Job Description:

• 1) Controls lighting equipment, such as floodlamps, strip lights, and spotlights from projection room and front or backstage areas of theater to cast spotlight on stage performers: Places spotlights in specified locations in theater and connects wiring for lighting.

• 2) Moves spotlight to follow movements of performers with beam of light, according to instructions on prepared cue sheet.

• 3) Turns color wheel, causing light to be diffused through varicolored gelatin disks to change color of light.

• 4) Cleans and adjusts light, replacing carbons or bulbs as needed.

• 5) May insert varicolored gelatin sheets in frame to assemble color wheel.