What does it take to help arts organizations reach their full potential? Tom O'Connor knows. From working in the industry to consulting to his start in social work, Tom has built his career on making the arts engaging and accessible through marketing. Investigate how a person behind the table helps arts organizations be their best in this episode of Five Minutes to Places. 

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Join Emily and our guests Yuval Sharon, Christine Goerke, Marsha Music, and Eliot Heaton from Michigan Opera Theatre to hear about their recent production of "Twilight: Gods". Performed throughout a parking structure, audience members watched the production from their cars for a brand-new safe and immersive experience that brought opera to the Detroit community.

When it comes to digital marketing for the theatre, our episode 07 guest Jim Glaub has seen it all and put it onscreen. Working at the top of theatre marketing in NYC and London. Creating a digital marketing company of his own. Creating a personal brand out of unicorns and brooches that weaves it all together. Hear about these journeys and more in this episode of "Five Minutes to Places". 

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This episode contains discussions of sex acts, sexual violence, and suicidal ideation. Episode 6 explores intimacy design with guest Dr. Kate Busselle of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training. Kate and Emily talk about the technical aspects of intimacy design as well as what we all can do to create a culture of consent.  

Grab yourself some apple cider, snuggle up in a sweater, and listen to the Halloween-themed minisode 3 of "Thank You, Five!" With scary theatre hauntings, terrifyingly funny pranks, and theatre legends passed down through the ages, our host Kymberli will get you into the spooky fall spirit faster than you can say, "Boo!"  

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When in doubt, take to the forest! Hermia and Lysander did this for love in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and STL Shakespeare Festival did this for love of theatre in their outdoor adaptation, "A Midsummer Night's Stroll." In this episode, Tom Ridgely of @STLShakesFest and Javyn Solomon of @PaintedBlackSTL get in-depth on the inspiration and process behind this production. Sign up for email updates from Theatre and Dance at Wayne https://tracking.wordfly.com/join/WayneStateUniversity/

This week's minisode is all about people's favorite audience reaction moments. Five folks share their heart-warming and hilarious stories of the audience's having honest and big reactions to what they're experiencing on stage. Kymberli hosts as we navigate through some hilarious and sad moments of audiences reacting.

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In this episode, Kymberli is joined by 8 guests who share how they have stayed creative in the past few months. From theatre to music to diving deeper into hobbies to find happiness, these artists have stayed strong in the face of hard times.

Join Hannah Zeiss, our host, as she introduces us to the founders of OnLive Theatre, Emily, Taylor, and Isabella. OnLive Theatre is an experiment in finding the magic of live theatre despite our current circumstances. Started in March of 2020 amidst Michigan's stay-at-home order, OnLive has been able to provide an outlet for creativity and fun. In this episode, we discuss utilizing Zoom for online learning and theatrical productions and hear stories about how imagination can still thrive through a screen. 

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