Craig is VP of VA Productions and Senior Technical Director of Audio- Visual Services.

Craig was born in Philadelphia a long, long time ago to parents Carlton and Mary Dodge.  They were so pleased with him, they had two more boys, Mark and Paul Dodge.  Craig and his family moved to Berks County in 1967 and he has called this area home ever since.
 
While attending school in the Muhlenberg Township School District, Craig was a member of National Honor Society, Boy Scouts, and active in his church youth group.  The highlight of his public school experience was his involvement with the stage crew and of course the audio/visual crew.   
 
Craig was involved with the PA Junior Miss program for 26 years.  He helped behind the scenes with production and eventually became the Producer of the State Finals program. 
 
He attended Albright College for a few years, more than most, and finally graduated in 2000.  (Now that's a whole other story!)
 
Before joining VA, he worked as a night club lighting tech and DJ, a marketing representative for a multi-image group in NYC, and a Regional Manager for a local audio/visual company.  He also spent his spare time as a Lighting Designer for Reading Civic Opera, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Berks Summer Theatre and other community theatre groups.  All along the way, Craig met and worked with great technical people, that he still collaborates with today. 
 
While on a staging for a local bank he met a young lady who was assisting a camera operator.  They exchanged business cards (how romantic) and were married five years later.  Not long after their marriage Craig joined his wife Virginia and they combined their talents (her video production and his audio visual and technical theater skills) to form VA Productions. 
 
Now with more than 21 years of audio/ visual service and over 30 years of technical theatre experience, Craig says, "I think I've found something I'm good at doing and I'm sticking with it!"

 

So there we were heading once again to Florida in a caravan and Troy was in the lead position in one of our van and 16 foot trailer rigs. Craig and Eric Weyandt were in the cube van behind him. 
It was dark and they were cruising down I-95 when Troy started to hear a noise coming from the back of his van. He  was just about to radio back to the other vehicle when "bang!"  "It felt like I had just run over something and then the van started to sway back and forth, fortunately he stayed calm and pulled slowly off to the shoulder of the road".  It turns out he had blown out the rear driver side tire and it was severe enough to put a dent in the side of the truck.  We were all relieved that no one was injured and no equipment was damaged, but this is where the story gets interesting. 

Let's dial back a few minutes to Craig's point of view.... Craig had been sleeping moments before the incident and had just woken up to hear the driver Eric say, "Uh oh, that's not good...".  Craig watched the scene unfold right in front of him and needless to say he was probably more worked up than we were.  Everyone assessed the situation and we grabbed the jack to change the tire when Craig excused himself for a "bio" break.  As Eric changed the tire we all watched Craig hobble out of the bushes and jump into the cube van and struggle with something on his foot.  To make a long story short, it turns out that Craig found a very deep mud puddle (swamp) and now we refer to this story as "The time we lost a tire AND A SNEAKER somewhere in South Carolina."