101: Mid-Career from Manila to Off-Broadway to Broadway with Sheryl Polancos

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Sheryl Polancos, a stage manager from Broadway’s Beetlejuice, joins the show to talk about working ten years in the Philippines as a freelance stage manager. She then moved to NYC to continue freelancing in theatre off-Broadway and then on Broadway. 

 

We discuss:

⭐️ How to afford an apartment in NYC

⭐️ How to get an artist visa and green card

⭐️ A bad luck superstition involving peanuts

⭐️ Saving for yourself and your own retirement

⭐️ Differences between theatre in the US versus the Philippines

 

In today’s patron bonus episode we discuss another Beetlejuice stage manager, Steve Milosevich, who Sheryl and I both adore.

 

Bonus Episode:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/101-sheryl-66835796

 

Takeaways:

⭐️ Be specific

⭐️ Be proactive

⭐️ Moving is costly

⭐️ Save for yourself each month and INVEST

 

Artistic Finance 6k Investing Special:

https://www.artisticfinance.com/episode/zsaAmuJv8vulf6qc0fqq/Learn-How-To-Invest-In-The-Stock-Market-Artistic-Finance-6K-Special

 

Choosing 401k investments:

https://www.artisticfinance.com/episode/mI0ij00LoT4VAsrgRMxV/Choosing-401k-Options-with-Elena-Sartor

 

Wine Investing:

https://www.artisticfinance.com/episode/G7sKrzcmEwJeor6iAy4t/Wine-Investing-with-Anthony-Zhang

 

Sheryl Polancos on Instagram:

@sherylpolancos

https://www.instagram.com/sherylpolancos/

 

Sheryl Polancos - Filipino Theatre Artists in America:

https://www.filipinotheatreartistsinamerica.com/copy-of-karla-puno-garcia

 

Atlantis Theatrical - Producer of Rock of Ages in Manila:

http://atlantistheatrical.com/shows

 

Beetlejuice:

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/beetlejuice-532410

 

Jersey Boys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Boys

 

Soho Rep:

https://sohorep.org/

 

Porsche McGovern:

https://www.patreon.com/porsche/

 

Links from the Patron episode:

 

Stephen Milosevich:

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/stephen-milosevich-506579

 

Become a patron:

www.patreon.com/artisticfinance

 

Interview by Ethan Steimel