The Importance of Being OnlineWhether you’re a theatre artist or practitioner, whoring yourself online is just as important as, ahem, whoring yourself in person.
David King
Almost two decades ago, I embarked upon a three-year program in Theatre Performance at Concordia University. Knowing full well I would never be able to pay back $30,000.00 in student loans after graduation, I did the program over four years while begging, borrowing, pleading, researching and even ironing one of my professor’s clothes to make ends meet. In the end, I came away with not one but two families of fellow performance peers, and only $10,000.00 to torture me for the rest of my career.
Long before online social networking became a daily activity, not one course at Concordia in the mid 1990s was aimed towards students’ post-grad careers as self-employed artists. While the kids at National Theatre School had their resumes mailed across the country before graduation year after year, we second-class Concordians begged our own department to help us do the same as we jumped into our final productions.
