Carolyn Galvin

Tag: directing

  • Directing is Stressful

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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…

  • Casting

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    About two weeks ago, I finally had my auditions for Scrooge Macbeth. It was not at all like I expected; I had known a few people I was getting out to my auditions for sure, and assumed besides that that interest would be low. It is not a well-known show. I am not a KWLT…

  • Set Design

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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…

  • My Path to Directing

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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…