Oh Boy - A New NYMF Controversy

[macbeth]

Posted: 7/17/11 at 6:55pm

http://www.bloglovin.com/m/2104623/253176729/fb

Does anyone know what show this is referencing? This is really tacky...

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/17/11 at 7:34pm

This doesn't sound like an issue with NYMF but with the producers of THIS particular show. They are treating it like a camp/class. A learning opportunity. It doesn't sound like NYMF has anything to do with the costs.

(And I highly doubt they are the only show in the NYMF hisotry to cast non professional, non NY actors.

[ahhrealmonsters]

Posted: 7/17/11 at 8:18pm

Sounds about right

[Ariella]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:25pm

This is a non-issue. NYMF has cast plenty of non-professional, non-NY actors in the past, so "Kissless" is no exception. In fact, it's common - given that many performers and artists get their start at NYMF. If the child actors are students and the festival is being treated as a learning opportunity, it's no different from me having to cough up a couple hundred when my high school choir went to sing at Carnegie Hall.

Also, the author of the blog seems to have had her show rejected by NYMF, so I guess she has her own grudge.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:34pm

VOTE! was not rejected by NYMF.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:37pm

My mistake -- VOTE! was at the Fringe not NYMF.

[Kad]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 12:49pm

It's around the same price of many acting apprenticeships at well-regarded theatre companies or festivals..

[newintown]

Posted: 7/18/11 at 2:57pm

There are always going to be lots of people who dream of becoming artists and lots of people who find ways to make money off of that desire. Not exactly a symbiotic relationship (because the artists manqué don't get anything much for their money), but no one is forcing anyone to pay anything. An appearance in any festival show is rarely a springboard to a career.