Honoring the work of our members
Rude Mechanicals:
Lipstick Traces
Salvage Vanguard Theater:
Wallpaper Psalms
Zachary Scott Theatre:
Jouet
Austin Lyric Opera:
Cold Sassy Tree
Charles Duggan Presents &Greater Tuna:
A Tuna Christmas
Zachary Scott Theatre
Always Patsy Cline
Aztlan Dance:
After Hours
ProArts Collective:
A Black Woman Speaks
Zachary Scott Theatre:
It Ain't Nothin
but the Blues
Thistlemoouse Productions:
My Family My Friends
Yellow Tape Construction
I Love My Dead Gay Son
the Musical
Vestige Group
Fat Pig
Salvage Vanguard Theatre
Static
Tapestry Dance
Blue Lapis Light
Requiem
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Marketing, Ticketing & Audience Development Services
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NowPlayingAustin.com is our key marketing and audience development initiative to increase cultural awareness, attendance, and participation in Austin’s arts scene.
NowPlayingAustin.com gets 45,000 visitors/month and is poised to have over 1,000,000 visitors by 2009. |
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The leading online resource for Arts and Cultural information for Austin and Centreal Texas, NowPlayingAustin.com offers the largest database of area Arts and Cultural events, including sports and recreational events, as well as additional listings of classes and workshops, jobs, auditions, organizations, venues, public art, and individual artists.
Powered by Silicon Valley's highly successful Artsopolis Marketing Partnership with content management by Seattle's BeDynamic.com, the site offers comprehensive one-stop ticketing and information services to residents and visitors alike for arts, sports, and cultural activities in Central Texas.
This initiative directly benefits all ACoT's members: organizations, artists, patrons and enthusiasts |
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AusTIX, located downtown at the Austin Visitors Center at 209 E. 6th Street, is Austin's only one-stop performing arts ticketing kiosk and information center. AusTIX sells HALF-PRICE TICKETS every weekend for Austin's best shows. Open Tues - Sat from 11 AM to 5 PM
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512/474-TIXS
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AusTIX is also the home of TexasPerforms.com, the only community-wide bilingual online full price and discounted price ticketin service in the USA. TexasPerforms' ticket interface is though tix.com
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We offer full box office services — including website listings, 24/7 online sales via a secure server, professionally powered back-end services yielding valuable patron data to producers, opt-in email blasts to patrons, daytime pnone and live-person box office attendant—for member organizations. We also offer display space for your brochures in the Austin Visitors Center. (a $50/month savings to you.)
Be sure to ask for copies of our own ArtsMarket-commmissioned report that show the benefits of using ACoT's half price ticketing service to grow your patron/subscriber base. |
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NowPlayingAustin e-minder
In addition to our NowPlayingAustin and Austix sites, ACoT publishes current theater show times and information via our weekly NowPlayingAustin e-minder. (20,000/month) Get the inside scoop on |
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theater, music and dance, including the latest local, regional, and national theater news, audition info, updates on professional workshops and classes, local show schedules and much more.
Subscriptions to our E-Minder are free with membership |
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Free Night of Theater is a national audience development program of Theatre Communications Group (TCG) presented in cities across the country through its regional partners. Austin Circle of Theaters is the proud regional partner of Free Night.
Free Night 2007 included over 33 communities coast to coast. Free Night was introduced in 2005 by TCG, the national service organization for the American not-for-profit theatre, in partnership Austin Circle of Theaters, the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and Theatre Bay Area. ACoT has not only served on the steering committee of Free Night since the beginning, but ACoT has also brought in the award-winning ad team that received an Addy (equivalent to the Oscars for ad agencies) for its work. Free Night 2008 will take place in October. |
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| Arts Incubator/Sponsored Project Program for Emerging Artists & Art Groups |
Austin Circle of Theaters has a long track record of helping emerging artists and arts groups get off the ground through our ACoT Sponsored Project Program.
"Grads" of our Sponsored Project program include The Rude Mechanicals, Hyde Park Theatre, Frontera Fest, Salvage Vanguard Theater, VORTEX, Theatre Action Project, Teatro Humanidad, dirigo group, Texas Early Music Project, A. Mozart Fest, La Follia Austin Baroque, and Gaslight Theatre in Lockhart, among others.
Currently, we're sponsoring such innovative projects as Austin Cabaret Theatre, Austin Improv Collective, Capital T Theatre, Shrewd Productions, City Theatre, Bernadette Nason Storyteller, Jaclyn Pryor's Floodlines 2007, Roho Productions, Tongue and Groove Theatre, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Buzz Productions, Mermaid Theatre, The Vestige Group and more..
ACoT acts as a fiscal agent through the sponsored project program, for qualified artists and organizations seeking cultural arts funding from the City of Austin. We also provide an excellent "how to" book for our sponsored projects full of nuts and bolts resources, useful templates, and technical assistance for marketing and producing their events.
