AHEAD Accelerator 2026 stage, lit and ready before doors

You're in the
hotseat.

You don't get to pick the job. Nobody does.

  • You'll be dealt one of eight productions and run it from the winning bid to the last invoice.
  • Every run is dealt differently: the scenes, the everyday problems, the people asking, and the order of your options.
  • What a decision does is never random. Some calls change the very next scene. Others come back days later.
  • Somewhere in there, the crew will be watching how you lead. That part counts too.

I wrote these from the kinds of jobs I've actually run. The clients and people are made up, and the pictures are AI-generated illustrations, not photos of my work.

  1. The bid
  2. Discovery
  3. Preproduction
  4. Load-in
  5. Show day
  6. Strike
  7. Closeout