Joshua HIggason 130 Chestnut St— Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 970-430-1712 — E-Mail: [email protected]

Education B.A. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. History and Sociology. 2005. Boettcher Scholar: Four year full-ride academic scholarship to any school in Colorado

Teaching and Educational Experience

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technical Instructor, Music And Theater Arts. Sept 2016- • Technical Instructor teaching design in the Division of Theater Arts. Fall 2016- 21M.840 “Performance Present Media”; Spring 2017- 21m.841 “Interactive Design and Projection for live performance”. Fall 2017 “Lighting Design”; Spring 2018 21m.841 “Interactive Design and Projection for live performance”. • The New School, CT2: Live Video & Performance. Visiting Instructor Jan 2016- May 2016 • Co-teaching a third year class on the integration of live video into theatrical performance and creation. • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Jay Scheib. Sept 2015 • Guest lecture on video and media integration in live performance for 21M.606 Intro to Stagecraft and 21M.273 Opera while at MIT working on Persona with Jay Scheib and Keeril Makan. • IATSE Local 4 Stagehands Union, Brooklyn Academy Of Music; Introduction to Video April 2015, • Introducing video engineering, system design, and troubleshooting techniques to IATSE stagehands. July 2015 A one day class introducing both hardware and software video systems. • NYU Polytechnic, DM6103 Performance Studio Seminar: Media and Performance. Guest Lecture. Prof. Deborah Oct 2014 Johnson. • Incorporating live camera and performance using Isadora software for a Media and live performance technology class. • BRIC Media Arts, “21st Century Storytelling”. Oct 2014 • Two day Master Class on creating devised theater and incorporating media and live camera into performance with The Builders Association. • Bennington College, VDR4308 Manipulating the Moving Image. Visiting Professor. Spring • Guest Professor for semester course in media and interactive integration in live performance. Topics Semester included performance/media theory, media creation, live computer manipulation with Isadora / Mad 2014 Mapper / Watchout softwares, tracking of live performers with IR camera, Kinect camera. • Duke University, ARTVIS 190FS Media, Self & Performance. Master Class with The Builders Association. Nov 2013 • Guest Artist (as a member of The Builders Association); “21st Century Storytelling”. Two day Master Class on creating devised theater and incorporating media and live camera into performance. • Princeton University, ATL 494 Princeton Atelier - Sounding Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Alchemy in Music and Feb 2013 Theater. Prof. Mark Dechiazza and Dept Chair Steven Mackey. Guest Lectures. • Taught two one-day workshops during the semester on integrating interactive media and live performance using Isadora software and live cameras. • Ohio State University, Visiting Artist Residency with The Builders Association. Mar 2012 • Worked with various undergraduate students while developing the original work House / Divided with the Builders Association during a six week residency. • Princeton University, Princeton One-Act Opera Project (Princeton Atelier/Music Dept co-production) Mar 2012 • Worked with director Mark DeChiazza and undergraduate and Graduate composers, librettists, and performers to integrate video both dramaturgically, thematically, and practically into a set of three original operas. • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Jay Scheib. Feb 2011 • One day Live Video in Performance workshop with Prof. Jay Scheib for two of his undergraduate classes. • NYU, Playwrights Horizon School. Guest Lecture. Prof. Jared Mezzocchi. Oct 2010 • Guest lecture on Video Design in Experimental Theater.

Joshua HIggason • Long Island University, New Media Arts and Performance MFA Program Sept 2009- • Year long workshop series in topics such as Isadora programming, Live Camera Integration, Interactive May 2010 Control via OSC, Wii, and IR, and Projection Mapping. • Long Island University, New Media Arts and Performance MFA Program May 2009 • Student advising and Video programming for Thesis Projects. Dept Chair: Donna Uchizono. • University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana, Visiting Artist Residency with The Builders Association Oct 2008 • Worked with various undergraduate students while developing the original work Continuous City with the Builders Association during a nine week residency .

