Scott Dahl
Blue Man Group
Las Vegas, NV USA
"Jump in and do [something]...be a part of the world and make connections."
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
Immerse yourself in the arts. It doesn't matter where, what the budget is, or who it's with, the more experience you have the better.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General
University of Minnesota-Duluth
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
1.
Grew up outside of Minneapolis, MN.
2.
As a sophomore in high school, he started getting involved in theater by building scenery and helping with the lighting and audio for various productions.
3.
Attended the University of Minnesota in Duluth, where he received his degree in theater with a technical emphasis on lighting and sound.
4.
Says his professional career began while he was still in college, where he worked with a lot of community theaters and events.
5.
He got the opportunity to work as the Assistant Manager of the Weber Music Hall on the University of Minnesota campus, where he worked on a variety of musicals and concerts.
6.
He also worked for summer stock theaters all across the country for two to three months every year when he wasn’t in school.
7.
After graduating, he landed a job working as an assistant on audio for the national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific.
8.
Shortly after, he began working on the audio for the Blue Man Group’s National Tour—he is now the Head of Audio for their residency show in Las Vegas at the Luxor Hotel & Casino.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
If there is anything outside of theater that you are interested in, you should probably be doing that.
How I responded:
There is this negativity that theater is really tough and hard to break into. I just kept working hard and doing all of the theater work that I could in order to get ahead.