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M. Justin Barisonek
Scenic Choreography: Dynamic Movement in
Scenic Design
John S. Barnett is currently the operations
production manager for the Cirque du Soleil production
of City Center in creation. John recently
held the position of OPM for Zumanity, he joined
Cirque du Soleil as the technical director for Zumanity
after serving as the technical director at
Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has also held the
title of technical director for Phoenix Theatre in
Phoenix, Arizona and the Jenny Wiley Theater in
Prestonsburg, Kentucky, as well as the assistant
technical director for A Contemporary Theatre in
Seattle, Washington, and lighting director for the
Nebraska Theatre Caravan.
Ask Cirque Du Soleil, Beyond the Proscenium
Gregory K. Bell is a professor and the technical
director at Otterbein College in Westerville,
Ohio.
Draw Me a Picture: Collaborative Problem Solving
through Digital Storyboarding
Ashley Bellet is the assistant professor of
scenic and costume design at the University of
Tulsa. She has a BA from the University of the
South at Sewanee and an MFA from the University
of Memphis, and has attended workshops at
Cobalt Studios. She has designed for Playhouse
on the Square, Kentucky Repertory Theatre, Theatre
Memphis, Theatre Tulsa, and Light Opera
Oklahoma. She has received nominations for her
designs at Germantown Theatre, The Circuit
Playhouse, and The University of Memphis. She
teaches costume, make-up, and scenic design;
costume history and period styles; collaboration;
and scene painting for the theatre.
Do I Have the Right Textbook?, Ongoing Collaboration
Discussion, Putting Students in Charge
Adriane Bennett is the technical director
of Auburn University’s theatre department.
She received her MFA in technical direction
from NCSA and her undergraduate from LSU.
While in New York, she worked for PDO, Yip
Harburg Foundation, and several Off-Broadway
companies. Regionally, she has worked
for Adirondack Theatre Festival, Shakespeare
& Co., Swine Palace, and Local 540. Her
works also include some film and commercial
works.
I like to play with power tools. How can I
make a living?
William R. Berry is an automation engineer
with Hudson Scenic Studio, Inc. in Yonkers, New
York. His main focus is electrical and control system
integration, design, and maintenance. Specialized
interests include industrial networking,
networked application design and development,
and human machine/graphical user interface design.
Wireless Ethernet-based Motion Control
Aaron Betsky is an architect, critic, curator,
educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and
design. Since August 2006 he has been the director
of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Out There: Architecture Beyond Building
Peter M. Beudert is a professor of scenic
design and head of design and technology at the
University of Arizona School of Theatre Arts. He
is co-author of Scenic Art for the Theatre with
Susan Crabtree, a contributing author to Clare P.
Rowe’s Drawing and Rendering for the Theatre,
and a member of United Scenic Artists.
International Resources and Opportunities
David Birn is a set designer with more than
80 productions in regional theatre, regional
opera, and off-Broadway to his credit. For much
of the last 15 years, he has been a teacher of theatre
design and production process with academic
appointments at both the undergraduate
program of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and
Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He
holds a BA from Whitman College and an MFA
from the Yale Drama School.
Ongoing Collaboration Discussion
Chris Blad is in his second year pursuing an
MFA in scenic technology from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois he has
worked on Così fan Tutte, Well, and Rappaccini’s
Daughter. He has a BA in theatre design and
technology from the University of Northern Iowa
where credits include Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Wit, and To Kill a
Mockingbird. Professionally he has worked for
Texas Shakespeare Festival, Summer Studio
Theatre Company at Krannert Center for the Performing
Arts, and at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing
Arts Center.
Cheap(er) Automation
Dick Block has worked at regional theatres
around the country, most recently at the Shakespeare
Theatre of New Jersey and The Human
Race in Dayton, Ohio. As a long-time member of
USITT, Dick has served as co-coordinator for the
Young Designers’ Forum, Scene Design Commissioner,
and member-at-large on the Board of
Directors he was instrumental in creating the student
portfolio reviews that take place during each
annual conference. He is actively involved in the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
having served as Regional Design Chair and
as the first National Design Chair. The latest edition
of his book, Scene Design and Stage Lighting
written with Craig Wolf, was just published.
He has been on the faculty of the School of
Drama at Carnegie Mellon for over 20 years and
is the interim head of the school.
Analogue vs. Digital: To return or not return to
the drawing board- that’s the inquiry
David Boevers is faculty technical director
and option coordinator of production technology
and management at the Carnegie Mellon School
of Drama where he teaches technical production
classes, including rigging seminars, to graduate
and undergraduate students. He also is an ETCP
Certified Theatre Rigger and an active member
of the USITT Technical Production Commission
where he heads a project on commercial theatre
outreach.
A Project-Based Approach to Technical Direction,
Knots, Knots, Knots
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