This week on The Coffee Hour, Adam sits down with Helen Thornton, a stage manager who has written a book on her craft. Throughout the show’s run, Adam has sat down with a lot of theatremakers, and yet stagecraft has remained up in the air.

Helen and Adam change that, going through Helen’s introduction to her love of theatre at a young age, her early inklings to stagecraft. They then get into a frank discussion about Adam’s problem with transitions before playing a “hypothetical game,” (in which a director (Adam) pitches several bad ideas to his stage manager (Helen).)

Finally, they discuss Helen’s evolution in her craft, throughout her time in college, what inspired her to write her book and what she hopes to get from it.

All this and more on The Coffee Hour.