Ithaca College’s One Acts Festival
For this production we put on three one act plays, Free Play, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Unicorn Girl.
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As Technical Director for this production I was the person who was responsible for coming up with ways to make the changeovers happen during intermission as seamless as seamless as possible. Working with other departments to understand the needs for each show and how it needs to be set up. These shows had so many moving parts that working with each individual design team and their needs was a huge balancing act. Also due to Ithaca and the way the program was working I had to be the primary metal fabricator for the production. Along with all other standard requirements for a Technical Director. I managed one master carpenter and a crew of ten.
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Each individual show had its own set of challenges. For me the largest one was I could not automate all of the wagons so I had to come up with creative ways to move entire sets on and off, and still make them safe to preform on. The Wagon I had the most issues with was the Unicorn wagon that was due to the size that it ultimately needed to be and my habit of overbuilding that in turn over complicates the build resulted in me making some last minute choices and changing how the system was designed as a lift jack wagon to a straight push with locking brakes. My initial idea was I wanted the set to be planted firmly on the ground not on wheels while the performance was happening but do to things not lining up I had to make that compromise to get the show up and ready.
Free Play
Director: Austin Jones
Scenic Designer: Katalyn Beckett
Sound Designer: Don Tidall
Costume Designer: Olivya Duluca
Lighting Designer: Cora McKenna
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Director: Dean Robinson
Scenic Designer: Anna Fredrick
Sound Designer: Don Tidall
Costume Designer: Olivya Duluca
Lighting Designer: Cora McKenna
Unicorn Girl
Director: Courtney Young
Scenic Designer: Beth Truax
Sound Designer: Don Tidal
Costume Designer: Olivya Duluca
Lighting Designer: Cora McKenna