My Fall Internship Experience

by LaNeese Ray

Triad Stage Internship•Downtown

Greensboro•Marketing/

Development Intern

•Two Theaters, 1 Cabaret Space

Triad Stage History• Triad was founded by Preston Lane and Richard Whittington two graduate students at Yale School of Drama

• Dream of creating a professional not-for-profit regional Theatre for the Triad area.

• Triad Stage opened in January 2002. It’s first production shown was Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams.

• Expanded to the Hanesbrand Theatre in downtown Winston Salem in 2013 with support from The Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County.

A Day in The Life of A Triad Stage

Intern• Two interns in Marketing/ Development

• Two days a week. 12-4pm.

• One works morning shift and one works afternoon shift.

• Development Analysis Research Project

• Two Blogs for Website

• Daily Duties

What You Didn’t Know....

•Triad Stage houses all of their out of town actors in both Greensboro and Winston Salem

•Every production has a pay what you can performance

•There are performances that are sign language interpreted.

•Participate in First Friday in Downtown Greensboro

2015-2016 Season• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• DeathTrap

• Wit

• Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity

• A Christmas Carol

• VROOOMMM!

• Radiunt Abundunt

• Fences

• Don Juan

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Conflicts

•Balancing Work and Internship•No transportation

What I’ve Learned

•Different Marketing Strategies•Equity Actors•Playbill Organization•Individual Donations &Corporate

Sponorship

What Ive Applied

•Hootsuite•DanceOn Network•Social Media•Website