What am I working on? I am the stage management intern for the Syracuse Stage production of Two Trains Running by August Wilson. I have now been to 3 days of rehearsal and don't hate it yet. Basically I make and maintain the coffee and hot/cold water for the cast and crew throughout the rehearsal, clean up at the end, and am on book and make notes of all the line mistakes the cast makes throughout the day. It's fairly easy work. The main point of me being on this project is to work with an Equity stage manager and to see how Syracuse Stage runs their process of putting up a show. What is especially cool is that the stage manager is a graduate from the same program I'm in so I am hoping to sit down with her one day and grill her about her time here and find out what she took away from the classes, found helpful, hated, etc.
On Monday I start my crazy class schedule....which isn't really all that crazy minus drafting on Wednesday mornings but I'm going to pretend that doesn't exist until Wednesday. This semester is basically part 2 of all the classes I took last semester so it really shouldn't be that hard. And as far as working on shows goes, this semester will be much easier than last semester. Two Trains ends for me on Feb. 1 and then I'm just run crew on 2 of the SU drama shows...piece of cake.
Actually now that I think about it, my semester will still probably be crazy. 20 credits, 3 shows, and 1 (possibly 2) job(s)? Yikes. Wish me luck.
But I have an awesome place setting so I can still be a child occasionally :)
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