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Current Board
Chair: Ellie Cook
Vice-Chair: William Alan Ritch
Recording Secretary: Billy Barefoot
Parliamentarian: David Benedict
Through December 2025
William Alan Ritch, Ron N. Butler, Ellie Cook
Through December 2026
David Benedict, Retta Bodhaine, Dave Schroeder
Through December 2027
Billy Barefoot, Christa Burton
September 14, 2025
The next meeting will be Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:30pm on Discord
Agenda:
- Secretary's report
- Treasurer's report
- VP report
- Dragon Con post-mortem
- Upcoming shows at RCAC, Academy, and Life University
- Studio report
- Budget submission
- Audible updates (none at this time, but waiting to hear back from them)
- Rights to Heinlein scripts
July 13, 2025
Agenda:
- Secretary's report
- Treasurer's report
- VP report
- Libertycon and RCAC postmortem
- Budget submission process
- Music stand replacements
- Possible new mics to replace the shotguns (Robert used some at the RCAC show that worked well)
- Audible contract changes
- Buyouts being done away with
- "Member value" being used to calculate royalty payouts
- Payouts will now come monthly instead of quarterly
- "All You Can Listen" plan could work well for our stuff, as it is more short form, which people are unwilling to redeem a whole monthly token for.
- We still need to come to an agreement about bundling - our sales strategy works well for individual web or live show sales, but is not compatible with Audible.
May 18, 2025
March 30, 2025
February 16, 2025
January 12, 2025
Minutes from the meeting The next meeting will be January 12, 2025 at 2:00pm on Discord
- Elect officers (Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President, President)
- Elect Board Chair
- Welcome new Board member, Christa Burton
- Secretary's report (minutes)
- Treasurer's report
- Status of ARTC Mixing Board purchase and extension of deadline
- Deals are being found, but Robert needs to put his hands on one to make sure it's really what we want before we shell out the money for it
- Production meeting report (separate meeting will be required to nail all this down, esp script selection)
- Live productions
- Confirmed Performances
- ConPossible (Feb 7-9) - Panel only: David, Billy, Robert, Kelley
- 221B Con (April 11-13) - Lady Sherlock conclusion for this last iteration of this convention
- Libertycon (June 20-22)
- Lend Me an Ear (October, TBD, Tech Only)
- Dragon Con (Aug 28-Sept 1)
- Sales table status - Oreta has stated to David that she intends to scale back her sales table duties. She will commit to Libertycon and Dragon Con, but others may need to be staffed with other people.
- Proposed Performances
- Public shows at:
- Academy Theatre (in exchange for us using it as a rehearsal space)
- Aurora Theatre
- Roswell Cultural Arts Center
- Life University
- Strand Theatre (separate troupe)
- Goal here is to try to schedule these in conjunction with confirmed convention performances to avoid having to rehearse a bunch of new stuff
- Due to the difference in time constraints at these venues (1 hour standard at cons, longer at public) additional LOW TECH material would need to be prepared. (Rory, Bumpers, META, etc)
- Multiverse (Oct 17-19)
- Conjuration (Nov 14-16)
- Infinite Realities Comics and Games (reschedule from last Oct, TBD)
- Fringe Festival (May 27-June 8) - Some question about setup time, Robert is investigating
- Fringe Audio (pre-recorded material) - Most recent word is that they were full up, despite not meeting the application deadline. David has served as a judge for this in the past and may be able to get an exception made, but maybe not.
- Public shows at:
- Confirmed Performances
- Studio productions
- In Progress
- Jeremiah Willstone (Tony Sarrecchia/Anthony Francis project - ARTC is not likely to distribute due to them not wanting to use Audible, but negotiations are ongoing)
- Probability Broach (Still need Fiona's lines from Chapter 5 and something from someone for Ooloorie (dolphin))
- Thing on the Doorstep (all VO complete)
- Rory Rammer (a few stray lines needed for a couple of scripts)
- Nothing-at-All (into SFX editing phase, estimate 70% complete)
- Brave Ragnar (line inventory needed - Chris Jones is Producer, but has been very busy)
- Can You Hear Me? (into Critical Listening phase)
- Upcoming
- Jeremiah Willstone
- The Seven Zombie Hunters
- Golden Age Action Hour demo
- Liberty Boys (contract still not signed and author has stopped following up with us. Do we want to reestablish contact or let this go?)
- There's lots more that could go to the studio, but tracks are piling up with no known timeline for editing. Do we want to let things pile up?
