Producing

Tired of waiting for a production and the loneliness writing entails, The Welders formed to take action. The warm reception made them realize how much can be done when having a community.

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I have trust issues. This is an important realization for me, especially when I’m managing artistic and organizational development. So I’ve decided to dedicate this month’s blog to process my thoughts about how trust factors into my development of This Is Water Theatre.

Adara Meyers gives an overview of her artistic journey navigating as a producer and playwright. 

Clayton Lord shares insight on the value of diversifying theatre institutions.

Shari Malyn takes us inside a day in the life of a Creative Producer at ArtsEmerson's Creative Producers in Training program.

Emily Niewendorp writes about The Alacrity Project, and the importance of creating the oppurtunities you wish were available to you as an artist.

Rob Handel, co-founder of 13P, explains why the playwrights' collective needed to implode after its final performance. The answer? It simply couldn't happen any other way.

Vanessa Garcia offers a meditation on how to monetize theatre in efforts toward sustainability.

David Dower, the Co- Artistic Director of ArtsEmerson, on the differnece between Art and Entertainment, and the nessisity to create work that includes both.

Cameron Wong writes about banished? productions' unique blend of art forms, and how the Capital Fringe allows them to bring together communities in ways unheard of, inspiring, and galvanizing.

Actor-Producer Bridgit Antoinette Evans in conversation with Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Heather Violanti profiles Horse Trade Theater Group, a bold proposal for how to make theater more accessible to entry-level artists.

Jason King Jones interviews Karen Evans, President and Founder of The Black Women Playwrights’ Group, about the why she found it necessary to start producing.

Producer Ryan Bogner explains why American theatre is attached to Broadway musicals and discusses the challenges of mounting them.

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Lead Producer Stephanie Ybarra writes about her role in creating We Play for the Gods, with Women's Project Theater and the group's process.

P.Carl meditates on the power of saying Yes instead of No to new ideas.

David Dower, the Co- Artistic Director of ArtsEmerson, wrestles with the role of being a producer for a new play.

Marshall Botvinick traces the history of theatre’s connection to community and advocates that theatre artists and companies to go local.