From Panic at the Disco to Coldplay at the Natural History Museum, Sooner Routhier is having an extraordinary career. The head of her own design and production company, Sooner Rae Creative, her work can currently be seen on Coldplay's groundbreaking Music of the Spheres tour. She is a multi-award-winner, including Parnelli Awards for Lighting Designer of the Year and Live Design Awards for her masterful concert designs.
Sponsored by ACT Entertainment, this one-hour webcast will include discussions of her lighting and production design work, support for diversity in the industry, and a Q&A.
Register here for this free virtual event on December 8, 2022, at 11am Eastern.
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Sooner Rae Routhier is a 2X Parnelli, Live Design Achievement, Live Production Summit Pinnacle, and multi-Top Dog award-winning Designer. Her work has been viewed by millions all around the world and has appeared on major screens such as Jimmy Fallon, The AMA’s, The Ellen Show, The Voice, and The Billboard Music Awards. She has developed, produced, and helped create some of entertainment's most recognizable performance moments for some of today's most celebrated headlining artists including, Coldplay, Panic at the Disco, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Rihanna, Pentatonix, Jay-Z, Halsey, Motley Crue, G-Eazy, Muse, Alessia Cara, and Depeche Mode.
Routhier’s newest venture, Sooner Rae Creative, launched in 2019 and her work has continued with projects including Lighting Design for Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour, Panic at the Disco’s Viva Las Vengeance Tour, and Wang Feng’s Unfollow Tour. She has also created full show designs for Evanescence, Vance Joy, Trivium, and The Lumineers; and art direction for the band Ghost.
Sooner has not only made her mark in the entertainment industry, but she has also become a respected leader in her field and along with her colleagues helped pave the modern landscape of entertainment lighting, design, and production.
Routhier is a founding member of Even, an organization that seeks to create a more diverse and inclusive live events industry through outreach, training, mentorship, networking, and job placement.