Executive Producer
THE COMING

Working to negotiate the production of a feature film between a major university and a production company comes with significant challenges. Work began to build these bridges and negotiate these contracts in Fall of 2020 and took nearly on full year of weekly zoom meetings and countless phone calls to ensure we were meeting the requirements of producing a feature film. I negotiated and contracted the film production company, talent,  and managed the 250K production budget. The film was selected for the Wyoming International Film festival, Sidewalk International Film festival, and the University Film Association Conference (2023). Additionally, the film has been offered a domestic distribution contract from Freestyle Digital Media and we are currently in talks with OneTree Entertainment for international distribution. I have been working daily over the past 6 months negotiating and shepherding the agreement offer between Freestyle and more recently paving the path for a smooth process with OneTree Entertainment. Please find links to supporting materials below. (The password for the film is TC4you.) 

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EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
New Voices Theatre Festival

In fall of 2019 I founded a new theatre festival in an effort to represent the stories of historically marginalized communities. Leading a team of 8 individuals we developed the festival from event management, play collection, company management, and day-to-day production operations. I currently oversee all marketing and communications, grant writing and reporting, budgeting and general management for the festival. This new festival had intentions of accepting submissions in Fall 2019 with the first festival happening Summer 2020. This was delayed due to the pandemic but perseverance allowed us to resume again with accepting submission Fall 2022 with the first festival occurring in July of 2023. The festival has found great success with nearly 500 submissions in year one and workshopping three new plays. In the second year, we saw nearly 700 play submissions and will be workshopping two new plays and fully producing the play of the winner of the inaugural festival entitled “Huntsville” in September 2024. The website can be found here and please find links to developmental and supporting materials below. 

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CO-PRODUCER AND GENERAL MANAGER
The infancy of truth

As co-producer and General Manager of the production, business administration and audience development were my primary responsibilities. Specifically, I ensure the execution of all contracts between the theatre company and Theatre Row, all advertising outlets, the talent, designers, backstage crew, and Actors Equity Association. Develop an audience in a market without an established brand or identity. *Due to an investor backing out this has been postponed.

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PRODUCER AND GENERAL MANAGER
SHOOTING STAR

This musical production based on a true story, told the story of Billy Griffin’s rise to fame and his equally quick demise in the entertainment industry. I was responsible for contracting all talent, the venue, Casting Director, and creating marketing and advertising materials (both print and digital). Development of funding of production through investors and granting opportunities. The project won a grant from the NEA and was slated to be produced in New York City at 59E59 Theaters. Unfortunately, this production was canceled due to the COVID19 pandemic. Please find links to supporting materials below.

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Summertide Theatre

From 2014 through 2022, I served as the Business Manager for SummerTide Theatre. The duties principally pertained to business operations, including but not limited to: attaining performance rights for the productions, marketing and public relations activities, developing and designing all advertising, booking and executing all public relations events (including television, radio, and public appearances at several local venues), contracting advertising, box office operations (including software maintenance, building events in the ticketing software, running and analyzing all ticket sales reports, conducting all weekly and monthly accounting audits), and managing all front of house operations to ensure all patrons had a positive experience at SummerTide Theatre. In my first year as acting Business Manager, ticket sales increased by 15% and have seen steady growth between two and three percent each of the following years. Please see the gallery below for examples of advertising materials developed for each of the productions over the past five years.

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Producer and General Manager
Separate and equal

Inspired by compelling personal recollections from the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum Oral History Project, Separate and Equal, is an exploration into the emotional violence of segregation in the 1950s pressure cooker of Jim Crow Alabama.  The story is communicated through a forbidden basketball game between black and white teenagers. The stage is set as a basketball court with projection screens constituting the goals and backboards. The projection screens allow the audience to see shots made and missed, as well as transporting them to different locales where the adult world brutally intervenes, threatening to unravel the tenuous bonds constructed on court.  This necessarily visceral story is experienced through the movements of the “game,” which consists of a dynamic hybrid of basketball maneuvers and modern dance which is harmonized with an original Jazz score. Separate and Equal follows those on the very cusp of adulthood, those who are not yet consumed by their parent’s prejudices, and those who are struggling to break free from a repetitious cycle which is still in existence today.

In an effort to both involve the local community and share the production with a national audience, Producers Dominic M. Yeager and Seth Panitch partnered with the Birmingham Metro NAACP, the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, the Alabama Bi-Centennial Commission, and Laura Lustbader. Lustbader’s history of outreach work with the struggling school systems in the New York area enables Separate and Equal to make stronger connections with the area’s youth. Separate and Equal is premiering in New York City and 59E59 Theatres.

I also served as Co-Producer and General Manager for Separate and Equal. My responsibilities include:  contracting the venue contracting all talent (including 8 Actors Equity actors and an Equity Stage Manager and the production team),  contracting the Casting Director (Orpheus Casting), creating marketing and advertising materials (both print and digital). I helped fund the production by writing/co-writing grant proposals and by fundraising efforts and wrote a grant which was awarded $5,000 from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, co-wrote the NEA ArtWorks grant which awarded $10,000, and co-wrote the University of Alabama Research Grant Committee proposal which awarded $22,8000.

Efforts to find matching funds for awarded grants  raised  a total of $72,000.

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Our tuscaloosa

Our Tuscaloosa a production created through the compilation of Alabama Montage, The Dancing Ghost, and Bloody Sunday, tells anecdotal stories of the history of Tuscaloosa and the state of Alabama. Our Tuscaloosa is intended to be performed in schools, libraries, and various other locations, making each production unique and adaptable to accommodate time and spatial restraints. This project is a collaboration between the University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance and the University of Alabama English Department; specifically, Annie Levy, Heather Wyatt, and Dominic M. Yeager.

I served as General Manager and my responsibilities included booking and contracting performances, overseeing the production of all advertising materials, and overseeing the administrative duties involved, particularly in ensuring the participants receive their stipends. This project is the recipient of the $5,000 Alabama Humanities Foundation Grant, which was awarded to the collaborators in Fall 2017. Our Tuscaloosa has already been performed for a public Tuscaloosa Public Library six times and will continue to be produced as part of the Tuscaloosa Bi-Centennial celebration.

                                                              Links to each play’s script:  Alabama Montage, The Dancing Ghost, Bloody Sunday.

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Here i sit brokenhearted: a bathroom odyssey

Here I Sit Brokenhearted: A Bathroom Odyssey ran off- Broadway in New York City at the Beckett theatre from June 29 through July 10, 2016. As co-producer and General Manager of the production, business administration and audience development wprimary responsibilities. Specifically, I ensured the execution of all contracts between the theatre company and Theatre Row – all advertising outlets, the talent, designers, backstage crew and Actors Equity Association. Developing an audience in a market without an established brand or identity was oftentimes a daunting task. Audience development was successfully realized by filling the house at 47% capacity over the run of the show and netting a profit for the company. Examples of the contracts and other paperwork may be found here:  Actors Equity Agreement, Discount Form, Venue Contract, Ticketing Show Build, Insurance Certificate, Playbill, PR Firm Contract. A review of the show can be found here theaterpizzazz.com/here-i-sit-broken-heated-a-bathroom-odyssey/. Below are advertising pieces developed for the production.