<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Good note on the laptop. I might be able to look into that.<div><br></div><div>Part 2 is much more complicated. The biggest part is that this director, in particular, is difficult to wrangle and is always behind on reaching out to designers, so designers who are available on short notice are limited. I have made recommendations and timelines and have a list of designers in the area, the kitten refuses to be herded (slow year over year progress, though).</div><div><br></div><div>But our student population for shows is majority non-majors who say they are not interested in going into theater as a career. I think there is value in having designers who are not neck-deep, to show that there can be theater after college even if you don’t want to do it as a career. I also think that it is worthwhile to have folks who have pivoted away from theater who can talk about why they made that choice.</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 10, 2025, at 5:08 PM, Scott Parker via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Disclaimer: I currently work for VW. </div><div>I'm told VW can send an additional license to be installed on a school-owned computer. Would you be willing to lend the guest designer a school laptop?</div><div><br></div><div>Now for my personal non-VW comment... </div><div>Though I understand you likely like working with this particular designer who has moved away from theater, and you have a past relationship you'd like to maintain. <br>Why not find a designer who is neck-deep in the profession and give them the opportunity? Just my two cents.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<br>Scott<br>Cell 718-757-6661 <br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM John McAfee via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I’ve got a guest lighting designer this semester who has decided to branch out from theater and no longer has a Vectorworks license. How are other folks doing accommodating this? Renting a license for a few months on behalf of the designer?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
John<br>
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