So as the title might imply, I'm looking for rationale to mandate, require, or otherwise necessitate the role of a the HS TD/Auditorium Manager. I know a couple of you all on here exist in that realm with me. To be specific I'm looking at an employee at a public or private high school that fills (or exceeds) the following roles-
- Manages bookings of a space for the school, surrounding schools, and general public
- Manages a crew of students that learn the trade and run the building for events
- Designs, plans and executes builds for the internal drama program's mainstages throughout the year.
- Upgrades, maintains, otherwise cares for the building at large.
I know everyone has their flavor of the above so if you're close I'd love to hear feedback from you even if you don't fit that mold exactly. I've got a person that is very interested in what I do and curious about why some theatres/auditoriums require a manager and others don't. For our situation, the ones with rigging systems have traditionally had managers whereas the smaller venues with dead hangs are usually overseen by a teacher or employee of the school, if at all.
Is there any sort of guiding document or standard given that anyone knows of that would dictate (or at least highly recommend) having a competent manager/TD on site for a building?
Lastly, and I don't know if this would fly, I would love to know salary information. I don't know if that would run afoul of the mods here. I'm hoping, given the present culture with sites like offstagejobs, it could be a beneficial discussion for our section of the industry. I'm happy to share my own or do a PM thing if it's not something the greater good feels needs to be aired out. Honestly, none of us make what we're worth so what is the big deal?
Thanks in advance for any information you might share. This is not a conversation I look forward to having next week
- Manages bookings of a space for the school, surrounding schools, and general public
- Manages a crew of students that learn the trade and run the building for events
- Designs, plans and executes builds for the internal drama program's mainstages throughout the year.
- Upgrades, maintains, otherwise cares for the building at large.
I know everyone has their flavor of the above so if you're close I'd love to hear feedback from you even if you don't fit that mold exactly. I've got a person that is very interested in what I do and curious about why some theatres/auditoriums require a manager and others don't. For our situation, the ones with rigging systems have traditionally had managers whereas the smaller venues with dead hangs are usually overseen by a teacher or employee of the school, if at all.
Is there any sort of guiding document or standard given that anyone knows of that would dictate (or at least highly recommend) having a competent manager/TD on site for a building?
Lastly, and I don't know if this would fly, I would love to know salary information. I don't know if that would run afoul of the mods here. I'm hoping, given the present culture with sites like offstagejobs, it could be a beneficial discussion for our section of the industry. I'm happy to share my own or do a PM thing if it's not something the greater good feels needs to be aired out. Honestly, none of us make what we're worth so what is the big deal?
Thanks in advance for any information you might share. This is not a conversation I look forward to having next week