“I would work upwards of 60-80 hours a week not getting paid accurately for my time. I had no life, no friends, in a brand new city and I could barely afford to eat. I felt depressed and often cried in the dark in the sound booth…I knew I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life like that so I left theatre all together about 7 years ago.”
“A hellish tech week caused an reaction so severe that I had to leave campus and go into intensive outpatient therapy. While there were tons and tons of factors that were involved with my suicide attempt, a hellish day of tech where I was yelled at in front of the entire cast and production team was the cherry on top. College students shouldn’t have 10/12s”