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Hi Grif-friends!<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My identify is <\/span>Alana<\/span><\/b>. I\u2019m the Acting Ticketing Manager at Griffin for about the subsequent half hour (OK, technically two extra months, however it\u2019ll whiz by, I do know it). As I write this, there’s a deep silence within the workplace, <\/span>Hayley<\/span><\/b> isn\u2019t glug-glugging water from one receptacle into one other. <\/span>Erica<\/span><\/b> isn\u2019t hum-singing Lady Gaga (Taylor Swift?) together with her ridiculously stunning voice. <\/span>Christie<\/span><\/b> isn\u2019t sitting noiselessly within the far nook the place I can\u2019t actually see her (a truth which doesn\u2019t cease me from saying, \u201cHey Christie, you know that thing bla<\/span>h<\/span> bla<\/span>h<\/span> etc<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d, and when she doesn\u2019t reply, I’ve to make use of my precise legs to stand up and stroll across the nook and see that she\u2019s at lunch\u2014impolite!).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s quiet as a result of proper now, all people is on a employees retreat. They are ideating and brainstorming and hashing issues out and bonding and having pillow fights and different deeply transformative experiences. And I\u2019m right here, penning this comparatively directionless (to date) weblog publish. Hey, they requested me to write down one thing, and that is how I write. OK Christie! CHRISTIE!? Oh, yeah, she\u2019s on the retreat.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n OK, the place was I? What to say, what to say\u2026 Ah sure, they gave me a template.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Step 1\u2014Introduce your self. <\/span> Step 2\u2014What\u2019s on at Griffin.<\/span> Of course, there are issues developing, tickets to the <\/span>2025 Griffin Award & Keynote<\/span><\/a> are on sale now, with the Keynote being given by my all-time favorite artistic multi-hyphenate, <\/span>Leah Purcell<\/span><\/b>. Look, I don\u2019t wish to inform you what to do along with your life, however simply this as soon as, I might need to.\u00a0 Go forward and e book. It\u2019ll be nice. Moving on.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Step 3\u2014Elaborate. <\/span> Step 4\u2014Any different plugs.<\/span> Pl<\/span>ease e book now for these exhibits, they’re going to be so enjoyable and wonderful.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Koreaboo<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2014my mother-in-law noticed <\/span>Michelle Lim Davidson<\/span><\/b> on <\/span>T<\/span><\/i>he Newsreader<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and I lastly I’ve one thing she desires, employees discounted tickets to a cool new play. Let the babysitting\/discounted tickets negotiation start. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SISTREN<\/span><\/a>\u2014<\/span>I noticed author\/performer, <\/span>Iolanthe<\/span><\/b>, in <\/span>seven strategies of killing kylie jenner<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and I used to be rocked. I additionally noticed <\/span>Janet Anderson<\/span><\/b> in <\/span>All the Fraudulent Horse Girls<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and he or she was totally magnetic. Oh my, that is going to be an absolute deal with.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Birdsong of Tomorrow<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2014that is actually about birds. BIRDS! I like birds (I\u2019m additionally petrified of them as a result of they fly up excessive within the sky, such energy, such majesty\u2014see I <\/span>can <\/span><\/i>elaborate). Also, author\/performer <\/span>Nathan Harrison<\/span><\/b> is a delicate and intelligent egg<\/span>,<\/span> and I can\u2019t wait to see what he hatches.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
I kind of did that. But to elaborate, I’m a Ticketing Admin Pro (I can say that as a result of it\u2019s true). Previous gigs embody the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Writers<\/span>\u2019<\/span> Festival, Belvoir St Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and I’m so glad to lastly be a part of one among Sydney\u2019s most brave theatre firms. I stated it. Courageous. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Uh, nicely, there\u2019s the um\u2026hmm. OK, look we\u2019re darkish in the intervening time, however you all know why, proper? WE\u2019RE LITERALLY BIRTHING A NEW STAGE PEOPLE. Just give us a minute. This geographic location has been on the nexus of recent Australian theatre making for a lot of many years. It\u2019s a particular second in Griffin historical past and I get a entrance row seat (no, too shut, couple again, centre\u2026iykyk). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
That I can do. I’m a grasp at elaborating. Look at me go. Oh, it seems I can’t. Next.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Yes. Kettle, HDMI, hair straightener, TV\/AV, printer\u2026 oh wait. Pluuuuggss. Got it. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n