Summer STC Internship

Earlier this summer I participated in the Story Theatre Company production of Willy Wonka Jr.
I was one of 2 set builders on the show. Our process was different than any other process I've ever been a part of. First of all, this was the only time I have ever built a show from scratch without a whole team working on it. Second, I got to work closely with the designer of the show, and he was also the other set builder (Andre). Since Andre and I have worked together in the past it was easy for us to get started. We had limited time to work on the project, and I was also taking 12 credits of summer classes, and working anywhere from 20-35 hours a week at work, so that constricted things a bit more. We had a lot of late nights trying to get things done. I learned a lot throughout the process about set building and scenic painting. I used what knowledge I had obtained over the past year in school towards this project, and I learned so much more throughout it. I also figured out that every shop is drastically different. Over the summer we were working with space and equipment that might not have been completely adequate to do the work that we were trying to do, so we had to learn to cope with that and make do with what we had. There was quite a bit of things we had to figure out how to make with what we had. It really made me miss working in Fisher. It was overall a really good learning experience in all aspects of set building.