Here is the abridged documentation of my body of work spanning the years 1973 to 2018. While my primary career is Stagecraft, the broader category for what I do is Information Presentation. Besides the internet, my works have been found on stages, in books, on television, in film soundtracks, on multi-media disks, in storefronts, on sidewalks, in museums, in libraries, in memories and in the radio waves leaving the earth, thanks largely if not primarily to all those many collaborators found along the way and the simple fact that there was was an audience for intimate theater to motivate us. To absent friends. For absent audiences.
It's a decidedly collaborative field in all its many forms making it possible to enter the field from one direction, become acquainted with the mediums and methods of other collaborators and, almost incidentally, become intimate with and productive wielding an evolving set of new tools and practices bringing, besides their own reward, insight into the profession one started with.
1987 "Actual Sho" @ Teatr Polski in Wroclaw waiting for the trucks to enter Soviet occupied Poland
My life as a list of lists
Stills from a life in motion
Since 1973, for the stage, I have been, at various times:
Sound Designer
Video Designer
Set Designer
Visual Effects Designer
Composer
Musician
Writer
Puppeteer
Stage Manager
House Manager
Box Office Manager
Producer
Sound Engineer
Sound Operator
Lighting Operator
Electrician
Fabricator
Dancer
Actor
Grip
Usher
Audience
Since 1974, my musical experiences have included:
Composing for theater
Composing for live bands
Composing for an animated band
Mixing for international theater
Live audio engineering
Studio recording engineering
Playing guitars, etc.
Playing keyboards
Playing winds
Singing
Manipulating tape
Mixing live music recordings for radio
Since 1988, my work for museums includes:
Engineering a pioneering use of video phone social media at SF MOMA
Operating a multi-purpose theater inside the Exploratorium for seven years
Staging dozens of science lecture/demonstrations
Staging dozens of artist lecture/demonstrations
Projecting hundreds of film programs
Since 1991, my work in animation has included:
Pioneering 4D stereoscopy
Producing a virtual band
Character design
Character fabricating
Set design
Set building
Hand drawn animating
Stop motion animating
CG animating
Avatar animation for MMO-RPG
Since 1994, my work on the internet has included:
Pioneering music delivery and multimedia content via the web
Creating the first stereoscopic website
Designing websites for various artists
Designing websites for theater companies
Designing websites for a television program
Designing and maintaining websites for a financial institution
Designing and maintaining websites for small businesses
Since 1994, my graphic arts work has included:
Designing and producing the branding and merchandising of a band
Designing and producing the branding and merchandising of a theater
Designing and producing the branding and merchandising of a digital media company
Designing and producing the art for various CDs
Since 1995, digital multimedia I have authored includes:
a multi-media floppy disk to commemorate the UN 50th anniversary
an Enhanced CD/CD+ (Blue Book) product for an interdisciplinary artist
Since 2013 I've been homeless and still managed to:
Publish two career building web sites
Design a CD cover for a Jazz vocalist
Launch a crowd funding campaign
Develop and promote my small business
Receive treatment for my injuries and infirmities
Produce 15 crocheted afghans
photo by robstrange
* "Renaissance Man" and (less commonly) Homo Universalis are related terms to describe a person who is well educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. "Jack-of-all-trades" has become a cliché and often used as an insult in its current form, which is only half of the quote. The full quote, "Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one", is actually a compliment to someone who can adapt to most situations.
1987 then a little dance for our friends in the Orange Alternative