Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Are you organized and methodical? Have you ever wanted to just TELL people what to do? Ever considered stage management?
The annual New Ideas Festival at Alumnae Theatre is recruiting stage managers for the 15 short plays this year (check out the Dec 2 post titled New Ideas Festival 2014 – the lineup! at http://alumnaetheatre.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/new-ideas-festival-2014-the-lineup/ ). Experience not required! Here’s the official notice:
New Ideas Festival (NIF) is Alumnae Theatre Company’s annual three-week juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre, with a different program each week and a workshopped reading on Saturdays at noon.
Would you like to get involved in New Ideas Festival and join the fun this year? NIF needs stage managers for many of the 15 short plays.
We will provide training if you don’t have experience.
Rehearsals start February 1, and the festival runs from March 12-30, 2014.
Important dates:
• Thu Jan. 23: Production meeting and stage manager orientation, 7-9 pm
• Sat. Feb. 1: Rehearsals begin
• Tue Feb. 18: Production meeting and lighting demo, 7-9 pm
• March 6 – 9: Tech days by week
• Wed. March 12 – Sun. March 30: New Ideas Festival performances.
Each show runs one week (6 performances), and the readings have one performance each at noon on the three festival Saturdays.
If you are interested in stage managing a play in the Festival, please email newideasfestival@gmail.com and put Stage Manager in the subject line.
Photo: Clifton Forbis as Siegfried. ©2006 Gary Beechey.
2014-01-15
Toronto: Alumnae Theatre Company seeks Stage Managers for its New Ideas Festival 2014