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Showlight releases Speaker Presentations by Christina Thanasoula and Marco Miglioli

Showlight has released more Speaker Presentations, with offerings 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.

Marco Miglioli, founder of Marco Miglioli ArchiLight Studio, is an architect and lighting designer with over fifteen years of experience and several international awards to his name. Initially trained in theatre, he places the relationship between light and built space at the centre of his interest, and constantly blends his passion for theatre, art and architecture.

Using images of three of his recent projects, including the relight of Milan Cathedral, he showed 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 projects that combine theatre and architecture, as well as continuing his work on phosphorescent lighting.

Christina Thanasoula, alumnus of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and currently working on her PhD thesis at UOA, has designed lighting for over 250 opera, theatre and dance performances. Her Showlight 2025 presentation focused on the 21st century’s new “zooming mechanism”, the camera, and examined 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.

She is currently lighting a number of international productions, including: “Lysistrata” at the open air theatre of Ancient Messini, Greece; “City Lights”, based on the original Charlie Chaplin movie, in Uppsala Theatre, Sweden; Sophie Swithinbank’s play “Bacon” in Athens’ Theatre Anesis; and “Gloria”, which opens at Theatre Xorn in Athens in October 2026. Thanasoula 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 Programme: https://www.showlight.org/videos.

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