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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Is it necessary to get a degree in Stage Management?

« on: Dec 29, 2008, 06:37 pm »

I am a stage management student in her second year. I am wondering how necessary it is to have a degree in stage management or at all in order to be employed as a stage manager. How hard is it really to get a stage management gig in NYC?

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College and Graduate Studies / College Interview

« on: Sep 05, 2006, 12:41 am »

I have an interview/portfolio review at Webster University on October 5th, I have gotten info from the staff there, but can anyone tell me how to prepare, or even what to expect? Im really nervous, I've never had an interview for anything before...help...

thanks.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Prompt Books: Blocking Charts?

« on: Aug 21, 2006, 04:29 pm »

I am going to be a senior in High School, and I have been stage managing for three years, I have been looking around the site and noticeing that a lot of people make blocking notations in their scripts. I, however, dislike that because it gets very messy when you start to add and move cues to call for the show. I usually make maps, blocking charts of the actors movement. A top view of the stage and the basic set that either doesnt move for that scene or the whole show, and then write the line on which the actor moves underneath the map with initials for that character on the actual map of the stage. It turns out to be a rainbow map of what is going on for that scene. Is this unheard of? I find it easier to reteach slash teach people who missed,   the blocking this way simply because I am a visual learner. 

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Resumes: Resume References

« on: Aug 15, 2006, 11:41 pm »

Hello all, 

I am trying to put together a resume of my theatre experience for college, and I was wondering, who do you use as a reference? also, do you have to ask before you put them on your resume as references? and if you have letters of reference, do you put the people who wrote them in the references section? any help I could get on this matter would be awesome. Thanks!