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Weekly email newsletters reach 5,500 individual theatre artists, including actors, directors, designers, playwrights, and other theatre professionals, as well as 250 theatre, film, casting, audio, video, service and theatre support companies providing postings on auditions, job and playwriting opportunities, classes, workshops, community events, and free and discount ticket offers.
FREE AND DISCOUNT TICKET OFFERS
StageSource makes available thousands of dollars in free and discount tickets to many area theatres every year, exclusively to StageSource members.
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS CARD
Over 50 theatre companies throughout the region offer two-for-one tickets with this card, which is distributed to over 50,000 individuals. Many theatre companies offer this free benefit to their subscribers.
ONLINE RESUME AND HEADSHOT DATABASE and LIBRARY AND TALENT BANK
StageSource hosts an online searchable database containing resumes and/or headshots of over a thousand performers, directors, designers, playwrights, technicians, and administrators. We also host an in-office catalogue of resumes and headshots, available to theatre companies, film producers, and casting agents, and a collection of scripts, directories, periodicals, and other theatre resources is available for loan.
In addition, the StageSource Library is home to over 1,000 titles of classic and contemporary plays, plus periodicals, directories, instructional books and anthologies. Many theatre companies also make available to StageSource copies of scripts of their current season plays for our members to read prior to auditions.
ANNUAL AUDITIONS
Over 60 directors, producers and casting agents from around the region see over 500 Equity and non-Equity actors. The Equity auditions have been approved by Actors' Equity Association to satisfy part of the NEAT (New England Area Theatres) contract.
PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION JOB EXPO
Members of the theatrical community who work behind the scenes with companies that interview applicants for positions at their theatres at this annual job fair co-sponsored by the Boston Dance Alliance and United States Institute of Theatre Technology, New England.
BOSTON THEATRE CONFERENCE, EVENTS and CONVENINGS
The Boston Theatre Conference, a biennial event gathering members of the theatrical community to weigh in on critical issues, features keynote speakers, discussions on issues facing the theatre community, and networking opportunities. Events and convenings such as member nights at performances, periodic meetings, and cocktail parties and receptions bring together hundreds of members of the community each year. StageSource also presents an annual Theatre Hero Award which was presented in 2008 at the Elliot Norton Awards.
THE STAGEPAGE and ONLINE CALENDAR
The StagePage is a quarterly calendar of theatre events and performances in New England. StageSource also hosts an online Opening Night/Press Night calendar of theatrical performances and events throughout New England.
THE SOURCE DIRECTORY and THE SOURCE ONLINE
The Source: The Greater Boston Theatre Directory 2007 is an extensive resource guide to Boston theatre with thousands of listings of individual theatre artists, theatre companies, and resources for the entire theatre community available at a reduced price to members. Membership includes a supscription to The Source Online, a comprehensive searchable database. Also available is an online subscription to the Source with a comprehensive seachable database!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Programs designed to provide professional development and tchnical assistance to individuals and organizations including Headshot Days (a discount session with a headshot photographer), and workshops and clinics (past session topics: auditions, website development, self-producing, physical comedy, voice-over, tax preparation, financial planning, movement, dialects, stage combat, technical production, directing Shakespeare, marketing).
THEATRE ARTS MARKETING ALLIANCE
An initiative that brings together marketing personnel from area theatres to explore collaboration and networking among small and mid-sized theatres, and shaing ideas and resources. Projects have included the TAMA Audience Survey, Explore Boston Theatre (a project funded in part by a John and Abigail Adams grant), and a shared press list.
DIVERSITY INITIATIVE
This ongoing initiative is designed to increase employment opportunities and community awareness for multicultural and physically challenged theatre artists. StageSource works with theatres and audiences on issues of access for underserved audiences.
EDUCATION INITIATIVE
This initiative is designed to increase community awareness and opportunities for young adult theatre artists. Programs include StageSource Scholarship Awards for graduating high school students and area college students, seminars at local college and university theatre programs to expose students to successful theatre artists working in Greater Boston and internship/mentoring opportunities with area theatres and theatre artists. HEALTH AND DENTAL INSURANCE and DISCOUNT FITNESS CLUB MEMBERSHIPS
Low cost health and dental insurance plans available for freelance and self-employed theatre artists. Also, choose from over 1,000 health clubs and save up to 60 percent off regular clubs rates through Globalfit Fitness Solutions.
FRIEND OF STAGESOURCE
With a tax-deductible contribution of $50, receive a Circle of Friends card and one-year subscription to The StagePage, the quarterly calendar listing theatre events and performances at hundreds of theatres.
THEATRE COMMUNITY BENEVOLENT FUND
The Theatre Community Benevolent Fund is a non-profit organization administered by StageSource. The fund provides financial relief in a confidential, respectful manner to individual and non-profit organizational members of StageSource facing extreme illness, catastrophic acts of nature, and other events such as vandalism or theft, and who have limited or no resources with which to handle such occurrences. The Boston Theatre Marathon and May Day! a region-wide fundraising campaign at area theatres, are two lead funding sources for TCBF.   |