USA - Warren Flynn and Brian E. Kuehne have formed a new design partnership - Spacecoast Visual, which will concentrate on the corporate theatre and concert touring markets. Flynn and Kuehne have diverse yet complementary design and programming talents along with over 40 years of experience in entertainment lighting. "This is an exciting time for Brian and me," says Flynn. "We are both recognized as programmers who also design, and this allows us to firmly state that we are lighting designers who also program."

Flynn is probably best known for his work on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Universal's new musical Wicked have both benefited from Warren's experience. Corporate theatre clients of Flynn's include Morgan Stanley, Nextel and Wendy's. Warren's design work has been seen on tour with Dashboard Confessional. Warren began in the 1980s as a roadie for a local band in New Jersey. By his 20th birthday he was designing lighting for a roster of New York and New Jersey bands. He has since worked on productions as disparate as the Radio City Music Hall Easter Extravaganza, the Olympic Games, the Daytime Emmy awards, both Species feature films and lighting the Times Square Ball for New Year's Eve 2000.

Born and educated in Chicago, Illinois, Kuehne studied theatrical lighting, television and audio engineering in college. Soon after leaving college, Kuehne was working with lighting companies in Chicago, servicing the concert touring industry on a full time basis. Kuehne has worked as a programmer, designer and also video director for an eclectic mix of productions including the 2001 and 2002 John Mellencamp summer tours, but his undoubted specialty is corporate theatre. He has worked for such names as AstraZeneca, Ericsson Mobile, Motorola, Apple Computer, Wells Fargo, Sega, Nintendo and AT&T. Based in central Florida, but working in the global village, Spacecoast Visual will combine a designers eye with a programmers practicality to provide a single interpretive vision for productions.

(Lee Baldock)


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