Tag Archives: ATC

Immersion

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

On my last official day as a Columbus Foundation Summer Fellow at Actors’ Theatre of Columbus, I’m thinking about immersion. I think about learning a language by spending time in another country among its people, planting roots in an unfamiliar city, … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, Adam Simon, analysis, Appalachian Trail, ATC, baptism, Columbus Foundation, Columbus Foundation Summer Fellows, dance, immersion, languages, leaders, leadership, luncheon, Melody Reed, MFA, OSU Dance, porch sit, strategic planning, survey design, survey implementation, surveys, travel | Leave a comment

Notes from last week

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

Last week I developed a sustainability plan so that Actors’ Theatre can survey audience members next summer during their performances at Schiller Park. I’ve recommended some changes to the way we tracked our data this summer, and tried to create … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, applause, ATC, audience, Captain Blood, data, house manager, Moliere, Richard III, strike, survey, survey report, surveys, sustainability plan, The Miser | Leave a comment

This is the work.

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

When I told my friends two years ago that I was moving from Washington, DC to Columbus for graduate school, they often said: Columbus? Ohio? It was then that I started to notice that in movies and TV shows, when … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, ATC, Columbus, Columbus Foundation, Dance Exchange, data, DC, German Village, Melody Reed, midwest, North Market, OH, Riffe Center, Schiller Park, Schmidt's, staying, Summer Fellows, Surly Girl, surveys, Washington, Wexner Center for the Arts | Leave a comment

A big Wednesday and a rainy summer

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

On Wednesday, we started off the morning at a Fellows Learning Session at the Columbus Foundation. Douglas Kridler, the President and CEO of The Columbus Foundation, spoke with us about all of the great things going for Columbus, including low … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, ATC, branding, Bryn Webster, Columbus, Douglas Kridler, ECDI, Food Fort, Fulcrum Creatives, Jason Moore, Non-profit, poverty, rain, The Columbus Foundation, The Columbus Foundation Fellows, unemployment, Women's Business Center | Leave a comment

Learning about Columbus through survey results

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

This week I primarily focused on finishing a survey report to share with Actors’ Theatre Managing Director, Adam Simon. I’ve been deeply immersed in these numbers for three weeks, so it was nice to sit down and talk through what these … Continue reading →

Tagged 4th of july, Actors Theatre of Columbus, Adam Simon, ATC, census data, Clintonville, Columbus, columbus neighborhoods, demographics, neighborhoods, North Clintonville, OSU, suburbs, survey, survey report, University district, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

Building community at “porch sit”

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

Theatre director Anne Bogart writes in her blog post “Community”, “The subject of the theater is not only the fictional community within a given play but also the actual communities that come together within the time set aside for performance: … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, Anne Bogart, ATC, audience, audiences, board, burnout, cast, Columbus, community, crew, German Village, Mikelle Hickman, Non-profit, non-profits, Ohio, organization, Philip J. Hickman, porch sit, rehearsal, relationships, staff, stage | 1 Comment

Serendipity and great assignments

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

In a twist of serendipity, The Wallace Foundation released a report this month called “Taking Out the Guesswork: A Guide to Using Research to Build Arts Audiences.” As designing and administering surveys is one of my primary tasks here at … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, ATC, audiences, building audiences, data, OSU, Philip J. Hickman, Schiller Park, surveys, The Wallace Foundation | Leave a comment

People and numbers

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

Earlier this week, after spending four days collecting survey responses the previous weekend at Actors’ Theater’s performances of Captain Blood, I opened up a spreadsheet with data from 86 surveys and thought: now what? Collecting the data is one thing; … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors' Theatre, analysis, ATC, Captain Blood, Columbus Foundation, measurement, Michelle Vander Stouw, North Market, pivot tables, service, Summer Fellows, surveys | 3 Comments

Supporting artists at Actors’ Theatre of Columbus

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Sarah Ramey

This morning–my third day as a Summer Fellow at Actors’ Theatre of Columbus–I woke up at 6am, went to the gym, came home and got ready, and drove over to ATC’s offices in Schiller Park in German Village to begin … Continue reading →

Tagged Actors Theatre of Columbus, Adam Simon, Arts, ATC, audience, Columbus, Columbus Foundation, dance, Department of Dance, German Village, Melody Reed, OSU, Philip J. Hickman, Sarah Levitt, Schiller Park, Summer Fellowship, survey design, theatre | 1 Comment

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Notes from last week

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A big Wednesday and a rainy summer

Learning about Columbus through survey results

Building community at “porch sit”

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