Perspectives of Theatre for Young Audience Companies Leaders: A Survey

Abstract

This report offers extensive data from a survey project that invited the artistic, business, and education leaders of every professional Theatre for Young Audiences company affiliated with TYA/USA to share information regarding a wide range of topics including season selection, finances, education programming, staff demographics, leader perceptions of quality TYA, and others. The focus of this piece is a comparison of data from theatres of different types. Specifically, it considers how three influential circumstances—theatres’ budget sizes, their geographic locations, and their longevity—intersect with, and perhaps affect, other circumstances as well as the perspectives and beliefs of their theatre leaders. This article provides copious descriptive data and invites readers to draw insights from their personal analyses of the data most relevant to their own practice and/or research.