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Theater, technology and social media in a YouTube connected world.

Online Interactive workshops for professional theater artists exploring the role of technology in the theater of tomorrow.

The Era of Live-Streaming Theater Has Arrived

-The Clyde Fitch Report

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The Problem:

How do we keep 21st century audiences engaged in, talking about and investing in American Theater?

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The Solution:

Engage a 21st Century audience via the technological and social media platforms they have adopted as their primary source of entertainment, creativity, and source of identity.

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Better Left Unsaid TVproudly presents…

3 interactive, live streamed workshops exploring the confluence of theater, technology and social media. All workshops taught by the founders of Better Left Unsaid, the first of it’s kind interactive live streamed play.

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What is Better Left Unsaid?Better Left Unsaid is a new  theatrical paradigm.  A cross between a play, an online video and a live streamed event, Better Left Unsaid is poised to break entirely new ground in the way that it merges theater, technology and social media.

Performed in front of a live audience, Better Left Unsaid will be shot with multiple cameras, mixed in real time and streamed live to the internet so that anyone, anywhere in the world can watch the show, live, and interact with it.

As part of this live streamed theatrical event, Better Left Unsaid will be hosting interactive post show discussions, widening the theatrical conversation from in-house talkbacks to virtual town halls.

January 21st- February 6th, 2010Center Stage NY, and a computer near you

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"the theater community will be watching closely”

-The American Theater Wing

(producer of The Tony Awards) on twitter 

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Why The Workshops?

Since first announcing our production of Better Left Unsaid we have been inundated by producers, actors and technicians who want to know how we are producing a live streamed play. We have learned an enormous amount about merging technology and theater, and are excited to share these insights with all of you in three live streamed workshops:

Workshop 1 – The Professional Actor OnlineWorkshop 2 – The ABC’s of Producing a live streamed playWorkshop 3 - Live-Streaming for Technical Directors

The interactive workshops will be streamed directly to your computer from Center Stage NY.

All workshops will be taught by Kathryn Jones, Joey Brenneman and Erin Bigelow, veteran online producers, actors, and writers and pioneers in live streaming narrative events. (for bios see page 13)

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"...there’s no question that Better Left Unsaid ….could signify a revolutionary moment in terms of what “live theater” really means”

-The Clyde Fitch ReportShared on Facebook over

100 times 

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The Professional Actor OnlineWorkshop 1

How A New Media World is Redefining an Actor’s path to Success

Topics covered will include•Is there quality acting work online?•What to look for when you are offered a role in an online production•How can the internet can help you to create the career of your dreams•What you need to know when you are producing your own work online•Social media marketing for the actor - Technology basics- YouTube, Facebook and twitter for the actor

•15 minute interactive question and answer session

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The ABC’s of Producing a Live Streamed Play

How today's technology can help you build your audience and and create an engaged and passionate following for your work.

Topics covered will include

•What are the biggest challenges to streaming a live production to the internet•How to navigate the unions when working online•What crew positions do you need to fill, and how are they different from crew

positions in the traditional theater•Glossary of online streaming terms •How social media can help you expand your audience base and build PR

•15 minute interactive question and answer session

Workshop 2

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Live streaming for Technical Directors

Everything you need to know to design and facilitate a live streaming theatrical event

Topics covered will include

•What technology do you need to implement a live streamed theatrical event

•Video Hosting services and CDN’s•Bandwidth and Access •Cameras •Switchers •Lighting •Audio

Including and in-depth walk thru of the newest Newtek Tricaster, the TCXD850.

Workshop 3

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Additional Info…

Every Workshop will be an hour in length and include a 15 minute interactive question and answer session. Attendees can interact via chat, twitter or video.

Each workshop admission includes a ticket to a live streamed, interactive performance of Better Left Unsaid.

Cost is $18.

For tickets please visit http://betterleftunsaid.tv

Workshops will be held on Wednesday January 26th during the day and Thursday, February 3rd during the evening, GMT-5.

