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CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 6, VIDEO 2 Thousands of people make a living in educational theatre. The three most common types of educational theatre are elementary and secondary theatre, community college theatre, and university theatre. You are probably pretty familiar with the first branch, elementary and secondary school theatre. The...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 7, VIDEO 1 Joining me now is Ben Nordstrom, an Equity actor, working out of the St. Louis area and beyond. Bens worked as an Equity actor for the last 15 years. Tell us a little bit about that experience. BEN: Well, after finishing college and...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 7, VIDEO 4 Were here today with Steve Woolf, the artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Steve, can you tell us a little bit about the Rep? We are a fully professional, Equity LORT theatre. We produce six shows on our main stage,...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 7, VIDEO 5 Were here today with Mike Isaacson from Fox Theatricals. Fox Theatricals has received 49 Tony nominations in the last several years and won 20 Tonys. Mike, can you tell me what an executive producer does? Well, essentially within the structure of theatre, you...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 7, VIDEO 6 Were here at Stages St. Louis with Ron Gibbs the managing director. Ron, what do you do for a living? Well, as the managing director at Stages St. Louis, which Ive done for nine years, I manage the day-to-day operations so that the...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 7, VIDEO 9 Were very lucky today to have Norma West here to talk to us about being a stagehand. Norma is a member of the IA local 6 in St. Louis, and Norma, what are some of the things you do? On a normal day,...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 1, VIDEO 1 [Fanfare plays] God save the king! God save the king! Long live the king! Long live the king! May the king live forever! May the king live forever! [Fanfare plays] [Bells tolling] Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 1, VIDEO 2 Now that we know why designers need to work together as a team, lets look at the four reasons to light a stage. The following is a quick review of the first section of our Lighting for Theatre. We strongly recommend watching that program...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 1, VIDEO 3 Most light thats created by todays stage lamps is pretty close to white light. When white light is created by a lamp, it can do four things. First, it can be transmitted. What this means is that the light can pass straight through a...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 2, VIDEO 1 Before we start this section, let me strongly recommend that before you begin actually working with your lighting instruments, dimmers, controllers, and all the other tools of the trade, make sure youve gone through our Lighting for Theatre program. There are many safety procedures...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 3, VIDEO 1 Were here at Fort Zumwalt South High School in St. Peters, Missouri, to take a look at color in light. First of all, wed like to thank Gam Products Incorporated for many of the graphics and information used in this section. Before we get...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 4, VIDEO 1 The first thing to do is to read the script just for enjoyment and to see how the story unfolds. See how the story affects you, and after you finish reading the play, jot down a few notes about how the play made you...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 1 Here we are, back at the theatre at St. Johns in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri. We used this set to demonstrate some principles of set design, and now were gonna go back and use that same set to go over some concepts of lighting...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 2 Now that we have a hanging plot, lets number all the instruments on the plot. Start from the lighting position furthest from the stage and work your way towards the stage. Next, we need to do the instrument schedule for this show. The instrument...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 6, VIDEO 1 Now that weve discussed, demonstrated, analyzed, and created the different aspects of designing lights for a show, lets do this again, but in a little larger theatre. Were in Midtown St. Louis at the Grandel Theatre. Lets go inside and take a look. The...

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 6, VIDEO 2 We just looked at the hanging plot for a larger show that used 90 instruments and that had 106 lighting cues. Having a computerized control system helped immensely cueing this show. There are many companies making controllers and dimmers, and as older lighting systems...

CAREERS IN THEATRE LESSON 1, VIDEO 1 New York City, and the Theatre District around Times Square in particular, is the theatre capital of the World. It is a phenomenal place that produces plays and musicals that audiences remember for the rest of their lives. But something many people dont...

COSTUMING FOR THEATRE LESSON 6, VIDEO 2 Costumers are responsible for taking the renderings of the costume designer and turning those renderings into the actual costumes the actors wear on stage. Now this is a lot more complicated than it may seem at first. There are no patterns from the...

BASIC SET CONSTRUCTION AND THEATRE SAFETY LESSON 1, VIDEO 1 When audiences go to the theatre, all they see is what the production team wants the audience to see. What the audience doesnt see is the technicians using power tools to build sets, the electricians working with hundreds of amps...