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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Perspective Please! <(^_^<)
« on: Dec 14, 2011, 09:41 pm »
These items are probably going to be part of your job going forward if you want to be a stage manager:
Note that making cue sheets will sometimes be the designer's task, depending on how much of acontrol freak Type A personality they are.
There are many other tasks that fall under the domain of the stage manager as you progress, like rehearsing understudies, giving notes to actors after the director leaves, sometimes pulling rehearsal props, taping out the rehearsal diagram, playing rehearsal sound cues, coordinating scene shifts and quick changes, and ensuring compliance with union rules.
These are likely to be the others' tasks once you get into the upper echelons of pro theatre, but on the way up the job descriptions are muddier:
You seem to be someone who would benefit greatly from shadowing a pro. See if you can connect with the SMs of some of the pro gigs in your area and get in to observe them.
-attending auditions and rehearsals, taking blocking notes, lighting/sound/running crew/acting notes for the director
-collecting all contact information (the last show, of the 3 adult heads we hired, including the Technical Director, I was the only one with their kid's info)
-calling shows
-attending production meetings with the adults
-making cue sheets for the different departments
Note that making cue sheets will sometimes be the designer's task, depending on how much of a
There are many other tasks that fall under the domain of the stage manager as you progress, like rehearsing understudies, giving notes to actors after the director leaves, sometimes pulling rehearsal props, taping out the rehearsal diagram, playing rehearsal sound cues, coordinating scene shifts and quick changes, and ensuring compliance with union rules.
These are likely to be the others' tasks once you get into the upper echelons of pro theatre, but on the way up the job descriptions are muddier:
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-attending all set construction meetings, teaching the newbies, and heading the build days - this would normally fall to a TD
-for school events, setting up lights/sound/crew for concerts, recitals, and sports events in the auditorium - normally the PM's job if they exist, otherwise TD/ME.
-designing the current set (the due date has changed four times, and the two adults I communicate to aren't working together well) - Set designer
-training all running crew kids and potential leaders (such as SPIKE TAPE DAY) - Deck chief if there is one.
-getting scripts for the adult heads - Literary dept or PM if they exist
You seem to be someone who would benefit greatly from shadowing a pro. See if you can connect with the SMs of some of the pro gigs in your area and get in to observe them.
