Hello everyone! I randomly stumbled into this forum while doing some googling for a PowerPoint I am making as part of a stage lighting workshop I'm teaching in a week. Excited about all the possibilities of a techie web forum, I decided to join up!
A little about myself: My name is Alex, and I am currently a 5th year student (on a 6 year "plan") at the University of Minnesota, Morris. I am majoring in: History, International Relations, Social Science, and Secondary Ed (hence 6 years) - and to everyones' continuing surprise I'm not majoring in theatre, since we don't have a technical theatre major here, I suck at acting, and I really don't want to be in college for 7 years . Once I graduate, my plan is ultimately to teach high school.
I have been working in the University's scene shop and designing shows since I was a freshman, and a few years ago was also asked (begged, practically) to join the University's Office of Student Activities tech crew, which handles set up for all of the traveling shows / performances that come to campus. I specialize in lighting design, though I have experience with most other aspects of technical theatre; currently I am designing lights for Seussical, the musical, which will be my 12th or 13th design for the university ... something like that. Last summer I was also the technical director as well as a lighting and scenic designer for the St. Croix Valley Summer Theatre program that operates on the River Falls campus of the University of Wisconsin.
Well I think that's about it ... or maybe too much ...
I look forward to getting to meet all of you!
Clark
A little about myself: My name is Alex, and I am currently a 5th year student (on a 6 year "plan") at the University of Minnesota, Morris. I am majoring in: History, International Relations, Social Science, and Secondary Ed (hence 6 years) - and to everyones' continuing surprise I'm not majoring in theatre, since we don't have a technical theatre major here, I suck at acting, and I really don't want to be in college for 7 years . Once I graduate, my plan is ultimately to teach high school.
I have been working in the University's scene shop and designing shows since I was a freshman, and a few years ago was also asked (begged, practically) to join the University's Office of Student Activities tech crew, which handles set up for all of the traveling shows / performances that come to campus. I specialize in lighting design, though I have experience with most other aspects of technical theatre; currently I am designing lights for Seussical, the musical, which will be my 12th or 13th design for the university ... something like that. Last summer I was also the technical director as well as a lighting and scenic designer for the St. Croix Valley Summer Theatre program that operates on the River Falls campus of the University of Wisconsin.
Well I think that's about it ... or maybe too much ...
I look forward to getting to meet all of you!
Clark