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!

Executive Board Minutes 2/14/21

Open Board 2/14/21

Check Ins

Isa

  • Already Home stuff

  • Email to new members!!!

  • TA Event - super fun!!

  • Had a long convo with Sage about virtual show things

Rob

  • Mailed If/Then scripts - ETA Tuesday

  • TA Event!

Natalie

  • Hosted Assassins

  • TA Event was good! - chat function worked well, went smoothly

  • Pieing - minimum bid was too high 

Sunny

  • Tech show webinar

  • TA Event!!

Kendall

  • Post about playwrights

  • Post about Karl Williams

  • TA skit rehearsal

  • Boost about TA event

    • TA event - saturday 4pm

Zach

  • Tech show rehearsal all week!

  • Sent out tech lists for ED and Gorges Motel

  • More people signing up for Already Home tech

  • Talked with Nhi about ED

  • TA Event!! 

Director Check Ins

  • Natalie

    • Character workshops this week! 

    • Cast is getting along great

    • Everyone has pretty much paid their dues

Already Home Stuff!

  • Working on the website a ton!!! - it looks amazing

  • The score is ALMOST DONE!

  • Big cast meeting on Friday about communication

Debrief on Meeting with Sage

  • Planning a live performance thursday, then a showing of the recorded performance friday and saturday

  • Problem: tech show is the 19th and 20th; that would leave them almost no time to prepare to do tech for ED before filming - would need to have costumes/props/etc all done before Sunday which is really tricky

    • They would really only be working on the show for one day…

  • Hoping to explain the point to Sage at the meeting tomorrow, push the meeting 2-3 days

Next Season

  • Steve will check in with Tsai this week, to figure out what’s going on there

Gorges Motel Dates

  • The dates we have should be fine!

ED Dates

  • Originally talked about a YouTube premiere,,,?

Remembering Karl Williams (Stage Troupe VP '90, President '91)

We'd like to take a moment to remember a past Stage Troupe E-Board member who passed away early last week, who was a truly influential member of Troupe. Karl Williams (CGS ’89, COM ’91) died on Sunday, January 31st of liver complications at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, Il. He was 52.


Karl was the Vice President of Stage Troupe in the fall of 1990 and became President for the 1991 spring semester. He was a primary author of the Stage Troupe constitution that we use today, and helped to create the role of Technical Advisor during his time on E-Board. Aside from Stage Troupe, he pursued his passion for film in the College of Communications.

After his time at BU, Karl went on to have a fantastic career in the film industry, becoming the longtime publicist for Paramount Pictures. In this role, he was an integral part of campaigns for the the first two Transformers movies, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Star Trek, Paramount’s early Marvel movies Iron Man and Iron Man 2, Thor and the Shia LaBeouf pics Disturbia and Eagle Eye. He was known as a “trailblazer” in digital public relations, and was beloved by those who worked with him.


Karl is remembered by his fellow Stage Troupe peers and E-Board alumni (including our former faculty advisor, Eric Jacobsen), and we will be forever grateful for the positive and powerful influence he had in making Stage Troupe what it is today.

You can read more about Karl’s life and career here:

Karl Williams Dies: Longtime Paramount Film Publicist Was 52

Karl D. Williams; 1968-2021

IMDB Post

Executive Board Minutes 2/7/21

Open Board 2/7/21

Check-Ins

  • Isa

    • Preparing for mentee recruitment email

    • Meeting with Presidents

  • Rob

    • Gorges Motel Auditions!!!

  • Natalie

    • Ask her for check-in

  • Sunny

    • Got webinar access for tech show

    • Sent Gorges Motel script to natalie

    • SAO Training

    • Tracking the dues 

      • 31 people as of now

    • Looking into ED organization

  • Kendall

    • Met with Isa and Sunny about Already Home

    • GM recap

    • Auditions

    • Went to SAO training

    • Emailed Eric 

    • Cast lists

  • Zach

    • Rehearsal for tech show

    • Helped Natalie and Sage with cast negotiation

    • Held Tech GM yesterday

    • Got an email from Playwrights about a class/lecture

Item #1: 

  • Steve’s Myers Briggs

    • INFP or INFJ!!!!!

    • Zach and Rob’s team!!!!!!!!!

Salon for Performance Arts Groups

  • Talking to SAO about how we’re “pivoting” and adjusting to COVID

  • This was literally Isa’s idea

    • She runs SAO

  • Isa will register for it!!! And will take tons of notes and send them to us

President’s Meeting

  • Met with WM, SS, OB presidents today!!!

    • Came up with a plan to continue talking and collaborating

  • Starting a shared google drive between the four presidents

    • Cross-promotion - getting the word out about everyone’s shows

    • SECRETARIES CAN HELP**

  • Planning to meet once a month / have a summit each semester with all eboards

    • Keeping lines of comm open, checking in super regularly - standing meeting

  • Another one in 2 weeks

  • For all 4 groups to work on together:

    • Transition of power is where a lot of things get lost

      • Transition training!!

      • Pass the baton with information and advice, eliminate any animosity or bad blood; make sure this work doesn’t go to waste

      • Having a weird year, not able to tell the new boards relevant advice

    • Handbooks

      • Sharing handbooks/applicable parts of the handbooks

      • So we understand all the responsibilities of each role

      • Onstage intimacy guide for all four groups - consistency

      • Laying out responsibilities in one, cohesive place

    • Inter Group Record of Misconduct

      • Checklist for misconduct

        • Steps to take once someone is added, how does that get communicated - step by step guide, objective 

    • SARP Training!!!!

