One fall afternoon, in a meeting that should have been routine, I watched a newer director go quiet. I knew the look. They had an idea. A good one, probably. The kind that turns a flat revving engine into something that purrs and pours. And across the table sat people who had been around the production bends. People who had tackled a host of challenges before this director ever walked into the building. Those stripes are…
Read MoreIt's August. If you are a spring producer, the show has been struck for months and you know exactly what this stretch of the calendar feels like, even if nobody has ever handed you a word for it. I call it load-out syndrome. Still lit, nothing running. The power is on, the lights are up, and there is no show. You are technically working. You are answering things. But the engine that ran you from January through the gates is idling, and some part of you has not fully…
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