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Tools of the Trade / SET & PROPS: Water
« on: Feb 03, 2010, 11:19 pm »
For my UIL One Act, La Dispute,  I need a way to make a stream on stage that's not fabric and/ or a real water contraption. Please help.

Keep in mind we can't do any fancy lights or gobos. Must follow all UIL One Act rules.

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Now that would be something that I would probably be interested in. But also seems like its more of a rare opportunity rather than something you can plan on without knowing that you'd most likely be going into it as more of a community service type of job.

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I had the same issue with my parents..."Why don't you go into Math or Science? You were always good at those..."  Try bargaining with your parents on a second major/minor.  Also, don't throw out teaching just yet.  I never thought I would have any interest, but after TAing in college, I am seriously considering it for later in my career.


I'm not sure what second major/minor I would want to work on.

And its not that I'm totally against teaching but right now I don't like little kids, couldn't handle the fragile state of middle-schoolers hitting puberty, and teenage brats with their pointless drama bothers me as well... Plus kids are getting dumber and sluttier. So I'd have to teach at a high school or college level and I'm not sure I'd want to stay in college long enough to get a degree to teach at a college level.

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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.

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So my parents hate, hate, hate, hate the fact that I love doing theatre and want to continue to do it for the rest of my life. To discourage me from pursuing a career in Stage Management they've assigned me the almost impossible task of looking up these following questions:

-How much does a stage manager right out of college make?
-How many stage managing positions are there in the US?
-Where in the US are these jobs mostly?
-What is the cost of living in those places.
-And what other careers I could do with a degree in Drama/Stage Management/Theatre Arts. (Besides teaching)

How would you answer these questions and handle this situation. Preferably without telling me I should just tell them they're idiots and to leave me alone.

I understand that I will probably not be stage managing constantly after I get out of college and have many side careers as "day jobs" I'm perfectly happy with doing. I do, however, want to be heavily involved as a stage manager for my main career of choice.

Any words of wisdom?

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As a high school student I read an 10-year-old stage management book before I was working on a show and it was so strange to read about how he recommended mailing his actors and "if you have access to a computer...". It was entertaining at least.

My point, past my intro there, was that for my current show I have a lot of kids without cell phones and email, so all of my notices are sent via email, text, and then printed out and placed on two different call boards in our two campus'. It's not the most ideal situation, but it works out great for getting the actors to where they need to be with what they need to have.

As a stage manager I think you have to accept that some people just don't have what others do and its your job to work around those to still have the best show you are able to do. Even if that means resorting back to the "stone ages". We shouldn't spoil ourselves with the tech of today and realize that techniques and tricks are what make us better at our craft.

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Employment / Equity
« on: Oct 19, 2009, 12:13 pm »
I'm looking on how to get Equity. Can someone please explain to me how to go about it?

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I too am looking for colleges and Ithaca was on my list but the one that really caught my eye was DePaul. Can anyone give me advice on either?

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In the community theatre I used to work at in a small town we were able to talk to the fire dept to temporarily turn off all smoke alarms for the duration of the show. Also, in some off the larger theatres I've worked at there is a fog and haze that is food particle based so it doesn't choke people or set off many alarms. It does however stink.. Bad.

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