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Young designer Tegan Rehbein chooses Chauvet fixtures for The Conference Live at Lititz

In keeping with its mission to foster “innovative creativity” within the live event industry, the Conference Live at Lititz selects one young designer to light the main stage at its popular event every year. In 2024, that honor belonged to Tegan Rehbein. She worked with a rig supplied by the 4Wall Entertainment team led by Project Manager Zack Spadaccia. Anchoring the rig were 246 Chauvet Professional fixtures.

Rehbein painted the stage in an array of vivid colors, while filling the venue with dramatic aerial patterns and audience lighting. Key to helping her create her show were 48 Color Strike M motorized strobe-washes in full pixel mode. “Very early on in the design process I knew from the event organizers that Studio 1 had three different uses over the course of the conference: party, speaking, and a gathering place for meals”, says Rehbein. “They expressed the desire to have it lit well and evenly for the speaking and the dinner.”

“With the space having three distinct modes, there were some changeovers regarding the lighting”, she continues. “When I was given a list of available gear from 4Wall, I knew that the Color Strike M was the perfect light to meet these goals. The color pixels provided a nice color wash for the event, while the center white LEDs provided bright and even work light for the room flips. I used twelve of the Color Strike Ms on the six overhead torms that were along the upstage wall. The rest were placed approximately 20-feet or so from each other on the trusses throughout the room for that nice even down wash.”

Rehbein’s talent was also evident in the way she used the rig’s 22 Maverick MK3 Profiles to accent the set created by Tait and Atomic. “I placed four of the profiles out by FOH to provide texture on the chandelier that the set designer from Tait had made using Atomic Designs’ Gaus”, she details. “I wanted to have the ability to cut shutters in the production as I saw fit.”

The eighteen remaining MK3 Profiles were placed in the air around the stage to provide key, fill and hair light for the various speakers - six of them were positioned on the farthest downstage part of the inner curves, six others were on either side of the stage, while the final six were flown over the stage. When the room was reconfigured for the final party, Rehbein repurposed most of her fixtures.

Also featured in the rig were the Maverick MK3 Wash, Rogue R2X Wash, and Rogue R1 BeamWash. Rehbein arranged the MK3 Washes on vertical torms to compliment the MK3 Profiles and positioned most of the R2X units on the four fingers over the stage to work with the MK3 Spots. The R2X units we positioned in the “Plaza”, an area that featured hanging set pieces from Atomic along with material from Tait that highlighted client projects. “I ran the R2X in 33 channel mode in case I wanted some visual movement in the rig with the ring control”, says Rehbein. “They provided a really good wash for this very unique set element.”

Throughout the show, she paid careful attention to color rendering. “I color balanced everything in the rig for the party using my C-800 meter”, she explains. “I was really happy with the CRI that I was able to achieve in the MK3 Profiles to make the video team, and myself, very happy. I went with 4200K for the key, 3200K for fill and 5600K from the top. I felt like this gave me a good and flattering wash on all of the panelists.”

Rehbein appreciated the team she had around her: “I want to give a shoutout to Project Manager Zack Spadaccia and Lighting Crew Chief Steve ‘Scuba’ Onoszko along with the entire team from 4Wall. They prepped and built this design and it worked flawlessly. Also want to thank James Weir from Tait. He worked on the set design and truss layout. He handed me great bones to put some meat on. Thanks too to Emily Cassidy, the Conference Director for Rock Lititz, and Natasha Benne, Senior Producer at Atomic. Every one of them was great to work with and get to know.”

Looking back on the event Rehbein sums up the experience this way: “This project is one of the biggest things I have designed to-date. I also knew my peers in the industry, as well as some legends, would be there, so I wanted to make sure I put my best foot forward in this design.”

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/The Conference Live at Lititz)

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