1. Theater, technology and social media in a
YouTube connected world.
Online Interactive workshops exploring
the role of technology in the theater of
tomorrow.
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The Problem:
How do we ensure that the
Theater stays relevant, engaging
and inspiring to today’s wired
generation?

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The Solution:
Immerse your students in the the real
time evolution of theater by
experimenting with new theatrical
models, born of today’s technology.

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Better Left Unsaid TV
proudly presents…
3 interactive, live streamed
workshops exploring the confluence
of theater, technology and social
media.
All workshops taught by the
founders of Better Left Unsaid, the
first of it’s kind interactive live
streamed play.

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What is Better Left Unsaid?
Better Left Unsaid is a new theatrical
paradigm. A cross between a play, an online
video and a live streamed event, Better Left
Unsaid is poised to break new ground in the way
that it merges theater, technology and social
media.
Performed in front of a live audience, Better Left Unsaid will be shot with
multiple cameras, mixed in real time and streamed live to the internet so
that anyone, anywhere in the world can watch the show, live, and interact
with it.
January 21st- February 6th, 2010
Center Stage NY, and a computer near you

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"the theater community will be watching closely" -
-The American Theater Wing (producer of The Tony
Awards) on twitter

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Why The Workshops?
In producing this first of its kind hybrid experience, we have learned an enormous
amount about merging technology and theater. We are excited to share these insights
with students actors, directors, producers and designers through three live streamed
workshops:
Workshop 1 - Jumpstart Your Acting Career Online
Workshop 2 - The Internet and the Student Producer
Workshop 3 - Live-Streaming for Student TD’s and Designers
The interactive workshops will be streamed directly to your classroom or theater from
Center Stage NY.
All workshops will be taught by Kathryn Jones, Joey Brenneman and Erin Bigelow,
veteran online producers, actors, and writers and pioneers in live streaming narrative
events. (for bios see page 13)

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"...there’s no question that Better Left Unsaid ….could
signify a revolutionary moment in terms of what
“live theater” really means”
-The Clyde Fitch Report
Shared on Facebook over 100 times

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Jumpstart Your Acting Career Online
Workshop 1
How Students Can Use The Internet To Green Light Their Acting Careers
Topics covered will include
• How can the internet can help you to create the career of your dreams
• What you can do today to prepare yourself for graduation.
• What you need to know when you are producing your own work online
• Social media marketing for the actor
- Technology basics- YouTube, Facebook and twitter for the actor
• What to look for when you are offered a role in an online production
• 15 minute interactive question and answer session

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The Internet and the Student Producer
Workshop 2
How today's technology can help you grow your audience and redefine what the
term theater means.
Topics covered will include
• What are the biggest challenges to streaming a live production to the internet
• How to navigate the unions when working online
• What crew positions do you need to fill, and how are they different from crew
positions in the traditional theater
• Glossary of online streaming terms
• How social media can help you expand your audience base and build PR
• 15 minute interactive question and answer session

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Live streaming for Student TD’s and Designers
Workshop 3
Everything you need to know to design and facilitate a live streaming theatrical
event
Topics covered will include
• What technology do you need to implement a live streamed theatrical event
• Video Hosting services and CDN’s
• Bandwidth and Access
• Cameras
• Switchers
• Lighting
• Audio
Including and in-depth walk thru of the newest Newtek Tricaster, the TCXD850.

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Additional Info…
Every Workshop will be an hour in length and include a 15 minute interactive
question and answer session. Students can interact via chat, twitter or video.
Each student attending a workshop will receive a ticket to a live streamed,
interactive performance of Better Left Unsaid,up to 65 tickets.
Cost is $800 per school (a 25% discount on Professional Workshop Prices)
To purchase a workshop please call 917-992-2217 or visit http://betterleftunsaid.tv
Workshops are available on Thursday, January 27th and Wednesday February 2nd, at
1:30, 2:45, and 4:00 pm.
For information on a workshop tailored specifically to your school’s curriculum or production schedule
please contact us at info@betterleftunsaid.tv

