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Lead story › NEWS & NOTICES: Election Results & Call for Nominations Election Results & Call for Six members of the Board of Directors will take office in July, and Nominations nominations are now open for the 2014 slate. more » Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Announcements Richard Pilbrow to Receive Golden Pen A man described as "a treasure of the profession" will add yet another Tom Young Wins Founders Award honor when he receives the 2013 USITT Golden Pen for A Theatre Project. more » Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Founders Award to Tom Young Present Advocate of theatre safety, and of USITT, will receive the 2013 USITT Desmond Heeley Honored Joel E. Rubin Founders Award. more » Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc Designing the Exhibit for PQ 2015 Even before choosing the work that will be represented, USITT is NEWS FROM: opening up the process of designing the USITT display space for the Around the Institute Prague Quadrennial. more » Contributing Members Member Benefit - A Present USITT's President Training opportunities for members at every level of their careers is Sustaining Members being offered in regional locations. more » Executive Director Desmond Heeley Honored Regional Sections Expertise in not one but two different areas, Costume Design & CONFERENCE Technology and Scene Design, will be honored. more » & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Plan Now for WSD/Scenofest in Wales Records Scenofest is seeking performances to be included in the 2013 event, Spotlight on Station House and enties are being accepted for World Stage Design, too. more » Opera Regional Tours USITT's President Message Architecture News What it means to be a member is both personal and universal. more » Nominate for Education Award Executive Director - More than Just a Number FOR THE RECORD: Building the organization's membership means bringing value to all Leadership who participate.. more » Contributing Members Sustaining Members Setting Records at Stage Expo With more than three months to go before Stage Expo 2013 opens, it VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » is already breaking records. more » CONTACT THE EDITOR » Station Opera House Search the Archives Merging performance art, studio arts, digital arts, and architecture in GO innovative spaces make this London-based company a treat. more »
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Regional Tours SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Go beyond a visit to Milwaukee with a day-long trip to Chicago, Madison, or even run away to join the circus (museum and theatre) in Baraboo. more »
Designing the Architecture Exhibit and more Architecture Commission programming for Milwaukee includes a contest to design and build the structure which will display some of its award winners. more »
Nominate for Education Award It is not too early to start thinking about potential nominees for the education award to be presented in 2014. more »
The Last Word — SansDIsk Designs not not totally digital yet? Here's some sound advice. more »
ANNOUNCEMENTS NEWS FROM: AROUND THE INSTITUTE
Rockwell Tour Session Other Duties as Assigned PLASA Announces Election Results USITT Office Helps Local Charity Ballet Exhibition to Travel from New Jersey Time Change for Reality Session to North Carolina Paper and Pencil Exams Offered at USITT 2013 – Milwaukee, WI DMX512-A, Other Standards Up for Review Cost-Saving New Year's Resolution
NEWS FROM: CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS NEWS FROM: REGIONAL SECTIONS
Rose Brand: Extends Scholarship Southern California: Slate Career Fair, Deadline Design Competition Meyer Sound: Announces Promotions and Southeast: Changes to Southeast New Hires,Settles Lawsuit Leadership Creative Stage Lighting: Lighting Shines Desert State: 2013 Desert State Annual At City Bisco Meeting Stage Technologies: Rentals in Australia Upstate New York: Upstate New York Help Recreate West End Experience Workshops and Job Fair Daktronics: Helps Renovate Portuguese Performing Arts Facility Robert Juliat America: Tablet Donation Aids Behind the Scenes ETC: Install Lighting, Control Systems in Oslo Concert Hall
NEWS FROM: SUSTAINING MEMBERS
Focal Press: Upgrade to Sustaining Alcons Audio USA: Enhances Jazz Experience TMB: Provide System for Empire State LED Show L-ACOUSTICS: Sound System Aids Church Service Quality Nemetschek Vectorworks: Releases Spanish Product Line Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas: Foam Arts Lead story ›
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Six Elected to USITT Board – Nominate Nominations Now for 2014 Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Barbara E.R. Lucas Sightlines Editor Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders The USITT election process for 2013 has closed with more Award than 20 percent of members casting ballots to determine Design Needed for PQ2015 who will serve three-year terms on the Board of Directors.
Member Benefit – A Paul Brunner, Tayneshia Jefferson, Michael Katz, Elynmarie Present Kazle, Robert Scales, and Kim Scott will take office July 1. Desmond Heeley Honored The elections were certified by Sherry Wagner-Henry, Scenofest/WSD News Secretary and Chair of the Nominations Committee. No The Last Word - SansDisc officer positions were on the ballot during this election cycle. NEWS FROM: “The level of participation by our membership shows that Paul Brunner Around the Institute they have a strong commitment to the organization and a Contributing Members desire to be involved in its direction,” Ms. Wagner-Henry USITT's President said. “Members understand that their elected leadership Sustaining Members provides direction to USITT’s future.”
Executive Director Now that the 2013 elections have concluded, Ms. Wagner- Regional Sections Henry and the Nominations Committee are already CONFERENCE considering the slate for 2014. & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Candidates are being sought for President-Elect, who will Records serve a one year term and then succeed to the presidency Tayneshia Spotlight on Station House in 2015. Also on the ballot will be the offices of Secretary, Jefferson Opera Vice-President for International Activities, Vice-President for Regional Tours Commissions, Vice-President for Conferences, and six Architecture News seats on the Board of Directors. All will serve three-year terms. Nominate for Education Award All nominations will be reviewed by the committee at the FOR THE RECORD: 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo, so submissions Leadership should be made by March 1. Nomination forms and further Contributing Members information on the process can be found here. Sustaining Members Anyone wishing further information about the nominations VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » process should visit the website under the About Us menu Michael Katz CONTACT THE EDITOR » and click on the Election Process tab. For additional information or to discuss a nomination procedure, contact Search the Archives Ms. Wagner-Henry at [email protected]. Self-nominations
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GO are strongly encouraged, she noted.
SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Duties of the officers: President-Elect: He or she shall have those duties as assigned by the President and the By-Laws and shall serve in this office for a term of one year. He or she shall be an ex officio member of all committees on Elynmarie Kazle which the President sits ex officio.
Secretary: acts as secretary for all meetings of the members, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee and shall keep the minutes. The Secretary notifies members of special and annual meetings and records those proceedings. The Secretary chairs the Nominations Committee and is an ex officio member of the Committee on By-Laws.
Vice-President for International Activities: chairs the Robert Scales International Committee and oversees international projects undertaken by the Institute such as planning and execution of entries into the Prague Quadrennial, International Conference programming, and other international projects.
Vice-President for Commissions: the officer responsible for the Commissions which are devoted to investigation and research for the Institute, including development, operation, and dissemination of
information of the various Commissions. Kim Scott
Vice-President for Conferences: responsible for the planning and administration of the Annual Conference & Stage Expo and chairs the Annual Conference & Stage Expo Committee.
The Secretary and all Vice-Presidents also perform other duties as may be assigned by the Bylaws, the Board of Directors, and/or the President.
“Once we have collected the names of all those interested in this higher level of service to the Institute,” Ms. Wagner-Henry said, “we take the time to review each candidate and then present a balanced slate to the general membership from which they can make choices.”
Once the Nominations Committee finalizes the slate and candidates have confirmed they will run, that slate is announced and members can add other candidates by petition.
For complete information, view the USITT Bylaws online here.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Pilbrow to Receive Golden Pen Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Richard Pilbrow, described by one reviewer Announcements as “a treasure of the profession” who has worked with “the seminal designers of his Tom Young Wins Founders Award time,” will receive the USITT Golden Pen Design Needed for PQ2015 award in 2013 for A Theatre Project.
Member Benefit – A Mr. Pilbrow will receive the award at the Present USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Desmond Heeley Honored Milwaukee, Wisconsin in March. Following a Scenofest/WSD News USITT tradition, he will be presented with a The Last Word - SansDisc gold fountain pen even though he writes and works in the most modern environments. NEWS FROM: Around the Institute The Golden Pen winner is selected based on nominations by the membership, Contributing Members recommended by a subcommittee of USITT’s Publications Committee after USITT's President rigorous review and further votes by the full committee and the Board of Directors. Committee members found Mr. Pilbrow’s work to be both entertaining Sustaining Members and informative. One noted, “This is a book to savor as it provides not only a Executive Director lovely memoir for arguably one of our most innovative theatre practitioners but Regional Sections also for a book that is candid--the warts with the lovely prose of life. Not only CONFERENCE does this chronicle a legendary career but it articulates the innovation and risk & STAGE EXPO: required to create a business that can be sustained and globalized to meet a Stage Expo Setting niche market.” Records Spotlight on Station House A Theatre Project chronicles Mr. Pilbrow’s career with lavish illustrations. In his Opera review in TD&T, Martin Moore called it “inspirational.” Regional Tours The Golden Pen is the latest in a long string of honors for Mr. Pilbrow who is Architecture News the founder of Theatre Projects and an internationally-recognized lighting Nominate for Education designer as well as a theatre, film, and television producer. A Fellow of USITT, Award he received the Knights of Illumination Lifetime Recognition Award in 2011. FOR THE RECORD: Leadership USITT will present the award as part of its 53rd Annual Conference & Stage Contributing Members Expo March 20 to 23.
