[SML] College to High School

nathan best best.nathan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 00:00:17 UTC 2016


Thanks for the heads up.
On Apr 12, 2016 6:50 PM, "Erin Joy Swank via Stagecraft" <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> I just looked up the book. Looks like a new edition is being published a
> week from today, FYI, with updates (first edition was 2003).
>
> There’s a book called “The Perfect Stage Crew,” by John Kaluta and if you
>> flip through that, I think it gives a pretty good idea of what an average
>> set of expectations are for a high school TD in terms of student knowledge,
>> participation, etc.
>
>
> Erin
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:28 AM, John McAfee via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> I second the frustrating “it depends” answer.  I spent 4 years as a high
>> school TD and am in my 5th year as a college TD and I’m looking to go back
>> to high school.  At the college level, I get a lot of non-majors who have
>> jobs and kids and "real life” so the time and focus needed to learn how to
>> build a platform with care is not there.  With high schoolers, yes,they
>> were more immature, but when they were working with me, I found I had more
>> of their attention.
>>
>> There’s also the question of administrative support and budget and
>> private vs. public (both college and high school).  Since high school is a
>> smaller ecosystem, I think that there can be more administrative support
>> and it is easier to explain how your job is not the traditional job.
>> That’s harder to do at the college level, I’ve found.  The support in high
>> school will probably not translate into a larger budget, but you might have
>> parental support (theatre boosters) that can help raise money and maybe
>> some parents who can act as ATD if they are interested.
>>
>> My experiences are also a little more apples to oranges because I was at
>> a private boarding school for the high school and am at a state university
>> (and not a flagship) now.
>>
>> There’s a book called “The Perfect Stage Crew,” by John Kaluta and if you
>> flip through that, I think it gives a pretty good idea of what an average
>> set of expectations are for a high school TD in terms of student knowledge,
>> participation, etc.
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 12:47 PM, gbierly via Stagecraft <
>> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>> It is really going to depend on your schools, both the college and HS and
>> their programs.
>>
>>
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