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Employment / Finding jobs in NYC
« on: Jan 21, 2011, 06:06 am »
Hi,
I'm moving to New York in March with my husband (who is being posted there for work) from the UK. I'm a relatively recent graduate of a stage management degree at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and have worked on a number of short term professional assistant stage management jobs in the UK.
My query basically is what's the best way to find paid stage management work in the US? I've checked out quite a few websites (backstage jobs etc) and lots of the jobs seem to be internships/unpaid etc and seem far and few between (I know this is pretty common for stage management jobs!). In the UK we have a trade newspaper called The Stage where pretty much every theatre/company in the country advertise jobs-does anything like this exist?
And if not what's the best way to go about finding jobs? In the UK sending out CVs (resumes) to lots of theatre companies sometimes throws up jobs, is that a good idea here or not?
Obviously have a good network of contacts is useful too- so what's the best way to make contacts in NY?
I apologise for the number of questions and any help/advice you can give is much appreciated! Oh I also apologise for my British spelling of theater!
I'm moving to New York in March with my husband (who is being posted there for work) from the UK. I'm a relatively recent graduate of a stage management degree at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and have worked on a number of short term professional assistant stage management jobs in the UK.
My query basically is what's the best way to find paid stage management work in the US? I've checked out quite a few websites (backstage jobs etc) and lots of the jobs seem to be internships/unpaid etc and seem far and few between (I know this is pretty common for stage management jobs!). In the UK we have a trade newspaper called The Stage where pretty much every theatre/company in the country advertise jobs-does anything like this exist?
And if not what's the best way to go about finding jobs? In the UK sending out CVs (resumes) to lots of theatre companies sometimes throws up jobs, is that a good idea here or not?
Obviously have a good network of contacts is useful too- so what's the best way to make contacts in NY?
I apologise for the number of questions and any help/advice you can give is much appreciated! Oh I also apologise for my British spelling of theater!