Johanna Miller

Technical Director
309.208.6402

jomiller13@hotmail.com

johannamiller.com

Selected Experience
Technical Director, Ohio Light Opera

Summer 2015

Responsible for building 7 show repertory summer season. Runs a crew of 5 carpenters, a master carpenter, a shop
foreman, and an ATD. Responsibilities include budgeting all shows, drafting, maintaining a build calendar, material
inventory, and paint inventory, supervise all change overs, and supervise end of summer all company strike.

Technical Director/Shop Foreman, Bradley University

January 2013 June 2014

Responsible for building 4 show main stage season. Ran a crew of 2-9 experienced and unexperienced Freshmen-Senior
students. Worked with designers, directors, and student technical directors. Duties in the shop included ordering
materials, maintaining cleanliness of all tools and shop space, tool maintenance, composing budget sheets, scheduling
over hire work as needed, and mentoring students on a daily basis.

Assistant Technical Director, Florida State University Almost, Maine

Fall 2014

Worked directly under the Technical director. Responsible for prelim estimate and drafting. Participate in construction,
mock up, load in and strike.

Carpenter, Florida State University

Fall 2014

Build 6 shows for an academic season. All show builds include construction, mock up, load in, and strike. Responsible for
transport of scenery with box truck, van, and truck from offsite shop to three different theatres. Maintain a clean and
productive work area.

Assistant Prop Master, Ohio Light Opera

Summer 2013

Built and maintained hand and furniture props throughout the 7 show repertory season. Responsibilities included
running the shop while prop master was out. Answering any questions from prop artisans that arose. Being the
communication tool between prop master and shop. Responsible for drafting prop furniture. Was a prop runner for 2
of the 7 shows. Participated in all changeovers twice a day 6 days a week.

Prop Artisan, Ohio Light Opera

Summer 2012

Built and maintained all props for a 7 show repertory season. Worked with 4 other prop artisans under the direction of
the prop master. On prop run crew for three shows. Participated in all changeovers twice a day 6 days a week.

Skills
2D/3D AutoCAD
Budgeting
Scenic Carpentry
Sewing
ETC Expression 3
CPR/First Aid Certified

Hand drafting
Microsoft Office
Trello
Mig Welding
Prop Carpentry
Casting and Molding
Scenic Painting
2D Vectorworks
Lightwright
Enttec D-pro
Program and set up intelligent lights specifically Mac 700 and DL2

Education
MFA Candidate - Technical Production
Florida State University
Bachelor of Science - Technical Production Bradley University Peoria IL

Spring 2017
Fall 2012

References
Robert Coleman
rcoleman@fsu.edu
Phone: 850.644.4305
Program Director
Florida State University

Chad Lowell
clowell@bradley.edu
Phone: 309.310.3146
Asst. Professor, Design, TD
Bradley University

Erin Freeman
erinfreeman@gmail.com
Phone: 734.834.4373
Prop Master
Ohio Light Opera