Sustaining Members A special session will highlight Mr. Pilbrow’s work and provide him an VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » opportunity to enlarge upon his views of design and technology. He also will be featured in a book-signing event at Stage Expo where A Theatre Project will be CONTACT THE EDITOR » available. Search the Archives
http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2013/01/PilbrowWinsGoldenPen.asp[12/28/12 10:23:34 AM] Pilbrow to Receive Golden Pen The USITT Golden Pen award is given to recognize outstanding books in the GO field of design and production in the performing arts. Winning works are significant in the field and outstanding examples of their genre. Past recipients SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » have included Max Keller for Light Fantastic and Marcy C. Henderson for Meilziner: Master of Modern Stage Design.
“We are delighted to add Mr. Pilbrow to the esteemed list of writers who have shaped our understanding of life in the theatre” said Executive Director David Grindle. “He will, as always, be an outstanding part of the 2013 Conference.”
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Announcements Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Rockwell Tour Session Announcements PLASA Announces Election Results Tom Young Wins Founders Ballet Exhibition to Travel from New Jersey to North Carolina Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Paper and Pencil Exams Offered at USITT 2013 – Milwaukee, WI Member Benefit – A DMX512-A, Other Standards Up for Review Present Cost-Saving New Year's Resolution Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc Rockwell Tour Session NEWS FROM: Anyone planning to attend the Rockwell Automation, Allen-Bradley Tour as part Around the Institute of the 2013 Annual Conference needs to sign up in advance to be part of the Contributing Members group. USITT's President Rockwell Automation, Allen-Bradley is one of the largest manufacturers of Sustaining Members industrial automation controls and equipment in the world. Participants will get Executive Director an overview presentation and tour the company’s high voltage testing, reliability, Regional Sections advance technology, and chemical labs. They also will be given a history and CONFERENCE tour of the famous clock tower. & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting In addition to the required pre-registration, participants must show a picture ID Records to be admitted. Spotlight on Station House Opera USITT will provide bus transportation to and from the Delta Center. Only 50 Regional Tours attendees will be allowed. The bus will leave the convention center promptly at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20 and return at 4:15 p.m. Architecture News Nominate for Education To sign up, send name, address, e-mail, and phone number to Award [email protected]. Louis Bradfield is chairing this session sponsored by the FOR THE RECORD: Engineering Commission. Leadership Contributing Members PLASA Announces Election Results Sustaining Members The results of PLASA's month-long elections for positions on its European and VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » North American regional boards and its central governing body were recently CONTACT THE EDITOR » announced.
Search the Archives On the European Regional Board, Martin Hawthorn of Hawthorn's was re-
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GO elected to a second term as treasurer and Mark Surtees of Outback Rigging successfully retained his position as production services representative. Noreen O'Riordan of Entec Sound and Light became the new rental company SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » representative, while Steve Macluskie of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will take on a second term as the organizational representative.
Five positions were up for election on the North American Regional Board. Scott Hoyt of Heartland Scenic Studio was elected treasurer, David Schraffenberger of Production Advantage and Tracey Cosgrove of Rosco Laboratories took the dealer and manufacturer representative positions respectively. Jules Lauve of Theatre Projects Consultants was re-elected for a second term as the professional services representative . The final place on the board is occupied by Marc Stephens of MPS Studios Dallas who will represent rental companies.
The governing body elections focused on filling a single at-large position. John McGraw successfully retained his position.
All the candidates will begin three-year positions on January 1.
Ballet Exhibition to Travel from New Jersey to North Carolina
The Enchanted Wanderers: The Unknown Pages of the History of Ballet will move to the University of North Carolina – Ashville after its showing at the Museum of Russian Art (MORA) in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exhibit continues at MORA through January 14. It will move to UNC-Ashville for a showing from February 12 to 26 in the Malcolm E. Blowers Gallery in Ramsey Library.
Originally shown at the Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum in Moscow, Russia the exhibit was initiated through a collaboration between the Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum, MORA, UNC- Asheville, and Grabbe Inc. New York. It highlights the life of Dame Sonia Arova and Oleg Briansky, legendary ballet dancers and choreographers of the second half of the 20th century, who made significant contributions to world culture.
It includes dancers and choreographers who lived and worked in America and made significant contribution to the Western Culture: Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tamara Tumanova, and George Balanchine. It reveals remarkable archives of the history of ballet through photos, sketches, costumes, newspaper publications, original letters, and documents.
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The exhibition includes rare photographs from the collection of the Bakhruchin Central State Theatre Museum and personal archives of Briansky, Igor Roussanoff, and Thor Sutowsky capturing rehearsals and performances of such classical pieces as Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Sylphide. The personal diary of Prima Ballerina Sonia Arova is also part of the exhibit with entries starting in 1942.
A video on the exhibit it available.
Paper and Pencil Exams Offered at USITT 2013 in Milwaukee
The ETCP Examinations will be given at the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All three ETCP examinations will be given in one session the morning of March 22.
Candidates who wish to take more than one exam should contact ETCP. Members and employees of USITT members receive a $100 discount on examination fees. Interested applicants must submit their application, along with supporting materials and fee, to the ETCP office no later than March 1, 2013.
Candidate information, including eligibility requirements and applications, is available on the ETCP website. To have the information mailed, contact Meredith Moseley-Bennett, ETCP certification manager, at 212-244-1505 or [email protected].
Can’t make it to USITT? ETCP examinations are given daily at over 190 computer based testing centers across the United States and Canada.
DMX512-A, Other Standards Up for Review
ANSI E1.11-2008, Entertainment Technology -- USITT DMX512-A -- Asynchronous Serial Digital Data Transmission Standard for Controlling Lighting Equipment and Accessories is one of several standards being reviewed. It is available through January 7.
E1.11 is a lighting control protocol that is now well over 20 years old counting from its original version. It is up for reaffirmation with no changes and can be reviewed at the PLASA documents site.
Other standards up for review and the deadlines for their reviews are:
ANSI E1.14 - 2001 (R201x), Entertainment Technology -- Recommendations for Inclusions in Fog Equipment Manuals, January 7.
ANSI E1.19 - 2009, Recommended Practice for the Use of Class A Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) Intended for Personnel Protection in the Entertainment Industry, January 14;
BSR E1.45 - 201x, Unidirectional Transport of IEEE 802 data frames over ANSI E1.11 (DMX512-A), January 14;
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ANSI E1.35 - 2007, Standard for Lens Quality Measurements for Pattern Projecting Luminaires Intended for Entertainment Use, January 21;
BSR E1.6-2 - 201x, Entertainment Technology — Design, Inspection, and Maintenance of Electric Chain Hoists for the Entertainment Industry, January 28; and
BSR E1.6-4 - 201x, Portable Control of Fixed-Speed Electric Chain Hoists in the Entertainment Industry, January 28.
All standards and revisions are available for review on the PLASA documents site.
Cost-Saving New Year's Resolution
Here’s a New Year’s resolution that’s easy to keep: take a look at shipping invoices and check savings for shipping costs. If there aren’t discounts, then money is going down the drain!
On December 31, UPS implemented rate increases for express and ground shipping. FedEx rate increases go into effect January 7. Offset shipping costs by taking advantage of USITT Freight Savings Plan discounts. Up to 27 percent can be saved on select FedEx Express services (includes a 5 percent electronic shipping discount) and up to 15 percent on select FedEx Ground services. Call Siriani at 1-800-554-0005 for a comparison quote or enroll online at www.siriani.com/usittfsp.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for And the Award Goes to... Nominations Safety Guru Tom Young! Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Tom Young describes backstage safety as “one of my Announcements passions.” Some might call it an obsession. In his nearly 20 Tom Young Wins Founders years at JR Clancy in Syracuse, Mr. Young performed Award hundreds of inspections and wrote dozens of articles on the Design Needed for PQ2015 basics of safe rigging, setting the stage for safer practices in Member Benefit – A the industry and at theatres around the world. Present Desmond Heeley Honored Mr. Young, who retired as vice president of marketing at JR Clancy last year, will receive USITT’s 2013 Joel E. Rubin Tom Young Scenofest/WSD News Founder’s Award, given to a member for outstanding, The Last Word - SansDisc continued service to the Institute. It will be presented on NEWS FROM: Wednesday evening, March 20, 2013. Around the Institute Mr. Young, a 1974 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, spent Contributing Members the first decade of his career as an electrical engineer. He helped pioneer the USITT's President use of computers in lighting control systems for theatres and television studios, Sustaining Members first at Skirpan Lighting Controls in New York and, later, at Colortran in Los Executive Director Angeles and New York. He joined USITT in 1976 and stayed involved Regional Sections throughout his career.
