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August 03, 2005

Slogging Along

Many of you know that I am at a loose end right now. I'm preparing for the OSF Rex Raybold auditions which will be sometime in late September-early October. And I've been called back for the Interplayers production of Romeo & Juliet, but the show isn't until next spring, and the callbacks are also sometime in September. I've also told my friend Yo, who leaves tomorrow for her new job as the Artistic Director for Longview Stageworks (I'm still in denial that she's leaving Moscow for good) that I'm happy to audition for her as well.

Also, the woman I assisted in the Intermediate Acting class I worked with last spring has suggested that I fill in for her occasionally in the acting classes she will be teaching at LCSC this fall. And I've informed my friends who will still be teaching speech at UI that I'm happy to cover for them if they have crises or conflicts that require them to miss class (family emergencies, illness, etc.) just to keep my hand in.

Anyhow. On Monday I ran into my former supervisor in the Communications Department. She is the person who put together the whole UI Comm 101 website and curriculum. She is also the person who recommended me for the GSA Teaching Excellence Award that I received last spring. And she asked if I'd heard from someone at SCC-Pullman. No. Because she had recommended me when he called to ask if she knew any people who were qualified to teach speech.

Unfortunately, the department there wants people who have Masters degrees in Communications. I don't. I have an MFA in Theatre Arts, a BA in Theatre Arts, and a BA in Comm with a minor in Sociology (from a very good school, I might add). But no Masters in Comm. However, she sent me his number anyway, and I left a message in the hopes that they will not find anyone with the Comm MA and that I can convince them that a Comm BA coupled with my experience and MFA will be the ideal combination.

I am terrified that they will say yes. Not because I don't think I can do it, I'm quite confident that I can do it, but because I think it may mean that I have to read a new (to me) text and develop a syllabus in 2-3 weeks. Yeep.

But I really want to teach, and this would be a way for me to keep teaching while I am stuck here.

In related news, I'm brushing up my resume so I can submit it to a former instructor who also happens to be the Director of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Collections. I'm hoping he might have some paid projects he can toss my way. There's just not a lot of stuff here for people who are already qualified to do more than entry-level work. At least not that I've seen.

Really, what I would like to do while I am here (and I am just tossing this out to the Universe) is teach, and maybe be a part-time assistant to some artist or writer who needs one. I am a fantastic administrative assistant, and I am not just blowing my own horn. Before I came to the UI, I was the assistant to the CEO of a small interactive marketing agency in Portland, and she misses me so much that she actually called to see if she could fly me back to Portland for a couple of days to train her latest admin because even a full-time person can't manage to do what I did in 20 hours a week.

Surely there's an artist or two out there who needs my organizational skills to make life easier. Maybe I should talk to my next-door neighbor about it... She's a very involved member of the local arts community.

But still, keep your fingers crossed for me about the whole teaching thing.

Posted by sally at August 3, 2005 09:49 AM

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