Interviews of Staff In Half Moon Theatre

Question:

1. What are the skills needed for your career?

2. What personal and Qualities and Qualifications are needed for your career?

3. How do you manage your time?

4. Can you describe a typical day activities?

5. Can you tell me about the most interesting aspect of your career?

6. What are the ad/disadvantages of your career?

7. What advice would you give any teenagers who want to work in the area of your carer?

Name: Jackie EleyAdministrator Director

1. The skills needed are: to know accounting, to understand how to raise money from diverse people (business, charity, children need, individual people…) to understand marketing and press. To be well organised.

2. Useful to have a degree in anything. To be organised. To be able to multitasked.

3. Have a work diary and record of all necessary things.

4. Fundraising for a project, researched on marketing and find useful information on accountant?

5. The show, the product and the end product.

6. Disadvantage is that the job is not well paid. Advantage is that the people are lovely.

7. My advice is that they should study hard, go to university. To be ready for competition and to get any job in the theatre industries.

Name: Rachel LionsDevelopment and Marketing Manager

1. Multitasked- to have a good attention to details- write well, writes for different type of people.

2. Degree is needed qualification is not relevant. To have additional courses. Very friendly. Good with communicating. To be flexible.

3. Record all daily activity or record activity in advance.

4. E flyers, making it on Tuesday and sending it on Wednesday. Getting someone to monitor and manage. Monitoring sales. Checking sales. Checking tickets for shows. Collect statistic. Collecting information.

5. Getting article of quite famous people on paper. Creating leaflet.

6. Advantage- it’s interesting, not competitive. Disadvantage – not very well paid.

7. Get a lot of experience. To highlight job description. To show all your strongest point in your applications.

Name: Sunny Acraman

Training Tutor

1. Acting skills, communication people skills, ICT skills, and business skills.

2. Btec National diploma. Good sense of humour well mannered. Polite. Great people skills

3. Diary and Phone

4. Come to the theatre, report to Amy. Business Stuff. Calling people. Updating database. Doing workshops. Theatre group.

5. Communicating with different people. Getting to learn and gathering new skills.

6. Advantages- seeing children growing up and participate in programmes. Meeting new people. Mixing up task. Disadvantage- loosing track of time. Low paid.

7. Never give up.

Name: Amy Jones

Project Manager

1. Really organised- to handle project well- strong communication skills- verb communication skills-have good attention to details.

2. Have interests attention to detail. Very well organised. Calm. Positive. Caring. Work experience in theatre. Have GCSE or a level in theatre. Degree in theatre in studies.

3. To be aware of deadline.

4. Helping and meeting groups. Putting a newsletter. Putting invitations. Marketing materials. Invoices. Managing voices. Contract running. Evaluation. Project planning. Schedule.

5. Fun job working with children. All jobs were gain with experience. Being a project manager

6. Advantage- fun. Interesting. Disadvantage- competitions for this area of job. Badly paid

7. Get work experience. Volunteer. And stand out where ever you go.

Name: Harry Nepier

Performer

1. Competent on a rage of instrument. High skills on one instrument. Strong voice. Confident skills in singing to variety of audiences. Know how to keep people interested. Be energetic.

2. Music degree-vocally strong. Good at reading Shakespeare. Enthusiasm for working in a team. Love telling stories. Engaging audience.

3. Having time to rehearse lines. Like to be one step ahead.

4. Practicing instrument and lines.

5. Working in a team to produce good show.

6. Disadvantage- started acting quite late. Advantage- very well trained musician. And it’s very useful in theatre.

7. To have passion in one particular instrument.

Name: Jenny Rogers

Administrative assistant and front of house supervisor

1. Communicate with people in a form of a friendly matter. To be confident. To be well organised. To be skilled in inserting information on the computer.

2. History in degree. Like communicating. Friendly. Hard working. Like working individually.

3. Mix time. Be sensible and embrace yourself. Have a list on what you have to do.

4. Being a PA with another member of staff. Book people in for shows. Supervising the box office.

5. After university – wanted to be an office base – like schedule but nut physical.

6. Advantage-early in the career. Staff members are very friendly. Disadvantage-it’s a small team, a lot of work to do. Nowhere nice to have food. Transport. Low paid.

7. Try to get job. Interact. Try to work in a team. Get a lot of experience.

Name: Tamzan Palmer

Stage Manager

1. Organization. Time keeping. Good people skills. Good practical skills.

2. Drama degree- stage management in diploma. Cheerful, easy going. Calm. Relaxed. Have sense of humour.

3. Depends on schedule of the show. Like taking notes. Making sure everything is in place.

4. Making notes. Very discipline.

5. Working with different people. And being in different places. Different performances.

6. Advantages- Exciting. Entertaining. Different things to do everyday. Disadvantage- long hours by yourself. Physical work. Badly paid.

7. Help out in youth theatre. Go to see different places. But don’t do it forever.

Name: Chris Lewis

Director of company

1. Managing Skills. Business planning. Organisation. Understanding of education. Make or write plays.

2. A degree- a diploma MA. Theatre education. Training for roles. Two postgraduates and undergraduate qualification. Flexible. Clear. Nurturing. Patient. Hard working. Take control. Lead example.

3. Look ahead in the whole week.

4. Making a play. Prepare for the play. Research. Making prop work with the actors. Help with overall performance.

5. Love working in half moon theatre. Enjoy. Passionate about the work. Love being a teacher years ago

6. Disadvantage- low paid, not glamorous. Advantage-a pleasure.

7. Be ambitious of what you want to do. Recognised and learn different skills. Look up to people. Meet new people. Be confident and have passion.

Name: Fred Beaufort

Production manger

1. Good sense of organisation. Good at communicating. Good at coordinating. To turn ideas into actions. How to build scenery.

2. Theatre courses. Degree in technical theatre. Learnt about lighting. Sense of creativity. Good at problem solving.

3. Planning to get the best of the best in advance.

4. Technical rehearsals. Set and performers on stage. Put element together. Finding problems in the lighting and solving them.

5. Meeting people. Working In new project. Theatre is live like the atmosphere.

6. Advantage- communicating with people. Creative work. Disadvantage- low paid. Long hours. Not enough recourse available.

7. Embrace yourself with different experiences. Never say yes if you can get it right.