Artistic Finance
Artistic Finance provides theatre makers with honest, no-pretension insights into managing money in the entertainment industry. Hosted by lighting designer Ethan Steimel, this podcast delves into the personal finance challenges and business realities of show business, offering candid advice and practical tools tailored to creatives working behind the scenes. https://www.artisticfinance.com/
Episodes
Part two of the conversation with Broadway lighting designer Jane Cox.
Topics:
⭐️ Keeping overhead low
⭐️ Paying theatre designers hourly
⭐️ Penny Remsen - Jane’s lighting mentor
⭐️ Paying for assistants / drafting out of the design fee
⭐️ Two recent design fees - one for an opera, one for an off Broadway musical
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False Steps - Off...
Lighting designer Jane Cox discusses life as a freelance theatre designer who has also taken on some full time academic work.
Topics:
⭐️ Parenting while working in the arts
⭐️ Paying student loans with a credit card
⭐️ Prioritizing the needs of the community above the market rate
⭐️ The financial system working against theatre design as a career
⭐️ Jane’s tax rate as a freelancer nearing 50%, and having it lower once she started...
An update on the $6,000 of investments we made in May of 2021.
Four lighting designers and a bond investment CEO review how our investments compare to the S&P 500.
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False Steps: A Ballroom Comedy
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Set designer Vincent Gunn talks about the benefits of tracking the hours that you work.
Topics:
⭐️ Valuing your time
⭐️ Investing the money in your retirement account
⭐️ Writing things down and getting them out of your head
⭐️ Designers thinking about work even when they’re not at work
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Vincent Gunn
TheatrIcal lighting designer Jason Lynch talks about freelancing in Chicago.
Topics:
⭐️ LLCs
⭐️ Estate Sales
⭐️ Keeping our humanity
⭐️ Investing in the S&P 500
⭐️ Some of Jason’s recent design fees
⭐️ Moving to a big theatre city, that’s not New York
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Jason Lynch
Projection designer Sven Ortel talks about career finances.
Topics:
⭐️ Being persistent
⭐️ Insisting you get credit for your work
⭐️ Organizing your taxes and writing it down
⭐️ Separating the production budget from the design budget
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Sven Ortel
Discussing designer pay and transparency with Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End lighting designer Isabella Byrd.
Topics:
⭐️ Dealing with the IRS
⭐️ Union pension, healthcare, and the union ledger
⭐️ Commercial theatre fees (aka Broadway) versus off-Broadway fees (aka non-profit theatre)
⭐️ CDs, as in Certificates of Deposit
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Today is the 5th anniversary of Artistic Finance. A quick thank you to mark the occasion and announcing a non-AEA casting notice for NYC!
Broadway lighting designer Beverly Emmons discusses commercial theatre practices for designers.
Topics:
⭐️ Adding riders onto your contract
⭐️ Theatre Law which aims to protect investors’ money
⭐️ W2 and 1099 and how that impacts copyright for designers
⭐️ The history of the theatre design union - United Scenic Artists
⭐️ Those union contracts, what they protect, and how they’re helpful for expediting theatre negotiations because...
Alvin Hough Jr, who’s currently the associate music director of The Lion King on Broadway, talks about career finances and a few things about musical theatre musicians.
Topics:
⭐️ Dollar pizza
⭐️ Being a saver, not a spender
⭐️ Living off per diem while touring
⭐️ Rehearsal call versus a performance call
⭐️ Rates of pay for different numbers of instruments
⭐️ The differences between the piano and the keyboard
⭐️ Working a double,...
Technical director Tab Birt discusses his journey through live entertainment, financial lessons learned along the way, and his dream of trading the stage for a glass artist’s studio in Norway.
Topics
⭐️ Glass blowing
⭐️ Not selling yourself short
⭐️ Getting on a stagehands union call list
⭐️ Burning out, being cynical, and the joy of theatre
⭐️ The secret investment vehicle called a ROTH IRA
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Today’s show is an “ordinary and necessary” episode in which we learn about prepping and filing taxes for freelancer 1099 income.
Topics:
⭐️ Documentation matters!
⭐️ Personal expenses versus business expenses
⭐️ Tracking your expenses as you go
⭐️ Missing expenses are the number one way to pay more in taxes.
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Aja M Jackson
A guide of financial resources, and where to find them, for freelancers working in theatre or other facets of the entertainment industry.
⭐️ Unions
⭐️ Job boards
⭐️ Scholarships
⭐️ Financial Planning
⭐️ Taxes / Accountants
⭐️ Financial Communities
⭐️ Educational Worksheets & Supplements
⭐️ Community Resources - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
⭐️ Episodes of Artistic Finance - separated out by career focuses
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A panel of live event lighting and media professionals having a Q&A about career finances.
⭐️ Theatre Lighting Designer Christina Watanabe
⭐️ TV Lighting Designer Mike Grabowski
⭐️ Media Designer Zak Borovay
⭐️ TV Gaffer Seán Linehan
Topics:
⭐️ Taxes
⭐️ Agents
⭐️ Contracts
⭐️ USA 829 / LORT Contracts
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LDI
An interview with television lighting designer Josh Hutchings about how intimate and taboo it is to discuss finances.
Topics:
⭐️ Compound interest
⭐️ Not having a financial plan
⭐️ Investing early and consistently
⭐️ It’s an industry based on relationships
⭐️ How intimate and taboo discussing finances is
⭐️ Making a financial life plan with the help of professionals
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Artistic Finance
A discussion of various financial independence topics for people working in the creative industry.
Topics:
⭐️ Improving Financial IQ
⭐️ The “starving artist” narrative
⭐️ Empowering confidence in personal financial decisions
A live episode recorded at LDI in collaboration with Amy D Lux / Lobolux Design's Financial Independence Club.
Video Version
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Artistic Finance
Learn about the process of designing and producing live shows for music artists with our Los Angeles based guests: lighting designer and programmer, Erica D Hayes and COO and Show Director at Wasted Potential, Zach Berget.
Topics:
⭐️Balancing the creative vision of an artist with the logistical realities of large-scale budgets.
⭐️ The workflow behind developing these narratives and visual elements.
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Theatre director Oliver Butler discusses the state of pay for theatre directors.
Topics:
⭐️ Director Fees at Non-Profit Theatres in NYC
⭐️ Giving credit to the non profits that pay above the SDC minimum.
⭐️ Actionable steps to address the issue both for individuals and institutions.
⭐️ Discussing theatre pay honestly and in public so we don’t uphold the myth that it’s livable.
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Artist...
Theatre designers and their agents come together for an in-depth discussion on navigating agent-designer relationships, contract negotiations, and strategies for fair compensation in the theatre industry.
Topics:
⭐️ Preparing for contract negotiations
⭐️ Challenges and solutions when negotiating
⭐️ Meeting and building relationships with agents
⭐️ Advice for early, mid-career, and high-profile designers
Youtube Version
Lighting designer Travis McHale talks business and finance as a theatre designer.
Topics:
⭐️ Self filing taxes
⭐️ Negotiating rates
⭐️ Reasons to be investing
⭐️ Paying off mortgages early
⭐️ The magic of compound interest
⭐️ Stress and negativity of credit card debt
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