Los Angeles City College Creates Fund in Honor of Jim Moody

Family and friends gathered to remember James L. Moody (1942-2023) on Saturday, March 2 at Kinetic Lighting in Los Angeles. At the celebration of Moody's life, Jeff Ravitz, his former business and writing partner as well as a friend of many decades, announced a fund in Moody's honor at LA City College, where he taught and was head of the tech theatre program. The school's foundation coordinates the fund to benefit the theatre department and to advance technical theatre education. This program has created innumerable working lighting technicians, lighting business owners, costumers, and make-up artists. The school hopes to spread the word about this important fund.

Moody enjoyed a long and varied career as one of the originators of large-scale rock-and-roll production as the founder of Sundance Lighting, one of the behemoth lighting vendors of the 1970s that counted as clients John Denver, David Bowie, Linda Ronstadt, and Jackson Brown, among dozens of others. He transitioned to television work, designing the lighting for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the groundbreaking network concert program that aired weekly coast-to-coast. Additional credits include Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Entertainment Tonight, and several sitcoms and concert specials. He passed away from natural causes on February 20, 2023. You can read about his life in the April 2023 issue of LSA.

Donations to the school program can be made in Moody's honor at donate.laccfoundation.org/donate.