This year marks the 20th year of the Carousel Theatre\u2019s Teen Shakespeare Program<\/a>, and I’m here working as the Marketing and Audience Services Coordinator for their summer production of The Taming of the Shrew. In the Program, 16 teen actors undergo an intense 4 week rehearsal process culminating in a fully staged production which runs for 2 full weeks free to the public. \u00a0It\u2019s my job to do everything from getting posters and fliers printed, writing and pitching the press release, taking press photos, to eventually acting as House Manager as we welcome over 3000 audience members to our show over the two week run. \u00a0It\u2019s hard work, but it\u2019s the best experience a theatre student could ask for!<\/p>\n I work with the incredible Carole Higgins and Jessie Van Rijn, who run Carousel Theatre as the Artistic and Managing Director and General Manager respectively. I feel lucky to go to work every day and learn from such talented women who are leaders in the Vancouver theatre community. I’m so glad to be working behind the scenes because I feel it will make me a better and more professional actor \u2013 the things that don\u2019t seem like a big deal (\u201cOh, sorry, I\u2019ll get my program bio in on Friday\u2026\u201d) can cause massive delays in important administrative or stage management projects! \u00a0A successful production means all hands on deck, and I\u2019m so thrilled to be on board with Carousel Theatre for their summer show.<\/p>\n I’m blogging<\/a> and tweeting<\/a> all summer leading up to the run of The Taming of the Shrew from July 30 to August 14. \u00a0I hope you\u2019ll come out and see our show – bring your friends, it’s completely free! \u00a0I am excited to be back at UBC come September, but I’ll miss my Carousel Theatre family when I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A guest blog post by BFA Acting candidate Christine Quintana After 8 intense months of training, rehearsal and performance, most theatre students are grateful for their summer holidays and see them as a brief break from their theatre lifestyle. \u00a0Not me, apparently. \u00a0In September I’ll begin my final year of the BFA Acting Program, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,6635,9109],"tags":[233,6635,408],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-theatre","category-vancouver-culture","tag-education","tag-theatre","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/files\/2010\/08\/christinedigsthroughphotos3.jpg\")
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