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Kathryn Jones – ProducerKathryn is the founder of Synchronis.tv, the first company to stream a live scripted web drama. Kathryn has conceived of and produced many live streamed and on-demand video events, including Women Respond to Palin and Question of the Week. The former VP of Branded Entertainment for well known online video company FYI, Kathryn has produced online video for clients that include Panasonic and Dice.com.

Kathryn has spoken at online video and social media conferences throughout the United States, and has both produced and appeared in theater through out the US and as far afield as Edinburgh, Scotland.

Joey Brenneman – ProducerJoey was the director of The NYC Fringe 2010 show, “The Timing of A Day” , winner of the 2010 Fringe Award for “Best Overall Ensemble”.

Joey is the founder and co-producer of Above the Bridge, a live reading series for writers who live in Washington Heights and Inwood. In 2005, she co-produced  her original play, Of Loss and Grace at Theater 5 in NYC.

Joey spent many years with STAR Theater/The NiteStar Program as the Artistic Director where she created and directed a repertory season of educational theater.

Erin Bigelow – Assoc. ProducerErin has worked in Live Television for 9 years in every aspect of TV, from camerawoman to Station Manager. She’s directed plenty of big name bands and interviews in Boston. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and currently works with the Director of Good Morning America at ABC in Manhattan. Erin’s directing credits also include Assistant Directing the Full-Length Indie Film, “Mortal Arbitratus” (2005), and Directing “The Vagina Monologues” in 2004. This is her initial attempt at Associate Producing a play, though she is confident in her abilities to spread the good word about this magnificent one-of-a-kind production!

Tom Concordia – Director of PhotographyTom is the official photographer for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Style360, Julian Louis, Tuleh, Marc Bauwer, FYI productions, as well as continuing to be a frequent contributor to Getty Images.

Tom recently directed the short, “Love Or…”. and is the director and producer of the web series “Making the Shot” which chronicles behind the scenes activities of fashion photographers. Tom has just started pre-production of the 12 part documentary of “Lucumi Now” the story of Afro-Cuban ritual migration to the Americas for PBS Seattle.

The BLU Team

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The Play8 Lives, 8 Secrets. How Well Do You Know The People

Who You Love?

Better Left Unsaid, by Joey Brenneman, is a complex roadmap of a play that begins in Central Park on a strangely warm, foggy day in November.  We follow eight characters as their paths twist and turn in unexpected ways.

Better Left Unsaid is a story about how our lives are affected by the pieces of information that we choose to withhold from the people we love. Sometimes the same secret that  protects one person damages another.

Better Left Unsaid has a multi-cultural cast of diverse ages and explores the universal themes of family, love, relationships, parenthood, honesty and fidelity.

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Better Left Unsaid follows on the heels of Kathryn Jones’ first live streamed production, “35”. A first of it’s kind live streamed web series, “35” was shot on the tiniest of budgets but was covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mashable, blogs from around the world, was featured on iTunes and had well over 100,000 views.

"Theater people: We need You”-New York Times Digital Media Critic

Virginia Heffernan in her review of “35”

The History

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Why is Better Left Unsaid Important?

Better Left Unsaid….

• Is breaking entirely new ground in the way it merges theater and technology

• Is interactive in ways that few videos, and almost no theater pieces can be

• Is written, directed and produced by women, bringing a much needed female point of view to the world of online video,  a world which is almost entirely dominated by content created by men

• Will more deeply engage a 21st century audience

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Why is Better Left Unsaid Important? Cont….

• Will allow our audience to literally become a part of the creative community via Facebook, Twitter, chat rooms and video.

• Harnesses the inherent interactivity of the web

• Combines the excitement of live theater with the community of live streamed video events

• Is a new dramatic paradigm that could launch an entirely new dramatic form born of today’s technology

• Is a funny, smart, play about how our lives are affected by the pieces of information that we choose to share or withhold from the people we love the most

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In January of 2011 Better Left Unsaid will be producing an hour long live talk back with the FringeNYC which will be marketed to the 75,000 members of the Fringe community.

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues.

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For more information,or to register for a workshop

visit us at http://BetterLeftUnsaid.tv