[SML] Yet another Door Opens

[Scott C. Parker]

Congrats Mike!
USITT? A pint on me...

Scott

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Mike Katz via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> Good Morning All,
> About 4 years ago I told the list about my separation from a long term
> employer who removed me and all of the technical staff with experience, for
> academic political  reasons. I was incredibly lucky to be invited to join
> the Performing arts department here at UMass Boston as the TD.  I have had a
> blast here and I am so grateful that I have been able to work in an
> affirming positive growing program for the last 4 years.
> Some of you might have noticed that the TD Position here at Umass Boston is
> being advertised for a spring search and a Fall start date. This is great
> news especially for me personally!  My incredible wife and I looked at our
> resources and decided that we will retire at the end of this academic year
> and pursue many of the interests and dreams we have had for years but could
> not do while working full time.
> So the TD position is open and I truly hope that we will find a great
> candidate to take over from me and to continue to forge new paths here at
> UMass Boston.  We are in the process of moving into a new flexible space
> theater with a tension wire grid, a seating/performance pit that will allow
> raked seating or flat or sunken stage or....  A brand new scene and costume
> shop, some dance and acting rehearsal space and much more. The Building and
> campus is on a peninsula that juts into Boston Harbor thaT we share with the
> Massachusetts State Archives Museum, the Edward Kennedy Institute for the US
> Senate, and the JFK Presidential Library.
> My colleagues here in Tech and Design are incredible. Anthony Phelps is the
> Scenic and Lighting designer. Many of you know him from USITT where he has
> been a Commissioner or Vice Commissioner in the Scenic  and Lighting
> Commissions, For many years he published the Painters Journal,he runs the
> paint project on the show floor and is also the USITTNE Chair. Our Costume
> Designer is Rafael Jaen, also well know in our world as the Chair of DTM for
> KCACTF and a long time member of the Costume Commission as well as a member
> Director at Large in USITT and the author of Showcase.
> I plan on staying in touch long into the future, I am continuing as a
> Director at Large in USITT and hope that I will be elected again in the next
> election cycle, I will remain on the USITTNE board, and I plan on attending
> the conferences and seeing you my old and new friends in person.
> I have loved my work and our field for close to 40 years, I might not be a
> religious man, but I know when I have been blessed.
>
> Here is a URL to the Job Description-
> https://umb.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=66715
>
> Michael Katz
> narishkup at gmail.com
> C: 857.383.0020
>
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Thanks,
Scott

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