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America (IESNA) to the NFPA’s NEC Panel 15.
He has worked in lighting controls for almost
29 years andis an ETCP Certified Electrician
and ETCP Recognized Electrical Trainer. He is
senior project engineer for Entertainment
Technology.
USITT Electrical Workshop - Basic/Intermediate
Sam Heigle is with Electronics
Diversified, Inc.
Architectural Dimming and Control
Michael Heil has designed 50 productions
for dance, opera, and theatre throughout the
United States and abroad. His designs have
been published in TD&T, World Stage Design,
and Design USA. His work was included in the
U.S. PQ 2007 exhibit. He currently is on faculty
at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
Designers of International Origin in the United
States
Alan Hendrickson has taught graduate
level courses in the physics of stage machinery,
mechanical design, fluid power, control
systems, electricity, and the history of theatre
architecture at the Yale School of Drama since
1979. At the Yale Repertory Theatre, he acts as
automation supervisor overseeing the design
and construction of mechanized scenic effects.
He also consults on control systems and
machinery design for Hudson Scenic Studio,
Inc. of New York.
Automation 101 - Brakes
Jessica Henning
Expressing Yourself: Verbal Communication
for the Young Designer
Kevin Hines has been a faculty technical
director at the Carnegie Mellon School of
Drama for 10 years. A graduate of Binghamton
University and the Yale Drama School, his
professional experience includes LORT technical
director, and commercial project manager
and freelance technical design/detailing
for Broadway and national touring companies.
His longtime interest in knot-tying has expanded
to include the theory of folded structures
in two-dimensional media.
Knots, Knots, Knots
Thomas Hird
Northern California Regional Section Meeting
Ben Hohman is the properties and display
director for the Utah Shakespearean Festival
and is now in his 14th season with USF. He
has been the Shakespeare-in-the-schools tour
designer for six years. Other credits include
the Actors Theater of Louisville and a partner
in LPB Enterprises. He holds a technical theatre
degree from the University of Cincinnati
College Conservatory of Music.
Garbage to Grandeur II
Mark Holden serves as chairman and director
of design for the internationally
renowned JaffeHolden and is the lead architectural
acoustic designer. He has 30 years of
experience in this field.
Architecture Student Design Competition Review
Steve Holliday
“Other Duties As Assigned” Meet the Slash!
Tammy Honesty is a freelance scenic designer
based in Cincinnati. Her designs have
been on stages from New York City to the
Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton to
the University of Illinois. She recently designed
Tomato Plant Girl, her fifth show for Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park’s Educational Touring
Company, and Lexington Children’s
Theatre’s If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
and the touring shows, In the Garden of Rikki
Tikki Tavi and Anansi the Spider. Recent projects
include designing the scenery for Picasso
at the Lapin Agile, Something’s Afoot, and
Taming of the Shrew. She has been a scenic
artist for River City Scenic and 3dx Scenic Studios
where she was a project manager. Her
paintings Have been seen on Royal Caribbean
Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, and Norwegian
Cruise Lines and on display at corporate
theatre events including the Longaberger conventions.
She is a visiting assistant professor
at Denison University and a member of USA
Local 829.
Big Careers Outside the Big Cities, From
Model to Monumental - Advanced Scenic
Models Workshop, Opportunities for Interactive
Design, Quick & Dirty Model-making,
Tour of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Theatres
and Shops
Michael Hooker is the USITT Sound Co-
Commissioner. He is a freelance sound designer/composer
specializing in themed
entertainment and theatre. He recently spent
six years at Walt Disney Imagineering where
he produced sound and music for Disney
theme parks worldwide. Prior to Disney, he
was associate professor of theatre design and
production at the University of Cincinnati College
Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he
created and served as head of its sound design
program. He also headed the sound design
program at CalArts and was on the faculty
at the University of Arizona.
Student Sound Presentations I and II
K.C. Hooper is the product specialist with
Apollo Design Technology. He was a technical
director and lighting designer at Arizona State
University for 22 years. His specialty is dance
lighting. He has invented projection products
that are used throughout the world. He has
been a frequent lecturer at Southern Methodist
University, Columbia College in Chicago,
SUNY at Buffalo, and the University of Texas at
Austin.
Tuning your Color Palette for Stage Lighting
Jeromy Hopgood is an assistant professor
of design at Eastern Michigan University,
where he is initiating a new program in entertainment
design and technology. He holds an
MFA in scenic and lighting design from the
University of Arkansas and a BA in technical
theatre from Arkansas Tech University. Before
EMU, he taught at Appalachian State University
in North Carolina and the University of
Kentucky at Lexington. He has worked as a
scenic and lighting designer throughout the
Southeast and Midwest.
Ongoing BFA & BA Discussion: Case Study
John J. Horan is a freelance lighting designer
based out of Chicago. He designs for
several Chicago theatres including Northlight
Theatre, Noble Fool Theatricals, Porchlight
Theatre, Redmoon Theatre and many others.
