Kia Linton Email and Phone Number

• Serve clients, primarily theatre companies and schools, to help run the technical aspects of their performance• Travel to client sites to setup installations, lighting hanging and focus, and running sound and light boards• Responsible for loading out after performances and ensure all equipment is accounted for and returned to the warehouse

• Comedy Central - Stand Up Featuring - Season 10• Hot Ones - Season 18• Diddy - Gotta Move On music video• Testing Hollywood

• Managed daily rehearsals, production meetings, performance reports, production callboard, including sign-in sheets, and announcements • Coordinated all scene shift rehearsals, technical, and dress rehearsals in cooperation with the director and other members of the production team.• Recorded all deck cues, lighting cues, sound cues, etc. and stand-by’s in production book in advance of the first technical rehearsal.• Assisted designers and technicians in board programing before operating the cue board during the run of multiple shows including light, sound, and deck cues

• Clybourne Park - Main stage • Xanadu - Conservatory Stage• Elf - Main Stage

• Executed supportive role for production crews in various departments (management, technical, creative and security). Creating and distributing scheduling, delivering contracts, shoot clean-up, putting up signs, and talent management. • Responsible for returning unused equipment and supplies, rental returns, and equipment receipt accountability •Acted as an escort for talent and speakers to and from greenroom, helped with crowd control and lockup, giving out schedules or scripts, collecting paperwork, delivering film to various locations, and managing extras•Collaborated with various staff, crew, vendors, artists, and others involved in the production process; ranging from providing general assistance to the producer to working with technical crew, security, and production manager to ensure production ran smoothly • Assisted in post-production strike and unloading of lights, stands, and other necessary production equipment

• Researched new vendors and negotiating rates; processed and logged all invoice payments as needed• Compiled, distributed, and filed production documents (e.g., contracts, call sheets, releases, location agreements); Coordinated with clearance and legal departments to license footage, music, and photos• Assisted in the infrastructure set up for all new projects during the greenlight phase; scouted and secured the shoot locations • Hired production crew and onboarded crew with payrolls• Responsible for purchasing production goods (i.e. equipment, props, supplies, crafty, etc.); reconciliation of final costs and additional assets for production

• Hyped - Season 2

• Reported to Gaffer or the Key Grip. • Responsible for creating and maintaining all the camera and lighting equipment. It includes tripods, jibs, dolly, cranes, tracks, static rigs, etc. while maintaining the safety of constructed rigs• Built equipment using delicate and heavy-duty parts as per the specifications of the Key Grip • Created, maintained, and dismantled the set pieces or backings; move set pieces according to the scene’s requirements. which reflect a distant view as if the place exists outside the window. • Staged the lighting rigs as per the requirement of the lighting technician; unpack rigging and camera equipment• Arranged, set up and operate non-electrical equipment like diffusers and gobos (placed on lights to control the shape of the lighting); move lighting fixtures

• Drew, created and conceptualized storyboards based on the vision from the production and creative team • Produced thumbnail/rough storyboard panels through delivery of finished storyboard sequences • Collaborate with creative department heads and production to review goals and vision for the storyboards and discussed concerns, timelines and complexity • Responsible for completing all deliverables on time and according to production schedule and within guidelines/show parameters such as number of scenes, complexity requirements, etc.• Re-boarding and re-staging from scratch when necessary