Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• CHAPTER ONE by Dani Snyder-Young & Matt Omasta
• Contemporary Spectatorship Research
• CHAPTER TWO by Matt Omasta & Dani Snyder-Young
• Key Methodological Concepts in Spectatorship Research
• CHAPTER THREE by Caroline Heim
• Participant Observation in Practice and Techniques for Overcoming Researcher Insecurity: A Case Study at the Deutsches Theater
• CHAPTER FOUR by Claire Syler
• Prioritizing Black Experience, or the Inevitability of Educating White Audiences: A Discourse Analysis
• CHAPTER FIVE by Johnny Saldana
• Interviewing Children about Theatre Performance
• CHAPTER SIX by Kelsey Jacobsen
• Hashtag Networks, "Live" Musicals, and the Social Media Spectator: Digital Theatre Audience Research Methods
• CHAPTER SEVEN by Christopher Corbo
• Drafting Harlem, Revising Melodrama: Archival Insights into Audience Expectation
• CHAPTER EIGHT by Signy Lynch
• The Gaze Turned Inward: A Reflexive Autoethnographic Approach to Theatre Research
• CHAPTER NINE by Michelle Cowin Gibbs
• The Stony Silence: Negotiating Empathy and Audience Expectations in Solo Autoethnographic Performance
• CHAPTER TEN by Holly Maples
• Touching Past Lives: The Limits of Evaluating Immersive Heritage Performance Audiences
• CHAPTER ELEVEN by Celia Pearce
• Playing Ethnography: Participant Engagement in Role/Play
• CHAPTER TWELVE by Martine Kei Green-Rogers & Dani Snyder-Young
• Public Facing Dramaturgy as Audience Research: An interview with Martine Kei Green-Rogers
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN by Lisa Aikman & Jennifer Roberts-Smith
• Theatre for Relationality: A Case Study in Restorative Pedagogy, Relational Design, and Audience Engagement
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN by Jennica Nichols, George Belliveau, Susan M. Cox, Graham W. Lea, & Christopher Cook
• Key Questions in Evaluating Audience Impact: A Mixed Methods Approach in Research-Based Theatre
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN by Scott Mealey
• (Ac)counting for Change: A Quantitative Approach to Recognizing and Contextualizing Shifts in Spectatorial Thinking
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN by Monica Prendergast
• Poetic Inquiry and/as Theatre Audience Research
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN by Matthew Reason
• Playful Research
• APPENDIX by Matt Omasta & Dani Snyder-Young Methodologies and Methods
• List of contributors
• Index
• List of contributors
• Lisa Aikman is an Educational Developer at the University of Western Ontario. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of Toronto's Centre from Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies.
• George Belliveau is Professor of Theatre/Drama Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He co-produced, directed and performed in Contact!Unload. He has published six books including Contact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research
• Chris Cook is a Ph.D. student in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Chris is also a registered clinical counsellor and a playwright, and their work explores mental health through inquiry and art. Chris's play Quick Bright Thing
• Chris Corbo is a PhD Candidate in Literatures in English at Rutgers University.
• Susan Cox is Associate Professor in Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the arts and health and ethical issues in arts-based methods. She leads "Rock the Boat" a collaborative research-based theatre
• Michelle Cowin Gibbs is an interdisciplinary scholar and solo performance artist whose work is situated in autoethnographic performance, performativity, and critical identity studies. Recent solo performance work includes: They Don't Really Care About Us
• Martine Kei Green-Rogers (she/her) is the Interim Dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is a freelance dramaturg and the Immediate Past President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Am
• Caroline Heim is Associate Professor of Theatre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and author of Actors and Audiences: Conversations in the Electric Air (Routledge 2020) and Audience as Performer: The changing role of theatre audiences in
• Kelsey Jacobson is Assistant Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University and a co-founding director of the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research.
• Graham W. Lea is assistant professor of Theatre/Drama Education at the University of Manitoba. Research interests include research-based theatre, and theatre in health and education research. He is co-editor, with George Belliveau, of the books Research
• Signy Lynch is soon to defend her SSHRC-funded dissertation at Toronto's York University. She has published work in various journals and edited collections on subjects including intermedial performance, intercultural theatre, audience studies, and theatr
• Holly Maples is the Director of Impact and Postgraduate Research at East 15 School of Acting, University of Essex. A theatre director, performer, educator and scholar, her performance practice focuses on dramatized immersive and sensorial experience tech
• Scott Mealey is an empirical researcher and consultant who supports educational and theatre organizations interested in how their work influences participation and sense-making. He is a founding co-director of the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Re
• Jennica Nichols is an evaluator and arts-based researcher interested in patient-led chronic disease management and health service design. She is finishing her PhD at the University of British Columbia studying research-based theatre as a knowledge transl
• Matt Omasta is Professor of Theatre Arts and Associate Dean of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. His works include co-author/editorship of Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (SAGE 2021), Playwriting and Young Audiences (Intellect
• Celia Pearce is Professor of Game Design at Northeastern University at Northeastern University, a game designer, author and curator, and co-founder of the Playable Theatre Project.
• Dr. Monica Prendergast is Professor of Drama/Theatre Education at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Her books include Applied Theatre and Applied Drama (with Juliana Saxton) and two co-edited collections on poetic inquiry.
• Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre at York St John University, UK.
• Jennifer Roberts-Smith is Professor and Chair of Dramatic Arts in the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University, and Managing Director of the qCollaborative (qcollaborative.com). Her research and creative practice focus on p
• Stan Ruecker is the Anthony J. Petullo Professor in Design at the University of Illinois. He is currently exploring how design research helps us to understand our preferred futures, how it may necessitate a change to prototyping, and how it can lead us t
• Johnny Saldana is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University's School of Film, Dance, and Theatre. His research methods books on qualitative data analysis have been cited and referenced in more than 21,000 research studies conducted in over 135 cou
• Dani Snyder-Young is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University, USA, and the author of Privileged Spectatorship: Theatrical Interventions in White Supremacy (Northwestern University Press, 2020) and Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges
• Claire Syler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Missouri, USA, and co-edited Casting a Movement with Daniel Banks (Routledge, 2019).