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We are asking stage managers around the world, in a stage manager tag, some key questions about their job. Here is Zhangqiyu (Ada) Zhang based in New York, but she was originally from Beijing, China.
1. Are you a minimalist or a hoarder Stage Manager?
I should say in between.
2. What do you always have with you on stage?
Notebook, phone, pen, spike tape.
3. What’s in your kit?
Measurer, spike tapes, flashlight, notebook, post notes.
4. Mac or PC?
Mac.
5. What’s in your pencil case?
Pens with different colors, sharpies with different colors, pencils, erasers.
6. Favourite colour highlighter
Yellow.
7. Favourite pencil
2B.
8. What may be surprising that you don’t use?
Stop watch probably. I just use my phone for timing.
9. Coffee or Tea?
COFFEE FOREVER.
10. Favourite Genre to work in
Musical.
BONUS QUESTION
11. Advice for new Stage Managers
Always be active and try to be proactive. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, no one was born with the knowledge of doing everything.
The Stage Manager Tag: Tiffany Schrepferman
The Stage Manager Tag: Krystle Montgomery
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