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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 production 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 84 CINCINNATI 2009
years and chaired the theatre department for the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a performing arts high school. He is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and the Stage Managers Association, and is a mentor in the USITT Stage Management Mentor Project. Florida State University Alumni Reception Rafael Jaen is a theatre and film costume designer; USA 829 member; design faculty member at Emerson College; author of Developing and Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio; USITT Portfolio Review Chair for Costume Commission; and USITT 2008 grant recipient. Painting Costume Renderings From Your Desk Robin Jaffe Students with Disabilities in the Technical Theatre Classroom Tayneshia Jefferson has more than 15 years of professional experience in theatre, primarily as a production manager and stage manager. She holds an MFA in stage management from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program and has collaborated with performing arts organizations all over the country including the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, Utah Festival Opera, Theatre Under the Stars, Houston Grand Opera, Austin Lyric Opera and the Grammy-nominated choral ensemble Conspirare. Within USITT she has participated as a Management Commission panelist, a contributor to the People of Color Caucus, and a mentor for the Stage Management Mentoring Project. Stage Managers Forum: Life as an Equity Stage Manager, Stage Managers Roundtable Jon Jensen Hands-on Pneumatics Ellen Jhulin Sound Playback System Round Table Sound Playback with LCS Matrix - Day of Focus IV RobertW. Johnson is a scenic and lighting designer, a full professor, and administrator of the design/technology area for the Department of Theatre & Dance at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. He was an academic pioneer in the area of computer graphics and 3D animation for theatrical design visualization and is the author of an interactive DVD for theatrical lighting. He has won a number of Ezekiel design awards for scenery and lighting and continues to professionally freelance as a scenic and lighting designer in the Columbus area. Draw Me a Picture: Collaborative Problem Solving through Digital Storyboarding Howard C. Joneshas been the resident scenic artist at the North Carolina School of the Arts and a co-founder of Cobalt Studio in New York. Distinguished Achievement in Scenic Design: Franco Colavecchia, Painting Translucent Drops Lenna Kaleva taught more than a generation of make-up and wig design students at Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music. A Russian émigré, she was instrumental in creating one of the premiere educational makeup and wig design programs in the United States. Her work has been Cincinnati at CCM and Edgecliff College as well as at Cincinnati Opera and various theatre and opera companies around the country. Costume Design & Technology Commission Reception, Distinguished Achievement Award Winner - Lenna Kaleva Jay Kalugayan Executive Directors Roundtable on Capital Campaigns Becky Kaufman is celebrating 10 years in business, with Susan Davis, as co-owners of Period Corsets. She has six years of commission sales experience and received business training through Community Capital Development, University of Washington extension program, Women’s Network for Entrepreneurial Training, SBA, and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. She has managed several costume shops in the Seattle area including the Seattle Rep Theatre. Notions Knowledge Michele A. Kay is assistant professor of stage management at University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music She serves CCM as head of the stage management program, the division head of Theater design and production, and the director of production for CCM’s Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. Some the highlights of her career include Steppenwolf Theater, Royale Theatre (NYC), Barbican Theatre (London), Chicago Opera Theatre, The Apollo Theatre, and the Cincinnati Ballet. Producing Opera in a Conservatory Setting, Teaching the Millennial Generation Stan Kaye LD Programmer Communication Rachel Keebler, Cobalt Studios cofounder, master scenic painter and teacher, is the owner of Cobalt Studios. Since 1988, she has been one of the lead instructors in Cobalt Studios’ comprehensive two-year Scenic Artist Training Program. A BFA graduate of Boston University, she studied with Don Beaman and concurrently worked for and learned from James Joy. She has painted scenery since high school and this marks her 30th year as a professional. In 1981, she was accepted into USA 829 while she was teaching at NCSA. She has taught at Temple University, NCSA, University of Michigan, USITT Chicago, USITT Chesapeake, and for a quarter at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. Painting Translucent Drops Richard Keith is the designer and technical director at the Ohio State University Mansfield campus. He holds an MFA in theatre design and technology from OSU, and received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin Wallace College. He has been certified in CPR and first aid for over 35 years, and has taught Red Cross First Aid for almost 10 years. Prior to his position at OSU, he taught at Nazarene College in Rochester, New York. CPR/AED Training for Life Zachary