Penn State Centre Stage — November 2025
Director: Jenny Lamb
PSM: PJ Jobson
Scenic Design: Valentine Pesola
Costume Design: Charlene Gross
Sound Design: Anna Quigley
Lighting Design: Valentine Pesola
For my first Production Stage Manager credit at Penn State University, I worked on a movement-focused production of Antigone, translated by Anne Carson. This show featured a chorus who never left the stage, as well as difficult and intimate choreographed movement. I was working with a cast of 17, a 3 member directing team, 1 ASM and one PA, as well as a photographer cataloging our process, a classics professor, and a dramaturg.
All but two of the cast members onstage each night were barefoot, which meant that making sure the tiered stage was clean and free of anything that could hurt them was one of the biggest priorities.
During the show run, due to a slew of different circumstances, we had multiple put-in rehearsals for our understudies and swings. One night we even had an assistant director swing in as an ensemble member due to the amount of cast members who were out. We were also the first Penn State Centre Stage show in 5 years to do a Student Matinee. Two of our performances also had talkbacks post-show for students of the Classics and English departments.
My view from the booth. I was relying on the video monitor (seen behind me) to see who was onstage in darkness, as well as who was entering and exiting from the doors directly below me.
All photo credits to Sophie Sejarto or myself.
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