Detailed Resume
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design – Western Illinois University (5/99)
Bachelor of Arts in Technical Theatre – Western Illinois University (5/97) – Magna cum Laude
Associate of Arts in Theatre – Spoon River College (5/95)
Professional Affiliations
USITT – United States Institute for Theatre Technology
RMUSITT – Rocky Mountain Region USITT
CTG – Colorado Theatre Guild
TCG – Theatre Communication Group
8/2005 – Present – Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Theatre – Metropolitan State College – Denver, CO
Served as Sound Designer and Video Coordinator on all department productions. Also served as Technical Director and Lighting Designer on a rotating basis with other staff and guest designers on department productions. Other duties included reorganizing the lighting and sound inventories and storage. Also served as a member of the Theatre Users Group committee for the King Center for Performing Arts.
· Courses: Advanced Lighting, Introduction to Stagecraft, Introduction to Lighting and Sound, Introduction to Theatre, and Theatre Practicum.
5/2004 – 8/2005 – Adjunct Professor/Staff Technical Director/Resident Designer– Community College of Aurora – Aurora, CO
Technical Director, Scenic Designer, Sound Designer, and Lighting Designer for all productions presented by the Community College of Aurora Theatre Program, Dance Program, Music Program, and the Black Box Opera Company. Other duties include setting and maintaining budgets for the Theatre Program and setting production calendars for the Fine Arts Program.
· Courses: Introduction to Theatre, Technical Production, Theatre Internship, and Theatre Practicum.
5/2003 – 11/2003 – Technical Consultant and Lighting Designer – Centre for the Performing Arts– Vancouver, BC
Technical Consultant on the Centre’s effort to establish a new producing theatre company at the 1,800 seat Centre for the Performing Arts space. Responsibilities included consulting on the instillation of a new sound and lighting system, hiring of production staff, and coordination of all production calendars. Also served as the Lighting Designer on their World Premiere production of Senses. The production featured scenery, costumes, and performers from China and a $100,000.00 lighting budget.
7/2002 - 5/2003 – Resident Technical Director – Country Dinner Playhouse and Kid’s Play Children’s Theatre – Denver, CO
Supervision and direction of all technical aspects for all mainstage and children’s theatre productions for both equity theatre companies. Country Dinner Playhouse is an “in-the-round” theatre, featuring a hydraulic stage that rises into the ceiling for scene changes. Areas supervised include scenic construction, welding, scenic painting, properties, effects, 3-D animation, puppetry, and run-crew.
· Productions: Big River, Footloose, Holiday Spectacular, Never Too Late, Forever Patsy Cline, The Frog Prince, The Velveteen Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Frosty’s Magic Hat.
9/2000 - 7/2002 - Resident Lighting Designer – Denver Civic Theatre - Denver, CO
Resident Lighting Designer for all productions by DCT and other resident companies including Horsechart Theatre Company and Industrial Arts Theatre. Maintained lighting systems in the proscenium arch Henry Theatre and black box Dorie Theatre. Supervised the upgrade of both spaces from a CMX Colortran Lighting System to a DMX ETC Lighting System. Collaborated with directors, designers, and other production personnel to provide a unified artistic vision for each production.
· Productions: Marvin’s Room, Dracula, Right On America!, Hamlet, Terra Nova, Dangerous Liaisons, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Measure for Measure, Reckless, The Swan, and Machinal.
· Supervised a cadet crew for the DCT’s production of Measure for Measure that toured to the US Air Force Academy’s 3,000 seat Arnold Hall.
2/2000 - 9/2001 & 5/2004 – Staff Technical Director/Lighting Designer – David Taylor Dance Theatre– Denver, CO.
Lighting design and technical direction for all touring productions. Working with each venue to create light plots and staging that meet each show’s technical requirements. The venues ranged from 3,000 seat roadhouses to 100 seat community centers. Other responsibilities included renting equipment, training assistants for tours, and stage managing each performance.
· Productions: Rainforest, Seasons, The Nutcracker, 2001 Steps, Contemporary Classics, Rainforest Odyssey, and The Nutcracker Tea..
