Ryan Kelly
Member
Hello all,
Going to throw a ton of personal information at you very quickly.
Graduated a year ago (almost exactly) Ended up doing odd gigs for this theater, showed my worth and quickly rose to Technical Director.
I am contracted to work 20 hours a week, but usually go home at 3am daily during tech weeks (our turn around is usually 3-4 days and we put a show up every month, usually a 2-3 week run per show) I work, on average, 30-35hrs, aside from the 65+ hour tech weeks.
My contract is up and aside from bringing a massive to-do list and a very precise time card I kept documenting my weekly hours, i'd also like to bring a very important piece of information to the table, problem is, I can't find it.
This theater has had 5 TDs in its 5 year existence, and they've burned every vendor they have dealt with. I was talking to an old TD and they told me that the theater is on a blacklist he found somewhere in the bowels of the internet. Does such a list exist? If so, i'd like to show them, kind of an incentive to say "guys, i'm willing to work with you, not many people are, I can make this theater the most efficient blah blah blah etc.
I want to love this theater, the space is great and they keep bringing in heavy hitting talent. HOWEVER, I will not continue to work on a part time status killing myself for them and passing up other opportunities, or furthering my education.
Going to throw a ton of personal information at you very quickly.
Graduated a year ago (almost exactly) Ended up doing odd gigs for this theater, showed my worth and quickly rose to Technical Director.
I am contracted to work 20 hours a week, but usually go home at 3am daily during tech weeks (our turn around is usually 3-4 days and we put a show up every month, usually a 2-3 week run per show) I work, on average, 30-35hrs, aside from the 65+ hour tech weeks.
My contract is up and aside from bringing a massive to-do list and a very precise time card I kept documenting my weekly hours, i'd also like to bring a very important piece of information to the table, problem is, I can't find it.
This theater has had 5 TDs in its 5 year existence, and they've burned every vendor they have dealt with. I was talking to an old TD and they told me that the theater is on a blacklist he found somewhere in the bowels of the internet. Does such a list exist? If so, i'd like to show them, kind of an incentive to say "guys, i'm willing to work with you, not many people are, I can make this theater the most efficient blah blah blah etc.
I want to love this theater, the space is great and they keep bringing in heavy hitting talent. HOWEVER, I will not continue to work on a part time status killing myself for them and passing up other opportunities, or furthering my education.