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My name is Katy Rubin,
and I am the founding artistic director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC.
I started Theatre of the Oppressed NYC because I found that there was not
a lot of what we call popular theatre going on in the city.
(So we can stop and think of something right. We're just playing around.)
If I wanted to create theatre with
communities facing discrimination especially homeless work, things like
that that we're already starting,
I had no idea how to go about it.
Spring of 2010 and I saw the call for applications for the Artist as
Entrepreneur Bootcamp,
and I thought this is fantastic because I can see the work that I want to do,
I have a vision, and I have no idea how to put it in place. My name is Peter Cobb and I work
as a special projects officer at
New Yorks Fundation for the Arts. The Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp deals with
strategic planning, legal issues, financial issues, marketing and networking, and finally fundraising. The main
theme of boot camp,
was that my life goals and my art goals are inseparable, and then the boot
camp helped me think about what are the steps I need to take practically
to get from one to the other.
What distinguishes Theatre of the Oppressed is that,
the people with the problem, the people facing discrimination in a community
get to make their own play and use their own voice, identify their own problems in
a play. NYCEDC has proved an incredible commitment to the arts and to artists by
funding
NYFA for a program that trains artist to,
be the best that they can be as artist entrepreneurs.
Every day somebody is calling up and saying can we start troupe with this
organization, can we start a troupe with this community,
and we're hoping that we can be sustainable, so that we can offer,
this process of creating theatre and having this dialogue with
twenty, thirty communities at a time in New York City. My name is Katy Rubin, and
I'm the founding artistic director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC,
and I made here in New York City.