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UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS
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LIGHTING DESIGN EXPERIENCE
Concord Light Opera Company, Concord Unitarian-Universalist Church, Concord NH
“Ruddigore”, September 2023 Director: Linda Ashford
MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Sala de Puerto Rico, Cambridge MA 02139
“Trial by Jury”, January 2018 (Mezzanine Lounge) Director: Meghan Jolliffe
“Patience”, May 2016 Directors: Christine Chilingerian & Michael DeFillippi
“The Gondoliers”, May 2010 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“Iolanthe”, May 2009 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“The Pirates of Penzance”, December 2008 Director: John Deschene
“Ruddigore”, May 2008 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“Cox and Box”, January 2008 (Kresge Rehearsal Room B) Director: Rosie Osser
“HMS Pinafore”, November 2007 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“Princess Ida”, April 2007 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“The Sorcerer”, November 2006 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“Patience”, April 2006 Directors: Garry Zacheiss & Ky Lowenhaupt
“The Yeomen of the Guard”, April 2005 Director: Garry Zacheiss
“Thespis”, April 2004 Director: David Jedlinsky
and others
MIT Musical Theatre Guild, MIT Sala de Puerto Rico or Little Theatre, Cambridge MA 02139
"Spamalot", November 2017 Director: David Favela
“Grease”, September 2014 (Little Theatre) Director: Geoff Hegg
“Urinetown”, April 2012 (Little Theatre) Director: Kaitlin Burroughs
“Into the Woods”, September 2008 (Little Theatre) Director: Matthew Stern
“Urinetown”, January 2006 Director: Tim Abrahamsen
“West Side Story”, November 2003 Director: Adora Asala
and others
Weston Friendly Society, Town Hall, Weston MA 02493
“Fiddler on the Roof”, March 2017 Director: Maryann Zschau
“A Christmas Carol”, November 2016 Director: Mary Ann Hatem
“Company”, March 2016 Director: Holly Sullivan
“Bye Bye Birdie”, November 2015 Director: Dan Sullivan
“State Fair”, March 2015 Director: Dan Sullivan
“Meet Me In St. Louis”, December 2014 Director: Dan Sullivan
“White Christmas”, December 2013 Director: Dan Sullivan
“Gypsy”, April 2013 Director: Dan Sullivan
“Annie Get Your Gun”, November 2012 Director: Kevin Baldwin
“Singin' in the Rain”, April 2012 Director: Mary-Liz Murray
“The Music Man”, November 2011 Director: Chris Holownia
“Thoroughly Modern Millie”, March 2011 Director: Holly Sullivan
“Seussical”, November 2010 Director: Kevin Baldwin
“Carousel”, April 2010 Director: Robert Grady
“Anne of Green Gables”, November 2009 Director: Mary-Liz Murray
“Once Upon a Mattress”, March 2009 Director: Lisa Astbury
Metro West Opera, Town Hall, Weston MA 02493, or First Baptist Church, Newton MA 02459, or All Saints Parish, Brookline MA 02445
“Suor Angelica” and “Trouble in Tahiti”, May 2015 (ASPB) Director: Cassie Lovering
“Hansel and Gretel”, April 2014 (FBCN) Director: Cassie Lovering
“Carmen”, May 2013 Director: Eve Summer
“Cendrillon”, April 2011 Director: David Gram
“The Magic Flute”, April 2010 Director: Adam McLean
Spotlight Playhouse, Haverhill MA 01832
“Into the Woods”, June 2015 Director: Lance Arnold
Savoyard Light Opera Company, Corey Auditorium, Carlisle MA 01741
“The Mikado”, November 2013 Director: Brian Kelly
“Anything Goes”, November 2012 Director: Brian Kelly
“The Yeomen of the Guard”, November 2011 Director: Philip Lauriat
“The Music Man”, November 2010 Director: Jerry Bisantz
“Annie Get Your Gun”, November 2008 Director: Lisa Astbury
“The Mikado”, November 2002 Director: Margot Law
and others
Metro Stage Company, YMCA, Cambridge MA 02139
“Chicago”, October 2011 Director/Choreographer: Karen Fogerty
Needham Community Theatre, Newman School, Needham MA 02492
“The Wizard of Oz”, November 2009 Director: Darin Maguire
Sudbury Savoyards, LSRHS Rogers Auditorium, Sudbury MA 01776
“Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure”, June 2018 Director: James Ravan
“The Yeomen of the Guard”, February 2008 Director: Paula Moravek
“The Sorcerer”, February 2002 (Old Auditorium) Director: Kathy Lague
and others
Commonwealth Ballet Company, Acton-Boxborough and Westborough MA
“The Nutcracker”, November 2004 Choreographer: Walter G. Morris
Granite State Ballet, Nashua NH 03060
“The Nutcracker”, December 1998 & December 1999 Choreographer: Doreen Cafarella
“Cinderella”, April 1999 Choreographer: Doreen Cafarella
“Gershwin Program”, March 1998 Choreographer: Doreen Cafarella
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Lights Sync Inc., 1989 - 1990
Designed the “Humphrey” dimmer, a microprocessor-controlled high-frequency pulse-width-modulated MOSFET dimmer that works on AC or DC and produces no filament noise.
Three Ring Circuits, 1975 - Present
Professional Engineer in Electronic Design. Digital and analog circuit, system, and product design for industrial markets. Microprocessors, memory, video, control, measurement, communication, low-power devices.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Cambridge MA 02139
Instructor, Independent Activities Period Lighting Seminars: 1991, 1992, 1997, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2015.
Taught and wrote course notes for seminars in stage lighting, covering hardware through fundamentals of design.
Sudbury Savoyards, Sudbury MA 01776
Instructor, Lighting Design Class, February 1994
As Lighting Designer for the production of “Patience”, instructed four company members in the art and process of lighting design, from concept through paperwork. Four two-hour sessions.
MIT Musical Theatre Guild, Cambridge MA 02139
Lighting Mentor, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, January 1993
Taught and guided an undergraduate student through the lighting design for this fully-staged production in the Sala de Puerto Rico. The lighting job was completed “on-time, under-budget, artistically satisfying, and no dark spots”.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Rally ‘Round the Campfire”, Stage Directions, June 2000
“More Light with Less Power”, Stage Directions, February 2000
“Templates for Lighting Design”, Stage Directions, August 1999
“The Plot Thickens”, Stage Directions, April 1999
“A Plot Device”, Stage Directions, March 1999
“Our Friend Flicker”, Stage Directions, September 1998
“Return from the Dead”, Stage Directions, June 1998
“Repair and Renovate”, Stage Directions, May 1998
“Everything in the Box”, Stage Directions, April 1998
“Why Do We Need Stage Lighting”, Stage Directions, March 1997
“No More Dark Spots”, Stage Directions, June 1996
“Do-It-Yourself Footlights”, Stage Directions, November 1995
“Lighting Step-By-Step”, Stage Directions, March 1995
“Keeping the Conductor in View”, Stage Directions, September 1994
EDUCATION
Broadway Lighting Seminar, New York NY
Four-day seminar with Jules Fisher et. al., 1994
Emerson College, Boston MA 02115
Two-term lighting design sequence, 1993: Russell Swift, instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, June 1970