CONFERENCE In 1985, he changed his focus and joined Hoffend & Sons theatrical rigging in & STAGE EXPO: Upstate New York. “Moving equipment overhead is much more challenging and Stage Expo Setting Records dangerous than lighting,” he wrote.
Spotlight on Station House Mr. Young oversaw development of Opera the MicroCommander, a motorized Regional Tours scenery movement system first Architecture News installed at the Royal Opera House in Nominate for Education Brussels, Belgium. Ten years of Award international travel followed as he FOR THE RECORD: directed projects including the Liceu Leadership Opera in Barcelona, Spain; Teatro Colon Opera House in Buenos Aires, Contributing Members Argentina; and cruise ships to South Sustaining Members American, Jordan, and Asia. VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » “The international work was CONTACT THE EDITOR » fascinating,” he wrote. “It was Search the Archives amazing to see the many different approaches to theatre technology.”
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GO The common concern at every venue SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » was safety. In 1999, Mr. Young Tom Young at Skirpan became VP of marketing at JR Clancy and ushered the company into the 21st century while taking a lead role in safety.
“Tom’s passion for rigging safety championed our initiative to be the leader in backstage safety, working to get the right materials and messages about safe rigging operation out to every user, from high schools to the most sophisticated opera houses,” JR Clancy President Mike Murphy Jr. said.
Mr. Young said his career was about helping theatres get the equipment they needed to support their productions artistically, reliably, economically and safely. He started the TIM program -- for Train, Inspect, Maintain -- to increase backstage safety. His work can be seen in many publications and web pages, including www.rigging-safety.com and www.promotesafesets.com.
He also encouraged JR Clancy to sponsor USITT's Rigging Safety Initiative, which offers rigging inspections and training to middle and high school stage crews nationwide. The program has funded inspections and training at 35-plus schools in 18 states since 2011.
An enthusiastic member of USITT, he served two terms as a Director and on the Finance Committee for more than a decade, among other roles. He said his work with USITT has been gratifying. “The more we can communicate, teach, and listen, the more we learn,” he wrote.
The award is named for renowned theatre consultant and lighting designer Joel E. Rubin, who helped found USITT in 1960.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Launches PQ'15 Exhibit Design Nominations Competition Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute The 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space will be the Contributing Members 11th time in 40 years that USITT sends a USA National Exhibit to the world’s USITT's President largest design event. But for the first time, USITT is holding a competition to Sustaining Members design the exhibit space. Executive Director The competition starts now, with USITT seeking design submissions for an Regional Sections architectural and sculptural space to house a curated show of the best in CONFERENCE American theatrical design. The exhibit’s theme is Art in Performance Design: & STAGE EXPO: Dreams of Here and Now. The competition is open until February 8 to Stage Expo Setting individuals and teams, students and professionals. Records Spotlight on Station House USITT has recruited an all-star team of designers – Tony Walton, Kevin Rigdon, Opera and Carrie Robbins -- to adjudicate the competition and serve as curators for Regional Tours the exhibit’s content, said Markéta Fantová, USITT’s Vice President for Architecture News International Activities and Artistic Director for the USITT-USA Exhibit to PQ Nominate for Education 2015. Award The winning exhibit space should be not just a gallery, but a work of art in itself, FOR THE RECORD: Ms. Fantová and Mr. Rigdon say. “It should reflect the dynamic and diverse Leadership landscape of American performance, and celebrate performance design as an Contributing Members art,” they wrote. The space will be used to exhibit a curated show of scenic, Sustaining Members lighting, costume and performance designs presented in a multi-media format VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » that creates an interactive experience for the spectator.
CONTACT THE EDITOR » Exhibit design submissions must follow competition guidelines and specifications including a footprint of approximately 30 by 36 feet, a materials Search the Archives budget of $25,000, and the ability to tour to other venues. Submission deadline
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GO is February 8, and finalists will be notified by February 22. The finalists’ design concepts will be displayed at the Milwaukee 2013 Annual Conference & Stage SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Expo. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter.
Submissions may be made at usitt.org/pq15, where complete guidelines can be found.
The USITT PQ ’11 USA exhibit, titled From the Edge, was designed by scenographer William Bloodgood with a team headed by Susan Tsu. For the PQ web page, visit www.pq.cz.
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NEWS & NOTICES: Member Benefits0. Election Results & Call for Enjoy 'Gift of Training' Year-Round Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen For 50 years, USITT has been a little like Santa Claus – in the spotlight for one Announcements giant annual event, backstage the rest of the year. Tom Young Wins Founders Award USITT is known for throwing the best design and technology conference in the entertainment industry, including the 2013 USITT Annual Conference & Stage Design Needed for PQ2015 Expo March 20 to 23, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Member Benefit – A Present “We want to be known as more than a once-a-year organization,” Executive Desmond Heeley Honored Director David Grindle said. “We are a year-round organization.” That’s why the Scenofest/WSD News Institute is launching USITT Presents, a collaboration with industry leaders to The Last Word - SansDisc offer specialized training throughout the year to its members in the field.
NEWS FROM: David calls it “the gift of training.” USITT is partnering with leading sound, Around the Institute lighting, and stage design companies to offer training sessions on their products Contributing Members – at a very affordable rate -- to members who use the gear. USITT Presents will offer workshops around the country in a number of disciplines including audio, USITT's President lighting, automation, and media servers. Ron Procopio, Special Events Sustaining Members Coordinator, said, “We want to bring people with challenges together with Executive Director people with solutions.” Regional Sections The first session will be at Meyer Sound Laboratories’ Nashville, Tennessee, CONFERENCE & STAGE EXPO: office on February 20. USITT Presents: Quick System Setup and Alignment will Stage Expo Setting focus on practical methods for quickly and efficiently designing, installing, and Records optimizing basic to complex sound systems for different applications under tight Spotlight on Station House time restrictions. The session will be led by Meyer’s Jason McCarrick, a Opera technician, rigger, and sound engineer who has toured with Cirque du Soleil, Regional Tours Metallica, Rod Stewart, and Li’l Wayne. The workshop will cover approaches for aligning level, phase, and polarity with and without a SIM 3 analyzer, as well as Architecture News how to use such Meyer tools as MAPP Online Pro, Compass, and M Series. Nominate for Education Award The cost of the Meyer workshop will be $25 for USITT’s student/early career FOR THE RECORD: members and $50 for other USITT members, or $50 and $100 for student and Leadership other non-members. The fee includes a box lunch. The workshop is limited to Contributing Members 25 people, so be sure to register soon.
Sustaining Members USITT is reaching out to TMB, Panasonic, Harman, and others to offer training VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » on their products that the Institute can market to its 4,000 members. The companies will provide the same types of training they already offer at their own CONTACT THE EDITOR » headquarters, but USITT will be able to offer it to members for a very affordable Search the Archives cost, Ron said.
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GO “For someone in the field to take a mixing course would cost $200, but we are charging one-tenth of that as a member benefit,” he said. “So we are basically SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » delivering a new audience to our training partners and a new training opportunity to our members.”For more information about USITT Presents, contact Ron Procopio at 800-938-7488, ext. 107, or [email protected]. For more on USITT, visit www.usitt.org.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Distinguished Achievement Awards in Nominations Costume Design & Technology and Scene Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Announcements Design Richard Donnelly Scene Design Commission Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections CONFERENCE & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting The School for Wives Records Spotlight on Station House Opera Desmond Heeley will be honored with the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in both Costume Design & Technology and Scene Design, the first time Regional Tours the Institute has given both awards to one designer The award will be Architecture News presented 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 22 at the Milwaukee 2013 Conference & Nominate for Education Stage Expo. Following the ceremony, Mr. Heeley will be honored at a reception Award hosted by both Commissions. FOR THE RECORD: Leadership Although this double award is a first for USITT, it is not so for Mr. Heeley. In 1968, for the Broadway production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Contributing Members he won two Tony Awards for costume designer and scenic designer, the first Sustaining Members time in the history of the Tony Awards that the two awards have been given to VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » one designer for the same show. This is a record he holds to this day.
CONTACT THE EDITOR » The celebration of the awards will begin with a presentation of Mr. Heeley's Search the Archives costume and scenic designs titled, "Desmond Heeley: From Toad to Tony." The
http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2013/01/DesmondHeeleyHonored.asp[12/28/12 10:25:53 AM] Distinguished Achievement Awards in Costume Design & Technology and Scene Design session will be chaired by Richard E. Donnelly from the University of Notre GO Dame. A 2010 recipient of a USITT Fellowship, Mr. Donnelly has spent the past eight years researching Mr. Heeley's design work in numerous archives in SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Canada, the United States, and England.
