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Dan Wilson
Jul 9, 2008, 1:37:36 AM7/9/08
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BAPST meeting minutes
July 7, 2008
In attendance:
Dan Wilson, Tara McDonough, Kate Willett, Jay Kwo, Shawn Ferreya, Mike
Reynolds, Bruce Moody, Dale Albright
----------------------------
All attendees announced upcoming projects.
----------------------------
The departure of Trevor Allen was raised. Dale expressed guarded
confidence that increased intern staff, combined with organizational
streamlining would allow company members needs to continue to be met,
but acknowledged that time would tell.
----------------------------
Dan reiterated the importance of uploading ads to the Google Group so
that BAPST companies can download then and include them in their
programs.
Note that at this time, we have ads for Pan Theatre's Lorca Festival
and for Killing My Lobster online.
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
----------------------------
Recompense Survey
Dan passed out the results of the Recompense Survey. These are posted
in the file share area of the Google Group.
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
The survey had 15 responses. We need more data to truly understand
what trends currently are in the Bay Area and encourage everyone to
complete the survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tcHwE7vWHvSHnzjqJE4_2bvw_3d_3d
The survey sparked a conversation about a recompense issue not
addressed in the survey: travel stipends for both Equity and Non-
Equity performers and staff.
Jay has had actors break their contracts due to their travel expenses
outstripping their stipends. His company has had to increase stipends
by $10 per person per rehearsal.
Bruce has calculated travel stipends for his casts, and estimates that
it raises his budget by $750 per person.
As costs go up, it has a huge impact on us both in terms of being able
to draw talent from the entire Bay Area as well as audience. Small
companies may find that they can only cast people who live very near
to their theatre/rehearsal space.
-------------------------
First Dates
Sean gave an overview on the First Dates program, since almost the
entire group was new to BAPST.
Tara mentioned the success that the SF Playhouse has had with
"Concierge Nights", which are the Wednesday before opening. Have some
food and wine and invite concierges to the show. It took a few shows
before it caught on, but they are seeing results! Again, have wine.
The concierges won't come unless you have free wine.
We need to begin collecting groups for the first First Dates quarter.
This is September-December shows, so we need to have everything done
and printed by the end of August.
Shawn will develop a price structure so that people will know what
this will cost for printing and distribution, depending on the number
of groups participating.
Tara suggested that if a company donates labor for design/assembly or
distribution that their fiscal contribution be waived. This will be
figured into the price sheet that Shawn is developing.
We do need a cover design.
If this works, in the future we definitely want to break this up into
regionally based First Dates, keeping East Bay shows, South Bay Shows,
SF, and North Bay Shows together.
Key tasks now are getting a designer, getting submissions from
companies, determine how many fliers we want to have printed, getting
a treasurer who will collect money and pay the printer, and ideally
get a volunteer to be a BAPST wrangler to make sure all this is done.
Anyone who wants to work with Shawn on this, please contact him via
this group.
Tara volunteered to proof read. We cheered.
No, really, we did. Do you want to be cheered? Volunteer.
------------------
Misc.
East Bay concerns: storage space is high on the list.
Dale reminded members of the highly underutilized TMAX
TBA's web redesign is not on the radar.
Would companies be interested in partnering up with shows that have
had some success to do regional tours? Benefits of pre-rehearsed and
cast shows were discussed.
------------------
Post Meeting
Leadership discussed the benefits of an overview document on what
BAPST is, and what services we are developing (forum, google group, ad
swap, First Dates)
Reminder notices for the meetings will go out two weeks early, rather
than one week as has been our practice.
That's about it!
Dan Wilson recording.
July 7, 2008
In attendance:
Dan Wilson, Tara McDonough, Kate Willett, Jay Kwo, Shawn Ferreya, Mike
Reynolds, Bruce Moody, Dale Albright
----------------------------
All attendees announced upcoming projects.
----------------------------
The departure of Trevor Allen was raised. Dale expressed guarded
confidence that increased intern staff, combined with organizational
streamlining would allow company members needs to continue to be met,
but acknowledged that time would tell.
----------------------------
Dan reiterated the importance of uploading ads to the Google Group so
that BAPST companies can download then and include them in their
programs.
Note that at this time, we have ads for Pan Theatre's Lorca Festival
and for Killing My Lobster online.
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
----------------------------
Recompense Survey
Dan passed out the results of the Recompense Survey. These are posted
in the file share area of the Google Group.
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
The survey had 15 responses. We need more data to truly understand
what trends currently are in the Bay Area and encourage everyone to
complete the survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tcHwE7vWHvSHnzjqJE4_2bvw_3d_3d
The survey sparked a conversation about a recompense issue not
addressed in the survey: travel stipends for both Equity and Non-
Equity performers and staff.
Jay has had actors break their contracts due to their travel expenses
outstripping their stipends. His company has had to increase stipends
by $10 per person per rehearsal.
Bruce has calculated travel stipends for his casts, and estimates that
it raises his budget by $750 per person.
