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Summary: New members, new staff, elections,
producers & crew needed for various shows, Finer Noble Gases cast
announced, and more!
December 5th, 2004
Scarce Minutes by Tom Kiesche (click here to skip to Wuchte's
minutes)
On this dark, cold and possibly the wettest of meetings in 2004 many things were discussed, many votes were counted, and many positions changed hands. Oh meeting of December 5th, you shall long be remembered by those of us that attended. Unofficially, thirty-six people, attended. Twenty-three were company members at the start of the meeting, and thirty-one company members by the end of it. An interesting tidbit of information: There were two completely new to Sacred Fools people. One came after reading a Backstage Article. And another came from a posting on Craigslist. So, my advice, keep talking about our company… And keep inviting people to join in.
The long held SAA position changed hands from the always prize giving Andy Wolf to the always loving Julie Mullen. While Ruth Silveria graciously bowed out of the membership department, Kathi Copeland was gloriously voted in. Ruth Silveria narrowly overtook the literary position, and the next AC for Sacred Fools was announced. And as was earlier mentioned, eight new members of Sacred Fools were voted in. So, please welcome Sacred Fools' newest members: Anthony Backman, Jenelle Riley, Tenya Cleveland, Julie Mullen, Hans Gelpke, Becky Harrison, Josh
Petroski and John Mitchell. Also joining us at Sacred Fools are several beautiful brand new lighting instruments, secured by a new member to our tech team, Jason Mullen, and donated by ETC.
Julie Mullen, Kathi Copeland, Ruth Silveria all ran unopposed for their positions. But the candidates for AC included: Jenelle Riley, CM
Gonzalez, Joe Jordan, Padraic Duffy and David LM Mcintyre.
Discussions by Candidates, Questions and Answers, and anything discussed during new member voting will be left out of these minutes. With only one exception: When David and Padraic, the two current AC members, were asked what they would do differently or what they learned… Both replied with similar answers… Both didn’t realize how quickly they had to get programming going… The reason included this in these notes, is for our future AC’s to possibly learn from.
Current Artistic Committee (Padraic Duffy, Paul Plunkett & David LM
Mcintyre)
Still looking for Late Night and Dark Night shows for the March-June Cycles. They are also interested in one night programming, and any ideas members have for special
programming.
New Managing Director (John Mitchell)
Meeting with possible Marketing Directors. The Board’s meeting with possible Development Directors. SF now a member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. MD and Board has meeting with Councilman. Added a 2nd Production Manager to Sacred Fools to help with workload… Becky Harrison. We now have two new Technical Directors… Aaron Francis and Kate Morrison. And added a 2nd Master Electrician Jason Mullen.
Among changes… Formally changing most “Committees” to “Departments.” And will be looking for members to staff departments they’re drawn to.
MD will be talking with members one on one. Wanting to get all involved in various departments.
Coming up on 10th year anniversary of Sacred Fools! In a couple years from now, it’ll be here!
New Co-Production Manager (Becky Harrison)
Inventory and Cleaning Dates will be announced soon.
Strike of current set, on December 19th.
House Managers (Brandon Clark & Ruth Silveira)
Shop thru the Amazon Link. Buy Sacred Fools stuff on the website. Sign up for box shifts.
Comments on the professional parking guys… Email Brandon.
New and Current Literary Managers (David LM Mcintyre & Ruth Silveira)
Ivona… (slated for production) reading date has been changed, new date Thursday December 16th at SF at 8PM.
David LM will continue with publishing work at SF… Looking for photos from Swine Show and Catching Hell.
Publicity (Philip Sokoloff)
LA TIMES – Doing spread on SF and Dean Cameron.
Jewish Journal – Doing spread on Brandon Clark and Underneath the Lintel.
Current Shows
See Spam Scam Scam!
See Quiet Please!
See Underneath the Lintel!
See Ten Tops!
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Love Tapes Jan 20th Opens (In rehearsals now)
Needs: Running Crew. Stage Manager. Techies. Rehearsal Stage Manager. And needs to borrow a MARSHALL STACK & A LARGE SCREEN PLASMA TV.
Finer Noble Gases Opens Jan 13th!
Cast includes: Joe Jordan, Brandon Clark, Maggie Marion, Steve Paice, Scott Thewes and one more tba.
Needs: Running Crew. Stage Manager. Techies.
My Uncle Sam (following cycle)
Auditions Friday and Saturday coming… Callbacks on Sunday. Loads of auditions, so sign up NOW! Also needs Lead Producer.
Ivona… (cycle after My Uncle Sam)
Meeting with designers.
Reading on the 16th at SF.
David LM is looking to get word out the Polish community. The show was written by a Famous Polish Playwright.
Oh and in case you were wondering, the next AC is Jenelle Riley, Padraic Duffy, and Joe Jordan.
SACRED
FOOLS MINUTES 12/5/04
35 Total in attendance
23 Active Company Members
(31 after the voting)
SAA
Introductions of all
present
ELECTIONS
Nominations:
SAA – Julie Mullen nominated
LITERARY
MANAGER – Ruth Silviera
MEMCOM
– Kathi Copeland
AC
– Padraic, CM, Jordan, Mcintyre, Jenelle Riley
AC
Question and Answer Period
Jenelle
– been around past year. All or
nothing gal. Want to commit fully.
Frustrations I have experienced want to help solve.
Good listener. Love theater
in general. Dubya, not her cup of
tea, but love what it did for the theater.
