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Headed Into Rehearsals? Don’t Worry – You Got This.

Theatre

Headed Into Rehearsals? Don’t Worry – You Got This.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!– Jack Benny Cast? Check. Set designs? Check. Materials for first read-through? Check. You got this. 🙂 Here’s how you keep slayin’ rehearsals with ProductionPro: Digital Libretto/Score: Distribute instantly to as many cast and crew as needed. Directors: Break down each scene and character’s research and […]

February 22, 2018

MTI Partners With iPad App Behind Hamilton and Frozen to Make Licensed Productions a Success

Theatre

MTI Partners With iPad App Behind Hamilton and Frozen to Make Licensed Productions a Success

“Young people are the storytellers of tomorrow. And starting today, we’re bringing ProductionPro into schools. Our company is partnering with Music Theatre International (MTI) to make ProductionPro available in over 60,000 productions across the country every year, allowing these students to collaborate like the professionals they’ll become.” – ProductionPro Founder and CEO, Alexander Libby, at […]

October 11, 2017

Forbes Calls ProductionPro the New Broadway App Making The Creative Process A Snap

Company Updates, Theatre

Forbes Calls ProductionPro the New Broadway App Making The Creative Process A Snap

Forbes writes that ProductionPro “automatically pulls together all choreography breakdowns, prop presets, costume tracks, and designs into one simple place that empowers creative decision-making,” solving “the information problem in the sector, making the creative process easier and more efficient.” “If I’m setting a company and have a question about a set piece or traffic (where […]

August 28, 2017

ProductionPro Among Disney Accelerator’s New Startup Class

Company Updates, Film & TV

ProductionPro Among Disney Accelerator’s New Startup Class

Guess who’s joining the club? 🙂 ProductionPro is absolutely thrilled to announce our spot in this year’s Disney Accelerator! We are excited to be in such good company – this type of unprecedented access to the creativity and imagination of Disney will be instrumental in inspiring us to strengthen and further accelerate our business. More […]

July 11, 2017

Showpeople @ Work: Shiva Kalaiselvan, Actor-Producer

Theatre

Showpeople @ Work: Shiva Kalaiselvan, Actor-Producer

It was 5:30am in London, United Kingdom. Investment banker Shiva Kalaiselvan was working yet another (usual) 100-hour week when she stopped, picked up the phone, and called her mother in her home country of Malaysia. “I don’t think this is what I’m supposed to be doing,” Shiva told her mother. “Remember I wanted to be […]

June 22, 2017

ProductionPro Featured on NBC News!

Company Updates, Film & TV

ProductionPro Featured on NBC News!

NBC News calls ProductionPro “The App Changing the Way Hollywood Makes Your Favorite Shows.” Have you ever watched a movie or television show, only to notice that a character’s hair looks slightly different or some background knickknacks seem to have been moved, despite no passage of time? Worrying about those tiny details is a time-consuming […]

June 5, 2017

Fail Better.

Company Updates

Fail Better.

Hang around creative types long enough, and you’re destined for a few run-ins with the f-word. Failure, that is. In the artistic process as in life, we’re challenged to take risks, to be vulnerable, to in the words of Steve Jobs, “Stay foolish.” Creative endeavors demand a dose of foolishness because here, failure is not […]

May 22, 2017

What’s Your Big Idea?

Theatre

What’s Your Big Idea?

At the heart of every invention – in music, in mechanics, in filmmaking – lies an idea. A big one. Turning an idea into a palpable thing and connecting with an audience generally comes with deliberate, painstaking attention to one question: “Why?” Why this story, in this form, at this time? Over the past 26 […]

December 5, 2016

Showpeople @ Work: Jerry Popolis, Film Hair Dept. Head

Film & TV

Showpeople @ Work: Jerry Popolis, Film Hair Dept. Head

“In high school, I wanted to be an undertaker, a mortician…” “Wait…what?” I said. Jerry chuckles, and continues, “In my little town, we were friends with the guy who owned the funeral home. I think maybe because it was always so kind of glamorous – the funeral parlor and all of that. “I wanted to […]

October 31, 2016

The LAUNCH Incubator: Hacking the 10,000-Hour Rule

Company Updates

The LAUNCH Incubator: Hacking the 10,000-Hour Rule

Every day, startups make quick decisions based on limited data. Common wisdom holds that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve a level of mastery. But startups need to show results long before reaching that expertise. Given these constraints, how can a company hack its 10,000 hours? I say: HIIT it. High-intensity […]

August 1, 2016

Showpeople At Work

Theatre

Showpeople At Work

Thinking of launching a startup? Here’s some advice I’ve found useful: Start small. By this I mean, begin with a particular, localized problem your product will help to solve. From there, the opportunities are as wide as the Web. One of the great things about technology is that it allows innovators to dream big. But […]

June 21, 2016

Showpeople @ Work: Sisters Louise and Joanna McCarthy

Film & TV

Showpeople @ Work: Sisters Louise and Joanna McCarthy

Film Makeup Department Head and Key Makeup “Did you do this for us?” I asked, as we encountered a beautifully laid out table in the garden, all set for tea. We – Alex, Juan (the photographer), and I – had driven deep into Queens to meet with the McCarthy sisters, film makeup extraordinaires and enthusiasts. […]

April 25, 2016

Work Vs Job – The Showdown

Theatre

Work Vs Job – The Showdown

In everyday conversation, we rarely distinguish between our “work” and our “job.” But I draw a crucial distinction between the two. Work, we like: it makes us feel alive, it challenges us, it presents novel problems to solve. Jobs, by contrast, are tedious. We’ve mastered their associated tasks, and so we’re not challenged to think […]

March 2, 2016

No People Like Show People.

Film & TV, Theatre

No People Like Show People.

There are those who come together and use their incredible range of skills to create what the world watches. Who work eighteen-hour days because they love achieving the impossible. Who know that their worst day creating still beats their best doing anything else. These are the Show People. They’re like no other people we know. […]

January 29, 2016

ProductionPro Wins Audience Choice Award!

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ProductionPro Wins Audience Choice Award!

ProductionPro was the Audience’s Choice at the Made in New York Media Center’s Demo Day 2016. Find out more about why Founder Alex Libby started ProductionPro, and why we made the move from Midtown Manhattan to DUMBO, Brooklyn. Download Press Release Here

October 9, 2015

Like So Many I Know

Theatre

Like So Many I Know

I’ve been making shows my entire life. By the time I turned six, I’d subjected my family members to so many coffee table performances that relatives began arriving at holiday gatherings with excuses at the ready. Once, even my great-grandmother admitted to my mother that she “just couldn’t sit through another one of Alex’s shows […]

September 29, 2015