#theater lighting tech

[cptapathy]

9 hours until I run my workshop and the imposter fear begins

What if my 10 years as a technician and 20 years in the industry isn't enough?

What if what I'm teaching is bullshit?

I never had anyone teach me this stuff I just had to "learn by doing" and every day I do my job I fear that I'm doing it wrong. What if these picked up over those years are wrong?

So send me asks about lighting and tech in theatre I guess. Help me get over the imposter syndrome by quizzing me until I feel more confident.

[forlovefromfear]

How many actors does it take to change a lightbulb?

None. They can’t even find their light in the first place.

[forlovefromfear]

Halfway through strike finding an instrument over the audience without a safety...

[forlovefromfear]

I recently dreamed that instead of a lighting console, we had hooked up all the lights to the call buttons on several different clear-com belt packs. And I could not for the life of me figure out which belt pack went with which cue. And then when I tried to contact the SM, I grabbed the wrong belt pack and ended up taking a really dramatic cue where I wasn't supposed to.