Introducing alternative, commercial entertainment #AnotherWay.
All TSGO events showcase the best local artists and foster a thoughtful dialog around sustainability in the Arts.
Introducing alternative, commercial entertainment #AnotherWay.
All TSGO events showcase the best local artists and foster a thoughtful dialog around sustainability in the Arts.
TSGO programming is aimed at developing artists and entrepreneurs that are challenging industry models. We support a dialog between the Arts and Business communities to build a sustainable future for us all.
In-house projects focus on early stage development: building a brand and strategy that supports the artist within, using the Sustainability Cycle. TSGO produces concerts and events that showcase emerging trends in entertainment, often merging music and theatre in innovative and immersive environments.
The Sustainability Cycle
Exploration
The creative mind needs freedom, space, and time to develop.
Inclusion
Art is found on the walls of the soul, accessible to everyone - there are no universal rules or definitions. When it's honest and pure, art is everywhere. Inclusion reminds us to be open to all opportunities and possibilities just as we ask those experiencing our art to be open to us.
Evolution
The hardest stage of sustainability is learning to adapt to your environment. If an artist or Arts business wants to be sustainable, they must learn to evolve their art without compromising the artist within. This can only happen with a gentle, conscious, and honest understanding of the self in relationship to one's art.
Who We Are
Emileena Pedigo
Founder & CEO
Emileena entered the NYC Arts scene producing an international theater festival, working with artists from around the world hungry to get their work into the theatre capital of the world. For seven years she developed a structure for the annual festival that grew to over 60 shows in seven venues. Emileena also general-managed for various nonprofits, assisted on Broadway, worked various film and music festivals, and managed several singer/songwriters. She toured theaters, music arenas, and schools across the country, working with artists from all artistic disciplines.
Emileena assisted 5-time Tony Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane on 4 Broadway productions, including the Off-Broadway transfer of The 39 Steps. In addition to managing 8 rehearsal studios and 2 small theaters for 4 years, Emileena assisted in operations for the Palace Theatre on Broadway for 2 years.
After launching TSGO, her work began to focus on emerging trends in entertainment. There she found herself stuck inside a self-perpetuating system of exploitation, witnessing many artists losing the fight. She would have been lost too if not for an excursion to an ayahuasca retreat in the Peruvian mountains. Upon her return, she found a solution she feels belongs to the world: a paradigm shift that starts one artist at a time. She calls it The Sustainability Cycle (Exploration, Inclusion, Evolution). This is her art.
Emileena's current work focuses on building sustainable careers #AnotherWay, using entrepreneurial strategies and prioritizing the artist over the art. She co-founded ARTSLAB, an incubator program that cultivates #ArtsMeetsBiz, and served on the board of Conscious Capitalism NYC. Her work is helping to build Arts programming within the Chelsea Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute, SUNY/Kaufmann's Fasttrac program for entrepreneurs, and a Purdue University alum.
What's it like working
with Emileena?
