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Building a Team That Doesn't Burn Out by Tech Week
How to build a team people actually want to be part of before everyone loses their minds during tech week.
Reality Check for Indie Theatre Producers
Free producing fundamentals, budget reality checks, behind-the-scenes lessons, and practical advice for making theatre without pretending it's easy.
Start Here
The fundamentals. The big-picture questions. The stuff to think through before you start spending money you do not have yet.
REALITY CHECK
Fringe Festival Survival Guide for Indie Theatre Producers
Budget, housing, flyering, burnout, tech limits, and the weird magic of taking a show to Fringe without emotionally flatlining in the basement of a pub at 1am.
FIELD NOTES
Why This Feels Like a Golden Age for DIY Theatre
More access, more tools, more ways to make it happen on your own terms.
REALITY CHECK
Is Your Show Produceable? The First Questions Every Theatre Producer Should Ask
A reality check before you spend time, money, and bits of your soul.
Money
Budgets, fundraising, paying people, and creative ways to make a show happen.
Reality Check
What Does It Actually Cost to Put on a Play?
A few thoughts on money, from scrappy black box shows to the whole kit and caboodle.
FIELD NOTES
How to Make a Show With No Money
Is it possible? Strategy, creativity, and nerve will get you halfway there.
FIELD NOTES
What I Learned Crowdfunding $600,000 for Indie Theatre
Lessons from years of fundraising, algorithm roulette, audience trust, and asking people to believe in a show before it exists.
People
Collaboration, hiring, communication, and working with other humans.
Logistics
Timelines, production planning, and getting from idea to opening night.
Want the fullroadmap?
The Make The Damn Show toolkit gives you guides, templates, checklists, and practical advice to actually mount your show.