Techie Duties

22nd February 2025

Weathered

[Stage Manager]

A contemporary dance theatre production that examines the fragile and often volatile relationship humans have with each other, mirroring the broken connection we share with the natural world.

6th October 2024

Tshwane University of Technology 2024 Arts Festival

[Production Designer & Manager]

"Joyful Journey" Parade
Theme: The Art of Manufacturing Joy

5th September 2024

"The Dean's Concert" The Way of Jaya and Jabulile

[Assistant Stage Manager] On Book

29th July 2024

Redhill Arts Festival 2024 #Redfest24

[Festival Tech Swing]

Load-in
Sound and lighting set up
Constructed and painted stage flats and decks
Ran Tech rehearsals
Assisted with the running of shows
Strike and load out

30th June 2024

National Arts Festival 2024 #NAF24

[Festival Technician]

- Decorated the Box office and other spaces with Banting and Fairy lights
- Rigged lights in festival venues
- Set-up sound equipment in festival venues
- Managed the tech crew
- Ran Tech rehearsals
- Ran over *7 shows a day
- operated Allen & Heath sound desk
- Operated Grandma dot2 on PC lighting desk
- Striked Festival venues

30th September 2023

Tshwane University Technology 2023 Arts Festival

[Stage Manager] Dance venue

- Facilitated Tech Move-in.
- Retaped dance mate
- Painted and set-up flats
- Ran rehearsals and festival performances.
- Ran 15 shows for 3 straight days
- Facilitated strike

1st June 2023

"ASKARI" TUT Department of Performing Arts Production

[Stage Manager] On Book

ASKARI is an Action-packed political thriller that opened TUT’s theatrical season of 2023. The Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design opened its theatrical season at the Breytenbach Theatre with the action-packed political thriller ASKARI on 25 May (Africa Day). TUT is the first university in Africa to stage the play.
The multiple Naledi Theatre Award-nominated and winning play, which premiered in 2021, tells the story of freedom fighters who were double agents, informers, intelligence analysts and deadly assassins for the Vlakplaas counterinsurgency unit that specialised in executing and torturing anti-apartheid activists.

30th September 2022

Tshwane University of Technology 2022 Arts Festival

[Assistant Stage Manager| Festival Stage builder & Carpenter]

- Assisted in the running of over 20 shows on the Mainstage (800+ capacity) in a
space of 4 days.

Responsibilities included facilitating tech move - in and strike, cleaning the stage, helping run all the shows as per schedule, delegating roles to crew, documenting day to day actives, spiking the stage, etc.

1st August 2023

Redhill Arts Festival #RedFest2023

[Festival Tech Swing]

- Move-in with Sound & Lighting equipment
- Set-up sound and lights
- Constructed book flats x6
- Painted the stage
- Ran shows in five different venues
- Strike festival venues

2nd July 2023

National Arts Festival 2023 #NAF2023

[Festival Technician]

- hung draping in festival venues
- decorated the box office with banting and fairy lights
- Rigged lights in festival venues
- Set-up sound equipment in festival venues
- Managed the tech crew
- Ran Tech rehearsals
- Ran over *7 shows a day
- Operated Grandma dot2 on PC lighting desk
- Striked Festival venues

25th January 2023

The Great YES, The Great NO | WILLlAM KENTRIDGE Studios

[Stage Technician]
|student industry placement|

- honoured and privileged to have been part of such great professionals whom a lot from in terms of approaching performance

Photo by Joseph Phillips on Pexels

5th November 2022

"2022 Dance Season" Tshwane University of Technology Department of Performing Arts Production

[Stage Technician]
- Flyman and stage crew

20th February 2022

"Mozart Die Zauberflöte" Tshwane University of Technology Department of Performing Arts Opera Production

[Stage Technician]