      • But the actual training itself is not great - not really focused on leadership

      • Potential: write an email to SARP about a leadership focused training 

    • Community Wide Safety Training 

      • What this looks like in the rehearsal room and informal spaces

      • COVID policies

      • Physical tech safety policies

  • BIG GOAL: Creating a big community

Eric’s email about Karl Williams

  • Formal blog post on the website, then post to facebook or instagram

Skit Rehearsal

  • All Saturday morning !!

  • Friday before 10am (minus Isa)

Playwrights:

  • Special guest from Huntington - sound design, audio plays, podcasting

    • Opening up the class to all interested students

    • Wednesday, this week 2:15-3:15pm

  • They gave a poster to share with the membership- Zach forwarded 

Check Outs

  • Isa

    • Signing up for the SAO thing

    • Presidents shared drive

    • TA skit rehearsal

  • Rob

    • Will mail the scripts!!!!!

    • Changing his office hours

      • Gonna figure out when to switch & let me know

    • TA skit rehearsal 

  • Natalie

  • Sunny

    • ED Read Through

    • Producing for ED and Already Home

    • Will work on something for TA event

  • Kendall

    • Post about playwrights

    • Post about Karl Williams

    • TA skit rehearsal

    • Boost about TA event

      • TA event - saturday 4pm

  • Zach

    • Keep doing tech show rehearsal

    • Will post tech lists sometime next week

    • Will send Kendall Tech Show promo material

    • Will film things for tech show with Natalie

  • Steve

    • February is the time of year where we start thinking about calendar for next year - will figure out what that entails 

Executive Board Minutes 1/31/21

Eboard Check-In

Isa

  • Meeting with Rutu this morning

  • Some general mentorship program planning

  • GM slides

  • Splash

  • Already Home stuff

Rob

  • Has box for the if then scripts

Natalie

  • GM slides

  • Fine points about ta event and assassins

  • Audition stuff ready and sent to sage

Sunny

  • Splash

  • Tech show read through

  • Getting script for gorges motel

Kendall

  • GM slides

  • Helped Sage with her slide

  • Advertised for the gm and splash

  • Took down all the emails at splash

    • Added them to email list

    • Sent new members info about the GM

  • Made event for Elements of Theater workshop

  • And event for the GM

Zach

  • GM slides

  • did description for elements of theater workshop

  • first tech show read through

Already Home Update

Mentorship Program

  • After the GM, a google form will be sent out to new members, Isa will take a week to pair them with current members

  • First mentorship event: planned by Sarah and Sam since theirs was cancelled

  • Goal: Get the ball rolling fast, stay in touch with the mentors!

Meeting with Rutu & Wandering Minds

  • AWESOME! Super on the same page :)

  • Rutu really wants to create more open communication between the groups this semester

  • Would love to collaborate on the book club now!

  • Idea: meeting with the presidents, to thaw relations before all the Eboards meet

Tech Show

  • Let’s get a Facebook event & webinar set up!

    • FB event: 2 weeks out, week of the 7th 

    • Zach will send any summary/info and promo stuff

Assassins

  • February 12th at 6PM

  • Before TA event so we can raffle off a revive

Executive Board Minutes 1/24/21

E-Board Check Ins
Isa

  • Fixed up charity show doc

  • Elements of theater zoom links (and one description)

  • Already Home stuff!

  • New president of WM reached out to have a meeting next week :)

Rob

  • Nothing to report !

Natalie

  • Reached out to Sage with questions

  • Picked favorite Charity Show names

  • Composed how TA event will probably work (wants some help)

  • Assassin's proposal!

Sunny

  • Got official licensing rights for Gorges motel!

  • Will be getting event approval for Gorges motel soon

    • Changed pricing to reflect what we discussed as well

Kendall

  • Started writing some workshop descriptions

  • Started mocking up the semester promo stuff

  • Making a posting schedule that i’ll send to you guys sometime this week

  • Picked my fav charity show names

    • Community Partnership Production

    • STAP - Stage Troupe Action Project

    • ST4G - Stage Troupe for Good

Zach

  • Sent out wish want needs list

  • Coordinating stuff for Tech Show!!!

  • Extended TD deadlines, no SM apps yet

Charity Show with Sage!!!

  • Audition dates: Feb 2-4 Tues, Weds, Thurs afternoons

    • 6-10PM EST

    • Have people sign up for audition slots

    • If people have extenuating circumstances/diff time zones they can reach out

  • Natalie will put together audition signups the same way we did last semester

  • Show Dates: March 5th-7th; we will figure out exactly when the live performances will be in time for auditions 

  • Sage will be in touch about everything!

  • There will be a trigger warning - for auditionees and audience

Charity Show TD: Nhi Nguyen

Gorges Motel TD: Katie Greene


Charity Show Rename

  • POLL TIME!

  • Results:

    • Theater in Action

    • Community Partnership Production

    • Community Action Project

    • Stage Troupe for Good

Elements of Theater

  • Wait until next weekend for Zach’s final dates

SAO Meeting Recap

  • Different ways that student leaders & clubs can encourage their members to follow COVID guidelines and stay safe

  • Section in GM about COVID guidelines, restating it?

  • Isa’s idea: ST crisis “plan”; how to look at a problem, general steps and advice to pass on to next eboard

    • Lots of knowledge to pass down that could be very useful 

  • Rob: would it be possible for past E-Board members to pass down some knowledge from pre-crisis times 

    • Siena and Kim in particular 

  • Frustration: University has not been very accessible or helpful with any guidance right now

    • Idea: performing arts groups check-in monthly-ish to discuss options 


Passing on the Knowledge

  • Troupe alumni and recent grads would be happy to come in and give some workshops!!!

