stage managing?
snazzier
Understudy Joined: 3/23/06
#0stage managing?
Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:02pm
I've started my college search and I make it a point to check the school's theatre program to see if it has stage managing. Are there any smaller schools with a SM program that have a good name?
How much SM experience is enough, too? I've done as many shows as I can with just being on a crew... I was the ASM of a smaller school production this year and I really want to SM The Laramie Project next year. Would that be enough experience?
Thanks in advance!
forni-kate
Featured Actor Joined: 1/29/06
#1re: stage managing?
Posted: 5/10/06 at 4:53pmI don't know if there are many stage managing programs...I think your best bet would be to go into a theatre tech program, which I know DO exist.
#2re: stage managing?
Posted: 5/10/06 at 4:54pmNC School of the Arts has a Design and Production program and you can choose to focus on stage management. PM me for more info.
superwoman108
Stand-by Joined: 1/5/05
#4re: stage managing?
Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:48pmI am a stage management major at Carnegie Mellon, and it is a wonderfull program. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions at all about it (i can give you my email address).
#5re: stage managing?
Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:35amSusquehanna University in the tiny town of Selinsgrove PA has a really good theatre program...really intense, tiny, and almost sort of convervatory like. Since the program is so small, you could ASM a show as early as freshman year and SM as early as sophomore year. (We're talking main-stage productions here.) While they don't have a specific stage management degree, there is technical theatre but you can take specific classes geared towards stage management and get LOTS of hands-on experience. PM me if you want more details. :)
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