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Production History
Stage Management

Twelfth Night

Directed By Milan Dragicevich

Production Stage Manager
UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Live musician with original music 

  • Large dragon puppet

  • Actor safety on ramps​

  • Extensive fight choreography including sword fighting

  • Sword maintenance during show run including replacing a broken blade during performance

  • Intimacy choreography

Mother & Me

Directed By Melinda Buckley

Production Stage Manager
Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Teched entire show in 3 hour period 

  • One tech day and one performance day with no prior rehearsal

They Don't Pay?
We Won't Pay!

Directed By Behnam Alibakhshi

Production Stage Manager
UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Inflatable stomach and 'water break' effect operated by cast

  • Hundreds of props 

  • Practicing food safety for onstage eating

  • Cast member playing Antonia got COVID, had to fill in last minute including onstage effects and fight choreography 

  • Fight choreography 

Into the Woods

Directed By Rudy Ramirez

Deck Stage Manager
UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Company of 19 in a space built for 12

  • Coordinated the deck, including mechanical falling trees and rising beanstalk

  • Coordinated and ran last minute put-in rehearsal for the role of the Baker and assisted the new actor during shows. The usual actor could not go on and we did not have understudies.

  • The character of the Witch was portrayed by a full body puppet in Act I. The usual actor was concussed during a show, resulting in me stepping in to puppeteer for three of seven shows.

  • On standby to fill in for orchestra conductor due to some issued being dealt with.

Black Playwrights: 50th Anniversary Event

Directed by Awotunde Judyie Al-Bilali, Gilbert McCauley and Dr. Priscilla Maria Page
Curated by Dr. Priscilla Maria Page

Production Stage Manager

UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Compilation of monologues and scenes from work done by Black artists and playwrights in the last 50 year as UMass Amherst.

  • Live music with microphones.

  • Guest actors integrated during tech and dress rehearsals.

Olvidados: A Mexican American Corrido

Elisa Gonzales

Directed by Sara Guerrero

Production Stage Manager
UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

Unique Elements
  • Called in during final dress to call shows due to former stage manager needing to leave the production.

  • Called the show without seeing the show or any prior knowledge about the show.

  • Finished call book hours before showtime based on notes given by previous stage manager.

  • Worked with lighting designer to put in last minute follow spot cues.

Savage: The Musical

Written and Directed by Nicolette Blount

Production Stage Manager
Turners Fall, MA

Unique Elements
  • First developmental production

  • Hired during tech to call show last minute.

  • Ran sound cues and backing tracks using QLab.

  • Created organization backstage with a large amount of props and set pieces.

  • Organized show without access to any materials or documents from the rehearsal process.

Dance Nation

Clare Barron
Driected By Dawn Monique-Williams

Production Stage Manager
UMass Amherst Theater - Amherst, MA

 

Unique Elements
  • Worked with Lighting Designer Ben Stanton.

  • Over 300 cues.

  • Flying elements and moving walls for set pieces.

  • COVID-19 procedures including masking onstage and running testing daily.

  • Main stage Lead Stage Manager as my first college production.

Blood Relations

Sharon Pollock

Directed by Zoe Irving

Production Stage Manager
Norwood, MA

Unique Elements
  • Set involved opening like a 'dollhouse' onstage.

  • Traveling competitive theater troupe.

  • Coordinated company when traveling.

  • Kept track of all technical elements (set, costumes, props, etc.) while traveling.

  • Edited and revised script to fit in 40 minute time regulations.

  • Managed set up and strike at each location.

  • Designed lights and had to program in a new location within a one hour time period.

The Reincarnation of Jaime Brown

Lynn Alvarez
Driected By Zoe Irving

Production Stage Manager
Norwood, MA

 

Unique Elements
  • Called cues from backstage due to lack of assistant stage manager and needing to run the deck.

  • Large rotating set pieces involving six platforms differing in height and LED lights that had to be turned on via remote from backstage.

  • Traveling competitive theater troupe.

  • Coordinated company when traveling.

  • Kept track of all technical elements (set, costumes, props, etc.) while traveling.

  • Managed set up and strike at each location.

  • Designed lights and had to program in a new location within a one hour time period.

The Three Musketeers

Ken Ludwig

Directed by John Quinn

Production Stage Manager
Norwood, MA

Unique Elements
  • Training assistant stage managers during the process.

  • Training student lighting designers during the process.

  • Coordinating gunshot sound cues with actor motion.

  • Changing flags onstage to represent new locations.

High School Non-Musical

Jonathan Dorf

Directed By John Quinn

Production Stage Manager
Norwood, MA

 

Unique Elements
  • Heelies used by actors onstage.

  • Designed and called projections and backdrops.

  • Large moving set pieces.

  • Trained actors in moving large set pieces safely.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Ken Ludwig

Directed by John Quinn

Production Stage Manager
Norwood, MA

Unique Elements
  • First stage manager position.

  • Called cues and coordinated with designers from backstage during tech in order to manage the deck as well.

  • Theater style used actors for set pieces and props, thus entailing lots of costumes changes and many pieces of fabric/ cloaks. 

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