Eric H. Mayer

Eric H. Mayer
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Scholarship Award Date: Spring 2002 & Winter 2003
Graduation: Spring 2003
Emphasis: Stage Management and Sound Design

Eric's recent activities include serving as Stage Manager for Sleep Deprivation Chamber and the MFA New Works prodcution of Sueño. Recent Sound Designs include The Book of Boyhood and Twelfth Night. Eric has also worked with students at Grandview Heights High School in Columbus, Ohio to share theatre experience and introduce students to the various design, administrative, and technical areas that exist in the theatre industry.

Some of the productions Eric has worked on with The Ohio State University include Sound Designer for the MFA New Works production of Bridge of Bodies, Wit and Private Words: The Hiding of Anne Frank's Diary; Assistant Sound Designer for Uncommon Clay, Peer Gynt, and Orpehus Descending; and Stage Manager for St. Joan of the Stockyards (not to mention numerous run crews and set-up crews). From 1998-2002, Eric served as a member of the Student Staff for The Ohio State University Marching Band, including three years as Head manager. He has also done extensive work on the Department of Theatre website.

Eric has also worked at Six Flags Great America (Gurnee, IL) where he served as a sound technician for Love at First Fright and Zajie! An Acrobatic Adventure as well as the Southern Theatre (Columbus, OH). Upon graduation, he filled in the position of Undergraduate Studies Coordinator for the Department of Theatre to save up some money before moving to New York to begin his pursuit of becoming a Broadway Stage Manager.