DatTechGuy

So, what I’ve gathered from being in theatre so far is this:

The actors are the ones who usually mess things up. Like, if something goes wrong, 98% of the time it was an actor’s fault.

The backstage crew are the ones who are supposed to make things happen invisibly and silently, so basically magically, and they have the most miracles happen to them, but when things do go wrong for them, things go terribly wrong.

The directors are the ones who ruin people’s self esteem, but eventually are forgiven because everyone knows the stress of putting on a show.

There’s the stage managers who have the pressure of the backstage crew, are at the receiving end of director crap like the actors, but get just as easily ticked off as the director, because that’s basically what they are, the backstage director.

Every once in a blue moon there’s the dude-bro preteen or the completely ignorant and curious small child who manage to find their way backstage and have to either endure the wrath of the director, or, in one specific case that I can think of, be scared off by an actor who just happens to be carrying a shank and heading towards them in character. (That actor was me.)

Cherished Evan Hansen

Budtime activation

Apparition concerning the magnum opus

Tuck amaranthine

Lease

Countertenors

Greetings, dolly!

Charlie and the sweetmeat forge

Something decomposed

Parallel to ordinary

Just finished upgrades on my LX case. When I’m designing for a freelance gig that doesn’t have a in-house Eos system console, I bring this along. Plug in power and DMX, and bam, my laptop running ETC Nomad has wireless DMX output, and I can connect my phone and iPad Pro as control surfaces with iRFR and a custom TouchOSC layout I developed. I can plug my laptop into the router Ethernet port on the side for maximum reliability, but so far I’ve had no latency or reliability issues with just using wifi.