A Stage Manager's Field Guide to Community-Engaged Work: When You're Ready (and Even When You're Not)

By Evangeline Rose Whitlock

A Stage Manager's Field Guide to Community-Engaged Work is a personal essay collection that offers an expansive definition of community-engaged theatre and what stage management of this work looks like in practice.

A memoir-textbook hybrid, this book is a practical and experiential guide through process-oriented, collaborative, and community-engaged work, which often departs from traditional step-by-step methodologies. The theatrical process for the stage manager moves through phases and subphases of pre-production, rehearsals, technical rehearsals, previews, and performances. The text travels the road of these phases through stories from the field spanning pre-production to closing night. Each chapter employs personal anecdotes to explore themes, ideas, and philosophies about stage management for community-engaged and process-oriented work.

The text is ideal for students and instructors of stage management, along with anyone who seeks a new path in this unconventional field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032896582
• ISBN13: 9781032896588
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages