TheatreCon 2025 “Behind The Stage”

Judith Schulz, Executive Director of Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals (SATP), talks about TheatreCon and this year’s theme of “Behind The Stage.” Here’s what she had to say:

When asked to describe what TheatreCon was all about, Judith replied, “Absolutely, yeah! TheatreCon is a conference for theatre folks and folks who work in the Live Performing Arts industry here in Saskatchewan to build their skills that they don’t necessarily have time to build during a contract. So it’s all the skills that people need to know to be artists, but also as an artist you’re running your own business, right? You’re promoting yourself as someone who can work in this industry. And so these are the skills like grant writing, portfolio, website and how to run a production meeting – all the skills you don’t learn necessarily in an acting class. It’s “Behind The Stage,” it’s all the things you need to know to be an artist in Saskatchewan.

Creative Saskatchewan has been so generous and is funding the majority of this conference. We have some other sponsors, obviously, but they are the primary funder. It is so important to have funding for things like TheatreCon because to bring people together is to build community and that’s how we strengthen the industry and make strides in being better at what we do, better at being an outreach to the rest of the province, creating better art and all of those good things.”

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