LYSSIA ROUSSEL GIROUX
Show Production Experience
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"Kinetix" 2016
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Assumed full responsibilities as Stage Manager, including coordinating all technical elements for the show; conducting two weeks of rehearsals with artists and staff; managing live show runs on an outside stage 5 days/week for three months; coordinating the strike of all show elements; while adapting execution at a moment’s notice to the vagaries of the Florida wet season.
"Kinetix" 2015
Busch Gardens Tampa
Assumed full responsibilities as Stage Manager, including install; coordinating all technical elements for the show; conducting two weeks of rehearsals with artists and staff; managing live show runs on an outside stage 5 days/week for three months; coordinating the strike of all show elements; while adapting execution at a moment’s notice to the vagaries of the Florida wet season.
"Into the Woods"
A J.W Mitchell High School Production where I had the opportunity to be a part of the entire show. You'll see in the video a fast forward version of the load in, then myself cueing the show as actors are learning their positions.
Please note there is no sound with this video.
Worked as Stage Manager, Assistant Lighting Designer, and Assistant to Audio Tech. High School Drama Production. The teacher arrived at the Center having no idea how to go about decorating the stage. All she had were some chairs and tables. She also had no audio accompaniment.
We took an old Cyclorama and cut it into 6 pieces and hung them on 4 different pipes to create a 3D effect and add more depth to what would have otherwise been an empty stage. The pieces were each ruffled, tied and gaffed to the pipes to ensure no movement. Part of the bases were left on the stage and gaffed down. We re-constructed two 4x8 platforms from a previous production and hung two cloth columns with bases to be used as the expensive estate where Ms. Havisham lives.
Each piece of cloth had a gobo projected either from the back or front to give the audience a visual of what building (or outside) the actors were standing in the play. One window for the British apartment, another for the cottage. A construction-type gobo to signify the blacksmith's workshop, and a tree gobo to signify the cemetery.
Two Altmans with construction gobos made the look on the cloth piece. Unfortunately, the kids were terrible at staying in their designated light.
When Ms. Havisham's house burns down, the flames begin upstage center and gradually fill the entire stage. We had flame gobos to S4 instruments and added gobo rotators with a water waves gobo inside to simulate the flames being alive.
Here you can see the actress in her wedding dress sitting in what would be a black velvet carriage, however things were designed differently so that she was instead sitting on a balcony looking down at everyone.
Worked as Stage Manager. High School Drama Production. This was a giant mess for many reasons. The teacher was not prepared, the students were disrespectful and rambunctious, the band was missing for a couple essential rehearsals, the set proved to be more than anticipated, and audio was constantly switched around. But like all productions by this school, everything came together at the end and we had two wonderful evening shows.
View from the pit band, which consisted of 4 guys: 2 pianist, 1 drummer, and 1 guitar. In this picture you can see one of the two screens we used to project the settings that were associated with the scenes but the general look was a high school gymnasium with the electrics on low spike and trusses C-clamped to two pipes
Worked as Assistant Stage Manager. Another high school drama production where the teacher had no idea how to go about decorating the stage. With the guidance of our Director, doors were built on stilts, a platform with stairs, and cloth columns.
Here is a better view of the doors, platform, and cloth columns.
The entire stage was the living room of a mansion, therefore the lighting was quite basic with slight changes to emphasizes the crises in the play.
Worked as rail operator for evening show. High School Drama Production. 6 drops, two platforms w/stairs, and lots of set props. The costuming was vast and everywhere, as the next few pictures will show.
Awesome costume with the legs at the waist so when the actor was on his knees, it gave the impression he was actually super short.
Actor with a good portion of his costume on. Waiting for makeup now
The back of Shrek's house in his swamp
The Stairwell coming from the stage and going up to the dressing rooms. So many costume changes that it had to be easily accessible for actors to get in and out
The brilliant creation of the dragon controlled by 4 girls. Several times during rehearsal and showtime, the body would unattached itself from the head and have to keep really close together to simulate the dragon wasn't headless.
Makeup hallway. This show had a tremendous amount of costumes to keep track of.
Pinocchio was too cute!
Worked as Assistant Stage Manager. Middle School Production. This is the look for the beginning and end of the show. Supposed to be New York
Classroom scene. It was by sheer luck that I somehow succeeded in making both brick gobos align with each other to show a corner of the room.
When the actor was singing about his crush, we had her dancing on a table, and we also projected a video of her flipping her hair to add emphasis on her 'beauty'
Here is where we controlled the A/V with a mac plugged into a matrix which fed to the long throw projector in the house. It can get to be a madhouse of wires sometimes
Worked as Stage Manager. High School Production. The setting is in a gymnasium, therefore we lowered the electrics and left the back wall as is.
This is the ending of the play. They are standing on our extension stage we built to add more space on stage where the actors can come far closer to the audience than before having to stop at the stairs.
There is a part in the play where 'god' speaks to one of the characters. We used a long throw projector to project the actor live. This was all done backstage live.
Here is the set up for the 'god' moment backstage. We had a makeshift backdrop, a speaker, a mic on the actor, a few lights and a video camera. All this was done live and tested several times before the show to make sure the signal from the camera to the projector was still working right.
Worked as Stage Manager. A local High School Thespian Group asked our help in building a set for the short play that would work as functional props that are light weight, safe, and allow high school students to tour with it. With the design of the Director, all of the props you see were made within 4 days. The paintings were printed on large canvases and glued onto the boxes. Each box had openings on both sides for easy in and out.
Box was designed so actress lays hair onto the painting and during her solo can walk out the right side to exit the painting
Her big solo about feminism
Design of box was made in order to have actor open and close the face of the portrait with ease and be viewed by the audience
Design of box was made in order to have actress open and close the face of the portrait with ease and be viewed by the audience
The three paintings in the background are the three portrait paintings turned 360 degrees to reveal another larger painting that comes together almost perfectly
Worked as Stage Manager High School Production. A modern version of Shakespeare's play Caesar. Made the setting look like a business office.
We used the stage left side stage to seperate locations of scenes. Another construction addition to the center are side stages on each side to expand the space of the stage.
Worked as Stage Manager. Middle School Production. That is the main backdrop of the play, which was always down.
The center of the drop was open for actors to come in and out of the house. We lowered the cyc there so the audience did not see the back wall. We added trees and bushes to emphasize the garden area and had two tubes hiding in between the trees where we funneled large amounts of fog.
Worked as Stage Manager for evening shows. High School Production. This was a black box theatre production. We completely ignored the 900 seats and set everything up onstage. The guests would come in and walk up the stairs to the stage and sit among the set.
The audience was very up close during this whole performance.
Here is an offstage view the black box stage. Above was where the lighting designer and audio engineer set up camp to be closer to the action. There were no mics obviously but lots of music.
This entire set up was very unique and never done before so it came with a few challenges.
We had to redo almost our entire lighting plot to properly lit the stage for the black box.