Lighting Designer · Programmer · Operator

CHRIS
HAYNES

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Selected Work

Tours & Festivals

Flatland Cavalry on the Work of Heart Tour, all-white beam look over the stage

Flatland Cavalry: Work of Heart Tour

Lighting Designer / Programmer / Operator · 2026

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Flatland Cavalry, Whirlwind Australia: arena wide shot with beams over the crowd

Flatland Cavalry: Whirlwind Australia

Programmer / Operator · 2026

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Flatland Cavalry, Flatland Forever Tour: blue beam bursts over a sold-out crowd in Omaha

Flatland Cavalry: Flatland Forever

Programmer / Operator · 2025

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Atreyu, We Want Your Misery Tour: purple and pink beams over the crowd

Atreyu: We Want Your Misery Tour

Programmer / Operator · select dates supporting Iron Maiden & Godsmack

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EDM festival stages, beam looks against a dusk sky

EDM Festivals

House Lighting Designer / L1 · Lights All Night, Freaky Deaky, Texas Eclipse & more

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grandMA3 Tools

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Workflow tools written on real tours, for real showfiles. Instant download after checkout, updates included.

Flagship

Type System Custom Punt Page

A complete punt page system that builds itself inside your showfile: per-type control, one-touch look capture and recall, and buttons that create, label, and color themselves to match your rig.

  • Adapts to your fixture types
  • Capture & recall full looks mid-show
  • Self-building, no manual programming
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$100 Buy Now

MAtricks Optimizer

Consolidates repeated MAtricks programming onto shared pool items. Tested on a 35,000-recipe touring show: 4,000+ recipes in one pass, zero reverts.

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$10 Buy

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Chris Haynes silhouetted against white beams at the desk in Sydney

About

Behind the desk

I’m Chris Haynes, a lighting designer, programmer, and show operator. From production design through the last cue of the night, I build shows that hit as hard visually as they do sonically.

When I’m not on the road, I’m building grandMA3 plugins that make programmers faster.

Contact

Let’s build a show

chrishayneslighting@gmail.com
Instagram @ChrisVsLights