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PAUL ST.JOHN-SHAW Production Services, Tour Management And Lighting Design Contact Details Address: Voice: Fax: SMS/MMS: E: 10, Goldbold Road, West Ham, LONDON, E15 3AL. 07071 200455 08701 696781 07850 832273 [email protected] Nationality – British N.I. No - YM107384A Schedule D Tax Ref. - 933D/50048 Qualifications 1963-1970, Alleyn's School, London Oxford & Cambridge Schools Examination Board G.C.E. O-levels: Elementary Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, French, English Language, Geometrical & Engineering Drawing, A-level General Paper. Use of English. G.C.E. A-levels: Physics, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics. Royal Academy of Music Grade II (with Honours) in Piano and Theory of Music. October 1969, Private Pilot's Licence gained through Royal Navy Scholarship. Service with Queen’s University Air Squadron, RAFVR, 1970-72. European JAA Night Qualification gained June 2004. US FAA Commercial Pilot’s Certificate, Multi-Engine Rating and Instrument Rating gained October 2004. JAA Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence Theoretical Knowledge exams passed 2004/05. JAA Multi Crew Co-operation course, Parc Aviaton Dublin, March 2005. JAA Seaplane Rating, Aeroclub di Como, April 2005. Member of British Airline Pilot’s Association, Aircraft Owners’ & Pilots’ Association, US Experimental Aircraft Association, Royal Aero Club, Royal Aeronautical Society. December 1969, City & Guilds of London Radio Amateurs Examination Part I, grade 1; Part II, grade 4. Holder of Class A Full Amateur Radio Licence, callsign M0PSS. Full, clean driving licence (with C1 & D1 entitlement) held since April 1970 own transport, insured for business use, and experience of the largest non-HGV vehicles. 1970-1974, The Queen's University of Belfast Initial studies for a BSc(Eng) in Aeronautical Engineering (subjects including Engineering Mathematics, Engineering Drawing & Design, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics, Materials Science); Transferred to Faculty of Arts (first year passes in Russian Studies, Social Anthropology and Philosophy) and admitted to the Joint Honours School of Politics and Philosophy; Course terminated due to lack of financial support. 1974-1977, The Queen's University of Belfast Part-time extra-mural studies leading to a Certificate in Social Welfare Studies Core studies in Social Policy & Administration and Psychology; Final year dissertation on 'The Juvenile Justice System in Northern Ireland'. Since 1976, The Open University, part-time undergraduate studies Foundation Courses in Social Science and Science (with Distinction); Second Level courses in Mathematics (Distinction), Computing, Inferential Statistics, Government, Social Statistics, Electronics, Geo-Economics, Physics, Systems Management, Alternative Technology & Design, Engineering Mechanics, Object-Based Computing; BA Degree Awarded 1980; Third Level courses in Systems Modelling, Shakespeare, Combinatorics, Cosmology, Computer-Aided Design; Entitled to BA(Hons) Degree - upper second - 1992 but re-registered for a BSc(Hons) in Technology BSc awarded 1997. Now registered for a Masters Degree in Engineering including Diplomas in Computing and Information Technology. Awarded Sidney Perry Engineering Studentship. Future courses in Design & Innovation, Music, Database Management, Manufacturing Technology. July 1981, Graduate Management Admission Test Passed in top 1% in both verbal and quantitative sections. 1981-1984, The Ulster Polytechnic Part-time postgraduate studies leading to a Diploma in Management Studies and membership of the British Institute of Management: Core studies in Finance & Accounting, Company Law, Human Resources Management, Manufacturing & Production, Sales & Marketing; Final year general management project on 'Efficiency vs. Effectiveness in the Northern Ireland Employment Service'. Various extra-mural courses at The Queen's University of Belfast and The New University of Ulster in subjects ranging from Astronomy to Sociology. Part-time vocational short courses in Plumbing, Welding, Electrical Installation (Southampton Technical College); Stage Rigging, Ropework, Hydraulics (Theatre Technical Training Services); Digital Sound Editing (MM Productions); Management of Health & Safety (RSC); Vari*Lite Series 300 Installation and Operation (Varilite Europe Ltd); Computerised Accounting (Pass Training/Levy