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External Links

Access Equipment

• Aluminium Access Products Tallescope manufacturers [UK]

Associations

• ABTTAC Automation Committee - Association of British Theatre Technicians [UK]

Companies

• Absolute Motion Control [London]
• Broadweigh Portable wireless load monitoring [UK]
• Motor-Stage Automation [Denmark]
• PRG Scenic Rigging & Automation [USA]
• Specialised Stage Engineering (SSE) Entertainment Rigging [Australia]
• Unusual Rigging Rigging, suspension and automation [London, UK]

Discussion Forums

• Podcast: Theatrewolf History and Innovation in a wide range of technical theatre areas

Equipment

• Flint Hire & Supply [UK]
• Ironclad Performance Work Gloves [Los Angeles, CA, USA]
• Pockit Utility holsters & accessories for your tools [USA]
• Setwear Gloves, belts, bags [CA, USA]
 Flightcases / Touring >> 3D Flight Cases Professional UK flight case manufacturers [UK] Flightcases / Touring >> BCS Manufacturing Flightcases Flightcases / Touring >> Packhorse Flightcases [Peterborough, UK]

Health & Safety

• Health & Safety Executive [UK]
• Online Sign Free Printable Safety Sign Maker

Jobs

• Automation London Theatre Automation & Motion Control jobs [London, UK]

Manufacturers

• Clear-Com Headsets [USA]
• Eartec Wireless Headsets [USA]
• Tait Scenic Rigging & Automation

Practitioners

• Theater Art Life - Andrew Mudie (Rigger)
• Theater Art Life - James Busby (Rigger)
• Theater Art Life - Tora La Rosa (Rigger)

Resources

• Animated Knots [USA]
• Doodsons Entertainment Public Liability Insurance etc. [UK]
• Multipoint Suspension - not as easy as it seems Essential reading!
• Podcast: Circuit & Gear - Scenic Automation
• Riggers Page Information & Resources [USA]

Software

• Spikemark Scenic Automation & Visualisation

Suppliers

• Bickers Lifting Lodestar & Hoist Stagemaker dealers [East England, UK]
• BJ Hardware Scenic and Ironmongery [London, UK]
• Cablenet Tension wire grid from Slingco [UK]
• Chabuki Kabuki Drop Mechanism [USA]
• Doughty Engineering [UK/USA]
• Exhibit and Display Truss [Pickering, Ontario, Canada]
• Flints Theatrical Chandlers Tools and Supplies [London, UK]
• Frameset Modular Scenic Backdrops & Projection Surfaces [UK]
• Glantre Engineering Ltd [Berkshire, UK]
• H&H Specialities Drapes, Curtain Tracks [CA. USA]
• Heightec Equipment for working at height and rescue [Cumbria, UK]
• https://www.showtex.com/en/products/hardware/roll-reveal-systems/hispeed-reveal Hi-Speed Cloth Reveal [Belgium / International]
• James Thomas Engineering
• JR Clancy Rigging, suspension and automation [NY, USA]
• LTM / Lift Turn Move Lifting Equipment [UK]
• Lyon Equipment Personal fall-protection & safety [Cumbria, UK]
• Manila Cordage Company Ropes [Phillipines]
• National Access & Rescue Centre (NARC) [Cumbria, UK]
• Nicopress Compression sleeves for wire rope and tools
• OPTI Kinetics Truss
• Peter Albrecht Hoists & Rigging Systems [USA]
• Sapsis Rigging [USA]
• Secoa Rigging [USA]
• Sico Inc. Folding stages and tables [UK]
• StageDex (by Prolyte) Staging System
• Stagelam Flooring for stages
• The Crosby Group Lifting and rigging accessories including Crosby Clips
• TMB Electrical. lighting and rigging equipment
• Total Solutions Group Trussing & Rigging [Birmingham, UK]
• Triple E Curtain tracks and entertainment engineering solutions [UK]
• Wire Rope Direct [UK ]

Unions / Associations

• AAPTLE Alliance of Associations & Professionals in Theatre and Live Events [UK]
• ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) Training, Advice, Membership [London, UK]
• Actors Equity [American actors and stage managers] [USA]
• ALIA Australasian Lighting Industry Association [Australasia]
• LPA Live Performance Australia
• PLASA UK Professional Lighting & Sound Association [UK]
• USITT United States Institute for Theatre Technology [USA]

Video Resources

• Backstage at the Royal Opera House - The Opera Machine Full access to 21 cameras backstage for Act III of the Ring Cycle