Summer!!! (Remember summer?)
Please respond / post with what (theatrical or related) you did last summer. We're collecting this information for a departmental report, but it would be fun to lay it out for all to see as well.
So - I'll start:
I designed the scenery for The Merry Wives of Windsor at Equus Run's Shakespeare Festival in Midway, KY., directed by and featuring our very own Tony Haigh. Mary Whitehurst ('10) was my design assistant.
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This past summer I was the Company Intern for New Harmony Theatre Company in New Harmony, IN. My job duties ranged from company management duties such as AEA contract completions, travel arrangements, daily schedules, and box office work to more artistic work on the shows themselves. For "Othello," I worked electrics and helped set and focus the light plot; for "Crimes of the Heart" I did a bit of set and prop work; and for "My Fair Lady" I was one of the stitchers in the costume shop as well as a carpenter-artists who helped craft some of the set (columns, set dressings, moldings, etc).
I was invited back, but I have currently made no decisions.
I worked at Tecumseh! the ultimate out door drama in Chillicothe Ohio. I was hired to be the assistant equestrian and was given a role in the play. I would take care of the horeses every day, ride them up to the stage, go paint myself, and be an indian boy riding across the stage, an indian women, and a picolo player in the drill team. It was a lot of fun. I got to live with 60 other actors and heard all about thier work some of which did tours with children theaters and shakespear stuff.
Abby
I worked at Bradfield Stage Lighting in Nashville TN. We set up lights for big events such as weddings, balls, and auctions around Nashville. I helped set up and tear down shows as well as working in the shop repairing lights and cables. I loved working for them and have been asked back for next summer as well as any breaks during the school year I may be home for.
Emily Rodriguez
I designed the lighting for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Newburgh, IN for their summer community musical. We had to work in a church because the Newburgh school was getting renovated and there was no catwalk to the fixtures in the front of house due to recent tornadoes. It was an interesting challenge to work with just the lights that worked and working around the problems we couldn't fix with the lift.
Carrie Hurst
This summer I completed an internship with Theatre Three in Dallas, TX. T3 is a small professional theater in the round. I was able to do a lot at T3. I mainly worked on two connected shows called "House" and "Garden". The shows are played simultaneously by one cast. (So, when an actor exits the house, they would run to an adjacent theater, enter the garden, and play a scene there.) I helped out with some management tasks such as: paperwork, running auditions, and planning opening night press parties. The highlight of my T3 experience was in set construction/painting. I got to create a rather large wall of shrubbery, carve a stone fountain out of Styrofoam, and paint a faux inlayed wood floor. Theatre Three offers a year long internship that focuses on stage management….if anyone is looking for something to do for a while after they graduate.
I was an acting apprentice at Berkshire Theatre Festival. I was busy. I was lucky enough to be a part of their show "A Man for All Seasons". I moved these huge columns around during scene changes. My main part of the summer was spent working on Hercules one of the children's shows and taking classes.
I also took part in the The Merry Wives of Windsor at Equus Run's Shakespeare Festival. I played the role of Anne Page and had quite a blast.
I was a production and marketing intern at Adventure Theatre, a children's theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland. I was on the run crew for Babe the Sheep Pig, helped build props, run various errands, and created a database of places for the theatre to market to.
-Dan
I was also working with "The Merry Wives..." as the associate director. Then I waited on lots of tables. Let the good times roll...
- David Michael Brown
Do you care about alumni activity? I was an Assistant Stage Manager (one of 2 for the whole season) at Georgia Shakespeare in Atlanta. I worked closely with an equity stage manager on "As You Like It" and on "All's Well That Ends Well". I was in charge backstage of the run crew during shows, took blocking notes during rehearsals, tracked props, and was a general go-to person. I also got to call some shows from the booth! Good times, learned lots, and would love to go back.
-Katie Pfohl
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