101+ Tips and Tricks Every Prop Maker Should Know

In 101+ Tips and Tricks Every Prop Maker Should Know, Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Properties Director Ben Hohman explains tricks of the trade generally not taught in schools, but essential for prop makers working on the job.

Ben Hohman is the Properties Director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He is active in USITT, Vice President of The Society of Props Managers (S*P*M), and adjunct faculty at Southern Utah University. He has worked in regional theatre for the past 31 years both at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky (4 years) and at the Utah Shakespeare Festival (31 years and counting). He also has worked freelance, and as a co-owner of an event company that designed, produced, and built pageants, scenery and props for ballet and theatrical productions, as well as floats for parades.