Technical Director Bio – Will Bosley
I grew up the son of an industrial systems engineer, and our family hobby was restoring old cars. I changed my first head gasket at the age of 10, and have had greasy fingernails ever since. My first love, however, was/is music. I started piano lessons at the age of 6 and swiftly branched to other instruments as well, to the point that I am now proficient on more than 30. I was at a loss as to how I could combine my two loves, until I was asked to run the light board for a middle school play, and I was completely hooked.
Performance technology provided me a path to apply my technical skills to the passions of performance and my balanced background helped me be good at it. I continued to wrench in the garage and perform musically, but my most time consuming hobby was the theatre. I went on to get my B.A. from Ohio State in technical theatre with an emphasis in lighting and sound design, but I did find time to be a member of their world famous marching band.
While I was an undergraduate I had an opportunity to compose original music for a company that was hoping to market original MIDI based music that was designed to be edited for length by the end user. I also discovered that I had a passion to perform on stage as well as behind it. After I graduated, I became a professional entertainer for about 3 years and came to cherish the bond between performer and audience.
As my needs for stability grew, I left the stage to return to the wings and pick up my technical career where I had left it. I quickly found that to stay employed I had to diversify my skill set. To that end I branched out into the fields of video editing and engineering, staging and rigging, sound reinforcement systems and technical direction. As my skill set grew, I was faced by a new problem: I was overqualified. As my career opportunities dwindled and my personal responsibilities grew I found myself returning to the idea of graduate studies if for no other reason than to open up the possibility of teaching. Then one day, in the middle of still more job searches, I found the ETC web site.
I completed the program after 2 years of extremely hard work and sacrifice by my family. I worked with some of the most amazing and talented people on the planet, and I learned more than I could have hoped. But I was most impressed by the program itself. This was the relevant education I had always dreamed of!
Next I joined the ETC faculty, and proceeded to build a second campus for the ETC in Adelaide Australia. Being in academia was proving to be every bit as rewarding as I had hoped. I initially came to Carolina in 2008.
I am now the Technical Director for Performance Studies in the Department of Communication.