JEFF PELTZ

J E F F P E L T Z

T h e a t r e D e s i g n a n d T e c h n o l o g y

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design with Final Honors, May 2002

• Sam Houston State University: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design and Technology, 1986

INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE:

University of Central Missouri: Assistant Professor- THEA 1400- Script Analysis, THEA 1600- Stagecraft,

THEA 2400 Theatre in Western Civilization, THEA 2610- Design Fundamentals, THEA 3600-Scene Design,

THEA 3620-Lighting Design, THEA 3630- Studio Theatre I, THEA 4300- Professional Practice,

THEA 4600- Advanced Technical Theatre, THEA 4610- Advanced Lighting and Sound,

THEA 5900-Graduate Seminar: Stagecraft-Modern Methods, Digital Performing Arts Production Methods

Indiana University Northwest: Instructor-Theatre 390-Creative work in Summer Theatre (Lighting Sections)

Guest Lecturer- Introduction to Theatre, Stage Costuming II

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Instructor- Theatre 122-Theatre Practice: Lighting Technology

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College: Instructor- Theatre 111-Stagecraft, Guest lecturer in a variety of other courses

Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School: Instructor- Stage Lighting Techniques, Scene Painting

Tarrant County College: Instructor- Drama 1330-Stagecraft I, Drama 2331-Stagecraft II

Served as guest lecturer, presenter or instructor for various other educational workshops, professional and civic groups

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Assistant Professor- Theatre Design and Technology, 2004-Present

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO:

• Joined the Theatre faculty Fall of 2004, Teach a range of Design and Technical Theatre courses, supervise student

productions in the studio theatre series, advise and supervise professional practice projects. Serve as principal

Lighting Designer, Sound Designer and Occasional Scenic Design for department mainstage season.

Guest Artist/Designer, 2002-2004

Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN:

• Served the Theatre Department in a wide range of duties including Lighting Design, Scenic Design, Publicity

and Production Photography, Costume Crafts and Repair/Maintenance of house lighting, and sound systems.

Lighting Designer/Production Stage Manager, 2000-2006

Virginia School of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA:

• Design and coordinate all technical requirements of Concert performances for a pre-professional Dance

Conservatory program. Duties include generating shop orders for lighting and sound rentals, contracting local

labor, stage-managing all rehearsals and performances, supervision of load-in, hang, focus and strike.

Technical Director, Summer 2002

Summerfest-Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL:

• Provided Technical Direction for a professional summer theatre producing three shows in rolling repertory.

• Worked with professional staff and student interns to implement all production needs, generated shop drawings,

supervised construction, coordinated scheduling, tracked budgets, ran load-ins and technical rehearsals.

Graduate Teaching and Production Assistant, 2000-2002

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

• Taught Theatre Practice: Lighting Technology, part of the core curriculum for incoming undergraduate students in

the Theatre Department’s Division of Design, Technology and Management.

• Served frequently as Designer or Master Electrician for the U of I Resident Producers (Departments of Theatre,

Music and Dance) and for touring productions at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Continued

Lighting Designer, Summer 2001

Summerfest-Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL:

• Provided Lighting Design for a professional summer theatre producing three shows in rolling repertory.

• Led professional staff and student interns to execute all electrics department needs for the season.

Adjunct Instructor in Theatre/Technical Director & Director of Media Services, 1999-2000

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA:

• Taught two sections of Stagecraft, Acted as Technical Director for all Theatre Department productions and served as

primary Lighting Designer for the Department of Dance. Managed all use of the Thoresen and Lab Theatres by

touring companies, campus events, Theatre classes and workshops.

• “Media World” duties continued with the aid of staff assistant and work-study crew, see description following.

Designer/Technical Director, 1997

Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA:

• Joined the Theatre department of Lynchburg College as a one semester sabbatical replacement for their faculty

Designer/Technical Director. Designed and executed a major musical, dance concert and two studio productions.

• Introduced the design and technical theatre students to computer-aided design, large format scenic projection,

digital audio editing and other high tech approaches to theatrical design that were lacking in their curriculum.

Instructional Media Services Coordinator, 1996-1999

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA:

• Acted as an alternate Designer and Technical Director for the College’s Theatre, Dance and Music departments.

