AMERICAN THEATRE: Like so many of us who work in theatre, Miranda Gohh has spent the past few years wrestling with questions. Chief among them: How can we change the industry? How do we create seats at the table for folks who’ve been historically excluded? Fortunately, she emerged from the early 2020s with a signifi cant pathway forward: Theatre Producers of Color’s 11-week, tuition-free Producing 101.
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It is inspiring to see effective change and meaningful pedagogy, especially in an industry that from the outside is always changing, yet in other ways on the inside is slow to change in our processes and practices. It is impressive how well Producing 101 ensures that everyone gets a seat at the table by purposefully bringing them to the table to then create new works in ways that they believe support their values. Further, that within the less than five years that this program has existed, there have already been “56 Broadway credits, 18 Tony nominations, and one Tony win” amongst those who have participated in the program. Seeing this success builds curiosity in the programming that occurs and the philosophy behind it, not only in the technical ability to be a producer, but also how to navigate a part of our industry that is inherently difficult to simply just begin doing.
This article is actually really funny to me because over the last two weeks exclusively I have had multiple people tell me that I would be good at producing. I then turned around and got hired as an assistant producer for a NYC workshop. I made a comment recently that no one actually knows what producing is and no one knows how to get into it. And I stand by that statement. Like you could say the same about stage management but producing is a whole different level of mystery. People know the job title unlike stage managers but even those in the industry could not really tell you what it is.This is the main reason I always giggle when people tell me that I would be a good producer. I have no idea what it means because I only kinda understand what producers do. I have always wondered if there are programs that train producers and it seems like the answer is no overall but programs like this one are popping up and I think that is really cool.
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