Chapter 1

Communication, Collaboration, and Flexibility

The Mores of Success

Theatre is a truly unique art form, as we work collaboratively as a group to create, teach, and entertain. While some studio art is created by a collective or team, there is no one person theatre. We are obligated by the nature of our passion to work alongside others, to share in a vision, and to help realize something much greater than one’s self. Swimming in a sea of theatre artists are the facilitators like the technical director, or TD for short. We are artistic individuals, large-scale sculptors of environments, but our endeavors are grounded in a pragmatic knowledge of material sciences, tried and true construction methodologies, organized behaviors, and physics. ...

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