Theatre Journalist Guest Blogger: Cheyenne Dalton has written 19 articles for BroadwayWorld since 2016, covering Birmingham theatre.
Cheyenne Dalton is a junior BFA: Theatre Design and Technology major at Auburn University with a focus in sound design and engineering. She has long been a writer, winning awards at state and regional levels, and having been published in an anthology of student voices. In her spare time, she enjoys wedding and lifestyle photography and painting.
I bet you think I'll say 'built in friends' or 'fun classes' or 'hanging out in the green room' or 'doing shows,' and while all of those things are great and mostly true, none of those things are the best thing about being a theatre major.
John Cage, an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist, was interested in finding and collecting ordinary sounds to use; he wanted to capture and control them to use them as musical instruments.
Very recently, I drove from Auburn to Atlanta to see one of my favorite bands at The Tabernacle - Two Door Cinema Club - and not only did I end up falling in love with them even more, but I also fell in love with Jack Garratt, who was opening for them.
For most shows by closing, I'm sitting at the soundboard, tired of hearing the dialogue: I'm memorizing the beats in the actors voices, tracing out lines on my palms, you name it.
I'm sure everyone knows the challenges that come with designing any given show - there's the actual design, the communication of the design, the (most-likely) compromise of the design, public relations, paperwork, implementation of the design, dry tech, cue to cue, 10 out of 12, dress rehearsals, pr
With the start of a new semester right around the corner, I began thinking about the new technicians and design students who are starting their freshman year at Auburn.
As someone who came from a family of electrical linemen and bankers and contract specialists, started out pre-vet in middle school, detoured to pre-med in high school, and finally to theatre - not only did my career choice fail to reach the goals previously set for me by my peers, my teachers, and m