Project Newsletter
Camberra Clinger
Kaysville, UT.
Theatre Arts
EDGE Leadership Track
Producing a Play: Playful, Passionate, Poignant
For my EDGE Project, I was interested in doing something that linked my creativity to an organized leadership role. That’s how I settled on using the Leadership track to produce a play. As a Theatre Major, this project not only adds to my creative experience and resume but also allows me to get involved in my community by building something from the ground up. As producer, I was in charge of selecting an impactful script, organizing funding, assembling a cast and crew and scheduling rehearsal and performances. Producing a play was also an opportunity for me to explore a side of my future career industry that I didn’t know much about.
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This project worked really well for me linked to the leadership track because as producer you are very much in charge of leading the team. Having good communication skills, organization skills and ability to take initiative is only the basis of taking on such a large role. I feel like the steps taken as part of the EDGE courses truly allowed me to step outside and analyze my role to truly make this opportunity the best it could be. There is leadership in a lot of instances inside the career world and outside. There is also a lot of learning to work with people. I feel my giving myself this opportunity to further explore that made me more confident in myself as well as my place in my future career field.
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The inspiration for this project came from me wanting to produce my own art for a while now. In our department, opportunities like this one are sparse and they often go to people who have more focused majors and already come from a lot of background experience. That’s why if you’re wanting to get experience but you don't have the exclusive qualifications, you often have to make it for yourself. This forces you to work harder and also gives you the opportunity to take a lot of risks and truly make something that you can be proud of. I am very proud of the work I created with this project.
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One of the challenges I encountered in completing my project was including people that I'm close to in my creative team. I chose my roommate and close friend to direct my project and that complicated how I went about presenting my vision. It also impacted how truthful I was able to get when it came to trying to put it all out there and create something great. I think next time I would go with someone I'm not as close to so I can be more constructive with my criticisms without feeling bad. That is what I would say was my biggest regret.
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I truly hope my project benefited people more than myself. I know there are just as many people like me who feel they've been unable to express their talents and use their talent to the full of its abilities and I hope that those people were able to be inspired by this project. I hope those people were grateful for the opportunity a project like this one can give them. I hope it inspired them to go out and create their own projects, ones that in turn, can inspire somebody else to do the same.
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This project benefited me because I learned a lot about a side of theater that I didn't know much about. This project forced me to take more initiative. It forced me to take more risks and to put a lot of my insecurities on the back burner. I did all of this because I wanted the show to be the best that it could be. I had to be fearless and I'm grateful that I got the opportunity to do that.
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" I feel really connected to this project, more than I thought I might. I want to create new forms of theatre. More honesty and vulnerablity, a reflection of how I feel inside"
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"Yes, you look lovely, like a young Bill Cosby."
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