A hardworking, dynamic and motivated individual - CALLUM SMITH is an experienced and enththusiastic stage manager and theatre technician, who over the last 5 years has worked tirelessly to gain experience in a number of roles in his chosen field.
This search has taken him to nearly every major venue in his native Glasgow, three times to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to Germany, to Poland and the Czech Republic in diverse roles ranging from stage hand to director and producer. He is currently an MA student at the University of Glasgow, and is available for freelance work, commissions and consultation work as a stage manager, lighting designer and producer.
In 2011 he was Deputy Technical Manager of C on Chambers Street at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he was responsible for a crew of 20 technicians, four theatre spaces and over 100 shows. In 2007 and 2008 he acted as a venue technician and senior technician at the same venue.
As a freelance producer he founded The Cheeky Breakfast, who promote and produce performance and events around Glasgow. Their debut event, The Pitch at the CCA in Glasgow will showcase 9 short performances in a variety of genres and styles.
Outside of theatre, he has worked as an English Language assistant in Limoges, France and for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Florida. He presents and produces a weekly radio show on Glasgow university's Subcity Radio ( www.subcity.org/shows/cheekybreakfast ). He is also passionate about travel, cookery and cinema.
Selected Credits:
Lighting Designer - FAME (Eastwood), Goldilocks (Eastwood), Glasgow Tales (Rothes Halls), Shakespeare for Breakfast (C venues), Return to the Forbidden Planet (Eastwood), Head in the Clouds (Eastwood), Company (Ramshorn), Hello, Dolly (Eastwood), The Wedding Singer (Eastwood), West Side Story (Eastwood), Project Antigone (G12), Aladdin Jr (Eastwood)
Stage Manager - The Wizard of Oz (King's), Jekyll and Hyde (King's), STaG Nights "Circa" (G12), High School Musical (Eastwood), Chicago (WHS), Dick Whittington (Eastwood), Discovery/Discoveries and Dreams (European Tour - Young Euro Theatre Lab)
LX Operator - Rent (Eastwood), The Drwosy Chaperone (Eastwood), Crazy for You (Eastwood)
Sound Engineer - Oklahoma (Johnstone town hall), Emzy's Tail (G12)
Other - Deputy Technical Manager - C Venues at The Edinburgh Fringe 2011
(2007 Technician, 2008 Senior Technician)
Various at the Eastwood Park Theatre as House Technician (includes professional and amateur crewing, sound engineering, set building and maintenance of theatre fixtures)
