Stage Manager


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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James Wall on the basic role of a stage manager for television
Stewart MacGregory on the duties of a stage coordinator 
Stewart MacGregory on how the advent of color affected his job as stage coordinator 
James Wall on being the first African-American stage manager on Broadway
Who talked about this profession

Robert Caminiti

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Robert Caminiti on the difference between stage managing and being an assistant director

Charles Cappleman

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Charles Cappleman on his duties as a stage manager, and on working on Climax! and Playhouse 90

Stewart MacGregory

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Stewart MacGregory on the duties of a stage coordinator 
Stewart MacGregory on how the advent of color affected his job as stage coordinator 

Ira Skutch

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Ira Skutch on the craft of staging managing for television, and on stage managing Hour Glass
Ira Skutch on becoming a stage manager for NBC
Ira Skutch on his duties as a stage manager

James Wall

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James Wall on being the first African-American stage manager on Broadway
James Wall on the basic role of a stage manager for television
James Wall on the importance of collaborating with the director as a television stage manager
James Wall on how television stage managers are assigned jobs
James Wall on how a stage manager is different from an assistant director in television
James Wall on advice to a young television stage manager
James Wall on how Vaudeville, nightclubs, and the Army prepared him to be a television stage manager
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"If a director is calling the shot and setting up a shot, he expects that to happen at the time he calls for it. The stage manager has to see that that happens at the time the director calls for it, so he’s an extension of the director out on the floor. If the director could divide himself into two parts, he would be a stage manager and a director." - James Wall, Stage Manager/Performer

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