2023 Cohort Members: Tẹmídayọ Amay, Gustavo Blaauw, Kahari Blue, Regina De Vera, José Hugo Hurtado, Averi Israel, Sukhjit Khalsa, Seonjae Kim, Zoë Kim, Nicole Kwan, Sierra Lancaster, Joshua Lee, Marla Louissaint, Esmé Maria Ng, CJ Ochoco, Michela Rodriguez, Lainie Sakakura, Simone Tetrault, Bibiana Torres, Michael Thanh Tran, Cindy Tsai, Natalie Tucker, Miho Ueno, Angelica Vicens, and Alexandria Wailes.
NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) has named 25 aspiring BIPOC producers who will take part of their third annual training program, Producing 101. The 2023 cohort will embody Tẹmídayọ Amay, Gustavo Blaauw, Kahari Blue, Regina De Vera, José Hugo Hurtado, Averi Israel, Sukhjit Khalsa, Seonjae Kim, Zoë Kim, Nicole Kwan, Sierra Lancaster, Joshua Lee, Marla Louissaint, Esmé Maria Ng, CJ Ochoco, Michela Rodriguez, Lainie Sakakura, Simone Tetrault, Bibiana Torres, Michael Thanh Tran, Cindy Tsai, Natalie Tucker, Miho Ueno, Angelica Vicens, and Alexandria Wailes. Find out extra concerning the cohort members right here.
During the tuition-free 11-week program, aspiring producers will study the basics of business producing, together with improvement paths, financing, budgeting, and extra, with skilled BIPOC and white ally leaders as their guides.
Producer Sammy Lopez (A Christmas Carol, Be More Chill) will function the general program mentor. This 12 months, the choice committee acquired essentially the most purposes in this system’s historical past. Since the launch of this system in 2021, Producing 101 alumni have come from everywhere in the world (New Zealand, Toronto, China, Japan, USA, and extra), and 51 are at the moment working within the Broadway and off-Broadway enterprise.
Guest audio system for the 2023 program will embody Jill A. Anderson, Osh Ashruf, Rashad V. Chambers, Samuel Dallas, Ken Davenport, Ben Holtzman, Toni Isreal, Nicole Javanna Johnson, Dale Mott, Doug Nevin, Leslie Papa, Ilene Rosen, Matt Ross, Erica Rotstein, Heather Shields, Ron Simons, Rachel Sussman, Cynthia J. Tong, and Ava Xiao-Lin Rigelhaupt.
Using the brand new Broadway-aimed musical How to Dance in Ohio as a case research all through the course, members will achieve expertise from the crew concerned in bringing the present to the stage. Additionally, every cohort member will choose considered one of their very own initiatives, or select a present at the moment on Broadway, to follow implementing a number of the instruments shared over the 11 weeks, comparable to creating venture pitch supplies for buyers and co-producers, navigating the unsure monetary local weather of the pandemic, and figuring out essentially the most viable improvement steps for his or her initiatives. The course meets on Monday evenings via June 19.
TPOC is incubated and supported by Broadway For All (BFA), a corporation that gives younger artists and stakeholders in leisure with the programming, group, and imaginative and prescient to construct a extra inclusive and highly effective arts trade.
Selection panelists included Salman Al-Rashid, Victor Cervantes, Anant Das, Cynthia Dorsey, Arysbells Figueredo, Leah Harris, Yesenia Garcia Herrington, Vanessa Immink, Celia Kaleialoha Kenney, Sergio Mexia, Afsheen Misaghi, Phoebe Moore, Irene Laziridis, Sujotta Pace, Carmen Quiñones, Alexander Robertson, Jacob Santos, Ariana Sarfarazi, Malkia Stampley, and Riza Takahashi.
Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) is a multifaceted collective of theatremakers joined collectively in assist of the subsequent era of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, folks of colour) producers by offering entry to training, coaching, and mentorship. TPOC was born out of the need to diversify the pool of business producers on and off Broadway. TPOC strives to interrupt down obstacles and make producing extra accessible for quite a lot of voices.
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