Samuel Martin

Lighting Technician
Special Effects Technician
Location: Egremont, England, UK

Documents

Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2020 Lighting Technician
Theatre 		Carnival Cruise Line Technician
Carnival Playlist Productions / Carnival Cruise Line 		Carnival Cruises
2019 Performing Arts Theatre Technician
Theatre 		Gordonstoun School
Jack Hoskins / Gordonstoun School 		Ogstoun Theatre
2018 Casual Crew
Theatre 		Multiple shows where my role has been mixed between: Crew, LX operator, Follow Spot operator, SM, Pyro Operator
Various / The Sands Centre 		The Sands Centre
2017 Lighting Designer and Operator and Stage Manager
Theatre 		Grannies Behaving Badly
Colin Daniels / UoC 		the Stanwix Theatre
2017 Lighting Designer and Programmer and Operator + Special Effect designer and operator + Stage Manager + Production Manager + AV designer and operator
Theatre 		Exploding Lights
Myself / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2017 Lighting Designer and Programmer + Special Effect designer and operator
Theatre 		Treaure Island
Adam Morley / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2017 LX Designer and Programmer & Special Effect Designer
Theatre 		Legally Blonde
Grant Murphy / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2016 Crew/Sound op
Event 		Bee Gees Tribute
The Studio Theatre 		The Studio Theatre
2016 Stage Manager, Sound Designer, Sound Operator
Event 		Rock for Recovery
Lynette Taggart / Allurevents managment 		Club Rock
2016 Sound Designer and Operator
Theatre 		The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Ian Good & Matthew Samer / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre, Topping Studio
2016 Special Effect designer and operator
Theatre 		Canterbury Tales
Adam Morley / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2015 Crew
Theatre 		Bound
Behbin / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre, Topping Studio
2015 Crew
Theatre 		Monolith
Hannah James / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2015 Crew
Theatre 		The Butterfly Effect
Yvone O'Sullivan / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2015 LX Designer and Programmer and Operator
Theatre 		Ask Frank
Michelle Gordon / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre, Topping Studio
2015 LX Designer and Programmer and Operator
Theatre 		Cipher
Candice Jupp / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre, Ashcroft studio
2015 LX Designer and Programmer and Operator
Theatre 		Bloody Mary
Vanessa Booth / UoC 		The Stanwix theatre, Ashcroft studio
2015 Lighting designer and Operator
Theatre 		The dating game
Vicky Anderson / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2015 Lighting Operator
Theatre 		Sweet Charity
Unknown / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre
2015 Lighting Operator
Theatre 		Henry V
Russel Lucas / UoC 		The Stanwix Theatre, Topping Studio

Education

Year Qualification Where
2017 BA Production (Top-Up) University of Cumbria
2016 FdA Technical Theatre University of Cumbria

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit:

I can use: ETC Ion, ETC Element, ETC GIO, Strand 520i, Analogue Sound Desks, Zero 88 Orb XF, Avolites Tiger Touch 1, Chamsys Magic Q Pc Wing, Prostage Pyro Controllers, X32 Digital Mixer

About me

I studied FdA Technical Theatre at the University of Cumbria, and I have studied BA Production (Technical Theatre)r. I consider my self to be a special effects technician/designer as well as a lighting technician. I have worked as a casual crew for 2 years and freelanced for 9 months now. Before that I was doing amateur shows for nearly 9 years.

I have been working at Gordonstoun School as there Theatre Technician since September 2017.
Additional skills:
Metalwork

Carpentry

Working at height in a harness
Truss building

Motor Hoist set up and use


Lighting Maintenance and cable maintenance

Hemp flying systems design and use

Risk Assessments
Designing and building a Kabuki Drop system
Pyro design and operation

Familiar with the following lighting desks and software:
ETC EOS software with experience on the following consoles;

ETC Element, 
ETC ION, 
ETC GIO



Avolites Titan software with experience on the following consoles;

Avolites Tiger Touch Console



Magic Q software with experience on the following consoles;

Chamysis PC Wing



Strand 520i
Industry awards:
IOSH Working Safely (Received certificate of training on 19th January 2015)


Banking of Reversing Vehicles: Plant and vehicle marshal (Received certificate of training on 20.4.2016)


Safe use & inspection of ladders, steps & portable steps (Received certificate of training on removed )


Pyrotechnic Safety Awareness (Received certificate of training on removed )

Emergency First Aid at work (Received certificate of training on 12/11/17)

The safe use of Tallescopes (Received certificate of training on 22/11/17)

Portable Appliance Testing (Received certificate of training on 15/11/17)

Skills

Secondary Job Title Special Effects Technician
Job Titles Special Effects (SFX) Artist, Production Support, Lighting Tech / Operator
Years in industry 1 to 3 years

Highlights

  • Daymon Johnstone (Stage Assistant / Stagehand)
    Great with lights and things that go Bang highly recommended if you need a pyro technician