Blake School of the Arts House Rep Plots

A printed page of the Blake rep plot with a breakup gobo projected across it during focus

Howard W. Blake School of the Arts is Tampa's performing-arts magnet high school, and a former teaching home: Mike served on the theatre faculty there. In January 2025 he re-documented the lighting rigs in both of the school's venues, drafting as-built house repertory plots for the Don Thompson Theatre and the Black Box plus the full supporting package: channel hookups, an instrument schedule, a magic sheet, and the hang cards from load-in.

The Don Thompson Theatre

The Don Thompson Theatre Repertory Light Plot , preview

Lighting Plot · 6 pages

Repertory Light Plot

Six plates: overstage and FOH hangs, dance booms, focus areas, a centerline section, and hot circuits.

Supporting Paperwork

The Don Thompson Theatre House Rep Magic Sheet , preview

Magic Sheet · 1 page

House Rep Magic Sheet

One-page channel breakdown of the house rep rig.

The Don Thompson Theatre Channel Hookup , preview

Channel Hookup · 10 pages

Channel Hookup

Every channel in the rep rig with position, unit, instrument type, and load.

The Don Thompson Theatre Instrument Schedule , preview

Instrument Schedule · 33 pages

Instrument Schedule

The rig position by position, every unit with its channel, purpose, and color.

The Don Thompson Theatre Hang Cards , preview

Hang Cards · 10 pages

Hang Cards

Per-position cards the crew hung from at the January 2025 load-in.

Black Box Theatre

Black Box Theatre Repertory Light Plot , preview

Lighting Plot · 1 page

Repertory Light Plot

Single-plate as-built of the five-bay grid hang.

Supporting Paperwork

Black Box Theatre Channel Hookup , preview

Channel Hookup · 3 pages

Channel Hookup

Every channel in the Black Box rig with position, unit, instrument type, and load.

Behind the Scenes

A laptop running ETC Concert in the theater, showing the building's Sensor dimmer racks on the network map — The building's Sensor racks reporting in, in ETC Concert.

A laptop running Pathscape listing the school's Pathport wall-mount nodes and their IP addresses, with the stage beyond — Every Pathport node in the building, online and addressed, in Pathscape.

A breakup gobo projected across a printed page of the rep plot during focus — A breakup gobo lands on the plot during focus.

A clipboard holding a hand-marked Black Box grid hang worksheet, lit in purple stage light — The Black Box grid hang, marked up on the clipboard.