Will Jones
At just 23 years old, Louis Choisy has already built the kind of resume that many veterans in live production spend decades chasing. The Swiss-born Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer has become one of the most sought-after young creatives in live entertainment, crafting immersive visual worlds for some of the biggest names in music while steadily establishing himself as a rising force with deep ambitions tied to Los Angeles and the future of the industry itself.
Born and raised in Geneva, Choisy began working professionally in live entertainment at only 13 years old, an unusually early start that shaped both his technical instincts and artistic philosophy. While most teenagers were experimenting with hobbies, Choisy was already learning the mechanics of concert production, programming lighting systems, and understanding how visual storytelling could transform a performance. That early immersion gave him a foundation that now separates him in an increasingly competitive field where lighting is no longer just illumination, but narrative architecture.
Today, Choisy operates at the intersection of technology, rhythm, and cinematic emotion. As both a Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer, he has developed a reputation for creating shows that feel as dynamic as the music itself. His work emphasizes contrast, movement, and physicality, often blurring the line between concert spectacle and cinematic experience. Those instincts were sharpened not only through touring work, but also through his background as a director of photography for music videos and short films.
Before fully dedicating himself to live production, Choisy cofounded the Swiss video production company O.U.T Studio at the age of 18. The experience gave him a filmmaker’s eye for pacing, framing, and atmosphere, qualities now visible throughout his lighting work. Combined with two degrees in computer science, Choisy represents a new generation of creatives who move fluidly between artistry and engineering, equally comfortable discussing emotional storytelling and software architecture.
That balance has become especially valuable as live entertainment increasingly embraces advanced technologies, automation, and real-time visual systems. Beyond touring, Choisy is actively developing software aimed at helping the entertainment industry integrate emerging technologies more efficiently into live production environments. In many ways, his career reflects the broader evolution of the concert industry itself: technically sophisticated, visually cinematic, and increasingly interdisciplinary.
His recent touring schedule reads like a map of contemporary global music culture. Choisy served as Lighting Programmer for Bad Bunny’s massively anticipated DTMF Tour 2025/2026 World Tour, one of the most closely watched live productions in music today. Serving as the creative backbone of Bad Bunny’s 2025/26 world tour, Louis’s lighting Programming introduced an energetic and cinematic visual identity that drew praise from major newspaper, and production trade journals for its innovative pacing and narrative structure. Working within the scale and intensity of a Bad Bunny production requires precision at the highest level, where every cue must sync seamlessly with music, video, choreography, and audience energy inside massive arenas and stadiums across the globe.
Choisy’s ability to blend spectacle with narrative has helped elevate his profile internationally. He also worked on Dom Dolla’s Europe Tour as a Lighting Programmer and Director, helping shape the Australian DJ’s increasingly ambitious live presentation into something immersive and visually muscular. For Gunna’s The Last Wun Tour, Choisy brought a darker, atmospheric style that matched the rapper’s mood-heavy aesthetic while maintaining the momentum necessary for large-scale arena performances. He is also attached to Brandy and Monica’s The Boy is Mine festival tour, another major production that bridges nostalgia, contemporary staging, and multi-generational audiences.
While live music remains the center of his career, Choisy’s creative range extends into dance and theater as well. He has collaborated with acclaimed choreographer Marion Motin for productions at Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet and worked with choreographers including Juliano Nunes, Erion Kruja, and Blenard Azizaj. In dance, Choisy applies the same rhythmic instincts that define his concert work, using lighting not as decoration but as an extension of movement itself. His designs often pulse with musical timing, sharp transitions, and sculptural intensity, creating environments where dancers appear to move through light as much as space.
Despite his growing international reputation, Los Angeles remains central to Choisy’s long-term vision. Like many ambitious creatives working in live entertainment, he sees Southern California not just as a destination, but as the epicenter of the global music and production industries.
“Los Angeles is the heart of the live music industry, and a very dear place to me,” Choisy says.
That connection to LA is more than aspirational. The city’s unique concentration of touring infrastructure, creative agencies, production companies, artists, and technological innovation makes it a natural fit for someone whose career sits between design and engineering. As the entertainment industry increasingly merges live performance with cinematic visuals, interactive technologies, and real-time digital environments, Los Angeles offers the exact ecosystem where Choisy’s multidisciplinary background can continue to evolve.
What makes Choisy particularly notable within the new generation of lighting professionals is how naturally he bridges artistic and technical languages. Many Lighting Designers come from theater or concert backgrounds. Many programmers emerge from purely technical disciplines. Few arrive with experience in cinematography, software development, live touring, dance, and visual storytelling simultaneously. That versatility allows him to operate not simply as a technician executing cues, but as a creative architect helping shape the emotional identity of a performance.
In today’s concert economy, audiences increasingly expect live shows to deliver immersive visual experiences comparable to film and digital media. Lighting has become one of the most powerful storytelling tools available to artists, capable of controlling mood, scale, intimacy, and rhythm in real time. Choisy understands that shift intuitively, approaching each production as its own evolving visual language rather than a collection of isolated effects.
For Los Angeles, a city built on entertainment reinvention, talents like Louis Choisy represent the future of live production: globally minded, technologically fluent, and artistically fearless. At 23, he is already programming and designing some of the largest tours in the world. The next chapter of his career may very well unfold under the lights of LA itself!