Mr. Heeley began his design career in 1948 at 17 at The Stratford Memorial Theatre (now the Royal Shakespeare Company) in Stratford-upon-Avon, England for the Christmas production of Toad of Toad Hall. He then served as the costume design assistant to stage director Peter Brook for Titus Andronicus starring the husband and wife acting team of Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh. In 1956, Mr. Heeley designed the costumes for the Stratford-upon-Avon production of Hamlet. He quickly rose to fame and recognition as the brightest and most promising designer in England. Immediately following Hamlet, he was brought to London to design the sets and costumes for the Sadler's Well ballet Solitaire. Within a year, he was hired by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada to design the costumes and scenery for Hamlet, the inaugural production in the Festival Theatre.
In a career spanning more than 64 years, Mr. Heeley has designed costumes, scenery, and properties for opera, ballet, and theatre companies on four continents. In 1997, Mr. Heeley received the USITT Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011, Mr. Heeley received his third Tony Award for the costume design for The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway, the final show of his illustrious career. Desmond Heeley: From Toad to Tony will give USITT members the rare opportunity to see some of the earliest of Mr. Heeley’s costume and scenic designs as well as the transformation of his distinctive rendering style.
USITT members will be able to view many of Mr. Heeley’s original renderings in a gallery display at Stage Expo. A selection of his The Taming of the Shrew costume and scenic designs from the University of Notre Dame Collection as well as examples from his personal portfolio will be available for members to admire and view close up.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News & Notices Election Results & Call for Performances, Work Incorporated into Nominations WSD'13 Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Rob Eastman-Mullins Announcements VC-Scene Design, Scene Design Commission Tom Young Wins Founders US Delegate for Scene Design, OISTAT Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections Members of USITT are automatically members of OISTAT, the International CONFERENCE Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects, and Technicians, and & STAGE EXPO: should be interested in the fantastic programs planned for World Stage Design Stage Expo Setting 2013 September 5 to 11 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Records Spotlight on Station House Opera Design for Temporal Sustainable Theatre Regional Tours A competition to design a temporal, sustainable theatre will be part of WSD’13. The competition is open to individuals or groups of individuals. Companies are Architecture News not allowed to enter. Inspired by the cardboard box theatre employed during the Nominate for Education Award 2007 Prague Quadrennial, this competition challenges entrants to submit a design for a 100 to 150-seat theatre space built from low-resource materials FOR THE RECORD: with an eye toward sustainability and conservation of the environment. Ten Leadership finalists will be exhibited at WSD’13. Of those ten, one design will be selected to Contributing Members actually be constructed in the Anthony Hopkins Centre at the Royal Welsh Sustaining Members College of Music & Drama.
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Companies and artists selected to perform will be able to present their work to both United Kingdom and international audience members in one of the most exciting international performance events taking place in the UK next year. The festival will host the selected events at various performance venues in and around the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. This includes a sustainable theatre venue built for the event, traditional theatre spaces including the Richard Burton Theatre and the Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, and site-specific spaces in and around Cardiff.
WSD’13 Exhibition The WSD’13 Exhibition is a curated and juried showcase of performance design work as well as interactive lighting, sound, and video displays. One hundred works selected by an international panel will be on display; however, all applicants will have their work displayed in the online design gallery. Performances produced any time between March 15, 2009 and March 15, 2013 are eligible. Submissions will be accepted online through March 15 at www.wsd2013.com.
During all these events at WSD, OISTAT will hold meetings and other activities to plan future activities and events around the world as part of the OISTAT World Congress. OISTAT members are invited to attend these as well.
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NEWS & NOTICES: The Last Word: Election Results & Call for Sans CAD - Sketching Off-Line Nominations Craig T Martin [email protected] Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections CONFERENCE Want to experience designing “old school”? Try these techniques between & STAGE EXPO: freehand and CAD. Stage Expo Setting Records Consider having several No.2 pencils at hand, rather than commercial Spotlight on Station House drafting pencils, controlling line weight by how sharp they are. An electric Opera sharpener speeds the work. Regional Tours Orient pads of paper and clipboards with the bound edge at the bottom to Architecture News reduce curl-up. Nominate for Education Award When drawing a freehand line, focus on the end point. As in skiing and FOR THE RECORD: racecar driving, if you look at the ground or the wall,that’s where you’ll end Leadership up. Contributing Members Guide your little finger along the edge of a paper pad or clipboard to make Sustaining Members pencil lines (or Xacto knife cuts) parallel to the edge. VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Twist your pencil as you draw it along a straight edge to maintain CONTACT THE EDITOR » consistent line weight. Search the Archives Tilt your pencil against the upper corner of your straight edge to shift
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Extend lines slightly beyond corners to give the corners a sharp SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » appearance.
Use any handy object to draw curves and circles.
Curved sections and straight sections of a line are easier to line up if the curved sections are drawn first.
Add arrowheads by starting slightly beyond the end of the arrow line
Align arrows toward the center of gravity of the object they point to.
A scrap of stick-on sand paper is handy for shaping the point of your pencil lead.
Hash marks at the ends of dimension lines are quicker to draw than arrowheads.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From Election Results & Call for Around the Institute Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Other Duties as Assigned Announcements USITT Office Helps Local Charity Tom Young Wins Founders Time Change for Reality Session Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Other Duties as Assigned Desmond Heeley Honored We’re not sure who assigned Le Scenofest/WSD News Hook the ancillary job of assisting The Last Word - SansDisc Santa Claus, but he sure does look the part and children of all ages NEWS FROM: respond when he talks to them. Around the Institute Contributing Members Le, otherwise known as one of USITT’s Conference Committee USITT's President troubleshooters, even maintains a Sustaining Members blog talking about his experiences. Executive Director Because the beard is real, he only Regional Sections has to be sure his suit and boots are in ready for the holiday season. CONFERENCE & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting USITT Office Helps Local Charity Records Members of the USITT National Spotlight on Station House Office Staff in Syracuse, New York Opera organized a drive to provide food, Regional Tours clothing, and a few technology Architecture News upgrades to the local Samaritan Nominate for Education Center. To enlarge the scope of what Award was donated, USITT asked all the FOR THE RECORD: other offices in the building to Leadership participate as well, and several responded admirably. Contributing Members Sustaining Members Because the pre-Thanksgiving effort was so successful, additional items were VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » collected and given to the center, which helps both homeless and at-risk individuals. CONTACT THE EDITOR »
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GO The great article about the session David Gallo will present in Milwaukee, The Reality of Working in New York City: Dispelling the 'Myths' of the New York SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Connections Needed to Succeed originally contained a wrong time for the session. It is scheduled from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 at the Delta Center.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From Election Results & Call for Contributing Members Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Rose Brand: Extends Scholarship Deadline Announcements Meyer Sound: Announces Promotions and New Hires,Settles Lawsuit Tom Young Wins Founders Lighting Shines At City Bisco Award Creative Stage Lighting: Design Needed for PQ2015 Stage Technologies: Rentals in Australia Help Recreate West End Experience Member Benefit – A Present Daktronics: Helps Renovate Portuguese Performing Arts Facility Desmond Heeley Honored Robert Juliat America: Tablet Donation Aids Behind the Scenes Scenofest/WSD News ETC: Install Lighting, Control Systems in Oslo Concert Hall The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Rose Brand: Extends Scholarship Deadline Contributing Members In response to feedback from students and professors, Rose Brand has USITT's President extended its scholarship application deadline to January 6 hoping the extension Sustaining Members will give the maximum amount of students the opportunity to benefit from the Executive Director scholarship program. Regional Sections The scholarship of $5,000 is for students who wish to pursue a career in scenic CONFERENCE design. A Rose Brand credit for $2,500 will be given to the student’s school to & STAGE EXPO: help enhance the theater program. Stage Expo Setting Records Applications are now available at Rose Brand’s Facebook page. Spotlight on Station House Opera Regional Tours Meyer Sound: Announces Promotions and New Hires Architecture News Meyer Sound announced two key promotions in the digital Nominate for Education products team: Richard Bugg is now audio show control Award product manager, and Jason Rauhoff takes over many of FOR THE RECORD: Mr. Bugg’s former responsibilities as the company’s new Leadership senior digital products support specialist. In addition, Cirque Contributing Members du Soleil veteran Robert Mele has joined the support staff as digital products field support specialist. Sustaining Members VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Mr. Bugg has more than 12 years of experience in technical support for Meyer Sound show control systems and has CONTACT THE EDITOR » been a principal seminar leader on the topic in the Richard Bugg Search the Archives company’s education program. In his new position, he will
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Mr. Mele worked in the Cirque du Soleil audio department for 14 years. His credits include La Nouba in Orlando, the Corteo touring show, and two resident Las Vegas productions, Criss Angel Believe and The Beatles Love.
Meyer Sound settled the lawsuit it filed last June against VUE Audiotechnik, LLC of Escondido, California.
In its suit, Meyer Sound alleged VUE infringed Meyer Sound’s iconic wave trademark, and asserted other claims against VUE and a former Meyer Sound employee currently Robert Mele working for VUE. The terms of the settlement agreement are confidential.
