Producing Your Own Showcase

A step-by-step guide to being a do-it-yourself producer.

Author and successful producer Paul Harris blends his proven, hands-on experience with advice from industry veterans to show readers, step by step, how to become successful do-it-yourself off-off Broadway producers. This essential guide features hundreds of surefire techniques from selecting a cast to setting up rehearsals and putting on the performance. For anyone who wants to know what it takes to manage and produce a successful showcase production, chapters include: selecting the right play; creating a workable budget; finding a theater; raising money; attracting attention with publicity and advertising; rehearsing the play; putting on the performance; using the Internet; and more. This volume is filled with unique insights, tired-and-true advice, and sound guidance that can't be found anywhere else.