Here's our tech program: one guy. One awesome guy. Professor Heath Hansum. He designs speakers and keeps up with a guy at
ETC. He has taken rigging master classes and toured. He still does union gigs and also designs for local performing arts venues. He designs some of the lighting, students design some of the lighting, and we keep up with all the latest technolgies. I get paid for theater work, and we have 2 theater spaces. The coolest thing about our spaces is that they're always in need of improvement, and who does the repairing? WE DO! And we do a **** good job. The program gives you tons of
practical info as well as teaching you design concepts. There is also an Assistant Tech Director who is a student just out of college who helps Prof. Hansum. Our inventory is mostly
ETC, with some
strand and generic fixtures mixed in. We also have some automated ligthing. Consoles:
ETC obsession and
ETC express, with the awesome MOVING LIGHT
DESIGNER'S REMOTE for the obsession (it's a very rare find for obsession I
system, which we're running now). We're actually looking at new consoles now, as it is. If you want to visit, I've got plenty of space in my room to plop down my camping matress and sleeping bag. I could seriously go on forever about how insanely awesome this program is, but you really have to decide for yourself after seeing it. No one can make the college decision for you.
EDIT: not to make our program seem completely one-sided, we do have a set designer, a costume designer, a costume shop assistant, a costume intern, the tech direction intern that i already mentioned, 2 dance professors and 2 acting professors. But Heath does supervises the shop, does some lighting design, and designs all of the
practical aspects of shows.
(And besides all that, we have the awesome annual Bucknell Theater Department Light Show!! Which I helped out on this year. We did the Goo Goo Doll's song "Slide" for the song, and the show was great. We ran it of SFX, Hog2PC, and the Obsession 1
console. It was amazing.)
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