For all booking inquiries call 845-658-3115 or send email to passionchi@yahoo.com

Personal Goal Analysis

PassionPlace Productions, Inc. in its tenth year, is a not-for-profit, multi-media organization dedicated to bringing original productions to the community by integrating art forms. We incorporate theatre, spoken word, music, film, dance and fine arts in a collaborative effort. Providing employment and resources to artists, PassionPlace aims to save children (ages 3 to 103) through freedom and responsibility of art expression. By touring our productions we share the artist's vision with other communities, while exploring those we visit.

PassionPlace Productions not-for-profit theatre company comprised of:

A. BOARD OF DIRECTORS & EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM
Will be the providers for this artistic endeavor and will be composed of:

1. Executive Director
   Responsibilities and duties: Helping to oversee the running of Board Meetings, seek out new Board Members, Advisory Board Members, Staff and productions. She will be responsible for training and supervising staff and production coordinators. Bookings of sites for rehearsals and performances. Support Team: Managing Director, Fellow Board Members, production team, outside art resource agencies

2. Managing Director
   Responsibilities and duties: Assists the Executive Director in all production scheduling and production management. He will manage tasks and delegate duties to proper departments. Additional responsibilities include the update, distribution and posting of the complete schedule for individual dance, acting, singing and technical rehearsals. Also, coordinate all post-production social activities. Support Team: Fellow Board Members, production team, Event Coordinator, Dir. of Development

3. Executive Sponsors
   Responsibilities and duties: Will provide additional corporate advertisement and ticket purchasing capital required for PassionPlace's production of 1975:The Underground Epic. (See the Executive Sponsor list)

4. Advisory Board Members
   Responsibilities and duties: Will provide their support and the use of their name and contacts required for the productions of PassionPlace Productions. (See Advisory Board Member list)

B. PRODUCTION TEAM
Will be an alliance of experienced and motivated individuals who will provide the artistic direction for the production. This team is composed of the following members:

1. Director
   Responsibilities and duties: The director will preside over the productions of PassionPlace and coordinate all artistic elements of the production of 1975:The Underground Epic, including auditions, casting and rehearsals. In addition she will conceive and put together complete schedule for individual dance, acting, singing and technical rehearsals. She will be responsible for assisting the author in script editing and re-writes. Support team: director of photography, musical director, choreographer, lighting director, set designer, stage manager and administrators.

2. Musical director
   Responsibilities and duties: The Musical director will coordinate the musical collation of entire production. He will casting principal musicians for the production and prepare musicians and singers for performances. Compose and coordinate musical soundtrack and songs for production. His support team includes assistant musical director, bandleader and band members.

3. Choreographer
   Responsibilities and duties: Coordinate all dance routines and choreographed staged movements to the musical soundtrack. Suggest principal cast dancers from participants of the auditions and a dance corps to perform selected dance routines. Coordinate dance rehearsals with stage rehearsals. Support team: four dancers.

4. Stage Manager
   Responsibilities and duties: The stage manager will coordinate all stage movement during rehearsals and stage presentations (lights, props, special effects, scenery, sound and sets.) Support team: assistant stage manager, special effects coordinator, sound coordinator, light coordinator, props coordinator, set builder, make-up and wardrobe coordinator.

5. Administrator/Director of Development
   Responsibilities and duties: The administrator will coordinate all administrative endeavors related to the productions of PassionPlace, including but not limited to: publicity, tickets, fundraising, executive sponsors, actors, auditions, attendance, payroll, pre-presentation exposure. The administrators support team: administrative assistant and secretary.

6. Director of Photography
   Responsibilities and duties:

7. Lighting Director
   Responsibilities and duties:

8. Set Designer
   Responsibilities and duties:

9. Community Outreach Coordinator
   Responsibilities and duties: Under the direction of the Director of Development and Administrator, the Community Outreach Coordinator will engage the community high schools, colleges and community organizations to participate in the production of 1975:The Underground Epic. She will be responsible for visiting the schools and organizations and representing the goals of the production and of the company, alerting the community of our presence, our mission and of our goal to have the community actively involved. She will advise the community of the resources we are able to offer and solicit their involvement.

