Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
IATSE Workers Divided on Whether to Ratify New Contract
Variety: Charley Gilleran has had a 30-year career as a rigging key grip, moving between superhero blockbusters like “Iron Man” and Oscar winners such as “No Country for Old Men.” This weekend, he plans to vote to ratify the new contract negotiated by his union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Theatre's hiring crisis
Exeunt Magazine: “For the first time I’m going, ‘I’ve got the budget, but I can’t find the people.’ It’s so strange,” says production manager Heather Doole. Her words are echoed across the theatre industry, in meetings, social media and job listings sites, where the same roles come up repeatedly and with increasing urgency. It’s surreal, because until the pandemic, the main conversation about theatre and hiring was on the impossibility of breaking into what often felt like a cliquey closed shop.
Theater workers aren’t just changing jobs during the pandemic. They’re leaving the field
Datebook: One low point for Julie Saltzman Kellner came when she was in labor with her daughter but still answering work emails. “That is to some degree my own damn fault,” she recalled ruefully. “Like, put the phone away!”
Meet a JEDI Trainer
Dramatics Magazine Online: Destinee Steele’s a JEDI trainer. No, not of the Star Wars variety. She recently completed her first theatrical JEDI training tour and shares the story! If you don’t know her yet, Destinee has an MFA in wig and makeup design. She is the CEO of The Beauty Menagerie, LLC. She is also a Founding Board Member of Black Hair and Makeup United. Let this multi-talented theatre maker fill you in on her JEDI training tour and the work she’s doing. You’ll be inspired!
Outside theatre: why it mustn't stop after the pandemic
theconversation.com: Indoor theatre is back. Despite audiences being inscrutable in masks, I’ve seen two packed shows and begun to believe that theatres are finally recovering after a dreadful year. But the outdoor experiments that have kept theatre’s flame alight during the pandemic shouldn’t be cast aside in the process.
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