Internship Blog

3/22

Intern Meeting Report:

One of my favorite things happened at this meeting! We got a chance to talk about women in theater. Almost indisputably, there are more women than men in theater, but there are many more roles written for men. We talked about what roles are available to women and also what roles aren’t available, or are very hard to find, for women. DP’s shows are often new works that are written for the cast that is available. This brilliantly allows them to have lots of roles for women. We also talked about the energy in a space when it is an all female cast and how it affects the work!

Fun Tyler Fact:

Tyler Loves Gummies

Good Moment:

The cast broke into song multiple times together. Everyone was so invested in singing as a group and it was incredibly charming.

3/24

This rehearsal must have been wild considering I have no account of what happened

4/3

Photography Day!

Thaiphy Phan-quang visited today! We took promo shots in front of the american flag. We also had the wonderful experience of shooting short gifs. The cast is super playful which makes for endless fun. I got introduced to The Red Jumpsuits. Each and every cast member looks incredible in the jumpsuits.

Tech and App Stuff:

I have been introduced to so many new-fangled-things! I figured it was time for a list!

• Slack (Group messaging)
• Evernote (Notes)
• Celtx (Script writing)
• StrengthFinder (What it sounds like)
• When Is good (App for scheduling)

Tea:

There’s new tea at rehearsal. It’s very very good tea. I love mint tea and this new tea variety pack has some of the best mint tea I’ve ever had. This is a very important.

Show Dates:

The dates are set! The contracts signed! We’re locked in! Whooo! We’re going to perform a show!

4/5

Intern Meeting Report:

Another meeting day!! A really key thing we discussed was marketing and some promotion techniques! These included the headshots that are taken for each show. Which end up on online programs! I hadn’t ever thought about doing online programs for whatever reason, but it’s brilliant, and free, and saves paper. Another good thing I learned was that DP sees about a 10% return off of facebook invites So if 100 people are invited on facebook, 10 will come. A promotion technique being used for The Candidate is creating gifs for the show. They’re easy to share which makes for good promotion. A final thing to note is that DP has a mailing address with an estimated 1000 email addresses just for press. Usually after emailing all 1000, there is only one response. So that’s wild.

Script:

There’s a script! We did a read through and started blocking.