• Managed all campus media production services, utilized a student work-study crew to provide videography,

digital audio production, multimedia authoring, web based image libraries, photography, graphic design, and

other media related services to the college community.

• Served as Instructional Technologist working with many academic departments in developing on-line course

materials, self-assessment programs, study guides and multi-media presentations to supplement lectures.

• Developed and delivered several workshops and seminars on digital media, classroom technology and distance

learning to educators through the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a Culpepper Foundation classroom

technology initiative and a regional tri-college consortium (R-MWC, Lynchburg College, Sweet Briar College).

• Worked on the early development of Tek.Xam, an assessment examination and certification device that measures

computer-technology applications and problem-solving skills in students across the liberal arts curriculum.

• Served as a principal in the development of a major theatre renovation project, a campus wide facilities use plan

and classroom technology improvements covering one third of the existing classroom spaces.

Resident Designer/Technical Director-Performing Arts Division, 1995-1996

Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA:

• Designed and executed, with the aid of student interns and volunteers, scenery, lighting and sound for the

mainstage season at a multidisciplinary community fine arts center.

• Acting as house Technical Director, managed and realized all staging requirements for a rental schedule

that ranged from lectures to children's theatre touring groups to rock concerts.

• Provided technical support for other Center divisions/events, acted as technical consultant or freelance

designer/technician for other non-profit and educational groups in the region.

• Corrected many technical and safety deficiencies at the Center and worked with a capital improvement

committee to establish long-range retrofit, repair and maintenance plans.

Resident Scenic/Lighting Designer–Production Instructor, Summer 1994

Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School, Steamboat Springs, CO:

• Designed scenery, lighting and executed scenic painting for a seven show summer stock season.

• Shows included Children’s Theatre, American Musical Theatre, Dance concerts and eclectic Performance Art.

• Shared supervision and classroom instruction of college and high school interns with resident Technical Director.

Instructional Associate–Theatre Technical Manager, 1991-1994

Tarrant County College (Northeast Campus), Fort Worth, TX:

• Designed and executed scenery and lighting for six Drama department productions and one Dance

performance during each academic year.

• Team taught courses on Stagecraft and Design, supervised student crews and work study assistants.

• Provided technical management and consultation for outside groups using the Northeast Playhouse.

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Continued

• Implemented maintenance and safety procedures and repair work for performance and shop spaces.

• Acted as Technical Director and Production Manager for American College Theatre Festival sites and

Texas University Interscholastic League One Act Play competitions.

Technical Director, October 1993

Streets of Gold; Greystone Productions, Uniontown, PA:

• Jobbed in as on-site Technical Director to manage all technical elements of an original historical drama.

• Coordinated overhire of local crew, load-in and rigging of scenery, installation of rented lighting,

projection and effects equipment with the State Theatre technical staff.

Technical Director, Summer 1993

West Virginia Public Theatre, Morgantown, WV:

• Served as Technical Director for an Equity summer stock company using the facilities of West Virginia University.

• Oversaw seven member technical staff and instructed interns in all phases of work on scenery and props.

• Contracted and supervised overhire I.A.T.S.E. crews for load–ins, turnarounds and run crew.

Resident Designer/Technical Director, 1986-1991

Granbury Opera House, Granbury, TX:

• Designed and realized scenery and lighting for year-round Equity LOA stock company.

• Supervised work of technical staff and Summer college interns for an eleven-show season.

• Implemented maintenance and capital improvements for an 1886 vintage registered historic theatre

including an upgrade of the lighting system and expansion of shop and warehouse space.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• First Place Team “Stage Crew Showdown”—KC-ACTF Region V 2006

• Best Faculty Contribution “Stage Crew Showdown”—KC-ACTF Region V 2006

• Meritorious Achievement in Scenic Design, Some Assembly Required —KC-ACTF Region V 2005

• Meritorious Achievement in Scenic Design, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat —KC-ACTF Region V 2005

• Final Honors—University of Illinois Department of Theatre 2002

• Special Commendation for Festival Host Technical Direction—KC-ACTF Region VI 1992

