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Hey Tumblr, I know you're a long shot on this one, but I also know that bits of Techblr are still floating around out there, and heck, someone might have a rich dead uncle.

After 10 years of paying my dues as a costumer in the industry, after surviving being a Live Entertainment Professional during COVID, I finally got a chance at my Dream Job: I'm now a costumer working for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

If you're a theater person, you also already know this, but COVID decimated theaters. A lot of small theaters went under entirely, and even the big guys are holding on by their toenails. Despite everything, we're now one of those: we've been told that without a significant amount of help, our season will end this year in the beginning of July, not in October like it's supposed to, and folks are saying "well, there *might* be a 2024 season, we have to see how it goes."

Tumblites, I love this job. I like 95% of the people I work with, I'm the closest I've ever been to my 70+ year old parents, I'm in a union and I'm being paid an actual honest to god living wage. We do really interesting (and important) shows, and set a lot of standards/things to strive for for other theaters as well.

If you have anything you'd be able to give, rich uncle or not, I'd love it if you could.

#reblogging here in case any of my old followers are still around! #theater #shakespeare #techblr

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hello I am sending an ask. did you go to uni? was it for theatre? what do you do now? how has the pandemic affected your work? are you currently doing any shows?

So I actually majored in Computer Science with a minor in Theater cause my school's theater program wasn't great.

This turned out to be lucky, because with the pandemic all theater got shut down so I'm working as a Software Engineer right now and haven't gotten to do any theater in over a year.

#wow there really are sO many of us cs/theater folks! #truly love to see it #also would lile to point out tho! not all theater is cancelled — lots of us have just shifted to temporary new mediums for storytelling!

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was cleaning out my slack reminders and found one that says “send brick pics t scenic team”

#it is fun and glamorous to work in theater! #i miss it very much #i mean i'm still working on virtual productions #so i think it's time for me to get this blog going again #hydt originals

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FriEND

Best FriEND

Girl FriEND

Tech Week

Only Tech Week has no END. Tech Week will always be here. There is no escape.

#god fucking dammit #hello yes i am alive #though i am not doing theater #theatre #technical theatre #theatre tech #tech week #techblr

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today in rehearsal, my director told the cast, “you may rewrite these lines as you wish” for a half page of the script. 

i am. yelling!

#techblr #smblr #rehearsal highlights #oct 12th 2019 #the caucasian chalk circle #hydt originals #my asm and i immediately exchanged a WHAT THE FUCK look

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“She’s lucky she got nicked in the hitch of time!”

- actor onstage, four days before we open

#techblr #smblr #theater #theatre #hydt originals

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[me, calling the show for the first time in tech, slapping down sticky notes in my script with “AAA” written on them]

advisor: What is ‘AAA’ an acronym for?

me: it’s me. screaming at my own poorly called cues

#techblr #smblr #theater #theatre #hydt originals

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“Theater is the petri dish of all performing arts.”

— scenic design prof, in the first class of the semester

#techblr #smblr #theater #theatre #sceneblr #we're back bABEY #hydt originals

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Desi Oakley, who starred in the national tour of Waitress, was flown to London over the weekend in order to play the lead role of Jenna. Oakley is filling in for Lucie Jones, who currently stars in the West End production, as well as her understudies Olivia Moore and Sarah O’Connor, who all became ill.

Producers Fly Desi Oakley to London to Fill in for Ill Waitress Stars

#me mentally taking notes: ah so this is what happens #when all of the understudies are aLSO ill #stage management tips n tricks #smblr #techblr #Waitress #Waitress the Musical

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“I paid so much and I’m still paying so much for my undergrad education,” said [playwright Jaclyn] Backhaus, who went to NYU for acting. “I was super naïve about the industry, and I was unaware of the financial burden I was getting myself into.” Though she considers the connections she made at NYU “invaluable to me in so many ways,” she said she will often “toggle back and forth about whether I would have changed my decision had I known” about attending an expensive private college.

#theater #theater school #playwright #techblr #smblr #actingblr #mfa programs #grad school

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Tips for dealing with a really really awful director???? (I'm in high school)

Hello friend,

It is indeed a bit trickier to navigate Real Adult directors when you’re a student because of the inherent power differential - I’ve come across this situation in some the shows I’ve worked on in college, and it’s rough. Can you send another ask or DM me with details (your position on the show, whether the director is an adult, the sorts of troubles you’re having) so I can better assist?

Best,Ky

#ky answers asks #Anonymous Ask #i feel like i come across this problem a lot #all problematic directors are problematic in different ways tho #is the problem

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What’s Coming to Broadway in 2020?

#theater news jan 2020

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Just throwing it out there

If you’re the kind of person with “unfollowing anxiety” I want you to know it’s okay to unfollow me

 I don’t care if we’re mutuals, friends in real life, family, whatever

You aren’t obligated to follow me, I don’t keep track of followers/unfollowers, I don’t “do inventory” and see if my mutuals are still following me, and I definitely don’t ever “call out” someone for unfollowing me

#since this blog is #beyond my wildest expectations #resonating w ppl #pls! be aware of the above message!

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The Fourth Wall: A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage

#OH WHATTHE FUCK #techblr #smblr #THIS IS GORGEOUS (time to ... do this in my theater?!?!)

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update, after stage managing my first show:

turns out the answer is yes, he was being sarcastic — when you’re a stage manager you exist in a pit of sleep deprivation, being 300% done with everyone, loving your job, and using politely-worded emails as a coping mechanism.

stage managers are such chaotic neutral beings?? i picked up using the phrase “oh, wonderful” from the first stage manager i ever worked with and to this day i never know if he was being sarcastic or not

#techblr #theater #theatre #smblr #hydt orginals

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Me in the booth when I’m anxious to start the show but there’s nothing to do.

#OHOHOHO THIS IS A MOOD

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It's kind of a spicy interval.

music director, mid-song

#the caucasian chalk circle #music #techblr #smblr #hydt originals