· Rainforest is an original DTDT creation that involves extensive use of dance lighting and other effects such as black light, syncopated rain pods, cold flow chemical fog, gobo rotators, color scrollers, scrim effects, and data flashes.
8/1999 - 2/2000 – Corporate Lighting Designer – Richter Scale Productions– Englewood, CO.
Corporate lighting design and production management in unconventional spaces such as ballrooms, outdoor stages, expo halls, tents, concourses, etc. Supervised crew of trained electricians and other technical personnel in implementing the design. Logistical planning for this type of design included power allocation and distribution, truss placement and rigging, trucking materials to and from the event, and coordination with other departments such as audio, video and food service. Collaborated with various producers in meeting the client’s requirements for each event.
· Client Events: Lockheed Martin, AT&T Broadband, Level 3 Communications, Storage Tek, US Bank, Jefferson Foundation, Colorado Children’s Chorale, Colorado History Museum, SCC Communications, and University of Denver.
· Equipment used on events included: High End moving fixtures such as Studio Spots, Studio Colors, Track Spots, and Technobeams; conventional lighting and dimming; color scrollers; pyrotechnics; and Whole Hog and ETC lighting consoles.
5/1999 - 7/1999 – Lighting Designer – Lincoln Amphitheatre – Evansville, IN.
Designed and supervised implementation of designs in the 1,500 seat Lincoln Amphitheatre as well as collaborated with other designers, directors and theatre staff.
· Productions: Young Abe Lincoln and The Music Man.
· The Lincoln Amphitheatre is a roofed space with a stage that is 175’ – 0” wide and 75’ – 0” deep. The productions played in rep.
5/1998 – 8/1998 and 5/1996-8/1996 – Master Electrician/Technical Assistant – Summer Music Theatre – Macomb, IL.
Served as Master Electrician on all productions. Trained staff in all aspects of electrician work. Maintained all equipment used in productions.
· Productions: Into the Woods, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, and Once Upon a Mattress.
5/1997- 8/1997 – Master Carpenter – The Little Theatre on the Square – Sullivan, IL.
Served as the Master Carpenter for all productions. Duties included supervising a crew of actor/technicians in the set installation during a 2-day turnaround time between productions.
· Productions: Sugar Babies, Brigadoon, Forever Plaid, Crazy for You, and Godspell.
10/1989 - 3/1993 – Assistant Technical Director – Zellmer’s Dinner Theatre – Farmington, IL.
Served as part of a three-person team that was responsible for the design and execution of scenery, lighting, sound, and effects for all productions. The effects included pyrotechnics, rain, fountains, neon, black light, and chemical fog.
· Productions: Mack and Mabel, Something’s Afoot, Singin’ in the Rain,, I Love my Wife, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Phantom of the Opera, Holidazzle, The Red Garter Revue, Barnum, Hallelujah Hollywood, Gypsy, Twist and Shout, Jubilee, and Sugar Babies.
Selected Freelance Experience
1/2000 - Present – Freelance Lighting Designer – Various Producing Organizations.
Designing and execution of lighting as well as training of board operators and other related production staff in operating and maintaining designs. Collaborating with directors, designers, and staff on creating cohesive productions.
· Bas Bleu Theatre Company – Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Part II: Perestroika.
· Alliance Stage - The Syringa Tree.
· Next Stage Theatre Company - Assassins, Chess, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, and Recent Tragic Events.
· University of Denver, Opera - The Marriage of Figaro and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
· University of Iowa, Opera - A Little Night Music and Cosi Fan Tutte.
· Pinnacle Dinner Theatre – The Rocky Horror Show, The Sound of Music, and Nuncrackers.
· Walden Family Playhouse - Kabuki Gift.
· Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse - Smokey Joe’s Café, Lost Highway, Annie, Peace in the Valley, Social Security, On Golden Pond, Winter Wonderland, Smoke on the Mountain, and Never too Late.
· Country Dinner Playhouse - Annie, Holiday Spectacular, and Annie Get Your Gun.
