Performance Hall Directors

Clint Pilkinton

Technical Director

Clint Pilkinton has been the resident lighting designer for The Renaissance Center since 2006. Clint has designed over 25 productions and numerous other projects. Some of his favorites include Chicago, Cats, Anything Goes, Driving Miss Daisy, Guys and Dolls, Dracula, Annie, Christmas My Way, Children of Eden, Snoopy!!!, Auschwitz Lullaby and videos for Roger Neal, James Gregory, Lee Greenwood and Tanya Tucker. Clint’s regional credits include Master Electrician for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival production of MacBeth and designer of The Globe Players production of The Comedy of Errors. Clint also has designed for Shelter Repertory Dance Company under the artistic direction of Kim Neal Nofsinger. A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in theatre performance, Clint worked with the MTSU dance department in designing the fall 2004 and spring and fall 2005 dance concerts along with several theatre designs including Seussical: the Musical, The Seagull, How I Learned to Drive, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. His Master Electrician credits include The Music Man, American Tall Tales, Reckless, Cabaret, Conestoga Stories and Pippin

Ray Dryden

Assistant Technical Director Renaissance Center Performance Hall

Ray Dryden grew up in Nashville and by the time he was in the fifth grade was already performing in local bands and plays. By the time he graduated from high school he had already done a great number of shows. In 1989 he went on the road and toured with Dottie West as a Sound Technician during her popular tours with Kenny Rogers. In one year they did over 200 shows and Ray mixed sound in nearly every major concert venue in the United States. Ray worked for Dottie for four years and then went to work for Tammy Wynette. He worked a year’s worth of shows with her and George Jones, which included six countries in Europe in some of the world’s oldest and most famous halls. One of his favorite memories is the standing ovation from a sold out crowd in Carnegie Hall. Some other notable artists Ray has worked with include: Winton Marsalis, The Neville Brothers, George Burns, Edgar Winter, The Smothers Brothers, Amy Grant, and many more. Once he volunteered to fill in for a technician at the Renaissance Center during the play The Fantasticks. The director was thrilled to have someone at the soundboard that could help his play sound as it should with live music. So not long after that, Ray came to work here where he is still learning and enjoying the fine craft of theatre.