{"id":762,"date":"2026-03-23T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:24:20","slug":"light-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Light Magician&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 960w, https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x368.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etcconnect.com\/Products\/Consoles\/\">https:\/\/www.etcconnect.com\/Products\/Consoles\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This spring I&#8217;m flying south&#8230;well, riding a train&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held in Valencia, Impro Narrativa&#8217;s festival begins March 26, and features workshops and multiple performances each night of their four day improv festival. I&#8217;ll be serving as their &#8220;Light Magician,&#8221; sitting in the sky with their lighting console and looking out over the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My experience in theatrical lighting began in high school where I was recruited by my friends who specialized in design but needed a gofer to sit behind the board and push buttons. From there I learned to use an ETC Element board (no, not one as fancy as the image above, try a model four or five decades earlier), hang lights, secure cables, and a basic understanding of live-busking. At my university, I went on to choose electrics as my area of technical-concentration and continued hands-on training along with the theory behind it all in a class officially called, &#8220;The Fundamentals of Technical Theatre Design&#8221; &#8211; fondly christened by students as &#8220;Fundies: where fun goes to die.&#8221;<br>But the class, and the manual labor, proved more than useful when I found myself trouble-shooting console control in a museum made theater in Germany. And I really pulled VectorWorks from the depths of my brain when I was commissioned to design and install an electrical grid in a budding theater space here in Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now work freelance gigs like this one as well as design and board operator jobs among my friends, colleagues, and hopefully many more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring I&#8217;m flying south&#8230;well, riding a train&#8230; Held in Valencia, Impro Narrativa&#8217;s festival begins March 26, and features workshops and multiple performances each night of their four day improv festival. I&#8217;ll be serving as their &#8220;Light Magician,&#8221; sitting in the sky with their lighting console and looking out over the grid. My experience in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/?p=762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Light Magician&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,22,23,21,6],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-improv","tag-lighting-design","tag-spain","tag-tech","tag-theatre","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brielle.jobeclan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}