Hassle and Confusion for me at TFB

I've become more and more frustrated with the process of working on the Final Battle, because I feel so horribly out of the loop. I'm not required to, and in fact most of the cannot, attend the cast rehearsals, so I don't have day to day updates about the cast or deadline or other info on the show that I might need. That being said, I could try harder to be a part of those rehearsals, so I guess it's just my own fault for missing out there. I also have a huge number of questions concerning budget for the different tasks I've been assigned. I don't know what the budget for microphone, packs, mixer, and speakers is going to be. All I know is that I was supposed to price out options, but having never done this before and knowing almost nothing about sound, I don't understand even where to begin looking, since the equipment and companies I've been talking to may be far outside our budget. I was also told that I was to be part of the team of makeup designers. Ok. Awesome. The only piece of info I received from the director for weeks was the suggestion to learn from the other designer's which of us was going to be in charge of which characters. I never heard back from them, over which I contacted the director. She informed me that she would attempt to contact the other makeup designers. I never heard back until yesterday evening, when I was abruptly informed that the makeup/hair/costume designers were to have a meeting with finished renderings. I scrambled madly to finish the forty-plus designs required for the show, assuming full responsibility for all the characters since I had never heard a single word from the other designers or the director about my assigned character designs: I assumed responsibility for them all because I feared that no one had taken responsibility for any of them. I contacted the director directly and personally today, to inform her that I had complete renderings for all the forty-plus characters in the play accept for three minor characters. She abruptly informed me that I had only been assigned about six characters. I am VERY upset about this, since I put many, many, MANY hours into the series of renderings and a great deal of thought into the themes and color-palettes of each family line and type of character, depending on how they were grouped or related to one another in the show. All of those ideas have gone to pieces, since I've been assigned individual characters from what I assumed were different groups that would have entirely different color-palettes. I suppose I could have tried harder to contact/receive info from the director and other designers... but I'm still pretty upset about the whole thing. I don't know that I will be able to work on a show with such a distant and impersonal rehearsal process in the future.