Mia D. Osherow, MFA
Equity Stage Manager
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Mia D. Osherow
 updated:
18-Aug-2007

Upper Reaches Theatre

Just a few months ago, Dave and I founded Upper Reaches Theatre, a new theatre organization that is based out of Long Beach, Cali. The website is often updated, since it's currently serving as our virtual office.

In October of 2007, we will present a series of four spankin' new scripts. Check the website for upcoming events in your area!

Cornerstone Theater Company

I will be returning to Cornerstone Theater Company to stage manage the Literature to Life show: WARRIORS DON'T CRY. We performed it this past winter for the students in Los Angeles Public Schools, and we will remount it this Fall. It's a play based on a memoir by Melba Patillo Beals. It focuses on the integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957. It's been a wonderful process and I'm enjoying the team and the script.

South Coast Repertory

From December 2007-May 2008, I will be the stage manager on SCR's Eddy Mini-tour. Each weekday, we will visit a different school and perform the 1-hour long, educational musical. Past shows' themes have ranged from water pollution to U.S. history.

Since September of 2006, I have been working as a Production Assistant at South Coast Repertory.

The responsibilities of a PA at SCR are not unlike those of a Deck- or Assistant Stage Manager. The main difference is that I am not a member of The Professional Union for Actors and Stage Managers, Actors' Equity.

In addition to helping to run NOTHING SACRED, I will serve as ASM on two shows: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and our annual Christmas show about Mexican holiday traditions: LA POSADA MAGICA.

All in all, I am excited about working as a professional stage manager and am happy to be able to focus on my career, after a challenging three years of graduate work.

Past Projects

Cornerstone Theater Company Institute 3

From July 9 through August 6, I took part in Cornerstone Theater Company's I-3. We spent a busy month in San Fransisco, and worked with USF and an exciting group of artists. We produced LETHE, an original script by San Francisco playwright Octavio Solis. We created this piece with with the community of seniors and their caregivers to bring this story to life.

We performed to boisterous full houses on August 3, 4, and 5, 2006 at USF's Presentation Theater.

Thesis Project

Spring Quarter is upon us and I am working diligently on my thesis paper project. I've decided to take advantage of the fact that I have had the opportunity to work professionally at so many varied companies during the last year and write about my experiences. I will reflect on the processes and the culmination of my paper will include my creation of a new-and-improved Stage Management Internshp Program. Graduation is in June, so I'd better get back to my writing.

South Coast Repertory www.scr.org

During the '04-'05 season, I worked as Stage Management Intern on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. This was the final Segerstrom Stage (mainstage) show of the 2004-2005 season. I'd worked the production since rehearsals began on the 18th of April. As the Intern, I served as second assistant stage manger on the deck. My responsibilities included: pre- and post-rehearsal setup, assisting with company calls, and overseeing 'Line School.' The show ran through the 26th of June.

This fall, I worked as Intern on the Julianne Argyros Stage (second stage) on a Joe Penhall script called Dumb Show. David Emmes, Producing Artistic Director, provided the stage direction for this British Comedy. As a Stage Management Intern in this venue, I had more responsibility.

Immediately following the closing of Dumb Show, I was offered (and accepted) a Production Assistant position on the world premiere of Jeff Whitty's new piece The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. This was a workshopped script at SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival in May of 2005. The show was wonderful, complex, and exciting in all aspects. As the Production Assistant, I was responsible for running the stage deck. We had moving, tracked scenery, many fly pieces, and a crew in addition to the Intern and myself. It was incredibly challenging to coordinate all the pieces, but also very rewarding.

Opera Pacific www.operapacific.org

This past October, a mere two days after Dumb Show closed at South Coast Repertory, I headed uptown to work as Production Assistant on Opera Pacific's Tosca. This was my first experience working opera and it was like nothing I ever experienced. My responsibilities included overseeing the adult and child chorus members and the supernumeraries. I was also responsible for cueing some of the entrances. Opera is different from theatre in many ways; one being that the stage management and/or backstage staff is responsible for ensuring proper timing of singers' entrances.

TheatreWorksUSA/NYC ww.theatreworksusa.org

Walk Two Moons ran at The Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher street, in The Village, from July 7-August 14. TheatreWorks/USA, America's largest and most prolific professional not-for-profit theatre for young and family audiences, has been creating and instructing since 1961. TheatreWorks/USA has just branched out to become the first Off-Broadway, resident, family theatre company and they're calling it TheatreWorks/NYC. As opposed to the national and local tours on which TW/USA is based, TW/NYC will now occupy The Lucille Lortel Theatre for the entirety of its 2005-2006 season.