168: Full Time Church Lighting, Freelance Gigs, and Parenting with Amanda Carradine - Bonus Episode

Artistic Finance

Ellen and Ethan chat with Amanda Carradine, the lighting director for Eastside Christian Church in California.

Topics:

⭐️ Being a church LD

⭐️ Saving for inevitable slow seasons

⭐️ Determining rates for freelance gigs

⭐️ Finding stability in a production career

Video Version

https://youtu.be/p2ZI0DUH0O4

Artistic Finance

https://linktr.ee/artisticfinance

LDI

https://www.ldishow.com/

Amanda Carradine

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandacarradine/

FILO

https://filo.org/filo2025/

Eastside Christian Church

https://eastside.com/anaheim/

Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-lampert-gr%C3%A9aux-2abb351b/

Amanda Carradine is passionate about working in live entertainment and specializes in lighting. She has professional experience in a large variety of venues: theaters, theme parks, cruise ships, houses of worship, broadcast studios, conference/corporate events, and performance arenas. She is currently working full-time as the Lighting Director for Eastside Christian Church, a large multisite church based out of Anaheim, CA, and also contracts for Trinity Broadcasting Network. When she's not working she loves having adventures with her two kids.

Instagram Handles

@manda.plus.two

@nicolevsteimel

@ethansteimel

@live.design

@ldishow

Hosted by Ellen Lampert-Gréaux and Ethan Steimel