Recent content by Mather2010

In my theater, the TD is walking back and forth from the sound booth to the light booth. I am a backstage person, so I don't see much of what he actually does up there, but I know that he isn't the one that runs anything. Granted this is a high school that I am talking about, but I don't think...

In my high school, a lot of the techies just left because they were seniors, but once of twice of every year we dedicate a assembly, to just showing people the wonders of tech. Also this past semester, our td made a tech class. It was a little class, but I think that we got a few people more...

I have used brand name things on stage, I just went to the actual place where they sell the stuff and I just asked if they would be ok with letting me use whatever item it was whenever.

So at my high school, we have a 22 line fly line system. Currently we don't really have any precautions for bringing in and out fly lines. This poses a problem. When I am running them and yell out there are a ton of people that still walk under them and do everything that they shouldn't do. Any...

As a backstage techie, I don't often get recognized. I am ok with this. The reason why I picked to be on the tech crew was because I am scared of the audience. Hmmm. Interesting. The only time when I went for bows was in middle school when they kind of made us, but now in high school its about...

Hi, I am Bill Mather and I am a high school stage techie. I saw that my theater director had it so I thought I would check it out.