Lighting Designer · Programmer · Operator

CHRIS
HAYNES

See the Work MA3 Plugins

Selected Work

Tours & Festivals

Flatland Cavalry — 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

View tour · 15 photos
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

View tour · 4 photos
EDM festival stages — beam looks against a dusk sky

EDM Festivals

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

View festivals · 28 photos

grandMA3 Tools

The Plugin Store

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
$100 Buy Now

Chris’s Color Brain

The color engine out of my own showfile — fast, type-aware color control built for punting.

$10 Buy

MAtricks Optimizer

Cleans and optimizes the MAtricks in your showfile so selection patterns stay fast and predictable.

$10 Buy

Group Master Finder

Scans every page and lists all of your group masters — where they live and which groups they control.

$10 Buy

Preset Counter

Walks your preset pools and reports what’s actually used — find the dead weight before it tours with you.

$5 Buy

Secure checkout by Polar · instant email delivery · prefer memberships? The plugins are also on Patreon with early-access perks.

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