About Us

Hello Theatre Arts Teachers and Performance Company Directors!

My name is Beth Rand and I am an Educational Stage Lighting Instructor and Stage Lighting Designer.

I began my technical theatre career at my own high school theatre. I was lucky enough to go to a school that had a thousand-seat theatre which brought in outside events.Students from the high school worked as paid crew for these plays, musicals, operas, movies, lectures and so on. In college I majored in “Drama; emphasis Stage Lighting”, and while other students were spending hours pouring over their homework, I was spending hours inside a black box learning life skills.

I have worked in technical theatre on and off for over thirty years now; in educational and professional settings.

Since 1997 I have been working with 5th to 12th grade student stage crews. It’s been my experience that technical theatre students are some of the most highly motivated, dedicated, energetic, team-oriented, professional-acting and technically proficient students you can hope to work with. A teacher from another school, who came to use our facilities, recently commented how professional and “on the ball” the students on the lighting crew were.

When I am working with technical theatre students on a light crew, I am always pleased to see that, as well as increasing their proficiency in the curriculum content, by the end of their time with me, my students have further developed a broad range of skills that will benefit them throughout their lives, such as: creative thinking, teamwork, decision making, problem solving, perseverance, working with different personalities and standards, analytical thinking, self-responsibility and responsibility to others.

I am very much inspired with the prospect of being able to give the invaluable opportunities that I was given as a high school student to today’s students. I’m excited to be working with Theatre Arts teachers in junior high and senior high schools to bring these valuable experiences and learning opportunities to their students.