Impacting theatre audiences: methods for studying change

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AcknowledgementsCHAPTER ONE by Dani Snyder-Young & Matt OmastaContemporary Spectatorship ResearchCHAPTER TWO by Matt Omasta & Dani Snyder-YoungKey Methodological Concepts in Spectatorship ResearchCHAPTER THREE by Caroline HeimParticipant Observation in Practice and Techniques for Overcoming Researcher Insecurity: A Case Study at the Deutsches TheaterCHAPTER FOUR by Claire SylerPrioritizing Black Experience, or the Inevitability of Educating White Audiences: A Discourse AnalysisCHAPTER FIVE by Johnny SaldañaInterviewing Children about Theatre PerformanceCHAPTER SIX by Kelsey JacobsenHashtag Networks, "Live" Musicals, and the Social Media Spectator: Digital Theatre Audience Research MethodsCHAPTER SEVEN by Christopher CorboDrafting Harlem, Revising Melodrama: Archival Insights into Audience ExpectationCHAPTER EIGHT by Signy LynchThe Gaze Turned Inward: A Reflexive Autoethnographic Approach to Theatre ResearchCHAPTER NINE by Michelle Cowin GibbsThe Stony Silence: Negotiating Empathy and Audience Expectations in Solo Autoethnographic PerformanceCHAPTER TEN by Holly MaplesTouching Past Lives: The Limits of Evaluating Immersive Heritage Performance AudiencesCHAPTER ELEVEN by Celia PearcePlaying Ethnography: Participant Engagement in Role/PlayCHAPTER TWELVE by Martine Kei Green-Rogers & Dani Snyder-YoungPublic Facing Dramaturgy as Audience Research: An interview with Martine Kei Green-RogersCHAPTER THIRTEEN by Lisa Aikman & Jennifer Roberts-SmithTheatre for Relationality: A Case Study in Restorative Pedagogy, Relational Design, and Audience EngagementCHAPTER 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 TheatreCHAPTER FIFTEEN by Scott Mealey(Ac)counting for Change: A Quantitative Approach to Recognizing and Contextualizing Shifts in Spectatorial ThinkingCHAPTER SIXTEEN by Monica PrendergastPoetic Inquiry and/as Theatre Audience ResearchCHAPTER SEVENTEEN by Matthew ReasonPlayful ResearchAPPENDIX by Matt Omasta & Dani Snyder-YoungMethodologies and MethodsList of contributorsIndexList of contributorsLisa 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 Belliveauis Professor of Theatre/Drama Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.He co-produced, directed and performed inContact!Unload. He has published six books includingContact!Unload: Military veterans, trauma, and research-based theatre(UBC Press, 2020) co-edited with Graham Lea.Chris Cookis 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 Things was a for finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for drama.Chris Corbo is a PhD Candidate in Literatures in English at Rutgers University.Susan Coxis Associate Professor in Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the arts and health andethical issues in arts-based methods. She leads"Rock the Boat"a collaborativeresearch-based theatreproject addressing graduate supervisory relationships, inclusivity and wellbeing.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: PO-lice, PoPos, Sandra, and Me, a performance movement exploration of the relationship among police, policing, and Black women as told through a reimagining of the last day of Sandra Bland's life.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 Americas.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 the 21st Century (Routledge 2016).Kelsey Jacobsonis 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. Leais 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 booksResearch-Based Theatre: An Artistic Methodology(Intellect, 2016) andContact!Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-based Theatre(UBC Press, 2020)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 theatre criticism. She is co-editor of Canadian Theatre Review volume 186, Theatre after the Explosion (2021).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 techniques in the heritage industry. Maples was Drama lead the Paston Footprints project.Scott Mealeyis 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 Research, and he currentlyleads multiple funded projects examining the impact of Zoom-based theatre.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 translation method. Jennica co-runs AND implementation, a consulting company using arts-based methods and meaningful measurement to close gaps in knowledge production.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 ofQualitative Research: Analyzing Life(SAGE 2021),Playwriting and Young Audiences(Intellect 2017) andPlay, Performance, and Identity (Routledge 2015).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 performance and emerging media, with an emphasis on history, pedagogy, and design for social justiceStan 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 to create physical interfaces for tasks such as analyzing text, modeling time, and designing experience.Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University's School of Film, Dance, and Theatre.