Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit Praise

"The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit is now on my short list of the two or three most important books for aspiring professional lighting designers."
- Michael Lincoln, TD&T

"I know you may have intended it for Assistants but this is so much more. The quotes were the highlights - accenting what can only be said by designers."
- Joe DiNardo, ETC NYC

"The Assistant Lighting Designer’s Toolkit is...chock-full of information and insights. Whatever your experience level, it is a worthy addition to your theatre library. For those making the transition from life as a lighting design student to the professional market, it is an invaluable resource."
- Ellen E. Jones, Lighting and Sound America

"This unique, impressive book has the detail of a Broadway lighting show “bible” with each element of a lighting design clearly prepared, presented and documented...It is vital reading for a designer or student going to work or study in the US."
- Paul Davies, Focus Magazine

"The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit is a book the lighting world needs and should be required reading for all new -- and not so new -- lighting designers."
- Ken Billington, Tony Award winner for Best Lighting Design, Chicago

"The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit sets out to fill a big gap in the market of lighting books --        a huge help to so many aspiring ALD's and teaches us 'mature' designers how to better behave!            This book is marvelous."
                                                                                               - Richard Pilbrow, internationally known Author and Lighting Designer;
                                                                                                                    voted "one of the 50 most powerful people in the                                                                                                                                 entertainment technology industry" (Live Design 2010)

"436 pages of awesomeness. Thanks, Anne McMills."
- Richard Cadena, Lighting Designer and Author

"The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit is a great addition to just about everyone's lighting library. Lots of how-to info from the tech table battle front."
- Scott Parker, Lighting Designer, Columbus State University

The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit was the top-selling Focal Press title at USITT 2014.