{"id":4493,"date":"2014-01-12T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2014-01-11T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:00:20","slug":"kit-of-a-crew-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/kit-of-a-crew-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit of a Crew Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last 12 weeks as a deck crew member of <em>Peter and the Starcatcher<\/em>. This is pretty much the only full-time job I&#8217;ve had in theatre where I wasn&#8217;t a stage manager. <\/p>\n<p>It was a nice change of pace after a year as PSM of <em>Silence! The Musical<\/em>, and in general a chance to experience the life of a crew member first-hand, while also getting to observe and steal things from watching other stage managers work. <\/p>\n<p>One of the nicest things about it was how little <em>stuff<\/em> I needed. When I went to work every day, all I needed to bring was black pants (which was my decision, something I find more efficient that keeping pants at the theatre and changing). And, not being a department head or anything, as long as I remembered what time the next show was and didn&#8217;t forget my track, there was nothing I needed to know or prepare.<\/p>\n<p>My bag was usually a very small messenger bag, only needing to hold my Kindle, sometimes my iPad on a 2-show day, and very occasionally my computer, if I wanted to use some of my copious downtime to work on other projects. Other than wearing black pants, I really didn&#8217;t need to bring anything for the job itself. <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my list of the things I kept at the theatre (aside from my boots, they all fit in a small drawstring back that hung from the crew&#8217;s coat rack). <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>black hoodie<\/li>\n<li>black baseball cap (to keep hair out of my face during intermission)<\/li>\n<li>Leatherman \/ flashlight holster<\/li>\n<li>hand moisturizer (I did a lot of flying &#038; always had blisters)<\/li>\n<li>mints (for coffee breath)<\/li>\n<li>iPhone charger (with 4\/5 adapter, making me very popular)<\/li>\n<li>black hard-toed boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to returning to the stage management world full-time, but this was a really enjoyable and useful experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last 12 weeks as a deck crew member of Peter and the Starcatcher. This is pretty much the only full-time job I&#8217;ve had in theatre where I wasn&#8217;t a stage manager. It was a nice change of pace after a year as PSM of Silence! The Musical, and in general a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[76,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}