TRU Back Stage Hosts New Models for Success Industry Panel 1/27

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and Back Stage present the industry panel New Models for Success: The Commercial / Not-for-Profit Partnership on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 7:30pm at The Roy Arias Studios, 300 W. 43rd Street, OB Theatre, 5th floor, NYC.

The panel will include Doug Aibel, artistic director of the Vineyard Theatre (Avenue Q, [title of show], The Scottsboro Boys); Robyn Goodman, producer (off-Broadway: Bat Boy the Musical, Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...BOOM!, Our Lady of 121st Street, Red Light Winter; Broadway: A Class Act, Metamorphoses, In the Heights, Avenue Q, Steel Magnolias, Barefoot in the Park); RK Greene, producer (Room Service, Love Child); Kevin Kennedy, managing director The Peccadillo Theater Co. (Room Service, Another Part of the Forest, Talk of the Town); Randall Wreghitt, producer (Aesop and Company, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Grey Gardens, Little Women).

Doors open at 7:00pm for networking and refreshments, panel starts promptly at 7:30pm. FREE for TRU members; $12 for non-members. Please call at least a day in advance (or much sooner) for reservations: 212/714-7628; or e-mail TRUnltd@aol.com

TRU was founded in 1992 to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general theater community by providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the business capability of producing organizations, individual producers, self-Producing Artists and other theater professionals. The company holds monthly seminars on a wide range of subjects important to theatrical producers and artistic directors conducted by panels of experts from both the commercial and not-for-profit segments of Broadway, Off-Broadway and the motion picture industry. These educational forums have been a core program of TRU since its inception, and in recent years executive director Ost has partnered with Back Stage to generate topics of interest to both TRU membership and Back Stage readers. "Through TRU, Back Stage is able to reach beyond its actor base to a wider theater community," said Ost, "and we get more visibility through the Back Stage connection."

TRU also publishes a monthly email community newsletter of services, goods and productions. In addition, TRU produces the TRU VOICES Annual New Play Reading Series and the TRU VOICES Annual New Musicals Reading Series in which TRU underwrites developmental readings of new works for theater. In 2001, TRU began giving annual scholarships to The Commercial Theater Institute, to encourage the development of aspiring producers, created a Producer Development Program whose mentors are among the most prominent producers and general managers in New York theater, and presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop the business skills they need. In March '08, TRU was associate producer of its first Equity showcase, Missives at 59E59 Theatre, a play that was developed in the 2006 TRU reading series.

TRU programs for actors include an Annual Audition Event, Resource Nights and "Speed Dating" as well as free monthly actor events, including workshops; TRU serves writers through a Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop and a new Director-Writer Communications Lab.

Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by public funds awarded through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as generous support from the Friar's National Foundation Association.

For more information about TRU membership, visit www.truonline.org or call 212-714-7628.