Theatrical Consulting
Analyze Properties
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Attend select productions, showcases, and readings to evaluate commercial viability
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Analyze potential co-producing and investment opportunities, including:
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review libretto and music
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review budgets and recoupment schedules
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review offering documents
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Negotiate terms of investment/co-producer deals
Show Development
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Negotiate and structure rights agreements, deals with creative and business personnel, enhancement arrangements with developmental theaters, etc.
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Assist with selection of creative team: authors, director, choreographer, and designers
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Manage business team, including: general manager, production attorney, production accountant, casting director, promotions/marketing/advertising agencies
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Collaborate with creative team to oversee show development, including preparation of script and production notes, development of the aesthetic parameters of the production, and casting
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Manage business and creative matters in connection with readings, workshops, developmental and commercial productions
Capital-Raising & Investor Relations
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In consultation with production counsel, coordinate capital-raises for developmental and commercial productions
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Attend to investor relations matters, including answer investor queries and prepare investor materials
Subsidiary & Ancillary Rights
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Oversee exploitation of theatrical ancillary rights including:
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subsequent sit-down and touring productions
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cast album production and exploitation
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merchandising
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licensing
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Global experience helming shows as a producer and executive producer from the initial stage of optioning rights and hiring writers through out-of-town tryouts, domestic and international sit-down and touring productions, as well as exploitation of ancillary and subsidiary rights.
Production
Entertainment Finance
Business Development
Negotiation
Merchandise/Licensing
Business & Commercial Affairs
Altair Entertainment’s consulting clients include
Paramount Pictures
Marisa Sechrest/Altair Entertainment is the Live Stage Representative for Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television, Paramount Players, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies.
Scott Free
Marisa Sechrest/Altair Entertainment is the Live Stage Representative for Scott Free, the production vehicle of esteemed film director Ridley Scott. The company is responsible for some of the most successful films ever made – including Gladiator, American Gangster, Man on Fire, Enemy of the State, Robin Hood, and Black Hawk Down.