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What is your career/major
#50What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 3:54am
Got a BFA in Musical Theatre from one of the "name" schools. Wasn't all its cracked up to be.
I agree with Somewhere in a Tree, don't get stuck in a vacuum. These conservatory programs are set up like boot camp. Minor in something. Get out, make some friends other than theatre people.
Currently preparing to audition for graduate schools, or I might just move to New York. We'll see.
I work as an assistant to an attorney who specializes in copyright law.
Updated On: 7/8/14 at 03:54 AM
#51What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 4:38amgivesmevoice I am currently about an hour and fifteen minutes south of Washington D.C.
#52What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 6:39am
B.A. in Theater, M.F.A. in Playwriting, C.Phil. in Dramatic Criticism.
Taught world theater history, playwriting and dramaturgy for 13 years.
Have worked in the past as a director, playwright, stage manager and production coordinator in Miami, New York and Los Angeles.
Currently working as a lyricist/librettist.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#53What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 8:43am
BA - Drama Lit, MS - Elementary/Early Childhood Education/Supervision. Never considered "show biz" as a real job for myself, just studied it for interest. Lifelong theater goer...
Genes have been passed on though..my daughter is a musician, currently working on Broadway.
#54What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 10:30amMajored in English, minored in biological anthropology at NYU. I now work in children's book publishing and am also a freelance copyeditor.
#55What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 11:11am
I'm currently about to start my final (i.e. graduate) year in a 5-year BS/MS program in Health Services Administration with minors in Public Health, Music, and Business.
I'm planning to either get a job in my field after graduation, or working in entertainment PR or theatre administration. I may try to go back to school in a few years and get a Master's in PR, Media Management, or something more business-y (accounting, finance, management, or marketing)
Every living soul has got a voice - you've got to give it room and let it sing.
#56What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 11:12am
I'm a speech and language pathologist.
Dream job: Working with Broadway actors with voice pathology.
Maybe I do not speak English as well as you, but I can perfectly pronounce the names of all characters of Les Misérables.
Updated On: 7/8/14 at 11:12 AM
#57What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 1:26pm
I majored in HISTORY at UCLA but never used that in my post graduate life...I have been:
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a gay porn actor and gay magazine cover man is in there too...lol
Wait wait wait. No one's going to comment on this? broadwaybabywannabe2: this is my favorite credit of yours. I won't ask for your portfolio, but is that you in your avatar?
#58What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 2:03pm
I have a BFA in Theater Directing with a minor in Dance.
I work for a small not profit store front black box theater company directing usually 2-3 shows in their season. I also teach dance (jazz, tap, musical theater, modern and contemporary) for a competition dance team. I also direct and choreograph High School musicals for local schools in the burbs.
My survival job: I sell high end real estate, which allows me to make good money, yet still do what I love to do. Sometimes I wonder how I'd do if I put all my time in real estate....
I plan to apply to grad school for MFA Directing in the next 2 years or so. I just start studying the GRE and get to the math section and freak out.
Basically, I work non stop and don't really have a social life anymore. But at least I get to do what I love! I just wish I could make my living just directing where I can put all my time and energy in my shows without my brain focusing on all my other jobs.
Witherspoon
Swing Joined: 12/17/13
#59What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 7:22pm
I have a BFA in Musical Theater from a 'name' school as well.
13 years later, I've been in independent school admissions for almost nine years with four of those being a communications director. With the right people to work with and a strong force of will, you can do anything. Now I work in the admissions office of a school for the arts, where I coordinate theater department admissions. I make dreams come true, it's pretty great.
#61What is your career/major
Posted: 7/8/14 at 8:35pmWait, a Colt model who's a Broadway wannabe? My stereotype-obsessed brain just exploded!
#62What is your career/major
Posted: 7/9/14 at 1:39pmI'm an MD, currently more than halfway through my internal and emergency medicine residency. For fun, I manage Matthew Morrison's website, but that's just because he's a friend and a really nice and decent guy.
"Mr Sondheim, look: I made a hat, where there never was a hat, it's a Latin hat at that!"
#63What is your career/major
Posted: 7/9/14 at 11:51pm
I have a B.A. in Biochemistry. A minor in philosophy, with honors in classical philosophy and the social sciences. Hey - the way I see it? Do it all.
