-programs/financial-wellness-0

    In 1: The Podcast - hosted by Cory Pattak

    https://in1podcast.com/

    Instagram Handles

    @isabelllaa

    @ethansteimel

    @nicolevsteimel
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    2 h y 18 m
  • 5th Anniversary & Casting Notice - Bonus Episode

    5th Anniversary & Casting Notice - Bonus Episode
    May 5 2025

    Today is the 5th anniversary of Artistic Finance. A quick thank you to mark the occasion and announcing a non-AEA casting notice for NYC!
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    6 m