Dawn! ☀️
dkenseth.bsky.social
Dawn! ☀️
@dkenseth.bsky.social
Head Electrican/IATSE Stagehand for Broadway National Tours… coming to a city near you? This left-handed cheesehead is now based in South Dakota. Also into photography, weather, museums & glass.
Between show naps on loadout day. #tourlife
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
More theatres should have grassy areas… where a bunch (?), pack(?), bouquet(?) of Belles can frolic after the show.

But also, what do you call a group of yellow Belles?

(PS- there were more of them running around before I could snap this pic… it was a very vibrant scene of green and yellow).
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Air quality in Chicago today is um, not great…. This photo was taken during checkout with NO HAZER RUNNING… 😬
July 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Everyone who’s seen movie/show probably knows Belle’s line where after Gaston leaves, she says “is he gone?”

Those in a little section at the back of the orchestra got a good giggle when a little girl in the audience answered “yes.”

#tourlife is back. Show(preview) #1 in the books.
June 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Our gafftape drawer celebrates Pride Month every day! #stageShotSunday
June 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes it’s May. Yes we have a stocked Halloween bucket. This workbox candy bucket is like three years old, but still going strong and critical to the success of the show.
May 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
For my fellow Lighting nerds:
May 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Previous show has some leftover dry ice… I am accepting ideas for where Hamilton could use it…
April 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I got to focus lights this week!

When most of my tours are now 90-100% MLs, and/or because I am usually delegating this task away to others… this is now a rarely used skill!

#StageShotSunday
March 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This is an example of a very ugly bad day parking lot loadin: #USITT25
March 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Six semesters of sewing in my college’s costume shop has prepared me for this moment:

….repairing dog toys so they might survive another 5 minutes. 🤦🏼‍♀️
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
For #StageShotSunday: I present a pic of the Seattle Paramount in “flat floor/loadin mode.” #tourlife

All the orchestra seats flip down and the floor lifts up to the stage level. There’s not a lot of room backstage- so having this floor space for rigging cases/ cablebins/ carts/ etc is awesome.
February 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Saw this about 10min after taking off from FSD (Sioux Falls, SD). Kudos to this farmer (or the hand).
February 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This pin was advertised to me on Insta. Perfect. No notes.
January 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A crewmember on this community theatre gig doing “stage crew” for the first time got all of us these pins.

Yeah, I’d say he gets it. 😂
December 19, 2024 at 12:30 AM
I’ll never stop doing #stageshotSunday - Today it’s from my gig volunteering as SL deck crew with a community theatre Christmas Carol. 👍
December 15, 2024 at 8:35 PM
So if you care to find me, look to the western sky…”
November 27, 2024 at 8:25 PM
It’s a little odd to try and start a new social media acct when on vacation and 13hours ahead of the US. I promise I usually talk about theatre touring and/or theatre tech and/or lighting design …

But for now: Jeju island!
November 21, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Today we visited the Nexon Computer Museum in Jeju Island, South Korea. 3 floors of nerdy history of computers, hardware, peripherals & gaming… Interactive exhibits included a bunch of OG arcade (space invaders) and SEGA/Dreamcast racing games.
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Hello world.
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 AM