Pitch Opportunities: Share Your Work at WAA 2023
Accepting Applications for Pitch NOW and Amplified
What happens when you bring together the most creative minds in the business? Let’s find out at WAA 2023! We are accepting applications for two different pitch opportunities at this year's conference:
Pitch NOW is a brand new session for artists and producers with New or Outside-of-the-Box Works. Reach potential collaborators and turn your idea into a project with partnerships and performance dates. Plus, tried-and-true favorite, Amplified, returns for another year; agents, if you have a project, artist, or program you'd like to share with a captive audience of presenters, apply for Amplified.
The deadline to apply for both pitch opportunities is Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 5pm PT. Read on to learn more — and presenters: sit tight! Applications for our presenter pitch session will open soon.
Amplified, WAA 2019; image credit: Corporate CloseUps
Amplified, WAA 2019; image credit: Corporate CloseUps
Pitch NOW
Matching Artists & Producers with Partners & Collaborators
Pitch NOW is a forum for bold artistic ideas that need more than a stage and tour date to become reality. Creators with New or Outside-of-the-box Works (NOW) can pitch their ideas to potential collaborators who get first dibs on supporting some of the most innovative projects in the performing arts today. Pitch NOW aims to turn ideas with promise into projects with partnerships and performance dates.
Who: You work across disciplines, alongside social movements, in nontraditional or public spaces, outdoors, with communities or schools, or in digital or other mediated formats. You welcome collaborators such as presenters into your creative process. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: Imaginative and impactful ideas that push the boundaries of performing arts concepts. Pitch NOW highlights projects at any stage of development requiring energy and investment.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select six applicants to present their ideas to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have ten minutes to present their ideas and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Pitch NOW will take place on Wednesday, September 6 - the second day of the 2023 WAA Annual Conference in Seattle, WA.
WAA provides a safe space for dialogue where creators and collaborators can share perspectives without inhibition and practice the WAA Code of Ethics. WAA supports the intellectual rights of creators and will not tolerate the appropriation of ideas by other creators or attendees.
Nonmember Application Fee: A non-refundable $50 USD application fee is payable to WAA upon submission of each application by nonmembers. Applications are free for WAA members.
Apply Now! Apply online by Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 5pm PT
Amplified
A Pitch Session for Agents & Artists:
Share Your Tour-Ready Work with a Captive Audience
Share your project, program, or artist with a captive audience of presenters at WAA 2023: apply for Amplified.
Who: You are an artist or agent with an exciting tour-ready project, program, or artist to share. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: All ideas are welcome, but Amplified provides an ideal opportunity for a large or international ensembles for whom showcasing at the conference isn’t feasible.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select nine applicants to present their pitch to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have five minutes to pitch and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Amplified will take place on Thursday, September 7 - the third day of the 2023 WAA Annual Conference in Seattle, WA.
WAA provides a safe space for dialogue where creators and collaborators can share perspectives without inhibition and practice the WAA Code of Ethics. WAA supports the intellectual rights of creators and will not tolerate the appropriation of ideas by other creators or attendees.
Nonmember Application Fee: A non-refundable $50 USD application fee is payable to WAA upon submission of each application by non-members. Applications are free for WAA members.
Apply Now! Apply online by Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 5pm PT
Pitch NOW and Amplified applicants will be contacted with a decision in mid-June.
While you may submit more than one application, please note that no more than one application from a single agency/organization will be selected.