Completing a markup or a tape out can always feel daunting to new stage managers. Especially when you're just starting out, it can feel like a lot of conjecture: do those lines look perpendicular? does that shape match what's on the ground plan? are we even using the right scale? Whether you're a ...
Exciting TImes…
At the time of drafting this post, I am sitting in Bute Park at the heart of Cardiff, my new home. There are birds singing, friends chatting and laughing, and dogs begging to play fetch. It’s quiet for being in the middle of a capital city. Surely, this is the calm before the most exciting ...
Breaking Up with My To-Do Lists
The To-Do List: a controversial topic among productivity YouTubers. Do you really need them? How can you even begin to organize your day without them?Are they even useful if you don't make time in your calendar to complete the tasks? As a stage manager who uses to-do lists every moment of the ...
Breaking down The Actor’s Equity Diversity Report
This past November, the Actor's Equity Association (AEA) released their second Diversity Report, detailing the demographics of the union's members, as well as how much they were paid for their work. AEA is the American union for stage actors as well as theatrical stage managers. The union helps to ...
2021: Can We Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’?
Like the plague, theatre is a crisis resolved either by death or cure.The plague is a superior disease because it is an absolute crisis after which there is nothing left except death or drastic purification. In the same way, theatre is a disease because it is a final balance that cannot be obtained ...