TECHNICAL THEATRE

PD ∑ 08/09
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

meet the professionals partnerships

We will be inviting experts, manufacturers and re-
tailers to answer your questions.
Angstrom Lighting
Make Believe, Inc (Costumes)
Acme Display (Portable Storage)
Ben Nye Co. (Make Up)
Rosalie & Alva School (Flooring, Mirrors, Bars)
LA Propoint (Stage Rigging and Drapery)
LA Trade & Technical College (Cosmetology)
Passado (Stage Combat)
Shaffner/Stewart (Production Design)
South Bay Sound & Light (Audio)
The Scenic Route (Customized Steel Decking)
We are very proud to have 24th Street Theatre
partner with us. 24th Street Theatre is a leader in
Arts Education, providing world class Arts Ed for
ten thousand students and teachers each year!
Award-winning teaching artists Debbie Devine and
Jay McAdams have been creating rejuvenating pro-
fessional development workshops for educators for
more than two decades. Thousands of teachers
nationwide have experienced their Teaching As A
Performing Art PD workshops.
Based in New York City, Scott C. Parker and
Sonny Sonnenfeld bring their all day Stage Lighting
Super Saturday seminar to Los Angeles for the first
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Palco Specialties (Reconfigurable Unit Sets)
Through the lens of CTE, build cooperative feeder
school groups and develop strategies to share rent-
als, props, lighting & audio equipment. Develop
marketing tools, while inspiring students to become
technical mentors earning service-learning credits.
time. The event will take place in February 2009 at
a local high school. Industry specialists will demon-
strate: stage lighting, lighting fixtures, colors &
scrollers, gobo’s & rotators, projections and effects,
consoles, programming, wireless DMX, mainte-
nance, automated lights and more. For more infor-
mation please visit www.stageseminars.com.
FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN THE ARTISTIC AND
TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF OUR CRAFT IS OFTEN A
VERY CHALLENGING TASK FOR THEATRE AND
DANCE INSTRUCTORS. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL
JOIN US IN OUR 2008/09 INTERACTIVE
TECHNICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS.
LEARN FROM PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS,
STUDENTS, VENDORS AND TEACHERS.
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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

OCTOBER 14 technical 24TH ST

theatre for THEATRE
secondary dummies
expanding your knowledge and skills theatre only

We invite you to come and explore the possibilities

in technical theatre. The goal is to engage with pro- NOVEMBER 15 set design SUTTER MS
fessionals who can train visual and performing arts publicity LD1
educators with hands on skills development in
mask making 1
planning, designing, budgeting, practical applica-
tions and instructional models. We will encourage
participants to go back to their schools and develop DECEMBER 13 stage combat WILSON HS
any tech project with their students to be presented hairstyling LD5
at any one of the six Saturday workshops.
paint effects
WORKS IN PROGRESS

salary point opportunity Exhibits can include media presentations, light FEBRUARY 28 fabric flats IVANHOE
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plots, scenic constructions, props, costumes, flow portable
Participants will be eligible to earn up to three charts, models, tool use demonstrations, as well as lighting LD4
salary points if they attend all scheduled Satur- portfolio presentations. All levels of technical ex- puppetry
day workshops and complete all required home- pertise are appreciated. Our intention is to create a
work. The homework can include a combination dialogue between novices and experts with a com- MARCH 7 stage rigging EAGLE
of: written lesson plans or units of study; a com- mon emphasis on safety and innovation. ROCK HS
make up
prehensive action plan for technical theatre; facili- ASSESSMENT design LD4
tation of workshops; and presentations of student sewing lab
Selected high school teachers will be invited to en-
works in progress. One salary point can be earned costume
roll their students in a no cost nationwide pilot of
for attending two Saturday workshops and com- design
the Technical Theatre HS Exit Exam. The test is
pletion of assigned homework. If teachers prefer, the first of its kind developed by the New York City
they can be paid training rate (approx. $27.50 p/ Dept. of Ed. in collaboration with the National Oc- MARCH 28 lighting CARSON
instrument HS
hr) through their own school’s SB1131 funds. cupational Competency Testing Institute. It in- repair
Teachers who actively participate as presenters volves a multiple choice test and optional practical masks 2
LD8
and/or hosts in the series of workshops will be performance tasks in Stage Management, Lighting
building flats
paid training rate or earn salary points for their & Sound, Costuming, Hair & Make Design, Run-
contributions. Please contact us if you have a ning Crews, and stage design related Carpentry.
APRIL 18 audio for MARSHALL
particular technical skill that you could teach concerts HS
your peers. FOR MORE INFORMATION lighting LD4
design
DISCLAIMER RUSSELL COPLEY , NBCT
SECONDARY THEATRE EXPERT projections
This brochure is purely a DRAFT 213-241-3574
version. TBA are exact dates, venues, JUNE 9 backstage 24TH ST
STEVEN MCCARTHY, PHD.
presenters and budgets. 9/21/08. ELEMENTARY THEATRE SPECIALIST
pass - THEATRE
secondary a reflective
213-241-0512 theatre only study