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NOW PLAYING!! Lighting Design | Kokandy Productions | @ Chopin Theatre (Basement) | 2022 | photo by Evan Hanover

Full Animated Story by: Laura Nyman Montenegro created by: NEIU's Children's Theatre Workshop Spring 2021

Season 1 Full Interviews with Set, Costume & Lighting Designers

Sample of Animations/Edits by: Jenni Lamb created by: NEIU's Children's Theatre Workshop Fall 2020

Season 1's Bonus Featured Artist Series

"Hats off to the tech people as well. The sound and lights are sheer perfection." -Alan Bresloff, Around the town Chicago Lighting Design | Theatre at the Center | 2020 | photo Guy Rhodes

"...video elements looked authentic and worked very well... Truly a showcase for the technical team." -Rob Bucher, Behind the Curtain Cincinnati Projection Design | Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | 2020 | photo Mikki Schaffner

Nominated for 3 Equity Jeff Awards including "Best Projection Design" "...top notch projections." -Ed Tracy, Picks in Six Projection Design | American Blues Theater | | 2019 | photo Michael Brosilow

Video Design | @ The Royal George Theater | 2015

Winner of 4 Non-Equity Jeff Awards including "BEST MUSICAL"! "...painted skillfully by lighting designer G. “Max” Maxin IV. Maxin’s watchful eye plays tricks on the mind; his use of stark color contrast brilliantly realizes the range of imagination." -Quinn Rigg, Chicagoland Musical Theatre Lighting & Projection Design | BoHo Theatre | @ Greenhouse Theatre | 2019 | photo by Bari Baskin

Recipient of 6 Non-Equity Jeff Nominations including "Best Musical" "...lit in dazzling technicolor by G. 'Max' Maxin IV" -Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre and Concert Reviews Lighting Design | Kokandy Productions | @ Theatre Wit | 2019 | photo by Michael Brosilow

Recipient of 6 Non-Equity Jeff Nominations including "Best Musical" & "Best Projection Design" "An impressive array of soulful, witty projections by G 'Max' Maxin IV." -Alex Huntsberger, Time Out Chicago Projections Design | Black Button Eyes Productions | @ Stage 773 | 2019 | photo by Michael Brosilow

8 Non-Equity Jeff Nominations including "Best Musical & "Best Lighting Design" "G. 'Max' Maxin IV's lights provide that 'pop' of broadway-style that easily makes audience members giddy for more." -Hilary Holbrook, Perform-Ink Lighting Design | BoHo Theatre | 2017 | photo by Katie Long

"G. “Max” Maxin IV’s lights buoy the direct address that occurs throughout the first act. His pink and blue hues give the speeches a dreamlike quality, as if the carefully constructed stories... are vital to understanding the children in the present." -Sarah Bowden, Theatre by Numbers Lighting Design | BoHo Theatre | 2017 | photo by Katie Long

Set & Projection Design | Babes with Blades | @ City Lit Theatre | 2015 | photo by Johnny Knight

Lighting Design | La Musica Lirica, Novafeltria, Italy | 2015 | photo by G. "Max" Maxin IV

Set & Projection Design | Steppenwolf Garage Rep | with Pride Films & Plays | 2015 | photo by Michael Courier

Set, Lighting & Projection Design | Another Door Theatre Project | @ The Music Institute of Chicago | 2016

Lighting Design | Stage Center Theatre | @ Northeastern Illinois University | 2016