His designs have been seen in New York City
and Los Angeles as well as regionally in upstate
New York, Northern Michigan, and in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania at the land-marked
Fulton Opera House. John holds a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in production design from SUNY Fredonia.
He was the first ever recipient of the
Apollo Design Technology Standing O Award
for excellence in lighting design, as well as the
winner of the 2007 USITT Rising Star Award
Sponsored by Live Design and LDI 2007.
Tuning your Color Palette for Stage Lighting
Gregory J. Horton is an associate professor
concentrating on costume design and
directing at North Carolina A&T State University
in the department of visual and performing
arts. Before that, he was tenured and
taught at Saint Louis University for seven
years. He has designed such productions as
Sweet Charity, A Woman from the Town, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Company of
Wayward Saints, The Crucible, The Heiress,
The Glass Menagerie, Dream Girls, Foreigner,
The Wiz, The Colored Museum, Fences,
Tartuffe, Waiting to Be Invited, and My Fair
Lady. He directed such plays as Pretty Fire, A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum, Nunsense, Ain’t Misbehaven, and
Godspell. He has designed for such theatres
as Western Washington University at Bellingham;
Hampton University; The Ensemble in
Houston, Texas; The Colorado Shakespeare
Festival; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival;
Play House on the Square; Memphis Black
Repertory Theatre; Kuntu Repertory in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; and the St. Louis Black
Repertory Company. He is a Director at Large
for USITT and president of Black Theatre Network.
A Candid Talk - The Karamu House Theatre
Ruth Hudson
Working Outside the Black Box
John C. Huntington is a full professor
of entertainment technology at New York City
College of Technology (CUNY). He also is a
visiting associate professor at the Yale School
of Drama, where he teaches entertainment
control systems and show control. Through
his consulting company, Zircon Designs, he
freelances as an entertainment and show control
systems consultant, author, and sound designer/engineer.
He is the author of Control
Systems for Live Entertainment. He has written
more than 40 published articles, one of
which, Rethinking Entertainment Technology
Education, won USITT’s Herbert D. Greggs
Merit award in 2004. He has sound designed
over 20 productions in New York City and regional
theatres such as Seattle Rep.
Scenic Choreography: Dynamic Movement in
Scenic Design
John Iacovelli, production designer, won
a 2001 Emmy Award for the A&E broadcast
of the Broadway production of Peter Pan starring
Cathy Rigby. He is an experienced pro-
duction designer for film and television designing
The Book of Daniel, Ed, Resurrection
Blvd, Babylon 5, and several others. He has
designed over 300 plays and musicals at most
major theatres in the United States. He has an
MFA in scenic design and art direction from
NYU and a BA in theatre arts from University
of Nevada Las Vegas. He is professor in design
in the department of theatre and dance at
The University of California Davis.
Analogue vs. Digital: To return or not return
to the drawing board- that’s the inquiry
Richard B. Ingraham is a freelance
sound designer based in Cleveland, Ohio and
is the resident sound designer for Hope Summer
Repertory Theatre in Holland, Michigan.
He has designed sound for numerous theatres
in the Cleveland area and around the country
including The Beck Center for the Arts, The
Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Theatre,
Cleveland State University, The Cleveland
Theatre Company, Dobama Theatre, The University
of Evansville, The Jewish Community
Center of Cleveland, Playhouse Square Center,
Rabbit Run Theatre, Shakespeare and
Company, and Willoughby Fine Arts Association.
He is a part time employee of Stage Research
Inc. and has worked on a wide variety
of projects from Show Control Programming
to sound system design and installation as
well as museums and themed attractions.
Sound Playback System Round Table, Sound
Playback With SoundMan-Server - Day of
Focus III
Shawn Irish is a freelance lighting and set
designer and currently teaches at West Texas
A&M University. He has recently designed
Arthur Miller’s
The Price for Vermont’s Northern Stage,
Romeo and Juliet for The Playhouse Theatre,
and the world premiere of My Father’s War by
Robert Ford at TheatreSquared.
Entering the Workforce/What’s in Your Toolbox?
C. Cameron Jackson, associate professor
and director of the School of Theatre at
Florida State University, holds a BFA in acting
from New York University and an MFA in stage
management from University of Alabama. He
taught at Mars Hill College, University of Tennessee,
and Arizona State University, and was
a founding director of the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center at the University of Maryland.
He has worked at the Virginia Stage
Company, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival,
the Southern Appalachian Repertory
Theatre, the Folger Shakespeare Library, The
Promenade Theatre, the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, the
Clarence Brown Theatre, LaMaMa ETC, the
Performing Arts Center at State University of
New York at Purchase, the Minetta Lane, the
Clurman, the Lion, Circle Rep., the Beckett,
New York Theater Workshop, Riverside Players,
City Hall, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Sun Valley
Rep, and the Perry Street Theatre. He worked
on road shows like Penn & Teller The Refrigerator
Tour, Jekyll and Hyde, Dirt, and Harriet
the Spy. Highlights of his productions include
The Art of Success, A Christmas Carol, and
She Left Her Name. He was an actor for 10
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