Erv Raible Executive Artistic Director

Welcome to THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CABARET CONFERENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY JULY 31 – AUGUST 9, 2009 "Launching Cabaret Into The 21st Century" call the Cabaret Conference Hotline for more info: 212-629-2000

Erv Raible, Executive Director/Artistic Director, takes great pride in announcing the Seventh Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University. The Cabaret Conference at Yale University is being developed in conjunction with the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater (for information call the Cabaret Conference Hotline at 212-629-2000, please do not call YSD/YRT); and several conference sessions will be held in the facilities of the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater, including the recently opened New Theater.

The Seventh Annual Cabaret Conference At Yale University will be held July 31-August 9, 2009, and is an internationally focused, nine-day teaching program that offers an intensive look at the art of cabaret performance technique, and trains professionals for the live entertainment industry in the 21st century. The Great American Songbook will be addressed and promoted in its entirety, from its origins in the late 19th century through the classic pop standards of the 1930s and 40s to today’s contemporary cabaret, musical theater, jazz and pop music.

The award-winning faculty, and renowned special guests, will guide thirty-six students in a collaborative process of critical refining and honing. The conference will feature classes and lectures covering cabaret performance technique, acting for singers, lyric interpretation, focus and concentration, act structure, act writing, material research, and comedic development, to musical director and director relations, arranging, orchestration, composer/lyricist relations, maintenance of the vocal instrument, and image consultation. Examine the final stages of act presentation through club relations, marketing, press and public relations, to the technical language of light and sound, representation, booking, management and personal networking; with an emphasis on integration into the live entertainment community.

Public performances will allow the students to observe first-hand the performance techniques of professionals in the industry, while continuing to study those of their peers on a daily performance basis. At the Cabaret Conference Curtain Call the students will perform, demonstrating what they have accomplished in their nine days at the Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

Our prestigious 2009 faculty and conference consultants/lecturers will be announced by October 1, 2008.

The Cabaret Conference is held on the historic Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut, renowned as one of the world’s finest educational facilities, and for its spectacular architecture, world-class museums and libraries.

Housing for the Cabaret Conference at Yale University is in Yale’s new Swing Dormitory, and breakfast, lunch and dinner will be taken in the baronial Tudor Dining Hall of Saybrook College.

Auditions will be held in the following cities.
Audition cities subject to change.

To schedule an audition or for additional information contact Erv Raible or Pam Tate, Executive Associate at 212-629-2000.

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Erv Raible is the Executive Director of Cabaret & Concert Artists International, and is a New York City based cabaret coach, director, publicist, consultant and talent representative. Prior to this Erv was the Entertainment Director/Public Relations Liaison for the FireBird Café (1999-01), was the Entertainment Director/Public Relations Liaison, and design consultant for Staten Island’s Lorenzo’s (2005-06), owned and booked the legendary Eighty Eight’s (1988-99), Don’t Tell Mama Piano Bar & Cabaret (1982-89), Brandy’s Piano Bar (1980-85), and The Duplex Cabaret & Piano Bar (1978-84); and through these venues presented over 4000 performers to the public. Erv currently serves on the Back Stage Bistro Award Selection Committee.

Erv co-founded the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs; and currently serves as the Advisory Board Chairman for the Washington, DC Cabaret Network, and on the Advisory Boards of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists, Chicago Cabaret Professionals and Cabaret West/Los Angeles, Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association, and the West Michigan Cabaret Association.

Erv is the recipient of the 2004 Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Director. Erv was a 2002, 2003 and 2004 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award nominee for Outstanding Director, received a 2000 Back Stage Bistro Award for the legendary Eighty Eight’s, a 1992 MAC and Back Stage Bistro for conceiving, producing and directing the Outstanding Musical Revue Here’s To Our Friends…The AIDS Music Revue, a 1992 MAC Award nomination for Outstanding Special Musical Material for the song I Wish I Might written with Emmy Award winning composer Brian Lasser, a 1991 Back Stage Bistro award for promoting cabaret and founding MAC, and a 1989 Piaf d’Honneur from the French government for promoting, producing and directing cabaret internationally.

Erv was the Associate Producer of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Cabaret Symposium for seven years and a master teacher for twelve years; and has taught cabaret classes for Talent Ventures, Inc (TVI), Dreams Come True (DCT) Enterprises, and currently teaches a weekly adult cabaret class at BizKidsNYC/Pier Studios, and does Master Classes nationally.

Erv recently co-produced HeartSong: The Heroes Concert in NYC, Detroit and Washington, DC; and conceived, produced, directed and narrated September 11, 2001 … The Musical Response, as benefits for the Twin Towers Fund.

Erv has written the book and lyrics, and is currently developing Wallis & Edward: The Love Story of the Twentieth Century? for the musical stage. Erv is co-lyricist with Pam Tate on Ships of Fools, adapted from the Katherine Anne Porter novel; book and music by Pam Tate. Erv will make his off-Broadway directorial debut, fall of 2008, with Linn Maxwell's one-woman show Lili Marlene at New York City's Abingdon Theater.

Erv is currently developing a Holocaust music documentary, Silent Voices: Words & Music of the Holocaust, Hate, Hope and the Human Spirit for the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and is writing his autobiography But Wait ... There's Less!

Prior to moving to New York City, Erv co-founded the internationally acclaimed Cincinnati, Ohio School for Creative & Performing Arts, the first public alternative arts school, where he served as the head of the Studio Art and Art History departments; and was the resident set, costume and graphic designer for the schools numerous drama, music theater and dance productions including Babes in Toyland, Cinderella, The Music Man, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carnival, Mame, La Boutique Fantasque, Little Mary Sunshine, and Ahmal and the Night Visitors. Erv's illustrious students include: Rocky Carroll (CBS televisions Chicago Hope / Tony Nominee for The Piano Lesson), Cy Voris (Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight / Bulletproof Monk), Rosa Curry (Broadway's Chicago and Steel Pier / George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song), and Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City).