How Do You Become A Stage Director?
A career as a stage director takes the right degree, talent, experience and temperament. It helps if you are the type who notices everything around you, all the time; if you are both visual and auditory in learning style, if you are musical, and if you can inspire people to want to please you. • Be a drama student in secondary school. Act and stage manage; run the lights and the props. Find out what you’re best at, and what you love to do best. Ask your teacher for a realistic assessment of your talents. • If you can, go to a university with a recognized theatre program. If you can’t afford that, go to a state college with a drama department which puts on lots and lots of plays. • In your college summers, get involved with programs. Ask your professors to help find them. It doesn’t matter what you do there; just get in and do something – act, stage manager, prop guy, lighting, set building – do whatever you can, and lots of it. Make a great impression on the people who run the program
