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Sometimes, support is a skill.

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My perfect lad.

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The amount of steps I had to climb to get this picture.

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So I recently got the chance to work on the design team for a show going on in an actual fuck-mothering broadway theater and it was. Insane. A lot of stairs and intimidating yet very nice people. Spent basically a few hours following my boss around while trying and failing to not nerd out at literally everything.

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Some adventure updates! Got to work on a drag show and it was a fucking blast?? Last picture is from under stage, as I needed to feed wires through it since I’m the newbie. (Not pictured- a very precarious and probably unsafe latter bolted into the wall which I needed to climb up and down multiple times so I could be taught how the rigging works.)

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Doing theater behind the scenes stuff (and just theater stuff in general) as a part time job is really interesting because a good 80% of the folks I work with have other far more “adult” jobs. Our stage manager does communications at a local prestigious college. Our lighting designer does software development. And that’s without even mentioning the actors!! I was helping mic up a really nice older guy and he off-handily mentioned that he was animator. What he *didn’t* mention was that he was an Emmy winning animator for dreamworks.

All these people have their own lives and jobs, but they still spend their time making something with theater anyways. It’s made me less scared about wanting to become an artist. If you have that passion, it can work out.

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Being a general set assistant is great. I’ll get a text from someone 20 years older than me going “Do you know how to use hot glue?” Then I blink and an hour later I’m building Dr. Seuss trees.

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“I fucking hate the music of Legally blonde.”

-One of my semi-mentors, uttered to himself, after working for 6 hours to build a set for Legally Blonde