Executive Board Minutes 3/13/22

Check ins

  • Siena

    •  Went to Florida :)

    • Doing costume stuff for the Wolves

    • Following up with various BU people

  • Gavin

    •  Setting up room requests

  • Emma

    •  BUSTies planning committee email went out! Yay!

    • Working with Liv on setting up the event

  • Liv

    •  Started BUSTies event with Emma

    • Fixed a link from a producer

    • Purchase orders and other forms

  • Julia

    • March troupe scoop

    • Posted promo for build workshop

  • Katie

    •  Finished WM rentals

    • Build workshop planning

    • Did SM workshop

    • Contacted GF strike felon - they’ll be at Anne strike

    • Purchase order meeting

    • Met with Lex

  • Steve

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Anne

  • Emma

    •  Rehearsed before break - first dance rehearsal!

    • Finished all basic blocking!

    • Soft off-book tomorrow, intense rehearsals this week but very exciting!

    • Getting character work monologues from the cast

    • Met with the creative team on Friday - very productive! 

  • Carly

    •  Busy week! 

    • Drafting an email with all the info, waiting on room reservations

    • Missing some rehearsals this week, but will give Brian the chance to step up!

    • Brian organized blocking notes over break which was really awesome of him!

  • Claire

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  • Natalie

    •  this week, i met with claire, priya, rayna, and katie to discuss the joint wood order with the wolves. i then reached out to liv to get that process started.

    • i sent out an email to the cast and crew regarding our photoshoot on saturday, where we will take promo pics and headshots for both cast members and techies.

    • i wanted my APs to enjoy their spring break so we haven’t started our big social media push, but that is set to happen by this Wednesday. We already have some fun ideas in mind.

    • also, do we have the eventbrite link yet? the sooner i can get ahold of that, the better.

  • Guin

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Wolves

  • Julia

    •  Diving into blocking this week!

    • Actors are getting along really well which is wonderful

    • Hopefully blocking is a smooth process, I’m dealing with a major scheduling issue in these next few weeks (yay sot) so I’m hoping we can get a lot done this week

    • Meeting with the creative team on wednesday to check in and plan logistics for coming events! Photoshoot, bonding, etc!

  • Leela

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  • Rayna

    •  I mostly worked on Anne purchase order stuff over break with Claire, Molly, and others

    • Worked on some blocking details with Leela on Wednesday

    • Confirming this week's rehearsal dates with Julia and Leela, will book rooms with Gavin tonight!

    • Starting blocking this week :D and planning on introducing ASM to more of our responsibilities going forward

  • Priya

    • Finalized wood orders with Anne

    • Had a couple more meetings with departments

    • Purchase orders due this Thursday!

    • Creative team meeting on wednesday!  

  • Bill

    •  Met with APs earlier this week

    • Working on the program, having some difficulties with the structure but working on it

    • Discussed deadlines

    • Going to reach out to cast and tech regarding bios

    • Some budget updates

    • Photoshoot planning!

      • Are we able to book Nickerson Field? Might not be possible since it’s an outdoor public location

      • Track and Tennis center indoors?


Mask Policy Chat

Siena:

  • While we can no longer enforce mask wearing, if we keep it as an expectation it’s likely people will continue to follow

  • Meetings and rehearsals should continue to be masked

  • In rehearsal rooms, it’s up to the director's discretion. If the rehearsal is strategically placed and everyone is negative, it’s their choice.

Emma:

  • More comfortable being around masked people, but unmasking for certain scene rehearsals does make sense

  • Already in low-ventilated areas, sipping water, etc

Julia:

  • On the same page as emma

  • What about masking audience members?

    • Can no longer require it :/

Steve:

  • Can no longer require, same with Tsai, Booth, and Wheelock Family Theater

Siena:

  • Fully agree with Emma and Julia, “strategically placed” maskless rehearsals will be beneficial

Emma:

  • Does the backstage masking rule still apply?

  • Maybe not in the wings, but yes in the green room? 

    • People have mixed up masks before and that’s icky lol


Funding for replacement tech

  • Do we have a fund for replacement tech? Can we create one from rental money?

    • We once again have a list of things that need replacing

  • Liv can set up a fund for this :)

    • ~home depot~


Space cleaning date

  •  Katie is busy 9-5 that day lol tragic

  • So reschedule to April 24th? Only option at this point.

    • Promo for GM4 perhaps lol


Unlockings needed for next week

  • OB wants the space unlocked at 5pm every day this week

    • Katie can do Monday & Wednesday

    • None of us have space keys except Gavin who is awol tonight, will get a hold of him and figure it out


GM dates for room bookings

  • GM 2: March 20th @ 8pm

  • GM 3: April 3rd @ 7pm

  • GM 4: April 24th (right after space cleaning?) @ 2pm in the Space


Spring Showcase

  • Low interest :/

  • People seem to be a lot busier this semester than last, very packed next few weeks

  • If there’s interest in a few people doing skits we can work it into BUSTies?