HowlRound: Producing on your own can be a lonely road. There isn't a community for independent producers like there is for artists, theatres, and agents. The work we do is often less visible, and less easily understood. That's one of the reasons I'm writing this series with fellow producer Annalisa Dias—there are a lot of reflections, lessons, and challenges to highlight—and I hope we bring our community a little closer in the process.
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I clicked on this article because I thought I might be getting introduced to yet another position in theater I didn’t know existed, but what it seems to me that the author is trying to do is introduce a new perception of the old, established position of a producer. I think that most people in theater have to be creative problem solvers because our industry is a place where everything is constantly changing and we have to think on our feet. Whether you’re drafting a light plot, budgeting a show, or performing a monologue there is an immense amount of creative thinking that goes into every aspect of putting on a show. While I don’t think we need to start putting the word “creative” in front of every job title, if calling herself a “creative producer” helps the author focus on the important parts of her job like innovation and expanding the support and community around a theater than more power to her. Overall it is always nice and rewarding to read about someone doing a job, whatever it may be, with passion and heart.
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