Reports

Company Meeting Report: 9/24/20

After initial auditions, we spent the first month holding "company meetings". These meetings consisted of readings of the play (with each of the company members reading for a different role), as well as discussions of the play.

After our 4th company meeting, the company sent hypothetical cast lists of who they thought would be ideal for each role. It was through this process that roles were assigned to people within the company.

Afterwards, company meetings were held weekly on Tuesdays as a way for all of us to catch base on the progress we all have made in our specific fields.

Rehearsal Report: 10/19/20

This is an example of a rehearsal report written towards the middle of the rehearsal process. For this specific rehearsal. I was not there at the first chunk (4:30-5:30) due to class. However, my ASM Andrew, who helped write the minutes, was there to fill it for me until I returned to the rest of rehearsal.

Since we did not have specific designers for the show, the notes section of my reports are designed as "General Notes", "Directing", "Art Direction" (for production supervisor, professor Julie Wunsch), "Stage Management" and "Digital Design" (for our Die-Cast digital design consultant Brenna Geffers). A "Props" section was added, as this rehearsal had a few notes regarding props.

Production Meeting Report: 10/28/20

This is an example of a production meeting report. This meeting occured 9 days before we went into tech.

While production meetings were usually only open for those on the immediate production staff and not the company, we decided to invite a few members of our company who were involved with design aspects for the show, as well as the College of Arts & Humanities' Digital content Specialist, who was there to help us talk about how we were going to present out show virtually.

Tech Rehearsal Report: 11/7/2020

This is our 10am-10pm tech rehearsal report, which was a continuation of our cue-to-cue.

Our cue-to-cue, like most things with virtual theatre, was run differently. While the company, stage management team and OBS operator were primarily on Zoom, the director, production manager, digital design consultant, and production supervisor were on a separate Discord room, as they were watching the tech stream on YouTube. The OBS operator and I were also on a different Discord, and this is how we communicated throughout tech and during the run of the show.

Since there was a 20 second delay from Zoom to YouTube, I had to jump back and forth from both Discord rooms during all throughout tech.