Elaine J. McCarthy
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May 11, 1966 Woburn, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | video designer |
Elaine J. McCarthy is an American projection and video designer for theater and opera.
She was born in Woburn, Massachusetts May 11, 1966 and grew up in nearby Arlington, Massachusetts. She is the sister of cinematographer Stephen McCarthy
McCarthy is married and lives in Connecticut.
Intending to study Political Science, McCarthy initially attended Catholic University in Washington, D.C. but subsequently left to pursue other interests. She eventually enrolled at New York University where she earned a B.F.A. in Photography & Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts, Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.
McCarthy held an administrative job in the early years of the MIT Media Lab, where she learned about computers. “I was exposed to the most bleeding-edge technology and everybody in that environment had a point of view to add, whether you were a tenured professor, or, like me, a glorified secretary — it was all part of the mix. That was my first exposure to a barrier-free environment.” This experience led her to the MIT Community Players which was her first exposure to the idea of theater as a potential career. After that she worked with an experimental theater company, the Pilgrim Theater Research and Performance Collaborative. While stage managing for them at the Edinburgh Festival it became clear to her that she wished to pursue a career in theater. She eventually worked her way to New York City working as a design assistant to noted projection designer Wendall K. Harrington through whose studio many of today's top projection design practitioners have passed. This is where she saw her varied interests in technology, art, design, photography, architecture, film and theater come together in one discipline, projection design for theater.”
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