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Correspondence
If experience is such a great teacher, why do the lessons always seem late?
—Anonymous
As stage manager, you will have little need to write extensive correspondence, but you will want to consider writing a letter to the next stage manager, critiques, letters of recommendation, and thank you notes.
A LETTER TO THE NEXT STAGE MANAGER
Turnover of stage managers is frequent. Sometimes they are there for a season only, and next season a new person is holding the clipboard, starting anew, running into the same problems that you ran into last season. Sometimes stage managers are replaced in the middle of a season, and sometimes a theater has a different stage manager for every single production.
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