Please enjoy our informative podcasts from the Saturday Seminar Series with panel discussions covering such topics as — “ABCs of Producing Off-Broadway” and “Alternatives to the 8-Performance Week.”
All recordings generously provided by Jeremy Handelman of Off The Leash Productions.
WHAT THINGS COST: BUDGETING YOUR OFF BROADWAY SHOW
3/1/20
Featuring General Manager Lisa Dozier King (Be More Chill, A Letter to Harvey Milk), Producer William Franzblau (Say Goodnight Gracie, David Mamet’s American Buffalo), and General Manager Evan Bernardin (Afterglow, We Are the Tigers).
Moderated by Rob Driemeyer.
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I WISH TO GO TO THE FESTIVAL: THE HOW-TO’S OF PRODUCING IN A THEATRE FESTIVAL
9/21/19
Featuring Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport (Once on this Island, Rave Theatre Festival), producer and general manager Sharon Fallon (Indecent), Producing Artistic Director of NYMF West Hyler (Paramour, Georama), and writer/director Rebecca Aparicio (Pedro Pan, Gloria: A Life).
Moderated by Rob Driemeyer.
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PUTTING IT TOGETHER: FROM OPTION TO OFFERING TO OPENING
3/9/19
Featuring producer David Carpenter of Tilted Windmills Theatricals (Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic), general manager Laura Janik Cronin of Brierpatch Productions (The Other Josh Cohen, Cagney), and attorney M. Kilburg Reedy (Daniel’s Husband, Party Face, Clever Little Lies).
Moderated by Rob Driemeyer.
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MY FIRST TIME: PRODUCING OFF BROADWAY FOR THE FIRST TIME
1/26/19
Featuring Randy Donaldson (American Son, The Scottsboro Boys, Triassic Parq), Suzanne Gilad (co-founder of In Fine Company; Angels in America, The Other Josh Cohen); Zachary Laks (co-founder of Form Theatricals; Drew Droege’s Bright Colors and Bold Patterns), and Meredith Lucio (Porgy and Bess, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan).
Moderated by Rob Driemeyer.
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IS THERE LIFE AFTER OFF BROADWAY?
4/28/2018
Featuring Victoria Lang, a founder and managing member of Off Broadway Touring, a boutique agency dedicated to the promotion, booking, and management of Off Broadway-sized productions; Bruce Lazarus, executive director of Samuel French Inc., the world’s oldest and largest publisher and licensor of plays and musicals; and writer-director Dewey Moss, who discusses his experience with live-streaming a performance of his play The Crusade of Connor Stephens.
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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MAKING IT WORK: TALES FROM SUCCESSFUL SHOWS THAT SHARED A THEATER
5/20/2017
Featuring producer David Carpenter (Puffs, Hands on Hardbody), theater operator and producer Edmund Gaynes (Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Zero Hour), director/writer/composer Marshall Pailet (Baghdaddy, Triassic Parq, Caudio Quest) and Anthony Wilkinson (My Big Gay Italian Wedding, My Big Gay Italian Funeral, My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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FROM PAGE TO STAGE, or HOW TO GET YOUR SHOW TO OFF BROADWAY
2/4/2017
Featuring producer Charlotte Cohn (Church and State, Handle With Care), playwright Matt Cox (Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic), Robert Creighton (co-author, co-producer, and star of Cagney), and literary agent Mark Subias, who represents clients from film, television, and theater.
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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CASTING FOR OFF BROADWAY: FROM DEVELOPMENT TO OPENING
10/23/2016
Featuring Thomas Caruso (Southern Comfort at the Public, Associate Director of Matilda and director of the National Tour) and casting directors Michael Cassara (Spamilton, Gigantic, Forbidden Broadway, I Love Lucy Live on Stage), Paul Hardt (Red Bull Theater, The Bodyguard, Josephine, Chasing Rainbows) and Cindi Rush (Promising, Ruthless, Disenchanted, Drop Dead Perfect, Silence!, Urinetown).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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GETTING BUTTS IN SEATS
10/24/2015
Featuring Amanda Bohan from Amanda Bohan Marketing (Drop Dead Perfect, Would You Still Love Me If…, Women Are Crazy Because Men Are A**holes, The Imbible), Dan Demello from DDPR (The Fantasticks, Perfect Crime, SCRUFF), Leanne Schanzer from Leanne Schanzer Promotions (Queen of the Night, Stomp, Fuerza Bruta, 39 Steps, Rock of Ages, Peter and the Starcatcher, Producers, Hairspray), Susan L. Schulman from Schulman Publicity (Dancin’, Applause, Scapino, State Fair) and Joe Trentacosta from JT PR (A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Gazillion Bubble Show, Clinton the Musical, A Queen for a Day).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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BUILDING THE OFF BROADWAY TEAM
4/26/2015
Featuring Jim Brady from Maximum Entertainment (50 Shades The Musical Parody, Found The Musical, The Lion), Daniel Kuney from Roy Gabay Theatrical Productions (39 Steps, Rock of Ages, Altar Boyz), Robert Levinstein from 22Q Entertainment (My Big Gay Italian Wedding/Funeral, 2015 national tour of Always Patsy Cline), Martin Platt from Perry Street Theatrical (My Life as a Musical, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell
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OFF BROADWAY SHARK TANK
1/25/15
Featuring Edmund Gaynes (owner of St Lukes Theater and The Actors Temple Theater and producer of Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Cougar The Musical, Zero Hour) and Barbara Whitman (Fun Home, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, If/Then)
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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RAISING MONEY FOR OFF BROADWAY
9/28/14
Featuring Ken Davenport (It’s Only a Play, Kinky Boots , Altar Boyz, Awesome 80’s Prom), Robert Driemayer (Forbidden Broadway, The Two-Character Play, La Cage aux Folles) and Meredith Lucio (Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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CASTING FOR OFF BROADWAY
6/1/14
Featuring Cindi Rush (Under My Skin, Silence!, Urinetown), Michael Cassara (Forbidden Broadway, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, Fat Camp) and general manager Scott Newsome (Handle With Care, Two Character Play, Iluminate, Triassic Parq).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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CONTRACTING FOR OFF BROADWAY PROJECTS
3/30/14
Featuring Adam Hess (General Manager for Buyer & Cellar, Traces and My Name is Asher Lev), David Elliott (Producer of Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the upcoming Broadway production of Dames at Sea) and attorney Peter Breger (Disaster!, Forbidden Broadway, The Two Character Play, The Fantasticks)
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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CONNECTING OFF BROADWAY PROJECT TO PRODUCER
1/12/14
Featuring Kellen Blair (co-creator of Murder For Two The Musical), Seth Rudetsky (co-creator of Disaster! The Musical and producer of Unbroken Circle), James Wesley (playwright of Unbroken Circle and producer of Disaster! the Musical) and Michael Alden (producer of Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Kings Speech, Grey Gardens, Bridge and Tunnel).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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ABC’S OF PRODUCING OFF BROADWAY – PART II
9/29/13
Featuring Dan Goggin (Nunsense, Nunsense A-Men, Nunsense 2), R. Erin Craig (I’m Getting My Act Together & Taking It On the Road, Academy), Christine Cox (The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things & Administrator of the OBA Mentorship Program).
Moderated by Hugh Hysell.
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