Utah Shakespeare Festival
Lighting Technician
2026
Duties:
I worked with a team under the leadership of Daniel Davis. As a spotlight operator for Something Rotten, understudy board operator for Hamlet, Twelfth Night, See How They Run, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and The Book Club Play, also a lighting technician. I cut gel, worked on hang and focus, and helped to maintain various cables, and lighting fixtures. I also worked in a team to install lights and their power and lighting control into scenic elements and properties. I was specifically tasked with helping solder pixel tape for the LED wall for Something Rotten, wire street lamps for She Loves Me. I also worked with City Theatrical D4 dimmers for a lamp in See How They Run, and a Christmas tree in She Loves Me, and a podium in Something Rotten. I was also tasked with helping to add to and sort inventory at the storage facility.
2025
Duties:
I worked with a team under the leadership of Daniel Davis. As a lighting technician, I cut gel, worked on hang and focus, and helped to maintain various cables, and lighting fixtures. I also worked in a team to install lights and their power and lighting control into scenic elements and properties. I was also tasked of soldering of cable to get power to the drop boxes for the petals in As You Like It. I was also part of the team that installed the lighting control and power for the cauldron in Macbeth.
2023
Duties:
I worked with a team under the leadership of Daniel Davis. As a lighting technician, I cut gel, worked on hang and focus, and helped to maintain various cables and lighting fixtures. I also worked in a team to install lights and their power and lighting control into scenic elements and properties as you can see in the images on the right the top being the moon and column from the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the bottom being the board with the dip switches and power under the set of Timon of Athens
Credits
Electrics Director: Scott Palfreyman
Associate Electrics Director: Danielle Davis
2023 Lighting Designers:
A Midsummer Night's Dream: ............................................................................................ Robert J. Aguilar
A Raisin in the Sun, Jane Austen's Emma The Musical, The Play That Goes Wrong... William C. Kirkham
Coriolanus, Timon of Athens: .............................................................................................. Tom Ontiveros
2025 Lighting Designers:
Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Macbeth: ................................................................................. Shannon McKinney
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Steel Magnolias, The Importance of Being Earnest: ... Jessica Greenberg
Dear Jack, Dear Louise: .......................................................................................................................... Scott Bolman
Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Twelfth Night: ..................................................... Michael Gilliam
Something Rotten!, See How They Run, She Loves Me: .................................. Tom, Mays
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Book Club Play:............................................. Claire Chrzan