An interview with lighting designer Heather Gilbert about financial habits throughout her decades-long career in Chicago and recently on Broadway.

Topics:

⭐️ Picking up the tab

⭐️ Asking for higher design fees

⭐️ Freelancer designers filing their own taxes

⭐️ Broadway design fees for plays versus musicals

⭐️ And an apology to Assistant Stage Managers from Lighting Designers

Video Version

https://youtu.be/o5gZkkBQ5V8

Full Interview

https://www.patreon.com/posts/168-windy-city-113688908?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

"Entering The Industry" Slideshow & Resource List

https://www.patreon.com/posts/resource-list-114287278?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Artistic Finance

https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

Heather Gilbert

https://www.hgilbertdesign.com/

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/heather-gilbert-522765

Pay Quarterly Taxes

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/oc-paytaxeswithyourmobiledevice.pdf

Per Diem Rates

https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates

Entertainment Community Fund

https://entertainmentcommunity.org/free-tax-preparation-services

Acorns

https://www.acorns.com/

Parade

https://paradebroadway.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_(musical)

David Cromer

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/david-cromer-478813

Laura Ingalls Wilder

https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781250182487

Carole King Biography

https://bookshop.org/a/86693/9781455512621

The Outsiders

https://outsidersmusical.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(musical)

Bug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(play)

Carrie Coon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Coon

Tracy Letts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Letts

Scott Pask

https://www.instagram.com/scottpaskstudio/

Casa Pask

https://www.instagram.com/casapask/

Wilson Chin

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

Cory Pattak

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

Adam Koch

https://www.instagram.com/instadamkoch/

HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Designer) is a Chicago based lighting designer. Broadway: Parade (Tony Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination), The Sound Inside  (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony Award Nomination), Cult of Love (Second Stage). Off Broadway Dead Outlaw for Audible at Minetta Lane (Drama Desk Nomination). Chicago: Steppenwolf, Goodman, Writers Theatre, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre, Steep Theatre, and many, many storefronts. Regional: The Muny, Center Theatre Group, Studio Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Magic Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Olney Theatre Center. She is the Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago and received her MFA at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

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Interview by Ethan Steimel