Project Abstract

Recently, a goal for many businesses and organizations has been to move traditionally paper-based operations toward paperless ones. This is motivated by the desire to preserve resources, to reduce waste, and to increase efficiency by eliminating less necessary materials.  It is a general practice in theatrical Stage Management to go through a large amount of paper, whether to print multiple scripts, run sheets, or any number of lists, not to mentions reprinting any updates. This paperwork is often collected in a large binder, when in reality it could all be stored electronically. By launching “Project Paperless,” the goal is to ascertain whether a Stage Management team could accomplish all of the required tasks, from the pre-production process to the end of the show, without using any paper at all, severely reducing the paper usage on any given production. Brooke Marrero and David Beller plan on pioneering this process with their own personal computers and the help of several other technological devices on their Spring Semester shows of A Number, and Still Life with Iris.