Current Position: Head Builder, 5th Avenue Theatre, 2012 – Present
Responsibilities:
- Manages use, maintenance, equipment, materials, and safety protocols for two scene shops
- Assist creative team, Heads, and Technical Director to plan seasonal labor, projects, budgets, and equipment needs
- Create and manage build schedules and develop build information for shop teams
- Oversees refurbishing and retrofitting rented and stored sets, travels with rented sets to consult on installation and strike
Accomplishments:
- Began with two-person team assisting Head Carpenter; developed the team into to a complete Building Department
- Negotiated contracts for department and team members between the 5th Avenue and IATSE Local 15
- Developed and built first Build workshop under the stage, and a second, full-size workshop in the warehouse
Representative shows:
2017-2018
- Something Rotten!
- Ragtime
- Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
- Mamma Mia!
- Kiss Me, Kate
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
2016-2017
- Man of La Mancha
- Disney’s The Little Mermaid
- The Pajama Game
- The Secret Garden
- Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
2015/2016
- Matilda
- Waterfall
- The Sound of Music
- How to Succeed in Business…
- Paint Your Wagon
- A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
2014/2015
- A Chorus Line
- A Christmas Story
- Carousel
- Jasper in Deadland
2013/2014
- Secondhand Lions
- Anything Goes
- Oliver!
- Monty Python’s Spamalot
- A Room with a View
2012/2013
- Memphis
- ELF — The Musical
- The Music Man
- The Pirates of Penzance
2011/2012
- Les Miserables
- Saving Aimee
- Cinderella
- Oklahoma!
- Damn Yankees
- Rent
Pre-2011
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Catch Me If You Can
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Hello, Dolly!
- Into the Woods
Seattle Opera Scenic Studios
Lead Builder, 2008 to 2012
Scenic Fabricator, 2001 – 2008
Representative Shows:
- Avatar: The Exhibition (EMP)
- Don Quichotte
- Amelia
- Tristan und Isolde
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Iphegenia in Tauris
- The Flying Dutchman
- I Puritani
- La Cenerentola
- Don Giovanni
- Macbeth
- Rigoletto
- Manon Lescaut
- Florencia in the Amazons
- Tales of Hoffman
- Ariadne Auf Naxos
- The Girl Of The Golden West
- Carmen
- Elektra
- Parsifal
- Prince And The Pauper
- Lohengrin
- Ring Cycle III
Industrial Fabrication
Lead Fabricator, Steward, Pacifica Marine / City of Seattle
- Repair of the Seattle Monorail System doors and hatches, after the November 2005 collision.
- Seattle Times Article: “An Unlikely Monorail-Door Maker: The Opera”
Film and Television
Projectile Engineering and Pyrotechnics
Screaming Flea Productions
- In The Name Of Science – Air date: July 29, 2004
- Creating and rigging projectiles for the world’s most powerful trebuchet for a Discovery Channel series pilot.
Metal Fabrication, Paramount Productions
- The Hunted (Motion Picture) – False cliff face
Sculptural Fabrication
Build and Installation, Sarah Sze
- “The Edge of One of Many Circles” – Boston
- “An Equal and Opposite Reaction” – Seattle
- Untitled – Deloitte of London, UK
THEATRICAL FABRICATION
Metal Fabrication
Seattle Repertory Theatre
- Tuesdays with Morrie – set construction
- The King Stag
- Cathay
- Romeo and Juliet – Collapsible staircase and large turntable
- Triumph of Love
- When Grace Comes In
House Carpenter, House Flyman, Mt. Baker Theatre, 1999
Lead Carpenter
Western Washington University Theatre Department
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- What’s Christmas Without Smiles
- Sixes and Sevens
- Cabaret
- Susannah
- Witch of Blackbird Pond
- The Fantasticks
- Hay Fever
- My Fair Lady
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