Back in December of 2018, I did an interview with Alina Sergachov, a graduate folklore student at Memorial University of Newfoundland working on an occupational folklife project about theatre.
The goal of her project is to raise an awareness of the general public about different career options in the theatre. It takes the work of many people to create a theatre performance, but most of them don't get recognition. People always ask children what they want to be when they grow up. However, most of the kids don't know about the existence of various theatre career options such as dramaturges, child guardians, stage managers, flypeople, fight directors, set and prop builders, stagehands, lighting designers, etc. How can you aspire to a career one doesn't know exists?
