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My Artistic Blueprint: Career Tool Box
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Serious about theatre and wanting to pursue a professional career in the arts? Learn how to promote your work effectively.
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About This Course

Serious about theatre and wanting to pursue a professional career in the arts? Whether you’re an aspiring actor, director, or technician, knowing how to self-promote your work is vital to success.

Learn the fundamentals that go into crafting your professional website, cover letter/resume, and sizzle reel. Explore the practical business skills that will help you succeed in the theatre industry: master interview skills, negotiate contracts, personal financial security, risk-assessment. “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” – Seán O’Casey

This course will meet over ZOOM on Sundays from 1:00p-3:00p and will run from 10/18/20 to 11/8/20.

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Course Staff

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Lendre Kearns

Lendre Kearns has worked in arts management and marketing for 45 years including stints with Broadway in Tucson, La Jolla Playhouse, Minnesota Dance Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and more. She has facilitated retreats and taught workshops in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia in a variety of subject areas among them, presenting, touring, strategic planning and marketing. She has taught at Goucher College, the University of Toronto and Thunder Bay Community College. She is a self-described “arts dilletante/worker bee”, serving on boards and volunteering her services for a number of Tucson organizations, most notably, Arts Express. She is also occasionally taking on projects including workshops and facilitating planning for a variety of organizations outside Tucson.

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