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Professor Leslie Kendrick
Gain insight into trends and career opportunities in public relations, advertising, and media through one week of virtual learning followed by a virtual speaker series and virtual networking with executives from firms like AMC Networks, LinkedIn, Harper-Collins, Google, and more.
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with Rabbi Steven Philp
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How do you start a conversation that recognizes the painful history of racism and begins to navigate a path toward healing? Join select members of the Broadway producing team as they reflect on the impact of Slave Play, the critically acclaimed production that forced its audience – and Broadway – to think about race and racism in America.
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Oliver spoke at the Commercial Theater Institute’s (CTI) Three-Day Intensive as part of a panel discussion on how to find and manage investors in your theatrical projects.
More about the course:
For almost four decades, CTI’s Three-Day Intensive has offered a comprehensive education in commercial theater producing.
At the 39th Annual Three-Day Intensive, presentations and panel discussions will be led by some of Broadway’s most acclaimed producers, general managers, entertainment attorneys, marketing executives, and press representatives. Whether you want to produce on or off-Broadway – or are just beginning to explore this exciting profession – this is the place to learn the ins and outs of the industry.
Sessions will examine case histories, budget, sample agreements, and marketing strategies, all with an eye on illuminating the many aspects of an ever-evolving business.
At evening cocktail events, you’ll network with theater professionals and Broadway’s hit-makers as well as fellow early-career producers, allowing you to make the essential connections you’ll need moving forward.
More Information on CTI is available HERE
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You meet a producer at a party, and have two minutes to interest them in your work. Do you have the skill to sell yourself? Here’s a chance to practice your pitching with real producers who are open to and interested in meeting you.
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“An Upset,” a one-act play by David Auburn first seen in New York in 2008, is being revived around the city timed to the Open, including three shows at 99 Bowery beginning Sept. 12.
“It’s always hard to put a finger on why something is suddenly in the zeitgeist,” said Ruhl, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. “I don’t know why it is happening with tennis in theater right now. But for me, while researching the Bush dynasty, I realized tennis is such a big part of their lives and a wonderful metaphor for family competition and sibling rivalry.”
In “Scenes From Court Life,” Greg Keller plays George W. Bush as a more shrewd politician than his brother Jeb but an inferior tennis player.
“Athletes are almost another species to playwrights,” Keller said. “The writer’s world is so subjective, but for athletes there is always a winner and a loser.”
Tennis holds undeniable appeal for the theater. For starters, it can encompass widely different settings, including the Bush family compound, the public courts of the Lower East Side and Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Tennis, Keller said, is also “one-on-one, but you are not physically touching each other like in boxing.”
He added, “You are in your own little world.”
Bragen has written other works about tennis, including a monologue called “Game, Set, Match.” He said the sport offered intimacy and isolation — great fodder for writers.
“There’s a kind of dance that I feel as a player, but you are alone in your own head at the same time you are connected to other person,” Bragen said.
Ruhl said she liked the combat mixed with decorum, “the formality within the structure of competition.”
Ryan Sweeney, who played Division I tennis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is producing and starring in “An Upset,” said, “Tennis is a lonely sport, and Auburn’s script touches on the players’ vulnerabilities.”
