Red

The production and my role:

Red appeared on the spring line-up as the week 1 weekend show, with performances from February 13-15th, 2026.

As the stage & props manager, I was responsible for working with a budget to source props and organize them as presets on-stage. As this was another two-hander play, but this time with no interval, there wasn't a lot of action happening backstage. Instead, a lot of my work was in pre-setting props, especially in regards to setting up paint for the actors to use. A fun extra task in prep for the show was making the cast noodles each night for a scene on stage.

This show, to no surprise, worked a lot with paint, especially live-painting with the actors doing so in a sequence. I worked with the set designer and show exec to make the sequence possible, not just as a stage manager, but also as one of the barn (venue) managers). As soon as the show ended, I was key the clean-up process on-stage, sealing up leftover paint that wasn't used, cleaning paint brushes and palettes and, of course, cleaning the stage floor for stray paint splatters. This was important because audience at the end of shows tend to wait around in the performance space for actors, and we didn't want paint to track around the venue.

In pre-setting props, I made sure to work with actors to ensure they knew what was where, and move props accordingly based on what they would find most helpful in scenes. There were costume changes that happened backstage, and I was there to help with these, as well as clean up any paint on actors between scenes. I had a lot of fun working on this show with all these talented people!