Nautilus Entertainment Design
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Nautilus Entertainment Design (NED) is a San Diego, California based theatre consulting and lighting design firm. NED was formed by lighting designer, Jim Tetlow in 1990. The firm handles the lighting design for over 40 shows a year which include television specials, corporate shows & meetings, Vegas style shows and spectacles. NED is best known for their theatre consulting work in the cruise ship industry[1] providing design and consulting services for over fifty-five cruise ships with each containing multiple entertainment facilities for showrooms, lounges, and dance clubs. NED also provides architectural lighting design services on many of these ships.
Jim Tetlow is a member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants, ASTC, a professional organization.
After viewing a show that Tetlow designed in Las Vegas in 1991, an executive from Carnival Cruise Lines hired him to light their shows on board a new ship, Carnival Sensation. Lighting design on further ships followed and in 1994 Tetlow was asked to consult on the entertainment facilities for Carnival Destiny, the first cruise ship in excess of 100,000 tons. Following that success, the fledgling company quickly expanded as they were called upon to now design all the new entertainment systems for most of the Carnival brands that includes Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Crociere, Holland America, Seabourn, and Cunard. As of 2008, NED has provided theatre consulting & design services for over 55 ships including the largest ocean liner in the world, the RMS Queen Mary 2.[2]