Domenick Scudera has a regular Festival Blog column about his experiences in the performing arts. He is a longtime theater artist and is the chair of the theater and dance department at Ursinus College. Stage management is a horrid business. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate how vital stage managers are to the smooth workings of theater production. These… Read more »
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My Life In Community Theater, or The Great Strangulation
Domenick Scudera has a regular Festival Blog column about his experiences in the performing arts. He is a longtime theater artist and is the chair of the theater and dance department at Ursinus College. Community theater is a curious thing. It is a place that attracts all the theater wannabes in a community, throws them together,… Read more »
Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Or My Life As A Casting Director
Domenick Scudera has a regular Festival Blog column about his experiences in the performing arts. He is a longtime theater artist and is the chair of the theater and dance department at Ursinus College. Stage auditions are the world’s cruelest job interviews. Thrust onto an empty stage, actors have three minutes to prove all their worth… Read more »
Fifth Grade Lysistrata
Theater artist Domenick Scudera has a regular Festival Blog column about his experiences in the performing arts. Upon college graduation, I landed a job as an elementary school drama teacher. I had no experience teaching, no experience working with children, and no formal training in drama. But I figured my Judy-Mickey-let’s-put-on-a-show mentality would get me… Read more »
My Life in [Performance] Art
Theater artist Domenick Scudera begins a regular column about his experiences in the performing arts. Performance art is easy. You get onstage, share comic yet painful childhood memories, strip naked, smear chocolate on your body, and you are done. If you want, you can throw in a few innovations. Tell about your painful teen years… Read more »
