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Who we are
Michael Jankie Company Director, Technical and Production Manager
Benjamin Simon Company Director, Business Manager
Niklas Pajanti Lighting Designer
Emily O’Brien Production and Stage Manager
Paul Lim Technical and Production Manager
Cam Mitchell Technical and Production Manager
Michael Carr Senior Production Manager
Pia Johnson Media and Marketing Manager
Staff Biographies
Michael Jankie
Company Director, Technical and Production manager
Michael is a specialist in technical and production management. Forming trafficlight in 2000, the company has grown increasingly to house an experienced team of technical and production workers and designers.
Michael is responsible for the overall management and delivery of trafficlight’s projects, both in client side roles and as a leader of production and design management teams.
Individually Michael has worked for numerous mainstream and emerging arts and culture organisations including Ballarat Arts Academy, ChamberMade, Dancehouse, Kage, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Musica Viva, Token Events and Victorian College of the Arts.
Michael was educated at VCA (Production), and has been a guest speaker and lecturer at VCA and NMIT.
Projects include:
* Production Manager - Spicks & Spec-tacular Tour, 2007 - 2008
* Production Manager - International Puppet Carnival 2006
* Production Manager - Garden of Unearthly Delights - Adelaide Fringe Festival 2007
Niklas Pajanti
Lighting Designer
Niklas is a lighting designer whose practice ranges across contemporary art forms and performance styles, including opera, circus, dance, drama, comedy, events, lighting buildings and public spaces. He joined trafficlight in 2004 and is currently the principal lighting designer, having delivered projects nationally and internationally to Europe, the USA and Asia.
At the forefront of lighting design in Australian and international live performance, Niklas has designed for Chunky Move, Company B Belvoir, The Eleventh Hour, Dancehouse Inc., Kage, Not Yet It’s Difficult, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Festival Melbourne 2006, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Federation Square.
Niklas was awarded the Victorian Green Room Award for Lighting Design for Dance in 2002, and has had 6 nominations for lighting design from the association. Niklas also nominated for a Helpmann award this year for his design for Brink Production's work When the Rain Stops Falling. He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and has a post graduate qualification in Architectural Lighting Design from RMIT.
Projects include:
* Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Written by Edward Albee. Directed by Benedict Andrews at Company B Belvoir Street 2007
* Holiday. Written by Raimondo Cortese. Directed by Adriano Cortese. Ranters Theatre at NMTH 2007
* For Samuel Beckett (Endgame). Written by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Anne Thompson & William Henderson. Eleventh Hour at Eleventh Hour Theatre 2006
* Tense Dave by Chunky Move. Choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin and Michael Kantor 2004
Emily O’Brien
Production and Stage Manager
Emily is well known for her expertise as a Production and Stage Manager. She has had a wide breadth of experience in comedy, dance, theatre, opera and events.
She is a graduate of the VCA (Production), and joined trafficlight in 2005. Emily is responsible for complex projects, her knowledge of event and production management enables her to implement projects from pre-production to on the day stage management.
Emily’s work in production management has seen her also work as the Production Coordinator for co-curricular drama program at St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda, and completed an internship at the infamous avant-garde theatre company The Wooster Group at the Performing Garage in New York. Recently Emily also worked as the Production Manager for the award-winning company Short Attention Span, with whom she toured Australia and overseas.
Projects include:
* Commonwealth Games 2006 Circus Program
* A Winter’s Tale and For Samuel Beckett (Endgame). Written by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Anne Thompson & William Henderson. Eleventh Hour at Eleventh Hour Theatre 2006.
* Comedy @ Trades
Paul Lim
Technical and Production Manager
Paul has a broad range of experience from lighting design, sound engineering, production and stage management, and specialises in technical production management.
He joined trafficlight in 2006, and combines his multifaceted knowledge to provide solutions across multiple market sectors. Paul has received a Victorian Green Room Award Nomination for his lighting design in the New Form section.
His work for theatre, festivals and events have taken him around the world. His festival work includes Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Assembly theatre and Pleasance, Wexford Festival Opera, Brighton International Festival, Robodock Amsterdam, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Festival Melbourne 2006, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Paul has also toured internationally with Frantic Assembly (UK), Birmingham Stage Company (UK), Double Tap (AU) and Upstage (UK).
Projects include:
* Advent Calendar – Federation Square 2006
* Comedy @ Trades
* Operation – Full Tilt/Blood Policy/APA
Cam Mitchell
Technical and Production Manager
Cam Mitchell has a broad range of experience in technical production which has seen him in many roles, but most often in Stage Management or Live Audio. Cam recently joined trafficlight in 2007.
Cam has worked in music, theatre, dance, comedy and events. Some of these include: Assembly Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Next Wave Festival, Festival Melbourne 2006/7 as part of the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Fringe.
Recent projects include:
*Comedy @ Trades
*FINA World Championships / Festival Melbourne 2007
Michael Carr
Senior Production Manager
Michael has had over 10 years experience as a production and logistics manager and has toured extensively with a variety of companies. He has managed large scale productions including The Great Moscow Circus for Edgley International, which toured throughout
In 2004, and again 2008, Michael was an Artist in Residence at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts teaching Circus and Stage Rigging/Production Management.
Michael has recently joined trafficlight as a senior production manager.
Other projects include:
*The Royal Ballet “
* The St Petersburgh Ballet
