197: Never Doing Just One Thing with Choreographer Staś Kmieć

Choreographer Staś Kmieć explains how he’s handled the business side of his theatre and dance career.

Topics:

⭐️ Tax filing

⭐️ Healthcare

⭐️ Fiddler On The Roof

⭐️ Not spending money when on tour

Video Version: https://youtu.be/CUtkLbPZnQ4

Staś Kmieć

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sta%C5%9B-kmie%C4%87-462b8519/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta%C5%9B_Kmie%C4%87

Guernica by Pablo Picasso

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

Sammy Dallas Bayes

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sammy-dallas-bayes-1044

Heathers

https://heathersthemusical.com/

VITA - Free Tax Filing

https://www.sagaftra.org/ny/vita

Accountants for Creatives

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YG1sgP4LqJa6Rk5CBdnvlQ2ByEvzFNKSS6uI61QkMlY/edit?tab=t.0

Fiddler on the Roof - In Yiddish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidler_Afn_Dakh

Me and My Girl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_My_Girl

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Little_Whorehouse_in_Texas

SDC - Stage Directors & Choreographers

https://sdcweb.org/

AEA - Actors Equity

https://actorsequity.org/aboutequity

SAG-AFTRA - Screen Actors Guild / American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

https://www.sagaftra.org/

AGMA - American Guild of Musical Artists

https://www.musicalartists.org/

Light Talk - Jeff Nellis

https://lighttalk.libsyn.com/light-talk-episode-459-be-tenacious-and-nice-our-conversation-with-jeff-nellis

Staś Kmieć (Direction/Choreography) has directed/choreographed multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof throughout the world, including the new production in Yiddish that was a surprise hit on the New York theater scene (2019 Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Citation for “Best Musical Revival”). He honors the style, intent and tradition of Jerome Robbins, and mentor Sammy Dallas Bayes and has now has taken the mantle as the "Keeper of the Fiddler flame" from the Robbins Foundation.

Other works include: the LA premiere of My Antonia (music by Stephen Schwartz), Finding Madame Curie (Theater Row-NYC), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Ireland premiere), Me and My Girl tour, The Elephant Man, Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, Die Fledermaus, Nutcracker, Films – The Comedian, Trust the Man. Artistic Director: Ballet Western-Reserve, Lubliniacy Polish Folk Ensemble, Sarabande Repertory Ensemble.

As a performer, Staś appeared on Broadway with Lee Theodore’s American Dancemachine, and in Don Quixote with Rudolf Nureyev; and toured nationally in Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel totaling 1,682 performances. He danced with Boston Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Stars of American Ballet, toured worldwide with Nureyev, and has appeared in acting and dancing roles on film and TV.

Awards include: New York Musical Festival’s “Excellence in Choreography” –The Mapmaker’s Opera (now titled The Stranger from Seville), Poland’s highest cultural honor – the Oskar Kolberg Award.

He is a member of: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA, American Guild of Musical Artists.

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