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About Well Made Plays
Artist systems, built from real management work.
Well Made Plays is run by Dougie Schmidt, an Austin manager and touring musician. The work comes from what artists repeatedly need: clean release plans, better booking materials, tour math, royalty checklists, usable dashboards, and brand documents collaborators can follow.
50M+
streams across the artists we manage and develop
0%
commission on anything you earn. Flat fees, and the files are yours.
It does not matter what kind of music you make.
These systems are not built around a genre or a discipline. They work for anyone releasing music, collecting royalties, playing live, or turning a hobby into a real career path, and for established independent artists who need project management, career mapping, or marketing and branding tools.
That perspective comes from years of hands-on work: consulting, development, and management for dozens of artists, touring and performing in multiple bands, producing events, and buying talent for venues across Austin. Dougie Schmidt has personally performed at, produced for, or bought talent for:
Austin Reggae Festival
Northern Nights
Dirtybird
Blue Note Jazz Festival
Black Radio Experience
Subciety
Disco Donnie
These are Dougie Schmidt's own credits as a performer, producer, and talent buyer. They are not Well Made Plays clients, and we make no claim to have done design or brand work for any of them.
Why Well Made Plays exists
Most independent artists are expected to figure everything out alone: how the algorithm actually works, how a real marketing campaign is built, how to book and budget your own tour, how to protect your work and your rights, and how to earn what the music should earn, the right way.
That is what these services hand you: complete plans and working tools built on your real numbers, taught well enough that you can run them yourself.
The work is measured two ways: whether you can run it without us, and whether the plan is still the one you are working from a year later.
Start with one conversation.
Come prepared if you can: your links, your dates, and the questions you keep putting off. Tell us where you want the project to go, and we will tell you what to do first.
Book a call ($49, credited to any project booked within 30 days)