Job Description

• Oversee shop and theatre operations
• Establish safety and operational rules and guidelines
• Participate in pre-production planning for scenery and props (feasibility and cost)
• Work with designers to accomplish goals
• Recommend materials and hardware to designers
• Generate graphic documents used for estimating time and materials costs
• Generate working drawings
• Direct purchasing; work within budget
• Develop purchasing lists
• Direct scheduling for construction
• Set and announce all extra calls
• Assist scheduling for painting
• Meets completion deadlines as coordinated with other designftech areas
• Oversee the tech/dress rehearsal process
• Assist the choreography of scene shifts
• Plan scenic special effects
• Direct specific approaches to construction
• Direct specific approaches to rigging
• Maintain theatre security
• Plan theatre improvements
• Mediate problems (technical, artistic, personnel)
• Develop workshops for additional training
• Develop approaches for projected workshop funding (ie. welding workshop)
• Oversee the operation of sound area
• Oversee the May rental contracts
• Prep for and teach classes
• Develop and deliver evaluations for classes, shop crew, graduate assistants,etc.
• Develop cirriculum
• Attend unit, college and university meetings
• Assist various college operations
• Conduct theatre tours
• Assist state, local, school and university organizations as a gratis theatre consultant