do stage crew nerdfighters count, im currently working in my high school stage crew

I am just about to start my last semester as a theatre major and I am studying to be a lighting designer. I have loved theatre as long as I can remember and I really think I would be miserable doing anything else.

The “m” word can be mighty powerful.

And anyone who is involved with the production of Theatre. This is a panel for you. Weather your a techie an actor or just help run the department your welcome here. So yes Dana Stage Crew does count.

We started my college’s production of Midsummer Night’s dream this week. I’m a draper, if you don’t know what that means its the person in the costume shop responsible for making the designers sketch a reality. They are assisted by the first hands, stitchers, and cutters, and work under the direction of the shop supervisor and their assistant. XD Anyways I’m really excited to be making the fairy outfits this quarter.

Is anyone here working on a production they are very passionate about? I really like to hear stories about other productions.

I’m a thespian also

I’m studying to be a theater teacher, I have been acting since I was 10…so 1999…:D It’s pretty much my life.

I’ve been a theatre nut for quite a few years now. I’ve done pretty much everything, from acting as lead, to chorus, to dancing, to stage design, to directing, to tech (both sound and lighting), and all the way to directing.
Needless to say, I love everything about theatre, but I especially love acting. This is my first year of university; I’m not studying theatre, but I am part of a theatre club and our show goes on in March!
As for ‘M’ work stories, my drama teacher was in a show downtown, and had a cast mate say the ‘M’ word backstage, and then 15 minutes later their director came in to say their other cast mate was not going to make it that night because she was in a car accident. Lesson learned, DON’T SAY IT.

I’m a sound designer, started out in construction and stage-handing. Tried acting and hated it, but theater, as a subject and discipline (the study of the convergence of everything interesting about being alive) is one of my two favorites. My favorite play is easily Othello, because I am boring, and my favorite musical is probably Into the Woods, because I am uncultured.

I’m pretty sure there’s a Broadway recording (with Bernadette Peters, whom I will someday make my wife) of Into the Woods on Netflix, if you have it. I meant it was boring because having a Shakespeare play as your favorite is just kind of unoriginal, but Iago is still my favorite character in all of fiction. He literally meets every single criterion on the psychopathy checklist, 400 years before it was written. I’m really looking forward to studying Titus Andronicus, as it’s most of my friends’ favorite play, but from what I hear it lacks the humanity of Othello.

I am an actress too Our theatre company is starting The Taming of the Shrew this year.

Currently in school so I only take part in theatre as a hobby, but I love it. My acting class is currently working on a major production which we are writing ourselves. I’m really excited about it.

Well do some research, and talk your parents through it. I’ve dealt with many parents who were not supportive of the Theatre Degree simply because they saw it as an unsteady career choice. Yes there are risk but since you wanna teach anyway why not choose a second teaching emphasis. Teach Theatre and Math or English etc. They may through their support behind you getting a teaching career in a different field one that is more study. Instead of standing by the choice as in your dedicated to it. Show your parents all the ways that you specific emphasis can be used. For instance with a Theatre Degree in Costume Construction. I could go become a seamstress for many people. I could work in theatre and in Hollywood. I could… There is a lot that people don’t realize they can do with a theatre degree. Always remember through. It isn’t the end of the world if you can’t do theatre. My acting professor is really trying to emphasis that in theatre students.

If your parents still aren’t supportive try and compromise with them. Do a double Major half of it in something they really support and the other with the Theatre. Always remember you don’t really know if you can handle a life in Theatre until you get to a school and have to budget your days into 30min increments so that you can get everything done that you have to, often times this doesn’t happen for people until grad school.

Always remember a career in theatre means having to make sacrifices from your life outside theatre. It is highly unlikely that you really do understand those sacrifices until you really do get into theatre. I’m just starting to understand the extent of it and I felt like I had no life outside of theatre while in High School, boy was I wrong. I barely have enough time to cook my food much less spend 5 min having a social life every other day.

International Thespian Society yay.
If you are (or were) a member during HS, what is your troupe number?
Troupe 918.
I actually initiated with 42 points where ten are needed.

My favorite role was that of Schroeder in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown!” the remade version.