As costs go up, it has a huge impact on us both in terms of being able
to draw talent from the entire Bay Area as well as audience. Small
companies may find that they can only cast people who live very near
to their theatre/rehearsal space.
-------------------------
First Dates
Sean gave an overview on the First Dates program, since almost the
entire group was new to BAPST.
Tara mentioned the success that the SF Playhouse has had with
"Concierge Nights", which are the Wednesday before opening. Have some
food and wine and invite concierges to the show. It took a few shows
before it caught on, but they are seeing results! Again, have wine.
The concierges won't come unless you have free wine.
We need to begin collecting groups for the first First Dates quarter.
This is September-December shows, so we need to have everything done
and printed by the end of August.
Shawn will develop a price structure so that people will know what
this will cost for printing and distribution, depending on the number
of groups participating.
Tara suggested that if a company donates labor for design/assembly or
distribution that their fiscal contribution be waived. This will be
figured into the price sheet that Shawn is developing.
We do need a cover design.
If this works, in the future we definitely want to break this up into
regionally based First Dates, keeping East Bay shows, South Bay Shows,
SF, and North Bay Shows together.
Key tasks now are getting a designer, getting submissions from
companies, determine how many fliers we want to have printed, getting
a treasurer who will collect money and pay the printer, and ideally
get a volunteer to be a BAPST wrangler to make sure all this is done.
Anyone who wants to work with Shawn on this, please contact him via
this group.
Tara volunteered to proof read. We cheered.
No, really, we did. Do you want to be cheered? Volunteer.
------------------
Misc.
East Bay concerns: storage space is high on the list.
Dale reminded members of the highly underutilized TMAX
TBA's web redesign is not on the radar.
Would companies be interested in partnering up with shows that have
had some success to do regional tours? Benefits of pre-rehearsed and
cast shows were discussed.
------------------
Post Meeting
Leadership discussed the benefits of an overview document on what
BAPST is, and what services we are developing (forum, google group, ad
swap, First Dates)
Reminder notices for the meetings will go out two weeks early, rather
than one week as has been our practice.
That's about it!
Dan Wilson recording.
Pangs Theater
Jul 9, 2008, 3:35:29 PM7/9/08
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Hello Everyone,
We're working on finishing up the program for our Lorca Summer Festival, which runs Jul 18-Aug 2. The program will be pretty basic. If anyone has a show you are promoting right now, just email me and we will put the info in the program.
Best,
Marianna
Marianna Klebanov
Executive Director
Pangs Theater
marianna...@pangstheater.com
Direct Line: 415-515-0851
www.pangstheater.com
Kimberly Olofsen
Jul 9, 2008, 3:38:48 PM7/9/08
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Hi All,
We're printing programs tomorrow for our show opening tomorrow night running through the 27th of July. (Nothing like last minute!) Feel free to email me show info too!
-Kim
Dan Wilson
Jul 9, 2008, 4:27:44 PM7/9/08
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Just a reminder that ads can be placed and retrieved at
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
I just put up an ad for Radiostar's improvised plays, staged readings,
theatre interviews and cartoons.
I noticed that the ad for Killing My Lobster is a 3.3 mb PDF. Any
chance we could get a small JPG version of that?
On Jul 9, 12:38 pm, Kimberly Olofsen <k...@killingmylobster.com>
wrote:
> > Direct Line: 415-515-0851
> >www.pangstheater.com
http://groups.google.com/group/bapst/files?hl=en
I just put up an ad for Radiostar's improvised plays, staged readings,
theatre interviews and cartoons.
I noticed that the ad for Killing My Lobster is a 3.3 mb PDF. Any
chance we could get a small JPG version of that?
On Jul 9, 12:38 pm, Kimberly Olofsen <k...@killingmylobster.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We're printing programs tomorrow for our show opening tomorrow night
> running through the 27th of July. (Nothing like last minute!) Feel
> free to email me show info too!
>
> -Kim
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pangs Theater wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
>
> > We're working on finishing up the program for our Lorca Summer
> > Festival, which runs Jul 18-Aug 2. The program will be pretty basic.
> > If anyone has a show you are promoting right now, just email me and
> > we will put the info in the program.
>
> > Best,
> > Marianna
>
> > Marianna Klebanov
> > Executive Director
> > Pangs Theater
> > mariannakleba...@pangstheater.com
>
> We're printing programs tomorrow for our show opening tomorrow night
> running through the 27th of July. (Nothing like last minute!) Feel
> free to email me show info too!
>
> -Kim
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pangs Theater wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
>
> > We're working on finishing up the program for our Lorca Summer
> > Festival, which runs Jul 18-Aug 2. The program will be pretty basic.
> > If anyone has a show you are promoting right now, just email me and
> > we will put the info in the program.
>
> > Best,
> > Marianna
>
> > Marianna Klebanov
> > Executive Director
> > Pangs Theater
> > Direct Line: 415-515-0851
> >www.pangstheater.com
Laura Lundy-Paine
Jul 10, 2008, 1:21:15 PM7/10/08
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Thank you, Dan, for these great notes!
Laura LP
Virago Theatre Company
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