Sometimes it takes a bit more radical approach to get your students attention. Nothing wrong with making learning a bit more fun, is there? Writing a set of emergency plans for various scenarios that might transpire in your theatre can be a bit tedious, but if you enlist the help of your students under the guise of fun, you might get a good idea how to get the plans started.…

If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted. Actors have understudies, and most positions in a production have an assistant or 2^nd. Plan your work environment in a similar manner. Keeping secrets about how things are done…

On Saturday night, August 13, 2011, and estimated crowd of 12,000 assembled to watch the band Sugarland play at the Indiana State Fair. The sky was covered with dark clouds, there was lightning shooting out of them, and a huge gust of wind, typical of Midwest summer storms, came across the venue, caught the tarp covered canopy some 50-60 feet in the air, and folded the portable structure over like it was…

As the world has watched the devastation unfold in Japan over the last six days, it has been amazing to see the calm and orderly fashion with which both the government and public sectors have responded. It should bring to light for all of us that we should have emergency plans prepared and rehearsed for both our personal and professional lives.…