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We are a small department, so all of our actors are techies and all the techie actors... therefore we know what the other side has to go through on every show so we all just go through the pain together and don't fight much.

in our class, we've got 60 kids. people who are in the show tech on their offnights


so it's like we can't hate each other
because we all love each other too much.

One of our Techies also works the lights. Last year, I would be up on stage acting and he'd narrow the lights and shine it right in my eyes. Finally I jumped off the stage, ran up to the Techie and threw my glove at him.

You got it backwards! She is asking about conflicts from either side, Techie or actor.

I remember when I was just a freshman in college working on my first colegite show. I was (and still proudly am) a techie. At the end of the day, we cleaned shop, and I, being the littlest girl, got trash duty. This meant that I had to lift these huge trash bins, filled with wood and metal scraps, over my head and into the dumpster outside. There were a couple of actors standing outside smoking. (Man, I remember this as if it were yesterday, and I don't even remember all the shows I've worked on now) I asked them for help and one of them replied "I would" then he took a drag "but I'm an actor." and blew it out. That was my first real impression of actors. Admitidly not all actors are like that. I became real close with a lot of my colegiate actors. Out in "the real world" I think the seperation comes because we are seperated: into shops, different times on stage, etc. The interaction between actors and techies in professional theatre is limited at best. And that's where the seperations comes from.