Curriculum Vitae
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Current Employment
Previous Employment
Stage and Screen production list
May 1986. First time my teenage writing got mentioned on the cover! |
A few
quick words…
What follows is a web version of my standard c.v. It’s pretty boring (unless you’re looking to employ me, in which case it’s a laugh a minute riotous adventure in careering). It’s also very long,
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printer friendly version which won’t use up so much paper. CV. Vital Statistics: Date of Birth: Address: 53, E-mail: jay@orbaum.co.uk Tel: (01483) 829084 Education: ‘A’
Levels in Drama, English Literature, and Pure Maths; B-Tech in Human
Relations, A/O
Level in Physics. 8 ‘O’
Levels, A/O level Maths, CSE Grade 1 in French. Computer Skills: Able
to fix software and hardware problems on PCs and networks. Fluent
in: Microsoft Word, Access, Excel; Adobe Photoshop, Premiere,
After-FX; Macromedia Director (including Lingo); Corel Draw, Steinberg Cubase
VST Score, Halyon, Wavelab; Cinema 4D and S.F. Acid Pro. Familiar
with: Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand and Flash 4 (some MX),
Cool Edit Pro, Quark Xpress, Sound Forge, Cakewalk, Logic Audio Pro, 3D
Studio Max, Media 100, Maya. Please Note: I have only
included the more important or relevant jobs here as to list all of the
projects in which I have been involved would take several pages and be very
boring. Also, I have listed my Theatre
as a table on the final page and so have not gone into detail below. Current Jobs: 2003 – Present.
Video Teacher. Academy of
Contemporary Music, Guildford. Working
with students aged between 13 and 26 this course, which I also designed,
teaches potential pop artists how to understand and become comfortable with
video. 1999 – Present. Youth Theatre Director. Cranleigh Arts Centre, Cranleigh. Working
with children aged from 6 to 16 as a teacher, director, and enabler. 2001 – Present.
Writer/Editor. Sci-Fi Channel,
London. I am
currently the Farscape consultant for the Sci-Fi channel and have worked on
trailers, the website, and writing for a telephone poll. 1999 – Present. Oxygen Designs, Work
has included web design and content, programming, negotiation, and technical
support. 1998 – Present. Holocaust Day, I
visit annually as a specialist teacher running workshops on themes of
discrimination and prejudice. 1998 – Present. Sex Education, Working
with Amanda Farrell I visit the school bi-annually to provide Boell Method
PSE education to the lower sixth form. 1983 – Present. Drama Teacher. I have
been teaching sporadically for this group since I grew too old to be a member
at the tender age of fifteen. 2000 – 2002. Computer Technician. Music Education Consultants, This
regular freelance work involves designing, constructing, installing and
testing Music PC systems for schools throughout August 2002. Tech Crew and Marketing Support, Naked
Voices, I provided lighting and sound support,
including rigging the theatre with microphones to record a live album, and
helping with marketing and promotions. Summer Term
2002. Film Course Teacher, Farnham
Youth, The Maltings, Farnham. Working with a group of 16-19 year olds
over six weeks they were introduced to basic skills used in front of and
behind the camera, and shown how these skills can be integrated with the
theatre. 1999 – 2001.
Producer/Writer/Director.
Little Britley on The Water. This animated satire pilot was produced to
broadcast quality on a shoestring budget by a team of thirteen people over
two years. For this project I learned
animation and 3-D modelling, as well as writing, directing, scoring and
voicing some of the characters with a cast which included Victoria Hamilton. 2000 – 2001. Writer/Designer. Rebellion Software, I wrote a 45,000 word plotline and
designed levels for a game based on The Wolfman. 1997 – 1999. Youth Theatre Director/Teacher, Stage Door,
Ran regular workshops and helped the
students to devise and shoot three short video films. 1996 – 1998. Teacher, Director. NP Productions, This work included directing summer “Play
in a Month” courses for adults as listed in the table. 1997-1998.
Teacher / Director. The Daylight
Project, This was the most challenging work I have
ever undertaken; attempting to produce a devised piece with a group of
homeless individuals in a daytime drop-in centre. 1995 – 1998. Artistic Director, Young Actors Company,
(16–19 yrs), I was employed by Hampshire County Council
to teach teenagers and facilitate them in starting their own companies. 1995 – 1996. Writer/Director/Designer. Virtuality Ltd, I was the foremost game designer working
in virtual reality at that time and provided plots, dialogue, and music, as
well as directing motion and voice capture sessions. 1995 – 1996. Producer/Engineer. The Doozers (Album). Trinity Studios, Knaphill. 1994 – 1995. Writer/Director. Sun Microsystems, Bagshot. I was contracted to write and direct the
staff in a “Richard and Judy” pastiche.
They weren’t as good as the homeless guys! 1992 – 1995. Artistic Director.
Synaesthesia Theatre Company. This company was formed by Phil Gibby and
me, in order to bring new works to the local and national stage. We regularly took productions to 1995 – 1998.
Founding Partner and Director.
Dead Stupid Productions. My business partner and I produced
best-selling comedy posters, novelty goods, radio plays and TV Pilots. 1991 – 1994.