  • Lighting in particular, some niche tech departments

  • Since two groups are graduating now without ability to pass on knowledge

  • Elements of Theater workshops FOREVERRRRR

SPLASH

  • Saturday 1-3

  • Zoom this time!!!

  • No limit - we can all be there this time

GM #1 Next Sunday!!!!!

  • Kendall will share slide structure tomorrow

  • Assassins

  • TA event!

  • Elements of theater

  • Dues!

  • Show info

    • Trigger warning? When we introduce Sage

  • Charity show rename

  • Covid guidelines

  • Already home launch party BABYYY

  • Showcase & busties

  • Community mentor program

  • Tech GM on Feb 6th


Isa’s Office Hours

  • Friday 1:30-3:30pm

  • Rob’s are the same Weds 12pm


Assassins

  • Kahoot!!!

  • Natalie made an entire powerpoint pitching this to us


TA event

  • Saturday Feb 13th!

  • 4PM

  • How it’s going to work: :)

    • Zoom dates with people

    • Make the items your background - slides!

    • Use the chat for bidding

    • Everything will be Venmoed to Sunny

  • Eboard submit things pls!

  • Eboard skit or dance

    • Spoken word about Zach????

    • Mage Troupe (harry potter fan club GM)

    • Bridgerton and Zach is Lady Whistledown sharing gossip about eboard

  • Pie Alternative!

    • Water balloons / squirt guns on BU beach in april 

    • Pay $3 to reserve a water balloon, as many people can bid as possible

    • Threshold bid? Eboard pies themselves

  • Zach’s Zany Zoom

  • Zach on the Lam

Check Outs

Isa

  • Mentorship timeline

  • Outline crisis plan 

  • GM prep

  • Splash prep

  • Already Home stuff

Rob

  • Get a bigger box

  • Go to Splash

Natalie

  • Prepare audition stuff

  • GM slides

    • Gorges & Special Projects

  • Go to Splash

Sunny

  • Review eventbrite stuff

    • Need to change pricing for ED

  • Look into what can be put up for auction

  • Splash

Kendall

  • Start GM slides

  • Advertise for GM with Zoom link Isa will send

  • Send Sage example slides for her show

  • Make posting schedule

  • Advertise for Splash 2.0 and make flyer 

    • Make facebook event!!!!

    • Zoom link!

    • Make table to collect emails

  • Update website

Zach

  • Tech applications for this semester

  • Tech show read throughs this weekend

  • Splash!

  • Decide on a time for the workshop

Steve

  • Familiarize himself with Kahoot “so i don't look like a fool”

Executive Board Minutes 1/17/21

Eboard Check-Ins

Isa

  • Got Engage privileges back!!!

  • Call with Kristen about acting workshop

Rob

  • Nothin to report!

Natalie

  • Coordinating charity show stuff

  • Working on her own mainstage stuff

Sunny

  • Sent out Producer forms

  • Event request for charity show

  • Waiting for official mainstage rights

    • But pre-approved for streaming

  • Have to register for officer training 

Kendall

  • Signed us up for Splash 2.0

  • Posted Holiday performance

Zach

  • Put out TD and SM applications, posting about that

    • Pushed deadline back to Jan 23rd 

  • Got fall tech feedback

  • Working on tech show stuff, facebook group

  • The student theater is pretty cleared out now

Auditions

  • First GM is Jan 31st

    • Auditions February 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Natalie’s Mainstage

  • Format of the show → Zoom webinar, we have the rights!!

  • When will we be getting scripts?

    • Sunny will check up on that, probably as soon as they’re approved


Tech Show

  • February 19th and 20th at 8PM


Name Submissions for Charity Show

  • Community Benefit Show

  • Community Partnership Production

  • STAP - Stage Troupe Action Project

  • CAP - Community Action Project

  • ST4G - Stage Troupe for Good


Elements of Theater Workshops

  • Kristen -

    • February 1 - 6PM EST

    • She’s super excited!!!

    • Basic structure: 

      • Getting sides/monologues in the moment, figuring out how to do that quickly

      • Talk about her background

      • Acting side, strategies for developing a character, scene partners, exercises

      • Q&A/presentation/interactive exercises

Already Home Check-In

  • Everyone is KILLING IT!!!! 

  • Coming a long way with the difficult format

Tech Crew Feedback

  • Don’t need the full normal budget for virtual shows

  • Tech Week - condensed into a day or two before the show

    • People prefer to have a full week, so they feel more connected to the show, meet the cast, have some more time to work things out, etc


Ticket Pricing

  • Charity Show - $6, $8 family ticket

  • Gorges Motel - rights application range of $5-8

    • Not sure how to separate between BU/non-BU

    • $5 for BU students, $7 for outside people

    • Group ticket? 

    • $5 / $7 / $9 incremental

  • Honor system :)


Budgeting

  • Gorges Motel 

    • A little bit of a budget for Goodwill stuff

    • Something small for the light show at the end of the play

    • Pull in anything for more of a set design?

    • Regardless it’ll be maybe $100, probably less

  • Budget for shipping things with LfA maybe

  • WWN lists will be sent out soon

Check Outs

Isa

  • Revisit charity show rebrand info

  • We should communicate that info to Sage

  • Make Zoom links for Elements of Theater sessions 

    • And descriptions to give to Kendall - joint doc

  • Already Home stuff

  • Write up draft mentorship program timeline

Rob

  • Look through Charity Show names

  • Get address for MTI scripts

Natalie

  • Sage and Charity show stuff

  • Assassins stuff to run by us 

Sunny

  • Look through Charity Show names

  • Reach out to SAO to add tickets to Eventbrite and formally submit Gorges Motel stuff

  • Reach out to Kendall about officer training 

  • Producer signups 

Kendall

  • Look through Charity Show names

  • Help out with Elements of Theater stuff

  • Get started on semester branding and season stuff

  • Post about signups

Zach

  • Send out WWN lists

  • Work on tech application for the spring

  • Tech show stuff 

  • Look through Charity Show names

Executive Board Minutes 12/27/20

Rob

  • Coordinated with Doug about If/Then score

Natalie

  • Sent Kendall stuff

Kendall

  • Posted holiday hits

  • Updated all minutes

  • EMAIL

    • TD/SM apps

    • Tech show signups

    • Busties voting

      • Natalie will add note about renaming charity show

    • Charity show announcement

    • Sending it 12/28/20


Natalie’s meeting with Sage

  • Sage will be updating the script, but it looks good

    • Will adjust it to take place over Zoom

    • Discussed how she wants to reformat

  • Gave her a timeline for rewriting - all final changes done by Jan 18th

  • When we add other creative team members they’ll have some input

  • Talked about trigger warning - will make sure an Eboard member sits in on discussion and ensures that all actors and crew will be comfortable


Charity Show Discussion

  • Isa made a super cool doc about our plan for rebranding!

  • Designated producer who corresponds with organization

  • Can we get producers sooner rather than later? :)


Splash 2.0

  • We must register by January 27th!! (Kendall)

Executive Board Minutes 12/13/20

Open Board 12/13/20

Check Ins

Isa

  • Brainstormed charity show

  • Having some issues with Sunny’s reimbursement 

Rob

  • Got all the scripts from Carrie on Friday - gonna ship them this week 

Natalie

  • Had MisCast!!

  • Got permission from people for Holiday Hits stuff

  • Read through Sage’s pitch, should have a solid decision for us soon

Sunny

  • Nothin to report<3

Kendall

  • Brainstormed a bit about charity show 

Zach

  • Brainstormed a bit about charity show


Already Home Updates

  • Had a group recording today which went really well!!! 

  • Excited to see it all come together :)

  • Neil is not coming back next semester, but going to continue with time zone work

  • Talked to Natalie & Kilichand - holding a launch party on April 10th!!!!

    • Official launch of the website, speakers from cast & creative team, fun videos, website walkthroughs, YAY!!!

Charity Show Updates

  • Will have more to say once she meets with Sage

  • ED - comedy, uplifting, well-written, Sage wrote it in high school

    • Hoping for some rewrites, details to adapt to Zoom

    • 8 characters, mostly female

  • Producers and TD will be selected over winter break

Charity Show Ideas

  • Directors could be in touch with organization before pitching

    • Part of pitch can be how they’ll work with the org

    • Specific plans & ideas of collaboration

    • Wouldn’t want to lead on an outside organization if it’s not necessarily picked

      • Hesitate to reach out that early in the process

      • Wouldn't be a consistent communicator

  • One producer designated to communicate with org

    • Assistant producer/co-head producer 

    • This is their specific role

    • One clear communication channel

    • Extra interpersonal bond!!!

  • Projected timeline with communication w/organization

    • Requiring tangible timeline from pitch team from outset - helpful for successful communication 

  • New name ideas

    • Community Engagement Show

    • Show for a Cause

    • Open up voting/competition for name ideas to membership?

  • Theatre in Action Weekend/Month

    • Could be in conjunction with VAGmo, OBOB events, etc

    • Theater community based theme month

    • Let's do some research on how VAGmo is operating this year!

      • And talk to Nikita about OBOB

  • Timeline - should we unveil these new ideas this year? Or wait until after?

    • We could try for this year? So we have a cohesive brand to present at splash 2.0

    • Having this narrowed down for GM #1 next semester

    • End of semester email??? To send out on the 20th??

      • Add a question at the end of busties ballot form for suggestion box

        • Gooooood way to mobilize :)

  • Education component of the show

    • Based on a certain social justice era

    • In conjunction with producing - including education component in the program

    • Incorporating volunteer work or service into the show process

      • Doesn’t necessarily have to happen before the show - engagement shouldn’t stop once the show ends

      • And usually it takes a while for us to get the check to the org anyways

  • Develop some sort of document to give to next Eboard

    • Phases of rebranding charity show

    • Laying out our exact ideas, what they have to work off of, etc

    • Specific items for this year vs. after we leave

  • Virtual service this year?

    • Sage’s org is not looking for volunteers right now - but there are more flexible ways to help; raise awareness and funds in local community 

  • Once we have these action items - working with Sage’s team will be rly pivotal 

Busties Awards

  • Lil enamel pins :)

  • Sticker on redbubble, button?

  • “From a financial perspective, it pains me.” -Sunny Zhao

  • Keep tradition of eboard and baby board working on awards together

In her past life, Natalie was a bee. <3

Dues next semester? 

