The Properties Director’s Handbook: Managing a Prop Shop for Theatre

About this book

You may be familiar with how to hang lights build scenery or run a high school/college/community theatre but few are familiar with the nitty-gritty details of being a properties director or prop master. There has been an utter lack of information on this topic in the market until now. Sandy Strawn brings together her incredible 30 years of prop making and managing in this concise guide to managing a prop shop and show built. She skillfully explains planning pre-production production and post-production procedures budgeting collaborations with other stagehands and planning a prop shop from the layout of the spaces to the health and safety protocols for shop planning and workplace management. With this how-to book youll be able to keep your prop shop in tip-top shape.