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Are you bored this holiday season? Or perhaps want to escape from your relatives for a couple hours? Or maybe you’re missing your own found family right now... Well why don’t you pop some popcorn, pull up YouTube, and watch a fun musical about Batman’s family! Let’s get through the holiday season together.

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These goons…..I can’t

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Resume format for Stage Management

Writing a resume for Stage Management, or theatre in general, is different from most other fields. Here are some guidelines and examples to help you build your own or update one you’ve already written.

-Don’t overcomplicate your format. Adjust your margins to make them comfortable, but not running off the physical page.

-Make sure your name is prominent but not loud. I can always point out the young technician slash actor in the resume pile when they list their eye color and height.

-If you’re non-union or union, it’s a good idea to say so next to your general title - hiring managers appreciate it.

-Cater your resume to the position you’re applying for. If it’s for a musical, put your musical experience first; if it’s for an opera, put your opera experience first (then musicals because they’re the most similar), etc.

-When I was younger, it was standard to include your home address, but I advise against it. You don’t want the hiring manager to subconsciously factor in your travel expenses before even seeing your experience.

-It was also standard to include the year of the production you worked. I have mixed feelings on this - if you’re older it can date you and a hiring manager may subconsciously (or outright) decide against you. If you’ve had large gaps in employment, it will show. A practical reason to leave them out is a matter of space on the page.

-Shorten the longer titles of productions using ellipses.

-Standard order is Show-Director-Position-Producing Company

-For recurring productions with the same company, include the year.

-Be careful with your abbreviations, make sure they are industry standard. SM, PSM, PA - these are standard and typically used. Do not, for instance abbreviate the name of a show (Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly, not DTMICF) or a theatre company’s name (there are several CTC’s around the country, but only one Children’s Theatre of Charlotte).

-The old standard was to keep your resume to only one page, which resulted in using tiny font or picking which shows to leave off. Now that the majority of resumes come to the hiring manager in the form of email, it’s okay to send a two-page resume. If you do have a two-page resume, notate the page number on the bottom of the page. Put your name and contact info on the top of each page.

-Make sure your skills are accurate, don’t embellish or lie. If you only have a basic familiarity with lighting equipment (e.g. you can name the basic parts of a lighting instrument), then say so. If you have experience in other fields that translates well to theatre (e.g. event planning), then mention that. 

-You have to put your education information, even if you didn’t finish school for whatever reason. I had to leave CCM due to financial difficulties, even though the school gave me a scholarship to continue; I include my internships under education as on-the-job training and, during the interview process, make sure to elaborate on why my college education was cut short.

-List any affiliations you have that are helpful to your field.

-Use spellcheck and a friend with a killer eye for detail and the english language to double check your resume.

Most importantly, do not lie on a resume. Ever. Not even a little. Theatre is a terribly tiny world (Google makes it even smaller) and you wouldn’t believe how many people have caught someone in a lie during an interview. That’s a fast and furious way to make sure you’re never hired anywhere. One PSM I know interviewed a man that applied with an exact copy of the PSMs own resume with only the name at the top changed. Just don’t do it.

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“This is Jeremiah. Jeremiah wore safety goggles while angle grinding. Jeremiah still has his right eye. Be like Jeremiah.”

Via @tjconnorstweets

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ATTENTION

I AM ON A MISSION. I AM GOING TO FOLLOW EVERY BLOG ON THIS SITE. ALL OF THEM. HELP ME ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, INTERNET STRANGERS, BY REBLOGGING THIS POST AND I WILL FOLLOW ALL WHO REBLOG IT. E V E R Y O N E.

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Why would someone do this????

This one goes out to all the light technicians

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Best Things Said In Lighting Class, Weeks 1 Through 10:

“Every lighting designer is a little bit of a pyromaniac. Maybe a lot. Explosions!”

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“Can we black out the circuit numbers,’ they say. ‘It’ll distract the audience,’ they say. Look, the circuit numbers are miles up above the stage. If the audience is looking all the way up there instead of at what’s going on onstage, then there’s something wrong with your play and that’s YOUR problem.”

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“Okay, so I know I already emailed saying I can’t stay for class today, but I wanted to show you that I got all the supplies like you asked, just so I can prove I’m not slacking, I swear to God-”

“That’s great, but this wasn’t due today?”

“….”

*From across the room* “I TOLD you-”

“YES I KNOW YOU TOLD ME.”

“Well, it was on the syllabus-”

“LOTS OF THINGS ARE ON THE SYLLABUS!”

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“Could I please have dimmers 1, 18, 35, 47-”

“Wait, I missed one go back.”

“COULD I PLEASE HAVE-”

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“Think of it like this. You’re an elementary school principal, grades 1 through 6. You have 2 first grade classes. You need to know who’s teaching what class, which kid is unhappy, what kid comes in late, who’s struggling- look, the kids represent lights.”

