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Heather Shields

she/her/hers

Producer
Bandstand
Participates in 1 Session
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. In 2019, Heather co-founded The Business of Broadway.

Sessions in which Heather Shields participates

Sunday 26 January, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
The Business of Broadway: Producing 101
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

New York Hilton Midtown - Murray Hill Room

Panel

Rachel Sussman, Rachel Sussman Productions LLC (Participant)

Dana M. Lerner, Red Pelican Creative (Participant)

Erica Rotstein, Broadway Across America (Participant)

Heather Shields, Bandstand (Participant)

How does a play or musical actually make it to Broadway? Each new show is like a startup, and the producer is its CEO. Led by early-career Broadway...