Gee Accountants); Networked IT (Novell UK); Qualified First Aider (British Red Cross). Language skills in French and a little German. Full Member, Association of British Theatre Technicians, 1985; Full Member, British Actors' Equity Association, 1987; Professional Member, Association of Lighting Designers, 1987; Overseas Member, United States Institute for Theatre Technology, 1992. Full Member, Society of British Theatre Designers, 1997. Theatre skills in set design and construction (in wood, metal, fibreglass.....and less conventional materials such as sand and mud!); lighting and sound design, installation and operation; computer-aided design; stage, company, tour, technical & production management and allied administration together with teaching experience in these areas. Experience in photography, graphic design, print production, video editing and in building and vehicle maintenance. Work in Great Britain since 1987 March - June 1987, Stage Manager, Theatre of Black Women, for London run at The King's Head Theatre and national tour of The Cripple, written and directed by Ruth Harris from the book by Pauline Wiltshire. July - September 1987, Technical Director, Theatre ACT, at The Rifle Lodge (Venue 101), Edinburgh Fringe Festival: responsible for the design, construction, licensing and operation of a temporary 120-seat venue converted from a Masonic Lodge. Theatre ACT productions included Canadian Gothic by David Glass and Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, both directed by Riel Karmy-Jones and The Fall of Kelvin Walker from the novel by Alastair Grey and Wonderwoman And Superkid Battle To Save The Universe From The Biggest Baddest Baddies Ever (Part XVII) devised by the company and directed by John Davies. Visiting productions included Cambridge Experimental Theatre's King Lear; Teatro El Salvador's Guanaco; The Hunt For Stalker Tharg by The Performing Monkeys; Far East Theatre Company; The Two Marks - late night cabaret; Paris Touring Company - graduates of the Lecoq School; Innocent Erendira adapted by The Portobello Sherpas from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude transferred to the Donmar Warehouse in the Perrier Pick Of The Fringe; and onenight stands by such as Harry Enfield, David Baddiel and Jerry Sadowitz (before Avalon, or anyone else, had heard of them). September - December 1987, Company Stage Manager and Set & Lighting Designer, Theatre of Black Women, for national tour of The Children, written and directed by Ruth Harris. March - May 1988, Company Stage Manager, Fablevision Theatre Company, for tour of The Vanish, devised by the company and directed by Liz Gardiner - and associated programme of workshops - to schools, theatres, arts centres, special schools and adult training centres throughout Scotland plus a week at Glasgow Garden Festival and a week's community tour for Glasgow Mayfest. July - November 1988, Tour Manager, Pan Project, London University's Goldsmith's College: production, company, stage management and lighting design for a national tour plus London (Institute of Contemporary Arts and South Bank Centre) and a week in Sweden of Under The Moon, adapted from Yeats' play cycle based on the Cuchulain myths, adapted and directed by John Martin, designed by Jan Bee Brown; together with associated workshops drawing on the multicultural theatre skills of an international cast (Peter Badejo, Jacqui Chan, Joji Hiroto, Josette Bushell-Mingo, etc.) and a week-long residency at the Citadel Arts Centre, St.Helens, culminating in a devised show Our Generation involving local schoolchildren and senior citizens. November 1988 - January 1989, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company, for community (village hall) tour of Dicken's A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by Mollie Guilfoyle, designed by Mary Montagu. January - May 1989, Production Manager, Inner City Theatre Company, for London run and national tour of Come And Make Eyes At Me, a small-scale musical by Shaun Prendergast, directed by Adrian Bean, designed by Tony Dean, music by Alan Ellis. July - November 1989, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Wildcat Stage Productions, for The Appointment, a musical by David McLennan and Dave Anderson, directed by David McLennan, designed by Annette Gillies. Co-production with Citizens Theatre Glasgow - 4-week run there as part of Strathclyde Summer Theatre Season, followed by tour of