I work in an environmental lab, as an analyst in the GC/MS department. Theater is just a hobby. But SUCH a hobby - and a love - and really, when you live a hop, skip, and a jump from NYC, there is no good excuse not to go.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#64What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 1:49pm
BA in History from UCBerkeley
JD from Hastings (where I wrote/produced the student "revue")
Coached Berkeley's Speech and Debate Team (including one national champion in Poetry Interpretation)
Practicing lawyer since then specializing in insurance policy issues.
But, I'm from a family who has always loved theatre (some of whom - not me - peformed) and later in life have started directing a few community theatre shows, whose success is based on the people around me.
#65What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 2:30pm
Bachelor of Commerce (major: marketing; minors: English and psychology).
Worked in the marketing department of a law firm – updating content on the firm’s website and social media. Presently on long-term disability leave. Previously did a variety of short term and contract jobs, including advertising copywriter, corporate concierge, production artist for a retail advertising flyer, customer service for a shopping mall, a hotel and a business improvement district, and English-language teacher in Japan.
My only theatrical claim to fame is having once volunteered as a stagehand for a benefit performance (3 performances, actually) of Little Shop of Horrors.
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
JQuad882
Swing Joined: 7/1/14
#66What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 5:05pm
I'm currently majoring in rhetoric communication with minors in theatre and english. I was originally a theatre major until I realized it was making me hate theatre.
I also do a bunch of volunteer work (I work at an HIV testing center, do fundraising for a local performing arts non profit, and do social media and networking for a women's shelter). But mainly I am a writer and studying to get into graduate school.
#67What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 5:19pm
psych / theater undergrad
mfa in thetaer
working professional in theater and performance venues all over the world for the past 25 years
#68What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 5:29pm
In my final year for a dual BA in political science and English, plus a minor in Italian. In the process of applying for MFA programs for dramatic writing.
I currently work as a floor manager at my local touring venue and as a private piano teacher, and have recently begun volunteering with a literacy-advocacy nonprofit.
coloraturamama
Swing Joined: 1/12/12
#69What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 6:44pm
Bachelor of Music in Music Management and Voice (Hartt School of Music). Worked in non-profit theater for years in fundraising/special events. Now in a different industry. Also not singing as much as I would like to be /should be.
Updated On: 8/16/14 at 06:44 PM
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#70What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 6:54pm
Majored in Finance at Pace; working in financial services.
Interesting to see a few people like myself with no theatre "background" education wise.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#71What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 7:03pm
BA in Political Science and English Lit, then a JD, and now I work in immigration law. I worked box office and as a stagehand throughout college and law school, but now I'm strictly an audience member.
Also, seconding all the advice about taking diverse classes in college. I took classes in 13 departments and still wish I could have done more.
#72What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 7:26pmGoodness me,never even HEARD of any of these majors nor had the opportunity to study for them. I come from outback country and was only taught the 3Rs---theater/languages didn't exist at my schools. An inbuilt love of performing[Mother is a pianist]somehow gave me the courage, with parental support, at a later age[17] to take dancing/singing lessons. I supported myself at doing just that for the next 13 years until I decided that the travelling and uncertainty[and my body],needed a change. I succcessfully went into the next stage of my life/career but all that I learnt during my theatre years were essential for what was to follow. I am now very happily retired-39 years later.
#73What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 7:34pm
After a garden variety BA, I worked in the family business. I left them to join the not for profit world. I've been a Development Director at a top 10 Orchestra, a national health organization, and now an international proving ground for young musicians.
But to be honest, my key pursuits are entertaining at home and at a wonderful country place. Gardening has become more important than donor prospects, and a killer cocktail party gives me more happiness than a seven figure gift.
I'm in a good transition.
Showface
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#74What is your career/major
Posted: 8/16/14 at 7:41pm
Well, I'm at the point where Im starting to make some future carrer decisions. I wanted to be an actor, and I still do, but Im having second thoughts. Now I think I want to be a film director, but I only want to do certain projects. I would like to do films based on stage shows, because I think I have an eye for imagining and envisioning. Also...im considering screenwritting. I also am considering being a stage director (which I think would. Be pretty cool, and I think I have an eye for envisionibg onstage as well).
