Creating Theater for New Generations | Daunielle Rasmussen | TEDxDayton

How does the world of theatrical performing arts survive into the future with an aging customer demographic and a lack of interest from the millennial generation? If you were going to redesign how live theater works to attract the next generations of theater going customers, what would you do differently? This self-professed “Elder of the Millennial Generation” shares her entrepreneurial process of answering that question. That process took Daunielle’s theater team everywhere from local bars and art museums to performing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at a local sea aquarium. Daunielle Rasmussen is a multi-disciplinary theater director, choreographer and community artist. She worked professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2005 to 2015 before relocating to Cincinnati, Ohio to take on the role of Director of Education and Community Engagement for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she is currently working on a series of interactive theater art experiences designed for Young Professionals. She believes that all people should be given the opportunity to participate in the creation of theater and engage with their own creativity. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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