Well, I guess I'm new.
I've been involved in tech theater for awhile now, but mainly as the-sole person-interested-in-backstage-work-with-no-budget-to-speak-of-and-no-equipment type of environment. Also, I live in Israel, in a religious community, so the shows I have worked are women-only affairs. The sound, light, and video professionals can be men if no women are available with the necesary expertise.
That's where I come in. I was the female who knew the show who explained the tech requirements to the technicians. Usually during the actual show, trying to whisper through headsets and not disturb, because of course the time set aside for tech rehearsal got eaten away by so many other things and the audience was waiting outside for an hour now.
So it has been fun. I've done actual lighting a little bit, and lots of stage managing (I call it stage-manager-wannabe-technical-director). I usually find other people who can do the sewing and painting.
Right now I am in a course to learn sound, and after that is done I want to learn how to light up dances and concerts to make them out of this world. I can do indoor/outdoor pretty easily, but beyond that is beyond me.
After that, we'll see. To work in an ACTUAL theater, with UPDATED equipment, well that is not my world. When I read the posts here about equipment I usually have no idea what you are talking about.
But my dream is the Cirque du Soleil.
Miriam
I've been involved in tech theater for awhile now, but mainly as the-sole person-interested-in-backstage-work-with-no-budget-to-speak-of-and-no-equipment type of environment. Also, I live in Israel, in a religious community, so the shows I have worked are women-only affairs. The sound, light, and video professionals can be men if no women are available with the necesary expertise.
That's where I come in. I was the female who knew the show who explained the tech requirements to the technicians. Usually during the actual show, trying to whisper through headsets and not disturb, because of course the time set aside for tech rehearsal got eaten away by so many other things and the audience was waiting outside for an hour now.
So it has been fun. I've done actual lighting a little bit, and lots of stage managing (I call it stage-manager-wannabe-technical-director). I usually find other people who can do the sewing and painting.
Right now I am in a course to learn sound, and after that is done I want to learn how to light up dances and concerts to make them out of this world. I can do indoor/outdoor pretty easily, but beyond that is beyond me.
After that, we'll see. To work in an ACTUAL theater, with UPDATED equipment, well that is not my world. When I read the posts here about equipment I usually have no idea what you are talking about.
But my dream is the Cirque du Soleil.
Miriam