Entrepreneur of the Month: Cate Cammarata
Article by Jen Bush Cate Cammarata is the Executive Producer for Retraction. She wears many hats in the theater world as an Off-Broadway producer, director, and dramaturg. She likes to breathe life into new material and see it through to the end on its’ journey. ...
Are You Getting the Most from Your Readings?
Now that you know to go virtual (check out my last blog post here) do you know the steps of development? Are you making the most out of your readings? As a professional theater maker, you need to know what must happen at each step of your script's developmental...
It’s Time to Go Virtual
Is it necessary to add virtual to your development tasks? YES. Are you uncertain or even scared about this? YES. Should you continue to do it anyway? YES. But only if you want to get your play in front of more people. Why Virtual I remember when cable tv...
How to Move Your Script Forward
Moving Forward This summer has been a time for reading scripts. It’s my favorite thing to do in the summer. It’s so exciting to discover a new play or musical that’s ready to move forward into a developmental workshop or even into a complete production. The problem...
Are Zoom Readings Still Useful?
As someone who was one of the very first producers presenting Zoom readings in 2020 and who was able to raise hundreds of dollars for smaller theaters across the country, I’ll be the first one to tell you that Zoom readings can be a cost-efficient way to develop a...
Finding New Paths
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Developing and producing new work in a post-covid world is challenging – to say the least. More than...
The 2022 New Works Festival Awards
It is quite a feat to produce an Off-Broadway play or musical; it is quite another to produce an entire festival of Off-Broadway showcases - during covid. Yet that is exactly what we did with the first 2022 CreateTheater New Works Festival, in association with Prism...
Why Are You in Theater?
I know it’s not for the money. So… what’s your why? Part of the privilege of teaching theater on a college level is the constant re-evaluation of the art form as it shape-shifts through human history. For the Greeks it was an integral part of the social experiment to...
Story vs. Plot
Where in the Story Does Your Plot Start? A discussion about the difference between plot vs. story is anything but an academic question. Instead, like most talks about structure, how a plot is designed from the ground up defines how the audience experiences the...