Showlight Releases Fourth Tranche of 2025 Videos

	(l-r) Christina Thanasoula and Marco Miglioli. Photo: Jean Nguyen

Showlight, the quadrennial get-together about all things lighting, released additional videos of sessions from its 2026 edition, featuring from architectural lighting designer, Marco Miglioli and opera, dance and theatre lighting designer, Christina Thanasoula, who each show how lighting and live camera feeds can be instrumental in directing the attention of an audience in different ways.

In Things Change According to How They are Illuminated, Miglioli, an architect and lighting designer, uses images of three recent projects, including the spectacular relight of Milan Cathedral, showing how lighting in architecture transcends the mere function of illuminating spaces, changing and guiding visitors through their journey, and creating different scenes that evoke emotions and memory in a similar way to theatre.

Miglioli is currently involved in a number of exhibitions and unique projects that combine theatre and architecture, as well as continuing his work on phosphorescent lighting.

In Stage Lighting Design and Live Feed Cameras on the 21st-Century Theatre Stage, Thanasoula, an alumna of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, currently working on her PhD thesis at UOA, focuses on the 21st century's new zooming mechanism, the camera, and examines how the dramaturgy of light is affected by live feed cameras as it draws the viewer's focus to particular areas or actions on stage.

Thanasoula is currently lighting several international productions, including Lysistrata at the open air theatre of Ancient Messine, Greece; City Lights, based on the original Charlie Chaplin film, at Uppsala Theatre, Sweden, Sophie Swithinbank's multi-award winning play Bacon in Athens' Theatre Anesis, and Gloria, which opens at Theatre Xorn in Athens in October 2026. She is also a member of the mentoring team of the Greek National Opera workshop on Musical Theatre, which will run from September 2026 to July 2027.

More speaker presentation videos from 2025 and previous editions can be viewed on the Showlight website, along with a taste of Showlight's student program: www.showlight.org/videos.