You Have a Cool Job: Festival Production Designer (See: Coachella, Lollapalooza, EDC)

You Have a Cool Job is a podcast hosted by Taylor Sienkiewicz from Peterson’s. The show highlights professionals who have a unique, interesting, uncommon, or otherwise cool job.

Our goal is to motivate you and show how interesting, fulfilling, and anything-but-average your career can be, and we’ll do this by talking with people who took a path less traveled. We ask these fascinating individuals how they got to where they are in their career based on their education, experience, and influences; why they love their job; and lots more.

On this week’s episode of You Have a Cool Job, we talk to the man behind the magic of Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Lollapalooza, and many more. Steve Lieberman is a lighting and production designer who works on some of the most intricate music festivals and nightclubs. He talks about the sometimes months-long setup, creative elements, and skills needed to make it happen. Steve gives advice for those wanting to help create these kinds of events. Steve shares firsthand how the music festival scene has exploded into what it is today, and what production looks like with these new expectations.