• Certificate of Excellence for Technical Direction, Twelfth Night — KC-ACTF Region VI 1991

• Outstanding Achievement in Technical Theatre and Design—Sam Houston State University 1986

• Excellence in Lighting Design—Sam Houston State University 1984, 1985, 1986

• Excellence in Technical Production—Sam Houston State University 1983, 1984, 1985

• Theatre Department Scholarship—Sam Houston State University 1983-1986

DESIGN CREDITS: Production credits include both Scenic and Lighting design except as noted

2008 Leading Ladies (Lighting)

Shakespeare in Hollywood (Lighting)

Fat Pig (Lighting, Projections)

2007 Side By Side By Sondheim (Lighting)

Shadow Gets A Black Eye, A Karagoz Play (Projections)

Othello (Lighting)

The 1940’s Musical Comedy Murder Mysteries (Lighting)

The Miracle Worker (Lighting)

Recent Tragic Events (Lighting, Projections)

2006 Spinning Into Butter(Lighting)

A Tale of Two Heroes (Scenic)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Lighting)

Summer Dance Showcase (Lighting)

An Evening of Elegance ’06 (Lighting)

The Crucible

Anton In Show Business (Lighting)

Central Missouri Repertory Theatre

University of Central Missouri











Virginia School of the Arts




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DESIGN CREDITS: Continued

2005 The Nutcracker (Lighting Design, Scenic Coordinator)

Over the River

Macbeth

The Wizard of Oz

The Streets of Warrensburg

The Belle’s Stratagem

Shadowlands

2004 The Nutcracker (Lighting Design, Scenic Coordinator)

Some Assembly Required

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


Carmen

The Wind in the Willows

2003 Laundry and Bourbon

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

Holiday Celebration of Dance (Lighting)


Cole (Lighting)


2002 Holiday Celebration of Dance (Lighting)



The Threepenny Opera (Lighting)

Ain’t Gonna’ Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

The Piano Lesson

2001 Holiday Celebration of Dance (Lighting)

Cosi Fan Tutte (Lighting)

Sideman (Scenery)

Love Letters (Lighting)

Murder by the Book (Lighting)

Born Yesterday (Lighting)

Servant of Two Masters (Lighting)


Sunday in the Park with George (Projections)

Kwanzaa: A Celebration (Projections, Scenery)

Festival 2001 (Lighting)

2000 Summer Dance Showcase (Lighting)

An Evening of Elegance ’00 (Associate Lighting)

Arts on the Hill 2000 (Lighting)

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Graduation Recital (Lighting)

Spring Dance Concert (Lighting)

1999 Spring Dance Concert (Lighting, various pieces)

1998 Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down

Spring Dance Concert (Lighting, various pieces)

Sylvia (Lighting)

1997 The Love Talker (Scenery)

My Fair Lady

Fall Dance Concert

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Indiana University Northwest










University of Illinois Department of Theatre

Parkland College

Parkland College


University of Illinois Department of Music

University of Illinois Department of Theatre

Krannert Center Summerfest Benefit

Krannert Center Summerfest 2001




Parkland College

Parkland College

University of Illinois Department of Dance



Dance Theatre of Lynchburg

Virginia Holocaust Education Foundation and

Randolph Macon Woman’s College


Randolph-Macon Woman’s College


Heritage High School



Lynchburg College

Lynchburg College

Lynchburg College


1997 Arsenic and Old Lace

Spring Dance Concert (Lighting, various pieces)

Oleanna (Lighting)

It’s a Wonderful Life

1996 A Doll’s House (Scenery)

The Music Man

West Side Story

Swinging with the Big Bands

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (Ballet- Lighting)

The Lion in Winter

A Raisin in the Sun

1995 The Nutcracker (Lighting)

Holiday Concert

Foxfire

Kiss Me Kate

Annie Warbucks

Singin’ in the Rain

Songs in the Color of Fun

Cinderella (Ballet- Lighting)

Rumors

1994 Performance Workshop-Movie Musicals

Performance Workshop- Dance Concert

An Evening of Dance

Cabaret

Alteration Variations

The Conference of the Birds

Cinderella

North East Players Company-Disney Revue

Chicago

Steel Magnolias

1993 Northeast Players Company-Christmas Magic

Noises Off (Lighting)

Northeast Players Company-It Don’t Mean a Thing if it

Ain’t Got That Swing

Northeast Players Company-Top 40

Richard III

Gypsy

1992 Northeast Players Company-Country Music USA

Into the Woods

Lend Me a Tenor

Northeast Players Company-On Broadway

Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will?

