ANMT’s sixth annual MUSICAL THEATRE BOOT CAMP presents:
LEGAL PERILS, PITFALLS AND TRAPS
Instructor: Gordon Firemark
One Tuesday evening, 7-9pm
July 19
Course Fee: $195 (Early Bird/ANMT Member Fee: $145)
FOR THE UNWARY IN THE THEATRE BUSINESS
Join Theatrical Attorney and Producer Gordon Firemark for a survey of the legal issues confronted in the development and production of theatrical works. We’ll discuss underlying rights issues, licenses, options, commissions and collaborations, we’ll also look at some of the common financing pitfalls and the troublesome questions of subsidiary rights and director’s claims of copyright in other authors’ works. Finally, there will be ample time for participants’ questions. Don’t miss what promises to be a lively, informative and entertaining discussion.
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INSTRUCTOR INFO:
Theatrical Attorney Gordon P. Firemark represents artists, authors, producers and others in the fields of theatre, film, television, music and new media. In addition to his practice, Mr. Firemark is a professor of business law at Loyola Marymount University and Theatre Law at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the host and producer of the Entertainment Law Update Podcast. A theatrical producer himself, he is also the author of the soon-to-be-published Theatre Producer’s Legal Survival Manual. More information is available at http://firemark.com.
Mr. Firemark is the President of the Board of Directors of ANMT. Mr. Firemark holds a B.A. in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Oregon, and earned his law degree at Southwestern University School of Law. Before opening The Law Offices of Gordon P. Firemark, Mr. Firemark was a partner with the Business Affairs Group, a boutique entertainment law firm in Los Angeles. He has also worked in the legal and business affairs departments at Hanna Barbera Productions and the MGM/UA Worldwide Television Group, and started his legal career as an associate at Neville L. Johnson & Associates, a West L.A. firm specializing in entertainment litigation.
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.