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COMPANY PROFILE
COMPANY PROFILE: CUE2CUE WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PUTTING A HALT TO THE COMPANY’S REGULAR WORK, CUE2CUE’S GARETH HULANCE SPEAKS TO TPMEA ABOUT CHANGING TACK INTO THE WORLD OF VIRTUAL EVENTS AND THE LESSONS HE AND THE TEAM HAVE LEARNED IN 2020.
A familiar name in the global entertainment market, cue2cue’s body of work is wide reaching, having provided stage managers and show callers on a huge range of events, from conferences to Olympic ceremonies, working regularly with some of the world’s top agencies including Film Master, Five Currents, Jack Morton Worldwide, BWS, People and Black Skull Creative. In the Middle East, the company has worked on the Dubai World Cup, Saudi National Day and The Special Olympics World Games 2019, to name but a few.
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“The goal of cue2cue is to provide clients with some of the most experienced stage managers and show callers from across the world, capable of working on a huge variety of projects,” stated Founder, Gareth Hulance. With over 20 years of personal experience working in theatre, ceremonies and live events as a show caller, production stage manager and show director, Hulance created cue2cue at the start of 2012 and has since grown the team. However, like many in the field, cue2cue had to adapt quickly, with most of its clients having
to resort to virtual events in 2020. “It’s something that up until this year, we did not have a great deal of experience in,” admitted Hulance, while reminiscing on the strange year that 2020 has been. “Before this year, during a normal event, we would check in with the streaming team who might be working alongside us but, to be honest, this often just meant cueing them in for certain moments – not much more than that.” With streaming and virtual platforms being the only option now at clients’ disposal, the cue2cue team collectively decided to turn their
