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The Jessie Awards Recognize Outstanding Stage Management

Jun 9th, 2010
by Lois.
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A year ago, the lovely Nick Keenan wrote a blog post about the lack of awards for stage management.  He asked: How in the WORLD can we structure an award for best stage management? Sure, it’s a tricky award to evaluate – there are enough pitfalls in evaluating design (which still can be flashy, brash [...]

Awards for Stage Managing

Jun 9th, 2009
by Lois.
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My friend Nick posted today about the lack of awards for Stage Managers in both the big awards shows (Tonys) & the smaller community based awards. Nick suggests that “the need is really to recognize SMs who are emerging in their careers and trying to get enough work to develop their craft into full-time work, [...]

2008/2009 Jessie Nominations

May 19th, 2009
by Lois.
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This afternoon I attended the Jessie Nominations Party. It was the second year that I’ve gone, and I go because its much more fun to hear them read of the list of shows nominated (and sit in my seat playing the “I did see that, didn’t I?” game) than it is to read them on [...]