Jessie
– what do you mean by member shows
Jenelle
– try to utilize as many company members as possible.
Try and make some hard evidence of benefits to membership
Kiesche
– Picking shows that advance you personally or for the company.
Jenelle
– I will not be proposing anything if elected.
I see it as a conflict of interest.
CM
– No personal advancement. It is
shows that people want to come see that excite me.
I want the company to be behind the project.
Duffy
- Tough to rank all the qualifications we go through picking a show.
Not against proposing my own show. Unless
it is not ready to mount etc… trust the AC to make good decisions.
Mcintyre
– (Minute taker closed file by accident momentarily and missed this portion)
Joe
– If something excites me I will propose it.
Want to know what the company likes.
If there is strong company support for a show that will hold more weight.
In past, sometimes proposal were not ready to mount.
Very complex to make decisions.
John
Mitchell – how do you feel about programming an entire season? And what is
your vision?
Joe
– I like it, but my experience is I would want to work on 1/2 a year season
rather than a year long season. Year
long brings difficulties. Not
everyone is ready to propose. It’s
a timing thing. Vision
– capitalize on being live theater. Unlike
what you will see anywhere else. It’s
live. Viscerally entertaining.
Mcintyre
– I don’t believe the structure of the company is ready for a season.
Vision
– I’m proud of the theatricality. Optimize
the live event. More new works and
new voices. Continuing to search
for new and contemporary works.
Duffy
– trepidation, but could be a good thing.
We could definitely set a 6 month season. Packaging projects and not wait for proposals.
Vision
- Set the seeds for artists. Reason
we are here is to do challenging work.
CM
– tricky to schedule in advance. Vision
– more stuff done/created by the company.
I want to give people amazing things.
Jenelle
– not against programming as far as possible.
Leave some slots open to plan as we get closer late/dark projects.
Brandon
Clark – Do finances enter into decisions?
Duffy
– not for one show cuz we never really pick one at a time. Balance when looking at the grand scheme.
Joe
– absolutely a consideration
Mike
lanahan – example of one play in the past 2 years that exemplifies your
vision.
Jenelle
– Don Juan
Joe
– Uncle tom’s cabin
Duffy
– Underneath the lintel. Beautiful
and simple to do. Crazy and
challenging but keep the heart there.
Mcintyre
– cirque picnique
CM
– Peer Gynt. Epic. Felt like a large story.
Impressed we were able to do so much.
Kathi
– what would you do differently than last year?
David/Duffy….and what do you think were your greatest strengths and
weaknesses.
Mcintyre
– didn’t realize how fast I needed to get going.
We took a while before we started to put pressure on ourselves.
I know already that I need to have projects ready to start ASAP.
Strength – proud of the choices we made.
Weaknesses – pushing toward getting things set earlier.
Duffy
– strength – still constantly involved in our work.
Met at least once a week. Always
looking at things and being fully engaged.
Weaknesses – several times we had to announce something and then take
it back. Making sure things are
set.
Set
to vote!
Julie
Mullen new SAA
Ruth
Silviera new Literary
Kathi
new Memcom
Jenelle,
Padraic, Joe new AC
OLD
AC (Padraic, Mcintyre, Plunkett) - still would like some more producers.
All of us are helping produce my uncle sam
MD
– John Mitchell – meeting with folks for Marketing.
Board interviewing Development Director. Meeting with Sylvain and Garcetti. Joined Hollywood chamber of commerce.
Want
to
move forward. Looking ahead to our
10th year anniversary. Office
hours starting in January. Bridge
the gap between management and artistic. Open
communications.
New
staff:
Tech
Director – Aaron and Kate Morrison
Master
Electrician –
Jason Mullen
PM
– becky Harrison & Peter Mattsson
Production
Manager (Becky) – need to speak with Peter.
House
(Brandon) – new people keep signing up.
Any parking lot issues talk to me.
Literary
(Mcintyre) – reading after company meeting.
Reading
of Ivona Thursday December 16th
Paul
– should david continue with the publishing thing.
David
– yes, will continue with publishing
Development
(Julie Mullen) – Sign up for Ralph’s club percentage
Publicity
(Phil Sokoloff) – LA Times article is imminent.
Pic of Brandon in the Jewish press
Mitchell
– several new lighting instruments for free!
Wuchte
– suggest we do big clean on weekends. Mitchell
– yes
Sondra
– is phone tree still necessary?
Andy
– will reevaluate with Julie Mullen
Spam
Scam – come see it.
Quiet,
please – spooky. Another
radio interview.
My
Uncle Sam – Auditions this coming weekend.
Fri and Sat, callbacks on Sunday. Still
need lead producer.
Wuchte
– are the designers for Sam being paid?
AC
– not that we are aware of
Lintel
– return engagement. Thanks to
the AC for giving me the chance.
10
Tops – December 6th. Aldrich,
Jen and Aaron.
Love
Tapes – need lots of run crew. Stage
Manager needed.
Need
plasma TV, marshall stacks (speakers), video camera
Finer
Noble – Joe Jordan, Brandon, Maggie Marion, Steve Pace, Scott Thewes,
Need
stage manager definitely by January!
Need
run crew to turn over the set between Love Tape/Finer Noble Gases
Ivona
Princess – starting to talk design
Next
meeting December 19th
Minutes taken by Tom Kiesche & John Wuchte, and edited and
posted to the web by Corey Klemow.
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