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Owen Howell

Urbana

Summary

Lighting Director, grandMA3 Programmer, and Lighting Designer with 5+ years of experience delivering arena tours, headline tours, international festivals, major North American music festivals, corporate events, and permanent venue productions. Experienced in every phase of live production, including pre-production, visualization, programming, rehearsals, show operation, troubleshooting, and touring logistics. Specializing in grandMA3 programming, timecode, festival busking, lighting networks, and large-scale touring productions. Comfortable leading lighting departments, supporting guest lighting directors, and adapting productions across arenas, theaters, clubs, amphitheaters, and festival environments while maintaining a consistent creative vision.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Touring Lighting Director

Boys Like Girls
  • Arena Tour | Direct Support for the Jonas Brothers
  • Served as Touring Lighting Director and grandMA3 Programmer for a national arena tour.
  • Programmed, operated, and maintained the nightly lighting production.
  • Coordinated with arena production teams, local crews, and the Jonas Brothers production staff.
  • Managed rehearsals, programming updates, troubleshooting, and live show execution.

Touring Lighting Director

Levity
  • Laser Ship Tour
  • Major Festival Performances
  • Ultra Music Festival (Miami)
  • Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
  • Electric Forest
  • Led lighting programming and show execution throughout the Laser Ship Tour.
  • Programmed and operated grandMA3 show files for touring and festival performances.
  • Adapted productions to varying festival systems and venue infrastructures.
  • Worked alongside audio, video, laser, and stage departments to ensure consistent nightly performances.

Touring Lighting Director

Sullivan King
  • Valhalla Tour
  • Major Festival Performances
  • Lost Lands
  • Bass Canyon
  • Programmed and operated grandMA3 show files throughout the tour.
  • Executed headline performances in theaters, clubs, and major festival environments.
  • Maintained show consistency while adapting to changing production systems and schedules.

Touring Lighting Director

Disco Lines
  • Disco Boy Tour
  • Served as Touring Lighting Director and grandMA3 Programmer.
  • Programmed and operated lighting systems for the national tour.
  • Managed nightly programming updates, rehearsals, troubleshooting, and live show execution.

Touring Lighting Tech

INZO
  • Vision Quest Tour
  • Digital Night Drive Tour
  • Additional headline festivals and one-off performances as operator
  • Led lighting construction across multiple national tours.
  • Built and maintained the show while adapting production for venues and festivals of varying sizes.
  • Supported rehearsals, programming revisions, troubleshooting, and nightly performances.

Lighting Director

S2O Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
  • Lighting Director — Dabin
  • Delivered lighting programming and show operation for one of Asia's premier electronic music festivals.
  • Collaborated with international production teams, vendors, and festival crews.
  • Adapted programming and show execution to international production standards and festival infrastructures.

House Lighting Director

Freelance
  • Served as House Lighting Director and Lead Lighting Technician supporting artist advancing, guest lighting directors, rehearsals, programming, and live festival execution.
  • Selected Festivals
  • Sound Haven Music & Arts Festival
  • Secret Dreams Music & Arts Festival
  • Dancefestopia Music Festival
  • Summer Camp Music Festival
  • Force Fields Festival

Responsibilities included:

  • Supporting touring Lighting Directors and artist advancing.
  • Programming and maintaining festival show files.
  • Managing artist changeovers.
  • Coordinating with production management, audio, video, lasers, rigging, and stage management.
  • Troubleshooting lighting systems throughout rehearsals and live performances.

Lighting Department Manager | Lead Lighting Technician | Lighting Programmer & Designer

Antic Studios
Eau Claire, WI
01.2023 - 01.2026
  • Lead the lighting department for touring, festival, corporate, and live entertainment productions.
  • Manage department workflow, equipment inventory, maintenance schedules, and quality assurance.
  • Program and commission grandMA3 lighting systems from pre-production through live operation.
  • Design and deploy Art-Net, sACN, and DMX lighting networks.
  • Mentor technicians while maintaining safe and efficient production workflows.
  • Collaborate with production managers, designers, vendors, and touring personnel to deliver reliable productions.

Lighting Designer | VJ

Canopy Club
Urbana, IL
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Designed lighting for nationally touring artists.
  • Programmed and operated grandMA3 and grandMA2.
  • Operated Resolume Arena.
  • Maintained LED video walls and video networking infrastructure.
  • Coordinated with touring production teams during rehearsals and performances.

Lighting Programmer | Designer

MMS Productions
Rantoul, IL
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Programmed lighting systems for concerts, festivals, and corporate productions.
  • Designed and maintained Art-Net, sACN, and DMX lighting networks.
  • Supported installation, rehearsals, programming, show operation, and technical troubleshooting.

Skills

  • Lighting Consoles
  • GrandMA3
  • GrandMA2
  • Programming
  • Timecode Programming
  • Festival Busking
  • Cue Stack Development
  • Pixel Mapping
  • Show File Development
  • Show File Optimization
  • Networking
  • Art-Net
  • SACN
  • DMX512
  • Lighting Network Design
  • System Commissioning
  • Visualization & Media
  • Depence R4
  • Capture
  • Resolume Arena
  • LED Video Systems
  • Production
  • Arena Touring
  • National Touring
  • International Festivals
  • Corporate Productions
  • Crew Leadership
  • Technical Troubleshooting
  • Production Planning
  • Equipment Preparation
  • Lighting control systems
  • Client communication
  • DMX protocol
  • Venue coordination
  • Electrical

AVAILABILITY

  • Available for domestic and international touring, festivals, corporate productions, and freelance lighting direction, programming, pre-production, and show operation.
  • References available upon request.

Timeline

Lighting Department Manager | Lead Lighting Technician | Lighting Programmer & Designer

Antic Studios
01.2023 - 01.2026

Lighting Designer | VJ

Canopy Club
01.2021 - 01.2023

Lighting Programmer | Designer

MMS Productions
01.2021 - 01.2023

Lighting Director

S2O Taiwan

Touring Lighting Tech

INZO

Touring Lighting Director

Disco Lines

Touring Lighting Director

Sullivan King

Touring Lighting Director

Levity

Touring Lighting Director

Boys Like Girls

House Lighting Director

Freelance
Owen Howell