Aurora Beacon-News: Whether he's creating oversized hot pink high heels or fiber optic displays, work is one big stage for Stefan Koniarz.
Which makes perfect sense when you consider the fact this 31-year-old Aurora man started out his career in theater — as a production technician responsible for making all those components of a live show so magical for folks in the audience.
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Of course this man was a project manager and builder of sets for theatre. The key components of building a show is budgeting money, people, time, and space, and it seems like Koniarz has mastered that when it comes to his exhibit projects. He being able to produce such amazing structures and designs in such a short period of time is amazing, and definitely a skill he was able to adapt and evolve to have from his time at Chicago Scenic Studios and in the theatre world. What I love about theatre artists is that they are so deeply dedicated to their work and work ethic and that carries over into everything they do – on and off stage. You can see that clearly with Koniarz: " 'I remember their faces when they saw the full marquee we build to replicate the Fargo Theater' inside the museum, he said. 'The challenge is to make it absolutely sparkle any way I could ... on a budget' ". Hope to one day have enough skill to create a product just as sparkling and true to the passion I have for theatre.
This article hit on one of the things that I love about theater the most. The newness of it all. The fact that you get to create something new that has probably never been don’t before. Theater also brings its own challenges because there are usually really strict deadlines and figuring how to work with those deadlines and constrictions is a fun component all in itself. One of the points that I found very relevant in this article was when it was talking about fulfilling a clients design idea and still staying on budget. In my life I haven’t really had to deal with insane monetary budget constraints but what I have had to budget is my time. Figuring out what I can physically do in the time I am given without majorly compromising m design idea. This is a hard thing for me to do because I hate compromising on my design and I am a person that would rather put in crazy hours than down scale or change my design. But this year I am learning this skill of the compromise more and more. I’m learning that it is not giving up if you have to change some things it is just working smarter and being reasonable and valuing your wellbeing.
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