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With close to four decades of professional work in many aspects of theater, from design, management, production, architecture, and operations, along with being a third-generation practitioner, join me as we discuss challenges, ideas, and opportunities in the performing arts as they relate to theater operations, venue management, facilities planning and operations, and much more as they relate to your community, mission, and vision. We will include insights from leaders in their field along with ideas, and opportunities to enlighten, entertain, and guide you as the listener towards better practices in your own organizations. So tune in every third Thursday of each month and we look forward to the conversation.
Episodes
Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
53 min
Join me when I talk with Alycyn Keeling, Executive Director of the Wallace Theater in Levelland, Texas, and board member of the League of Historic American Theatres to discuss how a political and business mindset and background have led her along her path to revive the Wallace Theater in her hometown and provide leadership to other historic theater operators.
Jan 18, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
54 min
Join me as I speak with Raymond Bobgan, Executive Artistic Director of Cleveland Public Theater, as we delve into the importance of community connections and using performing arts as a voice for social justice.
Dec 21, 2023
Dec 21, 2023
30 min
Join me as I host a special guest, the talented Elizabeth Greer, where we discuss the art of authenticity and action in theater. She discusses her decades of experience in performance on stage and on screen and how she has leveraged that into success in the industry.
Dec 14, 2023
Dec 14, 2023
55 min
Join me as I sit down with James Hart, author of Classroom Exercises for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-disciplinary Approach and co-founder of the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education as we discuss the importance of the business mindset for those in the arts and how the entrepreneurial mindset plays an important part in success.
Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023
1 hr 4 min
Join me as I meet with David Glowacki, Chief Production Officer for the Embassy Theater in Fort Wayne, Indiana to discuss all things health and safety and what it means to create a senior-level position overseeing production operations in a historic venue.
Oct 19, 2023
Oct 19, 2023
44 min
I invite you to join me as I speak with Tony Sias, CEO and President of Karamu House Theatre, about guiding America's oldest black producing theatre from tumultuous times, through renovations, and more as we discuss the challenges of leadership in today's professional theater.
Sep 21, 2023
Sep 21, 2023
48 min
Come join us as we talk with Christina Kruise from the global Architecture and engineering firm DLR Group, a top-ranked cultural and performing arts design studio, about the impacts of funding, markets, donors, and more in a post-pandemic theater landscape. Christina provides DLR Group's arts clients with business planning, market studies, and fundraising planning and is passionate about development and planning in the arts.
Theatre Operations Unleashed
A monthly podcast that explores the ins and outs of theater operations, management, facilities, and design. Hosted by award-winning and nationally recognized theater practitioner, Raymond Kent, ASTC, Associate AIA, LEED AP, who brings his almost four-decades of experience and insight into the performing arts bringing industry professionals to provide their expertise on the current state of theater, trends, opportunities, and challenges and ways to address them.