Collaborate!

The Entertainment Technology Department's signature pedagogy is the production. The department supports two main stage, and multiple smaller projects every year. Students need to develop a sense of comfort in working in these participatory environments, and there is no better way to learn how to exploit a technology than by directly deploying it in the production environment. With the pressure of an opening, and the restrictions of a given budget and resource, students learn how to deliver the best possible product.

Because City Tech has neither an acting or a music program, there is only a small pool of available talent. However, NY City is home to the largest live entertainment industry in the nation, and there are many many companies who jump at the opportunity to work within the educational environment to either develop new work, or to road test existing product in anticipation of a formal opening in the professional entertainment world.

Collaborate! is the department's annual call for interesting live performance-based events with interesting technology requirements. Winners collaborate on a fully staged (if desired) Spring production. This ongoing initiative has resulted in many excellent productions, and has also served as a pipeline for our students to enter the professional world via direct contact with these outside teams. These projects range the gamut of liver entertainment: from theatre to dance to concert to comedy to fashion show to opera to magic to those that defy classification, students are given the opportunity to experience the rewards and challenges of a production-based methodology, and also put professional credits on their resume.

Selected Productions