Happy New Year!
I blog, therefore I am! I've decided to enter the bloggesphere and write an open and candid journal of my life as an emerging Stage Director/Choreographer for Opera, Theatre, and Dance.
In the last several years, I have focused on staging operas of all genres and styles.
Creating a career as a Stage Director is not easy because of many reasons. And I will go into my gripes later. The only way Directors can truly develop your craft is through directing. But the powers that be will only hire you if you have "experience" OR is your best friend from college and happens to run a theatre. Many go to grad school and gain experience. Others come into directing from being a performer. I've done both, which has resulted in having the opportunity to direct professionally, but not enough to earn living.
"What. . . .you want to make a living as a Director? What about being a 'Starving artist'?"
Being a Starving Artist is over-rated. Therefore, I Stage Manage other director's productions and write copious notes so I can steel their ideas. That was a joke! LOL! Or was it?!?! ;-)
Ciao for now,
eugene
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