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CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S M FA P R O G R A M I N S TA G E M A N A G E M E N T The MFA in stage management is for students who wish to pursue careers in the theatre as professional stage managers. The curriculum focuses on the skills specific to theatrical stage management, but practical classes and contact with guest lecturers expose students to all arenas available to a stage manager, including opera and dance. Students are expected to develop expertise in rehearsal and performance practices and thorough comprehension of union regulations and theatrical venues. They are required to develop a working knowledge of all aspects of the theatrical aesthetic, and of the understanding necessary to enhance creative development on a production. To that end, students take courses in dramatic literature and all aspects of theatre practice and are encouraged to take relevant courses outside the Theatre Arts Program. Classroom courses are augmented by practical course work that allows students to observe and participate in the production process, both in academic and nonacademic situations. Stage management students are required to participate in program events both in management and production positions, as well as complete two internships in professional theatre. SAMPLE CURRICULUM Fall Semester – Year 1: Introduction to Stage Management – Ruth Kreshka Visiting Directors – Anne Bogart Theatre Management & Administration I – Steven Chaikelson Approaches to Stage Directing – Peter Lawrence History and Theory of Theatre – Carol Rocamora Spring Semester – Year 1: Collaboration – Anne Bogart Stage Management Seminar – Ruth Kreshka Theatre Management & Administration II - Steven Chaikelson 20th Century Theatre – Christian Parker Visiting Production Professionals – Roy Harris Elective* Fall Semester – Year 2: Production/Tech Management – Gene O’Donovan and Peter Lawrence Visiting Directors – Anne Bogart Rehearsal and Production – Tom Kelly Current Issues in Stage Management (Focus on the Straight Play) – Roy Harris Elective* 1 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S Spring Semester – Year 2: Advanced Stage Management I (Focus on Opera) – Raymond Menard Advanced Stage Management II (Focus on the Broadway Musical) - Ira Mont Stage Management Seminar – Ruth Kreshka Visiting Production Professionals – Roy Harris Elective* Year 3 Thesis and Internships Additional Requirements: 2 Professional Internships; 2 to 4 Production Assignments, including the stage management of up to two departmental thesis productions in Year 2; Collaboration Weekend Workshop. *Recommended Electives include Issues in the National Not-for-Profit Theatre, Viewpoints, History and Theory of Comedy, Promotions and Audience Development, Fundraising and Marketing, Critical Writing for the Theatre, Budgeting and Reporting, Models of Dramatic Structure, Press, Publicity and Audience Development, Planning a Theatrical Season. Stage Management Thesis Project Generally stage management students participate in a non-academic production, season, or tour. Based on a journal of their experience, they complete a 25-page paper and present their production book. 2 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S STAGE MANAGEMENT FACULTY RUTH KRESHKA (Director of Production; Concentration Head, Stage Management) feels graced to have been able to help bring the words and works of Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, Eugene Lee, Beth Henley, George Walker, John Patrick Shanley, David Henry Hwang, Reinaldo Povod, Adrian Hall, Truman Capote, Samuel Beckett and many others to the New York community. With Columbia since 1998, she is currently Director of Production and advises the Stage Management MFA students. ANNE BOGART (Professor; Concentration Head, Directing) is the Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of two Obie Awards, a Bessie Award, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent works with SITI include Under Construction; Who Do You Think You Are; Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice’s Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg’s Miss Julie; and Charles Mee’s Orestes 2.0. Operas include Nicholas and Alexandra (Los Angeles Opera), Marina: A Captive Spirit (American Opera Projects), and Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera). Bogart is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act. STEVEN CHAIKELSON (Associate Professor; Concentration Head, Theatre Management & Producing). For the past eight years, Chaikelson has served as Concentration Head of the Theatre Management & Producing Program. He is a member of the theatre faculty in the School of the Arts and in the undergraduate theatre