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L.  Jean Burch

Educational Experience

University of Missouri – Kansas City                                                               

     MFA in Technical Direction                                                                                                            Anticipated Graduation May 2007

•  Technical coursework emphasized advanced technical skills (automation, advanced rigging, structural design for the stage)

• Management coursework through UMKC’s Bloch School of Business and Public Administration emphasized non-profit management   (leadership, fundraising, organizational behavior, team dynamics and general arts administration)

•  Focus on theatre history (20^th Century Continental, French, Russian, American, and History of Design and Technology)

• Technical Direction: The Circus Show, School for Husbands, Sganarelle, the Imaginary Cuckold , Marriage of Figaro, The Trial, Black Snow, Susannah, and The Pirates of Penzance

• 3.9 GPA, anticipated graduation May 2007

Mount Union College                                                                                                

       BA in Psychology/Sociology                                                                                                               Graduated 1997  

• Distinctions: General Honors, 3.36 GPA, Deans List

Teaching Experience

    AutoCAD (2006 & 2007)

• 3 semesters: Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (2 sessions)

• Presentations: (Rigging for Sound Practitioners, History of Rigging, AutoCAD for Stage Managers

Syracuse University Adjunct Faculty & Technical Director                                                              2001-2003

• Taught 3-credit undergraduate course: Drafting for Stage Managers (Hand Drafting)

• Taught lab segments of undergraduate technical production/stagecraft courses

•  Worked extensively with S.U. students concerning industry standards and expectations regarding the scene shop, including the editing of the departmental production manual in co-ordination with the production manager and developing and implementing a student design evaluation

•  Worked with the students and the professional production team to continually raise the bar in quality, techniques and product while maintaining our labor and budget goals 

• Productions included Caprice, Into the woods, Moon for the Misbegotten, Sweet Charity, Othello, Jerry’s Girls.

Selected Professional Experience

•  Assist in the strike and load in of shows.  Productions include Funny Girl and Fiddler on the Roof (AEA Dinner Theatre)

•  Collaborated on the budgeting, engineering, and build for the production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, KCAT's Inaugural production (SPT contract)

• Created company manual, emergency procedures, theatre policies, job descriptions and other management paperwork

• Created and instituted guidelines regarding production budgets, accounts, inventory control and purchasing

• Hired production staff for summer season (with a national base as opposed to the local base previously used)

•  Worked extensively with the budgets and the production team to maintain high quality while reducing costs

• Scheduled all departments, activities, and spaces for multiple productions, tours, events, workshops

• Budgeted, engineered, and supervised the build of a large festival staging system to be used for the next decade

• Created an awareness regarding safety regulations, first aid, OSHA requirements, and general workplace safety leading to a major renovation of the rigging systems of the theatre

• Productions included Pirates of Penzance, Die Fledermaus, The Threepenny Opera,  Guys and Dolls, and  H.M.S. Pinafore

• Collaborated with venue and local crew (non-union and IATSE) along with my staff to maintain quality control and enable each performance to reflect NTC standards

• Responsible for being the primary driver of the truck, as well as maintaining all truck logs, petty cash and venue logs

• Engineered, drafted, and supervised the build of scenic elements for each production

• Contributed to Stage (LORT C) productions with active problem solving, scheduling, and communication, budgeting, as well as research and purchasing

• Productions included Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Born Yesterday, Art, W;t

• Facilitated the production process for a 6 show rotating rep schedule

• Productions included The Gondoliers, Carousel, Orpheus in the Underworld, Yeoman of the Guard

• Built and installed scenic elements for a 5 show rotating rep. outdoor theatre

• Productions included Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Winters Tale

• Developed and built an organization system for the properties department of a new production facility procured during my tenure, including preparing the storage units and unpacking, organizing, and inventorying entire stock of large properties department in addition to normal season duties

• Designed scenery for multiple productions including Rumors, Death of a Salesman, Don’t Dress for Dinner

• Seasons were comprised of 7 shows in rotating rep, as well as touring productions

•  Productions included Dial M for Murder, Camping with Henry & Tom, Antigone, Matchmaker, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Built and installed scenic elements for the Humana festival and the remainder of the scheduled season

• Productions included God’s Man in Texas, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Y2K, Cabin Pressure, Life Under 30

• Procured properties for 5 major grand opera productions, as well as designed and built all scenery and props for a small workshop opera

• Productions included: Don Giovanni, Die Fledermaus, Elixir of Love, Turnadot, La Traviata, Albert Herring

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