Programs and Events Professional Development

Professional Development

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Programs designed to provide professional development and technical assistance to individuals and organizations. Programs vary from year to year. Past programs have included:

  • If I Knew Then... Series
  • Tax Savings Strategies 
  • Nuts and Bolts of Financial Planning
  • Health Care Reform for Creative Professionals
  • Pefecting Your Pitch with Robbie Samuels
  • Financial Planning Basics: Strategies for Creatives
  • Writing in 3D -  Writing the Fight: What Playwrights' Need to Know About Staged Violence
  • The Power To Ask: A workshop in negotiation for women in theatre and the arts
  • Non Profit Incorporation Seminar
  • To Be or Not To Be: A discussion on the pros and cons of becoming a Non-Profit Theatre.
  • Acting with the Alexander Technique: A NEW Master Class with Betsy Polatin and Judy Braha
  • Actor’s Master Suite, a one-day intensive in physical training for actors including Yoga Warm-up, Voice,
  • Movement, Monologue Prep and Michael Chekhov Technique
  • Symposium on Collaboration with Olympia Dukakis, in partnership with Emerson College
  • Playwriting in Three Dimensions, a workshop for playwrights learning from designers
  • Budgeting Seminar, with Julie Hennrikus, Emerson Stage
  • Intro to Fundraising, with Buzz Harris
  • Audition Preparation Workshop
  • Website development
  • Self-Producing and Marketing
  • Physical Comedy, with Dan Milstein, Rough & Tumble Theatre
  • Voice-Over, with Jordan Rich
  • Stage Combat
  • Tax preparation
  • Financial planning
  • Directing Shakespeare
  • Classical Acting  

Current Programs will be updated here regularly.