Mike Ager Lighting Design

Mike Ager Lighting Design - CV

Profile & Professional Skills

Enthusiastic, hard working graduating Theatre Design and Production student.
Main professional interest: lighting design and production.
Currently seeking suitable work placement as part of final degree year.
Effective use of varied IT software including: MS Office and Nemetschek VectorWorks11.
Wide experience of show programming on Strand 300 series lx desk.
Excellent collaborative working.
Excellent time management.
Excellent communication skills.

Education

1996 - 2003	Hedley Walter High School, Brentwood, Essex
A Level: Drama and Theatre Studies (C Grade) Chemistry (D Grade) Business Studies AVCE (D Grade) GCSE: 4 A grades, 5 B Grades, 1 C Grade

2003 - 2006

Trinity College Carmarthen

BA Theatre Design and Production

Passed with 1st class classification.
Modules include CAD for the Theatre; Lighting Design: Painting with Light; Costume Design: Theory and Practice; Scenic Design: Theory and Practice.
Final year modules include lighting design for three public productions:

Community touring: 'Radio Days' a piece of reminiscence theatre set during World War II. Venues included Residential Care Homes and Primary Schools. Pass mark 68%
Site specific: 'The City in the Sea' a promenade production telling a selection of stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The show took place in the disused non-denominational chapel on the grounds of a former Mental Hospital. Pass Mark 71%
Main-house: 'The Women of Troy' Currently in production. This show will have an updated setting of a prisoner holding camp on a beach somewhere in the Balkans or Eastern Europe.

Employment History

Summer Work 1999 - 2005	P.J. Camping Ltd. Romford
Sales Assistant
August 2005	Queens Theatre, Hornchurch
Technician: de-rigging, equipment maintenance and PAT testing during the theatre's annual shutdown period.
Term Time 2003 - Present	Halliwell Theatre, Trinity College Carmarthen
Student Technician at 300-seat campus theatre. Responsibilities included rigging, get-ins and strikes for incoming companies, equipment maintenance, and design, programming and rigging for Theatre Studies students' performances.
3rd April - 12th May 2006	Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
For the final module of my degree I spent 6 weeks working with the Lighting department at the RSC in Stratford. I worked on fit-ups, focus sessions, technical rehearsals and on practical wiring and equipment maintenance in the Swan Theatre and the RST. I also worked as follow spot operator for the tech rehearsals and initial 2 week run of Antony and Cleopatra in The Swan.
27th June - 29th June 2006	Dyfed Powys Probation Area Interventions Conference, Halliwell Theatre Carmarthen
Venue Technician: For this conference I was responsible for the rigging of lighting and sound equipment in advance of the conference and lighting operation during the event.

Interests

Student member of the Association of Lighting Designers. In May 2005 I applied for and was selected for a student sponsorship scheme to attend the Showlight 2005 lighting design conference in Munich.
Sailing. RYA level 1, 2 and 3 Sailing Certificates.
Established new theatre society within the college Students' Union.

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