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At this time, I have stepped away from most special
effects work except for occasional consultation.
Feel free to contact me to discuss your project at
royfschumacher@gmail.com

MY HISTORY
For more than 40 years I have been providing physical
special effects, original sound effects, original videos and
other items including self-propelled cars and boats to
several theatre groups first in Northern KY, and then in the
Charlotte, NC area starting in 1997.

Below is a list of more than 180 productions I have enhanced:

Saint Joseph Drama Club (Cold Spring, KY)
1981
Yip-Pi-I-O-Ki-Ay
1982
Meet Me At The Fair
1983
Hooray For Hollywood
1984
Tuxedo Junction
1985
Wasn't Me, Was It You?
1986
Tis The Best Of Times
1987
And That Was Yesterday
1988
Wrong Side Of The Tracks
1989
Pacifically Speaking
1990
When Tomorrow Comes
1991
The Butler Didn't Do It

The Village Players (Ft. Thomas, KY)
1988
You Can't Take It With You
1989
Death Of A Salesman, The Rainmaker
1990
Something's Afoot!
(Won the Ohio Community Theatre Award - OCTA for "Special Effects")

Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts (Matthews, NC)
1997
Babes in Toyland
1998
Beauty and the Beast, Oliver!, Ichabod's Haunted Trail, Night Before Christmas
1999
Lion, Witch & Wardrobe, Winnie the Pooh, Fractured Fairy Tales, Cinderella,
Princess and the Pea, Charlotte's Web, The Littlest Angel, Hansel & Gretel
2000
Godspell, Peter Rabbit, Aesop's Fables, Hansel & Gretel, Sleeping Beauty,
The Emperor's New Clothes, Scrooge! The Musical
2001
Alice in Wonderland, Twelfth Night, Babes in Arms, Fabulous Fable Factory,
Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, A Wedding to Die For,
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2002
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, The Magical Pied Piper, The Hobbit,
The Sound of Music, Mr. Scrooge, The Butler Did It
2003
Give My Regards to Broadway, Tom Sawyer, South Pacific, Godspell,
Arsenic & Old Lace, Annie
2004
The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, Oklahoma!, Grease, Charlotte's Web
2005
Holes, Really Rosie, Guys and Dolls, Oliver!, The Wind in the Willows
2006
The Secret Garden, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Steel Magnolias,
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Velveteen Rabbit, Peter Pan
2007
Seussical, High School Musical, When the Whistle Blows!, The Music Man,
A Christmas Story, NYE Murder Mysteries
2008
Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, Into the Woods, Footloose, Clue-the musical, Annie
2009
Pinocchio, Fiddler on the Roof, Cinderella, To Kill A Mockingbird, Charlotte's Web
2010
The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe, Les Miserables, The King & I, Aladdin,
Alice in Wonderland, The Diary of Anne Frank, Miss Nelson is Missing!
2011
The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Zombie Prom, The Sound of Music,
101 Dalmatians, Charlotte's Web, The Miracle Worker, Schoolhouse Rock!
2012
Children of Eden, Treasure Island, Willy Wonka, Nunsense, Pinkalicious,
A Midsummers Night's Dream, Sleepy Hollow, White Christmas
2013
Diary of a Worm ..., Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland,
The Odd Couple (Female), Little Shop of Horrors, Willy Wonka
2014
Sweeney Todd, The Stinky Cheese Man, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan,
Shrek, Aladdin, Our Town, Seussical, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2015
West Side Story, The Snow Queen, A Year with Frog & Toad, The Wizard of Oz,
Scrooge the musical, Les Miserables, Into the Woods, James & the Giant Peach
2016
Urinetown, Junie B Jones, The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, Oklahoma!,
Charlotte's Web, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2017
The Will Rogers Follies, The Lion,Witch & the Wardrobe, Cinderella, Mill Girls,
The Princesses and the Pea, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
Junie B. Jones is not a Crook, It's A Wonderful Life
2018
Bonnie & Clyde, Freedom Train, South Pacific, The Lion King, The Hundred Dresses,
Miracle on 34th Street, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan
2019
Grey Gardens, The Jungle Book, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
101 Dalmatians, The Adventures of Madeline, It's A Wonderful Life, Music Man
2020
Mamma Mia!, Pinocchio
2021
Godspell, The Rainbow Fish (v), Miracle on 34th Street
2022
The Rainbow Fish, Sister Act, Princess Fearless, Scrooge the Musical
2024
Around The World In 80 Days, Shrek Jr., Young Frankenstein
2025
A Raisin in the Sun, Scrooge the Musical

Theatre Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
2009
Sweeney Todd

Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, NC)
2010
Sweeney Todd
2015
The Phantom of the Opera
2018
Oklahoma!

University of SC-Spartanburg (Spartanburg, SC)
2010
Sweeney Todd

Providence High School (Charlotte, NC)
2013
The Wizard of Oz

Mooresville Charter School (Mooresville, NC)
2018
Oklahoma!