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1991 Northeast Players Company-One Magic Night

Northeast Players Company-Blues, Boogie and Jazz

Twelfth Night

The Red Mill

Anything Goes

The All New Ziegfeld Follies of 1919

Right Bed Wrong Husband

Dames at Sea

The Drunkard


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Lynchburg Fine Arts Center
















Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School







Tarrant County College Northeast


















Granbury Opera House






1991 The Marriage Go Round

Those Magical Movie Musicals

1990 Nunsense

Reflections on a “Miss”-Spent Youth

Guys and Dolls

42 nd Street

1990 The All New Ziegfeld Follies of 1919

Natalie Needs a Nightie

Arsenic and Old Lace

See How They Run

1989 The Wayward Way

Mr. 80%

The Bat

Blues, Ballads and Sin Songs

The All New Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 (Premiere)

Chicago

Texas Meg

No Sex Please, We’re British

Everybody Loves Opal

Dirty Dealings on the Brazos

1988 Hood Winks

High Spirits

Good Little Girls (Premiere)

JoAnn and the MoonMaids Go C&W

Showboat

Music Man

Can Can

Just Married

Hats Off to Broadway

Accidental Dad

1987 The Vaudevillians

Personal Appearance

Cradle Snatchers

Down Memory Lane

Funny Girl

GeorgeM

(Lighting)

! (Lighting)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Lighting)

Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath

John Wilkes Booth: The Myth and The Mummy

Something’s Afoot

1986 Gold in the Hills

JoAnn and the MoonMaids-Big Band Bash

Opals Husband

Man of LaMancha (Lighting)

What the Butler Saw (Scenery)

Greater Tuna (Lighting)

Beyond Therapy (Lighting)

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Sam Houston State University


Texas Humor Productions



1985 Working (Scenery)

Baby with the Bathwater (Scenery)

ShowStoppers

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lighting)

Gemini (Lighting)

Patience (Lighting)

Beauty and the Beast/The Telephone

A Couple of White Chicks...

Greater Tuna (Lighting)

1984 South Pacific

The Man in the Moon

The Infernal Machine (Lighting)

Chicago (Lighting)

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1984 The Gondoliers (Lighting)

Lonestar/ Laundry and Bourbon (Lighting)

Deathtrap (Lighting)

Annie (Lighting)

Golliwhoppers (Lighting)

1984 The Maids (Lighting)

My Cup Ranneth Over (Lighting)



Walker County CPS Benefit at S.H.S.U.



Huntsville Choral Society

S.H.S.U. Opera Workshop



Huntsville Enrichment Activities Program




Huntsville Choral Society







UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE & DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES:



CAS Grievance Committee



CAS Faculty Advisory Council



University Advanced Computer Visualization Working Group



Faculty Senate Salary and Fringe Benefit Committee



CAS Awards Committee



(Chair) Faculty Senate Salary and Fringe Benefit Committee



(Chair) Theatre Department Faculty Search Committee



Faculty Senate – CAHHS representative for Fine and Performing Arts



Hendricks Hall renovation feasibility committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:



Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region V- Regional Coordinator: Stage Crew Showdown,

Respondent: Invited Production Load-in/Load-out



United States Institute for Theatre Technology



Association for Theatre in Higher Education



(Board of Governors) Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri



Missouri State High School Activities Association- Judge, District Speech Tournament

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Computer Technology (CAD, 3D Modeling, Digital Graphics, Digital Audio Editing, Digital Video Editing), Scenic

Artist, Scenic Engineering/Construction, Rigging, Welding, Electrician, Sound Design and Consultation,

Projected Scenic Effects, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Motion Control Systems, Camera Operator (16mm and Video),

Still Photography, Graphic Design, Cabinet Carpentry, and Persistent Inventiveness

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