{"id":142960,"date":"2018-11-30T08:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=142960"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:51:42","slug":"dan-rousseau-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/dan-rousseau-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rousseau Lights it Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Rousseau \u201908 (SFA)\u00a0has never been in front of a TV camera, and it\u2019s been years since he had an acting role in the theater. Yet you can enjoy his workmanship every day of the week on CNN, and if you tuned in to hockey at this past Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, you saw his work there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Rousseau works in the world of television lighting as both a designer and director. Since 2008, he has worked for the Lighting Design Group Inc. at CNN, where he has permanent spots on three shows: \u201cCuomo Prime Time,\u201d \u201cAnderson Cooper Full Circle\u201d (a Facebook Live show), and \u201cQuest Means Business\u201d on CNN International. He floats on other shows, including \u201cThe Van Jones Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rousseau has won two Emmys \u2014 in 2012 for NBC News coverage of presidential election night and in 2016 for the special event \u201cCNN Heroes.\u201d We caught up with him on the set of \u201cThe Van Jones Show\u201d at the CNN studios near New York City\u2019s Columbus Circle.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/21\/dan-rousseau-lights\/\">magazine.uconn.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time Emmy award winner and UConn alum discusses the appeal of working in television lighting, where, if it&#8217;s done right, no one will notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":142901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1711,1914,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-142960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-culture","category-sfa","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 14:09:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143778,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142960\/revisions\/143778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/142901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142960"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=142960"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=142960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}