Aja

Anderson Electrician
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ajatealanderson@gmail.com

202-903-4201

=============================================================================================== Special Projects Apprentice Electrician Spoleto Festival USA Charleston, SC Summer 2013 & 14
Responsibilities included: putting together rental packages, loading/unloading trucks, repair and maintenance of inventory, building scaffolding and truss, hanging and focusing on scaffolding, converting outdoor areas into theatre venues, hard patching.

Electrics Intern Contemporary American Theatre Festival Shepherdstown, W V Summer 2012

Responsibilities included: Hanging, cabling, and focusing for 3 spaces. Repair and maintenance of inventory, programming and running an ETC Express, troubleshooting, wiring of practicals.

Production Electrician JMU Lighting Shop Harrisonburg, VA Fall 2012 present

Responsibilities include: Managing crews and practicum students, supervising mainstage and dance spaces for the duration of the season, creating calendars and managing a budget, updating paperwork, running strikes, educating practicum students, being a line of communication between the student employees and the faculty.

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Technical Experience
Master Electrician:
All Shook Up Mirror, Mirror Spring Awakening New Dance 2013 Sweeney Todd
Forbes Center for the Performing Arts Metropolitan School of the Arts Forbes Center for the Performing Arts Forbes Center for the Performing Arts Forbes Center for the Performing Arts LD: Lee Kennedy LD: Stephanie P. Freed LD: Emily Becher-McKeever LD: John Bohuslawsky Dir: Kate Arecchi

Lighting Technician/Programmer:
The Minotaur All My Sons West Virginia Dance
Atlas Theatre for the Performing Arts H Street Theatre Forbes Center for the Performing Arts LD: Stephanie P. Freed LD: Stephanie P. Freed TD: Jamie Whoolery

Lighting Designer/Assistant Lighting Designer:

Dark Play or Stories for Boys Sweeney Todd
JMU Studio Theatre Dir: Shane Dreher LD: Joseph Lass Forbes Center for the Performing Arts

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Skills: Stagecraft, basic sewing, basic rigging, soldering, can lift over 50 lbs, comfortable on ladders, valid VA drivers license,
Vectorworks, Lightwright, autoCAD, Photoshop, comfortable on Windows and Mac, knowledge of: Wybron color scrollers, Roscoe IQs, Roscoe Indexing Rotators, Altman Spectra Cycs, Colorblaze LED striplights, Mac2ks, Vari-lites, Studio Beams, programming on ETC boards (Ion, Eos, Express).

Education:
James Madison University Technical Theatre & Psychology B.A. Expected 2014

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References:
John Bohuslawsky Lighting Designer Technical Director Brittany Shemuga Mater Electrician CATF (330) 807-2624 Emily Becher-McKeever Associate Professor Lighting and Sound Design (571) 594-6722 becheree@jmu.edu

(740) 818-9779 bohuslaw@ohio.edu

brittanyshemuga@gmail.com