middle-scale venues in central Scotland. November 1989 - June 1990, Casual work in Scotland: for Glasgow's year as European City of Culture; for Glasgow's Mayfest at The Tramway Theatre; for the Scottish International Children's Festival, etc. July 1990 - April 1991, Company Manager, Kokuma Dance Company. Responsible for production management, vehicle purchase and hire, tour management (including sponsorship for 4-star hotel accommodation), print and publicity design, premises management, lighting design, company management - 14 performers and 4 crew plus casuals - including complete wages function, deputising for administrator including relations with ACGB, ITC, Equity, funders, etc. September - December 1991, Stage Manager, Hampshire Theatre In Education (Spiral Theatre Company), for local schools and German tour of Away Games by Brian Wooland, a play in English, French & German designed for Europe-wide educative theatre. November - December 1991, Production Manager, Breathless Productions, for Sweeney Todd - The Rock Musical, written and directed by Sean Ferris, Lorne Townend and Ben King, designed by Saffron Webb, lighting by Joanne Jolson, presented by the Hackney Empire. February - June 1992, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Middle Ground Theatre Company, for national middle-scale tour from the Isle of Wight to The Shetlands of Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton, directed by Gordon Price, designed by Alison Gorton. July - August 1992, Production Manager and Lighting Designer, Hertfordshire Youth Theatre (Snap Theatre Company): month-long summer scheme culminating in a production of The Tempest at Broxbourne Civic Hall. September - December 1992, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Snap Theatre Company, for national small- and middle-scale tour of Cyrano De Bergerac, translated by Nigel Greenhalgh from the play by Edmund Rostand, directed by Andy Graham, designed by Carl Stevenson. December 1992 - January 1993, Lighting Designer, Snap Theatre Company, for national tour of Of Mice And Men, adapted by Roger Parsley from the novel by John Steinbeck, directed by Jeremy James, designed by Jo Hughes. January - June 1993, Company Stage Manager, Snap Theatre Company, for national middle-scale tour of Brideshead Revisited, adapted by Roger Parsley from the book by Evelyn Waugh, directed by Andy Graham, designed by Mark Viner, choreography by Josette Bushell-Mingo, music by Stuart de la Mare, lighting by Bob Bustance. July 1993 - April 1994, Chief Technician/Technical Manager, Northern Stage Company. Responsible for the staging at Newcastle Playhouse and Gulbenkian Studio Theatres of nine in-house rep productions and occasional tours; visiting companies including the annual Royal Shakespeare Company Newcastle Season; frequent jazz, comedy and dance festivals; lectures and conferences; fashion shows and cookery competitions, etc. March - July 1994, Systems Manager, Orbital Acoustics, responsible for designing and implementing physical and IT systems for the storage, stock control, testing, maintenance, despatch of some £4m-worth of sound equipment hired to West End shows, tours, conferences, etc. together with technical consultancy, system design, sales, hires, rigging, etc. (Continued on a part-time basis, 1997 and 1999). April - December 1994, Technical Manager and Tutor in Technical Theatre, Hoxton Hall (Hackney Community College), designing a course in Technical Theatre Arts providing access to a degree course at Middlesex University, upgrading the centre's technical facilities and providing technical support to in-house productions and visiting companies. July - August 1994, Manager, Church Hill Theatre and Little Theatre (the latter designed, built and licensed from scratch in an empty hall) for Edinburgh Venue Associates at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hosting a 4-week programme of drama, dance, comedy, musicals, etc. from South Africa, USA, Ireland, Ukraine, etc. January - July 1995, Stage Manager, Black Mime Theatre Company, for London run at The Cochrane Theatre and national tour of Forgotten Heroes, devised by the company under the direction of Denise Wong with music by Tracey Anderson. September - December 1996, Stage Manager and Lighting Designer, Pentabus Arts, for rural tour of The Bewdley Pirate, by Therese Collins, directed by Steve Johnstone, designed by Purvin, music by Mary Keith. April - June 1998, Production Electrician, Adonais Dance Company for national tour of no.1 venues of Bach With Bite and Orpheus, directed and choreographed by Jan Kitteridge. October - December 1998 & 1999, Technical Manager & Lighting Designer, Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alice - Dreams And Wonderland. Tours in UK, Germany & France. Occasional overseas tours. 