13. The BLU Team
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Kathryn Jones – Producer Joey Brenneman – Producer Erin Bigelow – Assoc. Tom Concordia –
Kathryn is the founder of Joey was the director of The NYC Producer Director of Photography
Synchronis.tv, the first company Fringe 2010 show, “The Timing Erin has worked in Live Tom is the official
to stream a live scripted web of A Day” , winner of the 2010 Television for 9 years in every photographer for the
drama. Kathryn has conceived of Fringe Award for “Best Overall aspect of TV, from Victoria’s Secret Fashion
and produced many live streamed Ensemble”. camerawoman to Station Show, Style360, Julian Louis,
and on-demand video events, Manager. She’s directed plenty Tuleh, Marc Bauwer, FYI
including Women Respond to Joey is the founder and co- of big name bands and productions, as well as
Palin and Question of the Week. producer of Above the Bridge, a interviews in Boston. She is a continuing to be a frequent
The former VP of Branded live reading series for writers member of the Directors Guild contributor to Getty Images.
Entertainment for well known who live in Washington Heights of America and currently works
online video company FYI, and Inwood. In 2005, she co- with the Director of Good Tom recently directed the
Kathryn has produced online produced her original play, Of Morning America at ABC in short, “Love Or…”. and is the
video for clients that include Loss and Grace at Theater 5 in Manhattan. Erin’s directing director and producer of the
Panasonic and Dice.com. NYC. credits also include Assistant web series “Making the Shot”
Directing the Full-Length Indie which chronicles behind the
Kathryn has spoken at online Joey spent many years with Film, “Mortal Arbitratus” (2005), scenes activities of fashion
video and social media STAR Theater/The NiteStar and Directing “The Vagina photographers. Tom has just
conferences throughout the Program as the Artistic Director Monologues” in 2004. This is started pre-production of the
United States, and has both where she created and directed a her initial attempt at Associate 12 part documentary of
produced and appeared in theater repertory season of educational Producing a play, though she is “Lucumi Now” the story of
through out the US and as far theater. confident in her abilities to Afro-Cuban ritual migration to
afield as Edinburgh, Scotland. spread the good word about the Americas for PBS Seattle.
this magnificent one-of-a-kind
production!

14. The Play
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8 Lives, 8 Secrets. How Well Do You Know The People Who You Love?
Better Left Unsaid, by Joey Brenneman, is a complex roadmap of a play that begins
in Central Park on a strangely warm, foggy day in November. We follow eight
characters as their paths twist and turn in unexpected ways.
Better Left Unsaid is a story about how our lives are affected by the pieces of
information that we choose to withhold from the people we love. Sometimes the
same secret that protects one person damages another.
Better Left Unsaid has a multi-cultural cast of diverse ages and explores the
universal themes of family, love, relationships, parenthood, honesty and fidelity.

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The History
"Theater people: We need You”
-New York Times Digital Media Critic Virginia Heffernan
in her review of “35”
Better Left Unsaid follows on the heels
of Kathryn Jones’ first live streamed
production, “35”. A first of it’s kind live
streamed web series, “35” was shot on
the tiniest of budgets but was covered
by The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Mashable, blogs from around
the world, was featured on iTunes and
had well over 100,000 views.

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Why is Better Left Unsaid Important?
Better Left Unsaid….
• Is breaking entirely new ground in the way it merges theater and
technology
• Is interactive in ways that few videos, and almost no theater pieces
can be
• Is written, directed and produced by women, bringing a much
needed female point of view to the world of online video, a world
which is almost entirely dominated by content created by men
• Will more deeply engage a 21st century audience

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Why is Better Left Unsaid Important? Cont….
• Will allow our audience to literally become a part of the creative community via
Facebook, Twitter, chat rooms and video.
• Harnesses the inherent interactivity of the web
• Combines the excitement of live theater with the community of live streamed
video events
• Is a new dramatic paradigm that could launch an entirely new dramatic form born
of today’s technology
• Is a funny, smart, play about how our lives are affected by the pieces of
information that we choose to share or withhold from the people we love the most

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For more information
please visit us at
BetterLeftUnsaid.tv
To register your class for a
workshop contact us at
info@betterleftunsaid.tv
917-992-2217