A Stage Manager’s Field Guide to Community-Engaged Work : When You’re Ready (and Even When You’re Not)

A Stage Manager's Field Guide to Community-Engaged Work is a memoir-textbook hybrid offering practical guidance for process-oriented, collaborative theatre. Through personal anecdotes spanning pre-production to closing night, it explores stage management philosophies for community-engaged work. Ideal for students and practitioners.

A Stage Manager’s Field Guide to Community-Engaged Work is a personal essay collection that offers an expansive definition of community-engaged theatre and what stage management of this work looks like in practice. A memoir-textbook hybrid, this book is a practical and experiential guide through process-oriented, collaborative, and community-engaged work which often departs from traditional step-by-step methodologies. The theatrical process for the stage manager moves through phases and subphases of pre-production, rehearsals, technical rehearsals, previews, and performances. The text travels the road of these phases through stories from the field spanning pre-production to closing night. Each chapter employs personal anecdotes to explore themes, ideas, and philosophies about stage management for community-engaged and process-oriented work. The text is ideal for students and instructors of stage management, along with anyone who seeks a new path in this unconventional field.