It Starts
As a new chapter of my life has recently begun, I started to feel inspired to keep a blog again. I used to be obsessed and stopped for about a year and half, but now I've started again with a clean slate.
This will be filled with tales from the world of work, love, life in the city, theatre, comedy, and everything else that happens in this crazy world.
Life is starting to make sense now and I have a career that looks like it actually has a future, so things are looking up indeed.
But...on to what I'm actually doing with myself.
My day job now is working for a company called Group Sales Box Office (http://www.BestofBroadway.com). I started there in early August. My title is "Group Tour Manager" and we are yet to know what that really means. My company's primary focus is the sale of Broadway tickets to a group sales market. However, I work specifically in our Tour & Travel Department (there are only 2 of us), so I do most of my work with tour operators who are planning trips to bring various groups from all over the country to NYC. Additionally, I'm the liaison between our company and several restaurants and attractions in the city that we have partnerships with.
Generally speaking, this job will involve a decent amount of travel (to conferences, to visit clients, etc.) and a LOT of free theater. Always a good perk. Plus it's salaried, with benefits, and a normal person schedule (M-F 9-5:30). Amazing. On the free theater side of things, I've already seen several shows in my short time there including: Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Les Miserables, Chicago, and Forbidden Broadway. I'll be seeing Roundabout's The Ritz this weekend and Mary Poppins in the near future. We see most shows when they're in previews, which is awesome, as we have to talk about them all day to our clients. I love it.
I'm surprisingly in love with the tourism and travel industry and went to my first real networking event last night. It was a "Business Card Exchange" hosted by NYC & Company at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. These events are fancy, with tons of food, open bars, and LOTS of schmoozing. I'm sure they'll get tiring down the line, but right now I'm really loving getting acquainted with the people I'll be working with in our industry. There are a lot of exceptionally interesting people out there doing really exciting work. Here's a picture of my boss (though she'd probably hate that I'm referring to her as that) Anandini and I at the event last night...
The job has also led me to meet some rather important (and good to know) people in the Broadway world...but we'll talk more about that later.
In addition to this full-time real life job, I've taken an unpaid position as Production Stage Manager of the company New Media Comedy, LLC. They've been around for awhile, but are really starting to make their mark on the world now. They produce primarily filmed sketch content for various internet providers, but also do some live shows. They also produce a few of the larger comedy festivals in NYC including the upcoming New York Underground Comedy Festival and the Harlem Comedy Festival. Find us on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/newmediacomedy.
I'm having a ball with this group attending writers meetings, rehearsing for a live show on October 1st, and planning the film shoots. It's something totally unexpected in my life, but I adore it.
So. Things are good. Very good. More soon, I promise. =)
This will be filled with tales from the world of work, love, life in the city, theatre, comedy, and everything else that happens in this crazy world.
Life is starting to make sense now and I have a career that looks like it actually has a future, so things are looking up indeed.
But...on to what I'm actually doing with myself.
My day job now is working for a company called Group Sales Box Office (http://www.BestofBroadway.com). I started there in early August. My title is "Group Tour Manager" and we are yet to know what that really means. My company's primary focus is the sale of Broadway tickets to a group sales market. However, I work specifically in our Tour & Travel Department (there are only 2 of us), so I do most of my work with tour operators who are planning trips to bring various groups from all over the country to NYC. Additionally, I'm the liaison between our company and several restaurants and attractions in the city that we have partnerships with.
Generally speaking, this job will involve a decent amount of travel (to conferences, to visit clients, etc.) and a LOT of free theater. Always a good perk. Plus it's salaried, with benefits, and a normal person schedule (M-F 9-5:30). Amazing. On the free theater side of things, I've already seen several shows in my short time there including: Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Les Miserables, Chicago, and Forbidden Broadway. I'll be seeing Roundabout's The Ritz this weekend and Mary Poppins in the near future. We see most shows when they're in previews, which is awesome, as we have to talk about them all day to our clients. I love it.
I'm surprisingly in love with the tourism and travel industry and went to my first real networking event last night. It was a "Business Card Exchange" hosted by NYC & Company at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. These events are fancy, with tons of food, open bars, and LOTS of schmoozing. I'm sure they'll get tiring down the line, but right now I'm really loving getting acquainted with the people I'll be working with in our industry. There are a lot of exceptionally interesting people out there doing really exciting work. Here's a picture of my boss (though she'd probably hate that I'm referring to her as that) Anandini and I at the event last night...
The job has also led me to meet some rather important (and good to know) people in the Broadway world...but we'll talk more about that later.
In addition to this full-time real life job, I've taken an unpaid position as Production Stage Manager of the company New Media Comedy, LLC. They've been around for awhile, but are really starting to make their mark on the world now. They produce primarily filmed sketch content for various internet providers, but also do some live shows. They also produce a few of the larger comedy festivals in NYC including the upcoming New York Underground Comedy Festival and the Harlem Comedy Festival. Find us on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/newmediacomedy.
I'm having a ball with this group attending writers meetings, rehearsing for a live show on October 1st, and planning the film shoots. It's something totally unexpected in my life, but I adore it.
So. Things are good. Very good. More soon, I promise. =)
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