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« on: Dec 10, 2009, 12:48 am »
I want to hear these things I have no problem with any of you telling me any of this. Lots of it I understand and I get but theatre is something I want to do.
Stage management was thrown at me but I've also kept up well in learning the ins and outs of the other parts in theatre. My boyfriend is a sound engineer and designer, plus works as the "fader sitter" at Zach Scott Theatre in Austin, TX for most of their main stage shows. Because of this I'm pretty well versed in the world of sound, I started off running nothing but lights for my high school's theatre program, realized I loved designing sets and attempted costume/make up but wasn't the best... My point is although I love to stage manage I'm not in the mindset that that is all I will do in a theatre. I even won a couple of One Act awards for my school in acting.
I love doing this and money is not really a huge thing for me I prefer a simple life anyway.
My relationship is in no jeopardy as well because we work in the same field and since I'd like to stay around Austin we'd work in the same 20 theatres with each other.
I'd like to say that I have a drive for this and will work for it. But I guess that would be easier to explain by explaining a little more about me.
I'm 17, a senior in high school.
I stage managed, The Foreigner my freshman year , ASM'd Seven Brides for Seven Brothers my sophomore, SM'd Annie Get Your Gun my junior year, and am putting up Cinderella in a month. The summer after my sophomore year I went into Austin and got a stage management job working an original play at a smaller well known theatre. That following spring was hired on to fill in a crew position at Zach Scott Theatre from there last production of Beehive. Since then I've crewed for Love, Janis, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Rockin Christmas Party (A Dave Steakley original).
So for my age I'd like to think that I'm a little more up there but I could be wrong and if so I would like to hear so from professionals.
In fact although I'm not a very active forum writer I have read a lot said and value much of what you, MissLiz, and you, MatthewShiner, have to tell me.