Lighting Design, Scenic Design, Event Production, and a bit of Photography
inAustin, Texas
by Stephen Pruitt and company...
Welcome...Thanks for checking out the fluxion website. Stephen Pruitt has been designing lighting and scenery, writing, directing and producing theater, and creating stunning visual images live, and on film for over fifteen years. From neighborhood dance to avant-garde theater to high society events; from no budget to six figures; from one dancer in a gallery to thousands of guests in an airplane hangar, Fluxion Scenic and Light has the experience to do the job. Take a look at some of the images below and see if you don't agree.
As a rule, scenic and lighting designs should almost never be trying to get noticed. A good design supports the show and makes it better, but not so much that it's the focus of the audience or the critics. Even so, it's always nice when someone notices all the hard work... Here are just a few of the things the critics have to say about past designs...
- Guest lighting designer
Stephen Pruitt has
marshaled his illumination so carefully that a thick blanket of
blackness seems to surround the proceedings from the moment those three
witches scamper out of their hidey-holes to decide when they shall meet
again. It hangs so heavily above the action and at its edges that even
when the stage is bathed in golden light, that oppressive darkness
seems to weigh on it, ready to drop in an instant, smothering all that
exists. (Macbeth, Mary Moody Northern Theater, 2007)
- Stephen Pruitt’s scenic design and Zach Murphy’s lighing design come together in a marvelous crosshatch of wires, tubes and lightbulbs. (Requiem for Tesla, Rude Mechanicals, 2001)
- The combo of Stephen Pruitt’s lighting and Christopher A. Sidorfsky’s music enhance the story, but they too, could stand on their own as a phenomenon worth experiencing. (Anna Bella Eema, Refraction Arts, 2001)
- Set designer Stephen Pruitt has buried the interior of Hyde Park Theatre under what must be a foot or two of thick white gravel... It's upon this plain of shattered rock, within this near arena, that our hobos' journeys take place. (Fugitive Pieces, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2002)
-When Ananda Mayi Moss' Eye for an I opened, the stage was smoky with a blinking red light flashing the stage like a seedy hotel bar sign. Lighting designer Stephen Pruitt strutted his stuff, matching the sultriness of the dancers with darkly expressive colors. (Paths, Ballet East Dance Theater, 2003)
- Stephen Pruitt’s scenic design and Zach Murphy’s lighing design come together in a marvelous crosshatch of wires, tubes and lightbulbs. (Requiem for Tesla, Rude Mechanicals, 2001)
- The combo of Stephen Pruitt’s lighting and Christopher A. Sidorfsky’s music enhance the story, but they too, could stand on their own as a phenomenon worth experiencing. (Anna Bella Eema, Refraction Arts, 2001)
- Set designer Stephen Pruitt has buried the interior of Hyde Park Theatre under what must be a foot or two of thick white gravel... It's upon this plain of shattered rock, within this near arena, that our hobos' journeys take place. (Fugitive Pieces, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2002)
-When Ananda Mayi Moss' Eye for an I opened, the stage was smoky with a blinking red light flashing the stage like a seedy hotel bar sign. Lighting designer Stephen Pruitt strutted his stuff, matching the sultriness of the dancers with darkly expressive colors. (Paths, Ballet East Dance Theater, 2003)
- This complex,
living tableau, lit to perfect moods by Stephen Pruitt, draws us in
with its precise arrangements of interdependence and its gently elusive
chains of internal logic. (The Kindermann Depiction, Physical Plant
Theater, 2002)
In addition, Stephen Pruitt is the only Austin designer to be nominated for multiple Critics' Table and B. Iden Payne Awards in both the Outstanding Lighting Design and Outstanding Scenic Design categories. Fluxion Designs is the place to come when you want all of the technical elements to work together and make your production or event as good as it can possibly be.
There are several places you can go from here for more information about me and my work...
Contact me at: stephen at fluxiondesigns.com
My photographic work can be seen and purchased Here.
To see examples of my design work, click on an image below.
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