To Our Guest Directors, Designers and Stage Managers
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To our guest directors, designers and stage managers, Welcome! We are delighted that you have chosen to be a part of our 31st Season. We are looking forward to a year full of new challenges, rewards, and friendships. We hope to make your time with us enjoyable and productive, and to this end we have provided you with this informational packet. Please take the time to browse the packet and learn a bit about us. Included in your handbook are production calendar(s), contacts (as current) for your production’s artistic team, information about the shops and the design deadlines, and much more. Please take the time to review our prelim and final design deadline materials requirements. Please contact the production office, or the respective production department head(s) for the most current drawings, inventories and information as this info is updated more often than our handbook. We will all have to work hard to realize your vision within a tight and conservative financial structure. We have had to cut back after our 30th Anniversary season with it’s $1 million dollar supplemental gift to budgets that are more reflective of the new normal of these leaner times. Last season our average show budget was over $160,000. This year the average is less than $100,000. Please consider yourself forewarned that we want your help. We need you to adhere to design deadlines, return those phone calls and emails as soon as you can, in order that we get the most bang for the buck. Sometimes we start a little early in order make the best use of our labor resources. Our schedule is tight - we’re busy. You are too. The better we can plan ahead, the more satisfying the onstage result. Enough said. We’ve got a great team of technicians, artists and craftspeople, from top to bottom. Our audiences expect great work from us, our national profile has grown, and we take pleasure in delivering great production values. If you are ever in need of further information, have questions, need assistance… please give any of us a call. Sincerely, Todd D. Williams, Production Manager IN RESIDENCE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY GOOD PEOPLE DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE NOW OR LATER CHRISTOPHER SHINN BETRAYAL HAROLD PINTER INVISIBLE MAN OREN JACOBY / RALPH ELLISON A RAISIN IN THE SUN LORRAINE HANSBERRY “M” RYAN LANDRY RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN GINA GIONFRIDDO PLUS, AN EXTRAORDINARY THEATRICAL EVENT OUR TOWN THORNTON WILDER 2012 - 2013DESIGN SEASONPRODUCTION PACKET TABLE OF CONTENTS QUICK REFERENCE 2 CONTACT INFORMATION 2 LOCATIONS 2 MAILING ADDRESS 2 BUSINESS HOURS 2 WEBSITE AND INTERNET RESOURCES 2 PRODUCTION STAFF CONTACT SHEET 3 DESIGN PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT INFORMATION 4 DEADLINE DEFINITIONS 4 PRODUCTION MEETINGS 7 FIRE RULES AND REGULATIONS 8 SCENERY/ PAINTS/PROPERTIES 9 LIGHTING 12 SOUND 13 COSTUMES 15 STAGE MANAGEMENT 17 TYPICAL TECH WEEK EXAMPLE 18 INFORMATION FOR OUR GUEST ARTISTS 19 COMPANY MANAGEMENT 20 WHO WE ARE 20 WHAT WE DO 20 ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY 21 HISTORY OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE 22 ABOUT THE CALDERWOOD PAVILION 24 OUTREACH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS 25 SERVICE PLEDGE 27 SAFETY COMMITTEE 28 FULL STAFF PHONE/EMAIL DIRECTORY 29 APPENDICES 33 APPENDIX A: THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE 33 APPENDIX B: THE VIRGINIA WIMBERLY THEATRE 53 APPENDIX C: THE NANCY AND EDWARD ROBERTS STUDIO THEATRE 63 APPENDIX D: PRODUCTION HISTORY 69 1 QUICK REFERENCE CONTACT INFORMATION Main Line: 617-266-7900 Fax: 617-353-8300 Scene Shop Fax: 617-358-2575 Box Office: 617-266-0800 Boston University Police: 617-353-2121 Boston Fire, Police, Ambulance: 911 LOCATIONS 252 Huntington Ave. – Paint Department 254 Huntington Ave. – Rehearsal Hall, Stage Management, Company Management 258 Huntington Ave. – Scenery, Properties, and Sound Departments 264 Huntington Ave. – BU Theatre, Production Offices, Costume and Lighting Depts. 