The Technical Director's Toolkit

Introduction

Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?

Who

We two late thirty-somethings began this project two years before its publication, when we were comfortably well along in our career paths. With our graduate educations more than a decade in the past, we have fallen into patterns, behaviors, and processes that work very well for us. The places where we work and have worked produce high-quality shows, and we have produced high-quality scenery for them. We want to share our process with you and the rest of the profession that we love.

What

This book is about the philosophies we use and the way we create. Technical direction is a field diverse in practice and form. No one job is exactly like any other. To that end, these methods and processes ...