Otey Artistic and Casting Consultants Services

With years of experience, our staff has the capabilities and expertise to take your company to the next level. At Otey Artistic and Casting Consultants, we combine our insights and skills to build, transform, guide the choices leading to the best season programming. Fully customized from full season to single performances based on budgets, needs, communities, general goals of your company. We can also help defining these goals.

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Services:

Simple consultation or

Act as an externally contracted artistic director:

• Individual roles, entire casts, 

• Build a cast around a ‘name’, 

• Help ‘blend’ casts (veterans and young artists) 

• Suggest productions, 

• Choose best conductor/director to lead a particular cast, 

• Find an appropriate opera role for a new discovery

• Find best artists for a particular budget

• Choose/help choose casts based on taste of board and executive director

• Quickly find alternative artist when someone falls ill or cannot perform

• Know what role or project would interest a ‘name’ artist to come to smaller company

• Organize auditions​

• Travel to hear an artist in which a company is interested or see a production of interest

• Facilitate production sharing between companies

• Choose providers, creative teams, production teams...

• Negotiate / write contracts on behalf of companies

• Help with budgets

• Artistic Administration and liaison ( travels, housing...)

• fundraising efforts

Relationship with agents and artists for specific projects or performances.

• Suggest specific performers, creative teams, production teams for specific needs.

• Travel to hear an artist in which a company is interested or see a production of interest

• Facilitate production sharing between companies

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