I am a theatre technician, or techie as
more commonly referred to. I've been teching since I was 16, and I've done
something like over 40 shows which doesn't seem like a lot but feels
it. Most of the theatre work I've done has been at university in the Greenwood Theatre, where I've done about 30 shows in 3 years and got an exceptional service award for all the work. Pictures of theatre stuff can be found here.
Shows I have worked on:
Dreams of Anne Frank [unofficially: I checked tickets]
Guys and Dolls [as a band member]
A View from the Bridge - my first ever lighting job, offered to me by complete chance.
Animal Farm - first bash at lighting design, always good fun when you only have 12 lamps and then 5 of those fail to work on opening night
Fame - first show at college, assigned and known as Followspot Number 1
Play It Again, Sam - lighting board operator
Woodhouse Talent Show - sound, run from a filing cabinet backstage and it was a nightmare experience
Anything Goes - technical director and possibly the worst show I've ever worked on in many senses
Woodhouse Fashion Show - technical director, if it wasn't for a power-crazed L6th
student
Woodhouse Talent Show - technical director
The Tempest [not involved at all but didn't stop me pulling off a practical joke
that I hear has gone down into college history]
The Maid's Tragedy - first show at university and my beloved Greenwood Theatre, so why did it have to be so DULL?
Crazy For You - Followspotter, with an exciting 40 page break mid-act 1...*yawn*
The Skin Of Our Teeth - lighting operation and limited design, all by myself!
Patience - lighting operation and design again, and a scary introduction to the camp world of
G&S
Bedazzled - the very alarming initiation into the world of the dance society show, which I co-designed lighting for and followspotted
Mack and Mabel - followspotting once again
Love's Cure - minor baptism of fire when no other crew members appeared on the final night and I had to do lighting, sound and followspotting simultaneously.
Beverley School of Performing Arts 40th Anniversary Show - I got paid! I got paid!
A Man For All Seasons - Lighting design and operation, and how I wanted to use that red downspot.
Kiss Me, Kate - lighting design and operation, and a massive crush
The Invention Of Love - dubbed The Invention of Boredom, operated sound cues - all ten.
Iolanthe - followspotting and the scary task of assistant-stage-managing for freaky G&S people
Bumpy Weather Over Newark - manic teching for three nights of a fringe theatre performance
Grease - kick-arse musical with muchos followspotting involved
Euphoria - slightly calmer dance show, no doubt down to my influence as a technical director
(bollocks!)
Dreams of the Village Idiot - all tech for the Three Handed Woman once again, but for a 3 month run
Ruddygore - more bizarre Gilbert and Sullivan, working with the strangest group of people I have ever met
Romeo and Juliet - sound tech, with a massive 7 cues and a nasty case of salmonella
Guys and Dolls - tech director and lighting designer, and the show I am the proudest of
The Secret Garden - semi-professional work at the semi-famous King's Head Theatre doing lighting, sound and general stage management.
The Mikado - fun fun fun with G&S once again
Oliver! - I vaguely supervised and watched in awe for the GKT musical
The Vagina Monologues - an eye-opening experience!
Into The Woods - particularly fun musical with stressful amounts of lighting cues
The Dance Show 2003 - once again, incredibly stressful but quite good fun eventually
The Crucible - I still don't know what actually happens in this, but we made the orchestra pit rise up!
Glengarry Glen Ross - performed/directed by a bunch of medics, I did sound which was *thrilling*
Cancer Tales - world premiere of the (really depressing) play by Nell Dunn which I designed lighting for
The Balcony - boring French play set in a brothel which meant lots of red lighting
The Importance of Being Earnest - my last student show at the Greenwood
Superarts Show - performing arts school show at the Greenwood and I got paid! Whee!
Beverley School of Performing Arts show - more lighting with the worst rig in the world
Fraser Hooper's clown act - evening show for the kids on London Talent where I screwed up some sound cues
Improper - improv show again for the kids on London Talent
Blue - London Talent final show at the Old Vic where I ASMed (I worked at the Old Vic!! Eee!)
Move Over Stalin - my third show with Three Handed Woman, and possibly the best one so far
West Side Story - back at the Greenwood with KCMTS to do some lighting design
Stags and Hens - paid freelance lighting design work for King's Players! Woo!
West-End shows/plays I've been to
see:
Cats
The Witches of Eastwick
Fame
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
The Full Monty
Les Miserables
My One and
Only
Noises Off
The Hot Mikado
Reduced Shakespeare Company
This Is
Our Youth
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
We Will Rock
You
Grease
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (2003 version)
Starlight Express
Jesus Christ Superstar
Guys and Dolls
Death of a Salesman
Chicago