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Employment / Education Required to get a job?

« on: Sep 21, 2008, 05:16 pm »

Up until recently I didn't think I wanted to stage manage profesisonally and so I pursued another path for my major in college, but now I am not so sure.  Even though my coursework has been focused elsewhere, at the same time I have been assistant stage managing and stage managing top-quality university productions, the same productions that theatre majors manage, for years.  In addition, I have gotten a few gigs from other companies or groups, a few of them paying jobs.  However, I am near finishing my degree in this other field and do not want to spend another 3 years here getting the degree in stage management as well. 

My question then is how foolish would it be to attempt to start my career with just as much if not more experience than some people with a degree in theatre production, but officially with a BA in History, not Theatre?

Thanks, any advice at all would be outstandingly helpful.