Rachel Van Namen
DES MOINES METRO OPERA
Assistant Technical Director: Stage Operations Supervisor
2024 Season
Facilitated & supervised load-ins for 4 operas run in rep; managed notes & maintenance on scenery throughout the summer; assisted with drafting & changeover paperwork as needed
Technical Director: Natalie Hining
"John Singer Sargent's Studio"
Isabella Stewart Gardner & her portrait
Staff works on installing one of the tracking portraits while TD Natalie Hining discusses curtain swag with the designer.
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Director: Lindy Hume & Daniel Pelzig
Scenic Design: Tracy Grant Lord
Show Stills: Cory Weaver
Manufactured drill attachments to speed up resetting the kabuki drop
Testing the pedestal & discussing options for increasing stability.
Rep storage for chain curtain: lower chain into two hampers, curved pipe rides on top of both.
Untangling the chain curtain: a constant.
In process of assembling the back wall for the first time. For rep it remained assembled and was flown out on chain motors.
LOAD IN TIME LAPSES
Pelleas & Melisande Loadin
Salome - Apollo Double Header Day
The Barber of Seville Loadin