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Drawing and Rendering for Theatre: A Practical Course for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Designers
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Drawing and Rendering for Theatre: A Practical Course for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Designers
by Clare P. Rowe

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As a theatrical designer, it is vital for you to be able to develop your drawing skills to create renderings that can effectively communicate your visual idea. Drawing and Rendering for Theatre starts with the fundamentals of drawing, moves to the types...
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Scenic Art for the Theatre 2ND Edition
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Scenic Art for the Theatre 2ND Edition
by Susan Crabtree

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This new full color edition is significantly up-dated to new interviews with "old masters" and successful "divas" of the industry, up-dated safety tips, and additional insights into the business of scenic design. Expanded to include a new chapter...
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The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre
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The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre
by Gretchen Davis

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This full-color and amply illustrated book is written for film, television, and theatre makeup artists who need to know the basics on how to accomplish flawless makeup applications. It begins with fundamental practices and continues through more complex...
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Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre
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Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre
by Rob Napoli

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Basic. This is the key word in Scenic Design and Lighting Tecniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, written by two seasoned professionals with over twenty years of experience. This book is designed to show you how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design,...
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Stage Manager: The Professional Experience
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Stage Manager: The Professional Experience
by Larry Fazio

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In every theatrical production, a single indispensable person is responsible for ensuring that scenery, lighting, actors, directors, sound artists are in sync. Stage Manager: the Professional Experience takes the reader through all aspects of the craft...
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Mechanical Design for the Stage
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Mechanical Design for the Stage
by Alan Hendrickson

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Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small...
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Practical Guide To Stage Lighting (99 Edition)
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Practical Guide To Stage Lighting (99 Edition)
by Steven Louis Shelly

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Combining theory and application, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting provides a comprehensive analysis of lighting systems along with step-by-step examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods. Readers will benefit from experience-based...
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Management and the Arts (3RD 03 Edition)
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Management and the Arts (3RD 03 Edition)
by William Byrnes

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Management and the Arts, Third Edition provides the prospective arts manager with theory and practical applications from all management perspectives (planning, marketing, finance, economics, organizational design, staffing, and group dynamics) as they...
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Developing and Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio: A Guide for Theatre, Film & TV
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Developing and Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio: A Guide for Theatre, Film & TV
by Rafael Jaen

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This book is a practical guide to aid in the process of creating, developing and presenting successful Theatre/TV/Film design/technology portfolios in the fields of scenery, costumes, lighting and sound. The book will consist of four sections or chapters....
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Sculpting Space in the Theater: Conversations with the Top Set, Light and Costume Designers
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Sculpting Space in the Theater: Conversations with the Top Set, Light and Costume Designers
by Babak Ebrahimian

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If you are working in theater involved in set creation, lighting or costume design this book will inspire you to reach the heights of the masters as you learn how they succeeded. To move a world from text to stage requires unique and considered design...
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Costume Craftwork on a Budget: Clothing, 3-D Makeup, Wigs, Millinery & Accessories
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Costume Craftwork on a Budget: Clothing, 3-D Makeup, Wigs, Millinery & Accessories
by Tan Huaixiang

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Part of your job as the costume designer is to be creative and use what materials are available to you to execute the design elements in a production. This book will show you how to use inexpensive materials to create durable products in a short amount...
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Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-By-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers
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Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-By-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers
by Tan Huaixiang

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This text presents drawing instruction with detailed break downs of various types of characters. Maternal? Elderly? Sassy? Sexy? It all starts with body proportion, bone structure, body masses, the facial expressions, the hands, and the feet. Hats, props,...
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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers (3RD 05 Edition)
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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers (3RD 05 Edition)
by James Thomas

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers applies directly to the experience of theatrical production; students will immediately be able to relate the concepts and procedures they learn to their artistic work. The author's procedural method is...
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Structural Design for the Stage
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Structural Design for the Stage
by Alys Holden

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This book provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design allowing an intuitive understanding of why sets "stand up". It introduces the basics of statics and the study of the strength of materials as they apply to typical scenery...
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection Volume 2
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection Volume 2
by Bronislaw J. Sammler

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The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical...
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Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, Broadcast, and Entertainment
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Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, Broadcast, and Entertainment
by Richard Cadena

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"Automated Lighting'"Technology, Applications, and Design" is a comprehensive text covering everything you will need to know as a working or aspiring lighting professional about automated lighting fixtures, systems, how they are used and design issues...
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection, Volume 1
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection, Volume 1
by Bronislaw J. (edt) Sammler

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The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical...
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What Is Theatre? : an Introduction and Exploration (97 Edition)
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What Is Theatre? : an Introduction and Exploration (97 Edition)
by John R. Brown

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This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer, responding more fully to performance, with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre...
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Designer Drafting for Entertainment World (00 Edition)
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Designer Drafting for Entertainment World (00 Edition)
by Patricia Woodbridge

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Designer Drafting for the Entertainment World provides essential information for designers, covering traditional hand drafting techniques as well as computer-based drawing programs. This new text begins with the basic tools and comprehensive coverage of...
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The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook
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The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook
by Brad Schiller

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The Automated Lighting Programmer’s Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the process of programming automated lighting fixtures. Each lighting event provides a unique set of creative and operational challenges, and this book explains how to...
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