stevencgerlach

I take on challenges that are often easy to define, but are not necessarily simple to achieve.

Panel 1

Silent Sky

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Jewel Theatre Company
Set and Media Design
Technical Director

$The Great Refractor$

The Great Refractor

Counting Stars

Set sail!

“The production looks terrific. Scenic and Media Designer Steven Gerlach uses projected images and multiple revolving scrims to great effect, whether suggesting snowfall or ocean waves, and especially when he bathes the stage in revolving star fields. The right side of the stage represents Henrietta’s roots, with its images of family life and Margaret’s piano; the left side is the observatory, decorated with charts and graphs, where the women at their adjoining desks share the excitement of their work, the enormous telescope ever looming in the background.”- Lisa Jensen of Good Times

The projection needs were accomplished with 4@6k and 1@8.5K projectors. All media was programed and distributed with Qlab3 and one Mac Pro Tower. A separate Mac mini provided audio playback and media server trigger.

Panel 2

Always… Patsy Cline

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Jewel Theatre Company
Set Design
Technical Director

Working with Shaun Carrol, the director, we wanted to provide a few subtle elements in the show. As with most of my design work, I want the characters and the costumes to drive the story while the scenery is the background. The flashest set element was the LEDs illuminating edge of the guitar stage and main signing platform. The rest consisted of found palates for a barn feel, minimal set dressing and soft goods.

patsy

Panel 3

Birth of Stars

University of California, Santa Cruz
Set and Media Design

The projections were provided by 2@6k and 1@9k projectors. Dataton Watchout was the media server running on three Windows machines.

Panel 4

More Images from the Past

UCSC Theatre and Dance- Media Design & Programming
UCSC-Santa Cruz Shakespeare- Carpenter

UCSC-Rent-Media

UCSC-Marques-Media

Actors perform in the Shakespeare Santa Cruz staging of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ in the festival’s trademark Stanley-Sinsheimer Festival Glen at UC Santa Cruz during a performance on August 10. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)

UCSC-Marques-Media

La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD Technical Director
Nautilus Entertainment Design-Assistant Audio Design
Virginia Commonwealth University-Technical Director
Williamstown Theatre Festival-Technical Director