The Training Wheels Come Off

I am currently running work notes in the Leo K. Theatre all by myself! Well, the wonderful crew is here but my designer, Robert Aguilar, is not. I’ve found through this tech that I still have a lot to work on but it has been awesome to get a sense of what being an ALD will really be like. I think I explained in my last blog post that on Opus I was really just learning and then Equivocation was awesome to watch but it was kind of a different situation. Speech & Debate has kind of been my debut and I haven’t totally tripped over my frilly white dress yet.
I’ve encountered some new things that hadn’t come up before like creating paperwork for Owen Sharpe, our illustrious stagehand so he can change the colors on some booms during the show. I also got to try to keep up with some intense scroller moves during our big dance number and that is definitely something I need to work on. I’ve also been entrusted with some basic focusing notes like adjusting shutter cuts. At first this freaked me out because it felt like someone had handed me their hemophiliac infant and said “don’t break it”, like I was responsible for accurately executing their design, but its not as big of a deal as I thought. My supervisors would probably laugh if they read this since it is just a shutter cut but I’m just dramatic like that.
All in all it’s a great show to be making my debut with. The cast is mostly close to my age. It’s very much a comedy. Tech has really just been a lot of fun. You hear a lot of wisecracking and a lot of picking on each other. It helps keep the tension away.
Next we’re moving on to Glengarry Glen Ross which has one of the coolest sets I’ve ever seen. It’s going to make lighting more of a fiasco but our designer is Geoff Korf and from what I’ve heard he’s brilliant so I’m pumped to watch him work.
I’m going to go adjust some shutter cuts now.