MNBallet

Minnesota Ballet: Production / Tour Manager
Professional touring bus & truck company. (Aug - March)
Also Technical Director for an Opera Company during the summers (May - July)

Production Manager/Tour Manager
Since joining the Minnesota Ballet in 1997 in his role of Production Manager and Lighting Designer Ken has been gathering high praise for his lighting. The Duluth News Tribune applauded him for his “blue velvet lighting” and more recently for his lighting in Madame Butterfly: “The lights even have their big number at the end of Act Two...The sun sets, the moon rises, the stars come out and slowly start to fade -- a veritable dance of lights.” Ken’s set construction blueprints for the 2001 production of Three Virgins and a Devil are on permanent record with the Agnes de Mille Estate in New York. Ken’s pyrotechnic career has allowed him to work with David Copperfield, Carrot Top, Toby Keith, Godsmack, Poison, and Quiet Riot among others. Ken also enjoys being the Technical Director and Lighting Designer for the Duluth Festival Opera since 2006, as well as with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra for their Pops Concerts. Other companies he has worked with are the New York City Opera, The Acting Company, and Ballet Oklahoma. Ken’s favorite accomplishments are lighting for the Duluth Festival Opera’s Madame Butterfly, the Minnesota Ballet’s Rhapsody in Blue, Route 66, The Nutcracker, plus the pyrotechnic show for the NCAA Frozen Four.