Maren Rosenberg is the owner of Escape Artistry. She’s a Chicago based actor, playwright, and producer who has been ‘locked’ in the Room Escape/Exit Games industry as a producer and designer since 2013 (with no intentions of escaping any time soon). Maren has a BFA in Acting and Theatre Arts from University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the former Executive Producer for Room Escape Adventures which produces ‘Trapped in a Room with a Zombie’ and ‘Trapped in a Room with a Zombie II: Still Hungry’.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      A career path in the arts and acting

·      A surprise transition from acting to entrepreneurship

·      The team it takes to start a business

·      Going from a supply and demand business with two competitors to a differentiation business with 17 competitors

·      The wild world of escape rooms

·      Being able to provide employment to artists who may not always find artistic work

·      Team building exercises that escape rooms can provide

·      The importance of trust in a business relationship

·      Hiring for fit and not for skill

·      Making an exit strategy part of your long term business plans

I hope you will find this episode as exciting and informative as I have. Maren was so generous to share her better business practices regarding learning the ropes of artistic entrepreneurship.

Please let me know your thoughts!

Connect with Maren Rosenberg:

Website: www.escape-artistry.com

               www.marenrosenberg.com

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