The MET is moving!

Well...just our office. The MET Box Office and administration offices are moving down the hall and will now be located at the bottom of the stairs leading in from Patrick Street, but the Bank of America.
Here's what our current office looks like:

We're not slobs! It's just that there are three full time staff members sharing this space, plus whoever is working the box office. The space is also used by stage managers, designers and any company member who needs to make a phone call or check their email. There's just not enough space to put things away!
The office also houses ensemble member mailboxes, our copier and our library of plays and theatre resources. So people are constantly coming in and out of the office to use these things.

Here's the current box office:


It's officially the box office, but this nook is often used for other office activities, cluttering the space and the computer desktop!

This is the view from my desk:

I love being close to everyone else, and since I'm often the only one in the office to answer the phone, I've gotten to know many MET patrons, which is awesome. But the cramped quarters also mean that I'm often distracted, as are the other people who work in the office.

And here is the hallway of our new office:

The new office suite is really sweet! It has 5 private offices, one of which we will probably use for a meeting room and another for a company office where stage managers, designers and the random email checker can use the computer, phone and storage space.

This is the new box office! Look how many people can fit in it - more people than could fit in the entire old office!

Milee McDonald, Lorrie Tripp, Tad Janes and Gené Fouché

This is one of the private offices:

They have lovely sliding glass doors, so we can still see each other, but they also close, so we can have some quit when we need to concentrate on writing a grant, or a FUN Company script or developing curriculum for an Ensemble school class.

Another office view:

At the end of the hallway is a bigger room, which we are planning to use for a meeting room, so our board of directors doesn't have to meet in the lobby...or wherever else they can squeeze in! The room will also be used for other meetings and gatherings that need to be away from the controlled chaos (rehearsals, classes, committee meetings, production meetings, work calls, etc) that is MET on most evenings.

And here is the back hallway! Yes, we have 2 hallways!

This hallway leads to the last private office space, which we will use for our company office, and to a larger space we are planning to use for a classroom:

We are really excited about this classroom space. We can teach more classes, but more importantly, we can teach classes during rehearsals or even a performance. Currently, our main classroom space is right next to the stage, which means anything that happens in the classroom can be heard by the audience or the cast rehearsing in the theatre, and vice versa, which is distracting for everyone!

We'll be moving over the next two weeks, hopefully completely settled by September 1st. Stop by and see it - but be prepared to carry a box! : )

- Sarah Straw