<p>Hi AVraney</p>
<p>There is a lot of information about stage management on this forum. For example:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/623794-technical-theater.html?highlight=stage+management[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/623794-technical-theater.html?highlight=stage+management</a></p>
<p>Try searching on specific topics that you need such as financial aid. </p>
<p>Most of the better known theater departments also offer programs in stage management and/or technical theater. These include NYU-Tisch, DePaul (Chicago), Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh), SUNY Purchase (upstate New York), CCM (Cinncinati), UNCSA (N. Carolina), and many others. Financial aid varies, of course. SUNY Purchase and UNCSA are both on the inexpensive end.</p>
<p>Your experience is a bit light but not by any means impossible. Experience is important because as an indicator of your interest in theater, not because it means you already know how to stage manage. I think most schools want you to forget your previous experience and start over once you get there. Do what you can over the next year and a half and you should be okay. As for experience outside your school, there is always next summer.</p>
<p>Stage managers work in many venues–big cities, regional theaters, touring companies. In addition to theater, they work events like concerts and festivals. And, yes, most stage management programs teach at least the basics of stagecraft, which is what you need to work as a stagehand. Stage management is perhaps the most versatile of theater degrees. You’ll learn all about management and you can use those skills almost anywhere.</p>
<p>So break a leg and don’t worry about the questions. That is what this forum is for.</p>