Entering Entertainment: Charting Your Course Into The Industry
Theater design & technology, themed entertainment, and event production are both personally and professionally fulfilling career paths but there is no single roadmap for how to enter the business or which direction to travel once you’ve started. Theater education, internships, engineering, and gigging can all be launchpads toward a lifelong adventure in the arts and entertainment business.
Join https://www.ControlBooth.com for a discussion on the trajectory an entertainment industry career can set you on and the many pathways for charting your course through it.
Special thanks to Ethan Gilson for moderating and sponsoring the session. Please check out his podcast about Rigging in the Entertainment Industry, Shackles, Burlap & Lies. http://entertainmentriggingservices.c...
Thanks to everyone below for participating. Also thanks to the entire ControlBooth community. These sessions were the result of 3-4 months of discussions with others in the community. Probably more than 30+ people contributed to this directly and many more indirectly.
David Silvernail, ControlBooth, Founder
Ethan Gilson, Entertainment Rigging Services, Owner
Michael Trudeau, Northwestern University, Lighting & Sound Technician
Alesha Ellenor Hollatz, Universal Creative, Associate Project Manager - Beijing
Mike Nicolai, TLC Engineering Solutions, Venues & Acoustics Consultant