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How to Become a Stage Director
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Tags: Stage Director, Acting, Theater, Movies
Think you're the next Quentin Tarantino? Here is how you can become a stage director.
| 1. | Be a drama kid in high school. Act and stage manage; run the lights and the props. Find out what you're best at. Ask your teacher for a realistic assessment of your talents. |
| 2. | If you can, go to a university with a recognized theatre program. If you can't afford that, go to a state college with a drama department that puts on lots of plays. |
| 3. | Try out for every single summer program you can find. Ask your college profs. to help find them. It doesn't matter what you do there, just get in and do something. Make a great impression on the people who run the program - you will need their recommendations later on. Work like a dog. |
| 4. | After college, move to Los Angeles or New York or go back to one of the places you spent your summers. Get a job to pay the rent. Haunt the little workshops and theatres until you get in doing SOMETHING. Sweeping the floor is okay. Try to move up the hierarchy and if you have acting talent, try to get parts. If not, stay in the stage-managing arena and learn to be really great at that. |
| 5. | Always be on the lookout for a place at the next-best theatre and try to move up the ladder in size and prestige and quality of production. |
| 6. | The next step is to put on a show that you direct. Perhaps the theatre with which you're affiliated will let you direct a workshop, or you and your friends can rent a theatre and present your own. Directing children's plays can be a good step. |
| 7. | At all stages of the game, tell everyone you are "learning to be a director." Not "I want to be a director." Ask everyone in charge of anything to teach you how to do that. People love that, and it shows the right state of mind. Be humble but not shy or retiring. Show your passion without your ego. |
| 8. | From there, it's opportunity + hard work + luck + your ability to manuever. Break a leg! |
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