Working Artists: A TDM Career Chat

Interested in learning about the nuts and bolts of managing life as a working artist? Bring your questions and chat with TDM alumni and staff about day jobs, work-life balance, figuring out the first steps of your career post-college, and more! This panel will be an opportunity for students to hear practical advice about building a sustainable life as an artist and meet recent TDM alumni working in theater and dance.

Guests for this Career Chat include Madi Fabber ’22, Angel Hoyang ’23, and TDM Director of Administration Emily Warshaw.

This event is open to Harvard students only.

If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation to attend, please contact Theater, Dance & Media at tdm[at]fas.harvard.edu.

About the Panelists

A bicoastal bisexual with a love for humor and horror alike, Madi Fabber (she/her) writes plays that are “conceptually unhinged but emotionally compelling.” Her style is inspired by her experiences growing up all around the American Southeast. As a writer, she's interested in exploring gender, queerness, and things that go bump in the night. As a producer, she IS the thing that goes bump in the night. Answer your emails.

Madi's work has been an NPC Semifinalist, and has been featured in and developed through Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, The Tank’s LimeFest, The Workshop Theater’s Intensive Program, RE/VENUE Pop-Up Festivals, the Harvard Playwrights Festival, Playground-NY Best Of, and Literature Today. Madi is currently a member of the Dramatists Guild. An honors graduate of Harvard College's English and Theater, Dance, & Media departments, Madi's full-length thesis play Dressed In White and Covered in Blood received a grade of magna cum laude. 

As a dramaturg and script reader, Madi has worked with The Bechdel Group, The Athena Project’s Read & Rant Series, Normal Ave., and a number of independent plays and musicals.

Outside of theater, Madi is an avid west coast swing dancer and competitor. Her day job is as a project coordinator at an executive search firm in NYC. madifabber.com | @madifabber 

Angel Hoyang (she/her) is a casting professional, producer, and interdisciplinary arts and media creative based in New York City and Los Angeles. A current Casting Assistant with TBD Casting Co. and Alldaffer & Donadio Casting, Angel's casting highlights include the first Stereophonic National Tour, Real Women Have Curves on Broadway, and an upcoming film shooting in Los Angeles this fall. Angel has also worked as a Producing Venue Coordinator at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) since its 2023 opening on projects such as TRASH on the PAC Mainstage and the Icons of Culture Festival. As a producer of performance, social, corporate, and nonprofit events, she has managed venues such as the New York Public Library, the Harlem School of the Arts, and the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Spain. 

Emily Warshaw is a graduate of the Arts in Education Ed.M. program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, with previous degrees from New York University, earning an M.A. in applied psychology from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and a B.F.A in drama from Tisch School of the Arts.  Prior to coming to Harvard, Emily has held arts administration positions with Vineyard Arts Project, the 92nd St Y, Storahtelling Theater Company, and was previously a school counselor and college adviser in New York City.