Let me tell you something nobody prepares you for. When you move to another country to make art, everything you built before you arrived can vanish overnight.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialLet me tell you something nobody prepares you for. When you move to another country to make art, everything you built before you arrived can vanish overnight.
@skenepub.bsky.socialMaybe you're new to theatre, or maybe you're just curious. But do you actually know what happens during tech week? It's one of the strangest, most intense stretches of making a show, and most audiences have no idea it exists.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialLast time we built the portfolio. Now the part almost everyone skips: actually getting it seen. Because your portfolio is not the whole thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.
You get it in front of people two ways: you go to them, and you go where they're already looking.
@skenepub.bsky.socialI've reviewed portfolios for over fifteen years. I get them every year from students applying to my program, and I've built websites since before I even worked in theatre. So here's what makes me stay on a portfolio, and what makes me click away.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialA student asked me today how to start working internationally. I could see what they were picturing: a portfolio so impressive that some theatre across the world just has to say yes.
The border between you and the world was never your work.
@skenepub.bsky.socialHow do you build a career when nobody knows your name? No reputation, no network, no one to vouch for you, and a field that feels like everyone already knows each other. I know that feeling exactly, because I've started from zero not once, but twice.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialLately I keep seeing the same argument online: theatre is just too expensive now. Tickets are out of control. And I get it, they are high. But here's what almost no one in that audience knows: the ticket price isn't the problem. The ticket barely covers anything.
@skenepub.bsky.socialHow do you land your first design gig? Everybody thinks the answer is a great portfolio and a lot of applications. That's part of it. But here's what nobody tells you: your first design job almost never comes from a stranger reading your resume.
@skenepub.bsky.socialHere's something I give my first-year grad students before any design exercise. It's called The Artist Date, from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way.
We tend to think of creativity as a faucet. Turn it on, it flows, you make the work. But it's not a faucet. It's a well.