An IATSE Local 1, ETCP-certified electrician, Kevin Barry has worked on many of New York's biggest shows of the last decade, including The Lion King, The Boy From Oz, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot and the current hit revival of Evita. Constantly striving to apply new technology in service of maintaining the quality of the lighting on his shows, he has been a FocusTrack user since 2006's Mary Poppins. He will provide support to FocusTrack's many users in New York and across America while continuing to work on Evita and other new productions.
"I'm delighted that Kevin is now a part of FocusTrack, rather than just one of its keenest users," comments FocusTrack's creator, Rob Halliday. "Having worked with him on a number of shows and experienced first-hand his positive, enthusiastic, can-do attitude, I can't think of anyone better to have as a first point of contact for the many electricians, programmers, associates and lighting designers already using FocusTrack or trying to find out how it could help them document their carefully-created lighting.
"Plus of course it will be invaluable to our many FocusTrack users in New York having someone right there when they need help during those critical tech rehearsal periods, rather than having to wait for a suitable overlap in time zones to England!"
"FocusTrack is the most comprehensive lighting tracking system I have ever used," comments Kevin Barry, "and it's been fascinating to be part of its evolution and development over the last few years as a user suggesting new features and sometimes seeing them implemented! Now I'm looking forward to playing a more direct role, working with Rob to introduce more people to FocusTrack and how it can help them document their lighting without all of the manual work of figuring out which lights are used in which positions that people have traditionally had to do."
(Jim Evans)
