The Properties Director's Toolkit: Managing a Prop Shop for Theatre

This book explains and provides templates for organizing and managing a prop shop, from pre-production organization to production processes, budgeting, and collaborations with other production areas. It explores how to plan, organize, and maintain a prop shop for safe and efficient production work.

Author: Sandra Strawn, Lisa Schlenker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/26/2018
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781138084155
ISBN10: 1138084158
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | Stagecraft & Scenography

About the Author

Sandra J. Strawn has enjoyed over four decades of theatre prop and design experience highlighted by six seasons at Actor's Theatre of Louisville and five seasons at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Leading the properties production/design curriculum and designing for the Mainstage theatre at UW-Milwaukee for the past twenty-seven seasons, Sandra recently retired as Professor Emeritus.

Lisa Schlenker has been the properties director for Skylight Music Theatre for the past twenty-seven years.　 Graduating with an MFA in Theatre Technology from UW-Madison (1988) her prolific scenic design and prop career is highlighted by work with Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Northern Sky Theatre, the Florentine Opera, and Milwaukee Opera Theatre. 　

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