nization), The New Jersey Guitar
and Mandolin society, Hudson
Shakespeare Company, Hackensack Dance Crew, The Hackensack
African American Civics Association, R-Way Productions, and
Hackensack High School
What is your method to deal
with the needs of all of these
organizations? As you can imagine the needs of these different
events vary vastly from event to
event so I have to be ready to adjust and help with all of the technical needs and artistic needs for
each event. One of the hardest
things that I have to deal with is
scheduling all of these programs,
and I wanted to be open for any
arts organization to have a chance
to use the facility. So I devised a
New Jersey Stage
system to let all groups regardless
of the artistic discipline to have
a fair chance to have their event
produced. I started with the format used for the NFL draft.
First: There are 3 to 4 “resident”
companies all other companies
are call “fringe” companies. Their
tenure as a resident company is 4
years, when the 4 years is up they
can either move to a larger facility or they stay with us, but if they
stay with us they go back to being a fringe theater company. Every April we hold a meeting and
any arts organization wishing to
use the facility is welcome to attend. At the meeting we go over
rules and regulations as well as
some issues that may have come
up during the previous year’s
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