Learn how to be your own effective publicist with this one-day seminar

Hot on the heels of my post about Tips for Putting on a Fringe Show – which has a healthy dose of publicity suggestions, here’s an opportunity to dig into publicity a bit more heavily. 

This is a one-day seminar on how to be your own publicist.

I’ll be checking it out, and I’d love some company, so come hang out with me and teach yourself how to publicize yourself effectively at the same time.  Particularly handy is the money-back guarantee if you don’t find the seminar valuable.

Here’s the information from the press release:

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Scorched – Tarragon Theatre

By John Bourke

Tarragon Theatre/ Scorched
My ticket for Scorched, now playing at Tarragon theatre, said “Scorched, 2nd remount”, which tells you something of the remarkable run this production has had;  First produced in Montreal in 2005, the play’s english language premeire was at Tarragon in 2007, when it recieved two Dora awards, then brought back in 2008 before touring across the country and landing back in Toronto in time for me to see it last week.

Tips for putting on a Fringe show from the audience perspective

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by Megan Mooney

This is a re-post of an article I wrote after the 2008 Fringe, but it seemed worth repeating, *before* Fringe this time.  I’ve done some editing and additions in this version, but it is still based on the post from last year.

After going to many many many Fringe shows at the Toronto Fringe Festival I’ve noticed some challenges that seem common among Fringe productions.  I thought I’d share some observations and hopefully impart some useful advice.  Or, you know, annoy people.  Whichever…

This isn’t going to be about how to cast, or rehearse for a space you don’t know, or anything like that.  It’s going to cover length, show descriptions and promotion, all from the perspective of an audience member.

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