How To Be The Perfect Stage ManagerThere is no exact science on being a stage manager. All productions are different and have their good and their bad moments. The bottom line is staying cool under pressure to avoid sticky situations with the individuals you will be working within this production and possibly the next.
As a stage manager what is your purpose? Here are a few of your job duties.
1. Setting up rehearsal schedules. Talent may have commitments that they need to take care of. It is your job to make sure that rehearsals won't be compromised because someone couldn't make it on that day. Scenes do not have to be rehearsed in order. They can be mixed around.
2. During read throughs, keeping track of where the last person reading left off. It is not the director's job to be technical. It is his or her job to be artistic. You must be one your game or otherwise you will have know-it-all talent that will try to show off.
3. If an actor is missing, it is your job to stand in. You will have to read in the same manor that the missing actor would so the pace of the scene keeps going.
4. Track of light and sound cues. Once the show starts you will be in charge of calling out the cues to the light and sound engineers.
5. You are the prop master. You need to keep track of what props are at hand, and what props you will need.
6. Once the show starts, you are the person that checks on the arrival of cast and crew.
7. Cast Party is also your responsibility as well as getting the director a present from the cast and crew (it's tradition).
If you have previous experience being a stage manager, insert other tidbits of advise.
3. If an actor is missing, it is your job to stand in. You will have to read in the same manor that the missing actor would so the pace of the scene keeps going.
4. Track of light and sound cues. Once the show starts you will be in charge of calling out the cues to the light and sound engineers.
5. You are the prop master. You need to keep track of what props are at hand, and what props you will need.
6. Once the show starts, you are the person that checks on the arrival of cast and crew.
7. Cast Party is also your responsibility as well as getting the director a present from the cast and crew (it's tradition).
If you have previous experience being a stage manager, insert other tidbits of advise.
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