Design Experience (Select) Production Director / Company Venue (Date)

• World of Wires (Video and Lighting Design) Jay Scheib / MIT TA MIT W97 (April 2018) • 3 Americanisms (Video Design) Paul Lazar / Harvard TDM Farkas Hall (April 2018) • TED Conference Community Stage TED Vancouver Convention Center (Scenic Design) (April 2018) • The Object Lesson (Projection Design) Geoff Sobelle National Theater of Taiwan (Feb 2018) • Aquanetta (Video Design) Daniel Fish/ BMP Gelsey Krikland (NYC) (Jan 2018) • Like (Projection and Interactive design) ZviDance Live Arts (Nov 2017)

• Everybody (Projection Design) Anna Kohler / MIT TA MIT W97 (Nov 2017) • Persona (Video and Lighting Design) Jay Scheib; BMP/ LA OPERA REDCAT (Los Angeles) (Nov 2017) • Hansel Und Gretel (Projection Design) Sven Eric-Bechtolf / Teatro Alla Scala Teatro Alla Scalla, Milan (July-Aug 2017) • Dancing the Bears Ears (Video Design) ZviDance Salt Lake City (May 2017) • King Arthur by Henry Purcell Sven Eric-Bechtolf and Julian Crouch/ Staatsoper Berlin (Jan 2017) (Projection Design) Staatsoper Berlin • Seven Things I’ve Learned by Ira Glass Ira Glass Various US Tour stops (2016) (Projection design) • On The Road (Projection and Scenic Design) ZviDance BAM Fisher Theater (Dec 2016); American Dance Institute (Oct 2016); MassMoca • Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Video Design) Jay Scheib / MIT TA MIT (Nov 2016) • TedWomen 2016 (Scenic design) TED Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco ((Oct 2016) • TED@UPS (Scenic design) TED Atlanta (Sept 2016) • Carmen (Video Design) Jay Scheib YoungArts, Miami (June 2016) • Death, Sex, and Money With Anna Sale. (Scenic Anna Sale BAM Harvey Theater (Feb 2016) and projection design) • Aging Magician (Video and Lighting Design) Julian Crouch; Composer: Paola MassMoCA; Walker Arts Center; Krannert Prestini Center; New Victory Theater (NYC) 2016 • Phantogram US Tour (Creatiev Direction; Scenic Phantogram Various US Tour Stops (2016) Design; Video Consulting) • Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) Composer: Nico Muhly Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City (Dec 2015) A new commission by the Utah Symphony (Video and Scenic Design) • Alas, The Nymphs (Video Design) John Jahnke BAM Fisher Theater (Dec 2015)

Joshua HIggason • Persona (video design, Lighting Design, and Jay Scheib; Composed by Keeril MIT; National Sawdust (NYC) (Oct 2015) Live camera operator) Makan • JR JR Concert Tour (Video Design, Creative Josh Epstein 40 City US tour (Fall 2015) LED Technology integration) • Swamp is On (A collaboration between Pig Iron Dan Rothenberg; Pig Iron Theater Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (Oct 2015) Theater Company and Dr. Dog) Co. (Video Design and Live Performance) • Lake Nona Projection Mapping Project Creative Director: Michael Counts Orlando, FL (Fall 2015) • (Video Design, Projection Mapping) Die Dreigroschenoper (Video design) Julian Crouch; Salzburg Festival Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Aug 2015) Sufjan Stevens Concert Tour “Carrie and Lowell” Sufjan Stevens US/Euro Tour (79 Cities, 18 Countries) (Video Design) (2015) • Metric Concert Tour (Creative Direction/Design) Jon Morris 40 City US Tour (2015) • Radiolab: The Tell Tale Hearts (Video and Scenic Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne BAM Opera House (April 2015) Design. Stage Direction) • Tumblr @ SXSW (Video and Scenic for 6 concerts) Tumblr SXSW, Austin, TX (2015) • Round Up (A Film with Live Music by Sufjan Sufjan Stevens BAM- Harvey Theater (2015) Stevens) (Projection and Scenic Design) • Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador (Video design) John Tiffany UNC, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)- Harvey Theater (2014) • Radiolab: Trusts No One (Video and scenic Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne BAM Opera House (2014) design; Live audience Smart Phone integration) • SUPERNOVA- Ray LaMontagne Concert Tour Maureen Towey 40 US City Tour (Summer/ Fall 2014) (Scenic and Video Design with Candystations) • Platonov; Or The Disinherited Jay Scheib The Kitchen (NYC), Live streaming to AMC • (Video design, Live cinema mix and broadcast) and BAM Cinema (2014) • Sundance Sings feat. Christine Ebersole Leigh Silverman Symphony Space (2014) • (Video design) Dream of a Red Chamber (Video and Scenic Jim Findlay; Times Square Art The Performing Garage; , Site design) Alliance and Ps122 Specific Installation (2014) Radiolab: Apocalyptical (Video, Scenic, and Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne 25 city US Tour (Fall 2013) Lighting design) • Platonov; Or The Disinherited (Video and Scenic Jay Scheib; LPJ WoW Festival La Jolla Playhouse (Oct 2013) design) • Powder her Face (Video design) Jay Scheib; BAM Opera House (2013); Opéra de Opera; Opéra de Québec (2013) Québec • Ich, KurbisGeist (Video design) Big Dance Theater Chocolate Factory (Fall 2012); New York ( Annie-B Parsons and Paul Lazar) Live Arts (Fall 2013) • Sontag: Reborn (Scenic design) The Builders Association Public, Wexner (2012); NYTW, Seoul Arts ( Marianne Weems) (2013); Weslyan, Arts Emerson (2014) • World of Wires (Video and Lighting design) Jay Scheib The Kitchen (NYC), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston),KRT Festival (Krakow), Le Lieu Unique, Festival D'Automne, (Maison des Arts- Cretiel) Paris, Maubuge (2012)

