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Meetings are hard. When meetings are run well, the participants should come away feeling like work was done and next steps are clear, but often, people will leave a meeting feeling like it was a waste of time. People in roles where their work is done mostly independently (e.g. software developers) may especially feel that…
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I’m unemployed now, and you know what that means: time to try to establish a “personal brand!” I understand that advice and it makes sense in a way, but everything inside me screams whenever I think about sharing my thoughts with the internet. It’s why this blog is sporadic at best – my “brand” is…
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Last post, I talked a lot about how directing was very stressful for me because of the people management aspect. I must say, despite the fact that it was very stressful for me, I kicked ass at it. Examples: People got along with no friction (at least, none that I could see) Even when things…
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Yesterday, I had a one-to-one meeting with my manager, and he was asking me about Scrooge Macbeth and how it was all going. I gave the usual canned responses: “oh, it’s going well, it’s really coming along, we’re only 3 weeks from opening so that’s a little scary, ha ha ha,” and then he asked…
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One aspect of my theatre life that I do not frequently share about (at least, not the extent that I do my directing and stage managing endeavours) is my role as Executive Producer with KWLT. In our bylaws, the description of the Executive Producer role on the Board of Directors is: “The Executive Producer shall…
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When I started the planning for Scrooge Macbeth, I decided that I would design my own set. This isn’t super strange – in the world of community theatre, at least as I have experienced it, people have the possibility of taking on several production roles at once. There are a couple that I, as Executive…
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Well friends, after all of my years in theatre (~10 now, 6 if you take into account my university hiatus), it is finally time for me to put the headset aside and sit in that esteemed probably-uncomfortable director’s chair. Time to satisfy that infrequent yet persistent artistic urge. I may be a stage manager at…
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I learned recently that I was nominated for an award for “Outstanding Achievement by a Stage Management Team” for the most recent play I stage managed (Poona the F*ckdog and Other Plays for Children), by the Western Ontario Drama League. I am very pleased to have been nominated, though of course I think that my…
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I read an interesting paper the other day on the subject of automated software testing. It is called “A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing,” by James Bach and Michael Bolton. It is about the difference between using tools to aid in testing, versus using tools to replace testing. It brought up some interesting points…