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CreateTheater helps Theatre Makers take their show from concept to production.
We help develop new plays and musicals with:
Writing Groups for both New Plays and Musicals
Quarterly Musical Workshops with Industry Experts
Producer Consulting and Mentorship Groups
Pitching, Networking and Collaboration Opportunities
Writing and Producing Development Programs
Artist Residencies: one for plays and one for musicals
The Experts Theater Company, our “Artistic Home,” is a company that offers developmental support through readings, writing groups, individual producer coaching and one-on-one dramaturgical support, both in NYC and online
CreateTheater offers subsidized developmental presentations in their New Works Festival, their Cabaret Festival and their Streaming Musicals Workshop series (for ETC Members)
MADAME CURIE
Book, music & lyrics by David Kurkowski
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2024 Artist Residencies (fully supported)
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STREAMING MUSICALS PRESENTS
THE GOLDEN CAGE
An Award-Winning Musical from the 2022 New Works Festival
Elaborate Live Stage Video Recording of the Award-Winning New Musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Grammy-Nominated Composer
Deborah Henson-Conant
Directed by R. Lee Kratzer
Music Direction by Nevada Lozano
Starring Christopher Isolano and Maddie Allen
Produced by CreateTheater
Cate received the 2022 Entreprenuer of the Year Award from Theater Resources Unlimited for helping develop and produce more than 70 shows during the 2020-2022 lockdown
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Making Money as a Playwright Part 2
I think that many artists feel the winds of change happening regarding the arts in America. We look around at states defunding the arts. We see major non-profit and “successful” theater companies laying off staff and divesting themselves of their theaters.
Be Specific
Do you know your character’s favorite color? Favorite dish? The street they lived on as a child? What was the game their mother played with them when they were five? Why do they keep an item in their pocket and when do they take it out and stroke it? What memories does it provoke? What emotion does it conjure in your character?
Details. From the larger, to the smaller, and from the smaller to the larger, details make the character specific and unique.
Making Money as a Playwright Part 1
The playwright Robert Anderson famously said in the late 50’s early 60’s that “one can make a killing in the theatre, but not a living.” The late Tim Kelly, a very prolific playwright for the school and community theater markets who passed away in 1997, published over 350 plays in his life, and would have about 6,000 performances of his plays every year, all over the world. His pieces were translated into dozens of languages. He adopted Anderson’s quote and paraphrased it for the amateur theater market: “You can make a living, but you can’t make a killing”….
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