The Business of Getting Business
By Emmitt H Thrower
Does Theater Networking Need A Facelift?
For aspiring theatrical actors, networking, mailing out hundreds of headshots to casting directors and agents, looking through showbiz newspapers like Back Stage for auditions the coming weekend and week, keeping involved in a theater circle of friends to get the latest auditions and info , then grinding it out in long lines trying to get into auditions and see those Producers and Directors that hold your theatrical life within their grasp. This has been a way of life in theater since forever. It was and still is a full time job even if the pay is like part time employment at best most of the time.
But you have that passion and desire that keeps you forging ahead hoping and praying that your big break is just an audition away. If only you could connect with the Producers, Directors, Writers who are looking for you. You are so Talented and Special. They could hold the keys to your acting success. That has and still is the weekly travails of the average theater Actor Union or Non Union. Trying to find and connect with other Artists, Technicians, Producers, Writers and Directors to try and do some type of collaboration or employment is a monumental task. Everywhere things are moving at the speed of light but theater seems to be just strolling along. It just doesn't seem fair that connecting with the very ones that need and want you is such a difficult task to accomplish.
Film has IDGb, Musicians and the like have Myspace, Business people have Linkedin, Everybody has Craigslist or is it craigslist has everybody. What about Theater? Well until now there was nothing dedicated to theater on a worldwide basis with a mission to connect the industry online in ONE location. That was until David Mack an Artist and a few other concerned Artist friends decided to change that and Launch Theater Networking Into The 21st Century. After a year of planning they are moving forward with this revolutionary concept. Time for a little Technology Magic for theater. Here comes the Drama!
Imagine a world in which millions of artists and venues everywhere are virtually connected - a 6 degrees of separation for the theatre world in one online collective community......this is the dream of Artist Magnet - a new online theatre community that will connect actors, directors, producers, managers, designers, playwrights, dramaturgs, crew, instructors, audiences, fans and more through shows and venues in your communities and around the world...
On ArtistMagnet.com, you will be able to build your own customized hyperlinking resumes, instantly connecting to fellow artists in your past, present and upcoming shows, which in turn will instantly connect to all the shows in your theatre venues, connecting to all artists in those shows, and so on...
We will also offer Artistplace: a marketplace for artists to post and find work, casting notices, classes, and other theatre related products.Best of all, Artist Magnet will be FREE for artists, and we will provide a comprehensive search engine, allowing members to find information about artists, shows, and venues anywhere in the world. It's like IMDb, MySpace, Craigslist, and Wikipedia all in one, customized for YOU as an artist.Although Ning and similar websites do not have the technology to offer this new community.
So they have taken on the challenge of developing the technology and to build exactly what they need from the ground up. NO COMPROMISING! And it will be FREE for Artist! Now that is a novel idea i can support. Again I will say it. It will be FREE for the Artist! They have set out to Lauch the website later this year with the help and support of Artists and Theater lovers just like you.
They have a temporary support site that is active. It currently has wonderful audition and networking opportunities with Producers, Directors and Venues and other Artists who have already joined and seen the possibilities as they build the ArtistMagnet.com International Theatrical Networking site with YOUR help. I have only one thing to say. Stop Letting Theater and the Big Boys Give You The Business. Join us in fighting them and Building our vision for Artist!
Get a Networking Facelift. BRAVO!!!
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