Hey everyone! I'm Eric, a 17-year-old high school senior located in a very small town in North Carolina.
Ever since I was in middle school I was obsessed with acting. It was all I wanted to do, even though I always helped with organization and crew work. When I was a sophomore, I ended up writing my school's spring production, starring in it, designing all the costumes for it, organizing EVERYTHING for it, and working on stage management-type stuff more than the stage managers did. That was when I became fascinated with stage management. My good friend Sami had been my school's stage manager since she was a sophomore, so I learned a lot about it from her. Being so dedicated to stage managing (and theatre in general) is really hard in my school, since there are about five people total who even understand what a stage manager does, and a very small amount of people who care about theatre at all (I'm seriously the only person who actually wants to make a career in theatre at this point in time - with the exception of my sister, who is starting her freshman year as I start my senior year.
This past year, I stage managed our school's productions and I am planning to stage manage the productions this coming year (My last year of high school!). I've got a few colleges planned for the future but I'm heavily hoping for East Carolina University, which offers a concentration on stage management. I've realized that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life (along with play writing on the side), and I am so eager to learn and work as much as I can!
I really hope to learn a lot from everyone here (I've already found a bunch of great stuff to use next year on the Forms page) and maybe pass on advice given to me from others and things I've learned in my experience so far.
