John S. Musarra

Tech Guy

 
Special Skills: electrics, carpentry, rigging, sound, basic props, pyrotechnics, licensed driver, video production and editing, carrying heavy things without complaining, very good computer knowledge (win9x, Linux, Mac, HTML, hardware, networking), very good DMX knowledge, plays well with others.

Education: Belvidere High School class of 1996 (class president)
Warren County Community College, Non-Degree, 1994
Warren County School of the Arts, 1995-1996
Sapsis Rigging, Inc. counterweight rigging seminar, 1999

 

Selected Production Experience:
 

Position Production Company Year
Master Electrician
2002-2003 Season
Arden Theatre Company
2002
Lighting Designer
Premiere Performances
Pennsylvania Playhouse
2002
Assistant Master Electrician Dora LaMaMa ETC 2002
Electrician Dream Theater Tower Theatre / IA 8 2002
Electrician, Carpenter My Lord, What a Morning Arden Theatre Company 2002
Electrician Closer Arden Theatre Company 2002
Sound Engineer Little Me Northern Lehigh Little Theatre 2002
Lighting Designer
Rodgers and Hart: A Celebration
Pennsylvania Playhouse
2002
Assistant Lighting Designer / Master Electrician
Still Life: 2 American Portraits
QSB Productions
2002
Lighting Designer
It's A Wonderful Life
Pennsylvania Playhouse
2001
Sound Engineer
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Dark Horse Productions
2001
Lighting Designer
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Theatre Outlet
2001
Lighting Designer
Man of La Mancha
Pennsylvania Playhouse
2001
Lighting Designer
Camelot
St. Thomas More Summer Theatre
2001
Lighting Designer
Premiere Performances
Pennsylvania Playhouse
2001
Electrician
MoMA Groundbreaking press conference
Robert Isabell, Inc .
2001
Electrician
Mt. Sinai Crystal Ball
Robert Isabell, Inc.
2001
Carpenter
2001 American Tour Merce Cunningham Dance Company
2001
Lighting Designer
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum Northern Lehigh Little Theatre 2001
Carpenter The Baker's Wife
Arden Theatre Company 2001
Electrician Exit Wounds Arden Theatre Company 2001
Electrician Chinese National Dance Company
NJPAC / IA 21 2001
Lighting Designer Little Shop of Horrors Country Gate Players 2000
Carpenter Compleat Female Stage Beauty Philadelphia Theatre Company 2000
Electrician Republican National Convention First Union Center / IA 8 2000
Electrician Bob Dylan / Phil Lesh Waterloo Village / IA 632 2000
Electrician
Phantom - national tour tech rehearsal process Rowan University / Phoenix Productions
2000
Carpenter Nunsense Country Gate Players 2000
Followspot Op. The Moody Blues State Theatre / IA 200 2000
Asst. Tech. Director 1999-2000 season Bristol Riverside Theatre 99-00
Electrician The Secret Garden Plays in the Park 1999
Master Electrician Schoolhouse Rocks Pennsylvania Playhouse 1999
Master Rigger Brigadoon Bristol Riverside Theatre 1999
Electrician Lord of the Dance Stabler Arena / IA 200 1998
Electrician Grease Zoellner Center for the Arts 1998
Carpenter Rod Stewart Stabler Arena / IA 200 1998
Moving Light Programmer Tommy Plays in the Park 1998
Production Electrician She Loves Me Bristol Riverside Theatre 1998
Followspot Op. Jeff Foxworthy State Theatre 1997
Master Electrician 1997 summer season Berks Festival Theatre 1997
Master Electrician Love, Sex, and the IRS Pennsylvania Playhouse 1996
Electrician The Odd Couple State Theatre 1996
Sound Engineer The Sound of Music Country Gate Players 1993

 

 

Additional Experience:

Served on BMI Supply, Inc .’s local crew for installation of new 31 lineset counterweight fly system for the State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton, PA, Aug.-Sept., 1999.

Specified, purchased, and installed stage lighting package for White Township, NJ  Elementary school, 1997.

Stage manager for Riot Act, a NYC sketch comedy troupe, 1995-1996.

Overhire shop hand for Nelson Enterprises Theatrical Supply Company, 3/98 to present.

 

References:

Available upon request.

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