Light Cue 23

In three days I relocate my base of operation from New York City to the San Francisco Bay Area. Due to various timing things I had to cancel several projects in New York, but some of those gaps have been filled by projects in California. I land and go right into rehearsals and tech for The America Play at Thick Description. This is a fantastic play, but one that I had not read for years prior to this project coming along. It will be a wonderful thing to fall into immediately upon arrival.

This January I will be lighting Dracul: Prince of Fire at The Crucible. A few other projects early in the year are up in the air right now, but interesting stuff all around.

It will be quite a change moving from New York, the city I have called home for seven years to my (old) new home, the Bay Area. I am hoping that I will continue to work in New York and the Northeast on a regular basis and be out here for projects on a not infrequent basis. Based on some talks with friends, that sounds likely, but time will tell how things shake down.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I will be lighting the main stage season at The Barter this coming year so I will definitely be spending a fair amount of time on the East Coast, albeit the Southeast. It will be great to return there for my third season and I am really looking forward to that. Shows there include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Of Mice and Men, The Wizard of Oz, Ivy Gap, Frankenstein, and Heaven Sent. Thats a lot of variety right there, so I should stay entertained. And Of Mice and Men will be going on a brief regional tour around the Southeast in the Fall.

In more Barter news, they are looking for a new Master Electrician. If you or anyone you know would be interested in the job, drop me a line.

Work on my lighting design portfolio continues. I have been cleaning up pages, removing older and smaller shows and generally getting the whole thing a lot more focused. I am considering using some kind of blog software to totally revamp the site, though have yet to actually go there in terms a full redesign. Perhaps that will be a project for the new year.

My writing on this blog has been rather minimal of late with the majority of posts being quotes and excerpts from other writers. I hope to add back to the larger theatrical and design aesthetic dialog from here on out, but with all the changes that have been afoot in my life for the last year, the blog has fallen low on the list of priorities.

The time for change is now.