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<div class="MsoNormal">THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>ROUTE 66 GHENT, NEW YORK 12075</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">GHENT PLAYHOUSE,
SEEKING TECHNICAL THEATRE VOLUNTEERS, OFFERS TWO WORKSHOPS ON SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 6.</p>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The Ghent Playhouse is offering two workshops for all those
interested in volunteering at the Ghent Playhouse in a technical capacity —
either as stage managers or as light and soundboard operators. Board members
Sam Reilly, Judy Staber and Monk Schane-Lydon are organizing the workshops.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">There will be two two-hour technical workshops on Saturday,
September 6 at the Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place off Route 66 in Ghent,</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>From 10 a.m. until noon</b><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Monk Schane-Lydon will teach people how to operate the theatre’s light board
and sound equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Volunteers
will learn how to operate the boards once the lighting and sound designers have
programmed them for each individual productions.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>No prior experience is necessary although an interest in
stage lighting and sound techniques is helpful.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>From 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.,</b><span style="font-weight:
normal"> Judy Staber will explain a stage manager’s duties as they pertain specifically
to the Ghent Playhouse. All the many areas that fall under the stage manager’s
responsibility during rehearsals and performances will be covered in detail.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Both Schane-Lydon and Staber have extensive experience in
most technical aspects of theatre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>While both have acted on the Ghent stage in various guises, as members
of the theatre’s Board of Directors Monk is the go-to guy for all things
technical and Staber is the primary public relations and marketing person.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Mark “Monk” Schane-Lydon is a bit of a renaissance
man. His acting work includes stage, film, voice and commercial projects.
When he puts on his audio engineer hat; we find he’s recorded everything from
symphonies to soloists, opera to rock stars. He has designed soundscapes for
film, commercials and theater and even produced radio dramas. Monk also
has an animation hat, a carpenter hat, electrician hat, board member hat…. It
seems that he always has a project in the works, from vintage motorcycles to
aircraft, all this while holding down a day job at Bard College at Simon's Rock
as an Instructional Technology Specialist. (Often seen in a hat.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Judy Staber, long before she was Judy Staber, worked as a
stage manager and assistant stage manager in both Summer Stock, Off Broadway
and on the National tour of “A Man For All Seasons.”<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>She stage-managed in the days when everything in the theatre
was hands-on, and was trained by Charles Davisson and Frank Hamilton. As a
student of Herbert Berghof’s at HB Studio, she also stage-managed several HB
Studio productions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She had also
worked with Bert Gruver while an apprentice at the Berkshire Playhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bert Gruver and Frank Hamilton are the
authors of <u>The Stage Manager’s Handbook</u>, long in use as the Bible of the
profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In Ghent, as writer,
actor and producer of the annual Panto, Judy also handles the backstage duties
during each show while the Pantoloons own stage manager is in the lighting
booth.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">There is no charge for these workshops. All are
welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Pre-registration is
recommended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please e-mail <a href="mailto:pantoloon@fairpoint.net">pantoloon@fairpoint.net</a> and put —
Ghent Playhouse workshops — in the subject line.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></div>
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