Elizabeth Booth

Bio:

Elizabeth Booth is a 3rd year technical stage and automation student from Aberdeen. When she leaves RCS, she hopes to continue touring and working with automation and rigging in the events industry and Opera.

Whilst studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Elizabeth has, through the grants and funding from RCS, been able to do UK rigging training, and receive her IPAF 3A 3B Licence. Elizabeth has worked professionally on large scale operas, acting performances, contemporary work, and corporate events and has had the opportunity to build and utilise her unique toolset of stagecraft and technical problem-solving skills.

Skills:

• IPAF 3a/3b certificate
• PAV certificate
• Hoists and winches
• Automation programming
• TAIT EpiQ
• Kinesis vector
• Vectorworks
• Outdoor venue rigs
• Builds
• Theatrical flying systems
• Performer flying
• Rigging automation
• Rigging for stage
• Stage carpentry
• Lighting rigging and operating
• Knowledge of power, heavy mains and data
• Touring within theatre
• Swing tech

Work Experience:

Professional:

Deputy Lighting Technician – The High Life – Scottish Tour, March – May 2026

Flyman and Stage Technician – A Winters Trilogy, RCS Junior Conservatoire of Stage and Screen, December 2025

Swing Technician – Fringe Festival – Underbelly, July – September 2025

 General Technician – Fringe Festival – Underbelly, July – September 2025

 Stage Technician (placement) – Get ins Only, Scottish opera, La Traviata, Glasgow and Edinburgh, May and June 2024

 Stage Technician – Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, 2022-2023

RCS:

Head of Stage – Opera choral showcase

Head of Stage – Blood Wedding

 Deputy Head of Stage – Spring Awakening 

Head of Flies – The Magic Flute

 Deputy Stage Supervisor – A Christmas Carol 

Deputy Stage Supervisor – After Life 

Deputy Stage Supervisor – Cosmonauts  

Stage Technician – Cendrillion