I’ll admit it. One of the most painful parts about being an intern is being available to your supervisors and waiting for jobs to come to you. That was what the majority of the first half of my internship consisted of. Although I was still discovering the wonderful lands of unions, equity and contracts, streamlining information into nifty Excel documents, and doing general research, looking back on a day to day basis, it wasn’t that much.
That has completely changed since I came back from my two week winter vacation. The primary reason behind my downtime was the fact that Seattle Rep produced two co-productions in the fall. Now that everything is in house for the second half of the season, my job has become much busier and much more fulfilling. Between all the craziness that is Glengarry Glen Ross, prepping for Fences, fully production managing the Roosevelt Playwriting Project, and Elisabeth (the Production Manager) letting me dive into some Stage Management stuff among other things, my hands have been pretty full. The creation and mailing (with general supervision) of contracts is now also completely in my world, so much so that Angie (the Assistant Production Manager) officially moved the contracts file organizer to my desk.
The PWP was an absolutely amazing experience. I’ve been itching to get back into organizing and managing projects like this ever since I left college. The event itself essentially became and intern-run project with all of our supervisors stepping back and letting us run the basic logistics. It allowed me to collaborate directly with everyone in the Production Department, diving into our prop and costume storage spaces, figuring out crew schedules, and really showing me hands on what it takes to put on a show in a large scale theatrical environment. We were introduced into the students, spiked, focus, teched, had a preview, and opened the show all in one very short day. Trying to balance scheduling with required crew breaks, the need to run through cues, and just getting through all the shows created some conflicts, but we got through everything, and by the end of the day, the show ran smoothly. It is truly awesome when you’ve prepared for something for months and then you see it all come to fruition in one glorious and tiring day.
-Krystin Matsumoto, Production Management Intern
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