Final Portfolio of Design and Directing work from the 2016-2017 school year.

1. Amanda Miller
Designer | Director
AmandaMarieMiller17@gmail.com
(914) 406-7731

2. Table of Contents
Resume
Assistant Lighting Design:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dark Sisters
The House of Atreus Parts 1 and 2
Sound Technology:
Madagascar
It’s A Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play
Directing:
The Effect
Distracted

3. AMANDA MILLER
AmandaMarieMiller17@gmail.com (913) 406-7731
LIGHTING
Assistant LD A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oklahoma City Ballet LD- Aaron Mooney 2017
Assistant LD Dark Sisters OK. Opera and Music Theatre LD- Travis Baldwin 2017
Assistant LD The House of Atreus Part 1 TheatreOCU LD- Aaron Mooney 2017
Board Operator Hairspray TheatreOCU LD- Aaron Mooney 2016
Lighting Design Game of Tiaras Blue Valley Southwest HS. Dir.- Dan Schmidt 2015
Lighting Design Nowhere to Grow But Up Blue Valley Southwest HS. Dir.- Dan Schmidt 2015
SOUND
Live Mic Technician Madagascar (Premiere) The Coterie Theatre Sound Des.- David Kiehl 2016
Live Mic Technician It’s A Wonderful Life: TheatreOCU Sound Des.- Nathan Schilz 2016
A Live Radio Play
Board Operator As You Like It TheatreOCU Sound Des.-Nathan Schilz 2016
Recital Recording assorted concerts Oklahoma City University Supervisor- Josh Klossner 2016
DIRECTING
Director The Effect (Reading) OCU Edge 2017
Director Distracted (Reading) OCU Edge 2016
Assistant Director The Residents of Craigslist TheatreOCU Dir.- Haley Fortune 2016
Assistant Director Seminar TheatreOCU Dir.- Alex Speight 2016
ADMINISTRATIVE
Artistic Director Out of the Box (Oklahoma City University) 2017
Mainstage House Manager School of Theatre (Oklahoma City University) 2017
Student Professional School of Theatre (Oklahoma City University) 2017
Vice President Alpha Psi Omega (Oklahoma City University) 2017
Administrative Assistant El Sistema Music Program (Oklahoma City) 2016
SPECIAL SKILLS
Lighting: Basic knowledge of ETC EOS consoles, intermediate Electrics, basic knot skills
Sound: Intermediate knowledge of Qlab, AVID VenueS3L-X, Yamaha O1v96,
Sennheiser wireless mics and receivers, Bluetooth Speakers
General: US Passport, KS Driver’s License, personal vehicle, fluent in Spanish,
basic yoga, advanced tap dancing
EDUCATION
Oklahoma City University: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design and Production Expected graduation: May 2019
Emphasis in Lighting Design, minor in Directing
REFERENCES:
Aaron Mooney Matt Redmond Angela Polk
Oklahoma City University Manhattan Theatre Club Oklahoma City University
Associate Prof. of Lighting Design Former Out of the Box Artistic Director Production Coordinator
ASMooney@okcu.edu MattRedmond22@gmail.com ADPolk@okcu.edu
(405) 208-5723 (314) 600-3487 (405) 208-5724

4. Oklahoma City Ballet
Choreographers:
Robert Mills and Sarah Tallman
Lighting Designer: Aaron Mooney
Assistant Lighting Designer:
Amanda Miller
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and If These Walls Could Talk
Photos Courtesy of Kate Luber and Matt Glavin.

5. Focusing Lights at the Civic Center
A butterfly leaps through the forest

6. Notes from a Production Meeting
Production Meeting 3/29/17
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Oklahoma City Ballet Choreography: Robert Mills
LD: Aaron Mooney
ALD: Amanda Miller
GENERAL:
-Line Set Schedule is still flexible, and will be discussed more as time passes.
-The music will be changing slightly as the production progresses. There will be
minor changes in the order of the songs and the volume of the music.
COSTUMES:
-The choreographer requests that LD look at Tatiana’s peach robe, used near the
end of the show. There is a small amount of green in this fabric and it is desired
that the green in the peach robe is highlighted, as her original costume is green
as well. Pictures of both the peach robe and the green dress can be seen below.
SCENIC:
-The rolling bed will be on casters. It is working well.
-There are no new props added to the production from last week’s meeting.
-Dry Ice fog will be occurring during Hermia’s solo search for the Lovers. The
choreographer wants this to be a slight effect, not something that covers the
entire floor.
-Haze will be revealed when the scrim is taken out and will continue throughout
the show.
-Progress has been made on the practical lamp. It will be a cell battery and a
manual toggle switch on the US of the lamp, secured.
-Costumes found a large black cloth labeled “Lovers,” It may be used on the floor
of the cave.
Production Meeting 3/29/17
LIGHTING:
- To assist in a transition near the end of the show, the choreographer requests
that the stage appears at the “darkest point of night.” At this moment, there are
two dancers US in their capes and the rest of the dancers are running around DS
with LED handlights. This is the moment where the child is handed to Puck. This
moment was discussed because there will be two “stand-in” dancers in the place
of the parents, though they will look as similar as possible to the actual
characters.
-20 hand LEDs have arrived and additional ones will be ordered. These will be
used on the hands of 8 “Critters” and 4 “Butterflies.” These are used near the
end of the show by dancers who are downstage when Puck receives the child
upstage. A picture of these hand lights can be seen below.
BLOCKING:
-There has been no decision on placement of Puck’s window. This can be either
SR or SL, the choreographer does not have a preference.

