Trisha Mead

#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...

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July 20, 2012
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#stealthisidea / arts administration / conversation starter / ideas / marketing / new technology / social media / steal this idea / storytelling / transmedia

Steal This Idea: Your Next Transmedia Brochure

The Metropolitan Opera just posted their new online brochure, and it has a few clickable links to audio and video plus photos that make it look more like an edgy contemporary theatre than the keeper of the flame for a legacy artform. I kind of dig it. You can check...

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February 23, 2012
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#2amt / #stealthisidea / arts administration / audiences / conversation starter / crowdsourcing / ideas / locavore / marketing / steal this idea

Steal This Idea: The Only Winter Theater Pitch You’ll Ever Need

Sometimes its not the information you consume, it’s how you use it: Fertile Ground Festival Project Lear’s Follies did a clever thing recently. They snagged a link that was much shared around #2amt circles (the Marie Claire article about theatre being behind only sex and exercise for creating happiness)and turned...

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January 19, 2012

arts administration / audiences / festivals / locavore / marketing / new play development / new plays / new technology / non-profit theatre / playwrights / presenting / social media / steal this idea / storytelling / the future / theatre festivals / video / watch this

Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier

As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself,...

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January 18, 2012

audiences / augmented reality / community / conversation starter / ideas / new technology / rabble rousing / social media / the future

The New Wild West

or, How Meta-Conversations are Taking Over Our Theatres Photo illustration featuring members of American Theater Company. (William DeShazer/Tribune / July 2, 2011) My friend Briana, a brilliant arts educator and visual artist, alerted me (via a tag on Facebook) to an article about the rising phenomenon of texting in the...

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July 7, 2011
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arts administrators / conversation starter / dance / ideas / marketing

Reviewing the Pitch: 10 Things I Learned from Engine28 About Press Pitches

I did not get to go to the Americans for the Arts and Theater Communications Group conferences this year, but thanks to an NEA funded “pop up newsroom” called Engine28 (and the smart folks at #2amt who were at the conferences) I did get the opportunity to follow along from...

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June 20, 2011
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advocacy / funding and support / major regional theatre / non-profit theatre / supply / demand

The Legitimacy Paradox, or: What to do about Intiman

Up here in the Northwest, the crisis du jour has been all about Intiman Theatre’s recent public cry for help… they need about $1 mil by summertime or they are going to need to close their doors. Suddenly, Rocco Landesman’s provocative statements about the American theater being oversupplied had a...

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February 17, 2011
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conversation starter / funding and support / non-profit theatre / rabble rousing

Dear Rocco

Mr. Landesman has responded personally on the NEA blog (did you know the NEA had a blog? I did not.) to the conversation/controversy regarding his statements about the supply and demand of the American theater. Its a great read, I highly recommend it, with much to agree with actually. After...

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January 31, 2011
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meetup / meetups / new plays / non-profit theatre / playwrights

Seed Capitol: On the Eve of the #Newplay Convening

This week marks the third year of the city-wide new works festival I founded in Portland: The Fertile Ground Festival. It’s happening as I type this: 70 world premiere works of theater, dance, comedy and multimedia all over the Portland area for the next 10 days. And I will not...

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January 25, 2011

ideas / marketing

Kill the Adjective- 3 Reasons to Make Your Descriptions as Action-Packed as Your Plays

Gwydion, this one’s for YOU. Recently, after having pored through a stack of theater brochures that hit my inbox, I put out a whimsical challenge to the #2amt twitter community: Describe your next project in 140 characters without using a single adjective. Gwydion remarked that he LIKED adjectives, and wasn’t...

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November 2, 2010
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Steal This Idea: The Only Winter Theater Pitch You’ll Ever Need

Reviewing the Pitch: 10 Things I Learned from Engine28 About Press Pitches

The Legitimacy Paradox, or: What to do about Intiman

Dear Rocco

Seed Capitol: On the Eve of the #Newplay Convening

Kill the Adjective- 3 Reasons to Make Your Descriptions as Action-Packed as Your Plays

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