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WEDUCATION: What is an Automation Engineer?

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This week's Careers Behind the Curtain video features Senior Automation Engineer Gill Leefe.

In this week’s Careers Behind the Curtain video, RSC Senior Automation Engineer Gill Leefe explains her role in making all sorts of amazing things happen on stage, from doors suddenly opening to reveal a hidden part of the stage, to actors or objects being flown in.

“Our aim is basically not to be seen and not to be thought about during the show,” she says. “Things just happen magically!”

Watch the video below to find out more.