Tech Week Begins

I find myself embarking on my final week of tech as an intern at SCR. I find myself in the same space I started my internship in - The Nicholas Theatre - but in a more prominent chair. I began my internship working on "How the World Began" at a music stand on the end of the first row in the Nicholas as the #3 on our three person stage management team and I now finish my internship as the #1 on a two person team at the stage management table in chair #1. It is vey exciting. My production assistant starts today, she was a freshman at Harvard this year and an alum of the SCR acting conservatory and I am very excited to have an extra pair of hands, eyes and feet. The director was laughing at me on Saturday as I was multitasking during a run through of our show. I was running sound from two separate boom boxes off of two CD's and an Ipod; reading lines for a student that had to leave early, writing down blocking and trying to update the run list all at the same time. I'm sure it was quite hilarious. I have thus far enjoyed the process of working on "Snow Angel" - it takes me back to the Wolfpack. The actors are 8th - 12th graders and all of them WANT to be there. I am comforted that it is more a process about process vs. a process about the end result. I find it interesting that the high school aged kids here are afflicted with the same "elephant foot syndrome" as those from the Wolfpack and Flathead Theatre companies. This condition is defined as the inability to move ones feet in a quite manner so as not to sound like elephants tromping across a wood floor.
Speaking of elephants I read an interesting article this morning about the giant creatures. You can read it here: Wild Elephants Gather to inexplicably Mourn the "Elephant Whisperer"

and then I read this commencement speech Paths are Made by Walking and promptly emailed it to the speech team. An interesting idea. To WALK - witness - accept - love - know thyself.
This last article came from a website called Daily Good. It looks interesting enough that I might continue to check it out. Lets be honest we all probably need a little more good in our day.

17 days until I meet my dad in VEGAS! to journey back to MONTANA!