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Director's Blog
08/03/2011 - Posted by Freddie Ashley
Every summer, I get sucked into a very false perception. Because we are between seasons, I always think summertime will equal down time. I'm always wrong. Summer means getting everything lined up for the following season...firming up creative teams for every show, confirming classes and instructors for the whole season, diving into pre-production for the first show of the season and doing those nagging little projects that there never seem to be time for during the season.
One such project has been a massive cleaning project backstage. Using some carpet that was donated four years ago (!), we finally recarpeted, cleaned and painted the backstage area of the theatre. This area had for too long been a no-man's land of junk and forgotten objects and is now pristinely clean and free of all gack.
Amy Ferguson-Kohan, our Audience Services Manager, took on a massive project to clean and organize our costume storage area. It is now much more efficent and organized.
Our summer interns, Margy and David-Aaron, undertook and completed an ambitious digital archiving project, converting thousands of old slides into digital files, making tons of storage room available and preserving old production images in a much more accessible and sustainable way.
All of this happened while readying Spring Awakening for production. We held auditions and design meetings and attended to the myriad details that go into pre-production.
I also managed to sneak in a vacation this summer -- my first in TEN years. Now I have an appetite for it and am ready for the next one!
But now...August has arrived and that means a new season. Our new class of interns started this week. We have nine interns in acting, directing and stage management. They are a great group -- you can learn more about them by clicking HERE.
And, we've started rehearsals for Spring Awakening. It's going to be an amazing show. But with the start of rehearsals, it means goodbye to those summertime projects and hello to the new season!
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