William Ian Auld is an ETCP Certified Rigger for Theater and Arena Rigging and is one of the few dozen people in the world who is an ETCP Recognized Trainer. He has been involved with theater his whole life, and for over two decades, on four continents, and across dozens of countries, he has traveled the world flying people on wires.
He earned his MFA in Theater from Northern Illinois University, and holds a Master’s degree from Bowling Green State University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the United Kingdom. He currently is a professor at Kent State University and has had gigs as the Technical Director for the Lookingglass Theater Company in Chicago as well as the Venue Technician at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.
Prior to all this theater work, however, he spent several happy years of his life jumping out of perfectly good airplanes with the United States Army Airborne Corps.