stagey-bex

[stagey-bex]

Hellooooooo

I’m Bex

Long story short (great Taylor Swift song!):

I’m a British theatre kid…

I’m 18…

I made the decision to work in technical theatre at 12…

I chose stage management at 14…

I have been working in a regional theatre for the past year, as a casual technician…

I am now at the point of starting drama school to study stage management…

I want to share my experiences and my journey in this industry, and I usually have a lot to say so this is going to be a bit chaotic and long winded

I’m afraid this won’t just be my career rambles, I also like rambling about shows I see, and I see quite a few

I hope you enjoy :)

Ooooooh so you stuck around

Thank you 🥹

The long story:

I’m 18 (for a couple more days)

I’ve grown up just north of London, giving me perfect access to the west end whilst also being near receiving regional theatres and seeing most shows possible.

I have always been involved with the performing arts in some way, but went from performing to crew after a massive confidence break when I was 12.

I was crew for many school productions and accidentally fell into the role of stage manager as my school did not have one…someone pointed out to me that’s what I was kind of doing so I looked into it and tried to learn best I could online.

At 14 I made the decision I was going to be a stage manager, and begun researching drama schools and how to get in and get the training

At 15, a month after I had stage managed an amateur panto for the first time, the country went into lockdown and I thought I had lost my dream and the industry would not survive or that there would not be an opportunity for me (oh how wrong I was!!)

At 16 I was researching drama schools, having my eye on a particular one, and working towards hopefully getting in, building up my experience and learning through school shows, using what I had learnt in a practical setting. I reached out to a stage manager who came from my town and had a similar route in to me, who was at my dream drama school, and she begun giving me advice.

At 17, I visited the backstage of a professional theatre for the first time. And I found out about the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), applying to ASM with them over my summer holiday…and so I did, having a great time and working a show where I was able to learn and use skills I already knew. That experience gave me the confidence to apply for a job at my local theatre, which I got, and have been working at for the past year.

18 has been a fun one…

18 has given me west end experience, working professionally, getting into drama school, doing NYMT again, and it’s given me the harder side of the industry, which have assured me I’m good here and I don’t want to leave even through the rude crew and unsociable (LONG) hours.

I’m so close to doing exactly what my dream has been…so close I’ve already had a taster

I want to share my journey and tell my story, to people who might be interested, and to people who might relate or be able to offer advice.

Thank you for reading all this!!

Bex off comms

:)