Current Happenings -- Theatre

Currently I attend high school in Katy, TX, where I am highly active in our schools theatre company, working on and designing for shows such as Jekyll & Hyde, and The Crucible. I also am a PAC Assastant which involves working and desiging Choir and other shows, also running tech support for meetings and clients who rent out out school's Performing Arts Center.

Current Happenings -- Web Technology

I am currently designing and maintaing the website for the Katy Area Muggle Quidditch League. In addition to making the website, I'm programming a scoring system for the league along with a team of two other programmers. Finally, I'm also Intrum Comissioner of the league.

Background -- Beginnings

I became interested in Theater and more specifically stage lighting, when I was about 5, and my stepmother had to literally drag me to a summer theatre camp. I told her over and over that I was going to hate it, and that I didn't want to go. I'm really glad that she didn't listen. While on our tour of the theatre space we went up to the booth, and there I saw the light board and said to my self, "that's what I want to do with my life." The rest, as they say, is history.

From the time I was 5 until I was 11, 6 years, I went to this same camp, which was specifivally for acting, however, for the last two years I had gotten to know the camp director, and she let me to tech, with the last year being from conception to construction to running of the design.

Background -- Junior High

While in seventh and eighth grade I fully participated in my junior high's theatre company, earning well over 100 Junior Thespian points designing and working many theatrical shows and shows for the school's choir, band and orchestra. For many of these shows my eighth grade year, I designed, programmed, and ran complex light shows choreographed to the music, usually for choir, as they had recorded music that could be linked via MIDI to the light board to ensure exact timing on light cues.

In addition to working many shows for the choir, band, and orchestra I designed lighting and was light crew head for School House Rock Live, Jr., The Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater, and Aladdan Jr.; I was also ASM for The Emperor's New Clothes.

My final act in junior high was to be technical director for the end-of-the-year tallent show. For this I had many responsibilities, including assigning crew member jobs, scheduling rehearsals and performances (with approval of the director, my English teacher), chaos control of about 40 6th through 8th graders, and acting as Stage Manager for the three performances. I also programmed many light sequences for certain acts in the show.

Background -- Web Technology

I started out making websites when I was very young with the help of my dad. I've since learned HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, CGI/Perl, and some of SQL, and JavaScript. I've also built many websites and taken a class in Web Mastering in which I learned Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash.