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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: The Ultimate Decision

« on: May 21, 2015, 07:55 pm »

I actually started out as an electrician. But my mind is more suited to management, and my body is going to start to give out a little sooner than most 20 year olds will. Easier not to be up in a genie all the time lugging lights in the future.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Backstage pants

« on: Dec 09, 2014, 04:14 am »

I've had the most luck with EMT pants. They often have a belt that you can use to help keep them up; the waist to hip to rear ratio issue is real, especially if you're curvier. Surplus stores for nurses, EMTs, army, house electrics and plumbing, etc. are both cheapish and effective in the pockets department.

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Introductions / Re: Hi!

« on: Dec 08, 2014, 07:32 pm »

That's what I'm hoping for, I know that my school has alumni in that scene, so I'm hoping to make connections.
Thanks! ^_^

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Introductions / Hi!

« on: Dec 08, 2014, 04:39 am »

Hello! My name is Sabriel, I'm a theatre design and communications student out of DC. I'm a jack of all trades technician, so ASM/SM is only one of the things I do (I like the job flexibility).

My sophomore year of high school I injured my knees after 10 years of playing soccer, and I still needed an athletic credit (which apparently they give for theatre tech). I wanted to do costumes, but my mentor looked at me and went "You've taken Lighting Design, you're going to do this." Thus it began. Over 10 shows later and I'm still doing it in college as a major, despite a brief period where I swore I'd take up some respectable International Studies career (no.)

One of the things I want to do with stage management is to help plan/design special events with those skills (being in DC, that means galas, political events, fundraising, things like that, as well as weddings and such). I feel like the skill overlap is there? I don't know, I've just watched enough weddings/heard enough stories where I've thought "man, that bride doesn't need a designer, she needs a manager." I like variety in the jobs I take, I think. I love theatres, but I need all different kinds of spaces.

So ehm, yeah! Hi!