for an overview of workin
both his technical and administrative careers.
In 1989 after a degree in Media
Production and a post-grad in Stage Management Gary embarked on a
career in stage and production management. Originally his work
concentrated on repertory theatres, with seasons at the Watermill
Theatre Newbury, Liverpool Everyman, Redgrave Theatre Farnham,
Cheltenham Everyman, and Birmingham Rep main house. Tours included
stage managing a tour of Japan with Othello, a UK tour of Wind in the
Willows, a small-scale tour of You Are My Mother for Backchat Theatre
Company, and two community tours of the midlands for Birmingham Rep. Moving to London in 1997 he began work
for AKT as Technical Co-ordinator and later freelance Production
Manager, a conference and training company which uses drama to tackle
work-based issues, and began his occasional website design work.
He returned to theatre production
in 1999 concentrating on community and site-specific projects, and
relocated to Birmingham. He worked extensively with OTTC as Production
Manager on the site-specific A Plan to Build at Bicester Garrison and
the community tour Tales of the Arabian Nights, as well as three
community tours as Company Stage Manager. Other work has included
Technical Stage Manager on Hamlet and Production Manager on MacBeth,
both at BMW's Mini factory in Oxford; an open-air production of Grimm
Tales for Salisbury Playhouse; The Firebird and a community production
of King for macproductions in Birmingham.
His new career in administration
began in 2003 at two local children's homes before moving to The Play
House, an arts educational charity based in Birmingham which runs two
theatre-in-education companies and a variety of community projects.
There he has been able to utilise both his theatre and administration
experience, and is now General Manager of the organisation.
