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Network of Ensemble Theater (NET) will be presenting Tour Training Workshops in Los Angeles and San Francisco led by Llysa Holland from theater simple. The workshop is a part of NETʼs California Ensemble Touring Initiative with support from The James Irvine Foundation.

Workshop #1: (Los Angeles, CA)
Sunday, December 7, 2008 from 1:00pm-5:00pm at ARTEL located at 6581 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038.

Workshop #2: (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, December 8, 2008 from 6pm-10pm at the Theatre of Yugen-NOHspace from 6:00pm-10:00pm located at 2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (Located between Florida and Alabama Streets)

Admission to the workshops is free to Network of Ensemble Theater members, $10 for Non-NET members. If you are planning to attend, please RSVP to Damion Teeko Parran at dtaparran@sbcglobal.net.

Please read more for details…

Touring Training for Theater Artists: A tool kit and conversation.
You’ve gotten your show together - how to take it on the road.
You’ve worked hard to create your vision - let the world see it. (And maybe see the world as well.)

Join Llysa Holland, an artistic instigator of theater simple and company touring manager for 18 years, as she unzips her brain to let practical information, ideas and touring tactics out in a room near you. This workshop focuses on strategies to help get your work ‘on-the road.’ While topics are frequently driven by the needs of the class, we will cover:

• TOOL KIT essentials: budgets, tech riders, contracts, logistics, and timelines.
• Life on the Festival and Fringe - Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada, the US, Prague, Singapore - where do you want to go? And what might you bring that they haven’t seen?
• Show Business - where’s the money? And who will give it to me?
• Presenters and producers - what is the difference, and where do I find them?
• Alternate ideas of producing theater - collaborations with artists, groups, institutions, and gigs in 12unexpected places.
• What do YOU know and have you tried, and are willing to share?
• Goal setting: What do I NEED vs. What do I WANT

BIOGRAPHY:
Llysa Holland is a co-founding artistic instigator of Theater Simple, and company tour guide, plotting most of the touring for the company. Performing, producing and teaching internationally since 1991, Llysa, with theater simple, has produced over thirty-seven plays in four countries on three continents with a particular emphasis on international theater festivals, fringe tours, “shoestring epics” and theatrical ensemble-building training. Before the end of the calendar year the simpletons will have logged 1000 performances.

theater simple - building from the imagination up. An award-winning, internationally acclaimed ensemble based in Seattle, Washington, theater simple was founded with the aim of stripping the theatrical experience down to its elemental parts: the imagination of the actor and audience, the playwright’s words and the director’s vision.

theater simple has built an international artistic reputation producing provocative, literate, subversive, entertaining and occasionally jaw-dropping theatrical experiences.

Exploring the space between creator and audience has been recent a focus of theater simple’s site-specific work. PARK BENCH, their mobile interview outpost that illuminates community portraits in available via the web. http://www.gcast.com/user/theater_simple/podcast/main.

Our goal - to affect the future by interacting with communities around the world, teaching, collaborating, conversing - linking ideas and art across the internet, and in the theater. Thinking globally, acting locally - literally.

We make theater. Simple. PLAY WITH US.