The Properties Director's Toolkit Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication for Prop Shop Management in the Theatre and Performing Arts by Sandra J. Strawn

The Properties Director's Toolkit is a concise guide to managing a prop shop and show build. Sandra Strawn and Lisa Schlenker skillfully explain and provide templates for organizing and managing a prop shop, from pre-production organization to production processes, budgeting, and collaborations with the other production areas. This thoroughly revised second edition includes interviews with prop directors and collaborators as well as two additional chapters: one exploring more deeply the role of the Properties Director as a creative collaborator and one on managing co-productions. Individual chapters were expanded to include prop management for opera, musical theatre, film, Broadway, community/academic theatre, union and commercial shops in the evolution of titles and job duties, onl management processes for dgtl information sharing and collaboration, and detailing in more depth and with examples, photos, and forms the foundational processes of prop production and management. The Toolkit also explores how to plan, organize, and maintain a prop shop for safe and efficient production work. -- Publisher's description