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
Set designer Seth Howard talks about freelancing from the midwest.
Topics:
⭐️ ROTH IRAs
⭐️ Being a good person
⭐️ High yield savings accounts
⭐️ Getting work from social media
⭐️ DBAs - Doing Business As - for taxes
⭐️ Our actual design fees on recent projects
⭐️ Discussing production budgets while in academia
⭐️Theatrical light boxes - which has little to do with finances but hey we’re theatre people so they cam...
A round table about Artificial Intelligence in theatre design with a panel of cross discipline designers.
Topics:
⭐️ Types of AI Models
⭐️ Ethical Concerns of AI
⭐️ How designers are using AI
⭐️ How designers hope to use AI
⭐️ What parts of our workflow we’re comfortable using AI in
Video Version
USA 829’s resources on AI
https://www.usa829.org/Education/Tech-Committee-Resources
Science ...
Jessica Ryan, Founder of Broadway Unlocked and CEO of All Together Now a production company for scaleable in-person and digital live experiences joins the show to discuss realities of Broadway's unhealthy producing model.
Topics:
⭐️ Cats: The Jellicle Ball
⭐️ Holding space for performing arts and capitalism
⭐️ Being a theatre person and teaching yourself business terminology
⭐️ Broadway’s unhealthy producing model of p...
Christopher Kriz, a composer and sound designer based in Chicago, talks about sustaining a freelance theatre career.
Topics:
⭐️ Opening a ROTH IRA
⭐️ Filing taxes on your own
⭐️ Saying yes to everything
⭐️ Our actual fees on a recent gig
⭐️ Talking being good for your health
⭐️ The university of store front theatre
⭐️ Using an agent so you have less stress negotiating fees
⭐️ USA 829 contracts including CBAs, SDAs, POAs, and LORT
...Performing arts consultant and producer Matthew Principe talks about producing opera, theatre, and multimedia content.
Topics:
⭐️ The Performing Arts Industrial Complex
⭐️ Hiring a qualified person to file your taxes
⭐️ Taking the emotion out of our financial life
⭐️ Saving 10% of your gross income for yourself
⭐️ Producing opera, theatre, classical music, and multi media
⭐️ The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for student ...
LinkedIn posts on arts and capitalism. Plus Al Heartley's article on the departure from Arena Stage of artistic director Hana Sharif.
Topics:
⭐️ Artists are people too
⭐️ Theatre education is versatile
⭐️ Capitalism, good, bad, and ugly
⭐️ The resignation of the Arena Stage artistic director Hana Sharif
Video Version
Feature Not A Bug - Al Heartley:
The business part of a freelance career in Louisville with theatrical lighting designer Jesse AlFord.
Topics:
⭐️ Lighting and teching a circus
⭐️ Panic cancelling recurring donations
⭐️ Home ownership positives and negatives
⭐️ Buying your own gear to make your work easier
⭐️ Not needing a down payment to purchase a home
Video Version
Jesse AlFord
Theatre performer and educator, Rayme Cornell, talks career finances as a single mom.
Topics:
⭐️ NOT having hobbies
⭐️ A resume versus a CV (Curriculum Vitae)
⭐️ NOT preboarding an airplane with a child in tow
⭐️ Playwrights being the most famous people in theatre
⭐️ NOT opening a 529 education savings plan for your child
⭐️ Raising a child, as a single mom, while working in theatre
⭐️ Training students who then go work on Broadwa...
Researcher, educator, and director CeCe Ortiz-Barnett discusses funding and access in theatre education.
Topics:
⭐️ Imposter syndrome and the importance of ego
⭐️ Giving grace and providing safe space in higher education
⭐️ Training all types of learners and accommodating them as we’re able
⭐️ CeCe’s exchange program for students from HBCUs to experience PWI of higher education, so they can have a higher likelihood of ...
Lighting designer Carl Faber returns to the show to discuss freelancing in the performing arts in Portland.
Topics:
⭐️ Zone defense
⭐️ Using local Credit Unions
⭐️ AI entering our workflow
⭐️ HELOC - home equity line of credit
⭐️ Ethics of Credit Cards and Big Banks
⭐️ Freelancing in theatre in Portland, Oregon
⭐️ Our fellow lighting designer Mark McCullough
⭐️ Being a father and freelance theatre designer
⭐️ Building systems in y...
An interview with projection designer Wendall K Harrington.
Topics:
⭐️ Building credit
⭐️ SEP IRAs for freelancers
⭐️ Asking producers to contribute to your SEP IRA
⭐️ Artistically building a 3rd show that’s a combo of the director’s vision and your vision
Video Version:
Wendall K Harrington
http://www.wendallharrington.com/
A conversation about the business side of being a projection designer with Zak Borovay, who on Broadway has designed Elf, Xanadu, and Rock of Ages. He has also done work for Disney and Universal theme parks, lots of cruise lines, and the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.
Topics:
⭐️ Protections of a union
⭐️ Keeping your investments
⭐️ History of projection designers joining USA 829
⭐️ Freelancing versus being employed a...
Choreographer Staś Kmieć explains how he’s handled the business side of his theatre and dance career.
Topics:
⭐️ Tax filing
⭐️ Healthcare
⭐️ Fiddler On The Roof
⭐️ Not spending money when on tour
Video Version: https://youtu.be/CUtkLbPZnQ4
Staś Kmieć
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sta%C5%9B-kmie%C4%87-462b8519/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%9B_Kmie%C4%87
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Broadway lighting programmer Brad Gray discusses financial literacy and the importance of making that choice to prioritize your finances so that you aren’t forced to hustle until your dying day.
Topics:
⭐️ Rich Dad, Poor Dad
⭐️ Programmer day rates
⭐️ Rental real estate investing
⭐️ ROTH IRAs and Retirement Accounts
⭐️ Starting them early and NOT dipping into them when purchasing a new home unle...
Tax expert Susan Lee discusses tax implications and best practices for freelancers.
Topics:
⭐️ Cashflow
⭐️ Having a will
⭐️ Being your own bookkeeper
⭐️ A financial health checklist and a financial disaster kit
Video Version
Freelance Taxation
https://www.freelancetaxation.com/
Pieter Bruegel The Elder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder
The Beekeepers
(Audio problems? I made a mistake uploading, so delete the episode and then try to play it again.) Costume designer Elsa Hiltner talks about the lack of pay equity in theatrical design and what she is doing about it.
Topics:
⭐️ Living wage
⭐️ The Pay Equity Standards
⭐️ The Theatrical Designer Pay Resource
⭐️ Annual income for Chicago-based non-union costume designers
Video Version:
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
Video Version
Artistic Finance
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False Step...
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 s...
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.
Video Version
Artistic Finance
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False Steps: A Ballroom Comedy
https://www.falsestepscomedy.com/
ETFs:
Stocks:
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
Video Version
Artistic Finance
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Vincent Gunn
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