Artistic Director. Blackwater
Community Theatre Company, Hampshire County Council. This is the job where I honed my directing
skills working on projects from Shaw to Shakespeare. 1992 – 1993. The Butterfly Effect, based in Horsell,
Woking. I worked as a musician and songwriter
producing two albums and playing gigs across Europe. 1990 – 1995. Writer/Designer. Domark Software, Addlestone. I designed, scored, and wrote and directed
dialogue for computer games. 1986 – 1989.
Artistic Director. Primitive
Symbolism Theatre Company. Founded straight from college (hence the
dreadful name) the company was best known for the multiple award winning AIDS Project, a peer to peer TIE production
which toured extensively throughout England for three years. 1984 – 1986. Red Shift Youth Theatre, London. Under the tutelage of my college drama
teacher I worked as a performer, assistant director, and composer on the City
Limits Recommended sell-out production of “The Good Person of Schetzuan”. Hobbies. I enjoy writing, playing, and recording
music, going to all forms of live performance, walking in the countryside,
debating politics and religion, reading books and comics (a much maligned
art-form), and enjoying a glass of wine in the company of my friends. I am co-founder of the popular Guildford
Songwriter’s Night, and have helped to organise and run one of the stages at
the Ambient Green festival in Shalford for the last two years. |
Table
of all Stage and Screen productions.
Title |
Role |
Notes |
Date |
Little Reality |
Writer/Director/Editor |
In pre-production. |
2003 |
Writer |
In pre-pre-production. |
2003 |
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Hot Male |
Writer |
Optioned for development |
2002 |
Writer |
Not yet produced |
2002 |
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A Time Machine |
Director |
Devised Youth Piece |
2002 |
Writer / Director |
Four night trial run |
2002 |
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Shoot |
Director |
Devised Youth Piece |
2002 |
Oliver |
Director / MD |
Cranleigh Youth Theatre |
2001 |
Bugsy Malone |
Director / MD |
Cranleigh Youth theatre |
2000 |
Writer / Actor / Director |
Khaotik |
1999 |
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The Wizard of Oz |
Director / MD |
Cranleigh Youth theatre |
1999 |
The Body |
Director |
Aldershot YAC |
1998 |
The Body |
Director |
NP Summer adult course |
1998 |
The Daylight Project |
Workshop Director |
Homeless shelter |
1998 |
Jocasta |
Director |
Kings Rd, London |
1997 |
Find Me |
Director |
Aldershot YAC |
1997 |
Writer / Director |
Dead Stupid Productions |
1997 |
|
The Crucible |
Director |
NP Summer adult course |
1997 |
Caliope |
Adapter / Director / Actor |
Dead Stupid Productions |
1996 |
The Caucasian Chalk Circle |
Director |
NP Summer adult course |
1996 |
A Montage of Shakespeare |
Writer/Performer |
Centrestage |
1996 |
City of Angels |
Performer (Stine) |
Proteus |
1995 |
Writer |
"Far Write" anti-fascist theatre night. |
1995 |
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Sunny Morning |
Writer/Director |
TV satire for Sun Microsystems |
1995 |
Pygmalion |
Director |
Synaesthesia |
1995 |
Kill Your Partner |
Writer/Director/Performer |
Synaesthesia |
1995 |
Writer / Director |
SE and Edinburgh |
1994 |
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Major Barbara |
Director |
Community Theatre. |
1994 |
The Measures Taken |
Co-Director |
Synaesthesia |
1993 |
Accidental Death of an Anarchist |
Director |
Synaesthesia |
1993 |
Season of Mists |
Adaptor / Director |
Synaesthesia |
1993 |
Hamlet |
Performer (Hamlet) |
Synaesthesia |
1993 |
Julius Caesar |
Director |
Community Theatre. |
1993 |
The Crucible |
Director |
Community Theatre. |
1992 |
A Savage Reminiscence |
Performer (Caliban) |
Synaesthesia |
1992 |
Christie in Love |
Director |
Synaesthesia |
1992 |
Untitled |
Director |
Synaesthesia |
1992 |
The Tone Deaf Detective |
Director |
Community Theatre. |
1992 |
Human Cyclone |
Writer/Director |
Community Theatre. |
1992 |
Alice |
Composer / Adaptor / Dir. |
Community Theatre. |
1991 |
Untitled |
Writer / Performer |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1990 |
Little Shop of Horrors |
Performer (Seymour) |
Proteus |
1989 |
Habeas Corpus |
Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1989 |
Meaning |
Writer / Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1987 |
Paranoia |
Writer / Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1987 |
Human Remains |
Adaptor / Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1987 |
The Yattering and Jack |
Adaptor / Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1987 |
Writer / Director / Perf. |
Multiple award winning |
1986 |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Adaptor / Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1986 |
The Tone Deaf Detective |
Writer |
Satire on consumerism. |
1985 |
Stone |
Director |
Primitive Symbolism. |
1985 |
The Good Person of Schetzuan |
Composer / Ass Dir / Perf. |
Red Shift Youth, Edinburgh Festival. |
1985 |
Love is a Major Seventh |
Writer / Director |
Won youth award. |
1985 |
Spring Awakening |
Performer (Melchior) |
Red Shift Youth Theatre |
1984 |