Theater Resources Unlimited Celebrates 25 Years of Service with TRU April Panel

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and The Playroom Theatre present the TRU April Panel - 25 Years of TRU (and How It's Made Me a Better Producer) on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7:30pm (doors open for networking at 7pm) at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036. For more details, visit http://truonline.org/events/25-years-of-tru/.

TRU has been offering 25 years of services and programs to educate producers and strengthen their skills. Come hear what six success stories have to say about TRU: Michael Alden, TRU board member and producer (Come from Away, Not That Jewish, Becoming Dr. Ruth. The King's Speech on stage, Disgraced, Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel); Patrick Blake, founding artistic director of Rhymes Over Beats, TRU board member and producer (The 39 Steps, Bedlam Theater's Hamlet/St. Joan, My Life Is a Musical, The Exonerated, Play Dead, In the Continuum); Van Dean, producer (Anastasia, Tony award for Porgy and Bess, Grammy Award for the album of the recent revival of The Color Purple, Velocity of Autumn, Saint Heaven from the TRU reading series); Patricia Klausner, managing director Shotgun . Productions, former program director for TRU's producer program, producer (Pippin, Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, The Scottsboro Boys); Molly Morris, co-founder of TRU's Young Patron and Artists Circle (YPAC), producer (Come from Away, My Life Is a Musical, TRU Voices readings of Empty Nest and The Hummingbirds); Daryl Sledge, TRU's producer Master Class, producer (Fried Chicken and Latkes, Pound for Pound, documentary film That Daughter's Crazy featuring Rain Pryor, HBO Best Short Film 2nd LiFE); Eileen Weiss, of Tweiss Productions, graduate of TRU's producer program, producer (Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging, Hell's Belles, TRU Voices reading of Appendage, documentary film Same Difference).

A lineup of friends with TRU success stories representing different levels of experience will talk about what they have learned from TRU, and how it has affected their careers. At heart, we hope to address one crucial topic: what does it take to be a good, effective producer? Also, how have TRU's programs and networking been a guiding force for so many in our business? And how can others to get the most out of being part of the TRU Community? Come help TRU celebrate their 25th year of service to the theater community!

Doors open at 7:00pm for networking and refreshments, roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm - come prepared with your best one-minute summary of who you are, and what you need. Free for TRU members; $15 for non-members ($12.50 in advance online at http://truonline.org/events/25-years-of-tru/). You may also reserve by phone at least a day in advance (or much sooner): 212-714-7628, or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.

The Playroom Theater, a small theater with a purpose on West Forty Sixth Street. Created by longtime theatrical producer Eric Krebs, The Playroom Theater features a 62-seat boutique theater, appropriate for rehearsals, readings, auditions, producers' presentations and workshop productions. Conceived of as an artists' workspace for writers, directors, composers, actors, producers and others committed to the professional theater arts and its industry. "The idea of The Playroom has grown out of my desire to create a small and financially manageable space in the heart of the theater district," commented Krebs. "I want this to be a place where industry professionals can pop over for a reading, a backer's audition or a small production of a work in progress." For more information on The Playroom Theater, call Adam Brunner at 212-967-8278.

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 Legislatureand the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, 9th district former 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.