Outside NYC? Attend TRU Panels & Workshops with Pay Per View Podcasts

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces an opportunity for those outside the New York area, or unable to make it to live TRU events, to benefit from the information shared by the theater's leading network for developing theater professionals.

Introducing a series of Pay Per View podcast recordings of past TRU Panels and Workshops, free for TRU members, $10 per podcast for non-members (paid sessions are valid for 72 hours). For the entire list of podcasts, visit truonline.org/pay-per-view.

Recent podcasts include:

LIVE STREAMING AND DIGITAL CAPTURE: BRINGING THEATER INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

With panelists Broadway producers Stewart F. Lane (Tony Award®-winning producer for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, War Horse, Jay Johnson: The Two & Only, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Will Rogers Follies and La Cage Aux Folles) and Bonnie Comley (Tony Award-winning producer for Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, War Horse and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder), co-founders of BroadwayHD; Benjamin Birney, Vice President of Technology and Business Affairs for BroadwayHD; Kathryn Jones, CEO of VirtualArtsTV.

FESTIVALS: HOW TO GET IN 'EM, WHAT TO GET OUT OF 'EM!

With panelists Elena K. Holy, producing artistic director FringeNYC; Jay Michaels, marketing director Midtown International Theatre Festival; Brock H. Hill, artistic producing director Planet Connections Theatre Festivity; Catherine Lamm, participant in Edinburgh Fringe; Lou Lopardi, executive director All Out Arts/Fresh Fruit Festival; Michael Scott-Price, festival director/curator of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival; and Liz Ulmer, general manager NY Musical Festival (NYMF).

MARKETING MAVERICKS: NEW THINKING, NEW METHODS, NEW IDEAS

With speakers Merrie Davis of Next Act 2 Follow; Toni Isreal, managing director of Walker Communications; Jay Michaels of Jay Michaels Arts & Entertainment; Lorenzo Thione, chief executive of The Social Edge.

THEATER AND COMMUNITY: EDUCATION, OUTREACH & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Brooke Boertzel, director of education at New York City Children's Theater; Brent Buell, producing artistic director of Doing Life Productions and Founding Producer of Rhymes Over Beats; Rod Christensen, Director of Education with TADA! Youth Theater; Van Dean, a commercial producer (Porgy and Bess, Cinderella) who has been working with the Sandy Hook/Newtown community since the tragic shooting to use the performing arts to raise funds and help empower the community; Annie Hamburger, executive producer of EnGarde Arts, an award-winning producer whose documentary theatre productions bring theatre to the uninitiated promoting community and conversation in New York and across the country; Katie McAllister, the Program Director of Inside Broadway, dedicated to introducing NYC school children to live theater; David Shookhoff, director of education Manhattan Theatre Club; and Emily Joy Weiner, co-artistic director of Houses on the Moon Theater Company.

Boot Camp podcasts of workshops include educational modules from the Weekend Intensive for Showcase Producing and Essentials of Self-Producing. See details and full list of segments available at truonline.org/pay-per-view.

Theater Resources Unlimited(TRU) is the leading network for developing theater professionals, a twenty-four year old 501c3 nonprofit organization created to help producers produce, emerging theater companies to emerge healthily and all theater professionals to understand and navigate the business of the arts. Membership includes self-Producing Artists as well as career producers and theater companies.

TRU publishes an email community newsletter of services, goods and productions; presents the TRU VOICES Annual New Play Reading Series and Annual New Musicals Reading Series, two new works series in which TRU underwrites developmental readings to nurture new shows as well as new producers for theater; offers a Producer Development & Mentorship Program whose mentors are among the most prominent producers and general managers in New York Theater, and also presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop the business skills they need. TRU serves writers through a Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop, How to Write a Musical That Works and a Director-Writer Communications Lab; programs for actors include the Annual Combined Audition, Resource Nights and "Speed Dating" as well as actor workshops.

Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by public funds awarded through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, 9th district Council Member Inez Dickens; and with support from the Montage Foundation and the Friars National Association Foundation.

For more information about TRU membership and programs, visit www.truonline.org or call 212 714-7628.