Producing on a Short Shoelace

Terry Schreiber is a noted theater producer, director, acting teacher, and founder of the prestigious T. Schreiber Studio in New York City. Terry here traces his forty-year career in the vanguard of New York's off-off-Broadway scene, crisply summarizing the tricks, survival techniques and tensions entailed in striving to stay alive while producing scores of quality productions on little capital, much love, imaginative entrepreneuring, the aid of many others, and a bit of good luck here and there. Filled with anecdotes and pragmatic advice, the richly textured book moves beyond a chronological account of Terry’s career and the history of his Studio to present Terry’s thoughts on past events and how they shaped his philosophy as both a teacher and a long-standing leader of the theater community. This is a must-read for up-and-coming indie theater artists. It contains invaluable how-to—and how-not-to—guidance on making theater on a "short shoelace.”