To be considered for sponsorship, you must complete our Sponsored Project Questionnaire and submit it together with a budget and the resumes of the principal partners working with your project. We will review your application, and if you qualify for sponsorship, we will invite you to sign a sponsorship agreement to begin..
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Technical Assistance and Support Services
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Actor's Equity Association Umbrella and AEA Paymaster Services
ACoT, working together with the New York and Los Angeles offices of Actors Equity Association provides both these services for Texas producing organizations wishing to hire professional Equity actors for their productions. Contact our offices directly at 512 247 2531 to make an appointment with Heather Cole, our Productions Services Manager, for more information so that we can assist you in setting up the appropriate contracts for your actors.
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Insurance for Artists and Arts Organizations:
Health, Event & Film Liability & Film Equipment Insurance Options
ACoT has established a partnership with Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network of New York whereby our members have most of Fractured Atlas' member benefits at NO EXTRA COST. Our partnership with Fractured Atlas means that ACOT members—organizations and/or individuals—have full access to the following insurance options: Health Insurance, Event Insurance, Film Liability and Equipment Insurance, D&O insurance, Teaching Artist Liability Insurance, Workers comp and more. FA does not sell insurance itself, but negotiates on behalf of its many thousands of members for good options for its members. Its health insurance is offered via Assurant. Hartford and Chubb offer the event liability and equipment insurance. Rates are affordable.
Marketing and P/R
In addition to the services members have via NowPlayingAustin.com, AusTIX, and our e-blasts, members can also avail themselves of consultations with professional marketing directors at disounted rates. Speak to our Membership Services department about these options.
Professional Development and Capacity Building
FREE Online Arts Management and Professional Development Courses 
Through our partnership with Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network in NYC, ACoT is able to offer all members free online interactive arts management and professional development courses at FA's online program, FRACTURED U. You will need to use your ACoT partner member log-in to take the course and participate in the discussion forums that accompany the course.
Tell me more about Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network now.
Capacity Building Workshops for Member Organizations
Each year ACoT brings in consultants to share best practices with our organizational membership. Nello McDaniel and George Thorn of Arts Action Research came to Austin for a special day-long Roundtable year before last. Last year we brought in Louise Stevens of ArtsMarket in Bozeman, Montana. Check back for who is coming this year.
Consulting & Referrals
Our staff is always on call to assist members seeking solutions to move their projects forward. We also have partner arrangements with other professionals who will work with our members at discount rates
Other relevant workshops and classes, many offered by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, are listed—and can be posted by members— on NowPlayingAustin.com
Take me to NowPlayingAustin class/workshop listings now.
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Celebrating and Showcasing Your Talent
Annual Unified General Audtions
Each year ACoT hosts an area wide general audition that can showcase your talent. This is a great opportunity for actors to have their work seen by major Central Texas producers, directors, and casting agents. It's also a great way for new directors and companies to get to know their peers as well as local talent. Casting directors, directors and producers from around the state audit, and actors from around the state may participate.
The 2008 Texas State Auditions have not yet been posted.
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B. Iden Payne Awards
Named for the renowned British theater director and teacher who profouncly influenced the drama department at University of Texas at Austin, the B. Iden Payne Awards are awarded annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the Austin theater community . Each year, a nominating committe reviews eligible productions in order to prepare the ballot that is sent out to all ACoT members at the beginning of the new season. The members votes are tallied by an independent accounting firm, and it's not until the envelope is opened — at a ceremony in October— that we know who the winners are.
• See information on how productions become eligible.
• See the most recent list of award recipients.
• Learn more about Dr. Ben Iden Payne.
• Find out how to serve on the B. Iden Payne Nominations Committee.•
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Advocacy
ACoT collaborates with other Arts groups to facilitate Arts Forums to query candidates on their stand on the arts. ACoT also serves on the Create Austin task forces and speaks on behalf of the Arts Community at City Council and sessions at our State Capital. We also meet with funders, government represent5atives, civic agencies and commissions to encourage more support for the Arts.
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Membership
If you like our programs and if you want to see the performing arts in Austin supported and strengthened, please consider becoming a member. ACoT membership brings many great benefits, but more importantly, your membership supports ACoT in its efforts to create greater awareness of the collective community.
What's good for the community is good for the artists, good for the companies — and vice versa. The intangible promotional, community building, and awareness aspects of our collective organization provide the greatest value to our larger Austin community.
We welcome your participation and celebrate your achievements Membership supports what we do, and enables us to offer our member theaters good support programs. In exchange, we give you a card that's good for discounts at theaters all over town. Plus we email weekly updates about what's going on in town — that is, with your permission.
Yes, I want to join!
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