Multi award-winning pianist, composer, music director, filmmaker and entrepreneur Judith Lynn Stillman – who serves as Artist in Residence at Rhode Island College (RIC) in Providence – presents “ArtsBiz,” a free-to-the-public, star-studded event that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of music and theater on Thursday, November 21, starting 12 pm at RIC’s Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts.

The event features keynote addresses from The Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Emmy and Tony Award-nominated screen and stage star Kate Burton. Eustis served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Theater from 1994-2005. His many laudable credits at New York City’s top non-profit theater companies include the nurturing and world-premiere of the juggernaut musical “Hamilton.” Burton’s prolific 50-year-plus acting career has seen her playing acclaimed roles in film, on Broadway and in regional theaters across the country. She is a Professor of Theater Practice in Acting at University of Southern California. Eustis and Burton will discuss their personal paths to the heights of the performing arts industry, including stories of challenge and triumph, and offering advice to maintain a career in the theater business.

For the artistic centerpiece of “ArtsBiz,” Stillman will remount a one-hour version of her newest production, “Dvořák: A Bohemian Rhapsody.” Highlighting Stillman’s unique “play-within-a-concert” format, the performance uses music and her an original script to tell the story of the Czech composer whose prolific work includes operas and symphonies that remain in the repertoires of orchestras around the globe. Offering a glimpse into  Dvořák’s 19th and late-20th century life, audiences learn about his creative impulses, the culture that surrounded and influenced him, and his love for Czech folk music that imbued much of his musical output. String players from the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra accompany Stillman on piano.  Acclaimed New England actor Fred Sullivan Jr. stars as Dvořák.

Stillman’s previous “play-within-a-concert”™ performances centering composers’ lives include “Beethoven: Triumph and Torment,” “Mozart’s Magical Mystery Tour,” “April in Paris with Poulenc,” “Mystery, Madness and Music,” and  “Women Trailblazers in Music.”

Closing “ArtsBiz” is a panel of regional arts luminaries who will speak about the practical realities of combining business and creativity to make a living in the performing arts. The panel brings together Massachusetts Cultural Council Executive Director Michael J. Bobbitt, Providence Performing Arts Center General Manager Alan Chille, Gamm Theater Artistic Director Tony Estrella, and Boston Symphony Orchestra Publicist Rena Cohen,. and dancer-choreographer Shani Collins-Achille.

Rhode Island College’s Masterworks Concerts and the RIC School of Business are co-presenting “ArtsBiz.”; President Jack Warner and School of Business Dean Marianne Raimondo will deliver welcoming remarks.

“I’m delighted to bring this incredible group of people together to give a true inside look at the real work that goes into a career in the performing arts,” Stillman says. “It’s rare that members of the general public, and our students alike, get the opportunity to hear from people at the top of the industry about how they got where they are, and what others need to do to achieve leadership.”

“ArtsBiz” takes place November 21 at 12 noon, at the Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Road in Providence, RI. Tickets are free but registration is required at artsbiz.org.