Michael Rancourt, Drama Technical Director
Rancourt’s engineering background comes first from his father and from an apprenticeship where he built and ran machines for molding plastics, including the robotic machines that made the IBM typewriter ball. As a woodworker, he developed an abrasive planer for guitar builders and precision woodworkers, built ultralight canoes, furniture, cabinetry, and several buildings. As an independent sawyer with a portable sawmill, he sawed out hundreds of houses, barns, sheds, log cabins, and lumber for everything from floors to musical instruments to the Mass MoCA project in North Adams, MA. His numerous unique theater projects have included a parasol that bursts into flames, a totally silent stage elevator, a 14-foot-wide Black Widow spider costume, and two baby carriages strong enough to hold college age “babies.” Rancourt was Scene Shop Supervisor at Bennington College from 1982-92 and returned as Technical Director in 2005.
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