Description
The Small Show Coordinator ensures that a small show happens once over IAP and once in the spring after the mainstage show has been wrapped. More can be organized at the discretion of the current Ensemble, but the SSC would need to organize those as well.
Responsibilities
1. Choose an appropriate date (not too many conflicts) with the input of the rest of the Ensemble
2. Find a desirable space for the performances (Little Kresge, 66-110, and Killian Hall have been used in the near past, 1-390 is a decent space too, 4-270 and 4-370 are very popular).
3. Reserve the performance space for 6-11pm on the nights of performances and at least two nights beforehand. If possible get the space for a half-day or day sometime in the week immediately prior to the first performance so that scenes can rehearse in the space in half hour or hour blocks.
4. Send a questionnaire to the Ensemble to find out who will be participating and in what way (acting, directing, both), what they hope to get out of scene night, what scene or sort of scene they would like to work on (and why), what character or sort of character they would like to play (and why), who they would like to work with, who they would not like to work with, etc.
5. Meet with the consulting director to discuss how many and which scenes will be performed and who will be involved in each of them. Decide whether there will be a theme for the scene night (eg: modern, Shakespeare's contemporaries, sex and seduction, scenes about women) search for more directors if there is a lack of them.
6. Organize a publicity design (do it or get someone else to do it) and undertake some early publicity such as contacting free on-campus media and publicizing on our town-crier list.
7. Scene groups are responsible for their own rehearsals and their own tech (special effects, sound, props etc.).
8. As the Scene Night gets closer:
a. Find Stage Manager/crew/ushers for the show.have at least one run-through in the space (to work out set changes, scene order, etc.)
b. Ensure that the following things happen: posters go up, publicity email goes out, a lovely program gets made (liaise with scene directors to make sure the right spiel goes in on each scene), an introductory spiel is given at the beginning of each show.