program at Barnard College. General management credits include shows on and off-Broadway and around the United States: Evil Dead The Musical, Ring of Fire, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, The Normal Heart, Private Jokes, Public Places (which he also produced), Harlem Song, A Moon for the Misbegotten (starring Gabriel Byrne and Cherry Jones), The Price, Death of a Salesman (Broadway and Showtime productions, starring Brian Dennehy), Fool Moon (Broadway 1995, Broadway 1998, Kennedy Center 1999, etc.), Freak, Julia Sweeney's God Said Ha!, and the Los Angeles productions of The Vagina Monologues and Fully Committed. ROY HARRIS (Adjunct Assistant Professor). Broadway credits include: Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Retreat from Moscow, Morning’s at Seven, Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter and The Sisters Rosensweig, and O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, all directed by Daniel Sullivan and the last four produced by Lincoln Center Theater; Twelve Angry Men directed by Scott Ellis and An Almost Holy Picture directed by Michael Mayer (Roundabout); A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Heidi Chronicles. Off-Broadway credits include: Gurney’s Sylvia and Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain (MTC); Wendy Wasserstein’s Third, Jon Robin Baitz’s Ten Unknowns (LCT); and many more. Author of Conversations in the Wings, Eight Women of the American Stage, and most recently More Recipes & Reminiscence, a Celebration of My Friends in the Theatre. 3 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S PETER LAWRENCE (Adjunct Assistant Professor) has been Associate Director or Production Supervisor for Shrek, Spamalot, Sunset Boulevard and for the Broadway revivals of Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun and Man of La Mancha. Mr. Lawrence was the Executive Producer for Miss Saigon and Les Miserables, and has directed or re-staged the U.S. Tours of Spamalot, Social Security, Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers, Sunset Boulevard, Spamalot London, and the Asian tour of Miss Saigon. He has originated twenty Broadway productions as Production Stage Manager, and has taught in the Drama Departments of Transylvania College, The University of Hawaii and Columbia University. TOM KELLY (Adjunct Assistant Professor) has been a professional stage manager for more than thirty years, calling shows on Broadway and at Lincoln Center, at the Lyric Opera in Chicago and at the Houston Grand Opera, at the New York City and Milwaukee ballets, and at major media and cultural events around the country. He is the General/Production Manager for Center Line Studios, a production services company, and teaches stage management at Rutgers University and Columbia University. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. RAYMOND MENARD (Adjunct Assistant Professor) attended the New England Conservatory of Music, Rutgers University and received a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute. Early in his career he worked as a Music Supervisor for NBC, on the staff of the Sarasota Opera and the Washington Opera and as Staff Director and later, Artistic Administrator for the New York City Opera where he received the Julius Rudel Award. Since 1987 he has been employed as Stage Manager with the Metropolitan Opera and now holds the title of Production Stage Manager. Ray has helped shepherd projects to the opera stage directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Hal Prince, Jack O’Brien, Frank Corsaro, Andrei Serban, Bart Sher, Robert Lepage and John Dexter among others. Among the noted conductors with whom Ray has worked are James Levine, Valery Gergiev, Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Carlos Kleiber. IRA MONT (Adjunct Assistant Professor) has been stage-managing since 1987. His other Broadway credits include the entire run of The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Jesus Christ Superstar, Smokey Joe’s, The Sound of Music, Beauty & the Beast, Sacrilege, Love! Valour! Compassion! and CyranoThe Musical. His national tours include M. Butterfly, Catskills on Broadway, Fame-The Musical (the first time), MOMIX, and the Boys Choir of Harlem. He has stage managed Off-Broadway at MTC, Playwrights Horizons, and Vineyard; regionally at Pittsburgh Public, Cambridge Theatre Company, Theater Factory St. Louis, and Westport, Cape, and Ogunquit Playhouses. Mont has directed Full Gallop at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, been the production consultant for The Sound of Music in Australia, and was production supervisor for MCC for seven years. In addition to being a vice president of BC/EFA, he has served as chair of the Stage Managers’ Association. Mont has been a councilor of AEA since 1996 and is currently third vice president (office held by a stage manager). He is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives with his wife, Jill Cordle (also a Broadway stage manager), 10-year-old daughter, and 6-year-old son. He has appeared on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and he made his feature film debut in The Producers, the Mel Brooks movie musical. 