I am about to be a Junior in high school and I am both excited and scared at the same time. My school has an amazing drama program with extremely talented director's, it is honestly more of a family than a club (which is definitely not to say that we get along all the time). Since seventh grade I was set on going into Law Enforcement, you know, the whole cop thing, but during my freshman year Kris, my director, got me into stage managing and deck crew and I absolutely loved it, mostly because I was good at it. I've always had a hobby or two but I've never been really good at something let alone someone telling me I was, and I most certainly have never let something consume my life nearly as much as theatre has. After about a year and a half I fell in love with everything about theatre: lighting, sound, set design, and of course stage managing. I am so lucky at my school to have all the resources we have, I have been able to get experience with professional equipment that most college's don't even have. My other director Joe, got me into the whole lighting and sound thing, and has taught me so much about programming lights, creating a show, running sound for a show, fixing microphones, and those annoying halos
and so much more. I owe a lot to both of them, not only for introducing me to the infinite possibilities in theatre but also teaching me about life, they've been the best mentors (and sort of like parents sometimes) anyone could ever ask for. Because of them I have no idea what I want to do in life, but that's a good thing because they've opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibilities: lighting, sound, stage management, set designing, and I'm still sort of hung up on the whole law enforcement thing. But the reason why I am here is because I do truly love stage managing and I want to learn as much as I possibly can so even if I don't end up stage managing for a career I can do the best possible job for my school and my wonderful directors because they deserve that much and more.
