Statement Of Purpose To Be An Assistant Director

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Do you know how it feels to be one of the most important people while not having all the attention directly on you, front staged and centered? How about being the one to answer fifteen million questions and do everything needed while no one can fend for themselves? This is what it’s like to be an assistant director backstage and some of the things I’ve taken from this in my school’s musicals and plays include: self-discipline, time management, leadership, and organization. The assistant director is just as important as a lead in any given musical or play, we just simply do the important things all off stage. I first started off my drama career during my sophomore year when I decided to become part of the crew backstage for our school’s musical, …show more content…

That was the year that I really acknowledged the reviews and gained a concept of time management and leadership and improved my patience, focus, and tolerance. I began to pick up the habits of being able to move things faster during the scene changes and felt more confident about asking anyone who wasn’t busy to help me. I gained a new opinion as well, that I am just as important as everyone else I’m working with yet had a different accumulation of knowledge that was needed so the show could go on. Now to continue on to what I gained from last year’s musical, Beauty and the Beast, and the play, Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon. During the musical, more people backstage helped out a lot more which was nice. If I couldn’t quite be somewhere or answer something, I would ask the help of those who I was working side by side with to take my place. I realized that at the end of the musical I picked up more of a leadership position and decided to be more actively involved with the drama department as a whole. Which led to me becoming an assistant director for the play, Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon. Now I will admit, it was quite a bit more than what I was expecting for the position but I toughed it through nonetheless. I realized that I had to be responsible and come to more rehearsals and genuinely critique more of the production …show more content…

I acknowledge the fact that cast members asked me some of the most important questions during the play. Some of the questions included “have you seen where my fake sword went, it was moved?” Or “do you know where this item goes so I can put it out during the scene change?” There was also one problem that occurred during the play itself, a tiny red wheelbarrow's wheel broke off about five minutes before it had to be wheeled on. My first decision was to grab some tape and tape the wheel back on and inform the cast member who was going to use it to be careful. Through this and other similar experiences during the show, I became more organized, knowledgeable, self-disciplined and creative. I needed to use all of these skills so that while I was backstage, things could run as smooth as

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