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Gordon Nimmo-Smith - Theatrical CV
A. Malvern (Worcestershire) and Leeds, UK
M. 07764 756270
E. soundguy@gmx.net or chm3gmn@leeds.ac.uk
DOB. 18th May 1983
Educational Qualifications
10 GCSE's, all at grade A or A*
A Levels in Chemistry (A) Physics (A) Maths (B) Music Technology (B)
Higher Education - 1st year MChem (Chemistry) student at the University of Leeds.
Other Qualifications
Full UK Driving Licence.
St John's Ambulance Basic Lifesaving Certificate.
Skill's
Experienced as a lighting and sound designer in both student and professional theatre.
Competent with all commonplace sound equipment, including:
- Mixing desks by Allen & Heath, Soundcraft, Mackie
- Outboard kit such as compressors, EQ's, delays and effects.
- Radio microphone use, particularly in musicals.
Experience of lighting design and operation, equipment including:
- All commonplace theatrical luminaires.
- Programming lighting desks, ARRI Impulse, ETC Expression, Zero88 Sirius, Fat Frog and Illusion, Avolites Azure, Pearl and Sapphire.
- Moving fixtures for both live and theatrical (programmed) use, Mac250, 500, 600, Roboscan 812, 918, VL5B
A good knowledge of mains electricity and building up power distribution systems as well as safe rigging practice, in both indoor and outdoor situations.
Experience of both hemp and counterweighted flying.
Fluent at reading music, experience of Deputy Stage Managing musicals and opera.
Employment
Jan 2003 - July 2003
Research Technician for a scientific research company, working on own projects and providing laboratory support to senior scientists.
Casual Theatre Work
Worked as casual staff for -
Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford (Lighting, Sound, Stage)
Oxford Playhouse (Electrics, Sound, Followspot)
Malvern Festival Theatre (Electrics, Followspot)
Experience
Mainly in student theatre within the University of Oxford, particularly of note is serving on the technical crew for the NSDF (National Student Drama Festival). This involved construction of several venues from scratch and then providing technical support to 15 different productions over the course of a week. The post of technical manager of the Moser Theatre, a 114 seat studio theatre, involved being responsible for maintenance of equipment, assisting shows with their get-ins and fulfilling fire and Health & Safety obligations.
Role |
Title |
Author |
Venue |
Date |
Sound/Lighting op |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Shakespeare |
Oxford Playhouse |
Oct 01 |
Sound Op |
Amadeus |
Peter Schaffer |
Old Fire Station Theatre |
Oct 01 |
Production Manager |
Salome |
Oscar Wilde |
Old Fire Station Theatre |
Oct 01 |
Sound Operator |
Caberet |
Kander & Ebb |
Oxford Playhouse |
Nov 01 |
Sound Designer |
Medea |
Euripides |
Oxford Playhouse |
Feb 02 |
Sound Designer/Flyman |
Spring Awakening |
Franz Wedekind |
Oxford Playhouse |
Mar 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Speed the Plow |
|
BT |
Mar 02 |
Lighting Designer |
The Lesson |
|
BT |
Mar 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Muswell Hill |
Tom Green |
Moser/NSDF in Scarborough |
Apr 02 |
Technical Crew |
National Student Drama Festival |
|
Scarborough |
Apr 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Entertaining Mr Sloane |
Joe Orton |
Old Fire Station Theatre |
May 02 |
Theatre Manager |
|
|
Moser Theatre |
Apr 02 - Dec 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Kafka's Dick |
Alan Bennet |
Moser |
May 02 |
Assistant Production Manager, Flyman |
Peer Gynt |
Ibsen |
Oxford Playhouse |
May 02 |
Lighting Designer |
The Way of the World |
William Congreve |
Moser Theatre, Wadham College |
May 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Panic |
|
BT |
May 02 |
Production Manager, Lighting |
norway.today |
Igor Bauersima |
Edinburgh Fringe, C Cubed |
Aug 02 |
Sound Operator |
Chess |
Tim Rice/Benny Andersen |
Edinburgh Fringe, Southside |
Aug 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Cloud Nine |
Carol Churchill |
Old Fire Station Theatre |
Oct 02 |
DSM |
West Side Story |
Bernstein |
Oxford Playhouse |
Oct 02 |
Production Manager |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilde adpt. P. Harness |
Oxford Playhouse |
Nov 02 |
Lighting Designer |
Shopping and F**king |
Mark Ravenhill |
Old Fire Station Theatre |
Nov 02 |
Lighting Design, Moving Light Programmer |
Medsoc Panto |
Some random medic... |
Moser |
Nov 02 |
Followspot Operator |
Candide |
Bernstein |
Playhouse |
Nov 02 |
Rigging Monkey |
There Was An Old Woman |
|
Old Fire Station Theatre |
Xmas 02 |
Rigging Monkey |
Hedda Gabler |
Ibsen |
Oxford Playhouse |
Feb 03 |
DSM |
La Boheme |
Puccini |
Oxford Playhouse |
Mar 03 |
Followspot Operator |
Fiddler on the Roof |
Bock, Harnick & Stein |
Malvern Festival Theatre |
Mar 03 |
Lighting Designer |
Brasenose College Ball |
|
Brasenose College |
May 03 |
Sound Consultant |
Sunday In The Park With George |
Sondheim |
O'Reilly Theatre, Keble |
May 03 |
Sound Designer, Power Distribution |
My Fair Lady |
Lerner & Loewe |
Madgalen College President's Gardens |
May 03 |
Sound Designer |
Oxford Revue vs. Not The Oxford Revue |
Various |
Oxford Playhouse |
May 03 |
Electrics Rigging |
Agamemnon |
Aeschylus |
Bradfield College Greek Theatre |
June 03 |
Lighting/Sound Designer |
Kept |
Billy Russel |
Edinburgh Fringe, C Too |
Aug 03 |
FOH Sound Engineer |
Zimbabwe Ruins |
Mann Friday |
Edinburgh Fringe, C Central |
Aug 03 |