A Sound and Video Production Company
I am master electrician for a production of Christmas Carol this season. It falls just between a few of my other shows, so I have had to take it on in an extremely organized manner – the days I have allotted to it are all I can give them, with very little room for extra …
After last Spring’s insanity, we escaped to backpack in Europe for a bunch of the Summer. This Fall found me working on, among other things, NVCC’s production of Cabaret. I won’t get into how timely this show was with the political climate here in the US, but it was definitely the grounds for a lot …
I love working on the play Wizard of Oz, which is great, because productions keep finding me! This time, Mary and I were both asked to work on some footage that was already shot (some green screen some…not), but the director didn’t have the time or know-how to make his vision work. So we did …
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Just as we were nearing the end of our over-the-top busy season at NVCC, disaster struck. Our electrical system for the main stage went DOWN. The short version is that the transformer on the roof had some serious issues and we had no reliable power for stage lighting. House lights and standard electrical wall outlets …
Today we close on the 5th and final drama production of our academic year at NVCC – Neil Simon’s “Rumors.” I was the sound designer. Because of all of the other shows in this crazy month and a half, I had this one pretty much designed and programmed right out of the gate back in …
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This semester at NVCC, we are doing three theatre shows, when we normally only do one. One of these shows, the musical, was initially dreamed up to be more of a revue, overseen by the music department. It has since changed shows and treatments, substantially. But this is exciting for me. We have ended up …
The rest of this season is going to get very interesting. I have three schools that I will be working with, that, between them, have six shows all opening in a six week window of time! This is a new challenge, but with some planning and workflow choices, I can do it. Some are bigger …
As anyone who has worked with me in the past couple of years knows, I am a fanatic about Qlab. That program has really changed what is possible, especially on the shows where I am allowed to run rampant, creatively – I can output, or control, all of the elements I come up with for …
I’m back at Yale this week, mixing an alumni performance of “Music Man” (I will be doing this same show with 8th graders later this Spring…might be a little different…) This is exciting, as I’ve not mixed FoH here before. It was supposed to be a staged reading of the play, with just some mics …
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Last night was a random one-off in Providence, RI. It was a white-tie affair – dinner for big PBS donors, followed by a sneak preview of the first hour of the final season of Downton Abbey. I don’t have a copy of the show, so please don’t ask. 🙂 But this was quite a fabulous …
