EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Bachelor of Fine Arts | Queensland University of Technology | 2019 - 2021
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Major - Technical Productions
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Experience in Stage Management, Lighting, Sound and Vision design and operation, Stage design, Scenography and collaborative practice.
Theatre Internship | Brisbane Arts Theatre | 2017 - 2019
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Advanced knowledge in all theatre practices: Acting, Musical Theatre, Directing, Technical Services and Theatre OH&S
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Show involvement includes:
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The Boy from Oz 2017
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Student Showcase 2017
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Shrek the Musical 2018
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Student Showcase 2018
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South East Queensland One Act Plays Circuit 2018
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle 2019
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Student Showcase 2019
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Dual Degree: Bachelor of Arts (Music and Drama), Bachelor of Education (Secondary) | The University of Queensland | 2015 - 2016 (incomplete)
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3 Semesters completed
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Experience in theatre practices and performance, music history and performance, education pedagogy
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Education Placement at Tullawong State High School, Caboolture
PROFESSIONAL SKILLSET
MANAGERIAL
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Production Manager, Deputy Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager
DESIGN
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Scenography - Lighting, Sound, Set, Props & Costume
PROGRAMS
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Sound: QLab, Abelton, Logic, ProTools, Garageband, Reaper + Spitfire Audio, Audacity
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Vectorworks
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SketchUp
PERFORMANCE
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Acting
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Singing
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Violin Studies
BIO
Kayla Cahill is an emerging Brisbane-based Stage Manager and Theatre Technician specialising in prop creation and sound design. Kayla is a future QUT Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate, graduating with a degree in Technical Productions. With her extensive managerial background, Kayla enjoys the challenge that being a manager offers and thrives to succeed in a collaborative project. Kayla explores the array of creative mediums through the projects she is involved in and aims to create, design and manager theatre and/or live event works that inspire, educate and entertain audience members. Through a process of in-depth research and analysis of the chosen topic that the project puts forward, Kayla aims to provide ideas and her knowledge of the technical elements to help captivate a diverse audience through traditional or new works. Through a collaboration with experienced designers and a knowledge of what our audience want to see, Kayla wishes to challenge the contemporary elements of design and create works that peep into the future of technology through different live mediums.
Please contact me directly to acquire my personal CV.
CREDITS
Stage Management
CREDITS
Sound
CREDITS
Other
2021
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Summer and Smoke | QUT Virtual Productions | Production Stage Manager
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Gloria | QUT Live Performance Studio | Deputy Stage Manager
2020
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Romeo and Juliet | QUT Virtual Productions | Deputy Stage Manager
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Looking Through Glass | QUT Intermedial Theatre Project | Production Stage Manager
2019
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Sauce Girlz | QUT Graduating BFA Drama | Deputy Stage Manager
2021
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Gloria | QUT Live Performance Studio | Head of Sound & co-Sound Designer
2020
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From the Outside In | QUT Production Arts Project | Head of Sound & Sound Designer
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Dinner | QUT Graduating BFA Acting | Head of Sound
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Love and Money | QUT Graduating BFA Acting | Head of Sound
2019
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Tabula Rasa | QUT Graduating BFA Drama | Sound Operator
2021
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Standing By 2021 | Launch and Exhibition Coordinator | Graduating Cohort of QUT Technical Production
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Return to the Dirt | Queensland Theatre | Secondment
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The Marriage of Figaro | Opera Queensland | Secondment
2020
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Ishmael | Dead Puppet Society's Creative Development, Research and Process | General Assistant
