Sooner Rae Creative

Sooner Rae Routhier is a 2X Parnelli, USITT Distinguished Achievement Award, Live Design Achievement, Live Production Summit Pinnacle, and multi Top Dog award winning Designer. Her work has been viewed by millions all around the world and has appeared on major screens such as Jimmy Fallon, The AMA’s, Saturday Night Live, The Voice and The Billboard Music Awards. She has developed, produced and helped create some of entertainment's most recognizable performance moments for some of today's most celebrated headlining artists including, Coldplay, Phil Wickham, Paramore, The Weeknd, KISS, Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, Megan Thee Stallion, Jennie Kim, Chris Stapleton, Halsey, Motley Crue, Mary J Blige, Muse, Green Day and Daddy Yankee.

Sooner’s story began in 1999 where she worked as a lighting technician and lighting director for Rainbow Concert Productions while attending Emerson College in Boston. She launched her career as a Lighting Designer for the rock band Chevelle and In 2007 Sooner teamed up with legendary production manager Robert Long to form SRae Productions. While growing SRae Productions, Sooner was also able to cultivate new creative talent that emulated the team’s strong creative visions. Sooner and the SRae team joined forces with World-Renowned Composer Ramin Djawadi and together in a Live Nation / HBO partnership brought the world of Westeros to life and launched the "Game of Thrones – Live Concert Experience." 

Routhier’s newest venture, The Playground, launched in 2022 and her work has continued with projects including Lighting Design for Coldplay’s Music Of the Spheres World Tour and Wang Feng’s Unfollow Tour. She has also created full show design for Panic at the Disco’s Viva Las Vengeance Tour, Kelsea Ballerini, Evanescence, Disturbed, Noah Kahan, Matchbox Twenty and The Lumineers and lighting design for The Opening Ceremonies for FIFA Club World Cup. Most recently, she and design partner Mark Butts designed, produced and completed a residency for Zac Brown Band at the legendary venue The Sphere in Las Vegas.

Sooner has not only made her mark in the entertainment industry, but she has also become a respected leader in her field and along with her colleagues helped pave the modern landscape of entertainment lighting, design, and production.

In 2020, the live entertainment industry came to a very abrupt halt due to the onslaught of the COVID 19 pandemic. Sooner teamed up with several industry peers to form EVEN - an organization that has created a government registered apprenticeship program for live events industry with a focus on vocation to foster the next generation of talent.

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Nashville, TN