I am the SM for my High School, and will be graduating next year. I have hand-picked a freshman who has the skill set necessary to do my job.
I started designing a carruculum of sorts in order to teach him, but, as it turns out, teaching such a fine-tuned art as stage management is fairly difficult. (As expected, of course. SMs must always look ahead. )
I was thinking that starting him in light design, with an emphasis in managing the lighting crew would be a good place to start (partly because he's interested in LD. Off-topic: do all/ a surprisingly large number of SM types have an interest in LD? Just a correlation I noticed). Hopefully, he'd be able to ASM for me while doing LD. Finally, I'd like him to full on SM the final show of the year, and I'd be his ASM. With daily meetings about what went well and what didn't, etc.
All of that, of course, is all for training by experience. How much is there that can be taught at a desk and lecturn?
Thoughts?
I started designing a carruculum of sorts in order to teach him, but, as it turns out, teaching such a fine-tuned art as stage management is fairly difficult. (As expected, of course. SMs must always look ahead. )
I was thinking that starting him in light design, with an emphasis in managing the lighting crew would be a good place to start (partly because he's interested in LD. Off-topic: do all/ a surprisingly large number of SM types have an interest in LD? Just a correlation I noticed). Hopefully, he'd be able to ASM for me while doing LD. Finally, I'd like him to full on SM the final show of the year, and I'd be his ASM. With daily meetings about what went well and what didn't, etc.
All of that, of course, is all for training by experience. How much is there that can be taught at a desk and lecturn?
Thoughts?