[Capdist-announce] Ghent Playhouse offers technical workshops

[Judy Staber]

THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE  ROUTE 66 GHENT, NEW YORK 12075
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
GHENT PLAYHOUSE, SEEKING TECHNICAL THEATRE VOLUNTEERS, OFFERS TWO WORKSHOPS ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.

 
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.
There will be two two-hour technical workshops on Saturday, September 6 at the Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place off Route 66 in Ghent,
 
From 10 a.m. until noon, Monk Schane-Lydon will teach people how to operate the theatre’s light board and sound equipment.  Volunteers will learn how to operate the boards once the lighting and sound designers have programmed them for each individual productions.  No prior experience is necessary although an interest in stage lighting and sound techniques is helpful.
 
From 1 p.m. until 3 p.m., 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.
 
Both Schane-Lydon and Staber have extensive experience in most technical aspects of theatre.  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.
 
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.)
 
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.”  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.  She had also worked with Bert Gruver while an apprentice at the Berkshire Playhouse.  Bert Gruver and Frank Hamilton are the authors of The Stage Manager’s Handbook, long in use as the Bible of the profession.  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.
 
There is no charge for these workshops. All are welcome.  Pre-registration is recommended.  Please e-mail pantoloon at fairpoint.net and put — Ghent Playhouse workshops — in the subject line. 
Judy Staber



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