I was working on a show earlier this semester outside of the department, and something striked me and I haven't been able to let it go. The SM was becoming more and more frustrated because the director wasn't happy with how the sound or lighting was being executed during the final few dress rehearsals, and he was taking his anger out on the SM, who isn't very tech savvy, and was the only one running both the sound and light board. She said she would put the director's problems in the rehearsal reports. She would then proceed to bad mouth her team when the notes weren't accomplished by the next day, and the director would continue to voice his problems to the SM. Yes, it's not the SM's job to reprogram the light board or alter a sound cue, but it is her job to communicate her problems to the designers and get a response from them. To send one email and then wait 24 hours til the next rehearsal without a response, I think, is unexceptionable. Even more unexce...
Stage Management Journal
Kean University Stage Management Course Journal Project