DISQUS

Cambiare Productions: 10 Things I Wish I’d Been told in College (and 1 I was)

  • Tom Loughlin · 2 months ago
    Travis, as my buddy Scott says, he and I are working on trying to change the picture. I like the list, and linked to it on my blog. But as a 30+ year educator, I will add this to the mix - I have said all of these things multiple times to my students over the years. The question may be equally as much about who is listening, and what they are listening to at the time, as it is about what is being said.
  • Travis Bedard · 2 months ago
    I think this is a sidebar to a holistic theatre training program. I think curriculum can cover the "business" portion of it. And the thrust of what a Loughlin/Walters curriculum will cover a large portion of the rest (let's not pretend I haven't been listening for the last three years). As I said up top, these are things I wanted to hear over a beer.

    My particular program was exactly what I needed but the turnover in my five years led to my not having a faculty mentor. I didn't have someone who'd walked this path to talk me through the first steps.

    And I think you're absolutely right in your second point: I don't know that I would have listened. I am notoriously hard headed, and I was 21 at the time ;)

    So aside from going to SETC (and I'm not) How do we get to hear about a revamp?
  • scottwalters · 2 months ago
    Tom and I will be starting a blog soon devoted to revising the theatre curriculum, and it is our hope that we'll be doing a podcast (or videocast) as well. And that's breaking news...
  • Travis Bedard · 2 months ago
    Perfect.
  • Mikela · 2 months ago
    :) Good list. Who you know is important- but more so, who knows you! Your reputation can precede you- if that's good or bad, depends on you.
    Bottoms up!
  • Kate Foy · 2 months ago
    Cool stuff. I really like this, and am posting it up to a class of graduating actors from my Uni ... thanks!
  • Sterling Lynch · 2 months ago
    Great list!

    It's pretty rare for any list like this to highlight something valuable with each point but you do.

    Given my own line of thinking these days, I give special marks to 4 & 5 but depending on my mood, I might easily give special marks to any of the others.

    I think if this list makes the rounds, it could be very helpful for a lot of people -- whatever their career stage.
  • fishbowlmuse · 2 months ago
    Great list. I completely wish someone had told me that stuff as well. It seems so obvious now.
    I'm not sure if knowing it earlier saves you any struggle, but it probably would have saved some wasted time.
    I especially like #10. :)
  • scottwalters · 2 months ago
    Perfect. Tom Loughlin and I ARE trying to create a theatre curriculum -- and this is a good starting point.
  • Derek Kolluri · 2 months ago
    Getting to sit down to a beer with a professor is a reward earned by displaying a working knowledge and practice of the elements listed here.
  • Derek Kolluri · 2 months ago
    Or, the beer comes when the student asks the prof to meet. This is just another thing one might have benefited from learning... 11. If you want something, ask for it.
  • Andrea · 1 month ago
    Hi there, love your list, and couldn't agree more. At the end you mentioned a good friend and teacher of mine, Nancy Saklad, and it is so cool that you know and worked with her as well. She is wonderful, always has a wise word.