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

by Sandra Strawn (Author), Lisa Schlenker (Author)

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 Biography

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.