Joshua HIggason • M. Ward Summer Concert Tour (Scenic design, Candystations 30 US city Tour (2012) video engineering) • Public Sings!: Benefit for Daisy Prince Joe’s Pub (2012) • Carrie Mae Weems /Gerri Allen: Slow Fade to Carrie Mae Weems; Celebrate Prospect Park, Brooklyn (June 2011) Black (Video and Scenic design) Brooklyn • The Tenant (Video co-design with Imaginary Woodshed Collective ( Teddy Amsterdam Ave Parish House (Site Media) Bergman, Stephen Brackett) Specific Installation) (2011) • Bellona- Destroyer of Cities (Video Design) Jay Scheib The Kitchen (NYC) (2010); MAC- Paris (2011) • Cankerblossom (Video design) Pig Iron Theater Co. ( Dan Philly Live Arts Festival, La Jolla Playhouse Rothenberg) (2010) • Bang on a Can: George Crumb Festival Jim Findlay MassMoCA (2010) (VIDEO/LIVE MIX with Jim Findlay) • Persephone (Assistant scenic design) Ridge Theater ( Bob McGrath) BAM- Harvey Theater (2010) • Sondheim on Sondheim (Video Associate; Video James Lapine ; Roundabout (2010) designer Peter Flaherty) • Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer (Associate Video, Bang On a Can , U of Florida, UNC, Penn Lighting, and Scenic design w/ Jim Findlay) State, U of Maryland (2009) • NYCLU- Voices For Change Concert Symphony Space (NYC) (2008) featuring Nellie McKay (Lighting design) • Little Flower of East Orange (Assistant Sound Philip Seymour Hoffman The Public Theater (2008) designer; Des. David Van Teighem) • AR Gurney’s Love Letters w/ Jeff Daniels and Jim Simpson Frederick Lowe Theater, NYU (2007) Sigourney Weaver (Sound Design) Production Experience (Select) Production Director / Company Venue (Date)

• Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965– Adrian Piper/ MoMA MoMA (Mar 2018) 2016; Mauer (2010) Installation • Theater For One: Princeton Creative Christine Jones Princeton (Oct 2017) • (Lighting, Sound, and System integration) • Tony Oursler: Imponderable (2017) Tony Oursler / MoMA MoMA (Mar 2017) (System Integration, programming, lighting/video/sound/integration) • Theater For One: "I'm Not the Stranger Creative Christine Jones Times Square, Governor’s Island (2010); You Think I Am" Winter Garden, Zuccotti Park, Grace Plaza (Lighting, Sound, and System integration) NYC (Spring 2015); Fairfield Uni. (2017)

