Literary Management Services for Theatres

New Play Development Program

• Help design and create a program to fulfill the needs of the Theatre
• Timeline and initiate program to fill mandates

Outreach

• Work with provincial service organizations to promote New Play Development Program & solicit scripts
• Connect with the Playwrights Guild of Canada on behalf of the Theatre
• Liaise with the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the America for new scripts and opportunities

Literary Manager Feedback

• Provide one page script analysis (ask to see breakdown page for the Theatre)
• Clear any backlog of scripts
• Provide AD with breakdowns on forthcoming new scripts
• Read plays from the existing canon suitable for mandate and production
• Help AD by providing a sounding board for possible season compilations

One-on-one dramaturgy

• Meet with playwrights by phone, Skype or in person
• Provide feedback on first ideas, first drafts or final drafts

In-house Workshops

• Lead New Play Development half or full day sessions
• Create In depth discovery sessions with actors and/or director

Social media

• Blog about development in workshop or rehearsal on theatre site
• Provide posts for the theatre page/profile

Open Readings

• Work with actors on new plays which culminate in readings in front of an audience
• Facilitate live audience feedback
• Help generate written or electronic feedback

Season post or pre-show chats

• Facilitate audience interaction with playwrights at premieres
• Design audience feedback whether written or electronic, on scripts in the season

Production dramaturgy

• Providing research, context for one show in the season
• Connect with the whole team from designers to publicists
• Create rehearsal journal or notebook
• Help generate program notes

Casting assistance

• Provide support for the AD and/or guest directors in auditions, generals with casting

Specialty Programs

• Create play of the month clubs, tied in with programming
• Develop a series of noon time workshops on playwriting to appeal to the downtown audience
• Create, with an actor, an event that portrays unavailable playwrights for audience interaction
• Create other off site outreach and community programs for youth and seniors in the form of classes or talks
• Create potential New Play Contest for new works for production
• Adjudicate Playwright/Theatre Competition initiatives

All Literary Management Rates are al a cart.