Lighting Design | Jay Woods Design

Knowledge + Experience + Excellence

From creative vision to working build.

JWD helps teams translate ambitious lighting ideas into buildable scenic electrics systems — with the documentation, coordination, and technical detail needed to deliver what the design intended.

Scenic electrics live at the intersection of design intent, fabrication, control, installation, testing, and service. Jay Woods Design works in that intersection.

We help teams develop lighting systems that are not only visually compelling, but practical to build, clear to coordinate, reliable to install, and sustainable in the real world.

Based in New York. Supporting complex entertainment projects across the United States and beyond.

Why JWD?
Because complex scenic lighting systems succeed when creative intent, fabrication reality, control strategy, and documentation are aligned early.

How JWD supports the build

Scenic Electrics Design
Lighting systems integrated into scenery, developed around design intent, fabrication methods, control strategy, access, service, and installation.

Technical Documentation
Clear drawing sets, layouts, details, signal flow, BOMs, and supporting documentation that help creative, production, and fabrication teams work from the same information.

Pixeleering™
A proprietary approach to pixel-controlled scenic lighting systems, developed for projects where every pixel matters and conventional workflows are not enough.

Testing & Delivery Support
Support for shop testing, readiness reviews, commissioning, and the handoff from fabricated element to working show system.

Experience across design, fabrication, and delivery.

With more than 25 years in lighting design and scenic electrics engineering, JWD brings a rare combination of creative fluency and technical execution experience.

Our work has supported Broadway productions, touring entertainment, broadcast environments, immersive installations, theme park projects, and complex scenic builds where lighting is not an add-on — it is part of the structure, the story, and the guest experience.

The real work is alignment.

A successful scenic electrics system depends on more than product selection or a clean drawing package. It requires someone to absorb the design intent, understand the fabrication approach, anticipate installation realities, and communicate the details clearly across every team involved.

That is where JWD brings value: helping the people responsible for the project make better decisions earlier, avoid avoidable rework, and deliver a finished system that reflects the original creative goal.

Have a complex scenic electrics or pixel-controlled lighting project?

Bring JWD into the conversation before fabrication decisions lock in. We can help clarify the scope, protect the design intent, and support a smoother path from concept to working build.

What guides the work

Protect the design intent

The goal is not just to make the system function. The goal is to deliver the creative vision in a way that survives fabrication, installation, operation, and service.

Make the work buildable

Details, layouts, and system planning are developed with the realities of the shop, the site, and the final installation in mind.

Own the details

JWD stays focused on the small decisions that determine whether a complex scenic electrics system becomes clear, coordinated, and reliable.

For complex builds, JWD can support:

Lighting & Scenic Electrics — Design–Fabrication Alignment

JWD closes the gap between design intent and fabrication reality for theme parks, live entertainment, and immersive experiences. Our specialty is lighting and scenic electrics—including Pixeleering™, a proprietary pixel workflow that unifies complex systems into one authoritative map.

What we do

Design–Fabrication Alignment (DFA): constructability audits, integration planning (power/data/control), risk/mitigation.
Shop-ready documentation: lighting/scenic electrics plans, critical details & exploded views, BOMs, build documentation.
Pixeleering™ (pixel systems): addressing & network strategy, content-to-hardware mapping, authoritative pixel map.
Testing & commissioning: pre-viz/bench tests, commissioning plan & checklists, on-site/remote commissioning support.
Vendor/fabricator coordination: clear scope packages, submittal reviews, long-lead planning, buyout support.

How we work

Weekly stakeholder reviews; more frequent working sessions with shop teams.
No-surprises: the design matches the drawing; the drawing can be fabricated.
Advanced technology infrastructure: High-end Modeling workstations, AutoCAD, Inventor & Fusion capability; proven drawing-set architecture and standards.