AVONDALE, Arizona – Foreshadowing in the arts triggers a suspenseful anticipation of future events to its audience. The hiring of a new Theatre Technical Coordinator at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) can be cast as foreshadowing of a new artistic venue for the West Valley.
Tim Butterfield has been hired as the first Theatre Technical Coordinator for the college’s new Performing Arts Center (PAC) scheduled to open in spring of 2015. As the campus prepares for the grand opening, Butterfield will be responsible for every aspect of the inner-workings of the PAC, including budgeting, purchasing capital equipment, technical direction, staging, rigging, lighting, sound, working with arts faculty and developing some academic content of his own.
“The introduction of this new Performing Arts Center and the benefit it will bring the students and surrounding communities are a natural and fortuitous bond that I am proud to be a part of. “
Butterfield grew up in Arizona and attended Scottsdale Community College before heading to the bright lights of New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Theatre from Brooklyn College and his Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) in Directing from New School of Drama.
In addition to working Off and Off-off Broadway, Butterfield directed the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation awards for several years, two notable short films and achieved many other theatrical accomplishments.
While in New York, Butterfield taught classes, workshops and has lectured for various educational and private institutions. Some subjects he has taught were stage combat, playwriting, dramaturgy, acting, Meyerhold and biomechanics, and creating devised work. His method of providing feedback for artists, especially young playwrights, was sought out to lead talk-back and development sessions for many writers and NY theaters.
In Arizona, Butterfield was a co-founder and producing director of Nearly Naked Theater and artistic director for both Theaterscape and Is What it Is Theater. He worked as a designer (lighting, sound, costume and scenic) for The Actor’s Group, Arizona Theater Company, Theater Works and many others. He worked as a designer (lighting, sound, costume and scenic) for The Actor’s Group, Arizona Theater Company, Theater Works and many others. Drawing on his training from the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Butterfield has also amassed a sizable list of fight direction credits in the valley as well as New York.