BOARD MEMBERS Sarah Chianese Nick Dow Arnold Sitruk Rick Feltington Carlos Valdez Sage Jobsis Dean Jones Erica Pivko

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS Dominic Chianese Dominic Chianese, Jr.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Sarah Chianese	Executive Director, Director of Photography
Nick Dow	Musical Director
Arnold Sitruk	Managing Director
Erica Pivko	Promotional Director, Events Coordinator
Elijah Vanaver	Choreographer
Sage Jobsis	Set Designer
Jeff Kantor	Technical Director, Filmographer
Rick Feltington	Hiroshi MC & Filmographer
Sebastian Nicolet	Sound Engineer
Pamela Cedarquist	Production Consultant
Caitlyn Patch	Make-up Artist
Jolie Barra	Sustenance Facilitator

1975: UNDERGROUND EPIC PRODUCTION TEAM

Aqiyl Thomas	Artist in Residence
Yohannes Sharriff	Spoken Word Performer
Shawna Kent	Spoken Word Performer
Julie Novak	Emcee, Singer
Sarah Chianese	Director
Eric T. Crittenden	Music Director
Dean Jones	Music Conspirator
Billy	Drummer
Chris Storms	DJ
Clif Jackson	Bass
Timothy Merli (age 12)	African Drummer
Nick Dow	Percussionist
Arnold Sitruk	Production Manager, Follow Spot Operator
Sage Jobsis	Set Designer, Stage Manager
Erica Pivko	Assistant Stage Manager
Stiles Najac	Intern - ASM
Ed Felton	Sound Sculpture, Percussionist
Jeff Kantor	Technical Director
Rick Feltington	Flash Imagery & Filmographer
Adam Noble Roberts	Filmographer
Jennifer Lucene	Filmographer
Brian Gugliemo (age 16)	Filmographer
Rebecca Carter	Photographer
Elijah Vanaver	Choreographer
Caitlyn Patch	Make-up Artist
Susan Ventola	Costume Designer
Lisa Zarowitz	House Manager
Angie Lopez Katya Kudrova Ruthie Dernbach Gabriel Vanaver Ben Hailey Kane	Dance Team
Justin Love Pierre Riche Rhonda Ronan Rebecca Carter Barry Miller Dan Kuhn Erik LaMont D.J. Reese Ruthie Dernbach	Featured Fine Artists (Imagery)

Business Risk Analysis

Each business venture faces risks. Theater productions are not an exception. However we believe that the risks facing this proposal are manageable and/or avoidable. We see nothing that would seriously threaten a more than profitable return.

Here are the major risks we anticipate and how, based on previous experience, we plan to deal with them.

1. Not finding a Sponsoring Angel: When faced with this problem previously, we have developed a multi-sponsor strategy. This requires several donorship levels and benefits to those who offer funds to the company. There are other marketing and strategy tactics, such as accepting in-kind services to defray production or operating costs and advertising sales.

   Please visit our Fundraising section to learn more about our goals.

2. Not selling more than 70% of tickets for each night: Previous productions have been staged before a standing room only audience. (See Past Productions). Never the less, since tickets can be sold months ahead of actual production, there is ample time for adjustments. Such as shortening the run time of the production, which will in turn, reduce certain production costs. It is the responsibility of PASSIONPLACE PRODUCTIONS to secure through publicity, their contacts, and positive influences, the desired response from the community. Another approach that can be used to attract attendance to this endeavor is to choose a patron to sponsor special events. Members of the community mentioned in the productions would add publicity to each event. Patrons or Advisory Board Members, such as, Dominic Chianese, and other celebrities who support PassionPlace, can be featured at events.

3. Similar events in production: On the contrary, the lack of activities of this nature is the one of the biggest assets in marketing this production. No theatrical productions of this nature are set for this community, nor in the communities we are visiting while on tour.

4. Producer's ability to assemble a board of directors to produce 1975:The Underground Epic: It's the strongest link in this chain. Assembling a board of directors to produce over thirty productions has been the task of our Executive Director for the past ten years. The Hudson Valley & Buffalo regions have been, for the last decade, a pool of untapped talent in the U.S. PassionPlace has a history of award winning shows, has gained respect from many arts organizations and media in the area, has worked with Tony Award winning and Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights because of their superb ability to produce thought-provoking theatre, and has produced many original works over the years, remaining an integral force in the community.

5. The theme of the production: Love, Birth, Spirituality & Consciousness are fundamental elements shared by all people. Furthermore, by sharing the vision of a young, African American male through his spoken word, and collaborating with a diverse group of artists and art technicians to bring this production to the stage, 1975:The Underground Epic becomes a written work that confronts and explores that which unifies all members of society. By taking what is considered to be a youth oriented, hip, urban artform (spoken word) and producing it live for the stage in a multi-media format allows gaps to be bridged, allowing this valuable artform to be witnessed and enjoyed by many who wouldn't ordinarily be exposed to same.