1999 – 2001, (Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland & Poland) as Production Electrician with Stephen Mottram's Animata: an adult puppet show The Seed Carriers. January – April 2001, Stage Manager, Birmingham Rep for small- & middle-scale tour and run at The Drum of Musical Youth. 2001 – 2004, Stage/Technical/Company Manager for series of tours with Border Crossings – Mappa Mundi, devised by the company, directed by Michael Walling, designed by Mauricio Elorriaga, co-production with Hereford Festival: run at Hereford Courtyard, two UK tours and tour of Mexico; Double Tongue, written by Brian Wooland (in English, Hungarian & Serbo-Croat), directed by Michael Walling & Rosanna Lowe, designed by Kimie Nakano: UK & Hungarian tours; Bullie’s House, written by Thomas Kineally, directed by Michael Walling, designed by Jamie Vartan, co-production with Jiriki Productions, Perth, WA: run at Riverside Studios & UK tour……………Australian tour in planning stages. Orientations, devised by the company (in English, Hindi & Kannada), directed by Michael Walling, designed by Seema Iqbal, choreographed by Radhakrishna Urala: UK tour. Spring 2003 & 2005, Stage Manager & Lighting Designer for UK tours (and re-light by remote control in Hong Kong) of Face, written and performed by Veronica Needa, directed by Tang Shu-Wing, for Yellow Earth Theatre Company, presented in both English and Cantonese. Earlier Work in Ireland – Following involvement in Queen's University Dramatic Society and other drama groups (building on my experience at Alleyn's School and with the National Youth Theatre), casual technical work, 1971 & 1972 with The Belfast Festival at Queen's. 1973, Technical Director of the first Belfast Fringe Festival, director Andy Hinds. March - June 1974, Assistant Stage Manager, Lyric Players Theatre, Belfast, for O'Casey's Red Roses For Me and Buchner's Danton's Death, directed by Mary O'Malley. 1978-79, Employed by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland as Company Manager, Interplay Theatre In Education Company, The Riverside Theatre, The New University of Ulster. Also Technical Supervisor of The Riverside Theatre for a summer variety show, student productions such as Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and onenight stands by visiting companies. 1974-77 and 1981-83, Work with Queen's University of Belfast Extra-Mural Department's Delphic Players - responsible for the technical aspects of a course (specialising in Scandinavian drama) leading to productions in the University's drama studio under the direction of Dr. Louis Muinzer. 1983-87, Technical Director, Fringe Benefits Theatre Company, a fringe company with Arts Council support based at Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre. Combined the roles of Production Stage Manager, Set & Lighting Designer, Sound Engineer, Master Carpenter, etc. for some 15 productions as well as running classes and workshops in these areas for company members. From 1985 this work undertaken on a sub-contract basis through my own company. November 1984, Formed Just Between Ourselves Ltd, a small-scale production and staging services company, granted Approved Manager status by the Independent Theatre Council. Directed Dario Fo & Franca Rame's one-woman plays A Woman Alone and The Same Old Story for Belfast Fringe Festival, transferred to The Group Theatre, Belfast, and then undertook a 4-week tour of Belfast community centres and arts centres, hotels, schools, etc. throughout Northern Ireland. Through this company I also undertook:Technical work - fit-ups, maintenance of lighting and sound installations, etc. - for local companies such as the Lyric Theatre, Belfast Civic Arts Theatre, Field Day Theatre Company. Staging work for the regular programme of events at the Crescent Arts Centre music (rock, classical, modern, folk, jazz, ethnic), performance art, cabaret, children's shows, puppets, dance, in-house theatre productions and visiting companies such as Spare Tyre, 1982 Theatre Company, Azanian National Theatre, Liverpool Everyman Youth Theatre, Theatre