Resume & Contact Info | Megan M. Reilly line

Megan M. Reilly | 512.569.8814 | megan.reilly@gmail.com

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Lighting Design line
Salvage Vanguard Theater A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits Jenny Larson, Dir.
Austin, TX (2010)
Paper Chairs Machinal Dustin Wills, Dir.
Austin, TX (2010)
Tutto Theatre Company Murder Ballad Murder Mystery Dustin Wills, Dir.
Austin, TX (2009)
Black Snow (2009) Dustin Wills, Dir.
Ophelia (2008) Dustin Wills, Dir.
Divergence Vocal Theatre Autumn Spectre (2009) Misha Penton, Dir.
Houston, TX
Cambiare Productions Orestes (2009) Will Snider, Dir.
Austin, TX Transformations (2008) Created, Directed & Designed by Megan M. Reilly
& Sarah Mosher
Rubber Repertory Theatre Mister Z Loves Company (2009) Josh Meyer & Matt Hislope, Dir.
Austin, TX
Butler Opera Center at UT Austin Trouble in Tahiti (2008) Robert DeSimone, Dir.
Austin, TX The Impresario (2008) Octavio Cardenas, Dir.
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Well Suited (2007) Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Chor.
Austin, TX
Forklift Danceworks The King & I (2007) Allison Orr, Chor.
Austin, TX
Cohen New Works Festival Portrait (2007) Andee Scott, Chor.
Austin, TX Rapunzel (2005) Created by Kim Gritzer & Megan M. Reilly
University of New Hampshire A Doll's House (guest LD, 2007) David Richman, Dir.
The X Factor (guest LD, 2006) Raina Ames, Dir.
Tartuffe (guest LD, 2003) Deb Kinghorn, Dir.
University of Texas at Austin There & Not There (2007) Andrea Beckham, Chor.
Holes (2006) Rod Caspers
Flesh and the Desert (2005) Robi Polgar, Dir.
Adverse Camber (2005) David Justin, Chor.
Lakes Region Summer Theatre 2006 Summer Season Directors: Rick Wilson, Eric Nielsen, J.T. Kidd
Meredith, NH Brian Swasey, Patrick DuLaney
Rude Mechanicals/Bayou Radio Minus Tide (2006) Ellie McBride, Dir.
Austin, TX
The Actor's Collective Speaking in Tongues (2004) Jon Drawbaugh, Dir.
San Francisco, CA The Blue Room (2003) Jon Drawbaugh, Dir.
New Conservatory Theatre Center You Should Be So Lucky (2003) Chris Jenkins, Dir.
San Francisco, CA Salam Shalom (2003) Mike Ward, Dir.
Lunatique Fantastique E.O. 9066 (2003) Liebe Wetzel, Dir.
San Francisco, CA
Assistant Lighting Design line
Butler Opera Center at UT Austin Dialogues of the Carmelites (2006) Kathryn Eader, LD
Austin, TX The Scarecrow (2006)
Kansas City Repertory Theatre A Raisin in the Sun (2006) Michelle Habeck, LD
Cincinnati Opera 2005 Summer Season Thomas Hase, LD
University of Texas at Austin Cabaret (2004) Jessica Rapier, LD
Related Experience line
Assistant Instructor UT Austin Theatre & Dance 2007
Courses taught: Theatre Technology, Spring 2007
Teaching Assistant UT Austin Theatre & Dance 2004-2006
Assisted primary instructor in the following courses: Lighting Technology, Theatre Technology, Production Lab
Electrician & Light Board Operator Great American Music Hall, SF, CA 2004
Designed & operated lights for various musical and spoken word acts including Rasputina, Cat Power, Jello Biafra, The Mother Hips, Erin McKeown, Teitur, Mason Jennings
Rental Agent / Lead Rental Agent Holzmueller Productions, SF, CA 2002-2004 (Lead: 2/04-7/04)
Assisted customers with rental of conventional & moving fixtures, control boards, dimmers, and other lighting equipment; followed up on missing or late orders; accounting duties; as Lead Rental Agent, supervised rental department
Electrics Intern Theatre at Monmouth, Monmouth, ME Summer 1999
Assisted lighting designer and master electrician with hang, focus, and maintenance of repertory plot; worked as light board operator; performed maintenance and repairs as needed on lighting equipment; completed electrics changeovers daily
Exhibitions & Honors line
FORESTS-IN-STORAGE series of installations, a collaboration with Katie Pearl / Physical Plant Theater, 2010
Nominee, Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Lighting Design (Black Snow, Murder Ballad Murder Mystery), 2010
Ideas of Mountains Installation Exhibit at the Creative Research Lab, Austin TX (The Selkie Project:Gestation), 2010
Winner, B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (Ophelia), 2009
Nominee, B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (Ophelia & Black Snow), 2009
World Stage Design Gallery Exhibition Selection (Portrait), 2009
Regenerate: Prayers for the Environment, a collaborative installation with L. Renee Nunez for First Night Austin, 2009
City of Austin Cultural Funding Grant Recipient (with Cambiare Productions; Transformations), 2008
USITT Certificate of Excellence for Design as Performance Exhibit (Rapunzel), 2007
Prague Quadrennial Student Exhibit & Design as Performance Exhibit (Rapunzel), 2007
Nominee, Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Costume Design (Parade) 2007
World Stage Design Digital Exhibition, (Tartuffe) 2005
Morton Brown, Nellie Lea Brown & Minelma Brown Lockwood Scholarship Recipient, 2004-2007
Georgia B. Lucas Foundation Fund Scholarship Recipient, 2006-2007
Patrick Hines Endowed Scholarship, 2005-2006
Louis Jules Hexter Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Theatre Arts, 2004-2005
Education line
MFA - Theatrical Design (Lighting) University of Texas at Austin 2007
Studied: Lighting Design, Scenic Design, Costume Design, Scenic Rendering via Photoshop, Automated Lighting, Figure Drawing, Vectorworks
BA - Theatre; BS - Biology University of New Hampshire 2000
Minor: Women's Studies
References line
Available upon request.