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Class Meeting Wed Time: 2:30pm-5pm Room V321
- This course meets in person
- All assignments must be turned in the assignments tab in Black board.
- I will be checking black board three times a week.
- I will be checking my email Monday through Friday
- ANNOUNCEMENT is the entry point. Announcements tell you everything you might expect to hear at the beginning of a class if we were in a classroom. In our virtual classroom, you have to read the announcements each time you enter the course by logging on. Check these announcements three times a week.
- INFORMATION is where you will find information about me (phone, email, office location and so on). Our online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So if you want to ask me any questions about project management, you can post to the discussion board at any time and I’ll try to respond within 12 hours.
- COURSE INFORMATION is where you’ll find all the information that is usually given out on the first day of a course (course syllabus, grading policies)
- LECTURES is where you will find all assigned readings, “handouts,” checklists, slides, lecture notes and information about how to do all the assigned work.
- ASSIGNMENTS is where all assignments (with due dates) will be turned in.
- DISCUSSIONS- Post any questions you have about Stage Management.
- TOOLS is where you’ll find tools for updating your personal information, creating your own Home Page (on this site), checking your grades, and exchanging word processing files with classmates and with me via the Digital Drop Box. Also the tools for sending email to me other members of the class.
Required Materials
Laurie Kincman, The Stage Managers Toolkit, (2nd Edition), Focal Press, 2017
Word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software
Attendance/Promptness
If you have a legitimate, reason for missing a class/assignment or if you will be late, please contact me (see above) before class begins.
Show Attendance Policy (Departmental Policy)
If you are going to work in the Entertainment Industry, it is as important to be an educated and engaged audience member as it is to have a clear understanding of what happens backstage. Also, when your peers and/or faculty are working hard on a live event for the department, they must be rewarded with your strong support and encouragement, even though you may have nothing to do with that project. There is nothing worse, after working a “zillion” hours on a project, than to have a small audience.
Therefore, as part of completion of this course you will be REQUIRED to attend at least one of the department’s and Theatreworks’ live events. The Haunted Hotel also must be visited at least once each year. Please come and show your support as often as you can!
Course Grading Formula
Project 1 10%
Project 2 10%
Project 3 10%
Project 4 10%
Homework 25%
Quizzes 15%
Reflections 20%
Projects
- Prompt Book: Each student will develop a promptbook for a production. This documents should be neat and complete, communicating as clearly as possible cues, blocking, cast list, and all other vital information as communicated in class lectures. These documents will be posted to the call board.
- Blocking project: accurate blocking notes for a short production TBA
- Cue Calling: The cue-calling project is a team project. The class will break-up into production teams. Each student will call the cues of a simulated live performance.
- Production Team: Students will organize and produce short play as part of a short play evening. Shows TBA
Course Objectives
| Learning Objectives/Outcomes | Assessment |
| Students will… | |
| Demonstrate proper application of stage management techniques for a live event. | Review the promptbook created for a live entertainment production. Determine if the production script contains the information necessary to create the production using a rubric. |
| Illustrate knowledge of the process of live performance production. | Review the touring production documents using a rubric. |
| Demonstrate leadership skills by planning, and executing a cued performance of a simulated production. | Observe each student stage manager managing a simulated production. Review the process and evaluate using a rubric. |
| Manage computed mediated communications for a collaborative project. | Observe the data in the computer mediated content system. Evaluate the information for accuracy and accessibility. Review the log of student usage of the content. |
| Analyze a dramatic text as a stage manager | Create documents appropriate for a live stage production. |
