A New World
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis gave the entire canon to its residents with only one rule: make the play happen any way you see fit.
Transformation and Capitalization
Opera Philadelphia used venture capital modeling to fuel artistic innovation and create financial stability.
How I Learned to Leap Without a Destination
Berkeley Rep approaches change with a focus on grasping opportunity, ignoring criteria, and avoiding expectations for outcomes and deliverables.
Radical Hospitality
Revolutionizing access to live theatre has changed Mixed Blood Theatre Company’s audiences, shaped a new way of doing business, and defined a strategy for pursuing social justice through the arts.
Creative Practice + Social Service = Happy People
Pillsbury House + Theatre is exploring how artists and artistic practice can infiltrate social service in a way that makes radical organizational restructuring easier, collaboration and collective impact successful, and neighborhoods better places to live (without displacing the people who live there).
Creating Performances That Cannot Exist Without an Audience
Off-Center @ The Jones’s programming takes into account the full audience experience and puts it at the center of the artistic process.
Unlikely Pairing, Lasting Implications
What seemed like a mismatched pairing with The Second City turned out to be Lyric Opera of Chicago’s surprise hit of the season with traditional and new audiences alike.
Redmoon: Naming Our Beliefs and Addressing Difficult Issues
ArtsFwd asks the Innovation Lab grantees: What is one major “a-ha!” moment your team experienced during the retreat?
The Theater Offensive: Understanding Team Roles
ArtsFwd asks the Innovation Lab grantees: What is one major “a-ha!” moment your team experienced during the retreat?
Shifting the Ground at Geva Theatre Center
It’s important to bring everyone on your team along on your journey when building new relationships and implementing a new engagement structure.
The Theater Offensive: Local Focus, International Impact
ArtsFwd asks the Innovation Lab grantees: What is the biggest question you and your team are wrestling with as you head into the intensive retreat?
Redmoon: Creating Structure for Collaboration
ArtsFwd asks the Innovation Lab grantees: What is the biggest question you and your team are wrestling with as you head into the intensive retreat?
HowlRound – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will steward a peer-to-peer digital currency that matches artists’ needs to the community’s available resources.
Ragged Wing Ensemble – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will create a unique share-model that will scale up our internal ensemble practice to an organizational level.
Theatre Bay Area – Challenge Semi-Finalist
We will enlist individuals in our community as impassioned participants in our cause and joint owners in our work.