Creative Stage Lighting: Lighting Shines At City Bisco Creative Stage Lighting recently provided crew and lighting for the first annual City Bisco festival.
City Bisco took place October 5 and 6 at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The festival featured music by The Disco Biscuits, Diplo, RJD2, Aeroplane, Cinnamon Chasers, The Manhattan Project, Wyllys, and more.
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Stage Technologies: Rentals in Australia Help Recreate West End Experience
Stage Technologies has increased its Australian rentals presence substantially with two major projects.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney marks Stage Technologies’ second rental in Australia in as many months. The company also provided an automation system on Legally Blonde, currently playing at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre. Having automated the shows in London’s West End and on tour, the company has designed rental automation systems that allow both productions to repeat the magic for Australian audiences.
For more information visit www.stagetech.com.
Daktronics: Helps Renovate Portuguese Performing Arts Facility
The Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) in Lisbon, Portugal, has partnered with Daktronics to renovate its performing arts facility. Daktronics is designing and manufacturing a new, customized solution to integrate with the existing equipment.
The CCB facility hosts opera, ballet, theatre ,and music performances and was built in the 1990s. Its hoists were supplied by Hoffend & Sons, the company acquired by Daktronics in 2006.
For more information, visit the Daktronics web site.
Robert Juliat America: Tablet Donation Aids Behind the Scenes
Robert Juliat America's donation of an iPad mini, raffled off at the recent PLASA Focus in Stamford, Connecticut, was the catalyst for a hugely successful event for Behind the Scenes. Sales of raffle tickets not only brought in $2,400 but led to additional sales at the BTS Boutique bringing the total raised at the show to $4,192.
Individuals or companies can support Behind the Scenes making donations online at www.estafoundation.org/bts.htm or by calling 212-244-1421.
ETC: Install Lighting, Control Systems in Oslo Concert Hall
Elektrik Solutions of Norway has supplied lighting and power control to refurbish the Oslo Konserthus
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(Concert Hall). Some 100 ETC Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ LED fixtures were installed in the auditorium ceiling for house lighting, along with another 14 in the choir area behind the stage with a Unison Paradigm system to control them.
For more information on Selador, Paradigm, and other ETC lighting and entertainment-technology products, go to www.etcconnect.com.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From Lea Asbell-Swanger, USITT President Election Results & Call for What Does It Mean to Be a Member? Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen What does it mean to be a member? Announcements More specifically what does it mean to be a member of USITT? I admit that I Tom Young Wins Founders Award started thinking about the meaning of Design Needed for PQ2015 membership after seeing a draft of our Executive Director’s message for Member Benefit – A Present this issue of Sightlines. While he and I have not heretofore shared a theme, Desmond Heeley Honored at least not intentionally, this particular Scenofest/WSD News topic seemed large enough to survive The Last Word - SansDisc a treatment by both of us. NEWS FROM: Membership is simply, and somewhat annoyingly, defined as “the state of being Around the Institute a member,” which sent me in search of clarification on the meaning of Contributing Members “member.” According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a member is “a USITT's President distinct part of a whole.” If the “whole” is an organization, the definition expands Sustaining Members to “a person who belongs to a group or organization.” It’s mildly interesting to note that other “wholes” include everything from mathematic sets to the bodies Executive Director of humans, animals, and plants, but I digress. Regional Sections CONFERENCE As I thought about this definition with respect to USITT, I focused on two things: & STAGE EXPO: the sense of belonging and being a distinct part. At first these concepts seemed Stage Expo Setting in conflict. How does one “belong” to anything and still remain unique? Of Records course, I had hardly formed the question in my mind when I realized that the Spotlight on Station House membership of USITT embodies that idea better than most. While we are united Opera by our association with design, production, and technology within the performing Regional Tours arts and entertainment industry, we each still have the opportunity to tailor our Architecture News membership experience in a very personal way. That means that each of the Nominate for Education 3,650 to 3,750 members referenced in David Grindle’s article may participate in Award whatever manner they choose. This is good -- and bad. FOR THE RECORD: The good is represented by those members who avail themselves of all the Leadership benefits offered – training and education, networking to solve problems or find Contributing Members jobs, professional development through volunteer service, access to Sustaining Members international exposure and association, financial support for research and VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » development, etc. The list of possibilities is long and varied, and the means have often been created by members themselves, and then formalized as part CONTACT THE EDITOR » of what USITT offers to other existing or future members. This process is a Search the Archives perfect representation of what a professional association is supposed to be: a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to further a
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GO particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and the public interest. The key to the success of this type of member is the active SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » participation and contribution each one makes to his/her individual experience, which in turn, provides benefits to the organization and ultimately the profession. In other words, members get more out of it because they put more into it.
The member who joins and then waits for benefits to be thrust upon him/her certainly has opportunities, but like the student who only attempts to meet the minimum requirement of a class, he/she should not expect a maximum return. The point is, a member’s investment has to be more than the price of that membership if he/she intends to reap the highest benefit.
Part of the reason that USITT has not had to raise the membership rates repeatedly is because it has always, and proudly, relied on the willingness of dues-paying members to invest personal time and sometimes additional money in order to continue or expand the work of the association.
Yes, sometimes it’s hard to find personal time and/or extra funds in a world where employers are requiring employees to do more with less and the cost of everything is on the rise. But the alternative is to decrease the collective voice with which we speak about our profession both to those employers and the public.
Yes, relying on volunteers means that the processes and responsiveness of systems will not be consistent and things will slip through cracks when the “real job” demands priority. But part of making the volunteer commitment is to first be realistic about what is personally possible and asking for help when needed. For me, this is a significant key to the expansion of the invested members. Those who are already actively engaged have a huge responsibility to invite the personal commitment to action of the minimal member, who sometimes is afraid to offer to invest for fear of having to do it all alone.
As the new year begins, I encourage each of you to consider which kind of member you want to be, but do so in conversation with colleagues. If they are already members, the discussion may encourage a higher level of investment in USITT. If they are not members, the discussion may tempt them to consider an investment in USITT and in themselves.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From Election Results & Call for Sustaining Members Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Focal Press: Upgrade to Sustaining Announcements Alcons Audio USA: Enhances Jazz Experience Tom Young Wins Founders Provide System for Empire State LED Show Award TMB: Design Needed for PQ2015 L-ACOUSTICS: Sound System Aids Church Service Quality Member Benefit – A Nemetschek Vectorworks: Releases Spanish Product Line Present Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas: Foam Arts Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc Focal Press: Upgrade to Sustaining NEWS FROM: Focal Press, which has been a member of USITT for more than 15 years, has Around the Institute upgraded its level of support to that of a Sustaining member. Contributing Members USITT's President The company has been a leading publisher of media technology books for over 60 years, providing essential resources for professionals and students in many Sustaining Members areas including: film and digital video production, photography, digital imaging, Executive Director graphics, animation and new media, broadcast and media distribution Regional Sections technologies, music recording and production, mass communications, and CONFERENCE theatre technology. & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Focal Press will be an exhibitor at the 2013 Stage Expo. For more information, Records visit www.focalpress.com. Spotlight on Station House Opera Regional Tours Alcons Audio USA: Enhances Jazz Experience Architecture News Established in 1995, Alexis Group has Nominate for Education five premises in Kuala Lumpur, Award Malaysia. There are a variety of FOR THE RECORD: elements that make the Alexis experience so special: stylish Leadership interiors, warm hospitality, delicious Contributing Members food, and the finest jazz music in Sustaining Members town. Alcons Audio has added to the VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » experience with the installation of a system at Alexis Ampang. CONTACT THE EDITOR » The interior of Alexis in Malaysia
Search the Archives The location is noted for its acclaimed proram of jazz performances
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TMB: Provide System for Empire State LED Show In November, with the assistance of Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys, the Empire State Building (ESB) launched its new LED lighting system. Designed by world renowned designer Marc Brickman, the landmark building’s first video LED light show was driven by Hippotizer media servers controlled by GrandMA2 which are exclusively distributed by TMB in the Americas.
For those in the region with a clear view of the ESB, the show was broadcast live over Clear Channel’s New York radio stations. See the spectacular video here. See more about the ESB LED installation here. Read more about Hippotizer at www.tmb.com/products/hippotizer.
L-ACOUSTICS: Sound System Aids Church Service Quality
L-ACOUSTICS, certified provider of Audio Video Electronics (AVE) recently installed a KIVA loudspeaker system at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota.
The system improved the intelligibility in the 1,200-seat sanctuary. The church also includes an 80-member choir, a chamber group, and a huge pipe organ in the services.
Nemetschek Vectorworks: Releases Spanish Product Line
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a provider of CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solutions, recently released a Spanish-language version of the Vectorworks 2013 line of design software including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.
