At the 2025 USITT National Conference, my partner-in-crime Dr. Jennifer Leigh Sears Scheier and I coordinated a hands on lab…
For the longest time, if there has been any “industry standard” for stage management (there are far fewer than most…
A recent post was talking about my love of Spike Sticks so that you can carry around a whole bunch…
I’ll admit it. A spike stick is one of my absolute FAVORITE stage management tools.
You can have rolls of spike tape hanging on a piece of tie line near the edge of the stage during tech, or wear them proudly like fashionista bracelets, but a spike stick with multiple colors is slick and clean, and takes up way less space.
On nearly every show, stage managers are asked to tape out the set in the rehearsal hall. Very rare is…
Okay, you’ve got your set of dance numbers ready (see previous blog post), but have to put them on a…
In a past blog post I’ve talked about creating your own quick and dirty dance number line. I carry mine…
Okay, first things first….yes, I would normally hope that a technical director or someone else would print me off the…
It’s October 10th, and that means it’s the International Stage Management Day. And it’s the 10th anniversary of the event,…
Until a couple years ago, if I saw a circle on a groundplan, let’s face it…I would cringe. Trying to make straight fabric-based spike tape turn into a beautiful curved line was pretty hard. In college, we used to have to do it with a paper-based spike tape, which thankfully I’ve never seen again in the professional world. Electrical tape can be a little easier to form curves, but it stretches and can get awkward as well.
Enter Ruth E. Kramer to the rescue.