Audrey A McGee

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  • shame is a bully

    Now for a rambling RoCo reflection that came to me as I was washing dishes. To recap, RoCo is short for Road Company, Taproot’s educational theatre troupe. RoCo goes to schools all over Washington to perform anti-bullying plays. The centerpiece of these plays is a tool called the Three R’s:…

  • intern tips #14: diversify income and explore opportunities.

    This tip has become an excuse for me to reflect on my entire career since moving to Seattle — long post incoming. diversifying income For the first year and a half of me working in the Seattle theatre scene, there was a go-to page for scrolling, either out of Zillow-esque…

  • intern tips #13: don’t panic, you’ll be back.

    There’s honestly not much to say here… I’ve been spending a lot of time working on next week’s post and have avoided this one until the last minute. So, bear with me on a little ramble. I’ve mentioned this before, but when I was interning, I heard the phrase, “You…

  • intern tips #12: figure out the printer.

    Similar to the dishes, printer tasks were continually part of my internship. Dissimilar to the dishes, I wasted SO MUCH TIME trying to figure this one out. One of my hallmarks of problem-solving is going head-first into the solution. I can be a bold person when I need to be,…

  • intern tips #11: show up with as much of your best as you can.

    As you just saw in my last post, there was a lot in my internship that I could improve upon. I needed a deadline to do anything, and priorities were hard if it was a long-ongoing project. Again…ADHD. It is going to my Herculean, and hopefully not Sisyphean, task to…

  • intern tips #10: learn to take the compliment.

    Look! Look! We’re halfway through this series that I should have finished a year ago! Eh, it’s fine. Y’all are hanging with me. It’s surprisingly difficult, for some people (me included) to accept praise gracefully. Either you’re unused to it, or you have such a keen sense of your own…

  • crazy purple update

    So, this guy knows way more than me about cars and about paint spills: So if you have an incident like mine, go watch this video. Well, it took me a long time to even try to address the mess which was my car, partially because my trunk was so…

  • intern tips #9: you’re always a student.

    Starting your career is just slice after slice of humble pie. It’s an acquired taste. I went into my internship wanting to be professional, putting my best foot forward, impressing those I worked for. Which was fine until I would say something very confidently which turned out to be very…

  • intern tips #8: use your “no”s sparingly and your “yes”s wisely.

    When you’re graduating college, going into an internship, you’ll hear the phrase, “say yes to everything.” I strongly disagree. In February of 2025, headed into the last quarter of my internship, I ended up working four different jobs at once. The number of times I triple-booked myself was appalling. I…

  • intern tips #7: look in the mirror

    “Teeth?” “Good.” “Ew…” This brief exchange is CONSTANTLY repeated in my house. It’s a (mis)quote from an episode of The West Wing, where CJ, White House Chief of Staff, is heading into an important meeting and is checking her appearance with two coworkers. The cadence of the quote in itself…