The Spanish-language version will be available throughout the Americas, the Caribbean and Spain. All Spanish- and Portuguese-language customers have the option to become members of the subscription program Vectorworks Service Select, which includes access to Vectorworks Cloud Services. Language options vary by country. Visit www.vectorworks.net/espanol for Spanish-language brochures, FAQs, videos and other materials and www.vectorworks.net/2013 to learn more about Vectorworks 2013 software. Go to www.vectorworks.net/international to find a local distributor.
http://sightlines.usitt.org/archive/2013/01/SustainingMembers.asp[12/28/12 10:28:40 AM] Sustaining Members Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas: Foam Arts A Foam Arts class at Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas June 24 to 28 will challenge students by addressing carving, finishes, textures, and color with master Dan Williams and a variety of industry partners including Rosco, Rosebrand, and Smooth-on.
The class will be based on carving of the gargoyles of Notre Dame. It will include hands-on experimentation with three-dimensional construction process techniques and applications for carving and treating expanded polystyrene (white bead) foam from the block to the finished carving.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From David Grindle, USITT Executive Director Election Results & Call for What's in a Number?? Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen 3,650-3,750... Announcements This is the range of total USITT Tom Young Wins Founders Award members. Like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, our membership Design Needed for PQ2015 numbers fluctuate daily. People join, Member Benefit – A people lapse, and people renew. It Present truly is a daily occurrence. In fact, I Desmond Heeley Honored have to tell myself not to look at this Scenofest/WSD News number every day or I’ll go crazy. It’s The Last Word - SansDisc like the balance in a retirement fund; you have to look at the long haul and NEWS FROM: try to ride out the day-to-day shifts in Around the Institute the market. Contributing Members USITT's President That all said, how is it that our membership numbers have been at a Sustaining Members plateau for so many years? There have been several theories: Executive Director Regional Sections Some have suggested that this is stasis; there are only this many people CONFERENCE willing to join. & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Others point to the “virtual” members, people whose employers are Records members, so they reap the benefits from the opportunities that come to the Spotlight on Station House office. Opera Others think that they are members, and surely they have paid their dues, Regional Tours but in fact, they’ve not. Architecture News Nominate for Education Some people join only when they attend the Annual Conference. Award FOR THE RECORD: All of these various theories and scenarios don’t change the fact that, as with most membership organizations, member dues are a significant revenue that Leadership keeps the Institute operating. Our last dues increase was July 1, 2010. There Contributing Members is not a significant dues change planned in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget Sustaining Members currently being constructed. We are growing services through the realization of VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » cost savings, strong contract negotiation, and smart investing.
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GO member companies that want to provide continuing education to people at all points in their careers. The cost of most of our new IT services is balanced by a SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » resulting savings in time and operations. But all of these efficiencies have an end to their natural life spans.
As I write this, we all wait for our Congress to develop some plan to avoid the harsh effects of sequestration. By the time this is read, hopefully that will have happened, or we will all be in dire positions. While there is no immediate threat of harsh actions in the USITT world, the political debate raging has parallels in our organization. We must grow our services given to the members while trying to control the cost of membership. But just as the economy grows from people spending money on goods and services, our ability to grow those services is dependent on people joining. How much could USITT grow its services in 2013 and beyond if that membership number increased to 4,000?
I spend my week preaching the good news of USITT and what it has to offer. But that isn’t enough. I need the choir, those who are reading this article (especially if you’ve made it this far), to do the same.
It’s not just about getting your friends to join, but that is a start. You must also make sure the companies you do business with are aware of membership benefits. Thank corporations for being members and patronize them because of that membership.
Our corporate members give far more than their dues in training, discounts, and Stage Expo events. Learn the full scope of your member benefits and share the advantages with others. We are constantly trying to develop new benefits for our members. If you have ideas, contact Monica Merritt in the National Office. While we can’t make promises that the benefit will come through, we do make the effort to reach out and develop them.
As with any product, volume is key. By growing our membership numbers, we can oddly enough provide more services without raising dues. This is not some veiled threat of a dues increase. In fact, from my first year as a member, our dues have increased at less than the rate of inflation while our ability to serve and provide benefits has grown.
I still remember making that membership payment and always will. It is my goal and that of everyone in the USITT leadership and staff to provide the most value for your dollar. Those goods and services can grow when we all encourage others to be part of us. USITT is and will always be an organization with the membership at its core. Reach out and bring people in so that the Institute can grow and the value of your membership expand without the cost increasing.
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NEWS & NOTICES: News From Election Results & Call for Regional Sections Nominations Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Southern California: Slate Career Fair, Design Competition Announcements Southeast: Changes to Southeast Leadership Tom Young Wins Founders 2013 Desert State Annual Meeting Award Desert State: Design Needed for PQ2015 Upstate New York: Upstate New York Workshops and Job Fair Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Southern California: Slates Sixth Career Fair Scenofest/WSD News The sixth Annual Career Fair and Student Design Competition will be held The Last Word - SansDisc January 26 at the California State University Los Angeles campus by the NEWS FROM: Southern California Regional Section. Admission is free to attendees. Around the Institute The Student Competition is open to all areas of design, tech production, and Contributing Members stage management. Winners may receive a free student registration pass to USITT's President attend the USITT Conference & Stage Expo in Milwaukee, March 20 to 23. Sustaining Members Students also will have the opportunity for portfolio reviews by professionals in Executive Director their area of interest, to attend seminars and workshops, and to apply for Regional Sections summer internship and hiring opportunities. PCPA in Santa Maria will be CONFERENCE actively recruiting for both its summer company and training program. Vendor & STAGE EXPO: tables include Rose Brand and Rosco. Stage Expo Setting Records Tour the Luckman Theatre and experience the wonderful teaching and Spotlight on Station House performance facilities the department has to offer. Opera Regional Tours Display tables at the Career Fair Expo are $30 each for vendors, employers, and academic programs. There will be a brief section membership meeting at Architecture News 9:30 am. Nominate for Education Award For more information and forms to enter the Student Competition or to secure a FOR THE RECORD: vendor table, go to the California Section Website or contact Anne McMills, Leadership assistant professor in the department of music, theatre, and dance at CSULA, Contributing Members [email protected]. Check the Facebook page for updates as they happen Sustaining Members VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Southeast: Changes to Southeast Leadership CONTACT THE EDITOR » The offices of Chair and Vice-Chair for Relations have changed in the Search the Archives Southeast Regional Section. Chip Haas is the new Chair, and Stacey Galloway
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The hand-off occurred during the section’s Master Classes held in October at SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Upstate New York: Upstate New York Workshops and Job Fair
Upstate New York Regional Section’s Winter Job Fair and Workshop day February 2, 2013 will be based at Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, New York. Planners hope that the more central location will prove to be easier to attend.
Schedule: 8:30 to 9 a.m. Students and Regional Members arrive: Coffee and Doughnuts are available in a meet and mingle area. Theatre tours will be held.
The day will start at 8:30 a.m. with students setting up URTA /Young Designer style presentations.
Resumes will be collected between 8:30 and 9:20 a.m. From 9 to 9:15 am theater representatives will talk about what they are looking for in the interviews. From 2 to 6 p.m. interviews will be held and the the Design Presentation room will be available for general viewing
Other morning activities include a workshop on make-up and special techniques for character face painting and a tour of the JR Clancy manufacturing facility in Syracuse, with carpooling to the Clancy site. The Lighting Demo and try-out room will be open from 9:15 to 1 p.m.
After lunch, the Upstate NY Section meeting will start at 1 p.m.
Afternoon activities include interviews, viewing displays in the Design Presentation room, and workshops including Understanding Pixels, rasters, and resolutions; a Section Officers Meeting; Teaching Technology: Tips and tricks to keeping up to date with the ever-changing technology; and a prop demo.
For further information, or to RSVP for this event contact Katie Gilliland by phone at (315) 663 -4086 cell or by email at [email protected] by January 15.
Desert State: 2013 Desert State Annual Meeting The Desert State Regional Section Annual Meeting will be Monday, January 21, Martin Luther King Day, at Xavier College Preparatory, 4710 North Fifth St., Phoenix, Arizona. Registration and breakfast will begin at 9 a.m.
The business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Keynote speaker is Peter Monahan from Rose Brand Theatrical Fabrics, Fabrications, and supplies. Workshops this year will include: Working in Steel, Photographing your Show, Video on Stage, The World of the Microphone, Interviewing: What you should know, Dealing with Difficult People, Costume Distressing, and LEDs and Green Theatre.
During the afternoon the panelists from the interview workshop will be conducting practice interview and critique sessions. Participants will be able to
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Breakfast will be provided and lunch is sponsored by Clearwing.
