Theatre Management Intensive: Trip to the Tank

Event Title: Theatre Management Intensive Donor Pitch

Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Time: 2:30-5pm

Location: Normandale Room, Partnership Center, P0808B

This event is open to the public.

The television show Shark Tank introduces brilliant minds with brilliant ideas and puts them in a room with potential investors, where they ask for thousands of dollars to start a company.

On Wednesday, four KCACTF participants will be put in a similar tank, pitching their own non-profit theater companies. Mock donors, including a faculty member from the Kennedy Center, will quiz these young entrepreneurs and decide whether or not to invest.

The Donor Pitch is an extension of the Theatre Management Intensive (TMI), an application-only portion of the festival, where students focus on the administrative, entrepreneurial aspects of the theater, and get a taste of what it might be like to start a non-profit company. This year, the student participants are Desiree Bartels, Whitney Graff, Kristen K. Thackery, and Kathryn Vocke.

As part of the intensive, the students were required to create portfolios, visually encompassing their companies. The portfolios include a season line up, annual budget, mission statement, and “brilliant idea.” One company proposed young educational outreach; another, has a whole season dedicated to plays related to mental illness. These portfolios can be viewed on the second floor of the Ames Center in the Design and Management Expo.

The mock donors will review these portfolios, and after a series of questions at the Donor Pitch, will report feedback to a panel. Ultimately, the panel will determine which of the four students will advance to the national competition at the Kennedy Center in April.

Come encourage these young, brilliant minds as they promote their brilliant ideas!

2:30-3:00pm Kristen K. Thackery (University of Missouri-Columbia)

3:00-3:30pm Desiree Bartels (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

3:30-3:45pm Break

3:45-4:15pm Kathryn Vocke (University of North Dakota)
4:15-4:45pm Whitney Graff (South Dakota State University)

For more information on the Theatre Management Intensive visit: 
http://www.kcactf5.org/theatre-management.html