Do You Have Weird Job Dreams?

Do You Have Weird Job Dreams?

It’s been a while since I wrote much stage management content, so today I thought we’d take a break from personal finance and I’d ramble a little bit about the absolutely insane dreams that sometimes accompany some shows. I recently worked a fairly high stress festival on minimal sleep for the week and I have…

Wanderlust: How Stage Managing Can Fuel Your Travel Bug

Wanderlust: How Stage Managing Can Fuel Your Travel Bug

I was recently thinking about one of my favorite parts of stage managing and for me, it has definitely been travel. You get to be a part of some of the most exciting productions in the world, working with talented performers, designers, and technicians to create unforgettable experiences for audiences. One of the biggest perks…

Financial Tips for New Stage Management Grads

Financial Tips for New Stage Management Grads

May is right around the corner and it makes me think of being a shiny, new graduate. What an absolutely freaking terrifying exciting time! As a new graduate stage manager, I remember the challenges that come with navigating the financial landscape after graduation. It can be overwhelming to figure out how to make ends meet…

14 Holiday Gifts for Stage Managers from Etsy

14 Holiday Gifts for Stage Managers from Etsy

**This is a sponsored post.** Sponsored post-ness aside, I do love Etsy. I’ve mentioned my fairly unhealthy and potentially bankrupting love of candles several times on this blog. And Etsy is on to me with their candle gift guides. I also like it for unique and personalized gifts. I’ve used it as a go to…

How Do You Become A Stage Manager?

Unsplash – CC0 License Stage managers are responsible for organizing the running of theaters day-to-day. Their work involves everything from setting up rehearsals to forming meetings post-show. But what’s the career path in this profession? How can you get a position like this? Make Sure That You Have The Right Qualifications Unlike some technical careers,…

iPad Apps for Stage Managers

iPad Apps for Stage Managers

I was a very slow adopter of iPad technology. A few years ago I worked on a show where my ASM was all about. She did all her notes on hers, regularly accessed documents, and would call the show (which is still a pretty hard no for me, but to each their own on that…

What Do Stage Managers Do?

What Do Stage Managers Do?

I was looking up some SEO information on Stage Management – for my non-blogger friends out there, that’s how to optimize for searches and found that one of the most commonly searched phrases is Stage Manager Job Description. And it got me thinking. It’s kind of a hard job to define, isn’t it? If you’re…

The Starving Artist Anchor Effect

The Starving Artist Anchor Effect

A few weeks ago, I went on a bit of stage management specific tangent about anchoring and priming effects from reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. I’m still thinking about this subject, but today I want to reflect a little on how, as performing arts workers, we get anchored in the starving artist…

Stage Management and the Priming/Anchoring Effects

Stage Management and the Priming/Anchoring Effects

Today’s post is all stage management, friends, sorry, we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled personal finance and sometimes moaning about life shortly. So my day job does a lot with apply cognitive behavioral science to selling techniques and a book that gets mentioned a lot at work is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel…

How to Use Salary Info

How to Use Salary Info

A few weeks ago I was interviewed for the TheatreArtLife podcast and it sparked a pretty good conversation among us about sharing salary info. A key part of my blog is my accountability updates each month that breakdown where all of my money goes but also how I earn it – it gives readers a…

My COVID Career Pivot

My COVID Career Pivot

So who is ready for this pandemic to be over? And is it just me, or does it feel like everyone outside of the events industry has figured out how to get on with their lives in this “new normal” and while they complain a little about things, for the most part, their lives are…