Diverse City Theater Company
For Immediate Release: November 13, 2006

DCT's Victor Lirio to Speak at SPF/Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting Panel: Producing 101 on Saturday, December 9

NEW YORK -- A free panel entitled "Producing 101: How to Get a Show Up and Get an Audience In" will be presented at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row on Dec. 9 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM.

The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB) and The Living Room for Artists/Summer Play Festival (SPF) are presenting the panel, which is the fourth in a series of panels on careers in the theatre that the MOFTB and SPF have teamed to present this year.

Panelists will include Sharon Fallon (independent producer and co-chair of the League of American Theatres and Producers' New Producers Alliance), Chad Beckim and Molly Pearson (co-founders and producers of the Partial Comfort Theatre Company), Seth Goldstein (producer and general manager of The Splinter Group) and Victor Lirio (chief artistic and producing officer of Diverse City Theater Company). Katherine Oliver, the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB), will moderate.

To make a reservation, RSVP to message@film.nyc.gov by December 7. The Acorn Theatre is at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.

Diverse City Theater Company

Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture thereby creating multiculturally fluent theater audiences, as well as advocate the non-traditional casting of actors.

Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.

Contact

Natasha Marco

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(e) natasha@diversecitytheater.org

 

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