About Linda Apperson, the Author

About the author:

I have stage managed over 3,000 performances of musicals, comedies, dramas, and opera. I majored in theatre in college, attending the University of South Florida, Florida State University, and Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. When I was in school, stage managing was not covered in any of my classes. It always seemed strange to me that one of the key jobs in any production was virtually ignored in academic theatre. Maybe that has changed by now, although, most of the colleges I wrote to when working on this book replied that they did not offer classes in stage management.

I felt there was a real gap in training and education for this most significant job. So, I wrote the book that I wanted and needed when I started stage managing.

Summary of Productions and Theatres
American Alliance of Performing Arts Educators Produced at Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center Stage Manager	AAPAE Winter Invitational - January 16, 2006 2nd Annual AAPAE Winter Invitational - January 15, 2007 3rd Annual AAPAE Winter Invitational - January 20, 2008
Pear Avenue Theatre Mountain View, California - 2007 Stage Manager	Three Tall Women
Peninsula Youth Theatre Mountain View, California - 1999-2008 Stage Manager	Peter Pan Sweet Charity Thoroughly Modern Millie Fiddler on the Roof Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Cats Disney's Beauty and the Beast Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida The Pirates of Penzance The Wizard of Oz West Side Story *Holes* *Children of Eden* *Into the Woods* *Guys and Dolls* *Oliver!* *Anne of Green Gables* *Peter Pan* *Bye-Bye Birdie* *Godspell*
Sunnyvale Community Junior Players Sunnyvale, California - 1996, Stage Manager	*42nd Street*
West Bay Opera Palo Alto, California 2004, 1986-1994 Stage Manager	*La clemenza di Tito* The Face on the Barroom Floor and Pagliacci *Falstaff* *The Marrige of Figaro* *Faust* *Der Fliegende Hollander* Gianni Schicci and Pagliacci
Foothill College Summer Theatre Los Altos, California - 1986, Stage Manager	*Candide*
San Jose Civic Light Opera San Jose, California 1984, 1986, Stage Manager (now American Musical Theater)	*The King and I* *Camelot*
TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, California - 1985 Stage Manager	*Saturday, Sunday, Monday*
San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose, California 1984, Stage Manager	*Nuts*
Caldwell Playhouse Boca Raton, Florida 1981-1983 Stage Manager and Properties (now Caldwell Theatre Company)	*Vanities* *The Elephant Man* *Waltz of the Toreadors* *The Heiress* *Five Finger Exercise* *Absence of a Cello* *Once Upon a Mattress* Mass Appeal (also Lighting Operator) *Even in Laughter* *The Barretts of Wimpole Street* *Light Up the Sky* *Misalliance*
Once Upon A Stage Dinner Theater Orlando, Florida 1978-1981 Stage Manager and Properties	*Anything Goes* *Camelot* *Irma La Douce* *The Sound of Music* *Mame* *The Music Man* *Funny Girl* *L’il Abner* *Arsenic and Old Lace* *Guys and Dolls* *Oklahoma!* *Fiddler on the Roof* *The Odd Couple* *Annie Get Your Gun* *Cabaret* *Can Can* *Man of La Mancha* *No, No, Nanette* *1776* *South Pacific*
TheatreWorks Palo Alto, California 1977-1978 (Production Stage Manager for repertory theatre producing eight shows a year.) Stage Manager for:	*Godspell* *The Fantasticks* *The Robber Bridegroom* *Scapino* *Crucible* *Twelfth Night* *Carnival* *The Merchant of Venice* *The Goodbye People* (Lighting Operator)
Once Upon A Stage Dinner Theater Orlando, Florida 1975-1976 Stage Manager, Properties, Wardrobe	*Plaza Suite* *Carousel* *No Time for Sargeants* *Pajama Tops* *Bye, Bye Birdie* *The Sound of Music* *Hello, Dolly* *Fiddler on the Roof*
Annie Russell Summer Theatre at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida - 1975 Costumer	*The Fantasticks* *Sleuth* *Oliver!*
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 1974-1975	*The Killing of Sister George* (Wardrobe) *Lovers* (Stage Manager)
Colorado Music Hall Denver, Colorado 1974 Properties and Costumer	*Goodbye, Charlie* with Judy Carne *The Odd Couple* with Tom Poston *Forty Carats* with Gale Storm *Barefoot in the Park* with Tab Hunter
Once Upon A Stage Dinner Theater Orlando, Florida 1972-1974 Properties and Wardrobe	*The Owl and the Pussycat* *Poor Richard* *Private Lives* *Under the Yum-Yum Tree* with Jack Kelly Play It Again, Sam with Arnold Stang *It’s Never Too Late* with Andy Devine The Tender Trap with Fabian Star Spangled Girl with Dwayne Hickman How the Other Half Loves with Virginia Mayo *Sunday in New York* with Sal Mineo *In One Bed and Out the Other* with Mamie Van Doren Girl in a Freudian Slip with Don Ameche
Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico 1970, Stage Manager	*Kepler*
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 1969-1972	Dance Productions (Lighting) *Enrico IV* (Construction crew) *Your Mother’s Bustle* (Property crew) *The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis* *Skin of Our Teeth* (Property crew) *Lysistrata* (Assistant Stage Manager) *The Bald Soprano* (Stage Manager) *The Lion in Winter* (Stage Manager) *La Divine Sarah* (Stage Manager)

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Summary of Productions and Theatres