Thesis
Strategic producing alliances: are they the key to success for nonprofit theatre companies?
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001243
Abstract
This thesis is an in-depth case study of the strategic producing alliance between Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. This unique business model allows for the sharing of artistic, financial, and human resources across the three companies. The study asks whether the strategic producing alliance helped the companies: control costs on production expenses; reduce financial risks; increase artistic capacity; find administrative solutions to shared problems; increase opportunities for BIPOC theatre professionals; and provide artists and theatre professionals with greater career opportunities. Finally, this study explores the potential risks of a strategic producing alliance, and how they can be weighed against the benefits. This thesis sheds light on how each company's location, history, and community uniquely shaped them and how the strategic producing alliance offered three vastly different non-profit theatre companies, practical and innovative solutions to shared problems. The purpose of the thesis is to offer theatre companies, especially those in financial peril and artistic doldrums, one possible route to financial health and artistic vibrancy.
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Details
- Title
- Strategic producing alliances
- Creators
- Jonathan Richard Atack
- Contributors
- Pamela Yau (Advisor)Laura-Edythe Coleman (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- ix, 180 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Arts Administration; Arts and Entertainment Enterprise; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 991017491192904721