  • Around $5

  • Tix - tiers for outsiders vs BU students

    • Around $5

  • “If Broadway on demand is a jerk, I’ll figure it out” -Sunny


Check Outs

  • Isa

    • Meet with people about charity show action items document 

  • Rob

    • Mail If/Then scripts

    • Get in touch with Doug for If/Then

  • Natalie

    • Props stuff to the space

    • Meeting with Sage

      • Will let us know how that goes

    • Charity show stuff

    • BUSTies voting

  • Sunny

    • Look into dues

    • Deal with Broadway on demand

  • Kendall

    • Post holiday hits stuff

    • Go over charity show things with Isa and Natalie

    • Send out email on the 20th 

      • Busties voting

      • Charity show stuff

      • Holiday wishes

  • Zach

    • Help with charity show

    • Work on applications for next semester

  • Steve

    • Will keep brainstorming puns for charity show

    • See if he can come up with something worse than what he thought of already

NEXT MEETING: DECEMBER 27TH


Executive Board Minutes 12/6/20

Open Board 12/6/20

Eboard Check-Ins

Isa

  • Went to holiday hits!

  • Worked on Already Home

Rob

  • Went to holiday hits

Natalie

  • Coordinated holiday hits

  • Encouraged Charity Show pitches

  • MisCast stuff

  • Picked up props and costumes from people post Inspo project

Kendall

  • Went to Holiday hits

  • GM recap email

Zach

  • Picked up props/costumes from people post Inspo project

  • Went to Holiday hits

  • Sent out tech list for already home


Already Home Updates

  • Blocked every scene

  • 75% of music covered

    • Next week: 80%

  • 2 acting/music runs tonight and Tuesday

    • Finishing out one of the groups this week


Charity Show

  • Natalie will look through Sage’s pitch, have that decision by this weekend!

    • Going to meet with Sage too

  • Rebranding?? Is this still on the table for us to do this year?

  • Structural changes - renaming, creating more volunteer opportunities

Check Outs

Isa

  • Brainstorm charity show

Rob

  • Check in with Carrie about sending If/Then scripts back

Natalie

  • Thinkin bout charity show

  • Busties voting will come out this week!!!

  • MisCast is on Friday!!!

  • Will send holiday hits footage to Kendall

Sunny

  • Follow up with Rob re: reimbursements for Carrie

  • Will look through Producer stuff for charity show options

Kendall

  • Post holiday hits footage

  • Brainstorm for Charity Show

  • Find missing producer guide????

  • Possibly send busties voting reminder as an email 

Executive Board Minutes 11/22/20

Open Board 11/22/20

Inspiration Project Check-Ins

Team One

  • Ian

  • Chris

    • Overall I thought the writing process went very smoothly despite the general craziness of things right now. Although I did take a big to finish the script because of my schedule this semester. It was a really great chance to do something creative and collaborative. I thought the inspiration project was a really good idea so props to eboard for making it happen! I also had the pleasure of working with a great creative team who did an amazing job and were very supportive. The cast and tech crew also did a fantastic job as well. In general it was a great, low stress, high reward process. So thanks!

  • Lena

    • Everything went really well

  • Sage

  • Natalie

    • Tech was fun!

    • Tech run was kinda hard to coordinate between the two teams

    • Sent out a thank you email to everyone, will be going around to collect costumes and props in the next few days to get them back to the Space

Team Two

  • Kendall

    • SUCH a fun process

    • Great script, cast was so dedicated and hardworking

    • Some procedural stuff was definitely tough

    • Definitely needed a bit more time

    • Restored a lot of my faith in zoom theater :,)

  • Emma & Zach

    • So happy to see the script come alive!!!

    • Process was super fun, wished they could’ve had more time to iron things out

    • Overall loved it!

    • If we get a chance to do something like this in the future they’d love to do it again!

    • Some things to improve on:

      • Hard for some of the one person departments to handle everything

        • Nhi, Chris, etc. 

        • It was really nice to have a partner to bounce ideas off of 

  • Nhi

  • Matt

  • Andrea


EBoard Check-Ins

  • Isa

    • Elements of theatre outreach and communications

      • ALL SET for all 5 workshops!!!

    • Participated in Inspiration Project

    • General meeting prep

  • Rob

    • Did inspo project stuff, saw inspo project

    • Took over for reading committee, met with them last night

    • Questions from ⅔ people, should have the rest within the hour

  • Natalie

    • Coordinate inspo project

    • Helped kick off reading committee, handed it off to Rob

    • Got ready for GM

    • Thought about assassins, busties, nom com, holiday hits

    • Talked about MisCast stuff with Julia from OB

  • Sunny

    • Went to inspo project

    • Looked into rights for The Gorges Motel (ShowShare)

  • Kendall

    • Directed inspo project

    • Posted producing material, promo stuff

    • Make facebook event for inspiration project 

    • Post about inspo project

    • General meeting prep! Slides, etc.

      • Facebook event

    • Posted reminders

  • Zach

    • Lots of inspiration project stuff

    • Worked on GM slides

    • Made a signup form for that


Inspiration Project Check-Outs

  • SO enjoyable and impressive how it turned out, nice to feel like we’re doing live theater again, proud of us for coming up with this and committing to it and pulling off such a unique cool thing :,) 

  • Might need a more specific division of power talk so everyone knows exactly what’s required of them - more info about SMs/TDs 

  • Might be better to assign people to creative team roles earlier in the semester, moving the casting process up to happen earlier

Executive Board Minutes 11/15/20

E-Board Check Ins

Isa

  • Drafted an Elements of Theater Workshop schedule for the spring

  • Met with Bryan Adams about in person elements of the Inspo Project

  • Met with Jen and Connor in OB for a check-in, will debrief later 

Rob

  • Hosted office hours

  • Doing props for Team 2! Yay!

