I am a stage manager based in Santa Barbara, CA. My experience as a production stage manager is primarily in straight plays, from Lillian, a one-woman show on a single set, to Barlow’s A Christmas Carol with five actors, three dances, nine songs and 255 cues. I’ve also stage managed the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, an opera showcase featuring scenes from Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice and the Act IV Finale of Le Nozze di Figaro, several dance shows, and – my new favorite – drag shows!
I enjoy the logistical puzzles of running deck as an ASM as much as I enjoy calling a show. I’ve worked as an ASM on straight plays, musicals, and operas, for which I have tackled fun challenges like pre-setting three tables of precisely placed foley instruments (It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play), rigging and operating three explosions (Sleuth), and tracking, making and serving seven consumable liquids between 34 glasses (Emma: The Musical). As an opera ASM, I’ve worked on four full-length operas, a one-act opera (L’enfant et les sortilegès, for which I cued entrances on both sides of the stage – sometimes simultaneously!) and an opera scenes program. Director Jenny Sullivan calls me “the hardest working ASM in the business.”
You can browse a variety of paperwork samples in this Google Drive folder.