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NEWS & NOTICES: Conference & Stage Expo Election Results & Call for 2013 Stage Expo Already Breaking Nominations Records Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Ron Procopio Stage Expo Manager Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections CONFERENCE Stage Expo 2013 is on track to be bigger and better than ever, with even more & STAGE EXPO: exhibitors and excitement. Stage Expo Setting Records Sales of booths and tables have already surpassed the 30,000 square feet of Spotlight on Station House exhibit space sold for Stage Expo 2012 in Long Beach, California, so Stage Opera Expo 2013 can already boast even more on the floor of the Delta Center in Regional Tours Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 21 to 23. Architecture News With four months until the doors open, many more companies are expected to Nominate for Education join in. Last year’s show drew 197 exhibitors and set an attendance record of Award over 5,000 people from every segment of the entertainment industry, all 50 FOR THE RECORD: states, and 26 countries. Leadership Contributing Members To make room for more, USITT has reconfigured the Stage Expo space, so there are still choice spots available! Besides industry giants such as ETC and Sustaining Members Wenger, new companies include Clear Wing, Studio Gear, Adaptive VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Technologies, and Dazian. Look for even flashier exhibits from returning CONTACT THE EDITOR » companies like Chauvet, which will showcase new LED fixtures specifically geared for theatre. Stage Expo 2013 is expected to feature 25 percent more Search the Archives audio and 15 percent more scenic providers than last year. Check out USITT’s
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GO online map of Stage Expo and list of current exhibitors to see who is on board so far.
SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Stage Expo 2013 also offers venues for exhibitors including Innovation Gallery, a 20- by 20-foot space for companies to display new products; Innovation Stage, starring 20-minute demos by participating companies; and Light Lab, focusing on new technologies and uses from lighting designers and manufacturers. The Annual Conference also offers opportunities to sponsor workshops, keynote addresses, and even coffee hours to spread goodwill among industry insiders.
As Stage Expo grows, so does its audience. It attracts a wide range of designers, managers, owners, and academics looking for products, services, and ideas for staging world-class productions. Registration to date is already 5 percent over last year’s record-breaking show. More of the directors, production managers and theatre consultants that guide the industry will be in Milwaukee. Will you??
For more information on exhibits or sponsorships, contact Ron Procopio at 800- 938-7488, ext. 107, or [email protected]. To learn more about the Annual Conference & Stage Expo, visit www.usitt.org/2013.
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NEWS & NOTICES: Conference & Stage Expo Election Results & Call for Station House Opera to Star in Session Nominations Jan Chambers International Committee Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections CONFERENCE Ultramundane (1983) & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Photos/Courtesy Station House Opera Records Spotlight on Station House Opera Julian Maynard-Smith, artistic director of the London based Station House Regional Tours Opera will present a special session as part of the 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo. Architecture News Nominate for Education His presentation of the scenographically-innovative company -- whose work Award merges performance art, studio arts, digital arts, and architecture -- is being FOR THE RECORD: coordinated by the International Committee. The session is scheduled for 2 p.m. Leadership Friday, March 22. Contributing Members Station House Opera is renowned for its spectacular, site-specific productions Sustaining Members created and performed all over the world – works that embrace the theatrical VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » scale and magnitude of opera, if not the expected musical form. Maynard-Smith humbly proffers that, “Opera is a perfectly good Italian word for work, which is CONTACT THE EDITOR » what we do.” Indeed the range of works that Station House Opera has produced Search the Archives since its beginning in 1980 is astonishing.
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GO The intersection and exploration of space, materials and performer are at the heart of every Station House Opera production. Early in its artistic journey, the SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » company established a non-illusionistic, architecturally sculptural approach to space that supported its post-dramatic style of theatre in a very honest, immediate, and often comedic way. Performers and furniture were hoisted into the air, sometimes upside down, playing off one another in ways that moved the meaning of a piece beyond plot and character and into a wholly unique theatrical world.
Pieces that are currently underway explore themes such as backwards action, thinking and emotion, and performance of thought, which is described as “making aspects of perception and thought sculptural; a kind of tangible mental architecture.” Recent efforts have returned to more intimate settings but achieve a kind of theatrical cyber scale through the use of technology. Characterized as “telematic” theatre, Maynard-Smith’s new works employ internet to transmit images and sound between two or more sites to create a shared global performance event.
This presentation of Station House Opera’s hybrid theatre of the real, the virtual, the intellectual and the imaginative is sure to fascinate and The Bastille Dances (1989) inform. For more information on Julian Maynard-Smith and Station House Opera, including the video of one of their recent site-specific works, Dominoes, visit www.stationhouseopera.com or vimeo.com/16848143#at=0.
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NEWS & NOTICES: Conference & Stage Expo Election Results & Call for Regional PDWs: Milwaukee and Madison, Nominations Plus... Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen LeRoy Stoner Regional Promotions Coordinator Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Sustaining Members Executive Director Regional Sections CONFERENCE The Al Ringling Theatre, an impressive movie palace, will be part of the tour to Baraboo. & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Photo/Courtesy Circus World Museum Records Spotlight on Station House Opera The Midwest Region of USITT is home to great theatrical gems – some so fascinating it may be hard to choose among three tours USITT is offering March Regional Tours 19, the day before the 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Milwaukee. Architecture News Nominate for Education Early arrivals can choose from these exciting Regional Events: Award FOR THE RECORD: ETC, etc. – Visit the global headquarters of Electronic Theatre Controls in Middleton, Wisconsin, home of ETC and its famed CEO, Fred Foster, who Leadership dropped out of college to start the company. A visit to ETC, with its Town Contributing Members Square of an atrium, a meet and greet with Mr. Foster and presentations by Sustaining Members ETC heads, will be capped with a tour of the Overture Center, the Cesar Pelli- VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » designed performing arts center and gallery in nearby Madison.
CONTACT THE EDITOR » Step Right Up -- Spend a day at the Circus: Circus World Museum and the Al Search the Archives Ringling Theatre in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Circus expert LaVahn Hoh will guide a tour of Circus World, which boasts original buildings from the Ringling Bros.
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GO Circus and the world's largest collection of circus wagons. The Al Ringling Theatre, designed in 1915, was the nation's first "movie palace" and remains an SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » architectural treasure. And the Clown Hall of Fame has costumes and props from America's best-known clowns.
Costumes! – Head to Chicago to see the Chicago History Museum, with its special costume history exhibits; then check out the historic Pilsen neighborhood that boasts the famous LZ Fabrics (shopping!) and the National Museum of Mexican Art, the largest Mexican cultural center & museum in the United States.
If you'd rather spend the day at in-depth learning, USITT also offers several Professional Development Workshops on March 19, including Firearm Safety for the Stage, Sign Painting and Pro Sound Principals and Practice. For more information on the PDWs, click here.
The lobby area at ETC is impressive, and changes from season to season.
Photo/Courtesy ETC
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NEWS & NOTICES: Conference & Stage Expo Election Results & Call for Update on Architecture Competitions, Seek Nominations Nominees Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Scott F. Georgeson, FAIA Architecture Commissioner Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders The Architecture Commission recently made announcements regarding two Award design competitions: a new competition to design the Commission’s Architecture Design Needed for PQ2015 Awards Exhibit at the Milwaukee 2013 Conference & Stage Expo, and the jury for the “Ideal Theatre” Student Design Competition. Member Benefit – A Present The Architecture Awards Exhibit Competition is open to college and university Desmond Heeley Honored students as well as recent graduates (less than six years out of school). Scenofest/WSD News Competitors must live within the Midwest Regional Section (Wisconsin, Illinois, The Last Word - SansDisc Indiana, or Michigan). USITT membership is not required. NEWS FROM: The winning team will be guests of the Architecture Commission at the annual Around the Institute Conference & Stage Expo. Team members will receive passes for Expo, access Contributing Members to all Architecture Commission Events, and recognition at Friday night's USITT's President Architecture Awards Ceremony. Images of the installation and merit award Sustaining Members designs will be posted on the Architecture Commission web pages.
Executive Director January 25 is the deadline to submit a notice of interest to Scott Georgeson, Regional Sections FAIA, chair, at [email protected]. Design proposal submissions are CONFERENCE due February 21. The winning proposal will be selected and the winners notified & STAGE EXPO: by February 28. E-mail him for more information about the competition. Stage Expo Setting Records The exhibit is limited to a 20-by- 20 foot print and can be no more than 12 feet Spotlight on Station House high. Because the winning designer is responsible to construct and install the Opera exhibit, teams are encouraged. The budget for all the materials, transportation, Regional Tours and installation is $1,500. USITT will provide the winning team half the money Architecture News at the time of award and the remainder at completion of the Stage Expo installation. Nominate for Education Award On this year's jury for the Ideal Theatre Student Design Competition are Rose FOR THE RECORD: Steele of Landry & Bogan, Kurt Schindler of ELS Architects, and Thomas Hall of Leadership Albert Hall & Associates . Contributing Members This group will meet on January 16 in Berkley, California to select three finalists Sustaining Members from teams of students from throughout the world. For the first time, the students VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » could submit entries based on separate design briefs: one allows the team to CONTACT THE EDITOR » write a program and pick a location for its design anywhere in the world, and the other to design a new performing arts center for the University of Wisconsin- Search the Archives Milwaukee school of theatre. To help the jury understand the design, each team
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GO provides design images of the building and a booklet outlining the team’s design process.
SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » The finalists are invited to present at the 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo where the membership votes to select the final winner. All submissions and the design of the finalists will be part of the Architecture Awards Exhibit at Stage Expo. The presentation to the membership is set for the morning of March 23, 2013
The Architecture Commission is looking for candidates for Commissioner and Vice-Commissioners. Anyone interested in serving should write to [email protected] by February 28.
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NEWS & NOTICES: Conference & Stage Expo Election Results & Call for Seek Educators as Nominees for Nominations Distinguised Achievement Award Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Matthew Allar Education Commission Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Award Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Present Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News The Last Word - SansDisc NEWS FROM: Around the Institute Contributing Members USITT's President Judy Adamson received the 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award in Education. She Sustaining Members was honored at an individual session noting her achievements and participated in a Executive Director roundtable with other Distinguished Achievement Award winners. Regional Sections CONFERENCE Photo/R Finkelstein & STAGE EXPO: Stage Expo Setting Records March 1 is the deadline for nominations for the Education Commission’s 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award. The Commission is specifically seeking Spotlight on Station House Opera nominations of outstanding high school/secondary education instructors. Regional Tours All nominations should be submitted to Matthew Allar, USITT Education Architecture News Commission DAA chair, College of William and Mary, Department of Theatre, Nominate for Education Speech, and Dance, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187. Nomination Award letters may not come from the nominated individual. FOR THE RECORD: Leadership Each year, the Education Commission recognizes an individual or group who demonstrates exemplary pedagogical skills and outstanding commitment to the Contributing Members training of future theatre artists. The recipient is recognized at the Annual USITT Sustaining Members Conference & Stage Expo as part of the Commission’s event programming. VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Membership in USITT is not required for nominees although activity in national CONTACT THE EDITOR » organizations of theatre practice is noteworthy. Demonstration of a strong Search the Archives history of notable student achievement during, and beyond the secondary education level is extremely important. Specific profiles of such success should
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GO be outlined. While nominated educators may not have a discernible national reputation, the nomination letter must clearly demonstrate his/her possession of SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » an “extra something” which sets him/her apart from other colleagues. Specific, strong support from one or more organizations such as EdTA, ITS, or VTA is a very useful platform upon which to build a nomination. Such groups may wish to create nomination letters/dossiers to submit for consideration.
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FRONT PAGE » For the Record: NEWS & NOTICES: Leadership Election Results & Call for USITT Leadership Nominations Lea Asbell-Swanger, President Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen Sherry Wagner-Henry, Secretary Announcements Tom Young Wins Founders Daniel Culhane, Treasurer Award David Krajec, Vice-President for Commissions Design Needed for PQ2015 Mark Shanda, Vice-President for Communications Member Benefit – A Present David W. Will, Vice-President for Conferences Desmond Heeley Honored Marketa Fantova, Vice-President for International Activities Scenofest/WSD News Tom Hackman, Vice-President for Programming The Last Word - SansDisc Martha Marking, Vice-President for Members, Sections & Chapters NEWS FROM: Daniel Denhart, Vice-President for Special Operations Around the Institute Joe Aldridge, Immediate Past President Contributing Members USITT's President Directors Sustaining Members 2010-2013 Executive Director Regional Sections Emily Gill CONFERENCE R. Michael Gros & STAGE EXPO: Rafael Jean Stage Expo Setting Records Debra Garcia Lockwood Spotlight on Station House Opera Jill Maurer Regional Tours Stephanie Young Architecture News 2011-2014 Nominate for Education Award Jack Feivou FOR THE RECORD: Jennifer L. Knott Leadership Contributing Members Andi Lyons Sustaining Members Kevin Rigdon VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » Loren Schreiber
CONTACT THE EDITOR » Joe Tilford
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Sightlines Editorial Staff & USITT Office Staff Barbara E.R. Lucas, Sightlines Editor, Director of Communication
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FRONT PAGE » For the Record: NEWS & NOTICES: Members Election Results & Call for Nominations USITT gratefully recognizes the individuals and businesses in these special Pilbrow Wins Golden Pen categories of membership: Announcements Contributing Members » Tom Young Wins Founders Award Sustaining Members » Design Needed for PQ2015 Member Benefit – A Contributing Members Present American Harlequin Corporation Desmond Heeley Honored Scenofest/WSD News Apollo Design Technology, Inc. The Last Word - SansDisc Automatic Devices Company NEWS FROM: Barbizon Lighting Company Around the Institute Cirque du Soleil Contributing Members City Theatrical, Inc. USITT's President J.R. Clancy, Inc. Sustaining Members Creative Handbook Executive Director Regional Sections Creative Stage Lighting Co., Inc. CONFERENCE d&b audiotechnik & STAGE EXPO: Daktronics Stage Expo Setting Records Disney Parks Creative Entertainment Spotlight on Station House Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) Opera Foy Inventerprises, Inc. Regional Tours Architecture News Frends Beauty Supply Nominate for Education Future Light Award GAMPRODUCTS, INC. FOR THE RECORD: H & H Specialties Inc. Leadership heatshrink.com Contributing Members Sustaining Members InterAmerica Stage, Inc. VIEW ISSUE AS A PDF » KM Fabrics, Inc.
CONTACT THE EDITOR » Kryolan Corporation Live Design Magazine/LDI Show Search the Archives
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SIGHTLINES ARCHIVE » Michigan Technological University Musson Theatrical, Inc. Norcostco, Inc. Oasis Stage Werks Philips Group PLASA Production Advantage, Inc. Robert Juliat America Rosco Laboratories, Inc. Rose Brand Theatrical Fabrics, Fabrications & Supplies SECOA Stage Technologies StageRight Corporation StageSpot Syracuse Scenery & Stage Lighting Co., Inc. Texas Scenic Company Vincent Lighting Systems Wenger Corporation Yale School of Drama/Repertory Theatre
Sustaining Members A.C. Lighting Inc. A.C.T. Lighting The University of Alabama Alcons Audio USA Altman Lighting, Inc. Atlanta Rigging Systems Auerbach Pollock Friedlander A V Pro, Inc. Backdrops Beautiful Ben Nye Makeup BMI Supply University of California — Irvine California Institute of the Arts Center Theatre Group Chauvet
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Checkers Industrial Products Chicago Flyhouse Inc. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Clear-Com Communication Systems Clearwing Productions Cobalt Studios Columbus McKinnon Corp. coolux International Cooper Controls Dazian Fabrics, LLC Doug Fleenor Design, Inc. Dragon & Phoenix Software, Inc. Eilon Engineering Weighing Systems Ltd. Elation Lighting Emerson College Dept of Performing Arts Entertainment Lighting Services ENTTEC Americas, LLC Feeling Structures First Stage Milwaukee Florida State University Focal Press Full Compass Systems, Ltd. Full Sail University GALA Systems, Inc. The George Washington University Gerriets International Inc. Grand Stage Company, Inc. Hall Associates Flying Effects Harkness Screens (USA) Ltd. Herbert L. Camburn Associates I. Weiss IALD-International Association of Lighting Designers InCord Ltd. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Irwin Seating Company James Thomas Engineering Johnson Systems Inc.
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Kenmark, Inc. Kirkegaard Associates L-ACOUSTICS LEE Filters Lehigh Electric Products Co. Leprecon Leviton/NSI/Colortran Lex Products Corp. Limelight Productions, Inc. Lite-Trol Service Company, Inc. LVH Entertainment Systems Lycian Stage Lighting The MAGNUM Companies, Ltd. Mainstage Theatrical Supply, Inc. Mehron, Inc. University of Missouri-Kansas City Mongol Global Tour Company, Inc. MRD, Inc. Mutual Hardware Nemetschek Vectorworks Niscon Inc. University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina School of the Arts Northern Sound & Light, Inc. Ontario Staging Limited OSRAM SYLVANIA Pathway Connectivity Penn State University Pook Diemont & Ohl, Inc. Prolyte Products Group Rational Acoustics, LLC RC4 Wireless/Soundsculpture Inc. Reed Rigging, Inc. Rhode Island College Sapsis Rigging Entertainment Services, Inc. Sculptural Arts Coating, Inc. Serapid, Inc.
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Siong Ann Engineering Pte Ltd SIRS Electronics Inc. Smooth-On, Inc. SM-Sim, LLC Stage Decoration & Supplies, Inc. Stage Equipment and Lighting, Inc. Stage Rigging Services, Inc. Stagecraft Industries, Inc. Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas StageLight, Inc. Staging Concepts, Inc. Strong Entertainment Lighting SUNY Oswego Theatre Department TC Group Americas, Inc. Theatre Consultants Collaborative, LLC Theatre Projects Consultants, Inc. Thern Stage Equipment Thinkwell Group Tiffin Scenic Studios, Inc. TMB Trizart Alliance Ultratec Special Effects Inc. Union Connector Co., Inc. United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 Wayne State University Dept of Theatre
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