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Drawing & Sketching for the Stage
Many of the most successful scenic designs started as a napkin sketch. This course will guide you from the roughest pencil sketch through to refined multi point perspective front view renderings.
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Donald Holder, Special Guest
Via Wikipedia: Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting...
Jennifer Tipton, Special Guest
Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her work in theater, dance and opera and is currently represented on Broadway with her Tony Nominated Lighting Design for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Her recent work in opera includes Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE directed...
Ken Billington, Special Guest
Ken Billington started his career with the off-Broadway hit Fortune and Men's Eyes. Since then he has designed over 100 Broadway and 70 Off-Broadway shows including Chicago,Fame, Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs..., Footloose, Candide, Annie, Foxfire,Tru, Sweeney...
Trompe l’oeil Basics, Scenic Painting for the Stage
Trompe l’oeil is the scenic painter’s magic trick: with nothing more than paint, value, and a clear light source, you can turn a dead‑flat stage wall into believable architecture that seems to have real panels and molding. This stand‑alone article walks you and your...
Microphone rigging from DPA
DPA Microphones has quietly built one of the best classroom‑ready libraries for teaching mic technique. Their Mic University articles and videos walk step by step through how to hide miniature microphones in the hairline, at the cheek, around the ear, and other key...
USITT 2026 Resources
Thank you for scanning the QR code and joining us after the USITT BACKstage+ resources panel. This page contains training links, articles, videos, vendors, and reference materials we discussed, focusing on resources for secondary school theatres. As you scroll, you’ll...