Executive Board Minutes 2/21/21

Check-Ins

E-Board

Isa

  • Met with other presidents

  • Made theater-wide drives

    • Kendall take Isa’s personal email out

  • Set up Q&A for Director’s workshop 

Rob

  • Went to tech show

Natalie

  • Following up with people about TA event

Sunny

  • Finished with Eventbrite stuff for ED

  • Waiting on a response from Project Heal

  • Has access to all of the show webinars!

  • Already Home - hasn’t heard back from Charlotte 

  • Class gift info

Kendall

  • Posted about tech show

  • Facebook event

  • Updated website

Zach

  • Tech Show!

  • Went to tech meetings for the other two shows

Steve

  • Heard back from Tsai about next semester


Show Check-Ins


ED

  • Sage

    • ED is going great!

    • Cast is doing great, integrating some tech elements!

    • The show is a lot longer than expected

      • It’s been running ~1.5 hours

      • Probably will have an intermission too

    • Tech meeting today, tech has been coming to rehearsals!

      • Slowly but surely problem solving

    • Fun, productive!

    • Producing creative vision will start soon (Sunny and Kendall)

  • Nhi

    • Costumes and Props came to rehearsal 

Gorges Motel

  • Natalie

    • Started blocking - entrances, exits, etc.

    • Issue: really difficult scheduling 17 actors, people keep forgetting

      • Going to start sending “don’t forget” texts

    • Tech meeting!!

    • Cast and crew zoom bonding :,)

  • Katie

    • First all-tech meeting!!!

    • Scheduling department meetings for next week

    • Talking with Natalie and Zach about specifics

  • Laser Show

    • Last scene - ideal option would be to have one actor in the theater with two lights people (Chris and Brad) to record that scene and screen share at the end

    • Can we do that?

      • Isa will send an email to Bryan to see if it’s possible

      • Maybe we could get it for a weekend (Fri night to Sun night)

      • 8 people 

    • Timeline: weekend in March

      • Would probably need to have the student theater for a week, to get everything set up


BUT Formal

  • When do we want it to be?

  • How are we gonna do it?

    • Wandering Minds had some fun creative ideas!!!


...Tsai?

  • Right now everyone’s functioning under the assumption that F&F is happening

    • Won’t be using Tsai for LfA classes

    • Tentatively slotting Troupe in for a reservation that week

  • Might want to sketch out what a calendar would look like for next semester

  • What pitches will we accept? When?

  • Next season voting 


...Next Year???

  • When do we have to have things figured out?

    • If this were a normal year, next week we’d pick when we want the ST

  • A normal F&F would be a biiiig undertaking especially coming right out of COVID

    • If we feel like we couldn’t handle that in the fall, that’s okay!!! 

  • Isa will ask Bryan what the plan is for the Student Theater next semester

  • We should figure out what Troupe’s priorities should be if we return to semi-normal programming

    • Number of shows, types of shows, etc.

    • We are probably not equipped to handle a normal season even if things do go back to normal - missing a couple years of learning by doing

  • Contingency plans - need to be in place as people pitch

    • Don’t want what happened last fall to happen again, where people don’t know what they’re pitching for 

  • Take this week, all come in next week with thoughts on what the priorities should be

    • Where the group will be, where the world will be

    • Summer

  • Summer plans

    • It was kinda a lot, we could hopefully scale back and make sure nobody is burnt out - help the new eboard with that

    • Assume that it will be virtual, return of STVSF?

      • (Orientation is online)

      • Maybe more of an association with orientation?

  • Better to scale it back and be consistent


Elements of Theater Workshops

  • Directing Panel - Q&A is out!

    • Isa will send questions to the panelists beforehand

    • Group message with Kendall, Carrie, and Siena

    • Have documents available to share with people 

    • People will ask about the fall pitch process

      • We can say that it’s not fully planned yet

    • Also can gauge interest in pitches? Are people interested in person, online, etc

      • Could do online things in the future!

      • Gauge interest in big F&F, preferences on productions we’ve done so far

  • Isa talked to her mom about formatting for her panel!

    • Want to organize 2-3 singers to do a Masterclass sorta thing

    • Little about her background, how to prepare a piece

    • Contemporary music


Getting a feel for membership’s current feelings about next year

  • Form!!

    • Freeing way to communicate with membership

    • They can get specific, express exactly how they feel

    • Safe space to tell eboard what they thought of last/this semester

  • Kendall will send this out in an email to the membership tomorrow hopefully 

    • Updates at the bottom of what else is going on in Troupe!!!

    • And post it everywhere too


Check Outs

Isa

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Email Bryan Adams about student theater for Gorges Motel

    • Asking about student theater plans for LfA

  • Monitoring Elements form

Rob

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Will send Sunny reimbursement

Natalie

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Wait for Isa to tell about the president’s meeting, reach out to counterparts about BUT formal

Sunny

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Rob’s reimbursement

  • Still waiting on Project Heal

    • Might have to ask Sage about another group :/

Kendall

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Make form

  • Send out email

  • Theater wide drive stuff

  • Make Elements event and promote it

  • Prepare myself for the panel

Zach

  • Help Nhi out with ED stuff

  • Edit show recording for Tech Show

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

Steve

  • Think about Troupe and the world <3

  • Develop some questions to talk about next week!