Directing
The director of a show is the Creative Genius (or Self-indulgent Pratt, they are often the same thing) who is responsible for everything the audience sees and hears.
Directing is a lot of hard work. Don’t try it until you really, really, know what you are letting yourself in for. Planning for a full production begins a year or more before opening night and takes over your whole life.
I haven’t managed to dissuade you? How do you get there? To be a director, first you have to be directed. Act, prompt, operate, shift scenery, design and build. Watch other directors work, see what they do and don’t do. Judge how successful they are in how their productions work out. (Of course there are books and university courses on directing and, while they help, they are, for us, not a prerequisite.)
Then volunteer to direct for Subscribers’ Night. Subs’ Night is a sort of audition for directors. You choose a piece, you audition actors (together with all the other Subs’ Night directors, so you might not get your first pick), you rehearse them and present them at the one or two Subscriber Night performances.
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