Mars Jones
Mars is a senior at Glendora High School who has participated in GHS Drama since his Freshman year. He loves thrifting, hanging out with his friends, and is a part of the Noise Within Theatre Company and Glendora’s theatre.
Q: What was your favorite set to build?
A: During my Freshman year, the play, Sweet Surrender. I was in the workshop everyday outside in the rain with the other stage manager, Gracie Claprood. It was such a fun process to be so involved in the creation of the set and to see how it went from being not painted not finished two days before the show opens to so beautiful by opening night.
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Q: What got you into theatre management?
A: I got involved with theatre as a whole when I read this book called Drama in middle school, which was about this girl who liked working on her school’s productions backstage, and at the end she becomes a stage manager. I really like that idea of being in charge. So when I started doing shows at Glendora. I just kept taking on more and more responsibilities until I got the role of stage manager.
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Q: What was your favorite production?
A: Oh my gosh, during my junior year, I loved doing the Addams Family, especially the whole creative process, and everyone was really connected, which made it so much fun.
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Q: What part of theatre production do you find difficult yet very rewarding?
A: Stage management. It’s a difficult balance between working with my friends yet also being in charge of them, so I have to create this boundary of you need to listen to me, but also I’m still your friend.
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Q: What is your favorite job to do in the backstage process?
A: I really love making props because I get so much creative freedom from Fabulous Fabio Stephens. So, I get to just go through a show putting my creative vision for the show on stage, but I also absolutely love just working backstage and directing people when to move props on stage or set Pieces.
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Q: What is the most difficult prop you’ve had to make for this semester’s Lord of the Flies?
A: The Pig. It’s surprisingly difficult to find resources online for how to make a giant realistic dead pig, but I found one online post, and then I built it like how I brooded it in my mind what would fit the theatre, because it is a very small theatre, so you can see the props very clearly on stage. So I made a cardboard armature and then sculpted the head around with foil and built on top of it with drywall paste.
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