As in-person restrictions are relaxed it’s time for Pronoia to look at returning to the live stage. An opportunity recently came up, and Aaron discusses it and Steven’s concerns in this week’s Production Meeting.

You can support Production Meeting at paypal.me/pronoiatheater or venmo: @pronoia.

In the last year the barriers have shifted in theater: what was once simple is not unreasonable, what was once impossible is now commonplace. Along with that new reality producers and directors must shift their thinking. We bring on Rebecca Bernstein of Zoom Shakespeare Productions and Rachel Blomstrum of the Quarantine Queens Theatre Company to discuss how their approach to theater has changed and how it will continue changing. 

Follow Zoom Shakespeare Productions 

Follow Quarantine Queens Theatre Company or contribute to their Patreon 

Reach out to us at [email protected]

If you want to support the show you can do so at paypal.me/Pronoiatheater or venmo: @Pronoia

In addition to scripted material Pronoia develops new improvised forms. We set out to create a new, online-focused form that would take advantage of the medium instead of being hindered by it. 

These thoughts would coalesce into Wallflower. How did it go? Listen as Steven and Aaron hash out the details during the first rehearsal and their post-mortem after the performance.

Production Meeting is the only show about producing indepedent theater wherever you are with whatever you have!

Boiling Point Players is an exciting theater company dedicated to bringing women to stage. Autumn Clack and Ruth McCleskey join the program to talk about their company, their annual cabaret, and why you shouldn't allow work from all over the country. 

Production Meeting is the only show about creating independent theater wherever you are with whatever you have. 

As people who create independent theater it's important to keep abreast of what's going on in the larger theater world, and a good way to do that is by reading current plays. 

Dramatists Play Service is one of the larger play licenserers in America and they have a book club which sends you seven plays every quarter. Aaron subscribed to the DPS book club in 2020 and he's here to tell you what he thought of it, who he thinks it's for, and what can be learned from this group of 27- er, 28 plays.

Production Meeting is the only show about producing independent theater wherever you are with whatever you have! 

Pitcher's Mound is a live workshopping show. Usually the actors aren't allowed to give their opinions on the material, but now they are! 

Listen to Steven Saltsman, Kathryn Noser, Clarity Leigh Welch, and Diana Alcaraz talk about the scripts by Ben Seidensticker, Aaron Garrett, Natalie Vaughn, and Andrea Santoni they just performed in. 

Production Meeting is the only show about producing independent theater wherever you are with whatever you have! 

Anytime you plan to do more than one production you create meaning between the shows; you create a season. Aaron and Steven have planned many seasons at Pronoia Theater and before at previous institutions, and they usually do so behind closed doors, but not today! 

See the two fellows plan out the shows and podcasts Pronoia will put out online April through June of 2021, and through it their goals and values. 

Since it is the end of the quarter they also check in with their 2021 goals and see how that's going for them. 

For 2020 Aaron joined the DPS Book Club: a service which sends seven plays from the Dramatists Play Service library every quarter, both new and old. 

Aaron spent the last three weeks catching up on all twenty-eight plays from 2020, and he's here to rank them in the order of what he which he would most like to see produced. 

Reach out to [email protected]

After many weeks of talking about it, a delayed premiere, and a cool-down after the premiere we bring the saga of Back to the Normal to a close… or do we? Aaron and Steven are joined by Dennis Budde to discuss the production process of Back to the Normal, how a theater company approaches a short film, as well as the elations and disappointments of the final product. 

Go to Pronoiatheater.com to find the short film and our original interview with Dennis!

Have you ever wondered what goes into creating the sound effects for an episode of Space Train? Aaron does a live walkthrough as he finds the sounds that bring “The Goodbye Girl” to life.