Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces their Free Introduction to the TRU Producer Development & Mentorship Program on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5pm on Zoom! A free meet-and-greet info session about TRU’s Producer Development and Mentorship Program, the only theater production program to offer in-depth instruction from accomplished producers at an affordable price. The spring semester will start in late March. The more you know about the business, the better your chances of success. Come hear how the TRU program can fill in the skill sets for aspiring producers, and how writers and other theater artists will also benefit from this program. This free introduction will occur at TRU’s Friday Community Gathering. The presentation will begin promptly at 5:15. Click here to register and receive the zoom link.



SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR OUR SPRING 2025 TERM

TRU is now accepting applications to both Foundations and Master Class, Spring '25. The final deadlines have been extended to March 10, 2025 with a late March start for classes.



Broadway/off-Broadway producer David Elliott will be back teaching Foundations on Tuesday nights and Jane Dubin returns to teach the Spring 2025 Master Class on Monday nights, starting late March (schedules to be confirmed). Classes will be held virtually so students from beyond the New York area may continue to attend virtually. Email [email protected] with questions!



Master Class

Meeting bi-monthly on Monday nights on zoom, 5:30 to 8:00pm eastern

The 2025 Spring MASTER CLASS for Foundations PDMP graduates and other eligible candidates will once again be led by Broadway producer Jane Dubin (Is This a Room, Dana H., The Prom, Tony winning The Norman Conquests, Farinelli and the King, Bandstand, Peter and the Starcatcher and An American in Paris; plus off-Broadway Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, The 39 Steps, Ann; upcoming: Village of Vale). An in-depth and personalized approach to producing focusing on your own project, including a private consultation. Master Class is open to graduates of the Foundations Class, people who have taken previous TRU workshops or the Commercial Theatre Institute 14 week or other CTI or Business of Broadway courses or those with equivalent producing experience. Click for details. To request an application for Master Class, or to inquire about the program, email [email protected].



Foundations Class

Meeting one or two Tuesday evenings each month on zoom, 6:30-9:00pm eastern

The 2025 Spring FOUNDATIONS CLASS will be led by David Elliott of Perry Street Theatricals, producers of the Tony-winning Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, as well as Dames at Sea on Broadway, Lend Me a Tenor musical in London and award-winning off-Broadway productions of In the Continuum, an oak tree and Bedlam Theatre’s Hamlet & St. Joan. This course offers a basic but thorough overview of the major business aspects of producing, taught in context of a final class project that offers practical application of the information shared, and helps strengthen collaborative skills. Foundations is open to everyone interested in producing, including artists who are wise enough to want to know about the business. CLICK for details.



All candidates for Master Class must have a specific theatrical project that they are leading towards production. Self-producing artists are encouraged to apply.



Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is now in its fourth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday, having offered to date over 250 conversations and unlimited camaraderie since April 17, 2020. TRU hosts these Community Gatherings every Friday at 5pm ET via Zoom, originally presented to explore the creation of art and theater in the time of COVID-19, and now to ensure that these crucial conversations continue going forward. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by buying a ticket, making a donation or joining as a member.





More information about upcoming interviews is available at: truonline.org/tru-community-gathering.



To receive the Zoom invitation for weekly meetings, email [email protected] with “Zoom Me” in the subject header. These gatherings are free for TRU members, non-members are asked to make an optional tax-deductible donation or consider joining TRU at truonline.org/membership to support the organization’s ongoing service to the community.



Videos of past Community Gatherings may be viewed on TRU’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/channel/UC43rsChi4fA23dNLeloaF_A/. And a podcast series, TRU Talks About Theater, featuring 2023 Community Gathering conversations, is now available wherever you get your podcasts; or tune in at ElectraCast: https://electracast.com/?s=Theater+Resources



Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is the leading network for developing theater professionals, a thirty-two-year-old 501(c)(3) 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, opportunities and productions; presents weekly Community Gatherings; offers a Producer Development & Mentorship Program taught by prominent producers and general managers in New York theater, and also presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop business skills. TRU serves writers through the TRU Voices Play Reading Series, TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices evening of short filmed plays about social issues, Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop, How to Write a Musical That Works and a Director-Writer Communications Lab.



Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by the Montage Foundation, The Storyline Project and the Leibowitz Greenway Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.



For more information about TRU membership and programs, visit www.truonline.org.



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• March 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

  March 7, 2025 05:00 to March 7, 2025 07:00
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