Brock Baird
Projector Manager - Theatrical Technical Director - Fabricator - Rigger
Flat Rock Playhouse- May-November 2013
Flat Rock, NC
Carpenter Intern
After my graduation from Western Carolina University, I was hired as the carpenter intern for a six-month contract. It was a large learning experience as I learned many new techniques of building and finishing set pieces and handing them off for the paint department to make them pretty. Along with working in the set shop, I worked as a backstage hand, assistant stage manager, or microphone wrangler. While I was there, I learned more about the business side of a theatre as well as cooperation between many department since this was the biggest theatre in my career thus far.




Evita
Director: Richard J. Hinds
Musical Director: George Wilkins
Choreographer: Jennifer Jancuska
Set Designer: Dennis C. Maulden
Costume Designer: Ashli Arnold
Lighting Designer: Stephen Terry
Sound Designer: Bryan Delaney
Projections Designer: Lianne Arnold
Our production had both a rear projection and a front projection. We built the screen for the rear projection and built columns with screen so we could change the colors of the columns with LEDs.




Les Miserables
Director: Vicent Marini
Musical Director: Michael Sebastian
Choreographer: Jennifer Jancuska
Set Designer: Dennis C. Maulden
Costume Designer: Ashli Arnold
Lighting Designer: Stephen Terry
Sound Designer: Bryan Delany
With association of Greenville Little Theatre, we built huge set pieces from a elevating bridge, two 16' barricade pieces, and a huge bead foam wall that was pulled down every show.




Lost Highway
Director: Vincent Marini
Musical Director: Eric Athony
Choreographer: Jennifer Jancuska
Set Designer: Dennis C. Maulden
Costume Designer: Ashli Arnold
Lighting Designer: Stephen Terry
Sound Designer: Nick Kourtides
We reused the portals from "Les Mis" and repainted them. We also build new platfroms with straight casters with metal push sticks attached to the platforms so we could move them from off-stage.




The Three Musketeers
Director: Lisa K. Bryant
Fight Choreographer: Michael MacCauley
Set Designer: James W. Johnson
Costume Designer: Ashli Arnold
Lighting Designer: Stephen Terry
Sound Designer: Marc W. Fisher, III
This show was the second to last Mainstage show for the season and the last one I was part of the run crew. The platforms were built from the bottom up, putting the higher platforms on top of the lower ones so we did not have to make specially cut platforms.