1st Edition
Impacting Theatre Audiences Methods for Studying Change
1 Contemporary Spectatorship Research
Dani Snyder-Young and Matt Omasta
2 Key Methodological Concepts in Spectatorship Research
Matt Omasta and Dani Snyder-Young
3 Participant Observation in Practice and Techniques for Overcoming Researcher Insecurity: A Case Study at the Deutsches Theater
Caroline Heim
4 Prioritizing Black Experience, or the Inevitability of Educating White Audiences: A Discourse Analysis
Claire Syler
5 Interviewing Children about Theatre Performance
Johnny Saldana
6 Hashtag Networks, "Live" Musicals, and the Social Media Spectator: Digital Theatre Audience Research Methods
Kelsey Jacobson
7 Drafting Harlem, Revising Melodrama: Archival Insights into Audience Expectation
Christopher Corbo
8 The Gaze Turned Inward: A Reflexive Autoethnographic Approach to Theatre Research
Signy Lynch
9 The Stony Silence: Negotiating Empathy and Audience Expectations in Solo Autoethnographic Performance in Audience Research
Michelle Cowin Gibbs
10 Touching Past Lives: The Limits of Evaluating Immersive Heritage Performance Audiences
Holly Maples
11 Playing Ethnography: Participant Engagement in Role/Play
Celia Pearce
12 Public Facing Dramaturgy as Audience Research: An Interview with Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Martine Kei Green-Rogers and Dani Snyder-Young
13 Theatre for Relationality: A Relational Approach to Design Research
Lisa Aikman, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Stan Ruecker, with Kate Crozier, Jessica Hutchison, Carin Lowerison, Signy Lynch, May Nemat Allah, Julie Thompson, Matt White, and Hannah Watts
14 Key Questions in Evaluating Audience Impact: A Mixed Methods Approach in Research-Based Theatre
Jennica Nichols, George Belliveau, Susan M. Cox, Graham W. Lea, and Christina Cook
15 (Ac)Counting for Change: A Quantitative Approach to Recognizing and Contextualizing Shifts in Spectatorial Thinking
Scott Mealey
16 Poetic Inquiry and/as Theatre Audience Research
Monica Prendergast
17 Playful Research
Matthew Reason
Biography
Dani Snyder-Young is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University, USA, and the author of Privileged Spectatorship: Theatrical Interventions in White Supremacy(2020).
Matt Omasta is Professor of Theatre Arts and Associate Dean of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University.






