The Process for Producers
The site is here to help you generate tours or subsequent seasons for your work through presenter interest. Presenters may wish to buy a season of your work or commit to be involved in a tour.
Presenter Interest
This may be initiated in a several ways. Presenters may contact you after seeing one of your profiles or you may contact them directly and introduce them to your work. Presenters may also register their interest via a voting round.
Voting Round
A voting round is where a number of productions are listed and offered to a group of presenters. Presenters can view the Production Profiles and decide on what might be appropriate for their programs. They can then register an online vote for productions that they are interested in. If your production is successful, at the end of a voting round you will have a list of presenters who are committed to presenting your show as part of a tour.
The most established voting rounds are those taking place twice a year in the lead up to Playing Australia funding deadlines. In these rounds, productions with the most interest are invited to pitch at Long Paddock. More voting occurs after Long Paddock until a confirmed list is established.
Tour Development
Once a number of presenters have expressed interest in your production, the process of tour development can begin. This involves creating an itinerary for a tour that takes in as many presenters and their venues as possible. A budget is also created that covers the relevant producer fees with a series of fees (sell-off fees) paid by presenters. A separate budget is usually created to cover touring costs (travel, accommodation, living away allowances etc).
Funding can then be sought, federally or at a state level to cover the touring costs
Tour Coordinators
Many tours are developed and then delivered by tour coordinators. The tour coordinator will carry out the tour development and may also apply for touring funding. They then coordinate the tour should all details be confirmed.
Some producers carry out their own tour development and tour coordination. It is also possible to develop and deliver tours without funding or for a producer to hire a series of venues and mount a tour at their own financial risk.
