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After four years of intensive involvement with the technical side of Harvard theater, E. Peyton Sherwood ’04 has been selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Louise Donovan Award for excellence in behind-the-scenes theater work. Sherwood has worked as technical director, producer, executive director, master rigger, sound designer, lighting designer, technical advisor, sound board operator and master carpenter for over 20 Harvard productions, as well as serving on the executive board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), as a proctor for the Harvard Freshman Arts Program and as managing...
...Sherwood identifies Cabaret, which he worked on during the fall of his junior year, as his favorite production experience. “For me, the process of creating art and the friendships developed during the collaborative process are just as important as the end product,” he says. “All three of those things were particularly rewarding during Cabaret...
...However, Sherwood adds that some of his most rewarding work in the arts has been out of the theater. He helped institute the Loeb technical theater requirement for performers. “I believe it is a crucial step towards creating more technically solid productions as well as forming a closer community among Harvard theater participants,” he says...
...Sherwood says he was convinced to pursue the requirements, which before had only been a musing, when people expressed enthusiasm for it at an open HRDC meeting. “I realized that Harvard artists were in fact very interested in helping their peers in this way,” he says. “With more than 60 theater productions on campus every year, I think it’s very important that we all pitch in and help each other create theater. It is, after all, a collaborative...
While he does not plan to go into arts as a profession, Sherwood is sure that they will remain a part of his life. “As a musician, it is tortuous for me to go a week without at least playing a few notes on the piano, and attending theater is second-nature to me,” he says. “I am looking to enter a technology career, but I will always be creating, writing, innovating—I can’t conceive of a life without the arts...