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arts administration, audiences, festivals, locavore, marketing, new play development, new plays, new technology, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, social media, steal this idea, storytelling, the future, theatre festivals, video, watch this
Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself, how can I harness this [...]
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advocacy, collaboration, community, conversation starter, ideas, improv, partnerships, rabble rousing, talk about what's good, the future, theatrical ecosystem, video
Yes, And…
It’s always nice to be on the same page as Polly Carl. If you haven’t read her latest HowlRound post, A Theater of YES!, go check it out. One reason I appreciate her train of thought is because it dovetails with my TEDxMichiganAve talk from this past May: If you don’t want to spend fifteen [...]
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2amt events, community, livestreams, video, watch this
Watch This: Return to the Upright Position
Halcyon Theatre and Caffeine Theatre present Return to the Upright Position, a reading of an online text collaboration which conceived and edited by Caridad Svich. Written during the six months after 9/11/01 by Cusi Cram, Mitchell Gossett, Julie Hebert, Llysa Holland, Julie Jensen, Jennifer Maisel. Julia Pearlstein, Brad Rothbart, Gregory Romero,Caridad Svich, Ann E. Taylor, [...]
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2amt events, about 2amt, community, conferences, conversation starter, development, festivals, ideas, livestreams, meetups, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video
2amt at CityWrights 2011
Join us this weekend at City Theatre in Miami for the CityWrights Conference 2011. We’ll be livestreaming several sessions via NewPlayTV. We’ll also be tweeing throughout the conference using both the #2amt and #cwc11 tags over on Twitter. Send questions, comments and conversation our way. Below is a schedule of the weekend’s livestreamed sessions. Friday [...]
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collaboration, conferences, devised work, festivals, ideas, livestreams, rabble rousing, technical work, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video
How to Discuss Excellence?
This Saturday, we’re hosting a convening on artistic excellence at FoolsFURY. This convening arises from a belief that, as a field, we have serious difficulty having useful (and sometimes hard) conversations about the quality/excellence of each other’s work. We do this fine, at the bar, without the artists present. But how can we have more [...]
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audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: Festivals + Community
Live from the stage of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a panel discussion about festivals and community. From the Humana Festival of New American Plays to the IdeaFestival, Louisville, Kentucky, is home to a growing variety of high-profile festivals that celebrate the arts and culture, reflecting the joy of conversation and community in our city. Why [...]
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conversation starter, ideas, livestreams, new plays, presenting, producers, technical work, the process, theatrical ecosystem, video
A Wonderful And
On January 21st of this year, my producing partners and I began previews of the first of its kind, interactive live streamed play. This was a full length production of Joey Brenneman’s Better Left Unsaid, cast with professional New York actors, staged in a small off-off broadway house in front of a live audience for [...]
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new plays, playwrights, presenting, video, watch this
2AMT: Bootlegged and Live-Streamed
Tomorrow night, two different things are going to be done to one of my plays that have never been done before, and I’m really excited about both of them. Thing one is this: my play is going to be bootlegged. No, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be secretly recorded on a cassette tape (remember [...]
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playwrights, video, watch this
Watch This: The Moment
12.24.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsA short film for the holidays, written by Adam Szymkowicz… The Moment Featuring Susan Louise O’Connor & Jeff Biehl Written by Adam Szymkowicz Directed by Scott Ebersold “When Jane goes in to talk to her boss, in an instant of clarity, she notices something different in him that she never saw before. He sees it [...]
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about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, meetups, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch this: 2amt in the 3rd Dimension
Want to see us live and direct from the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival? Streaming via the #newplay channel from Arena Stage, we go live at 10:30 am CT, 11:30 am ET, Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Kris Vire, theatre editor at Time Out Chicago, is the moderator. The panel includes Bilal Dardai of The Neo-Futurists [...]
