Well I have been looking for a forum for us tech theatre kids for about a year now, and finally found one! Hoorah!
I guess I am supposed to introduce myself, my name is Andrew and I am a junior in high school in Northern Virginia. I have been all over the place design wise but my real love is for lighting, my designs I have under my belt are as follows: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Sound, You Can’t Take It With You – Props, Kindertransport – Lighting, Hello, Dolly! – Lighting. I am currently up to design the set for our next production which it Moon Over Buffalo, then after that I plan on being the LD for our production of the Laramie project.
The theatre department at my school is student ran, accept for the directing and casting, which is all done by our director. Everything is done by students, nobody but students build our sets, aim our lights, and run our boards. We have a system with student elected officers who control their various areas; our director is very trusting in us. I am really proud of this system my school has, and is a lot more than what a lot of the schools in the area can say when there parents build their sets and such. Along with my love for all things technical I also act, I have had a broad range of rolls through out my high school career. That is another thing about my schools department; we have no “Techie VS. Actor” rivalry. In our most recent production Midsummer our Bottom was the LD, our Demetrius designed the set, our Hermia was the props mistress, and I played the lion and designed the sound.
My senior year I am basically unopposed to become the Master Electrician who is one of the members of the executive board I mentioned earlier. As opposed to what a professional ME is thought of, ours is in charge of picking the designers, training the little ones, dealing with the needs of every person who wants to use the theatre for whatever. Another job that if I get elected I will assume next year is being basically the student liaison during our renovation.
Speaking of renovation, we are getting renovated! Though the renovation of my theatre is great and all, it is dangerously close to taking up all of my senior year. I still should be able to do two shows in the new theatre, but I have heard of how well construction workers are with dates.
Besides theatre my other big hobby would be photography, I shoot with a Digital SLR (basically a fully manual film SLR, but digital). I run a website for my photography to share it with the world, you can check it out here: www.andrewbare.com
I guess that wraps it up for my introduction, I hope I did not come off to strong. I am not that good with first impressions.
- Andrew
I guess I am supposed to introduce myself, my name is Andrew and I am a junior in high school in Northern Virginia. I have been all over the place design wise but my real love is for lighting, my designs I have under my belt are as follows: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Sound, You Can’t Take It With You – Props, Kindertransport – Lighting, Hello, Dolly! – Lighting. I am currently up to design the set for our next production which it Moon Over Buffalo, then after that I plan on being the LD for our production of the Laramie project.
The theatre department at my school is student ran, accept for the directing and casting, which is all done by our director. Everything is done by students, nobody but students build our sets, aim our lights, and run our boards. We have a system with student elected officers who control their various areas; our director is very trusting in us. I am really proud of this system my school has, and is a lot more than what a lot of the schools in the area can say when there parents build their sets and such. Along with my love for all things technical I also act, I have had a broad range of rolls through out my high school career. That is another thing about my schools department; we have no “Techie VS. Actor” rivalry. In our most recent production Midsummer our Bottom was the LD, our Demetrius designed the set, our Hermia was the props mistress, and I played the lion and designed the sound.
My senior year I am basically unopposed to become the Master Electrician who is one of the members of the executive board I mentioned earlier. As opposed to what a professional ME is thought of, ours is in charge of picking the designers, training the little ones, dealing with the needs of every person who wants to use the theatre for whatever. Another job that if I get elected I will assume next year is being basically the student liaison during our renovation.
Speaking of renovation, we are getting renovated! Though the renovation of my theatre is great and all, it is dangerously close to taking up all of my senior year. I still should be able to do two shows in the new theatre, but I have heard of how well construction workers are with dates.
Besides theatre my other big hobby would be photography, I shoot with a Digital SLR (basically a fully manual film SLR, but digital). I run a website for my photography to share it with the world, you can check it out here: www.andrewbare.com
I guess that wraps it up for my introduction, I hope I did not come off to strong. I am not that good with first impressions.
- Andrew