• lovefail (Touring Video and Scenic tech) Dir and Composed by David Lang Rotterdam, Amsterdam (May 2015)

• Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson David Newman; Creator: Geoff BAM Fisher; Toronto; San Fran; Walker; Sobelle Wexner (2014-2015) • Planetarium (video programming; Scenic Sufjan Stevens/ Nico Mulhy / Bryce BAM Opera House, Disney Hall (LA), engineering; Touring Video and Scenic tech) Dessner Sydney Opera, Paris, Barbican (2012) • Lucid Possession (video engineering, robotic Toni Dove, R. Luke DuBois Copenhagen, Roulette (Brooklyn) (2012) screen engineering, technical direction) Joshua HIggason • Sufjan Stevens: Age of Adz European Tour Designer: Deborah Johnson/ 25 European Cities (2011) (Video and Lighting Supervisor) Candystations • Al Pacino: One Night Only (Video engineering) Al Pacino Vail, Miami, Houston (2011-2013) • House / Divided (Technical direction, The Builders Association Wexner (OH), BAM- Harvey, Krannert performance) ( Marianne Weems) Center, Arts Emerson (2011-2012) • Habit (Video engineering, Technical Direction) David Levine MassMoCA (2011) • Supernatural Wife (Video Engineering and Big Dance Theater ( Annie-B Parsons BAM, Theatre National de Chiallot (Paris); Technical Direction) and Paul Lazar) Les Quatrz (Brest), Les Subs (Lyon), Le Lein Unique (Nantes) (2010) • Jet Lag (2010) (Technical direction, video The Builders Association Peak Performances at Montclair St.U. programming, performance) ( Marianne Weems, (2010) Designers: Diller Scofidio + Renfro) • Continuous City (Technical direction, video The Builders Association ( Marianne BAM, La Jolla Playhouse, Yerba Buena programming, performance) Weems) (San Fran), Walker (Minn), Wexner (OH), EMPAC (RPI), Copenhagen, Spain, London, Brussels (2008-2010) • Comme Toujours, Here I Stand (Video Big Dance Theater ( Annie-B Parsons Les Quatrz (Brest), Theatre National de programming, Technical direction) and Paul Lazar) Bretagne,Les Subs (Lyon), Le Lein Unique (Rennes), Austin (2009) • Technical Artistry (Lighting, Sound, Video) Kyle Chepulis Sotheby’s (NYC), AMNH, Various Locations

Additional Skills • Software • Sound Ableton Live, Audacity, Qlab • Video Isadora, Watchout 5, Final Cut Pro HD, Adobe Creative Suite including Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, DVD Studio Pro 3, LiveType, Qlab, Hippotizer, Madmapper, Nimate Tracking Software, Touch OSC, Blackmagic Atem Control, Resolume, Syphon, Openframeworks, VDMX, Cinema 4D, Blender, Catalyst • Various Vectorworks 2018, Lightwright 6, • Hardware • Sound Most digital and analog mixers (Yamaha 03D, DM1000; Midas Verona; Mackie 1604, Onyx, etc); wireless, condenser, and dynamic mics; amps; powered speakers (meyers m1,etc). Most Midi control devices. reverb, delay, and other various effects processors (yamaha spx 1000, D2), audio-computer interfaces (Echo Layla3G, mBox, motu) • Video Build and repair most mac and PC based systems. Build media servers from the ground up. Catalyst, Hippotizer, Watchout System designs, Most DSLR cameras (Canon, Sony, Nikon, etc). Most digital camcorders (Panasonic, Blackmagic, Sony, etc). Most digital and DLP projectors up to 30k (Barco, Christie, Panasonic, etc) • Various Arduino Physical computing devices, Leap motion controller. Kinect Camera, motion tracking sensors, Wii Controllers, CNC machines, servo motors, electronics and wiring • Lighting ETC consoles including Express, Expression, Obsession, Ion, Eos, and Gia. Strand Lighting Consoles. Computer based lighting control systems, USB-DMX adapters, i-cues, moving lights including Mac Vipers, Mac III, VL3000, etc. • Technical Equipment • Mig Welding, technical theater construction including flats, platforms, and moving scenery, licensed Fork lift and mechanical lift operation and training.