FIFTEEN YEARS AGO this book began life as a “shop cookbook” that had lots of information about the techniques for building wooden scenery that I’d learned over decades of doing just that. At the same time I worked as an IATSE stagehand. Sometimes I did that on tour with Broadway musicals, and sometimes through IATSE Local 346 in Lexington, Kentucky. Working in commercial theatre was quite a learning experience. If you want to know how to build scenery that functions well in the backstage environment, it really helps to spend some time “under the blue lights” backstage, and even more time moving scenery in and out of trucks. I had a great time doing all of that, it was so much fun.
Since then I’ve spent my time designing ...
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