Anjeanette Stokes 

Hi! Do you want to hear a very nerdy story about how I started in lighting?  Great.  In 8th grade at St Vincent de Paul school, my friend Michelle and I were given the task of running the lights for our school choir concert in the church.  This was back in the 1900s, and the church was only equipped with a bank of light switches.  Michelle and I flipped those switches on and off as directed by our music teacher and we felt like technical goddesses. 

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There's got to be a usable joke here about being bitten by the theatre bug?  The lightning bug?  I'll workshop it with my writers later.  

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I kept working on lighting crews and began studying and doing my own lighting designs. I received my masters in lighting design at The Ohio State University and moved to New York City just after graduation.  I freelanced as a designer, electrician, and programmer for several years there.  I then took a leap and began working in architectural lighting.  So if you invite me over and I start sneaking around your house flipping off light switches to overhead lights and turning on table lamps to create a different mood, just know that I am a professional.  

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