Executive Board Minutes 3/20/22

Check-ins

  • Siena

    •  Sent some emails

    • Talked to other presidents about BUSTies planning

    • Organized comp tix and promoted other shows

    • Saw Fatty

    • Unlocked the space for WM

    • Been busy with costumes, photoshoots, etc

  • Gavin

    •  made room reservations as usual, had to change around some of the weekend reservations for anne but other than that it was smooth sailing

    • met with people who were interested in vp and talked about what the position would entail

  • Emma

    •  Made a bunch of google forms !

    • Sent out BUSTies planning email

    • Had first meeting with event managers!!!

    • “The most tired risk manager ever”

  • Liv

    •  Did some OB work

    • Did some SS work

      • Smh liv do work for Troupe

    • Talking to SAO as usual

    • Did H&M for wolves photoshoot

    • “Anne”

  • Julia

    •  posted pitch extension and gm 2 graphic

    • emailed about those things too

    • promoted other shows

    • went to fatty the pig. Wish there was more pig in it.

  • Katie

    •  Did build workshop

    • Made list of smaller tech purchases

    • Set a new date for lights workshop

    • Updated td/ta guide

    • Sent that to Julia

    • Emailing with Red Star theater

    • Looking into lights replacement

    • Planning space cleaning

    • Processed some rentals


Anne

  • Emma

    •  Rehearsals monday-thursday

    • Finished the dance, it looks awesome! Yay Guin!

    • Ran through the show soft off-book!

    • Costume fittings and photoshoot!

    • Company picnic yesterday, very fun


  • Carly

    •  we had quite a long week for anne but everything went SOOO well. I could not be more proud of our cast and crew for how they showed up and out this week. with dance rehearsals, regular rehearsals, cast/crew picnic, and the photo shoot our whole team was really maxed out. everything is going really well and just excited/nervous to see it all come together

  • Claire

    •  Photoshoot was great!

    • Guilia filled in for Priya and it went great!

    • Working on a build schedule and department meeting times

      • Will run those dates by Katie soon

    • Wood order this saturday at 11am

    • Feeling good about everything coming together!!! 


Wolves

  • Julia

    •  photoshoot today! Went SO well :)

    • rehearsals are also going really well! Blocking is coming together smoothly

    • getting off book has been a little bumpy. People “memorizing” but only scenes they’re called to block.

    • had a rehearsal room team meeting the other day, was very helpful to collect our thoughts. Planning to have weekly meetings with them from now till end of process.

    • also had a full CT meeting earlier in the week, planning to do those every other week till the end.

    • gonna be out for most of this week but fully trust Leela to lead some rehearsals! 

    • Also reached out to Steve to guest direct, tentatively planning that for Friday but need to sort out the details first.

  • Leela

    •  Leading rehearsals this coming week!

    • Doing some blocking and acting

      • Excited to work with Rayna/Liv in the rehearsal room!

    • Coach of the girls soccer team wants to vibe with us omg fun!

      • We might go get to watch a practice!

  • Priya

    •  I finalized purchase orders for the show and most tech stuff was submitted. Some of our stuff like our soccer goal came so that’s exciting. We also had our photoshoot today which went well!! We had a creative team check in meeting this past week as well where we each talked about updates for tech producing and the rehearsal room!

  • Rayna

    •  Busy week! Build workshop feels like a year ago

    • About to get busy with build for anne, planning around that to come

  • Bill

    •  We had The Wolves photoshoot today at Nickerson Field! I spent much of the week scheduling the location, time, and photo ideas. My next step is to meet with APs and the photographer to organize photos from the shoot! 

    • I met with the Creative Team earlier this week to plan said photoshoot and we scheduled future meetings. 

    • Made a bit more progress on the program -- I found a way to do it on Google Drive. I've been in contact with Liv for help! 

    • Submitted a few purchase orders by Priya's request (the soccer goal arrived!), updated the budget Google Sheet, and reimbursement forms. 

    • I posted on our Insta today!! Make sure yall are following it. it's  @Thewolves_stagetroupe


Workshop Update

  • Prop workshop is now “get to know the space!”

    • Wake up babe new dates just dropped


Space cleaning

  • Some questions from Katie

    • Adding a cast hours requirement?

      • “10/40 hours need to be from the cast”

    • Is it okay to throw out big old things we don’t use?

      • Steve: yes.