In secondary school, I became involved in technical theatre following my brief foray into acting in primary school. Over the five years at secondary school, I worked on 6 plays, including one at an external theatre over the summer of 2012. In my final two years, I was head of lighting and was awarded drama colours - awarded for substantial contribution to or achievement in drama -  for my work over the five years.

As a lighting designer and operator, I needed to be organised an efficient in communicating with the director to understand what style and mood they wanted to be conveyed during the play and in individual scenes, which I then conceptualised in a lighting design. Following this, along with a team of junior lighting designers, I would spend a week or two in the theatre rigging lights and "plotting" the cues. A full weekend of technical rehearsals and a dress rehearsal later, the first night would arrive. If a lantern blew or a cue was triggered too early, too late or not in sync with sound or stage management, we had to think on our feet to work around the issue with minimal disturbance to the show. Indeed, during one performance, we had a total power cut that plunged the theatre into darkness. Using torches and power from a neighbouring building, we continued the show!

My final show at secondary school was the opening gala of the St. Paul's School new drama centre that featured a new thrust stage theatre with a tension wire grid overhead.

At Harvard, I was the assistant lighting designer for a show in the spring 2017 semester and continue to be engaged with the theatre community.