281 Huntington Ave. – Administration 527 Tremont Street – The Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts: the Virginia Wimberly Theatre and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre. MAILING ADDRESS Administration, Production Facilities, Box Office and BU Theatre: Huntington Theatre Company 264 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts: Huntington Theatre Company 527 Tremont St Boston, MA 02116 Ask for Fed Ex or UPS accounts BUSINESS HOURS Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm During this time there is someone at the main switchboard, after 5pm all calls are handled by the voicemail system. WEBSITE and INTERNET RESOURCES Institutional information is available on our website: www.huntingtontheatre.org Up-to-date ground plans, sections, stock inventories and more available at: www.bu.edu/scenery DropBox available for file sharing PicassaWeb available for photo sharing 2 QUICK CONTACTS *Please note: Huntington Ave numbers are 617-273-1xxx. Calderwood Pavilion numbers are 617-933- 86xx. PRODUCTION OFFICE Production Manager Todd Williams 1650 [email protected] Assoc Production Manager Bethany Ford 1602 [email protected] SCENERY Technical Director Dan Ramirez 1583 [email protected] Assoc Technical Director Adam Godbout 1566 [email protected] Asst Technical Director Dan Oleksy 1587 [email protected] Scene Shop Fax 617-358-2575 PROPERTIES Prop Master Kristine Holmes 1586 [email protected] Props Assistant Justin Seward 1569 [email protected] COSTUMES Costume Director Nancy Brennan 1648 [email protected] Asst Costume Director Virginia Emerson 1647 [email protected] PAINTS Charge Scenic Artist Kristin Krause 1541 [email protected] Assistant Charge Artist Kate Bosch 1542 [email protected] ELECTRICS Master Electrician Kat Herzig 1644 [email protected] Asst Master Electrician Michael Wellman 1643 [email protected] Pav House Electrician Mercedes Roman-Manson *8615 [email protected] SOUND Sound Supervisor Ben Emerson 1572 [email protected] Sound Engineer J Jumbelic 1641 [email protected] Pavilion House Sound Op Jesse McKenzie *8615 [email protected] STAGE MANAGEMENT BUT Stage Management 1606 BUT Asst. Stage Manager 1544 Pavilion Stage Management Office *8658 Stage Manager Hotline – Voicemail ONLY VM1020 MANAGEMENT Managing Director Michael Maso 1526 [email protected] Asst to the Managing Dir Allison McDonough 1530 [email protected] General Manager Sondra Katz 1527 [email protected] Assoc General Manager Justin Haslett 1501 [email protected] Company Manager Anna Kohansky 1545 [email protected] ARTISTIC Artistic Director Peter DuBois 1529 [email protected] Asst to the Aristic Director Vicki Schairer 1531 [email protected] Producing Director Christopher Wigle 1521 [email protected] Associate Producer Bevin O’Gara 1528 [email protected] MARKETING Director of Marketing Temple Gill 1560 [email protected] Communications Manager Rebecca Curtiss 1537 [email protected] 3 PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT INFORMATION DESIGN DEADLINE DEFINITIONS: Timely design information and regular communication help us to provide high quality work at a smooth pace. Deadlines are set in order to allow us time to thoughtfully review a project, make revisions as necessary, provide you with samples, give us time to purchase materials, and allow us to complete your project without expensive overtime. Better planning allows us to maximize our budgets, and the time our staff is available to work on any given project. Production Design God of Meeting #1 – Designers are Carnage required to meet with the 2012 director, other designers, production manager, and Huntington artistic and production staff for an early production design meeting. Ideally this meeting will take place in Boston as we feel there is nothing more valuable than a face-to-face meeting to get a project rolling. We’ll schedule this meeting as early in the season as possible, as soon as the artistic team is assembled and we can find a date. The meeting agenda is to discuss concept, schedules and budgets, to visit our theatres and shops, and to encourage open collaboration. Prelims – (or bids) We look for sufficient information here to allow for a realistic estimate of expenses and outline a construction plan. As soon as preliminary designs are ready we can advise on the physical and financial viability of the design. If we are on target for the show budget, we can proceed to final designs quickly. If the estimates exceed the budget, possible cost saving areas are discussed with all parties, and adjustments are made. Prelims are best presented in a meeting between the designer and shop staff. Scenery requires a ½” ground plan, scene breakdowns, and/or shift plot, section, elevations, details, molding and soft goods selections (including preferred supplier and catalog pages and numbers), research, and a white model. For Paints, please submit research, a written description of style and concept, and your thoughts on color, finish sheen and texture/dimensionality. Color elevations for soft goods should be provided at this time to avoid schedule problems later. We require Props research, including furniture and dressing, a prelim props list, and Prelim drawings for any built props items. 4 For lighting and sound designers, we are looking for a list of line sets you are planning to use, additional