Category: Live
Paris Texas
Mid Air Tour 2023
Creative direction, stage design and lighting design for Paris Texas’ Mid Air Tour (Fall 2023)
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Stage & Lighting Design: Eddie Mandell & Jacob Fishman
Programming: Jace Smolansky
Touring Lighting Designer: Jacob Fishman
Production: Jacob Fishman & Eddie Mandell
Rock Fabrication: Margot Rada
Rock Painting/Finish: All Sets
Paris Texas
Camp Flog Gnaw 2023
Creative direction, stage design and lighting design for Paris Texas’ live performance at Camp Flog Gnaw. (Fall 2023)
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Stage/Lighting Design: Eddie Mandell & Jacob Fishman
Live Lighting Designer: Jacob Fishman
Lighting Programmer: Jace Smolansky
Video Programmer: Hugo Shiboski
Visual Content Direction: Eddie Mandell
Visual Content: The Circumstances, Nic Paranoia, Giorgio Cassano, Brett Prendergast, Nicholas D’Apolito, Ari Kech, Chris Yellen, Eddie Mandell, Charlie Brady & Silvio Deiaco
3D: Niccoló Abate, Giulio Gentile, Bruno Raciti, Giorgio Cassano, Leonardo Distefano, Alvise Aspesi, Matteo Bico & Michele Amoretti
Paris Texas
Coachella 2023
Creative direction and stage design for Paris Texas’ 2023 Coachella performance. (Spring 2023)
Creative Direction & Stage Design: Eddie Mandell
Production Design & Stage Build: Jacob Fishman, Eddie Mandell & Chris Yellen
Lighting Design/Operator: Jacob Fishman
Visual Content Direction: Eddie Mandell
Visual Content & Animation: The Circumstances, Nic Paranoia, Giorgio Cassano, Brett Prendergast, Nicholas D’Apolito, Ari Kech, Chris Yellen, Eddie Mandell & Charlie Brady
3D Modeling:
Propaganda Research & Edit: Nic Paranoia
Grade & Texturing:
Paris Texas
Live Tour
Creative direction, stage design, and photography for Paris Texas’ debut live tour. The stage was transformed into a “kill room.” We worked with limited space at smaller venues, striving to create an immersive, narrative-driven experience. Semi-transparent tarp treated with a mix of mud and blood surrounded the stage on three sides, providing a means of lighting diffusion for an ethereal atmosphere. Scrap metal, chains and a variety of junk was strewn across the stage, carefully blocked out to interact with our lighting.
Creative Direction & Stage Design: Eddie Mandell
Lighting Design: TJ Hoover
Production Design/Stage Build: Eddie Mandell, Kyla Rain, Shantanu Jhaveri & Alex Carmen
Graffiti: Alex Carmen
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
UMI
Forest in the City
Creative direction, album artwork, music videos, photography, logotype, posters, merch design, packaging design, lyric visualizers and live tour direction for UMI’s debut album “Forest in the City.” Photography featured in Rolling Stone and Numéro Netherlands. (Winter 2021 – Summer 2022)
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Album Artwork Photography: Julian Burgueño
Project Photography: Eddie Mandell
Photo Assistants: Christopher Burgueño & Maddie Spanier
Styling: Lexi Kingery, Ian Whalley & UMI
Hair & Makeup: Arielle Park, Mitchell Cantrell, Kasha Lassien, Love Taije, Sophia Erickson & Elyse Thoms
Visualizers/Lyric Videos: Nik Arthur
‘Sorry’ Music Video
Director: Eddie Mandell
Executive Producers: McCray Sutherlin & Farah Idrees
Production Company: Muddy Water
Producer: Dain August
Associate Producer: Sahnah Dhrif
Director of Photography: Andrew Truong
1st Assistant Director: Lane Stroud
Production Designer: Clayton Beisner
Editors: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Colorist: Dante Pasquinelli
‘Whatever U Like’ Music Video
Director: Will Noyce
Producer: Jeremy Ivory-Chambers
Production Company: Fengari
Director of Photography: Shane Bagwell
‘Wish That I Could’ Music Video
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Producer: Jeff Kopchia
Director of Photography: Farhad Ghaderi
Editor: Alex Farah
Colorist: Sam Gilling
BTS: Elinor Kry, Jenna King & Domia Edwards
Merch Design: Eddie Mandell, Ema Gaspar, Nicholas D’Apolito & Leo Horton
Live Tour Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Stage Design: Wesley Goodrich
Manifesto Visual Narrative
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
Tate McRae
Live Performances
Creative direction for Tate McRae’s “You Broke Me First” live on the MTV VMAs, MTV EMAs, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (Summer 2020 – Winter 2021)
MTV VMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Production Company: Mad Ruk
Executive Producer: Rey Mendoza
Producer: Stephanie Hooker
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design: Dan Norman & Lewis James
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Editor: Nick Yumul
Colorist: Clinton Homuth
MTV EMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction & Stage Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Evan Ciniello
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Programmer: Dan Norman
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Colorist: Clinton Homuth
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Creative Direction & Live Performance Direction: Eddie Mandell & Lewis James
Stage & Lighting Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Derek Branscombe
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
First Assistant Director: Darrell Faria
Lighting Programmer/Gaffer: Gideon Ayesu
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Edit: Tristan CM
Colorist: Kevin Wu
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Director: Jonah Haber
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Executive Producer: Sebastien Galina
Producer: Sahil Mirchandani
Production Company: Boldly
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design/Programmer: Gideon Ayesu
Stylist: Kaitlyn Vitug
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Colorist: Clinton Homuth
Stills Photography: Gennelle Cruz
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
Janet Jackson
Metamorphosis Residency Visual Narratives
Visual narratives/screen visuals for Janet Jackson’s Metamorphosis Las Vegas Residency. The videos were utilized as a narrative throughline to tie together each act of Jackson’s show. (Spring 2019)
Directors: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Creative Directors: Gil Duldalao & Dean Lee
Producers: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Director of Photography: Jon Chou
Production Design: Jacob Fishman
Gaffer: Lej Talens
Kep Grip: Chris Purdy
1st Assistant Camera: Tevin Texiera
Assistant Producer: Nick Scully
Stills Photography: Eddie Mandell
Zara Larsson
Europe Tour 2021 - 2022
Creative direction and visual content direction for Zara Larsson’s “Poster Girl” Europe tour. (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Stage Design: Anders Heberling, Eddie Mandell and Sacha Jean-Baptiste
Show Direction: Sacha Jean-Baptiste
Choreography: Milena Jacuniak
Lighting Operator/Programmer: Isak Gabre
Video Operator: Ishai Mika
Visual Content Direction: Eddie Mandell
Visual Content, Modeling & Animation: Randy Cano, Brandon Braun & Green Wall Designs
Photography: Timothy Gottlieb & Jeffrey McIntosh