- In Progress
- Live productions
January 4, 2025
The next meeting will be January 4, 2025 at 2:00pm on Discord
Minutes from the abbreviated meeting
- Appoint officers
December 15, 2024
The next meeting will be December 15, 2024 at 2:00pm on Discord
Agenda
- Christmas postmortem
- Upcoming appearances
- ConPossible - Panel only. Application must be submitted and con passes may need to be purchased. Sales table would be nice, too.
- 221B Con - Last year for this convention. Tony Sarrecchia is working on providing a satisfactory ending for Lady Sherlock since we've been doing this at this con for a while. May need longer than our usual hour.
- Infinite Realities Games and Comics - reschedule from October, date unknown
- Libertycon
- Dragon Con
- Studio work
- Probability Broach contracts status
- Seven Zombie Hunters
- Golden Age Action Hour
November 10, 2024
The next meeting will be November 10, 2024 at 2:00pm on Discord
Agenda
- October postmortem
- Comic book show postponement
- Life University
- Roswell Cultural Arts Center
- Christmas show 12/13, live rehearsal 12/11
- Probability Broach contracts update
- ARTC company credit card
- Upcoming Board elections
- Decatur Book Festival - not on Labor Day anymore, we should inquire about doing a show
- Budgeting for 2025
September 29, 2024
The next meeting will be September 29, 2024 at 2:00pm on Discord
Agenda
- Dragon Con postmortem
- October shows
- Probability Broach contracts
- ARTC company credit card
- Affinity/Canva Pro
- Reaper licenses
- SCS licenses/lessons
August 4, 2024
The next meeting will be August 4, 2024 at 2:00pm on Discord
Agenda
- Amend motion from June 1 meeting to specify that the purchase of the mixing board can be delayed until the end of January (Robert thinks there may be good end of year deals)
- Amend minutes from June 1 meeting to reflect that "Nothing-at-All" has all VO recorded and is deep in post production. Lots of work done, more left to go.
- Website updates
- ARTC company credit card
- Convention ribbons
- Dragon Con bookmarks/playbills
- Academy playbills
- Studio budget
- Production update
- Studio
- No change since last meeting, but with the new computer up and running that should change soon
- Rental on 7/20 went well. Company made $240; David made $120 for recording engineering
- Live
- August 25 - Academy Theatre show
- GAAH
- Beyond the Walls of Sleep
- Dragon's Lament
- Dragon Con
- Friday show - Beyond the Walls of Sleep; Dragon's Lament - Comic Book improv to follow
- Sunday show - The Horseman of the Hollow
- GAAH left out this year - not sure what happened, but a room didn't get scheduled for it
- October
- October 19 - Infinite Realities - GAAH
- October 23 - Life University - A Pane of Black Glass + TBD
- October 30-31 - Roswell Cultural Arts Center - TBD - Seven Zombie Hunters?
- Christmas
- No confirmed venues at this time. Need to nail this down if it's not already too late. Aurora? RCAC? Life University?
- August 25 - Academy Theatre show
- Studio
June 1, 2024
Agenda
- Production updates
- Studio
- Probability Broach
- Rory Rammer
- Nothing-at-All
- Thing on the Doorstep
- Jeremiah Willstone (rental/partnership with T. Sarrecchia)
- Demonis (rental)
- Live
- Libertycon
- Academy Show August 25
- Dragon Con
- In-person rehearsals for Dragon Con will be at the Academy on 8/21 and 8/28. The 8/25 performance listed above will be Dragon Con material so nothing new will need to be prepared
- Halloween
- Christmas
- 2025 agenda (we need to have our performances mapped out farther in advance)
- Studio
- Merch proposals
- T-shirts
- Lanyards
- Rory Rammer patches
- Marketing proposals
- Free ad in ATL GoSeeATL.com
- Possible advertising in theatrical playbills around town, including professional and high school productions
- Equipment update proposals
- Mixing board (Robert has identified this board as an excellent candidate for our needs)
- ARTC editing computer (proposed parts list)
- New boom mic stands needed
- Website maintenance
- About $1000 paid in 2023, but updates happened in Jan, Feb, and Nov
- Annual plan would cost $1400/yr ($350/qtr) but updates would happen quarterly
- Probably need more info
- Sales team
- Need additional people trained on it
- Neither David nor Oreta can spearhead this - someone else will need to be found to wrangle the volunteers
March 3, 2024
Minutes from the meeting March 3, 2024
January 21, 2024
Minutes from the meeting January 21, 2024