Building the Successful Theater Company

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Introduction : what makes a theater company successful? -- Roots. How we came together -- Claiming space -- Our first business plan -- Funding and financing -- Finding our core acting troupe -- Into the fire. Mounting that first production -- Building word of mouth -- How social media helped us succeed -- The biggest problem we ever faced -- The biggest victory we ever enjoyed -- Adapting to growth -- Now & forever. Navigating financial realities -- Creating great partnerships -- Our current profile -- A day in our life -- The process of planning -- Our ultimate goals for the future -- Appendixes. Physical production details for the theater companies profiles within Building the Successful Theater Company -- National associations and organizations -- Regional associations and organizations -- Unions -- Talent banks -- Audition resources -- Publications/Web resources -- Theatrical supply resource list.;What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the countrys most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company . Producers, stage managers, directors -- anyone dreaming of running a theater troupe -- will benefit from the practical guidance, amusing anecdotes, and sincere advice in this peek behind the curtains of the often difficult, always seductive, profession of theater. With five additional companies profiled in this fully revised third edition, Building a Successful Theater Company features: The LABrynth Theater Company -- New Paradise Laboratories -- National Theatre of the Deaf -- Shotgun Players -- Asian-American Theatre Company -- Steppenwolf Theater Company -- The Pasadena Playhouse -- La Jolla Playhouse -- Chicago City Limits -- Berkeley Repertory Theatre -- Arena Stages -- The Living Stage Theatre Company -- Mixed Blood Theatre Company -- Horizons Theatre -- Wheelock Family Theatre -- L.A. Theatre Works -- A Traveling Jewish Theatre -- Jean Cocteau Repertory -- Bailiwick Repertory -- New Repertory Theatre. New chapters cover funding and financial aspects, maximizing a company's potential through powerful social media use, and creating successful partnerships by teaming up with corporate sponsors and establishing artistic collaborations. Stage veterans reveal advice on everything from locating performance space, to developing a business plan, to and rehearsing and publicizing productions in this invaluable guide to creating or growing a theater company. -- ONIX annotation.