Selected Design Experience:
[Title of Show]. Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
These Shining Lives Set & Lighting Designer/TD* Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
MacBeth Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Cynthia White
Witch of Blackbird Pond Set & Lighting Designer/TD* Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Dead Man’s Cellphone Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Tomfoolery Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Into the Woods Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Very Still and Hard to See Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Cabaret Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Christen Polos
Romeo and Juliet Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Dr. Andy Grapko
The Importance of Being Earnest Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: David Fox
Cloud 9 Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Stephanie Daniels
Constellations (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Cheryl Mrozowski
Behind The Wall (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Cell 45 (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Sincerely (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Resident Designer Dancing Arts Center, Holliston, MA (2010-2012)
*--Awarded Certificate of Merit, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival
These Shining Lives Set & Lighting Designer/TD* Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
MacBeth Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Cynthia White
Witch of Blackbird Pond Set & Lighting Designer/TD* Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Dead Man’s Cellphone Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Tomfoolery Set & Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Into the Woods Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Very Still and Hard to See Lighting Designer/TD Bellevue College Dir: Tammi Doyle
Cabaret Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Christen Polos
Romeo and Juliet Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Dr. Andy Grapko
The Importance of Being Earnest Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: David Fox
Cloud 9 Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Stephanie Daniels
Constellations (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Cheryl Mrozowski
Behind The Wall (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Cell 45 (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Sincerely (Dance Concert) Lighting Designer/TD Wheaton College Dir: Andy Taylor-Blenis
Resident Designer Dancing Arts Center, Holliston, MA (2010-2012)
*--Awarded Certificate of Merit, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival
Technical Director/Head of Design
Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA 2013-2016
- Received Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Certificates of Merit for Set and Lighting Design for Witch of Blackbird Pond and for Technical Direction of The Admirable Crichton
- Created and managed departmental production budgets
- Created and maintained online production calendar
- Managed budget and purchasing of construction materials
Maintained tools, hardware inventory, equipment, and facility - Scheduled and ran production meetings
- Supervised scenic construction, props, stage management, and electrics
- Designed lights scenery for several departmental productions
- Taught DRMA 210: Scene Technology, DRMA 212: Stage Lighting, and DRMA 215: Scene Design (Spring 2014)
- Created VectorWorks light plots and working drawings for shop
- Hired and supervised professional staff as well as scene shop lab students and running crews
Technical Director
Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2010 - 2013
- Created and maintained departmental production budgets
- Created and maintained online production calendar
- Managed budget and purchasing of construction materials
Maintained tools, hardware inventory, equipment, and facility - Scheduled production meetings and facilities maintenance
- Hired, trained, and supervised student staff as well as scene shop lab students, stage managers, and running crews
- Supervised scenic construction, stage management, electrics, and sound for four-show mainstage Theatre and Dance Studies season
- Designed lights for Cabaret, The Importance of Being Earnest, Romeo and Juliet, Cloud 9 and several dance pieces
- Designed sound for Machinal and Romeo and Juliet
- Revamped sound procedures and equipment upgrades
- Taught THEA 205: Stagecraft, THEA 302: Lighting Design, THEA 398: Sound Design, and THEA 398: Stage Management (last two new courses)
- Created VectorWorks light plots and working drawings for shop
Technical Director
Western Kentucky University 2006-2010
- Created and maintained departmental production budgets
- Created and maintained online production calendar and resource planning for 16-20 public performances per year
- Coordinated internal and external facility use
- Introduced safety training and created safety policies
- Coordinated all technical elements for guest artist performances and special events in departmental spaces
- Wrote grants for funding and RFPs for equipment
- Managed budget and purchasing of construction, props, and other scenic materials as well as larger capital purchases such rigging, seats, drapery etc.
- Maintained tools, hardware inventory, equipment, and facility
- Scheduled production meetings and facilities maintenance
- Hired, trained, and supervised student staff as well as scene shop lab students and running crews
- Supervised scenic construction for fast-paced, six-show mainstage season
- Supervised and revised front-of-house operations
- Designed lights for several concert dance pieces
- Taught: THEA 222: Stagecraft & PERF 120-421: Rehearsal/Production I-VIII (revamped PERF120 class into introduction to performance production)
- Supervised PERF 461: Publicity Practicum
- Periodically supervised props construction
- Created CAD working drawings for shop
Technical Director, 2013
The Irish and How They Got That Way
Davis Square Theatre, Somerville, MA
Managed Load-in and strike and constructed set pieces for production
Technical Director, Visiting 2005 - 2006
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
- Managed budget and purchasing of construction and electrics materials
- Maintained tools, hardware inventory, equipment, and facility
- Hired, trained, and supervised student staff of 17
- Maintained lighting inventory and instrumentation
- Engineered and supervised scenic construction for five-show season
- Created AutoCAD drawings for the shop
- Improved safety training and increased enforcement of existing policies
- Designed lights for concert dance pieces
Technical Director
NEW COURT THEATRE, Beloit, WI, Summer 2006
- Coordinated facility and equipment use for Equity summer theatre
- Designed lights for Biloxi Blues
Set Designer/Carpenter
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Denver, CO 2005
- Designed and built sets for Trifles and The Lottery
- Managed budget for furniture, set, props, and paint
Lighting and Set Designer,
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO 2003
- Designed lights and scenery for production of Three Postcards
- Engineered and supervised set construction
- Managed budget for all technical areas except costuming
Graduate Production Assistant
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2000-2002
- Served as assistant to the Technical Director and Production Manager
- Served as technical buyer for six-show mainstage season
- Scenic construction and electrics
- Coordinated props rentals, trained and supervised student propsmasters
Lighting Coordinator/Stage Manager
Boulder, CO performance of Shut Up and Love Me by Karen Finley 2002
- Coordinated all technical needs, including lighting design
- Worked to ensure a successful production in a non-traditional space
Master Carpenter
Peck Summer Theatre, WY 1998
- Supervised set construction for three-show season
- Scenic Designer for Nunsense
- Assisted Technical Director in pricing, purchasing, and coordinating change-overs
Eleemosynary, University of Evansville, Technical Director 1999