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Opera Stage Management 101 – Part Four: Timing the Score

July 9, 2018 cue2go Leave a comment

[This blog series was started for the Stage Managers’ Association. Part Four has been a bit delayed due to my…

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Filed under: Opera Stage Management 101, SM Tips, Stage Management Paperwork, Technology in Stage Management

Opera Stage Management 101 – Part Three: Setting Up Your Score

June 11, 2018 cue2go 7 Comments

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

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Filed under: Opera Stage Management 101, SM Tips, Stage Management Paperwork

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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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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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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  • COVID Compliance Training Roundup and other Updates April 9, 2021
  • Enjoy today’s numeric date April 3, 2021
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Year of the Stage Manager Takeover

Check out my “stories” on the @sminsta2020 Instagram account:

  • January 20, 2020 during Opera Naples’ Double Bill
  • April 2, 2020 during USITT 
  • November 20, 2020 during virtual recordings of Westport Country Playhouse’s A Merry Little Christmas Carol.
  • Upcoming April 13, 2021 during WSHU’s Join the Conversation virtual event

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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.

“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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