C.D. Kollai's Theatrical Resume Page

Craig D. Kollai's Theatrical Resume


Show credits:

{Reverse Chronologically}

  • 42) 70 Girls, 70 Lighting designer, Sound Designer, Master Electrician Aurora Community Theatre Aurora, OH April 28 - May 20, 2006
  • 41) Smoke on the Mountain Sound Designer, Master Electrician Lord of Life Lutheran Church Aurora, OH April 21 - April 23, 2006
  • 40) Tribute Lighting designer, Sound Designer, Master Electrician Aurora Community Theatre Aurora, OH January 27 - February 18, 2006
  • 39) Nunsense Lighting designer, Master Electrician Aurora Community Theatre Aurora, OH April 29 - May 21, 2005
  • 38) Little Shop of Horrors Lighting designer Geauga Theater Chardon, OH October 2004
  • 37) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Timmons Elementary School (for Valley Presbyterian Church) Bainbridge, OH July 2004
  • 36) The Wizard of Oz Lighting designer Geauga Theater Chardon, OH March 19 - April 4, 2004
  • 35) Trees of Hope Lighting designer Geauga Theater Chardon, OH January 2004
  • 34) Oliver! Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Timmons Elementary School (for Valley Presbyterian Church) Bainbridge, OH July 2003
  • 33) The Music Man Lighting designer Geauga Theater Chardon, OH March/April 2003
  • 32) All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting, Sound & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Lord of Life Lutheran Church Bainbridge, OH November 2002
  • 31) Fiddler on the Roof Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Timmons Elementary School (for Valley Presbyterian Church) Bainbridge, OH July 2002
  • 30) Oliver! Lighting designer Geauga Theater Chardon, OH June 2002
  • 29) Children of Eden Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Timmons Elementary School (for Valley Presbyterian Church) Bainbridge, OH July 2001
  • 28) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Inital Lighting designer & Master Electrician work Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH June 9 to July 2, 2000
  • 27) The Crucible Lighting designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH October 6 to 21st, 2000
  • 26) Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Lighting designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH August 4 to 27th, 2000
  • 25) Godspell Lighting designer, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Timmons Elementary School (for Valley Presbyterian Church) Bainbridge, OH July 2000
  • 24) The Wizard of Oz Lighting designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH June 9 to July 2, 2000
  • 23) Jesus Christ Superstar Lighting designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH March 24 to April 22, 2000
  • 22) Little Shop of Horrors Lighting designer, Sound Tech., Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH February 11 to March 5, 2000
  • 21) The 1999 Lake Awards Lighting designer, Sound Co-Designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH January 8, 2000
  • 20) Meet Me in St. Louis Lighting co-designer, Master Electrician, and Light board opperator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH November 19 to December 12, 1999
  • 19) The Miracle Worker Assitant Lighting designer, Master Electrician Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH October, 1999
  • 18) Grease Lighting Designer, Assistant Sound Technician, Master Electrician, and Light board operator Lake Performing Arts Center Willowick, OH August 6 to 29, 1999
  • 17) Jesus Christ Superstar Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Valley Presbyterian Church Bainbridge, OH July 1999
  • 16) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Lighting designer, Light board Operator, Lighting & Effects Cue Management, Master Electrician Valley Presbyterian Church Bainbridge, OH July 1998
  • 15) Jesus Christ Superstar Sound designer and operator Valley Presbyterian Church Bainbridge, OH July 1996
  • 14) El Pastor Fido Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, and light board operator CWRU’s Music Department Cleveland, OH May 1996
  • 13) The Changeling Lighting board operator CWRU's Eldred Theater Cleveland, OH February 1996
  • 12) Annie Warbucks Lighting panel operator Greenbrier Theater Parma Hts., OH November 1995
  • 11) Red, Hot, & Cole Light panel operator Greenbrier Theater Parma Hts., OH September, 1995
  • 10) The Miss Parma Heights Pageant Sound operator Greenbrier Theater Parma Hts., OH July 1995
  • 9) The Secret Garden Light panel operator Greenbrier Theater Parma Hts., OH May 1995
  • 8) The House of Bernarda Alba Light board operator CWRU's Eldred Theater Cleveland, OH February 1995
  • 7) Childe Byron Light board operator CWRU's Eldred Theater Cleveland, OH October, 1994
  • 6) Don't Rock the Boat Stage Manager, Lighting designer & board operator, Sound designer Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1994
  • 5) Scott Kolecki's The Phantom of the Opera Stage Manager, Lighting designer, Sound designer Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1993
  • 4) Bye, Bye Birdie Stage Manager, Lighting designer, Sound designer Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1992
  • 3) Give My Regards to Broadway Light board operator Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1991
  • 2) The Wizard of OZ Light board operator Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1990
  • 1) You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Light board operator Brooklyn High School Brooklyn, OH March 1989

  • In addition to the shows listed above, I have also worked on:
    1 Brooklyn, OH community "water show"
    2 Brooklyn, OH community "ice shows"
    The "3 One-act plays" production at Brooklyn High School (Fall 1993)
    Handbell choir & Russian dancers (renting Brooklyn High School’s auditorium)
    Numerous assemblies, High School concerts (35+), and various meetings and presentations

    Awards

    1999 Lake Award for Lighting Design

    Equipment Expertese

    ENTTEC Open DMX USB "widget" and my custom Virtual Light Board (VLB) Software
    Interactive Technologies: Figment and Sidewinder Virtual DMX boards
    Strand Century: Mantrix, Mini-Palette & Mini Light Palette boards, CD-80 dimmer packs and racks
    ETC: Insight 2 board
    NSI: Dimmers (Installed and portable packs), several "NSI AMX" light boards and the DMX MLC16 model
    Colortran: StatusCue 12/24 board and others, and various wall mount mini-dimer racks and portable packs
    Clay Packy: Miniscan fixture
    Capital and Lycian followspots
    American DJ: Pocket Scan fixture, MIDI Pak
    Multiple brands of fog-fluid type foggers, mostly Martin and the Lematrie G300 (with a dry-ice chiller and another w/ LSG unit)
    Some DMX "Collor Scroller" experience
    MOST other "standard" non-intelligent lighting instruments (Fresnels, Elipsodials, striplights, and some interesting "jerry rigged" applications with things like bare lgihtbulbs and posterboard for "Operahouselike footlights" on a shoesting budget, and industrial type halogen floddlights for accent spots, etc.)

    Other special positions and notes

    I am currently an owner of and have been a beta tester for Interactive Technologies Figment and Sidewinder DMX control products.

    I am a member of the Sound Reinforcement Task Force at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Bainbridge, OH.

    I have done troubleshooting and training work as requested at the Geauga Theater in Chardon, OH on many occassions, generally for their lighting systems.

    For the end of 1999 and most of 2000, I was the "Resident Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, and Light Board Opperator" at Lake Performing Arts Center.

    I interned at the service department of Vincent Lighting Systems Summer 1996

    Brooklyn High School's (BHS) Stage, Sound and Lighting Crew (SSL) President, 3 years, 1991- 1994
    Rebuilt and repaired nearly all of BHS's stage equipment and rewired repaired lights and sound during my studies there

    Former "MultiMedia Director" as well as sound designer and operator, Christ Lutheran Church, 5555 SOM Center Road, Willoughby, OH (Began capacity unoffically in November, 1998; officially apointed September 7, 1999; stepped down June 2, 2000)

    Educational Background

    Previously attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) as an engineering student minoring in technical theater with a lighting focus.


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