The Future is Now I have spent the majority of my life in school. I love school and, if I may say so, I am quite good at being a student. There is always something new to learn and the fresh knowledge improves who I am and what I am capable of completing. I cannot wait to attend new courses, meet new teachers, and learn with new classmates. They are all vital sources of information and inspiration. In high school, I took as many Advanced Placement classes as I could handle, likely even more than I should have, but I’ve always had insatiable ambition. I was tired and burnt out at my graduation, but I knew all the obscure grammar rules that could have possibly popped up on the SATs, so it wasn’t all for naught. A few months later, I entered …show more content…
Stage management fulfilled everything that I wanted to do in my life and career. It is organizational, managerial, technical, and mathematical. Every problem that arises in the theatre is like a puzzle that I am eager to solve. It is artistic, specialized, and necessary for the production theatre, theatre that may change lives, perspectives, opinions, anything. Stage management combines the high level of academics I had spent my youth pursuing with my everlasting love for the arts. My education expanded beyond classrooms and into professional-level rehearsal rooms. I was able to work with the graduate stage management students and have important positions on large-scale university productions. It was clear to me, from my freshman year at UC Irvine that I would spend my life working as a professional theatrical stage …show more content…
It was a big change, but the right decision. Incredibly prestigious, well-known, top-tier Broadway stage managers taught the program. It was the best of the best. In my two years at Columbia, I had an astounding education. I met dozens of Broadway stage managers; shadowed productions backstage (such as Wicked and The Phantom of the Opera); worked on the Broadway revival of Gigi; and, whilst working on an Off-Broadway production, joined Actor’s Equity Association, the professional union for actors and stage managers. It was the educational experience of a lifetime, but now it is over and I’ve embarked upon the “real world.” I am lucky to have the strong skills that I learned in my five years of studying and I actively apply them to my work every day. Now back on the West Coast, I am working my way up the stage management food chain. I’ve begun small, stage managing productions for theatre companies with slim resources, which has not been a problem whatsoever, since I’ve expertly honed skills in problem-solving. It’s been nearly a year since my graduation and I’m beginning my third full-scale production, although several smaller one-offs have occurred in the