YaleNews: As the director of theater safety and occupational health at Yale School of Drama, Anna Glover helps students who are developing and designing theater productions make decisions that are safe for the stage crew and their audiences. When designers and stage managers plan to use pyrotechnics in a play, for example, or have an actor climb high on an apparatus as part of the show’s action, Glover is usually on hand.
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I think that Anna Glover’s course, “Risk and Behavior Safety in Theatre” is an excellent resource. I am grateful that Carnegie Mellon’s Drama curriculum seems to work safety in the workplace into most of its courses on the regular. This Yale based course may be new, but it would be nice if it remained a part of the curriculum beyond the pandemic. The idea of assessing situations, improving decision making skills, and learning tools to succeed in and outside of theatre is always beneficial, especially when coupled with the section on overcoming uncertainty. In the pandemic especially, uncertainty has been a very hindering emotion, but it is something that affects life everyday. Risk surrounds us everyday, and learning to work with it and prepare for it is an incredibly useful skill. I firmly believe that being exposed to difficulties in an emotionally safe and controlled environment can help prepare anyone to deal with circumstances with less support. Even learning to live with uncertainty can help to move forward with full creativity.
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