Filmmaking / Directing : Lighting Designer/Operator needed for show going up at Manhattan Rep in early September by Isaac Scranton

I'm directing a full-length play, "Hackers & Heroes" by Judy Klass (description below) and am in need of a kick-ass Lighting Designer/Operator. Non-Union ONLY. $150 stipend for the project. While primarily a show about a couple on opposite sides of the moral choice of whistleblowing, there are several scenes in the play which take place inside an internet chat room, which will require some finesse with the limited resources available. "Hackers & Heroes" will be going up at Manhattan Rep on 42nd Street Sept 4-6 (Tech on the 2nd, Dress on the 3rd). Please submit your resume and portfolio to isaacscranton@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Al is an unemployed engineer who spends a lot of time on-line in forums for people who have an “Anonymous” kind of hacker bent. His wife Jordana does PR for a pharmaceutical company. She did not care for how her previous husband was the life of the party, and how impatient he was with her when she withdrew, socially, after her brother died – but Al is so reclusive and geeky she worries about him; he seems to hit the other extreme. Jordana spends time with Kimberly, a friend from work, who grouses to Jordana about her romantic problems with a guy she met on-line, and Jordana also gets a visit from Lyle, a song co-writer who lives in Nashville, who urges Jordana to join the fight against illegal downloading (a fight Al says could destroy the internet.) Al spends time lurking and sometimes participating in discussions on the various “chan” boards – and in one-on-one conversations with Peeps, someone he only knows on-line. These on-line discussions are dramatized on stage; guys sit at their computers typing and saying what they’re typing while, ideally, the conversation would also appear on a large screen, visible to the audience, complete with abbreviations, words spelled in letters and numbers, and emoticons. Al and Jordana often argue about hackers and their merits; Al sees them as innovators and people of courage. Jordana sees them as irresponsible, crooked, juvenile delinquent types. But when Kimberly tells Jordana, whose brother died of pancreatic cancer, that the company that Kimberly and Jordana work for is suppressing a medical study they don’t want her and others to know about, a study which indicates that their top-selling drug causes that cancer, Jordana is tempted to ask Al to help her hack the company’s computer and records, to find out the truth. Once the idea is broached to Al, he is unstoppably focused on this goal, swept up in figuring out how to perpetrate the hack and how to cover his traces – creating a crisis for Jordana, in terms of her job and her marriage.