Preston Shelsta Lighting Designer / Electrician 605-695-5240 Preston.Zachary.Shelsta@gmail.com 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 Production Experience Lighting Designer Dance Nation SUNY Purchase Virtual Theatre, Purchase, NY As You Like It SUNY Purchase Repertory Theatre, Purchase, NY Bye Bye Birdie Prairie Repertory Theatre, Brookings, SD Gruesome Playground Injuries CMFT Studio, Purchase, NY Assistant Lighting Designer What to Send Up When It Goes Down CMFT Theatre, Purchase NY Outside Mullingar The Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA The Skin of Our Teeth The Fitzpatrick Main Stage. Stockbridge, MA Shrek The Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA George Gershwin Alone The Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA Master Electrician Henry VI P.1 Abbott Kaplan Theatre, Purchase, NY Disney's The Little Mermaid Prairie Repertory Theatre, Brookings, SD Tuesdays with Morrie Prairie Repertory Theatre, Brookings, SD The Full Monty Prairie Repertory Theatre, Brookings, SD I Love You, Your Prefect, Now Change Prairie Repertory Theatre, Brookings, SD Deck Electrician The Bacchae of Euripides Abbott Kaplan Theatre, Purchase, NY The Antigone Project Underground Theatre, Purchase, NY Blacktop Sky Underground Theatre, Purchase, NY Related Skills Experience with ETC EOS Family Console Programming and Stage Electrics Experience with Moving heads and intelligent fixtures Working Knowledge of 2D & 3D Vectorworks, Lightwright 5 & 6, 2D AutoCAD, and Qlab6 Valid Class 1 South Dakota Driver’s License, and valid Genie and scissors lift certification Professional Training BFA in Lighting Design, Professional Training Program in Design/Technology, Conservatory of Theatre Arts, School of the Arts, Purchase College, State University of New York. Anticipated Graduation May 2021. References Bill Miller JD Ackman Dave Grill Lighting Supervisor Managing Director Professor of Lighting Design Berkshire Theatre Festival Prairie Repertory Theatre Purchase College, SUNY (571) 296-1605 (605) 695-7305 (914) 251-6851 Bill.miller507@gmail.com john.ackman@sdstate.edu david.grill@purchase.edu