| Position | Show | Year | Company |
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| Asst. Lighting Designer / Programmer | A Delicate Balance - Dance Showcase | 2010 | TheaterCNU |
| Lighting Designer | Albert Herring | 2010 | OperaCNU |
| Lighting and Sound Designer | The Traveler | 2010 | TheaterCNU |
| Hippotizer Support Technician | The Josh Turner Tour | 2010 | Pacifico Television Engineering, Inc. |
| Electrician and Followspot Operator | The Nutcracker | 2009 | Community Alliance for the Performing Arts |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | The Grapes of Wrath | 2009 | TheaterCNU |
| Lighting Designer/Master Elect. | Gianni Schicchi | 2009 | OperaCNU |
| Electrician and Followspot Operator | The Nutcracker | 2008 | Community Alliance for the Performing Arts |
| Sound and Lighting Designer | Beirut | 2008 | TheaterCNU Student Thesis |
| Electrician | The Gift of the Magi | 2008 | Virginia Premiere Theatre |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | The Tender Land | 2008 | OperaCNU |
| Electrician | Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22 | 2008 | TheaterCNU |
| Focus Crew | Little Shop of Horrors | 2008 | TheaterCNU |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | Winnie the Pooh/ Nunsense | 2007 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | Wait Until Dark | 2007 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Electrician | Actus Fidei | 2007 | TheaterCNU |
| Assistant Master Electrician | Arcadia | 2006 | TheaterCNU |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | Oliver! | 2006 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | Proof | 2006 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | Much Ado About Nothing | 2005 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Lighting Designer, Master Elect. | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 2003 | Fauquier High School |
| Position | Show | Year | Company |
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| Sound Engineer | Music and Meditation for Tibet's Sun and Moon | 2010 | The Panchen Lama-Tashi Lhunpo Project |
| Sound and Lighting Designer | The Traveler | 2010 | TheaterCNU Student Thesis |
| Sound and Lighting Designer | Beirut | 2008 | TheaterCNU Student Thesis |
| Sound Designer and Technician | The Foreigner | 2008 | Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre |
| Sound Designer and Technician | Of Mice & Men | 2008 | Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre |
| Sound Designer and Technician | Quilters | 2008 | Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre |
| Sound Designer | Little Shop of Horrors | 2008 | TheaterCNU |
| Co-Sound Designer | The Adding Machine | 2007 | TheaterCNU |
| Audio Engineer | Tempest/Deconstructed | 2007 | TheaterCNU |
| Asst. Sound Designer and Technician | Actus Fidei | 2007 | TheaterCNU |
| Sound Designer | Pirates of Penzance | 2006 | Fauquier High School |
| Sound Designer | Les Misèrablès | 2005 | Fauquier High School |
| Sound Designer | The Foreigner | 2004 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Sound Designer | Kiss Me Kate | 2004 | Fauquier High School |
| Sound Designer | Ragtime | 2003 | Fauquier High School |
| Sound Technician | A Christmas Story | 2002 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
| Sound Designer/ Technician | The Madwoman of Chaillot | 2002 | Fauquier High School |
| Sound Designer | The Music Man | 2002 | Fauquier Community Theatre |
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AnswersTo the left is the blackbox theater set I designed for Answers by Tom Topor. This short play presents three characters: two bully cops, and a helpless, confused, and terrified suspect in a 1970's interrogation room in New York City. I chose an Expressionist approach in my design, seating the suspect at a desk merely inches tall on a cramped stage, while all his other surroundings intimidate him with their larger-than-life size. The atmosphere is rough and uncomfortable, with the angular stage made of concrete and asphalt, two contradictory architectural styles of the past era featured on one wall, and imposing silhouettes of New York City landmarks on the other wall, including a Statue of Liberty warped at her core. |
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Prohibition-era SpeakeasyThe following project was to create a "fantasy" room based on an earlier assignment to create a white model of our bedroom. I chose to create a speakeasy from the Prohibition era, complete with Art Deco furniture, modernist art, traditional wood trim, and mirrors. This room was designed with several security features to hide the purpose of the room. First, the only entrance to the room is via a hidden door behind a bookcase. If this hidden door is discovered, a wall on a track either seals off the entrance to the sitting area in order to make it seem like a mere wood-lined closet has been discovered, or the wall slides over to seal off the bar and reveal a perfectly innocent sitting room. Furthermore, there are hidden doors in the furniture to hide drinks in the event of an untimely discovery. |
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Final Project: Sketch the set of
Arcadia from TheaterCNU's fall 2006 season.
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An iPod sketch and a multi-tool sketch. |
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A pillow sketch and a cattail sketch. |
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© 2012
Jess Ashby