Keller is an instructor and paint shop manager for Penn State’s School of Theatre where he also recently completed his MFA in theatrical scenic design. His primary areas of expertise are in stage design, 3D rendering and digital media. His recent scenic design credits include PSU’s Pentecost, and Parade, WPSU’s (PBS affilliate) Musical Theatre Spotlight 2006-2009, and LobbyTalks. This past summer, Zak designed the scenery for the World Premier of Adam Gwon’s new musical Ordinary Days for the Pennsylvania Centre Stage. In 2005, Zak was honored with the Herbert J. Bailey Endowed Graduate Fellowship at Penn State. Most recently in 2008, he was twice honored as both a recipient of a Creative Achievement Medal from Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture and as the recipient the School of Theatre’s Anne Gibson Award for Professional Development in Theatre Design and Technology. Teaching Projections for Theatre Timothy L. Kelly, based in Denver, Colorado, has worked at the Denver Center for the Performing arts for the past 38 years as a senior manager. A member of USITT since the early 1970s, he has been on the Board of Directors, held the position of National Vice- President for Sections, and was honored with USITT’s Founders Award in 1999. He is Chair of the Grants & Fellowships Committee and is a Fellow of the Institute. Having spent the first part of his working career as a technical director, he is the director of facilities management for the DCPA. Grants & Fellowships Committee Meeting Raymond A. Kent, CTS, Associate is a theatre consultant and audio visual designer with Westlake Reed Leskosky. He has worked on projects such as the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center; The State Theater (State College, Pennsylvania); New Albany Performing Arts Center in New Albany, Ohio; and The Bardavon Opera House. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and is a working lighting and scenic designer winning many awards. He is Vice-Commissioner for Programming for the Architecture Commission, a Board Member at Large for the Ohio Valley Regional Section, and a member of the Professional Education Training Committee (PETC) for InfoComm International. He authored A Spin Around Moving Lights, Electronics for Theater, and is associate editor for architecture for TD&T. Media Servers, Wright Patterson Air Force Museum Tour William C. Kenyon is head of the BFA program in design and technology for the school of theatre at Pennsylvania State University. His design specialties are in lighting and sound. Previously, he taught at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He holds a BFA with honors from the University of Connecti- cut and an MFA from Brandeis University. He is a USITT Co-Commissioner for Education and is regularly involved in KC/ACTF as a design respondent. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 in both the lighting and sound design categories. He continues to design and tour internationally. His work has been seen recently in Palestine, Israel, France, Poland, Qatar, New York, and Washington, D.C. Education Commission Meeting 1, II, and Reception, Loves, Labors, Costs III: The Student Robert L. Kerby Tech Expo Committee Meeting Philip E. Kidd is director of technical theatre/scenic designer for Northwestern Theatre, Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned an MFA in sculpture, has extensive art foundry and fabrication experience, and has multi-disciplinary teaching experience (art and theatre). Putting Students in Charge Michael Kimmel, with Lisa Weinshrott are honored to have been chosen for the Apollo Standing O Award. They have designed lights together for more than seven years and have recently created their own design company, Sharp Edge Lighting Design. They have designed for a wide range of events including NYMF: Sophia’s Fall. Off-Broadway: Growing Up 70’s. Regional: Spirit of Broadway: How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back. Nevada Ballet Theatre: East Meets West (With Seoul Ballet Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Westfield High School: Jesus Christ Superstar (Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Best Lighting), Evita, Children of Eden (both nom. Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star), God’s Country, Laramie Project. NJPAC/NJYT: Carousel. Opera Idaho: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well. National Tours: Urban Cowboy, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Surflight Theatre: My Fair Lady, Showboat. Peterborough Players: Going to St. Ives, Always, Patsy Cline. Society of Seven: several concerts from Hawaii to Florida. Lisa and Michael design across the country for theatre, dance, opera, concerts, and other events and Lisa is a member of Actor’s Equity as a Stage Manager Tuning your Color Palette for Stage Lighting R. Lawrence Kirkegaard, FASA, has consulted on the design and renovation of the world’s finest performing arts facilities for over 40 years. He has been a pioneer in the field of architectural acoustics helping redefine the relationship between architecture, music, art and drama. He has received awards from the Acoustical Society of America, AIA, and USITT. Walking Tour of Cincinnati Theatres Adam Klein So You Think You Know Everything About Top Hats Jenny Knott graduated from University of Missouri-Kansas City with her MFA in design and technology. She is a member of USA 829 and freelanced for several years as a scenic CINNCINATI 2009 85
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