Thomas McDonald
I am a 24 yr old male, who has just relocated to Wellington. I have a lot of experience in theatre production, mostly as a theatre mechanist, and as a LX/ SX operator. I have also worked as a stage manager, assistant Stage Manager, Lighting Technician, Tour Manager, and Production Assistant. I studied theatre Production at CSU, Bathurst (NSW Australia) as a Major Part of my BA Communications (Theatre/Media) 2002-2005.
I have worked as a Casual Mechanist/ Stage hand for Sydney Theatre Company, Company B, Belvoir Street theatre Company, and Glen Street Theatre Company, which are all Located in Sydney, Australia. I have also worked as a mechanist for Sydney Festival- Sydney's annual Arts Festival, as part of the "Flying Squad" both in 2006 and 2008.
I also worked as a Permanent Part-Time Performer for Luna Park (sydney) for twelve months (2006- 2007), stilt walking, clowning and street performing between 20-40 hrs a week.
I have spent the last two years training to be a circus performer, at CircoArts (Christschurch, NZ) and just finished a four month regional tour of Rural North Island with Circus Aotearoa (www.circusaotearoa.co.nz) performing Doubles Trapeze and Physical Comedy.
I like theatre that is dangerous, theatre that takes risks and tries to do something new...
Circus/ Physical Theatre Skills:
- Good understanding/ ability of acrobatics
- Good base for acrobatics and adagio
- Strong comedic and performance skills
- Professional Corde Lisse (Rope) Artist ( I have a 5 minute routine)
- Professional Doubles Trapeze artist, Base. (I also have a 10 minute comedic Act, with partner Mac Islas)
- Competent juggling ability
- I have a lot of experience in clowning, and roving performance
- I am a competent and well experienced stilt walker
Theatre Production Skills:
- I have Production Managed Events before, and I have a solid understanding of production management.
- Well experienced with bump in/ bump outs, as well as tech runs, dress runs, and performing stage cues during show runs
- Understand and am experienced with rigging and focusing lights
- Professional attitude in all areas of conduct
- Experienced Mechanist
- Experienced Stage Manager
- Basic understanding of Rigging Circus Equipment safely
1997-2002, The Armidale School, Armidale NSW Australia
2006, BA Communications (Theatre/Media) CSU Bathurst NSW Australia
2008, Diploma of Circus Arts, CPIT Christchurch NZ
Perfomance:
- 2006-2007, Permanent Part-time Performer (Stilt Walking/ Clowning/ street theatre) for Luna Park, Sydney Australia. 20-40 hrs a week.
- 2008, Circus Performer in Circo-Arts Productions, Swing and A Fairytale Circus, Christchurch New Zealand
- 2008, "Camilla the Gorilla's" understudy, What Now TV Show, Christchurch New Zealand
- 2008, Circus Performer for What Now TV Show, Christchurch New Zealand
- 2008, (January- May) Circus Performer (Doubles Trapeze, Acrobat, Clown), Circus Aotearoa New Zealand
Mechanist:
- 2008 ( January- April) Tent-hand, Circus
Aotearoa, New Zealand - 2007 ( January) Mechanist, Flying squad- Sydney Festival, Sydney
NSW - 2006 ( June- November) Casual Mechanist,
Company B, Sydney NSW - 2006 ( June- December) Casual Mechanist, Glenn
Street Theatre, French’s Forest (North Sydney) NSW - 2006 (January) Casual
Mechanist Intern, Sydney Theatre, Sydney NSW
Stage Management:
- 2008 (December) Stage Manager, The Palace (Circus
Venue/ Big Top)- Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford QLD - 2006 (March) Stage Manager/ Tour Manager,
The Moirai, Nil by Mouth Productions, Adelaide Fringe
Festival, SA - 2006 (February) Assistant Stage Manager, Short and Sweet (short play festival), New Theatre, Newtown
(Sydney) NSW
Lighting Technician
- 2009, (January- May) Lighting
Technician, Circus Aotearoa, New Zealand - 2008, (November) Lighting
Designer, “Swing” (Circus), CircoArts Production Christchurch, New Zealand - 2007, (June- July) Casual
Lighting and Sound Operator, The Loons- (Circus/
Theatre/ Cabaret Club)
Lyttelton, (Christchurch), New Zealand - 2007, (June) Lighting
Operator, Whiraniki Forest, (Physical Theatre)
CircoArts Production, Christchurch,
New Zealand - 2006, (May- November) Lighting Designer/ Technician, “Tunks Productions”- The Subtle
Art of Flirting, We’ll Always Have Wagga, & The Bridesmaid Must Die! (Theatre) New Theatre, Newtown (Sydney) NSW - 2006, (March) Lighting
Designer/ Operator, The Moirai (Theatre),
Adelaide Fringe Festival, SA - 2003-4, Lighting Designer and Operator for
student theatre productions, Where Do You Draw The Line?,
Summer of the Aliens, & Crazyface, CSU Bathurst, NSW
Sound Operation:
- 2006, (May- November) Sound Operator, Tunks
Productions- The Subtle art of Flirting, We’ll
always
have Wagga, & The Bridesmaid Must Die! New Theatre, Newtown (Sydney) NSW - 2006, (March) Sound Operator, The
Moirai, (Theatre) Adelaide Fringe Festival, SA - 2006, (February) Sound Operator, Short
and Sweet (short play festival), New Theatre, Newtown (Sydney)
NSW
In 2005 I wrote and directed a who-dunnit comedy called "Dick Edwards and the Case of the Colonel's Corpse" which was preformed as part of the "Sprung 05" festival at the Ponton Theatre, Bathurst.
In 2006, I was commissioned to create two latex commedia dell arte masks for Luna Park, Sydney
In 2008, I created and performed a Corde Lisse (Rope) routine, which was based around underwater movements. I also co-devised a comedy Doubles trapeze performance called "The Amazing Linguini Brothers" which I then toured rural north New Zealand with as part of "Circus Aotearoa"
I was one of the original performers for Circus Aotearoa, and toured for four months as a performer and tent hand in 2008. We also performed as part of the Rotorua Arts Festival and recieved good reviews and houses numbers!
1. Damian Gordon, Tent-boss/ Co-owner Circus Aotearoa, New Zealand. Mobile: +64274395545, home ph: +6478255185
2. Deb Pope. Mobile: +64211360883
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