New theatre (for me) in NYC

Got a call to do a run of Wizard of Oz in NYC.  It sounded like a crummy warehouse show, but when I got there it turned out to be a nice little theatre at a prestigious school on the Upper West Side. Everyone is super nice, and I’m being given carte blanche to do whatever I want on the show.  I have a feeling I’m going to be here a lot.

Doing a lot of digital scenery in this show.  We don’t have enough instruments to do a gobo wash, so here is one of my three projectors creating a “Summer Leaves” breakup using the actual Rosco pattern.  I’m also firing midi commands to the lightboard. Pretty fun learning!

I’ve also been bouncing up to New Haven to work at University Theatre space with my friend Alex Zinovenko for the opera that is there this spring. No pictures of that.  But it was neat breaking my fear of extreme heights, so that I was able to opt to work 87 feet off the ground in the grid. Yeah, that was a time…

-brian