Abel Coelho

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Technical Theatre Resume

Education

MFA in Asian Performance  from the University of Hawai'i

BA from Antoch College in Theatre/Dance

Theatre related employment

Tokyo, Japan

(Present employment)  Employed by Pacific Arts Center stage company as lighting designer, lighting technician, and lighting liaison to various theatres in the 

Tokyo region.  Based at the Saitama Kaikan, but working in 20+ theatres, including the National Theatre, Tokyo International Forum, 

C.C. Lemon Hall, and more.  I have designed the lighting for over 20 productions during my time at PAC and supervised the lighting for over 

150 different theatrical events.

Assistant Stage Manager and Assistant Interpreter, Askasaka ACT Theatre

Tokyo, Japan

Employed by Flowertop stage company as ASM and assistant interpreter to the South African

musical Umoja during their Japan tour.

Regular Season Lighting Designer, Kumu Kahua Theatre

Honolulu, HI

San Francisco, CA

Spring Season Lighting Designer, Turtle Shell Productions

New York, NY

Fully designed three shows for Turtle Shell: Shadowed Voices, Ourselves Alone, and De Donde.

New York, NY

ALD/ME to Graham Kindred for Picon Pie. Substituted for several weeks for Gregory Fletcher, AEA stage manager. 
Duties included supervising the ASM, calling the show, running the light board, keeping track of payroll and attendance, and making 
sure the stage was preset properly.

Xmas Decorator, Plant Fantasies

New York, NY

Seasonal job assembling and installing Xmas decorations in lobbies of Manhattan office buildings: wreaths, trees, garlands, etc.

Technical Director, Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse

Yellow Springs, OH

Technical director for the summer 2004 season: Summersglow and The Parrot. Set construction, prop design and construction, 
lighting design / master electrician, and more. Duties included teaching children the elements of prop design and stage lighting
and organizing tech crews with them. 

Production Intern, Pegasus Players Theatre

Chicago, IL

Intern work at Pegasus meant working in the business office of Pegasus Players, grant writing, letter mailing, payroll, scheduling auditions, etc.. It also included several lighting load ins, set construction on The Waverly Gallery and Sunday in the Park with George, theatre maintenance work, some rigging, and assistant stage manager/deck crew duties during shows. 

Theatre Lighting Specialist, Antioch College

Yellow Springs, OH

Design work, maintaining and repairing the lighting systems, and helping where needed on set construction and sound. Continuing job: fall ’00, spring ’01, fall 01, summer ’02, spring ‘03, fall ’03, spring ’04. Work on almost all shows in some form or another.  

Print Shop Worker, A União

João Pessoa, Brazil

Worked at the print shop (factory) of A União, a newspaper and publishing company in NE Brazil. As in a factory: assembled (and glued) books, magazines, brochures, newspapers, etc. Some work with print presses and typesetting as well.

Lighting Design - Theatre (selected)

Dance Lighting (Selected)

Assistant Lighting Designer / Master Electrician (Selected)

Technical Director

SKILLS

Lighting Design (film, theatre, and art exhibition)

Choreography

Technical Theatre Skills

Stage Management

Butoh Dance

Near fluency in Japanese

More than a passing familiarity with Japanese theatre forms

Vectorworks

Fluent with computers (mac, microsoft office,  etc.)

REFERENCES

Harry Wong

Executive/Artistic Director, Kumu Kahua Theatre

808-536-4441

Patrick Cunningham

Technical Director, Saint Mary's Hall Theatre

830-981-3671

Prof. Dennis Carroll

Department Chair of Theatre, Univeristy of Hawai'i

808-956-7677

Prof. Helen Richardson

Assistant Theatre Professor, Brooklyn College

347-831-3549

Theatre Related Classes Taken at the University of Hawai'i

Classical Japanese Dance (three years)

Okinawan Dance

Experimental Asian Directing

Experimental Asian Acting

History of Japanese Theatre

Butoh Seminar: Myth and Reality of a Contemporary Art Form

Southeast Asian Theatre Seminar: Trance, the Mask, and Ritual

Noh Acting Workshop

Noh Voice Workshop

Noh Instrument Workshop

Balinese Dance

Balinese Gamelan

Balinese Wayang Shadow Puppetry

Sound Art

Kyogen Acting Workshop

Kyogen Voice Workshop

Research Seminar for Graduate Students

CAD: Design with Vectorworks

Fiber Arts

Fiber Sculpture

Art Gallery Exhibition Design and Management

Theatre Related Classes Taken at Antioch College

Senior Seminar – design and direct a mainstage show

Film Production II

Film Production I

The Self that Moves, the Culture that Moves

Directing Seminar

Dance Improvisation

Introduction to Dance

Butoh Dance (at Kyoto Seika University)

Voice and Speech

Approaches to Acting

Rehearsal and Performance II

Electricity and Drafting

Electrics Maintenance

Intensive Community Performance

Ecological Sculpture

Lighting Design Independent Study

Elements of Design