GHOST THE MUSICAL
Production Manager / Ghost the Musical, Northbrook College
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Production Manager / Ghost the Musical, Northbrook College *
Janurary—March 2025
“If there’s anything left I can do
To convince myself it could be true
It’s up to me to suspend my disbelief
If there’s even one thing left to try
I don’t even need to know why
It’s just relief to suspend my disbelief”
As production manager on Ghost the musical, my role was to liase with each department and marry their visions, concerns, and products into one.
As the first large-scale musical production I have had a production management role on, Ghost was an exceptional challenge, and enjoyable in every way. I managed production meetings, a budget distributed between many departments that each had their own methods and systems for managing money, a complex four-week schedule which constantly changed, and some mysoginy from members of the crew which challenged me in unprecedented ways.
After the show, I reflected on my work in my Viva Voce presentation, including presenting an updated version of the schedule to showcase what I had learnt and how I would have organised the production in hindsight.