Working on Finding Work

That is my current full time job. I knew when I quit my steady teaching job to try to pursue a year round career in technical theatre, that I would most likely not hit it big right away.

In context, I'm doing well. I have had weeks of work here and there with theatres like the Alley, TUTS, A. D. Players and the Moores Opera House at U of H. There was also a pleasant surprise few days of work with a publicity company called REP Interactive (my first film credit).

My husband, now in his first year as a physics teacher, keeps telling me to be patient and enjoy having free time while I can. This sounds nice, but I am not used to being without work, so I'm struggling with the concept of not having somewhere to go every day. What this means is that I have developed a new hobby: compulsively checking the IATSE Callsteward website to see if I have work, my email, and various creative job websites such as Offstage Jobs, and Staff Me Up.

In the meantime I am restraining my urge to get a kitten (or two) until after Thanksgiving (at my husband's request and my better judgment), and pursuing this work of finding work. Putting this website together is part of that (finding work and distracting me from kittens). So if you read this and you or someone you know of is in need of a props person, set dresser, scenic artist, carpenter, stage hander, production assistant, welder, stage manager, or spotlight operator...I think you get the point :)

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