7. Dark Sisters:
music by Nico Muhly,
libretto by Stephen Karam
OK. Opera and Music Theatre Company
Director:David Herendeen
Lighting Designer: Travis Baldwin
Assistant Lighting Designer: Amanda Miller
Photos Courtesy ofWendy Mutz and the Bass Schoolof Music

8. “Keeping sweet no
matter what is a matter
of life or death.”
Spotlight Tracking Paperwork

9. Notes from a Cueing Rehearsal “Take me to my home…I’m ready to
go home.”

10. The House of Atreus Part 1:
Iphigenia and Agamemnon:
Adapted by D. Lance Marsh
Oklahoma City University
School of Theatre
Director: Leslie Swackhamer
Lighting Designer: Aaron Mooney
Assistant Lighting Designer:
Amanda Miller
Photos Courtesy of Elina Moon
Clytemnestra mourns the death of her daughter Iphigenia

11. “I even give up life for this”
Focus charts for Specials

12. Notes from a Technical Rehearsal
The House of Atreus;
Tech 3/25/17 and 3/26/17
LD: A. Mooney and Z. Polasek
ALD: A. Miller and M. Fouts
PE: T. Baldwin
Z. Polasek, LD, requests dark time in the space tomorrow, 3/27, from 9-10:00 am.
Work:
-Please add a darker blue gel to the running lights, something like R80.
-Change frost to R119 in 203. Please keep color as is.
-Please add a clip running light under the Center Deck for the exit of the Chorus. This
should be a clickable clip light.
-Please remove power cable from the floor in the booth.
-Replace R16 with R321 in the cyc lights, Channel 191.
-During changeovers, the frost in channels 203 and 204 need to switch to R132 for HoA
part 2: Electra and Orestes.
Focus:
-Channel 200 will need to be focused on the musicians on Monday night before Dress
Rehearsal while the musicians are onstage.
-Please focus House Lights slightly out of the moat.
-Refocus channels 81 and 101 to be more downstage of scaffolding.
-Please open the focus of Channel 79, if possible.
Cue:
No new notes, thank you.
Designer:
No new notes, thank you.
"I greet the God. The sun. For one last
glittering moment!"

13. MADAGASCAR:
a world premiere musical,
book by Kevin Del Aguila
music and lyrics by George Noriega
and Joel Someillan
The Coterie Theatre-
Kansas City
Director: Jerry Jay Cranford
Sound Designer: David Kiehl
Sound Technician: Amanda Miller
Photos Courtesy of the Coterie Theatre

14. “You’re my bestest friend”
Performance Report from
7/29/16, prepared by SM,
Bill Christie
Email to Sound Designer on 7/2/16

15. “I like to Move It Move It!”
Additional Duties Paperwork

16. It’s A Wonderful Life:
a Live Radio Play
by Joe Landry
Oklahoma City University-
School of Theatre
Director- Matthew Sipress
Sound Designer: Nathan Schilz
Sound Technician: Amanda Miller
Photos Courtesy of Bryan Cardinale-Powell

17. “Give the gift you know
can’t fail…at BC
Clark’s Anniversary
Sale”
Portion of Microphone tracking document

18. Sound plot prepared by Sound Designer,
Nathan Schilz
“Buffalo gals won’t
you come out tonight
and dance by the light
of the moon.”

19. The Effect:
a Staged Reading
Photos Courtesy of Adelaide Ross and Elina Moon
by Lucy Prebble
Director: Amanda Miller
Assistant Director: Adelaide Ross
Stage Manager: Shelby McCarver
The cast after their performance

20. Giving a note
about voice and
subtext to actor
Addie Pollard,
who played
Connie
A page of Connie’s blocking
Dr. James
warns Connie
about the
study

21. “Show me your special skill!”
Toby confronts Dr. James about her depression

22. Distracted:
a Staged Reading
by Lisa Loomer
Director: Amanda Miller
Assistant Director: Adelaide Ross
The cast after their performance
Photos Courtesy of Adelaide Ross

23. “But when there’s a problem,
you do often seem to notice
him…”
Dr. Zavala and Mrs. Holly’s blocking

24. Giving blocking notes to actor
Dawson MacLeod, who played Jesse
Notes from the final
rehearsal