Leigh Downes

Leigh graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2009 with a BSEE-Tech and returned to Watertown to work as an AV Engineer. He's an alum of the Watertown Children's Theatre, WHS Drama Club, former RIT Players' President and treasurer, and advocate of deaf theatre at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT. He has been working tech for live music, theatre, and dance for over ten years, specializing in sound systems and lighting design.

He has been the Technical Director, Set Builder, and electrician for almost all of Flat Earth’s productions, helping bring the cast and audience to a distant moon (On This Moon), a musical pirate ship (Pirate Lives!), a dusty attic starscape (Rocket Man), and further.

Flat Earth Credits

Pinch Point (Technical Assistance)7 Rooms: The Masque of the Red Death (Technical Director)One Giant Leap (Technical Coordinator)X (Tech Director)King of Shadows (Tech Director)Not Medea (Asst Tech Director)Delicate Particle Logic (Tech Consultant)Antigone (Tech Advisor)A Bright Room Called Day (Technical Advisor)Fat Pig (Asst. Tech Director)Silent Sky (Tech Director)Dead But Dreaming (Electrician)Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo (Assistant Tech Director)Radium Girls (Asst. Tech Director)The Farnsworth Invention (Tech Director)Terra Nova (Tech Director)Pygmalion (Build Chief)Reader (Technical Director)What Once We Felt (Technical Director)Lovecraft's Unnamable Tales (Electrician)Rocket Man (Technical Director)Enigma Variations (Technical Director)The Memorandum (Technical Director)Citizens of the Empire (Technical Director)The Pillowman (Technical Director)Pirate Lives! The Musical! (Technical Director)Bug (Producer)The Underpants (Master Carpenter)The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Build Chief)As Bees In Honey Drown (Technical Director)The Bomb (Lighting Design)On This Moon (Technical Director)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Technical Director)War of the Worlds (2009) (Technical Director)Blood Relations (Lighting Designer)Durang One-Acts (Director, Actor's Nightmare; Technical Director)The Glass Menagerie (Lighting Design)No Exit (Lighting Designer)All In The Timing (Technical Director)Joe (Sound Designer)