Category: Live
Paris Texas
Debut 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
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