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What you can’t do is call me a one-trick pony!

Obviously, my love is for lighting, but I would not still be in this industry if I wasn’t also gathering other skills to keep me working. I don’t think I can even count how many shows I’ve worked backstage in the wings as a stage hand.

When I started at the Covey Center for the Arts, I began as a general technician. For the first year or so of my time there, I spent most shows sitting backstage ready to fly in and out the Grand Curtain and other drapes and drops, or to bring on set pieces, or to just fly in the video screen. It also often required me to be the go-between for my fellow crew members at the tech booth and whoever was backstage with whichever group was renting the building that day.

In 2026 is when I worked my first shows as an actual titled Deck Manager. It was barely anything I hadn’t done before then. Keeping track of set pieces moving on and off stage, coordinating rail movements, managing the walkways of the wings, keeping in constant communication with the production/stage manager, etc.

My time at the Covey Center also included being promoted to an Event Manager for my last year there. I would describe this job as a pseudo stage manager position. Essentially, when assigned as EM to a show, it was my job to be the point of contact for the renting/visiting group while they were in the building. I had to know what equipment we had, the limitations of our venue, the safety expectations, as well as learn the group’s show enough to at least have our equipment in order, or to even be the one calling the cues for their show when they didn’t provide their own show caller. Oftentimes, this was all done in the span of a single day.

My knowledge also includes a basic understanding of Audio cabling and signal flow. I have never mixed a live band, but I can get a sound system turned on, get the microphone on, and get your tracks playing.