It's a new year filled with new opportunities! It's time to move ahead with your dream project. For producers, that means finding the money and resources to bring your show into production. We invite you to acquire some basic tools and crucial information that will help you to function effectively in hard times and the better days that are on the way. From pitching techniques and presentation skills to legal requirements and effective business planning, plus a wealth of first-hand experience from more than a half dozen producers who are currently active in the Broadway and off-Broadway worlds, we promise you an informative, empowering and inspiring day.

Workshop faculty will include Broadway producers Michael Alden (Disgraced, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Grey Gardens, The King’s Speech on stage, Bat Boy, Bridge & Tunnel), Jane Dubin (An American in Paris, Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ann, The 39 Steps), RK Greene (Peter & the Starcatcher, A Time to Kill, Cougar, Room Service), Jeremy Handelman (On the Town, F#@king Up Everything), producer/investor James Simon (Hand to God, Something Rotten, Pippin); plus attorneys Lisaroxanne Walters and Erach Screwvala, and financial advisor Bailie Slevin.

REGISTER NOW AT THIS LINK - just $135 (regularly $175) when you use code SM135 by Saturday night, 1/23. Click the Special Discount button!

10:00 to 10:45 - "Commercial and Not-for-Profit Asks: Defining the Differences" - with attorney LisaRoxanne Walters.
10:45 to 11:30 - "Commercial Financing: Formalizing Your Ask" - with attorney Erach Screwvala.

11:30 to 11:45 - BREAK
11:45 to 12:15pm - "The Implications of the New Tax Laws on Theater Investing"
12:15 to 1:00pm -"How to Present Yourself to Investors" - with financial advisor Bailie Slevin.

1:00pm to 2:00pm - LUNCH

2:00 to 2:30pm - "The Investor's Perspective: Why Your Show?" with James Simon.

2:30 to 3:30 - "Creating an Effective Business Plan: Why Is This Show Likely to Succeed?" with RK Greene.

3:30 to 4:15 - "Cultivating and Maintaining a Pool of Investors" - with producer Jane Dubin.
4:15 to 4:30 - BREAK
4:30 to 5:15 - "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Started Asking" - with producer Michael Alden.

5:15 to 5:30 - Keynote: Michael Alden.

5:30 to 6:00 - RECEPTION

Instead of medication or meditation, try this...

Mediation Techniques for Producers (and Everyone):
Dealing with the Off-Stage Drama

Facilitated by attorney/mediator Eric S. Goldman, with a panel of commercial Broadway and indie producers offering their commentary and observations, including Patricia Klausner (Pippin, Stick Fly, The Trip To Bountiful, The Scottsboro Boys) and Ken Waissman (Grease, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God).

As we head into the new year, many producers will find themselves putting together creative teams. In some cases the matches will be perfect, but sometimes it becomes the producer's job to mediate disputes between members of the team. This invaluable workshop will offer insights into communicating effectively and productively as you embark on these relationships, techniques for working through the rough spots when disputes come up, and clues about recognizing colleagues who will work collaboratively.

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you can do this workshop for $50 with code SM50 using the SPECIAL button.

Email TRUStaff1@gmail.com now to reserve! We can't wait to see you!

You are invited to join us for a reading of Larry Hassman's hard-hitting new play, Til Death Do Us Part.

Thursday, 1/28, 6PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, NYC. FREE.

TILL DEATH DO US PART is a fast moving, powerful play about men who batter and their women who break free -- one way or another. John is a handsome "wannabe"movie actor married to Agnes, a woman he loves. But John has a problem -- when he gets angry he hits his wife. Agnes hates it. On the other hand, she says she loves him and keeps going back. TILL DEATH DO US PART follows this roller-coaster emotional relationship between Agnes and John to the moment Agnes finally breaks free.