WAYNE T. HOSKINS
Extra-class licensee as of October 18, 2004!
previously KC5ECO
10-X 74208

I've been licensed since November 1993. I was in the seventh grade at the time. Presently I'm entering my sixth year at college, a theatre major at The University Of Texas At Arlington. Many things have changed in the last ten years.

I don't have any regular schedule of operating, but I do try to make both the Cowtown and the Lone Star chapters of Ten-Ten International weekly, as well as the weekly roundtable with the Burleson Radio Club.

It is a goal of mine to improve my Morse code proficiency in the near future, since I do want to become a good CW operator, and I am most certainly very QLF now, and my code-hearing skills are very lacking. The experts say that, like any language, the best way to advance is to use it regularly; so that will be a goal. First I must get a decent key such as a J-38.

LIGHTING DESIGN

I'm studying and experimenting with theatrical lighting design. I've had the wonderful opportunity to have been for two seasons the resident guest lighting designer at Lamar High School in Arlington. It was really enjoyable, but ended due to troubles with the technical faculty. Designing for the high school stage offers a number of perks to the student designer that he does not really enjoy at university or professional theatre, the most notable of these being his personal freedom to experiment. In an environment where the standard is rather high (like university theatre), the designer is not going to experiment much or stray far from what he knows will work. Designing for high school theatre eases that standard significantly, because no matter how bad the design ends up being, it will look no worse than a stereotypical "high school play".

In the course of the 2003-2004 season I had the pleasure of lighting the musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, the children's musical ALICE IN WONDERLAND (well, this one was for children, regardless of anyone's opinion of Lewis Carroll's book or other stage plays based upon it), and the comedy THE MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940 (which is not a musical comedy itself), all at the high school. I've also lit several local dance shows and John Garcia's The Column Awards.

Over the summer of 2003 I worked at Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth, where I had the pleasure of working with tech director Karl Bontrager (who has since returned to Ohio) and engineering Lake Simons's interpretation of ALICE IN WONDERLAND with live music written by John Dyer and performed by a rock combo featuring the composer.

During the 2002-2003 season at the high school I lit the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Wilder's OUR TOWN, and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Some looked good, and some looked just regular. Good experimenting.

From 1999 to 2002 I was the technical director for the student ministry at Pantego Bible Church, but then it was time to move on to bigger and better things. Since then I've had time to get my foot in the door of real professional theatre (which I could not do before because of time constraints) and play around with lighting design at the high school and other places.

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