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Self-Promotion / High and Mighty

« on: Sep 24, 2015, 08:53 am »

I am currently working on the world premiere of 'High and Mighty' by Donna Gay Anderson.

I'm so excited to have this as my final show as an undergrad. I'm working with an amazing team, most of whom are professionals in their field. I have a dynamic duo as my ASMs. And a cast with so much amazing talent! This show is bringing together three separate departments that hardly ever get to collaborate on things. It's all very exciting!

The show runs November 17-21 at the Vonnie Borden Theatre in Hammond, La.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / No Director Present

« on: Mar 07, 2012, 01:04 pm »

So, I could use a little advice. I'm working on a show, a new work, Who the F**k is Dan Smith?, at my university. The school is flying down a guest director, who is an alumni of the school, and who also happens to be my best friend. However, she was only down for the auditions/casting/1st read through, and won't be back again until rehearsals officially begin, on March 26th. However, the actors have requested to meet with me as a group once a week. Most questions/duties/etc that normally would go to the director, are going to me. I'm emailing/texting/calling her constantly to get her input, but lately she's been slow to respond. I've tried discussing it with her, and she says she trusts my judgement, however, I am very worried about stepping over the line. Issues we are having are things such as: script changes she's emailed me that contradict each other or do not fit well when read aloud, actors having issues with the scheduling, production team members not responding to me, etc. At what point am I in over my head? Because I'm starting to feel like I can't touch bottom. *SIGH*

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Should I be responsible for tellling an actor he's been demoted?

« on: Jul 27, 2011, 11:40 am »

I've tried a few ways to search this, but can't find anything on it. I stepped in to SM a show for our college theatre club because they lost an actor and the SM at the time stepped in. Out of nowhere he said he would be gone a week earlier than expected (we have a week off, so at the time it wasn't a problem), and now he's saying he may not be back for when we start rehearsals in our performance space and once he IS back, won't be able to rehearsal on Fridays for fear of MAYBE missing work. My director and I agree that this isn't fair to the other actors. Unbeknownst to him, we have found a replacement who WANTS this. He's available for all rehearsals, and I've worked with him before, so I know we can trust him. My director wants me to contact him and tell him he'd be better suited as an understudy, since his schedule is so hectic, but I just don't know how to go about that. Any suggestions on how to tell him he's been basically been removed from the show? 

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / HELP ME!!! I AM SO LOST. (ACTF)

« on: Feb 25, 2007, 11:20 am »

So I am going to ACTF tomorrow, and I still haven't figured out what my sm approach is. What are they talking about? HELP!