Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, performed by the Pegasus Youth Company 16-25. For this production I worked as the Production Manager, coordinating the set, lighting, sound and video components of the show in addition to sourcing and building the set.
The Brookes Got Talent show’s second iteration, run through the student union, Sabah and I worked together to deliver a talent show showcasing performing arts at Oxford Brookes University. I worked as the production manager, managing the budget, designing the lighting and sound in addition to operating it on the day of the show. This also included all of the scheduling and additional equipment hire. We worked to deliver a prosecco reception with apéritifs prior to the show in addition to working with the then newly opened Westgate shopping centre to offer raffle prizes to those who attended the event. We also worked with Ox Events, the local club promoter to offer free entry wristbands to attendees and artists of Brookes Got Talent to go to the clubnight at Atik following the event.
The cultural events at TASIS Switzerland allow for a showcase of various different types of performing art to the students. As part of my role as Technical Coordinator I work organise and manage the Tech Team to setup the performing space from scratch with a lighting rig, PA system and projections as well as coordinating with maintenance to lay out the marley flooring and build the theatre blacks at the back of the stage.
For the duration of the performance I design and run the light, sound and visual projections and information. Then coordinating the pack down and closing of the venue space for the evening.
The cultural events always provide an interesting opportunity as there is a mix of dance, instrumentation and vocals with acts of varying sizes and styles. Check out the video and photo gallery below.
The cultural events at TASIS Switzerland allow for a showcase of various different types of performing art to the students. As part of my role as Technical Coordinator I work organise and manage the Tech Team to setup the performing space from scratch with a lighting rig, PA system and projections as well as coordinating with maintenance to lay out the marley flooring and build the theatre blacks at the back of the stage.
For the duration of the performance I design and run the light, sound and visual projections and information. Then coordinating the pack down and closing of the venue space for the evening.
The cultural events always provide an interesting opportunity as there is a mix of dance, instrumentation and vocals with acts of varying sizes and styles. Check out the video and photo gallery below.
The production of Ibiza to Norfolk was more involved for me as a venue technician. There were a variety of lighting fixtures to refocus along with rigging the birdies to light the set and rigging the projector for the video elements of the production. The technician, Tom, who was who tours with the production ran the show. The pack down was essentially a reverse of the process after a successful show.
Working with a technician who has worked in the West End was a great learning experience to see how they worked with the lighting fixtures to create the desired states for each scene.
Working Christmas is Arts at the Old Fire Station's Christmas production. Today, was the get in and comprised of getting in the set, rigging and focusing lights and many many fairy lights.
While not a particularly foreign day of work in the theatre, it was a great day working with Nomi Everall, Jude Thorpe and Steve Coe. Set construction involved laying a floor and using a series of tank traps to secure the set which was constructed and created by Nomi off site.
Light rigging was slightly different than usual having to work around the 1000 fairy lights up in the rig and on the set. And while focusing around the fairy lights and chandelier was interesting it was successful.
The following weeks contained a variety of previews and shows. Each production became more refined through preview week. This show has allowed me to work on improving my skills and familiarity with the ETC Ion and Soundcraft Expression series of control desks. This was also my first hands on experience with the full version of Q Lab.
The cultural events at TASIS Switzerland allow for a showcase of various different types of performing art to the students. As part of my role as Technical Coordinator I work organise and manage the Tech Team to setup the performing space from scratch with a lighting rig, PA system and projections as well as coordinating with maintenance to lay out the marley flooring and build the theatre blacks at the back of the stage.
For the duration of the performance I design and run the light, sound and visual projections and information. Then coordinating the pack down and closing of the venue space for the evening.
The cultural events always provide an interesting opportunity as there is a mix of dance, instrumentation and vocals with acts of varying sizes and styles. Check out the video and photo gallery below.
The cultural events at TASIS Switzerland allow for a showcase of various different types of performing art to the students. As part of my role as Technical Coordinator I work organise and manage the Tech Team to setup the performing space from scratch with a lighting rig, PA system and projections as well as coordinating with maintenance to lay out the marley flooring and build the theatre blacks at the back of the stage.
For the duration of the performance I design and run the light, sound and visual projections and information. Then coordinating the pack down and closing of the venue space for the evening.
The cultural events always provide an interesting opportunity as there is a mix of dance, instrumentation and vocals with acts of varying sizes and styles. Check out the video and photo gallery below.
