Pittsburgh Playback

Our NC22: Pittsburgh conference was the landing ground for explosive programming that helped us connect around the principles of Redefining our Art, Transforming our Practices, and Tending to our People. Now, the conference sessions are available for everyone to experience! Whether you were unable to attend, or you want the opportunity to sit with some of your favorites, you can purchase a package from the Pittsburgh Playback collection and enjoy access through the end of the year.

Note: Once you have purchased access to the recordings, you will receive an email within one (1) business day with instructions on accessing through our platform.


Member Discount

Current members will enjoy a 20% discount on their package purchase, automatically applied! Not currently a TCG member? Join us today, then return to this page and select your package to receive your discount as well! If you attended the conference, you already have access to all recordings via the WebEx Events (formerly Socio) platform.

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The Pittsburgh Playback Collection: Session-Based Packages


All Recorded Sessions - $150

Do you want access to the full Pittsburgh Playback Collection? This package includes all 33 of the recorded conference sessions including plenaries, breakout sessions, and special/longform sessions. Enjoy access to a full range of content across topics.

 Purchase All Sessions 

Plenaries and Special Sessions - $75

Enjoy the major highlights of the 2022 conference by purchasing this package which includes all available plenary sessions in addition to special sessions such as the conference MegaLab. 

  • OPENING VIRTUAL PLENARY:Keynote conversation between Tamara Tunie and Billy Porter
  • VIRTUAL PLENARY: Keynote Conversation with Julian Brave NoiseCat and Ronee Penoi
  • HYBRID OPENING PLENARY: Featuring Rebecca Kelly G and the State of the Artist 2022 facilitated by Khanisha Foster and Susan V. Booth
  • HYBRID PLENARY: The Message is the Medium: A Legacy Conversation with SITI Company
  • CLOSING PLENARY: Tribute to Terry Nemeth and The Deep End: New Theatre Leaders in a World of Crisis facilitated by Marya Sea Kaminski at Pittsburgh Playhouse
  • Special Session: The Meaning of Juneteenth and August Wilson’s 100-year Journey to Freedom
  • The Perfect Storm: A TCG MegaLAB on Theatre's Labor Justice and Workforce Crisis
  • Secrets to Creating Successful Shared Leadership Relationships
  • This is Not a Drill: Climate Just Futures
  • Crowdsourcing Your Strategies for Increased Accessibility
  • Cultivating a Culture of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility)

 Purchase Plenaries and Sessions 




The Pittsburgh Playback Collection: Topic-Based Packages

All of our conference programming was created with throughlines in mind, and with six (6) different content package types, each individual can choose the programming aligned with their interests and goals.

 Purchase a Topic-Based Package 


Climate Action - $50

This package explores the ways that theatremaking and theatre makers can be active participants in the movement for climate action and environmental justice. The sessions include conversations about how theatre organizations can move towards more sustainable practices, and how artists can combine their artistry and activism in response to the climate crisis.

Package Sessions:

  • A Greener Theatre, and Other Colors Too
  • Creative Green Tools and Coalition
  • VIRTUAL PLENARY Keynote Conversation with JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT and RONEE PENOI
  • This is Not a Drill: Climate Just Futures
  • The Conference of the Birds


Leadership, Governance, & Management Practices - $50

This package mainly explores the ways that leadership in theatre organizations can continue to examine and improve the ways in which they lead and govern their organizations. It also explores the ways that theatre organizations can be entirely reimagined, from the ways in which they are built, to the ways in which their governing boards function.

Package Sessions:

  • Secrets to Creating Successful Shared Leadership Relationships
  • Setting the Stage: Major Donors, the Pandemic, and YOU!
  • Field of Dreams: Producers' Visions for Artist Pay Equity
  • Designing Performance Spaces for Communities: National Black Theatre and The Theater Offensive in conversation
  • It’s Broken, So Let’s Fix It: A Collective and Radical Reimagining of Theatre Boards
  • The Perfect Storm: A TCG MegaLAB on Theatre's Labor Justice and Workforce Crisis
  • The State of Federal Advocacy in a Post-Pandemic Theatre Ecology


Anti-Racism and Inclusive Practices - $50

This package explores the ways in which members of the theatre ecology can interrogate their practices and methodologies and ultimately work toward solutions that better serve the whole. Sessions examine these inclusive practices through the lens of accessibility, TGNC actors and casting, hiring practices, and more.

Package Sessions:

  • Doing Better by Us: Conscious Casting for TGNC Actors
  • Crowdsourcing Your Strategies for Increased Accessibility
  • Harm Reduction & Transformative Justice: A Workshop for Application, Practice and Artistic Accountability
  • From the Inheritors: The Woke Trap: Inclusivity Beyond the Stage and Script
  • Rethinking Recruitment: Inclusive communications and hiring practices
  • Cultivating a Culture of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility)


Centering the Art and our Artists - $50

This package explores the way that we can move away from restrictive frameworks around the creation of art and the people behind that creation. Topics include making theatre with incarcerated community members, how we can rethink the canon of theatre, the future of virtual theatre, and more.

Package Sessions:

  • HYBRID OPENING PLENARY with TCG Welcome and Grounding Moment led by healing artist Rebecca Kelly G + STATE OF THE ARTIST: 2022
  • Making Virtual Theatre Work: How to Reach Audiences at Home
  • Co-creation in Incarceration: An Overview of DPT's Shakespeare in Prison Program
  • Rethinking the Canon
  • Together We Rise: A Writer/Literary Manager Dream Session
  • Artistic Caucus: Collaborative Pathways for Artistic Development and Curatorial Disruption
  • Native Futures are Our Future: Indigenous Multimedia and VR Artistry


Audience, Donor, and Community Relationships - $50

This package explores the ways in which we can reimagine and reinvent our relationships in the theatre ecology. Topics include equitable fundraising methods, interacting with donors in the pandemic age, designing theatres with community at the center, and more.

Package Sessions:

  • Making Virtual Theatre Work: How to Reach Audiences at Home
  • Enriching Your Data: Equitable Surveys for Fundraising
  • Capacity Interactive's 2021 Performing Arts Ticket Buyer Media Usage Study
  • Setting the Stage: Major Donors, the Pandemic, and YOU!
  • Designing Performance Spaces for Communities: National Black Theatre and The Theater Offensive in conversation


Community Care and Wellbeing - $50

This package explores how we can disrupt oppressive practices by consciously caring for one another within the theatre ecology. It offers insight into trauma-informed theatre work as well as productive frameworks for artistic accountability. This package also examines possibilities for meeting the needs of young people in and through the arts in an ever-changing landscape.

Session Packages:

  • Trauma Informed Theatre: Lessons from Care Work 
  • Harm Reduction & Transformative Justice: A Workshop for Application, Practice and Artistic Accountability
  • A Place to Be Heard, a Space to Feel Held: Black Perspectives  on Creativity, Trustworthiness, Welcome, and Well-Being
  • Virtual Roundtable: TYA, COVID & the Socio-Emotional Needs of Young People