4 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S EUGENE O’DONOVAN (Adjunct Assistant Professor) is the president of Aurora Productions in New York City. Aurora is a production management company for the entertainment industry. Recent projects include Shrek, Rock and Roll, 39 Steps, Spamalot (Broadway, Tour, London, Las Vegas, Australia), Doubt (Broadway, Tour), Frost/Nixon, Year of Magical Thinking, and Deuce. Over the past thirteen years, Gene has been the production manager for more than 100 Broadway productions and associated tours as well as numerous Off-Broadway and corporate theatre events. He was the founder and president of Hudson Scenic Studio. CHRISTIAN PARKER (Assistant Professor; Concentration Head, Dramaturgy) is the Associate Artistic Director at the Atlantic Theater Company, where he has worked since the fall of 2001. Most recently at the Atlantic, he directed the world premiere of Leslie Ayvazian’s Make Me and the New York premiere of Tina Howe’s play Birth and After Birth. He produced, directed, and acted in 10X20, a festival of newly commissioned ten-minute plays by writers previously produced at Atlantic, to inaugurate their new Stage 2 and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company. Also at the Atlantic, he directed Ken Weitzman’s Arrangements and Jeff Whitty’s The Hiding Place. Prior to his tenure at the Atlantic, he spent several seasons as the Literary Manager at Manhattan Theatre Club. Christian has also produced or dramaturged over fifty premieres of new American and British plays on, off and off-off Broadway. He is fluent in Russian and is part of the national artistic advisory board for the CITD New Russian Plays initiative. He has worked as well with Sundance Theatre Labs, The Lark Play Development Center, Bread Loaf, and at Perry-Mansfield developing new plays. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from Columbia. CAROL ROCAMORA (Adjunct Assistant Professor) is a teacher, playwright, translator and critic. Her three volumes of Anton Chekhov’s complete translated dramatic works have been published by Smith & Kraus. Her new play, I take your hand in mine...., based on the correspondence of Chekhov and Olga Knipper, premiered in September 2001 at the Almeida Theatre in London starring Paul Scofield and Irene Worth, and opened in Paris in October 2003 at Peter Brook’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, under his direction, starring Michel Piccoli and Natasha Parry. Dr. Rocamora has been the recipient of the David Payne Carter Award for Teaching in Excellence at the Tisch School of the Arts. Formerly, she was the founder and artistic director of the Philadelphia Festival Plays at Annenberg Center. Dr. Rocamora’s biography, Acts of Courage: Václav Havel’s Life in the Theatre, was published in 2005. She has written about theatre for The Nation and the New York Times, and currently contributes to The Guardian and American Theatre. She has recently completed Rubles, a collection of original plays inspired by Chekhov’s short stories. She is currently working on a biography of Chekhov. 5 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu CO L UM B IA UNI VERS I T Y S CHOO L OF TH E ARTS T H E AT R E A R T S SELECTED ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS FRED HEMMINGER (’06), Assistant Company Manager, Disney Theatrical Productions, The Lion King. BARBARA KIELHOFER (’08), Production Manager, T. Schreiber Studio. ERIN KOSTER (’07) and MOLLY EUSTIS (’07), Stage Management team on Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando at Classic Stage Company. JAMIE KRANZ (’09), Production Stage Manager, Stagedoor Manor. VANESSA POGGIOLI (’10), Production Assistant, Lincoln Center Theater, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, Asst. Technical Director, Bryn Mawr College 2010-11 season. AMANDA RAYMOND (’11), Assistant Production Manager on The Merchant of Venice w/Al Pacino at the Broadhurst Theatre and The Pee Wee Herman Show at the Sondheim Theatre, among others. HEATHER SCHINGS (’08), Associate General Manager, Splinter Group Productions. STEPHANIE WARD (’07), Production Stage Manager, National Tour, Ain't Misbehavin. ANDREA WALES (’07), Production Stage Manager for director Alex Timbers on Bonfire Night (NYSAF) and Dance Dance Revolution (Ohio Theatre). 6 a r ts .c olum b i a .edu