“The Bone Harp” at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center
“The Bone Harp” hitting SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center (WSYR-TV) — It’s a partnership with New York producer Cate Cammarata and the musical theatre program at SUNY Cortland. That’s what’s coming together with Cortland’s musical theater program and their...
Creating Theater in 2023
A Watershed Moment COVID-19 will prove to be the watershed moment in defining the history of the 21st century. Apart from our communal human experience of the virus and its reverberations across the human spectrum, the arts and in particular theater must learn to surf...
What Type of Reading?
While Broadway continues to recover post-covid, there is a noticeable increase in the number of readings being offered. This is a good thing – many of the shows written during the shutdown are now ready to try out in front of a live audience, and I see it as a...
Marketing Your Show: the Basics
Marketing is NOT a Choice If you know me then you know that I’d much rather spend all day every day helping you write your show than marketing myself. Marketing is not my favorite thing. However, I have to remind myself that marketing shows is how we get audiences...
Schedule 10 Tasks to Get Produced
Success is a Choice Following up on last week’s blog, I want to reiterate the above: SUCCESS IS A CHOICE. Do you want to be a successful playwright? Then hang out with successful playwrights. Put yourself in the company of producers and artistic directors – then make...
How to Succeed in Theater
Success is a ChoiceI need a constant daily strategy to focus on what needs to be done to achieve my top priorities. Meditation and a daily practice of reviewing my top goals for my business (and life) are the only ways I’ve found to manage constant distraction, and to...
Should You Produce Your Own Play?
Should you produce your own show? That depends. Is your show ready for a full production? (Check out my latest blog posts to answer that question.) If, after much careful thought and input from trusted professionals around you, you determine that your show is ready...
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...