Join the dance department for a lecture and conversation with dancer and Tony Award-winning producer Fran Kirmser as she seeks to give dancers and performing artists the tools they need to get hired:

• Where to look for auditions, job opportunities and funding
• Best practices for social media, reels,headshots, resumes and websites
• Successfully submitting to agent
• Making your passion your work, and finding the balance between art and industry
• Networking and meaningfully marketing your artistry

As a producer of Broadway and the performing arts stage, Fran Kirmser's credits include Bob Fosse's Dancin' 2023, the 2009 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical Revival, Hair, the 2013 Tony Award-winner for Best Revival of a Play Whos's Afriad of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross starring Al Pacino, and the world premiere of August Wilson's Radio Golf. Service to the field of dance includes, work with Shen Wei, Francesca Harper, Donna Uchizono, Doug Varone, Dance Brazil, Jessica Chen, Sandra Rivera, Lisa Giobbi, Lucinda Childs, Martha Graham Dance Company, among many others helping companies and artists with assistance in fundraising, career planning, production, marketing and publicity while they work in such venues such as The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, The Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music and New York Live Arts. An arts advocate, Fran has served on funding panels in the fine and performing arts such as New York Foundation for the Arts and has taught master classes at Columbia University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Universities across the country. Fran holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Dance, and an Executive Certificate in Business Law and Finance from Cornell University.