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Artists
~Quicklink to Artistic Planning Page~
Thanks for your interest in working as an artist at
PushPush and New St. Arts. PushPush is Atlanta's only professional
theater dedicated to the professional development of working artists.
At PushPush, artists find common ground and work together to create
projects of their choosing. We expect everyone working on a project to
participate equally in moving the work forward. In this way, an actor
can find a director or a designer can find a playwright just as easily
as the other way around. We are constantly building and planning for
new projects and often related workshops are posted only a short time
before they are set to happen.
Every month of the year, someone at PushPush is looking
for additional artists (emerging and professional) to complete a
project. If you are committed to developing your skills, and will keep
at it, we have opportunities for you.
Here are some specific steps you can take
to get involved.
- Check out our calendar for
upcoming workshops, open rehearsals, shows, readings, gatherings, and
classes. Show up. Introduce yourself.
- Join the conversation. Speak up
about your developmental and project interests, but also equally listen
and observe. Read the website, come to our monthly planning meetings
& workshops, email us, sign up for the artists’ list, and take part in and start
discussions about the work going on or yet to come.
- Start a plan.
Write it down and include timelines. Commit to starting it. Say what
you’re going to do, how and when. Do it. Then build on this to get a
better gig. Share it with us, make your plans transparent, and we'll
help and support you with our resources. Please don't try to do it all
- this is the biggest misstep. Get specific.
- Commit to a project. Get to know
some of the work that is going on here. Challenge yourself. You can
commit to one day a month, or every day, depending on what you want to
accomplish. You decide what time you have available and find a job on
that project that you can be accountable for – and push yourself a
little harder in one specific area. Following through on your
commitment will make it possible to take on a better job next time. Get
involved at your own pace (see example below).
- Complete the project, no matter
what. This takes practice, it really does. Follow through, nothing else
really matters.
- Follow up. Not following up on a
project is like building a set of steps but not one on top of the
other. We want to encourage folks to step UP and stop stepping here and
there year after year. Build upon what you've already done. Build on
successes and failures, but build UP. The key to any plan is the
ability to prove you fulfill promise. This is your track record and
your measurements for success. You will need this later when trying to
explain to your stakeholders (audience, family, funders, partners) why
they should care, much less invest time or money.
About our approach:
We tend to try to push artists to challenge and to be challenged. We
try not to let vanity and ego make our decisions. There will be a wide
variety of directors, actors and projects, some you may like, some not.
Being a seasoned artist means having a wide foundation in both material
and people experience. If you stick to a project and finish a series of
working steps, we believe you will see real growth and stand a chance
at making a career; a chance at building trust in you and the work you
do, and building relationships with people who desire to work with you
(this is a big one). These relationships will help drive your career.
Now is the perfect time for change.
Recruiting Artists for Projects:
PushPush has many new opportunities for theater and film artists in our
community. We are looking for referrals of artists that you believe
would be a good fit for our mission. As you may know, we do not hold
typical auditions and rely heavily on references from our friends and
peers in the theater and film community.
As always, we are interested in your recommendations for
diverse, experienced and emerging artists. People you work with a lot,
or perhaps those that you've considered working with, but have not had
the right opportunity. Our preference is toward individuals with
risk-taking attributes, who consistently seek development of their
craft and have openness toward new ideas and challenges.
Please refer names and contact info for actors,
directors or filmmakers you think would benefit from opportunities at
PushPush to pushpushtheater@gmail.com. And thanks for helping us to
spread the word about our mission.
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