EPISODE 109:

INVESTING IN A BROADWAY SHOW WITH PRODUCER HEATHER SHIELDS

Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 08/01/2022

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Broadway producer Heather Shields explains how to invest in a Broadway show. Part one of a two part interview.

Topics:
⭐️ Recoupment schedules and break even points
⭐️ The 40 year exploitation period of an author’s work
⭐️ Investing early is riskier but can provide a higher return
⭐️ The importance of the 10 days before Christmas for seasonal shows
​⭐️ The three types of producers on Broadway - lead, executive, and co

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Links and Resources

Business of Broadway
Tom Smedes Productions
The Industry Standard Group
The Producer’s Hub
Social Security Benefits
Broadway’s A Christmas Carol
Forbes Article on 2019 Broadway Season Financials
SEC Accredited Investor

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Heather Shields
Producer

Heather Shields

Heather is an award-winning producer and theatre manager. She received her undergraduate degrees at the University of Richmond and later graduated from Columbia University with her Masters in Arts Administration. She made her Broadway producing debut in 2017 with the Tony Award-winning Bandstand and was most recently a lead producer on A Christmas Carol. She is also a producer on the Off-Broadway hit Puffs! (Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic). Heather serves as the General Manager of the long-running, downtown sensation BATSU! NYC and opened BATSU! Chicago to critical acclaim in 2016. She co-founded The Business of Broadway in 2019.
Heather lives in Queens with her husband and daughter, Clara.