Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we continue to create with our cohort. We are shifting some of our workshops online - and now, you can join us as observers.
More information about our 2021 workshops and how to apply as an observer is available below.
2021 Workshop Prospectus
April 12th-18th, 2021
“PRODUCING IS A DESIGN PROCESS”
with CHRISTOPHER HIBMA (former Producing Director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, USA)
Mon, 12th April
“Operational Excellence”
SESSION with NBOMTI Producing Team
Survey and Provide Christopher with Questions from the Group
Wed, 14th April
“Professionalizing the Sector”
Survey and Provide Christopher with Questions from the Group
SESSION with Producers Guild of Nairobi
Sat/Sun, 17/18th April
“Life Cycle of a Project”
Survey and Provide Christopher with Questions from the Group
SESSION with NBOMTI Creative Teams
“Creating a Pitch Deck for your Project”
SESSION with NBOMTI Creative Teams
May 2nd- 19th, 2021
“THE AURAL EXPERIENCE”
with IYVON EDEBIRI, Artistic Director of The Parsnip Ship podcast, USA
Sun, May 2nd
“Grounding & Framework for an Audio Experience”
SESSION with NBOMTI Creative Teams + Provide Listening Examples
May 3rd -8th
Homework: Listening Sessions
Tue, May 4 10 am-12 pm EST
SESSION “Early” NBOMTI Creative Team
Thur, May 6th 10 am-12 pm EST
SESSION “Mid-Way” NBOMTI Creative Teams
Sat, May 8th 11 am-1 pm EST
SESSION “Full Draft” NBOMTI Creative Teams
May, 15th-19th
SESSIONS with Individual NBOMTI Creative Teams Discuss new audio ideas for projects and existing drafts
May 9th-14th
Homework: Formulate initial ideas for your project
Mentor Iyvon listens to all the drafts of the musicals
June 2nd – August 2nd, 2021
“5 MINUTE AUDIO EXPERIENCES”
with ERIK ALTORFER, radio play writer and director, Switzerland
Wed, June 2nd
Get to know each other, share radio play ideas and outline details of upcoming workshops
Wed, June 23rd
Whole Group Session – Intro to Production Plans
Thur, June 3rd - Sat, June 19th
Write Synopsis, Assemble Text and Sound Elements, Write the First Draft of Audio Experience
June, 24th -July 13th
Re-Write/Second Draft of Audio Experience, Create Production Plan
Tue, June 22nd - Wed, June 23rd
Individual Feedback Sessions with Erik on First Draft
Wed, July 14th
Final Draft, Revise Production Plan, Optional Rehearsal
Wed, July 14th - Thurs, July 15th
Individual Feedback Sessions with Erik on Second Draft/Production Plan
Fri, July 15th
HOLD for Whole Group Session
Thurs, July 15th - Tue, July 27th
Recording Voices (Music)
Wed, July 28th - Thurs, July 29th
Individual Feedback Sessions With Erik On First Mixes
Wed, Aug 4th
Final Feedback With Erik
Thurs, July 29th
HOLD for Whole Group Session
Wed, Aug 4th
Whole Group Session Final Feedback and Debrief
Fri, July 30th - Tue, Aug 3rd
Final Mix.
Meet Our Mentors
Christopher Hibma
Recognized as a leader in culture, strategy, and international program design, Christopher is a member of Creative Capital’s National Advisory Council, a US organization that invests in artists to shape the future and a Senior Advisor to Ettijahat-Independent Culture, a Syrian organization based in Beirut. Christopher has served as a consultant to The Apollo Theater, Zoukak in Lebanon and the global design firm, IDEO.
Christopher is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, a refuge for people shaping an inclusive & prosperous world. In his most recent role as the Director of Sundance Institute’s Theatre Program, Christopher built one of the world’s leading brands and most diverse rosters of artists.
In his role, he worked to expand the Program’s cultural impact outside the US, with an emphasis on storytelling from East Africa and the Arab Region/diaspora
Iyvon Edebiri
Iyvon Edebiri (she/her) is a Nigerian-American creative producer, company manager, and dramaturg hailing from Brooklyn, NY. Iyvon is the Artistic Director and Host of The Parsnip Ship, a radio-play series and platform amplifying underproduced playwrights via the audio theater.
In addition, she is the Director of Artistic Programs at Signature Theatre in NYC. A recipient of the Fulbright International Scholarship and Gilman International Scholarship (both to Italy) and The DO School’s Future of Audio Entertainment Fellowship in Berlin, Iyvon was also awarded the 2019 Mark O’Donnell Prize by The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons for emerging, anomalous theater artists.
Iyvon has worked at or collaborated with several independent producers and institutions such as Sundance Institute, ArKtype, The Public Theater, The Civilians, National Queer Theater, Gallim Dance, and Lincoln Center. She is a member of the WP 2020 - 2022 Producers Lab and an Affiliate Dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio. B.A. Brandeis University. M.A. Baruch College (CUNY) Arts Administration.
@iamiyvon
Erik Altorfer
Erik started his professional artistic work as an assistant director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Since 1997, he works as director and dramaturg for theatre and radio. He organized festivals commissioning and showcasing new plays in Switzerland, Austria, Egypt and Argentina. He was artistic director of the Swiss playwrights’ program Dramenprozessor which received the Swiss Theatre Award in 2015.
He held writing workshops in Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia and Egypt. Erik directed, commissioned and adapted numerous radio plays (by Tim Etchells, Annie Ernaux, Ivana Sajko, Mudar Alhaggi and many others) for German and Swiss radio stations. 2019 and 2021 he curated the audio drama/blog production “Sounds like a Whisper” at Theatre is a Must in Alexandria with a dozen Egyptian and Syrian artists. 2020 several of his productions were invited to “Mawgat Cairo’s International Radio Drama Festival”. Together with the Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi, he led writing/theatre workshops with refugees in Beirut, Graz (Austria) and Zurich (Switzerland).
Erik is teaching at the Zurich Academy of the Arts, in the last years with a focus on writing and directing audio plays.
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