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Professional Experience

Tech. Director
Alliance Theatre // Atlanta, GA
May. 2019-Present

Engineer and draft scenic pieces according to design specifications. Work with scenic designers to complete and finesse scenic concept. Ensure peices can be trucked.
Work with outside shops to fabricate shopped out units and develop automation and staging rental packages.
Coordinate with internal departments, arts partners, and creative teams to arrange logistics and ensure scenic peices meet production values and needs.
Budget, schedule, and administrate the scenery department, manage a shop of full time artists and carpenters.
Maintain a safe and equitable working environment, including the development and implementation of a COVID-19 response plan for the shop building and staff.
Directly supervise and lead crew in load in, strike, truck pack and special projects.

Asst. Tech. Director
Alliance Theatre // Atlanta, GA
Oct. 2017-May 2019

Engineer and draft scenic pieces according to design specifications. Ensure peices can be trucked.
Lead crew in the load in and strike of productions. Promote a safe working environment.

Technical Director
Shakespeare & Company // Lenox, MA
April 2017-Sept. 2017

Engineer and draft designer’s scenic vision. Work with scenic designer to fulfill concept.
Budgeting, scheduling, purchasing, and interdepartmental communication.
Supervise and lead shop crew in build, load-in and strike. Maintain and promote shop safety.

Graduate Asst.
U of A, School of Theatre/Film // Tucson, AZ
Aug. 2014-May 2017

Technical Director and shop carpenter for assigned shows at Arizona Repertory Theatre.
Teacher’s assistant for stagecraft classes and taught advanced drafting in Vectorworks.

Asst. Tech. Director
Shakespeare & Company // Lenox, MA
May 2015-Aug. 2015

Construction planning, engineering and drafting, scheduling and purchasing.
Supervise and lead crew in build, load in and changeover. Maintain and promote shop safety.

Facility Coordinator
Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center // Ada, OK
Jan. 2011-July 2014

House technical director; fulfilled lighting, sound, staging and rigging needs for all shows.
Administrate PAC and rental season, including budgets, contracts, technical riders, equipment purchases, hiring staff, crew management, and scheduling.