  • Can help Natalie with delivering stuff

Natalie

  • Reached out to Matt about TD coordination for Inspo Project

  • Need to schedule tech rehearsals for this week

  • Went to the meeting with OB

    • Idea of having MisCast as a combined event

Sunny

  • Went to meeting with Jen and Connor

  • Awesome rehearsal for Inspo Project

  • Has not heard back from Rayvon about funding for getting an air mover

Kendall

  • Sent out a big email about pitches and posted all info about that

  • Hosted game night

  • Inspo project - read through, LOTS of rehearsals, meetings with SM/TD

  • Update everything on website

Zach

  • Mid-week check in with TDs, went to tech meeting with Natalie

Inspo Project Check Ins

Team 1

Ian

  • We had a great week of rehearsals last week! I was able to meet with most of the actors for one on one rehearsals, and we also had a great readthrough on Thursday. The play is coming together wonderfully, and it’s great to see how the actors are all coming into their characters! I also met with tech at the meeting Thursday night, and we talked about our collective vision for the show. Natalie and I are currently in the process of scheduling a tech rehearsal this week, but beyond that we have our dress rehearsal Thursday night and then it’s the show! It’s definitely been a time crunch, but I’m confident in our ability to pull off a great performance, and I’m so excited to see everything come together!

Natalie

  • Had her tech meeting!! Went super well, showed tech copy of the script & notes, timeline

  • Individual department meetings for tomorrow

  • Hoping to go to the Space on Tuesday to get props costumes etc

Team 2

Kendall

  • So many rehearsals!!!!! So fun!!! 

Already Home Check Ins

  • By December 6th, we will have all scenes done, and 75% of the music learned

  • Week after Thanksgiving - run throughs, simulating a real show!

  • Neil and Isa will run joint rehearsals 

  • Everything’s going well, just chugging along!

Executive Board Minutes 11/8/20

Inspo Project Check Ins

Team One

  • Ian

    • Doing very well! Had first read through last Thursday, was great!

    • Getting into more rehearsals this week

    • Everyone seems excited and it’s going well!

  • Lena

    • Sent out her first email to the cast, everything going well!

  • Natalie

    • Met with Chris to go over the script

    • Went to read through

    • Will be emailing techies tonight

Team Two

  • Kendall

    • Having our first read through tonight!

    • Excited to see what the next two weeks bring :)

  • Emma & Zach

    • Really fun to write something that long for the first time!!

    • Balance of funny and serious, fun to find that balance

    • Trying to come up with a title 

Already Home

  • Curveball: Mandy Resendes dropped out of the show; but someone who came on board kind of late was able to be flexible and step in!!

  • Hitting some challenges, but figuring out how to handle of them :)


E-Board Check Ins

Isa

  • Emailed Bryan Adams (has been out of office)

    • Hopefully will be able to meet with him

  • Already Home

  • Mockup for Elements of Theater schedule!

Rob

  • Nothing to report 

Natalie

  • Wrote up Spring 2021 pitch expectations 

  • Thought about reading committee, busties, etc; how it fits into the semester

  • Sent out inspiration project casting 

  • Thought about book club - probably won’t have one in november or december, but might have one over winter break!!!

Sunny

  • Reached out about the air mover, hasn’t heard back

  • Zach got his check!

  • Read for inspo project

Kendall

  • Cast the inspo project

  • Reached out to actors about the inspo project

  • Having the read through tonight

  • Posted about campus.survivors

Zach

  • Space stuff! 

  • Another leak while he was waiting for facilities to come

    • A pipe burst in the furniture bay

  • Facilities came and fixed at least the second leak

  • Facilities should be the one giving us the air mover - they have not been replying

  • Sent out tech list for inspo project!!!

Executive Board Minutes 11/1/20

E-Board Check-Ins

Isa

  • Emailed SAO (Margaret) about Tech office hours

    • If she doesn’t reply, will email Bryan Adams 

  • Mentor/mentee events!

Rob

  • Looked into the black box above SAO

    • There is a class there, so it’s unavailable

  • Helped Sunny and Julia put together the escape room

  • Halloween Bash!

Natalie

  • Halloween Bash!

  • Inspo project auditions - figuring out casting stuff

    • Will be reaching out to directors tonight

Sunny

  • Put together the escape room!

  • Got in contact with SAO about Zach’s reimbursement 

  • Got webinar license for inspiration project - all ready

Kendall

  • Sent GM recap email

  • Posted a bunch about auditions/

  • Held auditions

  • Made the event and posted about ETW producing

  • Held the producing workshop!

  • Posted about halloween bash

  • Post amendments on da website

  • Updated all Minutes 

Zach

  • Another leak in the Space

Inspiration Project

  • Struggled to find more people to audition 

  • We have 12 people right now!

  • Natalie will send out an email about casting tonight

    • Should have casts tomorrow/early Tuesday

  • We’re less than 3 weeks out!

  • November 20th-21st at 7PM

  • Send email tonight to creative team !!!

    • Reiterating due date of yesterday for scripts

Issues in the Space

  • Recurring, big issue that Troupe shouldn’t have to be responsible

  • Steve will email Eric asking about other channels to go through besides facilities

  • Sunny will email and submit a request for funding 

Elements of Theater Workshops

  • Lil low turnout, but it’s midterms & halloween

  • Reflection:

    • GREAT! Interesting, fun, informative, great hosts

  • Definitely advertise it a little more next semester

  • People have reached out asking to have more of them!

