Beth Scorzato Email & Phone Number

• Contracted to undertake a range of tasks at entertainment venues, stadiums and festival events throughout Southern California. Venues worked in include Galen Center, Shrine Auditorium, Anaheim Convention Center Arena, Exposition Park and the Colosseum, SoFi Stadium, and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, among others.• Specialization in scenic carpentry for immersive installations as a Head Carpenter. Regular Crew Lead for local and out-of-town clients including multiple on-location installs with The Stranger Things Immersive Experience (Fever).• Work in teams of anywhere from 2 to full crews of up to 50 as crew lead, stagehand, electrician, video hand, audio hand, and carpenter; carry out load-in and load-out, and set up venues for concerts and other live events.

• Provide stage management, design, and technical direction services to theater companies,independent productions, immersive events, and live shows including participants in theaterfestivals such as the Hollywood Fringe Festival.• Current venues/clients include UCLA Royce Hall, The Geffen Playhouse, The Soraya at CSUN,Rogue Machine Theatre at The Matrix, and The Broadwater Stages.• Art department expert with extensive and detailed knowledge of multiple craft areas includingconstruction, scenic painting, set construction and prop fabrication, for film and videoproductions, commercials, and live theater.

Glendale, California, United States

• Work with show producers to schedule and secure shoot times, equipment, cast and locationsfor weekly comedy pre-shoots supporting weekly live broadcast of Attack of the Show branded content.• Place, track, and document all production orders associated with weekly show productionincluding prop and costume needs, cast and crew meals, and other misc. business expenses;reconcile all expenses at the end of the month.• Schedule production, studio crew and cast for weekly live broadcast including generating andsending out call sheets and other scheduling documents.• Work with the legal department on clearances and releases for all broadcast and pre-shootelements.

Pre-Press technician and book designer for all Iron Circus titles

Editor on Fantoons full publishing line.

Los Angeles, Ca

• Responsible for the daily management and all aspects of maintenance of The BroadwaterTheater Complex theaters including electrical system, lighting equipment, and sound systemwithin the facility; select and hire servicing vendors as needed; manage purchasing; followthrough on all safety protocols in theater.• Act as POC and key-holder for external renters of four theaters within venue.• Oversee set and lighting designers for all Sacred Fools productions and facilitate designerneeds; hire carpenters, purchase materials, lead set construction; manage lighting focus andtechnical rehearsals; liaise with front-of-house managers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Los Angeles / St. Louis

Set and manage production schedules, as well as coordinate production duties such as printing, digital comics management, and confirming and entering accuracy of metadata, among other editorial coordination duties.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Proofread weekly periodicals, marketing materials, collected editions, packaging, and any other consumer-facing product that the company may produce.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Working with the branch that services Warner Bros. and its companies. Placed as an Assistant Editor at DC Comics prior to full-time hire as a proofreader.

Greater New York City Area

Write articles regarding comics.

Greater New York City Area

• Manage and prioritize schedules with the editorial and marketing departments• Communicate with domestic and overseas printers to obtain quotes, place orders and track costs• Maintain the publishing databases for print and ebooks for multiple vendors• Copyedit and proofread multiple passes of proofs• Oversee routing of book mechanical components through internal departments and to printers• Travel to consumer and trade shows across the country to represent company and sell books• Work closely with VP of Marketing to coordinate digital and physical sales materials

Receive, filter and assign all review material, proofread, schedule and post all articles, liase with publishers, writers and artists, write reviews.

Greater New York City Area

"Paper Lantern Lit is a boutique literary development company committed to quality fiction with a focus on novels for teens and young people. Each of our projects provides an original, exciting, and marketable premise, powerful prose, and a fresh angle individually tailored to its publishing house. We believe that all stories should have spark. They should be captivating, voice-driven and unique. By fostering talented authors and collaborating with editorial colleagues, we aim to create books that surprise and hook readers, books that spark their imagination. Paper Lantern books have all the best traits of adolescence itself: the intensity, the discovery, the fun."Duties included:- Create and manage schedule for all projects- Create graphics and assemble final proposals to send to agents- Proofreading and copyediting of proposals before final preparation- Manage website, blog, and social media connections

Editorial Intern for the Special Projects/Trades department. Responsibilities included:- Proofing, color retouching, reference scanning- Coordinate with various editorial, legal and sales departments for approval of materials- Compositing in InDesign

Work with editors to receive manuscripts, distribute contracts and input editors' changes to Pace University Press titles.Layout of books in Adobe InDesign

Conduct keyword research for search engine optimization for client websitesRun tests and assess website performance of client websitesResearch and development for ClikTru's Social Network Marketing program

Contribute to script and formatting of weekly news show

Copyedit and review final proofs of weekly newspaperWork with on and off campus advertisers to acquire adsWrite articles and editorialsSupervise layout and printing of weekly newspaperCollaborate with Executive Editor on content of weekly newspaperCollaborate with Print Manager to print, collate, and staple issuesDistribute newspaper weekly

Design and create adsDesign and create headers for all special sections and columnistsCollaborate with Layout Editor to place layout of the paperCollaborate with Print Manager on printing, production, and distribution

Design adsCollaborate with Editor to layout the paper digitally and on mock-up boardsProofread and copyeditWrite articles (as intern and freelance reporter) for various sections including cover stories

for News section

Master Of Science, Publishing

Activities and Societies: Fellowship student as a Graduate Assistant for Pace University PressIntro to Magazine Production & Design.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Purchase Independent, Comic Book Liberation Army Editorial BoardJournalism I & II, Freedom & the Media.