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Students point to Symonds as one of the only professionals concerned with student productions on campus. His responsibilities officially entail overseeing the technical aspects for student productions at the Loeb and Agassiz, but he has voluntarily assumed work far beyond his job description.
Symonds estimates he spends "ten to twelve hours, six to seven days a week," working on undergraduate productions and a class, Dramatic Arts 31, he co-instructs with his predecessor Donald R. Soule.
Symonds took the job of technical director at the Loeb when Soule retired in January 1992. Previously he had worked part-time managing technical theater at the Agassiz.
But earlier this year, the Standing Committee on Dramatics decided to expand Symonds position to "technical director and lecturer of the dramatic arts," the position Soule held before he retired.
After a nation-wide search that began in December, the committee voted two weeks ago to replace Symonds with J. Michael Griggs, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and award-winning set designer.