Tag: theatre
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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…