  When it comes to digital media, I'm a bit of a skeptic. (Okay,
so some people call me a hater.) But the truth is, I don't
dislike media at all. What I do dislike is the way it's often
employed. Without further ado, I present the Dos and Don'ts of
Theater Media!  DO explore the options that digital media
provides. This past semester, Carnegie Mellon did Caryl
Churchill's Mad Forest, a production I was fortunate enough to
be working on. The director was encouraged to use media, and we
ended up having the entire second act (which was a bunch of
interviews) filmed and projected over a movement piece. It was a
totally different way of presenting that part of the play and
one made possible because of our ability to use digital media.
DON'T use media for media's sake. "Because it's cool" is rarely
a good enough reason to do something on stage. Before you get a
media designer and plot out abstract images to project across
the back wall, consider what it really adds. In my experience,
media often takes away from sh