Dream Team: Finding the right collaborators and partners, and building the relationships that hold a project together

ABOUT THE LABS

Are you an emerging artist, producer, or freelancer struggling to get to grips with the big world of producing? Join the Producer Lab!

Producer Lab is a five-part workshop series designed to demystify the producing process for early-career creatives, self-producing artists, indie companies and emerging producers.

Each session is led by Blown Fuse Theatre’s Executive Producer Roxanne Carney and rooted in honest, experience-based learning. We break down the production process of a project into accessible, hands-on workshops that build your skills, confidence and network.

Sessions are interactive and informal, with space for questions, reflection and peer connections.

WHAT WILL YOU GET (per workshop):

- Enrolment onto a jam-packed 2 hour workshop, led by Executive Producer Roxanne Carney

- A comprehensive resource sheet with links, tasks and networks relating to the workshop

- An opportunity to expand your network of creatives

- Access to the Producer Lab network (previous participants)

- Tangible tasks to elevate your project

- Signing up to Blown Fuse and Roxanne Carney's mailing list so you don’t miss future opportunities (you can unsubscribe at any time)

Come to one workshop or attend the whole series. These sessions are designed to support the creative work you’re already doing and help you build what comes next.

THE FIVE WORKSHOPS

1. Producing 101 Demystifying the role from scratch: what a producer actually does, and how a project is shaped by having one.

2. Dream Team Finding the right collaborators and partners, and building the relationships that hold a project together

3. Pitch, Please Finding the funding opportunities, pitching with confidence, securing support and tracing how to get funded, step by step.

4. Number Crunch Building a realistic budget, spotting hidden costs, and paying people fairly, using a real budget as the model.

Hit the Road Pitching to venues, planning a route, and locking in the right partners, following a project from its home stage out into the world.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Roxanne is a theatre and live art producer with over ten years' experience and founder of House of Carney. She's produced more than 20 productions and tours working with Split Britches, IN BED WITH MY BROTHER, Scottee & Friends and Teatro Vivo securing over £1.2 million in funding.

As Executive Producer of Blown Fuse Theatre, she led In Her Shoes from R&D to a full Essex tour: fundraising, partnerships, tour booking and access, start to finish. She’s spent six years with Mercury Theatre as mentee, mentor and facilitator and created Producer Lab to pass that knowledge on.

BLOWN FUSE COMPANY

Blown Fuse Theatre Company makes innovative projects for inquisitive minds.

Working with the local community in the initial stages of our creative process, authenticity and inclusivity are at the heart of what we do. We’re a woman led company, creating new performance possibilities by exploring the combination of storytelling, theatre and technology.

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