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Opera Stage Management 101 – Part Two: The Personnel

May 29, 2018 cue2go 2 Comments

The character list (in Italian and English) for Donizetti’s DON PASQUALE This blog series was published first on the Stage Managers’…

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Filed under: Opera Stage Management 101, SM Tips

Bad Stage Directions

May 22, 2018 cue2go Leave a comment

Going viral right now in my Actors’ Equity and stage manager circles is this screenshot of what is reportedly a…

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Filed under: Stage Combat

Opera Stage Management 101 – Part One: Generalities

May 21, 2018 cue2go 9 Comments

This blog series was published first on the Stage Managers’ Association website. At the time of writing, I am a…

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Filed under: Opera Stage Management 101, SM Tips

Getting your application to the top of the pile

February 17, 2018 cue2go Leave a comment

by Erin Joy Swank Jeffrey Salzberg originally asked me to contribute this article for his Stage Lighting for Students website…

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Filed under: Stage Management Paperwork, Technology in Stage Management

Nutcracker fun

January 13, 2018 cue2go Leave a comment

Having just finished a production of The Nutcracker, I am especially intrigued by this latest video from DoodleChaos. The mathematician/nerd/Rube Goldberg…

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Filed under: Nutcracker, Pop Culture References

Welcome to my website!

December 31, 2017 cue2go Leave a comment

I finally did it. I’ve considered one for years. Honestly, I rather have avoided website editing after leaving Central City…

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Western Stage Manager Convention Delegate

It’s official; I was elected in the last Actors’ Equity Association election. Check out the blog posts tagged as AEA and let me know how to best represent YOU at the upcoming conventions.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Waiting for second stimulus unemployment benefits to kick in and updated Colorado system January 3, 2021
  • Unwrapping Gifts Digitally using PowerPoint (Free Template) December 25, 2020
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Adventures with Eeyore (1) AEA (5) AGMA (1) Assistant Stage Manager (1) Care and Feeding of Stage Managers (12) Cirque (2) COVID Return to Work Guidelines (5) Dance (4) Eeyore and Erin (4) Finances for SMs (2) Going as Green as Possible (2) Helpful Links (10) Musical Theatre (4) Navigating Unemployment (7) Nutcracker (4) Opera (5) Opera Stage Management 101 (8) Pop Culture References (6) Production Publicity (1) Production Reviews (1) Puzzles (1) Real Life SM Stories (28) Recorded Events (4) SM Tips (14) Stage Combat (1) Stage Management Books (1) Stage Management Humor (5) Stage Management Paperwork (4) Taping the Set (3) Technology in Stage Management (9) Thoughts on Articles Read (6)

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Year of the Stage Manager Takeover

Follow YSM2020 on Instagram! @sminsta2020. Keep up with insta takeovers from those like @cheriebtay!Check out my “story” on the @sminsta2020 Instagram account January 24th during an opera gig.

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“Erin is wonderful at bringing people together from across the entertainment industry. No matter if she is in Colorado or Florida – working on opera, theater or dance – her knowledge and joy about what she does is infectious in the best possible way. I trust her professionally, personally, and with any show I have the pleasure to work with her on.” – Adrienne Wells, Corresponding Secretary of the Stage Managers’ Association

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