Help for the future.

[CHScrew]

I'm new this forum and am not sure how this works so, Here I go.

 

I am currently 16 and am in my junior year of high school. I'm the current head of the CHS stage and tech crew and have been so for 2 years. I mainly work backstage but also work with the lights, sound, anything else that goes on in the auditorium.

 

I really like doing this and want to know what I need to do to prepare for the future. I live in the United States and was wondering if any of you could give me any information on places is the USA that I can get info from. Good colleges or Universitys to to look at, and so on. Any help would be great because right now I've got nothing.

 

Thanks

-Ray

[Rob]

I'm afraid this is largely a UK based forum so you might not get much of an answer to your question. You'd be better off asking at the Light Network forum which is a bit more international.

[Simon Lewis]

Ray,

 

You can also try searching on the ProSoundWeb.com site, as this question gets asked many times there.

 

Simon

[CHScrew]

Thanks.

[Jram]

From what I've ascertained over here (in NYS) there seems to be a HUGE amount of summer theatre that takes place.

 

I'm at New York Stage and Film, which hires a basic staff each year, the takes in a number of interns (my role), then ALSO supports a handful of apprentices who pay to come here.

 

It seems that many people work their way up the chain over a period of four or five years. Personally, I'm tempted to try and come back next year in the role of Assistant Technical Director - as much for the CV as for anything else.

 

Not sure what opportunities there are in pennsylvania, but rooming with a guy from Couttstown who has travlled up here for the summer.