Workshop

Producing the Producer

  • When:
  • 12pm - 1pm
  • Where:
  • Online
An empathetic, solutions focused session for producers that need a producer to produce the producing.
**NEW DATE – Monday 28 October.
You’re handling every stray request and sliding every submission in by deadline. Saved the day again! Bloody tired though. Bloody tired.
What do you do when you’re independent but you need help? Let’s turn the gaze inward for a sec and look at how indie producers manage their
  • Workflow: there’s gotta be a more streamlined way than this
  • Workload: you’re doing HOW MUCH?
  • Burnout: it sucks
Pop the kettle on and take off your armour, let’s work on the work.
An empathetic, solutions focused session for producers that need a producer to produce the producing.

Hosted by

Libby Klysz

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.

Location

  • Online

Pricing

  • $33

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