Emily Oviedo
Hello my name is Emily Oviedo. I have been in the tech aspect of Performing Arts since the fall of 2019. I have taken 3 years of Technical Theater along with one year of advanced acting. I have designed the lights of 'Latina' (Maryvale Highschool Fall 2022) and I have worked on many other musicals and plays. I also worked as an usher in 2019 and as a sound/light board operator from 2020 to 2023.
Some lighting I designed for Freaky Friday
The full completed for the musical Freaky Friday
This past school year (2022-2023) Our auditorium has been under construction; we haven't been able to perform on the stage, so we have been performing in our 'little theater room' aka our theater room. We have had to put up risers in our room and build smaller sets to accommodate the space, thus making it just a little bit more difficult to design lights for and a set due to the size of the room and the small portable lightboard we have to use. Below I will attach some pictures.
These are all pictures taken either before, or during the plays, including a picture of the lightboard used to create the lighting.
Below is an attatched PDF of my hours throughtout the last few years for theater.
Finished Arts Seal hours tracker.pdfMy capstone was creating and designing the lights for the last two plays, 'Latina' and 'El Experimento' the lighting for 'Latina' was a simple warm lighting at the beginning, resembling a sunrise, because the starting scene is at a bus stop set in the early morning hours. Most of the lighting was just normal white lights, resembling an office as it was taking place in an office in the 1980's. Below are some examples.
For the play 'El Experimento' I had designed the lighting for the bedrooms at a 75% warm-pink hue tone for Josefinas room, A normal white tone for Elisas room also at 75%, and a cool toned room for Emilios room at 100%. Most of the rest of the play was just a plain white - almost florescent- resembling a schools hallway lighting. The only other color used was a multicolored light for the dance scene and a red light for Elisas scene when she gets angry. Below are some pictures.
It took roughly a month for me to design the lights for 'Latina' as it was an original play, and I had to read through and visualize what I wanted to do with the lighting and see how the set would adhere to the lighting color. I feel like if I had an actual full stage with the full lightboard and lights instead of the few parcans and small lightboard I had to work with but I made due with the equipment that I had.