Training will be offered for all crews!-Lights Crew - Help hang and focus the lights used for lighting the stage for the show and help design cues. During the show you can either be a board-op or a spot-op during the show. Board-ops press the go button to change from one lighting cue to another and spot-ops spotlight different actors in the show (not the best crew if you have a fear of heights)
- Expect to meet around one time per week until tech week - Sound Crew - Help pick out and make the sound cues and other live noises the director wants in the show. Board operators help set sound levels and play cues - Expect to meet around one time per week until tech week - Lavs Crew - Help put the microphones (lavs) on actors. Will have some board runners who will set the sound levels of the lavs during the show and have people backstage doing lav changes (involves a lot of physical contact with people) - Expect to meet around one time per week until tech week - Running Crew - Help complete shifts between sets for scenes during the show - Expect one or two times before tech week - Flying Crew - (only available for shows that use the flying system) - Learn how to use the fly system to help move people across the stage in the air - Expect to meet maybe one time before the fly system used to fly people is installed, then it is likely to meet every day after that until tech week (fly system installed on October 6th) - Flys Crew - Help fly (move) in and out different things needed for scenes in the show using the fly rail - Expect to meet one or two times before tech week - Props Crew - Help make and find different props needed for the show and help set them for each scene - Expect to meet one or two times per week until tech week - Hair Crew - Help do the actors' hair for the show (involves physical contact with people) - Expect to meet one time or less per week until tech week - Makeup Crew - Help do the actors' makeup for the show (involves physical contact with people) - Expect to meet one time or less per week until tech week - Costumes Crew - Help find all actors costumes and do quick changes (involves lots of physical contact with people) - Expect to meet two to three times per week until tech week - Publicity - Help be the welcoming face of the drama club when people come to see the show and help spread the word of the show, create lobby displays, usher guests, maintaining public spaces - Expect to meet one time per week until tech week - Assistant Stage Manager (ASM) - (must have done at least one show prior) - Help run rehearsals throughout the rehearsal process and then help choreograph and run shifts during tech week - Expect to meet everyday throughout the show (normally gets one day off per week) - When Tech Week starts, all students will be called everyday until the performances are finished |
Tech TutorialsHello! Welcome to the Tech Tutorials page! Dexter Drama is dedicated to maintaining a high level of production quality and we know that starts with the safe and comprehensive education and training of its student members. This page is dedicated to that education and training.
Here you can watch short videos made by our student technicians for our student technicians to learn about different aspects of the technical world of theater! If you are interested in making a tech tutorial for this page, please contact Emily Fawcett at emily.fawcett@dexterschools.org. Tech Olympics Training
Tech Olympics is a competition that takes place during a workshop time of Thespian Festival. In these Olympics, students attending Thespian Festival compete with students from other troops in different aspects of tech; these tech areas include lights, sound, props, costumes, and knot tying. Tech Olympics Training helps train the Dexter Drama students attending Thespian Festival in the different events that they can compete in. Click here to watch a video on Tech Olympics Training for Lights by former Tech Liaison Noelle Whipple and Allison Kelly. *make sure to use your Dexter Schools email account 
Cable Coiling Tutorial
Click here to watch a Cable Coiling tutorial by former Tech Liaison Noelle Whipple 
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