Production Resources Group, LLC named Scott Hansen its Chief Financial Officer, working from the company's New Windsor, New York office. Mr. Hansen joined PRG in 1997 and has been PRG's assistant corporate controller, controller of the lighting division, corporate controller, vice president of finance, and general manager of PRG Audio. His most recent post was as GM of PRG Video in Mt. Vernon, New York. He has extensive knowledge of the company's operations and is familiar with its offices in both the United States and Europe.

PRG Video also recently completed a major expansion of its rental inventory, increasing its services to special events, corporate shows, and Broadway productions.

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Richard Jackson has joined the rental and production team of Creative Stage Lighting of North Creek, New York as a touring technician. He has extensive experience as a lighting technician, support technician, trainer, and has taught live production at Full Sail in Florida. He is serving as lighting crew chief for the current road tour of the jam band moe this summer, where Creative Stage Lighting is supplying a GrandMA lighting console, three Reel EFX DF-50s, 18 Martin Mac 2K Profile IIEs, and an Entertainment Power System power distribution rack.

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City Theatrical, Inc. has created and filled two new staff positions. Ken Bruns has joined the Bronx-based manufacturer of lighting accessories as a salesperson concentrating on outside sales and working with designers, consultants, distributors, production electricians, theatres, and end users. Ben Merrick has been named New Product Development Manager. A graduate of Yale School of Drama, Mr. Merrick will help ensure a stream of new products for City Theatrical customers.

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Lighting Designer Andy Knighton chose Vari-Lite's VL3000 Spot Luminaires to help realize his lighting designs for the Me and My Gang national tour by country music group Rascal Flats. Everything about this tour is unique and it completely breaks away from the standard concepts," said Mr. Knighton. "When I first saw the set, I thought, where do you put the lighting rig? But they gave me carte blanche in the design and four full days of programming." He is using 32 VL3000 spots throughout the design. The complete lighting package was supplied by Bandit Lites.

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When Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts opened with a night of outdoor opera broadcast live in Nathan Phillips Square, Entertainment Technology's Marquee ILC lighting console was there to assist. Lighting Designer/Director Jason Jennings was given a one-on-one demonstration of the Marquee ILC by Robert Bell, who designed its software. Robert Ford of William F. White International, the company which arranged the demo, said "When Jason and Rob got together, they instantly began to feed off one another's energy and expertise. It was fun to watch. During the demo, Mr. Jennings showed Mr. Bell how there might be some effects engine updates that could be useful to the film industry." With the two collaborating in Toronto, the Marquee software team began building the effects engines and the updates were completed and uploaded in only three days.

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