Omnibus, Sensible Footwear, The Millies, Gwylan Dance Company, Irish Film & Theatre Company, etc. 1984/85/86, Technical Director for Belfast Fringe Festival: responsible for planning and staging some 50 performance events over a 2-week period each year plus workshops and other events. Technical work for various Arts Council of Northern Ireland promotions: Bob Tomson's (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch) production of Macbeth touring to schools audiences; A Midsummer Music Festival staged by Cardiff Laboratory Theatre in Belfast's Botanic Gardens with some 200 community participants (building a stage on an island in an artificial lake); Jungle Bullion staged by Welfare State International, again in the Botanic Gardens......Production management for Ulster Youth Theatre's West Side Story (Grand Opera House, Belfast, Riverside Theatre, Coleraine and Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen), Grease, War Of The Worlds, Our Day Out and Everyman......Technical and production management for ACNI network of youth and community drama groups. May - July 1985, Technical Stage Manager, Charabanc Theatre Company, for a Belfast community tour of Now You’re Talking by Marie Jones. 1985-86, Road Manager for Barry Sinclair, hypnotist, for a series of one-night stands throughout Ireland. November 1986 - January 1987, Stage Manager & Lighting Designer, Belfast Civic Arts Theatre for Christmas children’s production of Tickle by David Wood, adapted and directed by Paddy Scully. January - March 1987, Technical Manager, Belfast Civic Arts Theatre. Lighting Design – For The Queen's University of Belfast Delphic Players: Ibsen's The Master Builder, Cataline and When We Dead Awaken; Steve Tesich's The Family; Peder Cappelan's Troll Play. For Interplay TIE: The Real Maria Marten; Moliere’s Tartuffe; Synge’s The Playboy Of The Western World. For Fringe Benefits Theatre Company: Brian Friel’s Winners; Beckett’s Endgame; One Day In Summer In A Garden; After Midnight Before Dawn; Steve Tesich’s The Typists; Marlowe’s Dr Faustus (both stage presentation and video production for Queen's University); Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide; Denis Potter’s Brimstone And Treacle (also designer); Pam Gem’s Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi; Weekending (a company-devised piece); Strindberg's The Stronger (also directed); Enid, What Are You Doing Down There On The Floor? (devised by the company under the direction of Richard Gough of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre); Measure For Measure (Northern Ireland tour); Armand Gatti's The Stork (Belfast, Dublin Theatre Festival and Edinburgh Fringe); three cabarets. For Just Between Ourselves: Fo & Rame’s A Woman Alone and The Same Old Story (also directed) at Belfast Fringe Festival, Group Theatre and N.I. tour. For Belfast Actors Co-op: Beckett’s Endgame; Paddy Scully’s Shem The Penman; Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter. For Hourglass Theatre Company: Northern Ireland tour of David Edgar's Ball Boys and Dario Fo & Franca Rame's Eve's Diary. For Arts Council of Northern Ireland Tongue In Cheek Community Theatre Company: Eddie's Girls (Crescent Arts Centre and a disused linen-mill in the Ardoyne). For Ulster Youth Theatre: Everyman. For Neighbourhood Open Workshops: regular programme of dance events under the generic title NOWDance. For Belon Puppet Theatre: Guernica (based on Picasso's painting). For Belfast Civic Arts Theatre: Tickle by David Wood. For Theatre of Black Women: The Cripple and The Children. For Theatre ACT, Edinburgh Fringe: Canadian Gothic; Sexual Perversity In Chicago; The Fall Of Kelvin Walker; Wonderwoman And Superkid Battle To Save The Universe From The Biggest Baddest Baddies Ever (Part XVII). For Pan Project: Under The Moon (ICA, South Bank and tour). For Fablevision: The Vanish. For Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company: Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. For Aspect Theatre Company: Shadowlands; Edwina - A Cautionary Tale For Adults. For Inner City Theatre Company: Come And Make Eyes At Me. For Wildcat Stage Productions: The Appointment (Glasgow Citizens and Scottish tour). For Kokuma Dance Company: Bankra and Still We Rise (for small- and middle-scale venues); Profiles In Black (Queen Elizabeth Hall and national tour); Repercussions (Birmingham Hippodrome, joint production with Birmingham Royal Ballet). For