Hello! I see you have been around the boards quite a while - great to hear from you now.
These are pretty fundamental questions aren't they. I particularly like the last one. I think the stage manager's skill set is an interesting bag and could transfer well to many career paths. We have this discussion quite often about where experienced stage managers could take their skills when they want out of stage management but do the same options apply to young stage managers? - Maybe not. Maybe they have the capacity to be good people managers, calm in emergencies, multitask, etc but not the experience that means they necessarily could transfer easily. But if its actually just an alternate career choice in the arts for people with ' a stage manager brain' what would I suggest? Hmmm, tricky!
artistic administrator? venue manager? volunteer coordinator? education officer in a theatre company? events manager for a council? community arts worker? Anything that requires passion, interaction with people and organisational flair I guess.
What are your own thoughts?
