This is it.
This show is a winner and it’s gonna live forever. You might even have to pay HECS debt back this year!
Putting on a show is hard and expensive, so getting another go at performing can be a good way to recoup costs.
A remount season, a tour, getting bought by a festival- these are all great, but there are things you can build into your show and process FROM THE BEGINNING to help this happen.
Let’s have a practical chat about budgets/ fees, design processes, audiences and expectations for shows that intend on having a second life.
Libby Klysz was the WA Producer of the Year, 2023. A freelance producer of both touring and non-touring works for over a decade, recent projects include Under Fluoros (Performing Lines WA, 2024) I’m With Her Darwin Festival, Ten Days on the Island & Perth Festival (Half the Sky 2022, Midwinter Productions 2023-24), Hide the Dog Perth Festival (Performing Lines Tasmania, 2023), The Hypotheticals (The Last Great Hunt, 2023), JULIA and Savage Grace (Steamworks Arts, 2021-24); An Imaginary Life, The Golem and The Apparatus (Humphrey Bower, 2024, 2020 & 2019), My Robot (Barking Gecko Theatre, 2019), Wonder Woman (Laura Boynes, 2019), and BANG! BANG! (Scott Elstermann & Shona Erskine, 2019-2022). She’s an original cast member of The Big HOO-HAA! and is also a director and self-producing artist with heaps of good shows of her own.
Libby lectures at ECU and WAAPA; advocates for the sector a lot; and is on the current boards of CircuitWest and Chamber of Arts & Culture WA. Her order is English breakfast tea, with milk, please.
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