Hampshire TIE: Away Games. For Middle Ground Theatre Company: Gaslight. For Hertfordshire Youth Theatre: The Tempest. For Snap Theatre Company: Cyrano De Bergerac; Of Mice And Men. For Northern Stage Company/Tyne Tees TV: Northern Electric Arts Awards. For Hoxton Hall: Tailor's Dummies; Frog And Toad; Hanky Panky; Dream Lover. For Pentabus Arts: The Bewdley Pirate. For Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre: Alice - Dreams And Wonderland. For Yellow Earth Theatre: Face. Teaching Experience – At Queen's University of Belfast, 1974-77 and 1981-83, responsible for the technical and stage management aspects of extra-mural courses in drama leading to productions staged in the University's drama studio. As Technical Supervisor of The Riverside Theatre at The New University of Ulster, 1978-79, responsible for the supervision of students provided with bursaries to undertake on-the-job training in technical theatre. Responsible for the performance programme at Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre, 1982-87, running classes and workshops for members of youth/fringe theatre and dance companies based there. Production/technical management, Ulster Youth Theatre, 1985-86. Production Manager, Hertfordshire Youth Theatre, 1992. Recent work has included the supervision of stage management students on work experience placement from, for instance, Guildford School of Acting, Coventry Centre for the Performing Arts, Newcastle College, Rose Bruford and Central School of Speech & Drama. At Hoxton Hall (Hackney Community College), 1994, responsible for the design and delivery of a course in Technical Theatre Arts providing admission to a degree course at Middlesex University for those without conventional university entrance qualifications. 1999, Visiting lecturer, London College of Fashion (The London Institute), responsible for technical aspects of the degree show for the BA course in Costume & Make-Up for the Performing Arts. In a non-theatre context:As Secretary of the Coleraine Local Group of International Voluntary Service, 1979-81, responsible for supervising students placed with the group as part of their degree studies in social work. In the Department of Economic Development, Northern Ireland Civil service, 198284, responsible for the design of training programmes for young people placed with employers under the Youth Training Programme. Other Employment – Various temporary posts during vacations from school and university, 1967-74 selling encyclopedias, making ginger wine, wages clerk, printing platemaker, van driver, electoral registration assistant, poll clerk and presiding officer, etc. 1969, Assistant Editor, Student magazine - the first component of Richard Branson's empire. 1974-75, Audio Visual Aids Technician, The College of Business Studies, Belfast Education and Library Board. 1975, Graphic Designer, Ulster Television Ltd. 1976-77, Temporary Senior Clerical Officer (Estates Officer), Northern Ireland Housing Executive. 1977-78, Temporary Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence - helping to close down R.A.F. Sydenham, Belfast. 1979-81, Secretary, Coleraine Local Group, International Voluntary Service initially in a voluntary capacity, then paid through grant-in-aid from the Youth Service (N.I. North-Eastern Education and Library Board). Responsible for administration, fundraising, publicity, finance, management of the group's premises (comprising offices, large hall, stores and accommodation for two fulltime volunteers), placing volunteers with projects, liaison with local voluntary and statutory bodies, supervision of students placed with the group. 1981-84, Administrative Civil Servant, Department of Economic Development, Northern Ireland Civil Servicve - Staff Officer (Administration), Belfast Employment Service. Initially in the Professional & Executive Personnel Division, then heading a section responsible for the design of training programmes for young people placed with employers under the Youth Training Programme together with responsibility for the production of the monthly published employment statistics for the Belfast area. During intervals between theatre contracts: temporary/casual work such as moving Watford College's Drama Department to new premises; redesigning Birmingham Central Children's Library for a change of venue following a fire; driving and courier work; computer consultancy for theatre companies and other arts organisations.