Jack Bombard
About
Jack is a Lighting and Sound technician originally from Massachusetts. Over the last 4 years, they have been credited on over 20 productions for their work in lighting, sound, and video at Purchase. Please see below for some of their highlighted projects, and their resume for a more comprehensive list of their work.
Selected Work
Lighting and Electrics:
Purchase College Theatre and Performance, Spring 2025
Directed by Attilio Rigotti
My role: Lighting Designer
Notable Features of this production include:
- Live video playback from 3 cameras on stage
- Extremely limited playing space (A single 12’ diameter circle)
- No scenic or technical support
- Complex MIDI-based show control between lighting, audio, and video departments
Lighting Designer: Jack Bombard
Costume Designer: Judit Queral-Perramon
Sound Designer: Dana Freeman
Projection Designer: Attilio Rigotti
Production Stage Manager: Kylie Cottrell
Purchase College Theatre and Performance, Fall 2024
Directed by Rachel Dickstein
My role: Lighting Designer
Notable Features of this production include:
- Large kabuki-rigged curtains with varied paging positions
- Tension grid created complex photometric problems
- Immersive pre-show creating audience traffic through backstage and onstage areas
- Followspots
Lighting Designer: Jack Bombard
Scenic Designer: Luca Plitz
Costume Designer: Mace Veeder-Shave
Sound Designer: Will Schwerin
Technical Director: Ethan Chichester
Production Stage Manager: Morgan Rotman
The Colonial Theatre, Summer 2024
Directed by Marion Markham
My role: Production Electrician
Notable Features of this production include:
- Outdoor stage built from the ground up in a public park
- Managing rental equipment provided by PRG
- Supervising a crew with limited technical knowledge
- Atmospherics, including a variety of different foggers
Lighting Designer: Hailey O’Leary
Production Electrician: Jack Bombard
Scenic Design: John Tedeschi
Costume Design: Jaysen Engel
Sound Designer: Elizabeth Compere
Production Stage Manager: Ryan Zemanek
Sound:
Purchase Repertory Theatre, Spring 2025
Director: Dean Irby
My Role: Sound Designer
Notable Features of this production include:
- Managing the system design and load in of two shows in rep while also sound designing one of them
- Extremely realistic and subtle design involving speakers hidden in various props
- TiMax panLab used to help localize audio to specific points on stage
Sound Designer: Jack Bombard
Lighting Designer: Nolan Belcher
Scenic Designer: Jeison Lenis-Lopez
Costume Designer: Laura Sternbach
Technical Director: Shira Barnir
Production Stage Manager: Leo Griffin
Purchase Repertory Theatre, Fall 2023
Director: Cezar Williams
My role: Associate Sound Designer
Notable Features of this production include:
- Managing the system design and load in for two shows in rep with two different designers
- An onstage 3-piece band that needed to change over every night
- Wireless speakers hidden in costumes for voiceover effects
- Fully mic’d cast and many large singing moments
Sound Designer: David Fitzpatrick
Assoc. Sound Designer: Jack Bombard
Lighting Designer; Zach Dulny
Costume Designer: Michelle Rohr
Scenic Designer: Matilyn Tamplin
Technical Director: Sofia Lavion
Production Stage Manager: Claire Lindon-Dionne
Video:
Purchase Dance Company, Spring 2024
Choreographer: Cain Coleman
My role: Projection Designer
Notable Features of this production include:
- Live video playback from an onstage camera through Isadora
- Interfacing with house projector and video distribution system
Projection Designer: Jack Bombard
Lighting Designer: Becky Nussbaum
Asst. Lighting Designer: Nolan Belcher
Production Stage Manager: RJ Figueroa