Lighting Design Group Expands the New York Office Team

	Michael Mell, Tony Siniscalco, and Nic Harris, Lighting Design Group

The Lighting Design Group (LDG) shares some new faces and realignments at its New York office, part of an expansion of their permanent broadcast lighting systems design and installation team. Mark London, executive VP for operations and systems at LDG said he "is pleased to have such a talented, experienced group of people added to our office."

Michael Mell has joined the staff as the lead systems designer and is responsible for the design of all permanently installed lighting systems. He has worked on a variety of television shows for ABC, CBS, PBS, and Lifetime. Mell has also worked in Broadway theaters, on tour, and in television studios as a lighting designer, technical director, stage manager, and stage hand. Mell has been associated with the American Dance Festival, Trisha Brown Dance Company, the Dance Theater of Harlem and Rudolph Nureyev, and the Boston Ballet. Mell is the author of Building Better Theaters 2006, 2008, a user-guide for the design of performing arts facilities.

Tony Siniscalco is LDG's new systems project manager and is responsible for budgeting and management of all permanently installed lighting systems. A lighting industry professional, has worked for Production Resource Group (PRG), Barbizon, and most recently Design and Production Inc. before joining the Lighting Design Group. His career has included work on the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Kentucky Derby Museum, Pepsi Family Center, and regional History Museum at Tryon Palace, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, National Museum of American Jewish History, Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library, National Postal Museum, George W. Bush Presidential Library, David M. Rubenstein Gallery (National Archives), Le Poisson Rouge, Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Annex, and WNYC Studios. Before switching over to systems installations, Siniscalco served as technical and lighting directors for SAIL Productions, Inc., New Vic Theatre of London, Roxey Ballet, and the Brook Arts Center.

Nic Harris, part of LDG since 2010, has moved from the design staff to become the technical project manager where Harris will manage permanent broadcast lighting system installations and provide technical support for the myriad of complex lighting systems that LDG designs and executes for broadcast events and facilities worldwide. Recently, Harris has been responsible for lighting system upgrades at Bloomberg LLPs New York studios, Univision's Fusion Network studios in Miami, and CNN studios in New York. Harris has been a staff lighting director at CNN's NY studios as well as for MTV, VH-1, and SpikeTV. He is a certified ETC installation technician as well as programmer for ETC, Color Kinetics, and Strand controllers.