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#2amt, arts administration, community, crowdfunding, funding and support, kickstarter
Layers and Layers of Nonsense: When Crowdfunding Cannot Get to the Crowd
05.12.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEditor’s Note: While recording a podcast interview about this post, approximately two hours after the post went live, Amazon Payments finally came through with their approval. Now, two days later, Kickstarter has come through and the project is open for donations. Please click here to support Our Town at Sing Sing. I have a sad, [...]
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#2amt, #tawg, advocacy, community, conversation starter, rabble rousing, talk about what's good
Ordering off the menu
02.04.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks idea of retirement was decamping the suburbs and repairing to a 10 acre tract further north in New Hampshire so they could farm [...]
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advocacy, community, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, rabble rousing, social profit, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Artisphere: What Could Be…
01.07.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season. I feel deeply for the company; it is upsetting have your home taken from you and I wish them all the [...]
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#stealthisidea, collaboration, community, conversation starter, presenting, producers, theatrical ecosystem
Four Gentlemen of Verona?
12.10.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company does a splashy outdoor free production on Boston Common every summer, while Actors Shakespeare Project does full seasons of edgy productions in a variety of metro-Boston venues. I don’t [...]
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community, conferences, festivals, fringe festival, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Fringe: At the World Fringe Congress
As Outreach Director for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, my job takes me to a lot of interesting places and introduces me to a lot of interesting people – this year, I was given the opportunity to “outreach” the farthest I’d ever reached before: the first World Fringe Congress, a four-day meeting for festival directors from [...]
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#2amt, advocacy, community, social profit, support the arts, the future
Vote.
Are you registered to vote in this year’s election? I shouldn’t have to tell you why it’s important, especially this year and especially if you work in the arts. But whichever way you decide to vote, it’s important that you have the chance to do so. 2amt has teamed up with Rock the Vote to [...]
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artistic home, community, devised work, festivals, fringe festival, new play development, talk about what's good, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Fringe: Our Laboratory Playground
As a developing company creating and producing work off-center from standard theatrical fare in the Washington area, dog & pony dc (d&pdc) has found the Capital Fringe Festival a vital developmental partner. Producing shows through and in conjunction with Cap Fringe enabled our 4 ½ year old company to experiment with of new ideas and [...]
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arts administration, audiences, community, development, neverbedark, new play development, new plays, the process
Well if you’re so smart
08.09.12 | Permalink | 26 CommentsThe ease of publishing in this post-Millennial moment means that a lot of half and semi-baked ideas get pushed into the universe, and the lack of friction to respond combined with the relative lack of consequence of narrowcasting your opinions means that a lot of folks get to talk an awfully big game without anyone [...]
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#2amt, #stealthisidea, arts administration, arts service organizations, audiences, broadway, collaboration, community, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, dance, engagement, funding and support, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, new play development, new plays, non-profit theatre, partnerships, playwrights, producers, public relations, rabble rousing, social media, social profit, steal this idea, the future, theatrical ecosystem
#stealthisidea: Vending Machine Dances, Musicals in the Wild and Blues at the Bank
One of my favorite things about summer in an arts organization is that you get a couple of precious weeks where, in between the planning and the subscription mailings, there’s a little fallow time where you can sometimes rise above the fray and say, HEY. What are other people doing right that we can steal [...]
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advocacy, classical theatre, community, conversation starter, ideas, major regional theatre, mission, rabble rousing, social profit, theatrical ecosystem
One Hundred and Twenty Seconds
04.26.12 | Permalink | 13 CommentsA lot has been said about the Guthrie’s season announcement, and probably a lot more will be. I want to focus on one part of it. But first, I want to say that while I don’t disagree with most of the criticism the Guthrie has worked hard over the last decade or so to foster [...]
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#2amt, #2femt, advocacy, arts administration, audiences, board members, community, development, dramaturgy, festivals, ideas, mission, new play development, new plays, newplay, playwrights, producers, social profit, storytelling, the future, the process, Uncategorized
A Playwright’s Responsibility
03.31.12 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI’ve been thinking more and more about my responsibility as an artist. And just typing that feels a little weird—the idea that artists have responsibilities other than to their art. But our work does more than just sit there in our heads. It wanders out of our skulls and into the heads of other people, [...]
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#stealthisidea, board members, cash mob, charity, community, conversation starter, crowdsourcing, funding and support, ideas, partnerships, rabble rousing, social profit, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem
Cash Mobs: Countering the Discount Culture of Theatre
03.28.12 | Permalink | 7 CommentsFull Disclosure: I worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville for over 7 years. I am currently a board member with Le Petomane Theater Ensemble. Over the years I have held internships at Arena Stage, New World Theater, Trinity Repertory Company and Amherst College Theater & Dance Department. This article in no way officially represents any [...]
