Accessory Spotlight - Beam Bender

Accessory Spotlight:

Beam Bender

City Theatrical's Beam Bender allows the light output of a lighting fixture to be located at a right angle to the fixture. A fixture can point horizontally and shoot its light straight down, or can point straight down and output its light horizontally.

Designers have many uses for the Beam Bender, including shooting around obstructions, or working with low grids in which a fixture pointing straight down would be an obstruction. As shown above, they can also be used on dance sidelight booms to maximize the light on the dancers' legs without lighting the floor.

Did You Know?

Ideal for theatres and studios with low ceilings, City Theatrical's Beam Bender is most commonly hung close to the ceiling to bend beams of light downwards to help lighting professionals gain vertical space.

Lighting Designer Jules Fisher originally brought us the idea of the Beam Bender. We built the first ones for his New York production of A Christmas Carol.

Achieve Your Vision

Since our inception over 30 years ago, City Theatrical has worked with professional lighting designers to invent, manufacture, and customize high quality lighting accessories. Our mission is to create products that enable designers to achieve their artistic vision. This "Accessories Spotlight" email series will help demonstrate how a single lighting accessory, like

Beam Bender, can help you make your next performance or installation even better.

Call or email us to l et us know how we can help you.