SoundGirls.org: Join us on Monday, February 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM PDT as we host Jessica Chranowski of Pure Life Therapy.
Free – and Online – Register Here
In collaboration with SoundGirls, this workshop is for people who love working in entertainment… and are sick of feeling fried, foggy, or on edge just to prove they can handle it.
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I think a lot of people tend to overlook the social skills that you need the entertainment industry and tend to focus more on the technical skills, but i think it's important to recognize that high stress environments need competent and efficient social reactions, which is something that you're not really prepared for until you work an actual gig( its really a trial by fire thing). So its really great to see an organization attempt to teach about these vital skills, its even more meaningful since its a webinar by soundgirls( tangent but soundgirls is a really cool community of women in audio that shines light of female audio technicians and mixers being a member gets you a lot of perks and access to opportunities) being a women in this industry is a bit different so it's important to know how to stand up for yourself and learn when to put your foot down.
Theatre is all about doing things live. We plan and rehearse everything in detail so that everyone knows what to do during the show. But anyone in theatre knows that inevitably something won't go as rehearsed. I think that soft skills like the ones mentioned in the article are just as important to a technician as the technical skills you directly use. A good technician can keep a show running smoothly, a great one can take a chaotic show and calmly get it back on track. Being able to do so calmly is important on multiple levels. For one coming at the situation with a level head will always get it resolved faster than if you panic and flail around. But as I've learned working front of house, the audience often only knows that something is going wrong if you tell them. While many technicians can't be seen by the audience during the run of the show, it's important that those that can be seen by the audience remain cool and collected when something goes wrong.
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