Let’s talk about New Media Contracts. So you want to produce work in the Time of Corona, and you’re pivoting into digital and virtual. You know that contracts and working with unions are a key part of producing work, but many questions remain. What is the extent of my liability when folks are “working from home”? Are there dues and minimums that need to be paid? Do I use the SAG contract or the Equity one? Which union has jurisdiction over what?
Let’s get to the bottom of this debate together so we can keep you focused on creating art to meet the moment! Producer Hub will be sitting down with folks who are working with both SAG/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity contracts to dig into what we need to know, when to use each contract, and the pros and cons of each.
Thursday, December 10th at 8pm EDT
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Amanda Cooper (ALC Management) is a freelance arts manager, producer and consultant, working with a wide variety of theater and music companies around New York City and across the U.S. Recent and current companies she works with include: Pearldamour, DNAWORKS, En Garde Arts, Aaron Jafferis, Working Theater, Trinity Church, Concrete Temple Theatre, Sinking Ship, and more. Amanda has worked at HERE, The House Foundation, Music Before 1800, Symphony Space, and the Look + Listen Festival, where she has been serving as the President since 2014.
Joey Monda is a Producer with Sing Out, Louise! Productions where he produced the digital holiday Christmas musical The Nice List and is a Producer on the currently running Broadway productions of Hadestown and Mrs. Doubtfire and the previous productions of The Inheritance, Slave Play, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One (also on Netflix), and The Cher Show. With fellow Sing Out Louise partners Lorenzo Thione and Jay Kuo, Sing Out Louise Productions shepherded actor and activist George Takei’s true-life experience of WWII Japanese American internment camps into the Broadway musical and subsequent film Allegiance, which starred Takei and Tony Award winner Lea Salonga.
Joey and Sing Out Louise are passionate about extending the brand, reach, and impact of Broadway through cinema-quality stage-to-screen films and Joey has served as the Executive Producer on the films of Allegiance and Bandstand and oversaw the full marketing and distribution of the Broadway musical Kinky Boots film. Joey is General Manager/Co-Founder of Dailey-Monda Management, a full-service production and management office to bring a fresh and innovative approach to theatrical business management. Specializing in new work and self-producing artists. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Joey proudly holds a BFA from Wright State University. He is a member of the Broadway League, Off-Broadway League, Off-Broadway Alliance, and National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
photo credit: Laurie Tennent
Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-nominated producer committed to cultivating dynamic, inclusive theatrical work through meaningful collaboration. She is a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan, as well as The Business of Broadway, a new educational venture designed to democratize commercial producing knowledge and develop more transparency between artists and producers. Prior to joining the Plate Spinner Productions team as a Producer, she worked with such companies as Audible Theater, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Second Stage Theatre, RKO Stage, and Lincoln Center's American Songbook. Broadway and national tour: co-producer on Heidi Schreck's Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me. Other producing credits include the Obie Award-winning production of The Woodsman (New World Stages/ 59E59), Saturday Night Seder (Story Course), Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door at NYTW), Endlings (NYTW), and The Rug Dealer (Women's Project Pipeline Festival). In development: Suffragist by Shaina Taub, Devotion by Mark Sonnenblick. A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel was the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts. www.rachel-sussman.com