Cassey Driver [Stage Manager]Barmouth |
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| Profile: I am a hard working, conscientious, employee who is enthusiastic and works well with others and as part of a team, or on my own. I am a good time keeper, reliable, and have good communication skills on the telephone or face to face. I have a second language A-level in Welsh and speak it fluently. I was class representative for 3 years, going to meetings with the tutors and head of faculty, saying the opinions of my class mates and looking out for the welfare of my class at other meeting such as student union meetings. I am computer literate in the following Microsoft programs; Excel, Publisher, Word, Power Point, Vista 5.0 and at present I am learning how to use Photoshop. I can use the internet and various search engines, and can use various Microsoft Documents. Work Experience/Placements: 2009 White Horse Theatre, Germany. Stage Management: Shadowing and helping the Stage Manager take notes in rehearsals, learning about different methods and how to ASM, DSM and SM. Props buying. Running of one of the technical rehearsals. Costume: Working with a team of costume makers making costumes, adapting sourced costumes, using industrial sewing machines and a steam iron. Pattern cutting and hand stitching garments. Props and Scene Painting: Helped with the props department on prop buying and sourcing. Props making e.g. making some dragon feet out of cut foam and latex. Helped scene painting e.g. sanding down furniture and re-painting. Sprayed into large furniture props to dirty them down. 2008 The National Eisteddfod, Cardiff. Working as a student ambassador for the university, welcoming people to the stall and answering questions about my course. Handing out leaflets and showing people around the stall. Showing and presenting students work. 2007 and 2008. Ffrinj, Trinity College Student Festival. 2007 Help in planning of the festival and giving it structure. Organized, hosted and helped judge a Battle of the Bands competition. Setting up venue spaces for performances and literary readings. Booking venues and Budgeting. Selling tickets, and front of House 2008 Help in planning of the festival and giving it structure. Planned, organized and set up the Graduate Exhibition which included BA Theatre, Design and Production work from all three years. Set up of lighting and sound, and front of house at the Theatre Evening and The Exception and the Rule by Brecht. Front of house at Dylan Thomas's Boat House, Laugharne for Black Beach-Three Catalan plays, and Rewind. Wakestock 2005, working with VME on a music festival in North Wales: Helping the lighting designer, rigging and focusing lanterns. Help setting up sound systems and running cables. Looking after equipment when the festival was open to the public. Shows: 2009- Events Organiser for Momentary Glimpses, Exhibition. Booking room and marking out the gallery space. Budgeting and buying materials. Sending letters and flyers to theatres and theatre companies. Planning schedules and rota's. 2009- Costume Supervisor/Maker for Canterbury Tales. Making schedules, fitting schedules, costume parade schedule, work schedule. Looking after the budget, ordering materials and haberdashery. Sourcing and researching medieval wear and patterns. Adapting sourced garments such as hats, shoes, gloves. Making garments such as tunics, skirts, belts. 2009- Costume Maker, LX Assistant, Puppet painter for Grimm Tales. Costume Maker. Making a mock up costume, doing research, and drawing/cutting patterns from research books. Organizing and writing the costume plot and costume schedule. Adapting costumes from bought and sourced costumes and items. Adapting 10 pairs of shoes by covering them in leatherette, hand stitching them then dirtying them down. LX Assistant. Rigging lanterns, focusing and plotting. Operating the lighting desk during the show. Puppet painter. Painted and helped finish work on the puppets. Hand stitched the Golden Goose puppet. Made a set of four masks out of papier-mâché, painted them and attached ribbon to the back. 2008- Stage and Company Manager for Antigone. Sitting in rehearsals, taking notes for blocking, props, costume, setting, lighting and sound. Writing out rehearsal and production schedules, writing construction schedules. Writing out production notes, rehearsal notes and amending the script when needed. Getting in touch and liaising with drama departments of colleges and schools. Budgeting. Writing out show reports and making calls on the get ins and get outs of each venue. Making sure the actors were well prepped for each performance. Helping with the construction and scenic art when needed. Buying, adapting and dirtying down costume for the production. |
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