Meet Former Electrics Intern - Scott Ross

Meet Scott Ross

In 2010 my now wife and I decided to move to Michigan for the 2010-2011 season as the Electrics Intern. I learned many skills in those 9 months. 

After the internship I took many of those skills and worked for a variety of Metro Detroit venues. I was a stagehand at The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, the Staff Lighting Designer/Master Electrician for Henry Ford College, and I was also given a few opportunities to be the Lighting Designer at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre. 

Then around 2013 I was asked to return to Meadow Brook as the assistant master electrician.  I really enjoyed working on so many different productions. It was great to come in update some equipment, help interns, and work around the staff and designers that I really respected.

While I loved my time in the Metro Detroit area (I am a car enthusiast), some things were changing. I just got married the summer of 2014 and an opportunity for my wife & I arose for us in our home state of Pennsylvania. When we left Metro Detroit, we knew we would be back. 

Back home I started to work with event companies and high schools where I could do lighting designs and work concerts. Within a year I found myself working with my family business where I manage a body shop. A bit of change but Meadow Brook did prepare me to do this by learning the various management styles. 

The story does not end there. I got a call from former, Production Manager, Sarah Warren in the fall of 2017 to see if I was available to work on Tenderly for the spring. Of course, I took that opportunity. I always wanted to design at Meadow Brook. Reid Johnson, former Staff Lighting Designer/Master Electrician, taught me everything I needed to know about the space. Tenderly went well enough and I have been lucky to come back once a season. I was able to design Stickfly, Working, and coming up I will be back for Writing Kevin Taylor.