· Nomad Theatre - Amadeus, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sylvia, My Magdalene, Alarms & Excursions, Baring Fruit, The Vow, Oil, and Chapter Two.
· The LIDA Project - The Skriker, Family Stories Belgrade, Brother Mine, Fucking A, 365 Days/365 Plays - Week 4, and Iphigenia…(A Rave Fable).
· Paragon Theatre Company - The Caretaker, Sailor's Song, The Miss Firecracker Contest, and Death and the Maiden.
· Openstage Theatre Company – The Women, The Mousetrap, Who Will Carry the Word?, and Fuddy Meers.
· Aurora Fox Theatre Company - Quilters, I Do I Do, Hi-Hat Hattie, Mercy of a Storm, Eleemosynary, and All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten .
Educational Experience
8/1995 - 5/1999 – Departmental Master Electrician/Lighting Designer – Western Illinois University – Macomb, IL.
Served as the Departmental Master Electrician on all productions within the theatre department, usually averaging 12 per semester. Supervised crew of 6 electricians in implementing each production and maintaining all equipment used within the department. Trained and supervised talent-grant students, Intro to Theatre students, and actor/technicians in fulfilling course and scholarship requirements.
· Lighting Designer: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Comedy of Errors, On the Verge, The Bald Soprano, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Dwarfs, Hedda Gabler, Fool for Love, The Children’s Hour, Oleanna, The Forced Marriage and various other productions.
· Nominated to present lighting designs at the ACTF Festival (Region III) in 1998 and 1999 in Indianapolis, IN for Picasso at the Lapin Agile, On the Verge, and The Comedy of Errors.
· Taught Introduction to Lighting and Beginning Stagecraft to students of varying levels of experience.
· Served as a guest lecturer in Introduction to Theatre classes on Electrics and Lighting Design.
Additional Teaching and Panel Experience
· 2004 – Long Beach USITT – Served as the Vice-Commissioner for Programming for the USITT International Conference.
· 2003 – American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) – Region III - Evansville, IN – Served as part of an eight member team of professional designers evaluating realized and paper designs by graduate and undergraduate students.
· 2002 and 2003 – Crested Butte Fine Arts Center, Crested Butte, CO: Presented two 3-day Lighting and Electrics Intensives entitled Lighting Design 101 for theatre professionals of a wide range of age and experience. The workshops focused on designing and maintaining a repertory lighting plot for a small fine arts facility.
· 2002 and 2003 – Spoon River College, Canton, IL: Presented two 1-day Introduction to Lighting workshops with students and staff members.
· 2002 - New Orleans USITT: Served as the Practicing Professional on the Education Committee’s presentation on “Using lighting design software in education”.
· 2001 – Smokebrush Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO: Presented a 1-day lighting design intensive for theatre professionals of a wide range of age and experience. The workshop focused on the design and implementation of a lighting rep plot in a multi-use fine arts facility.
· 1997 - Pittsburgh USITT: Served on the Education Committee’s presentation on “Choosing the right graduate school.”
Awards and Nominations
* Nominated for the 2005 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Lighting Design for The Syringa Tree with Alliance Stage.
* Nominated for the 2004 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Lighting Design for Angels In America Part I: Millennium Approaches and Angels In America Part II: Perestroika with Bas Bleu Theatre Company.
· Awarded the 2002/2003 OPUS Award for Best Lighting Design for Who Will Carry the Word? with the Openstage Theatre Company.
· Awarded Best Lighting Design of 2001 by Out Front Colorado magazine for the designs of Terra Nova and Measure for Measure at the Denver Civic Theatre.
· Nominated for the 2001/2002 OPUS Award for Best Lighting Design for Fuddy Meers with the Openstage Theatre Company.
· Nominated for the 2000/2001 OPUS Award for Best Lighting Design for The Mousetrap with the Openstage Theatre Company.
· Nominated Best Lighting Design of 2000 by the Denver Drama Critic’s Circle for the design of Dracula at the Denver Civic Theatre.
· Awarded the 1992 Zellmer’s Main Street Dinner Theatre “Star of the Year” award for backstage contributions.
References Available Upon Request