Tips for Artistic Directors #1: Don’t Work With Assholes

Written by Slay (Matt Slaybaugh)
Originally Posted at Theatreforte on 05/21/2010

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of short, fast, useful tips for people thinking about how to be better Artistic Directors.

Tip #1: Don’t work with assholes.

No matter how good s/he is at what s/he does, it will never make up for the frustration of spending a month or more working with someone who is not cool. No one in your company is getting paid enough to justify the particular hell of spending time with someone who sucks all the joy out of the room. Just don’t do it.


Blogger's note: This advice also applies to people running writer meet up groups.