Selected Press and REcognition
Designer Profile at Visual Terrain
Profile information found at renowned lighting design firm Visual Terrain, Inc.
ELation Lighting and “Mean Girls”
Steven’s design for Mean Girls at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts was featured in an article by Elation Lighting.
Santa Clarita’s River of Lights Sparkles with Anolis Magic
Anolis Lighting’s profile on the River of Lights project.
AWARDs
ARCHITECTURAL & THEMED ENTERTAINMENT
Themed Entertainment Association Thea Awards — 5D Castle Theater, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, Zhuhai, China; Beyond All Boundaries, National World War II Museum, New Orleans; Kongen Park Firefighter attraction, Norway
IESNA Awards of Merit — Aquarium of the Pacific; Pacific Collections retail store; Hard Rock Cafe Tampa; Choctaw Casino and Resort; Dragons Wild Shooting dark ride
Lumen West Awards of Excellence — Akin Gump Los Angeles Law Offices; Hard Rock Cafe Tampa; Choctaw Casino and Resort
THEATRE — AWARDS
2008 Ovation Award, Jekyll & Hyde — Cabrillo Music Theatre
2008 LADCC Award, Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story — Havok Theatre Company
2007 Ovation Award, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings — Theatre@Boston Court
2007 LA Weekly Award, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings — Theatre@Boston Court
2005 Ovation Award, Songs for a New World — Rubicon Theatre Company
2004 Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award — Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
2002 Robby Award, Side Show — The Colony Theatre
INLAND THEATRE LEAGUE AWARDS
All for Performance Riverside — 1776 (2005); Children of Eden and Once on this Island (2004); Sweeney Todd, Forever Plaid, Big River and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2003); The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2002); Jesus Christ Superstar (2001)
BACKSTAGE WEST GARLAND AWARDS
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings and A Picture of Dorian Gray, Theatre@Boston Court; Hot Mikado, Musical Theatre West; Side Show, The Colony Theatre; Outstanding Season of Lighting Design (2009)
NOMINATIONS
2016 Ovation Award, American Idiot — La Mirada Performing Arts Center
2013 Ovation Award, Next to Normal — McCoy-Rigby Entertainment
2013 Ovation Award, Spring Awakening — La Mirada Performing Arts Center
2011 Ovation Award, Miss Saigon — McCoy-Rigby Entertainment
2010 Ovation Award, Carousel — Reprise Theatre Company
2010 Ovation Award, God Save Gertrude — Theatre@Boston Court
2009 LADCC, Kiss of the Spider Woman — Havok Theatre Company
2002 Ovation Award, The Laramie Project — Theatre@Boston Court
OTHER
UC-CCM Alumni Award of Excellence, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (2015)