  • Afternoons would definitely be better

  • Sam Sanpietro reached out, interested in doing an SFX makeup workshop

    • Definitely accessible virtually 

  • Acting/audition process workshops!!!

  • Specific tech workshops - costumes, set design, hair & makeup

  • 4-5 workshops, later in the day on Sunday, make sure they’re not during midterms

  • Isa will start looking at the calendar!

Executive Board Minutes 10/25/20

Isa

  • Started Already Home rehearsals

  • Pitch forms

  • Meeting with Dean B

  • Rob

    • Nothin to report !

  • Natalie

    • Halloween bash stuff, sent to Kendall and posted

  • Sunny

    • Talked to Kendall about Already Home producing stuff

      • Working on finalizing that timeline

    • In contact with Concord about different rights proposals, seeing how upcoming pitch forms would work in terms of requesting rights

  • Kendall

    • Talked to Sunny about Already Home producing stuff

    • Sent out giant email 

    • Got all workshops uploaded and finalized and put on the website

    • GM slideshow, posted about GM

  • Zach

    • Helped Nhi get everything back

    • Met with Kitty and Emma to talk about what they want to do for Already Home tech

    • Facilities came but didn’t have the right tools, said they’d come back but Zach had to call them again - finally came, fixed it, and put a clamp on it

  • Steve

    • Pulled together Qualtrics survey for Amendment voting

Inspiration Project Check-Ins

  • Team 2:

    • Have all characters laid out

    • Premise is that main character will get a Zoom link and meet mystical creatures in an online space - they mirror people from her real life

    • 5-6 actors, some will be playing both a real life & mythical character

    • Got through first 3 scenes, planning to write after the GM tonight

    • Splitting characters between Zach and Emma - different takes

  • Team 1: need to reach out for checkin

  • Can be partially in person, partially pre filmed !!! as long as we are following guidelines and social distancing

    • Limited in terms of indoor spaces

Charity Show

  • CSC afterschool & empowerment are thinking of collaborating and making a play reading CSC event 

Executive Board Minutes 10/18/20

One Acts Check-Ins

  • Carrie

    • Went so well! Proud and happy :)

  • Julia

    • So much fun to work with everyone to put this festival together

    • Being on Zoom always has its challenges, but the shows went really well!

    • Can't wait to dive into the next project.

  • Emma

    • Amazing experience! So much fun

    • A bit of a longer process than summer showcase, which was great!

    • Loves the cast and crew so much :)

Check-Ins

  • Isa

    • Emailed m a n y people

    • Got a response from Dean B! - meeting with him at 9:30 tomorrow

    • Emailed Laura Rikard, haven’t heard back

    • Declined Project Empathy

    • Made Engage event

    • Drafted amendments

    • Attended One Acts

    • Already Home casting!

  • Robert

    • Held office hours!

  • Natalie

    • Went to Already Home casting! 

    • One Acts!!!!

    • Sent out first play for the book club :) 

  • Sunny

    • Already Home casting!

    • Set up webinars for one acts and saw Saturday’s show

    • Got back in contact with Rayvon, can see list of people who have paid their dues

      • 21 people

    • Playing around with Redbubble

    • In contact with DPS and Concord

      • SABO had cancelled some of our payments to them!!! 

      • We have a credit with them now for $360

      • Other rights were just cancelled

  • Kendall

    • Uploaded all the workshops to youtube

    • Posted about one acts, promo

    • Went to one acts!! 

    • Brainstormed season

    • Sent big email to inspo project people

  • Zach

    • Told Emma and Kitty about the Already Home TD decision

      • going to meet with them on Tuesday, will work on tech team assignment after 

    • Went to tech run and performances of One Acts

      • will find Nhi later to get props and costume back to the space

    • The Space is leaking again

      • called emergency facilities one night, they said they’d come back the next day (they did not)

    • Put a tarp and a bin under the leak and it seems to be working for now

      • Will go in either Monday or Tuesday in the morning and call facilities again during the day


  • One Acts Check-Out

    • Super successful!

    • Chosen shows worked so well for the format!

    • Cool to see how One Acts has morphed over Natalie’s time in Troupe :)

  • Amendment Review

    • Take a look at them closely over the next few days, approve them for the GM!

    • “Actors and actresses” language

Executive Board Minutes 10/11/20

One Acts Check Ins!

  • Carrie: Director

    • Everything’s going great! Super simple show, no blocking

  • Julia: Director

    • Very simple plot, simple blocking, camera maneuvering 

    • Some rehearsal absences 

  • David: Producer

    • Going well, facebook page went live

    • Going to send promo material to everyone for approval

  • Natalie: VPSP

    • Tech run will be Wednesday night, 8PM

    • Things are coming together nicely!

  • Emma: Director:

    • Loving the show!! 

    • Was a little worried about how it might play out, but actors are beyond phenomenal, process has been super smooth and she is SO excited

    • The first project where she has felt like a director :,)

E-Board Check Ins

  • Isa

    • Sent many emails

    • Already Home stuff

    • Keeping in touch with Inspo project people, SARP training for some of them

    • Started making Mask-Making recurring meeting

    • Followed up with Michael about reunion

  • Rob

    • Office hours

    • Looked over Eboard notes

  • Natalie

    • Choreo Workshop!

    • Worked more on Halloween Bash concept

  • Sunny

    • Choreo Workshop!

