Scott Parker &
Stage Seminars
Mentor Membership 

On May 28th, a group of founding members, joined me to help build this mentoring program. With their help, I will be building a resource designed to help those who teach kids to perform on stage. Whether it be acting, singing, playing in the orchestra, or dancing, we’re building a group of educators and theatrical professionals to collaborate to assist educators to train their kids in both design and technical production.

Some of our founders are teachers themselves looking for this type of help. Other founding members are working industry professionals who have the desire to help those charged with training our next generations of young theater production designers and technicians.

One of my videos to attract our Founding Members

I plan to open our doors to new members sometime in the fall.

Two options will be open to new members.

  1. Monthly at 24.95
  2. yearly at $249.50
    1. Thus, ten months plus two months for free.
    2. Bonus: yearly members will enjoy a 50% discount to attend our annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday all-day lighting workshop.

Below is part of my pitch when I opened this project to founding members. I post it here to show my thinking.

Here’s the backstory…

For several years I’ve been presenting the Stage Lighting Super Saturday workshops. I oftenStage Lighting Super Saturday get emails asking, “when is the next one?” or “when will it be closer to where I live?” or “is there a way to go deeper with this content?”

Over the past year, I’ve been getting private messages from people who have reached out with questions like “can you help me figure out this design?” or “can you help me with Vectorworks?” or “can you make a video about audio systems?”

Prior to this, I hadn’t taken the steps to build a space for our community to grow together throughout the entire year.

Of course, it’s something I wanted. I had just never had the time.

But the more questions I got like this, the more my wheels began turning.

I started to see a place where we could…

DMX with Gary FailsUnpack all the information that has been presented by the experts at Super Saturday. Even better would be to curate design and tech presentations and then analyze and decode all the information as a group.

or

Have teachers come away with lesson plans that have been created during live group meetings. Questions about how one might present the info can be answered by myself and other members who have taught the subject matter before.

or even…

Establish a repository of basic stage designs that can be shared amongst the group members.thumb CarouselLineSketchColor3 Along with the designs might come actual construction drawings for your students or parent volunteers to follow.

As I said, it’s still raw.

But you see the potential, right?

I can’t stop thinking about where a community dedicated to teaching tech theater could lead us in 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years from now.

For those of you exploring CTE programs, this could be very helpful in aligning your programs to meet the requirements.

Best, Scott