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“YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A DIFFERENT COLOR SCHEME IN LIGHTING FOR EACH KIND OF SKIN TONE. THERE IS NO SKIN TONE IN THE WORLD THAT’S ‘PROBLEMATIC’ FOR LIGHTING. YOUR TEACHERS WERE FULL OF SHIT.”

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“Physics! It doesn’t change!”

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“You know how they make little kids flame retardant pajamas?”

“What?”

“Yeah, they- wait, did you guys not know this?”

“NO? Why would they-”

“Probably so the kids won’t catch on fire, right?”

“Why would they be catching on fire in the first place?”

“It’s a dangerous world!”

“Okay, what I want to know is how many kids would have to have tried to set themselves on fire before they started making fireproof pajamas the default.”

“Um- all of them? Have you never looked after small children before? All they ever do is try to find new and creative ways to die!”

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“If it busts from heat, it’ll have a crack right down the middle. Just like the Grateful Dead!”

“…..”

“….nobody got that, did they?”

“I did!”

“Thank you.”

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“Can’t you stick that in the wall?”

“You can! I have done so, and caught things on fire.”

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“Does anyone remember that earthquake? No? None of you were born yet? Fuck you all.”

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“Has anybody else here ever electrocuted themselves?”

*Show of hands*

“Hm. Slightly more than I expected. For those of your classmates who haven’t, how did it feel?”

“….bad.”

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“You all grew up in southern California, so you don’t know shit about lightning. If you’re outside during a lightning storm, what are you supposed to do? You get the fuck out of the pool, you do not play golf-”

“Wh-”

“BECAUSE YOU’RE HOLDING A METAL STICK, DUMBASS.”

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“Again, every lighting designer is actually a junior pyromaniac. We like fire, we like explosions, we like burning things.”

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“You know, I’ve never seen this much smoke in the Superdome.”

*pause*

“Including the two times it was on fire.”

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“…I mean, why do you think little kids put everything in their mouths?”

“Because children have no survival instincts?”

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“Audrey McDonald- I don’t know if you know who that is, but that bitch could drop a strike.”

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“The emergency cue sequence is the We Can’t Unfuck This, Just Start Over sequence. I have had to use it twice, and both times were for Ringling Bros. First time was when a horse pooped in the middle of a show. Second one was a tiger mauling. We just kind of gave up on that day.”

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What is your favorite way to do line notes?

I prefer to type them up in one spreadsheet – like so: 

Typing them like this allows for a few different things:

You can leave them in the sheet as is – chronologically. Simple.

You can organize alphabetically using sort so that people can find their name/notes easily.

You can filter notes by person and save/print/distribute individually. If you have AEA actors in the cast, you have to give line notes out this way.

Using this format is the fastest, easiest way for me to do line notes. Doing them by hand is fine, just not my preferred. 

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Decided today that I was gonna focus on props in my final year and then saw Lin’s tweets 😄 Props is just the coolest

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Hello Theatre Friends!

I am trying to reach out to the furthest corners of our little Techblr community and want to get to know you all! Please reblog this post if you are studying, working in, or even are interested in Technical Theatre! I haven’t seen one of these posts for a while so I want to make sure that I am following any of you who share my love for the theatre. Spread this post around, friends! Let’s find each other! :)

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Leah on the Off Beat

Leah on the Off Beat was so good! I actually finished like a week ago and I'm still soaking in everything. I won't spoil it but I highly reccomnd reading it. 10/10

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If you’re a drama geek that works in lighting, sound, stage managing, directing, costuming, or any other tech stuff, reblog this!

I want to find my people.

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One of the best lighting design/electrician resources online, IMO.

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Applying For Tech Theatre Jobs?

Since I assume a lot of you tech theatre folk out there are applying for jobs I thought I’d put together for you a comprehensive post of things relating to:

Finding & Applying

Cover Letters + Resumes [2]

Portfolios (Online and Hard Copy [2]) - (online portfolio help post to be completed)

Interview étiquette

Accepting a position/contracts  [2]

Hopefully these will help you out some. 

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- Shoutout to all the designers and technicians whose awards were given during commercial breaks and whose speeches were cut to a 5 second sound bite

- Shoutout to all the stage managers and technicians who made the Tony Awards run smoothly and perfectly

- Shoutout to the sound designers who would have been nominated but were robbed of recognition by the still bullshit removal of their award

- Shoutout to every young designer or technician who watches the Tonys year after year while the awards they may one day be nominated for are distributed offscreen because “~There’s no way to fit everyone otherwise~”

- You are a crucial part of theater and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Be loud. Demand recognition. Do not settle for less.

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Where all of my problems began:

6th Century B.C in Ancient Greece where a little guy named “Thespis” had an idea.