    • Order form for custom masks

    • Talked to Sage about Inspo project producing

    • Talked to David a lot about One Acts producing

  • Kendall

    • Sent email to inspo teams to let them know about auditions

    • Posted about studentvote.org

    • Youtube stuff

    • Made choreography event, posted

    • Sent some emails to one acts ppl etc

  • Zach

    • Worked on mask making stuff

    • Closed out SM apps for Inspo project

    • Helped Nhi with One Acts tech 

Other:

  • Carrie

    • Is incredible for gathering all the If/Then materials

Inspiration Project Vision Statements:

  • They both look really great!!! Excited!!

  • Team 2

    • Reach out to Dean B (or now Bryan Adams) about possible in person components to events, in person spaces, etc.

    • Keep Emma and the team updated on how we can do that

  • How do we want Inspo Teams to check in with Board?

    • Written check ins for the writing process - 

    • Include isa’s office hours 

  • Let them know we’re talking to SAO

  • Onstage Intimacy resources

  • Next Deadlines

“I know what that face means Sunny”

Project Empathy

  • It’s a no from us catherine

Already Home!!!

  • Very happy with everyone who signed up

  • Doing casting tomorrow night, Eboard is welcome to come to the meeting!

  • Isa is e x c i t e d

Mentorship Program

  • All going well, most people are responsive

  • Planning 3 separate events!!!! Yay!!!!


Executive Board Minutes 10/4/20

E-Board Check Ins

Isa

  • Writing Workshop!

  • Mentorship program stuff

  • Inspo project communication

  • Division of power talks

Rob

  • Signed up for one acts

Natalie

  • Assisted with Mask Making 

  • Writing Workshop

  • Division of Power

  • Figuring out one acts rehearsal schedule 

  • Brainstorm Haunted House ideas

Sunny

  • Got playscripts account set up

Kendall

  • Posted cast lists for one acts

  • Youtube channel stuff

  • Writing workshop and mask making events and posts

  • Went to writing workshop

  • Division of power talks

Zach

  • Posted about Mask making things 

  • Had Mask Making!!! 

Open Board

Inspiration Project Updates

  • Producer for Team 1?

    • Sage, Rob, Devon?

    • Sunny will send Sage the form and see if she’s interested

  • Vision statements are due October 10th

  • Push auditions to Oct 26th-28th

    • Kendall send out an email to let teams know

Haunted House Ideas

Student Vote

  • Studentvote.org

  • Post about it and include it in the next email!!

Mask Making Update

  • 14ish people came!!

  • People were wondering about future sewing workshops?

  • Make some posts about it

    • Facebook marketplace perhaps ?

    • Sunny will think about an order system!

  • In person events ? need to let SAO know

  • What else could we make?

    • Patches

    • Tote bags

    • Little pillows

    • Parsnip stuffed animal

    • Buttons

    • Stage troupe membership cards

Mentorship Project Updates

  • Had 3 new members fill out the form!! Assigned to mentors 

  • Response rate has been awesome!

  • Musical Movie Night

  • Escape Room Night

  • Game Night

  • Probably on weeknights

Already Home Update

  • A little low on guys

  • About 17 performance submissions

  • Tech and producing submissions

  • M o n d a y m e e t i n g

YouTube

  • just keep it all on stagetroupevideographer doe!

SARP Training for Creative Teams

  • For anyone who hasn’t been trained yet

Executive Board Minutes 9/27/20

Check Ins

Isa

  • Sent a couple emails 

  • Touched base with Natalie & Kendall about Onstage Intimacy

  • SUSIBU 2

  • Reached out to Inspo project people

  • Already Home

Rob

  • SUSIBU

  • First office hours!

  • COMBAT

Natalie

  • SUSIBU 2

  • Got prepared for COMBAT

  • New Play Exchange

  • One Acts auditions and casting!!

Sunny

  • Set up Play Exchange account!

  • Still working on One Acts rights, Playscripts account

  • Mask making almost full!

Kendall

  • Sent out email with: COMBAT, one acts auditions, GM 2 reminder?, inspiration project apps, dues, already home

  • Posted reminders for inspo apps, combat, OA auditions, etc

  • SUSIBU 

  • COMBAT! Yay!

Zach

  • SUSIBU

  • COMBAT

  • Helped Natalie with One Acts casting 

  • Got custom print ST fabric

  • The Space - pipes were leaking, fixed with gaff tape 

  • Gave Natalie Space keys 


Agenda

Inspiration Project

  • One more applicant for writer/director

  • Nobody for TD/SM

  • MADE 2 TEAMS!!!

  • Vision statement due date → Oct 4th-11th

  • Final scripts due end of October

  • Rehearsals throughout November, performance at the end of the month

Onstage Intimacy - later this week go over that info

One Acts

  • Casting today - directors sent first, second, and third choice for their roles

  • Emailed directors with preliminary casting, they will be sending the casting emails out tonight!!!! Everything looks good YAY!

  • Delivering all props and costumes via zipcar worked really well for COMBAT, we can definitely do this for one acts too

  • Eliminate SM from one acts

Alumni Reunion

  • Tentatively thinking of October 18th - this should work!!!

  • Three key things: Sexual Misconduct, Diversity & Inclusion, COVID Programming

  • Quick half hour meeting with Michael before the event  

GM 2 → October 25th!!!

  • Can talk about amendments with alumni at reunion

  • Come with ideas about how the pitch process is gonna work

GM 3 → November 13th

Pitch GM!!!

Haunted House

  • Virtual haunted house would ultimately be difficult, not sure if people would be committed