Theatre
It is a Technical Director's job to make sure the technical equipment in the theater is functional, maintained and safe; the technical director is responsible for the overall organization of the technical production process. Duties included are generating necessary working drawings for construction (in conjunction with a drafts person, if there is one); budget estimations and maintaining of accounts; materials research and purchasing; scheduling and supervising build crews; coordinating put-ins; handling conflicts that arise between different departments; and organizing the strike and clean-up for that production.
Technical Director can also refer to the in-house chief designer/master carpenter for a smaller theater company.
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“Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
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—Mary Pickford (1893–1979)
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