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How to Start Your Own Theater Company

How to Start Your Own Theater Company $16.99

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Reginald Nelson

Published by Chicago Review Press

With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and successfully navigating tricky legal issues

Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre Company, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty-gritty details of practical issues that are often overlooked amidst the zeal of artistic pursuit

Such as how to manage rent, parking, and safety issues; determine tax status and calculate budgets; and find flexible day jobs to help foster artists' creative passion

The guide also provides in-depth analysis of undertaking lofty projects

Such as managing a co-production with a large, established theater, as Congo Square did with Tony Awardwinning Steppenwolf Theatre Company

It also addresses potential drawbacks, such as handling common weaknesses of the "artistic temperament" that can often lead to a business venture's undoing

Inspired by Congo Square's own unique inception, the valuable how-to also speaks directly to the many under-served niche audiences who decide to create their own companies, including African American, Asian American, Latino, physically challenged, and GLBT communities

Concluding with lists of Equity offices, legal advisers, and important organizations for assistance, this complete resource is sure to help ambitious theater lovers establish and maintain their own successful companies

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