The COVID-19 pandemic is highly unmanageable for so many of us. We wear our masks, we wash our hands, elect people who we hope will have more effective policies, and try not to go insane. Fixating, therefore, on people “leaving the business” in the midst of this calamitous moment may feel tone-deaf.
We are asking women in the entertainment industry around the world some key questions about their life and career. Here is Sarah Grubb based in Philadelphia, USA.
Creativity doesn’t happen on demand. When I was doing eight shows a week in Disney’s The Lion King, I was unwittingly putting myself in a creative rut. Not only was I doing the same show every night (sometimes twice a day), but I was doing the same warm up, eating the same meals, taking the same route to work, and cross-training in the same ways.
A decade ago, I left a job in management consulting with a “big 4” accounting firm and embarked on what would become my second career in the audiovisual (AV) industry. While I was planning on making a career change, going into the AV industry was in no way my targeted path. Other than appearing in a high-school play, earning a degree in electrical engineering and occasionally attending theatrical performances, I was neither had a theatre background nor the foundational knowledge that would have been helpful in preparing me for what lay before me.
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