The Truth About Working Theatre for Young Audiences Tours | ft. Ruth E. Kramer | Half Hour Call

Stage Manager Extraordinaire and recent Del Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree Ruth E. Kramer talks all about theatre for young audiences tours and the highs and lows of bringing theatre to children across the country. Have you ever wanted to tour with a TYA show, such as TheatreWorks USA tours? Find out if it's for you!
Endless thanks to Ruth for her contributions to this channel and to the stage management community as a whole!
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[@joceyyy_]

This is such an interesting video! Thanks for making content like this!

[@HalfHourCall]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@geminidragonreads]

This is not related to this video but I need some advice. I’m want a career in stage/production management. I have three professional SM jobs under my belt and half way to a bachelors in theatre. I’m debating wether or not to finish school to save money and continue to try and find more professional work. I’ve recently applied to a few SM jobs on a cruise ship, Im not quite qualified but I applied anyway, since I do have some school and experience professionally. What is the outlook on SMs who don’t finish their degree?

[@HalfHourCall]

If you’re already working as a professional stage manager, you have your answer about whether or not you “need” your degree to be a stage manager! You can totally work your way up with just on the job experience. That said, I would personally go ahead and finish the degree, solely because transferring credits can be a pain, and if you want to go to grad school for anything (not just theatre) you DO need a degree for that. But that’s definitely a personal choice, I don’t think there’s a “right” or “wrong” answer.

[@geminidragonreads]

@@HalfHourCall it’s not consistent work, and I’ve been working my day job non stop and they don’t give me much flexibility to take theatre jobs. So I thought school might be a better route but I also don’t want the debt.