User:Crewpass

Chris D’bais started working as a lighting technicians in the arts and entertainment industry when he was only 15 years old. He started working full time in a professional arts theatre when he was 16. After completing year 12 in 2000, he went onto work on many large arts and music festivals around Australia. After getting married in 2004, Chris went to work for Arts Queensland at the newly built Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts. After completing the technical fit out of the JWCOCA Chris took the position of Head of Lighting at The Events Centre Sunshine Coast. After only 12 months he was promoted to Technical Manager and then went onto become Operations Manager. In 2007 Chris was voted in as youngest NARPACA Technical Managers President and held the positions for 3 years until moving to the UK. Chris has been the driving force behind the delivery of many projects throughout the NARPACA network that have all be aimed at improving the industry.

In March 2008 Chris was head hunted and joined the team at The Arts Centre Gold Coast. Chris started in the role of Technical Manager and 18 months later was promoted to Venue Operations Manager with 7 departments to oversee. On top of this Chris has run his own Production and Events Management Company working with some of the best in the industry. Buy this time Chris was only 26 years old and had already achieved many great things not only for himself but for the Australian arts industry.

In September 2010 Chris and his wife Inga moved to London in the United Kingdom where Chris took a position in the award winning venue Kings Place. Kings Place is a high end conference centre by day working with the biggest media companies in the world, that would then become a classical concert hall by night. Chris started in the position of Head of Audio Visual and within months was promoted to Technical Director and held this position until returning to Australian in late 2012.

Technicians Crew Pass was closed on the 1st of September 2015