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TRU Virtual Community Gathering
Description

Join us Fridays at 4:30pm for weekly virtual Community Gatherings, conversations about creativity and theater in the time of COVID-19, led by TRU executive director/founder Bob Ost. To receive the Zoom link for each week's conversation, email TRUnltd@aol.com and use the word "Zoom" creatively in your subject line.

UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS

Friday 5/22 - Virtual Presentations: What We Think You Can and Cannot Do (But We're Probably As Confused As You Are). In the room: Cate Cammarata, curator of the Monday Night Reading Series on CreateTheater.com; entertainment attorney Lee FeldshonJim Kierstead, producer (Hadestown, The Inheritance, Ain't Too Proud, Mrs. Doubtfire) and founder of Broadway Virtual presentation platform; and general manager/producer Martin Platt (Woman in Black, Dames at Sea, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, In the Continuum, an oak tree). 

Friday 5/29 - An Overview of Virtual Platforms. In the room: Emileena Pedigo The Show Goes On Productions, and Roger Gonzalez of LocalTheatreNY. We're researching the choices we have for virtual presentations, which platforms offer what, and how much the cost.

PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Friday 5/15 - Marketing Strategies for Virtual Performances. In the room:  Roger Gonzalez, Editor & Publisher Alliance Media & Communications / LocalTheatreNY.com and Monica Hammond, Director of Marketing for Davenport Theatrical. How do we hold on to our audiences during COVID? Monica and Roger will talk about how marketing strategies may have changed in our new Virtual society, and what still works. And how to reach out to a virtual audience.

Friday 5/8 - Making Music Virtually. In the room: Ted Arthur, conductor for the virtual Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, talking about coordinating the parts of a musical presentation for virtual isolated performance.

Friday 5/1 - An overview of best practices for virtual performance. In the room: attorney Lee Feldshon and attorney/theater journalist Matt Windman addressing some of the legalities connected with the new virtual isolated performance model. 

Friday 4/24 - Adapting to a New Medium. In the room: directors James A. Rocco and Dennis Corso, discussing how to adapt your theatrical bision to assommodate virtual presentation, including new ways of directing for maximizing the "theater experience" of a virtual performance.

Faculty
  • BOB OST

    While still a senior at U. of Pa., his one-act Beast was produced by Bob Moss in the first season of Playwrights Horizons. He went on to write book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway revue Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act at the Actor’s Playhouse, and Finale!, Grand Prize winner in the 1990 American Musical Theater Festival Competition (presented at NAMT) and the 1992 New American Musical Writers Competition, and a finalist at the O’Neill Music Conference in 1989. More recently his musical Angel in My Heart won Best Musical in the Fresh Fruit Festival. He won the New Works of Merit Playwriting Competition for his play Breeders, previously a finalist at the O'Neill, as well as a selection of the TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series. The Necessary Disposal was a finalist in the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, has been a finalist in three other national competitions, and was part of the Shotgun Productions New Play Reading Series and the Oberon Theatre Reading Series, both in NYC; his one-act A Glass of Water was part of the Lovecreek Festival, HomoGenius Festival, Downtown Urban Arts Festival; other one-acts have been showcased all over New York. He won a 2004 OOBR Award for the review "Songs Are Like Friends", and is a 3-time MAC nominee. While he was producing his own musical revues at cabarets around Manhattan he discovered he could combine his artistic talent with the business skills he was picking up in the advertising world. The idea of Theater Resources Unlimited was born, with the help of co-founders (and  fellow writers) Gary Hughes and Cheryl Davis in 1992. He has gone on to produce musicals Civil War Voices and Rip in the Midtown International Theater Festival, and the classic Chinese musical, Romance of the Western Chamber.

Events
  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    December 15, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 12/15 at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. A […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    December 8, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 12/8  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. In […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    December 1, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 12/1  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. In […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    November 24, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 11/24  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. In […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    November 10, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 11/10  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    November 17, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 11/17  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. In […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    November 3, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 11/3  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    October 6, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 10/6  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. One […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    October 20, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 10/20  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. […]

  • Non-members, please pay at least $8 to help keep us running.
    September 22, 2023
    5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Friday 9/22  at 5pm ET Community Gathering on Zoom – register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by making a donation or joining as a member. […]