The staff talent show takes place once per session and allows staff to explore their creative and performance side. It takes place in an outdoor performance amphitheatre.
Below are some photos and videos from the event.
The Oxford University Salsa Society hosted their annual Salsa Ball in the Oxford City Hall. I worked for Sound In Focus to rig, design and operate the light for the evening. This involved setting up a truss and rigging a variety of par cans, LED par cans and moving lights run through an Avolites Titan One USB on a Surface 4 Pro.
This was my first experience with a virtual console and my first experience using tri-beam truss on stands. This was a great leaning experience to work in a professional environment alongside Sound In Focus.
Oxford Folk Weekend was a great experience running sound for a variety of performers in solos, duos and bands and gave me a unique opportunity to enhance my work with live sound. Based in the Oxford Centre for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing over two days there were a number of acts, most notably John Spiers a.k.a. Squeezy who performed on Sunday morning.
This event also gave me hands on experience to manage my own venue technically and work with the Yamaha 01v96 v2 which was not a sound board I had worked with before. This also has helped me at future events when working with similar consoles like the Yamaha LS9.
At the production of Fish Eye in the Old Firestation Theatre I worked with the incoming production as the second in house tech to bring in the set and assist them in any way necessary to bring the production into the theatre. This involved setting up their additional lighting equipment as well as focusing and colouring up the in house lighting rig to meet their needs.
We also constructed their set which included a series of panels on rails which were used as projection screens. Acting as in house tech also meant I had to set out chairs in the End-On formation.
At the end of the production we assisted with the get out of the set and their lighting equipment along with working on re-rigging and resetting the in-house lighting grid to the normal setup.
For the production Meet Fred at the Old Firestation Theatre I was the only in-house tech present to assist on the day of the production. This entailed working with the Meet Fred cast and crew to help setup their set and adjust the in-house lighting rig to meet their needs. The setup also involved setting up the seating in an 'End On' formation and adjusting it in accordance with the ticket sales form the box office to make sure the theatre did not feel empty as the show had not sold out.
This also entailed working with the show file they brought with them for the ETC Ion and re-patching the dimmer and house light circuits to the Ion. This allowed for them to not re-program the entire show upon arrival. I also worked with their technician to use the in-house sound system which is an Soundcraft SI with KV2 Speakers. From a technical perspective it was also necessary to disable the fire alarm as the production used a smoke machine.
The get out entailed working with the front of house staff to remove the seating along with helping the Meet Fred production do the get out at the end of the evening. This also entailed retrieving their gels from the in-house lighting rig and re-rigging and re-focusing the in-house lighting rig.
For the Alice in Wonderland production at TASIS England I worked with Jayne McTaggart (Theatre Technician) to assemble the set on the stage as well as rig and install all of the lighting fixtures which had been replaced with LED Par Cans along with the new ETC Lustr 2 Tungstens. Lighting installation took around a day along with set construction, stage painting and clearing also taking a day. I also attended the performance and subsequent set de-construction and de-rigging of the lighting equipment to return to SLX (UK Sound/Light Rental Company.
During the summer programs at TASIS Switzerland there are a series of Cultural Events which feature a variety of music, dance, singing, and acting. They are to culturally enhance the summer program experience for the students who are aged 4 - 18.
The cultural events feature a setup period of around an hour followed by a dress rehearsal and any notes, then a performance to the students and other staff members. The setup includes coordinating with the maintenance team to set-up the space. I worked with my team of four to set up the masking, lighting, and sound equipment. Before each event a planning meeting is held to ensure a fast setup and take down as the space must be cleared before the next day.
We work with a range of wireless equipment for sound along with an analogue Behringer Xenyx 2442 console. Lighting consits of a range of parcans, fresnels, profiles, LED par cans and Martin Mac moving lights. All of the par cans, profiles and fresnels are mounted on moveable Manfrotto tripods and prepared before each performance to ensure the most efficient use of time.
The Grease musical was the last musical which I ran light and sound for at TASIS England. I ran and co-designed the lighting plot for the performance. This also included the rigging of all of the lighting equipment which consisted of a range of static fixtures, a couple of LED scanners, and a couple of Martin Mac 250+s and Martin Mac 300s. The show was run through an ETC Ion lighting board.
I also worked on the sound design which consisted of sixteen radio microphones for the actors and mainly oriented around controlling them through an analogue Allen & Heath PA28 passive sound board.
