Our Producer Lab Skill Shares are bite-sized offerings to add to your producing toolbox. Each Skill Share is a one-hour session including a 20-30 minute presentation and discussion on a particular topic in indie producing.
TECH & DESIGN with T. Erin Gruber!
I found the perfect designer for my show: what now? In this introduction, award-winning designer T. Erin Gruber will talk about the Associated Designers of Canada (ADC), how design contracts work, how fee negotiations with designers may differ from other roles, and what producers need to provide designers to make everything go smoothly!
T. Erin Gruber is an award-winning set, lighting, costume and projected media designer. She is an Assistant Professor in Theatre Design (Lighting) at the University of Alberta and works professionally across Canada and around the world. In June 2019 her work was featured at the Prague Quadrennial International Design Exhibition. In 2021 she co-curated “Level UP” an online symposium presented by the Associate Designers of Canada that attracted hundreds of participants from around the world. Selected award-winning projects: Cycle (Thou Art Here Theatre, Sterling Award for Multimedia Design), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Citadel Theatre and RMTC, Sterling Award for Lighting Design). For more information visit her online: eringruber.com, levelup.designers.ca
Sunday May 31 3:00-4:00pm
In the Studio Theatre