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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Last spring I did my first large scale Lighting Design in the 600-seat proscenium Hanaway Theater. The Hanway Theater shares a space with the Elizabeth Cheney Studio Theater in the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University, and during the time of this design the Cheney Theater was holding multiple different shows using the Silver Center's LED Fixtures, so I worked with primarily conventional Chauvet Source 4s. The intelligent fixtures I had access to be the Cycl
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First Professional Show? SpongeBob: The Musical
Throughout the course of January, I was hired by the Education Theatre Collaborative (ETC) to lighting design their production of SpongeBob: The Musical. The job consisted of making a plot, making a cue orchestration, hanging extra lights, patching them, setting up the board, and programming and running all the cues. I was essentially acting as a Lighting Designer, Programmer, Board Operator, and Electrician, (all of which are things I am trained in and I enjoy doing). I used
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Apr 282 min read


Clue: The Musical
The last show I worked on was Clue: The Musical where I was the Co-Lighting Designer alongside absolutely wonderful. I originally started working on this production as the Assistant Lighting Designer but due to me having solutions for problems and taking over by the end of the process I became a Co-Designer. I got the opportunity to become a true Lighting Designer outside of the "High School Theater Experience" and I enjoyed every minute of it. I even had a Lighting Programme
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Dec 6, 20252 min read
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