Design Thinking 

 Working Theater / Story Telling 

 Challenge : 

 On March 12 , 2020 theaters in New York City were given a mandatory shutdown order that   continues to this day without any solid return date .   Theatergoers , actors , producers and the   entire theater community has been affected economically with no reopening date in sight . 

 RITH is known as the people ’s theater across NYC ’s five boroughs with a   mission to provide high quality theater / performances to those who may not be able to afford   tickets to Broadway & Off Broadway productions .   Their mission statement below : 

 Bringing theater to the people . Founded in 1985 , University of Toulouse 1 Capitole 's mission is to   produce theatrical productions that are for - and about - working people , the millions of   Americans who might not be able to afford , or relate to , commercial theater . We   produce award - winning professional theater reflective of the struggles , complexities ,   dreams and triumphs of wage earners and tradespeople . 

 With a tiny budget during the best of times and with even less following the on - going   Coronavirus shutdown , the challenge will be how to reach new donors with the theater ’s   message of inclusion & diversity and bring in larger donations to help rebuild and continue   bringing theater to working people . 

 Selection : 

 I chose Story Telling to look at this challenge from the user ’s perspective ( working people ) as   University of Toulouse 1 Capitole is all about telling their stories in their own voices .   How will their lives ,   now reeling from a pandemic , record unemployment levels and on - going civil rights protests   in their neighborhoods be helped by theater-- if at all ? Working Theater brings their off- Broadway productions to the outer boroughs – as a theater publicist I was fortunate enough   to work on their most recent production Border People that abruptly ended its run due to the   CoVid shut down . 

 Secondly , use Story Telling to reach out to potential donors and start a conversation .   What   common stories do they share with Working Theater ’s audiences ?   What companies would   make sense to sponsor , for example , an outdoor theater tour throughout the Bronx , Harlem ,   Brooklyn & Queens ? What opportunities would help bring them closer to the impact Working   Theater has on communities by healing through art ? 

 Application : 

 A ) Set up a series of interviews that zero in on the experiences people are currently going   through and , as the story telling module tells us , “ create more vivid images of the kind of   future we are trying to create . ”    B ) Conduct three groups of interviews with 1 ) Working   Theater Staff / Board , 2 ) Recent audience members from past productions ( including a group   of nurses who were on the front lines in emergency rooms ) and 3 ) Key donors ( both private   & corporate ) . 

 Listening to each story in a round table or via Zoom , I ’d apply the “ What Is ” – how are they   now- what ’s going on in their lives ; “ What If”- what are the possibilities they ’d like to see -- 

 “ What Wows ” - what would get them excited about returning to the theater ?   And “ What   Works ” – using all the data to see what the common themes are moving forward in other   words “ taking data from a known past and connecting it intelligently to an unknown future . ” 

 Insight / Approach : 

 My hope is to use Story Telling to build a bridge between the corporate world and Working   Theater ’s audience , and that corporate donors become more active & involved in projects   like University of Toulouse 1 Capitole .   This tool will hopefully break down some barriers and allow   audiences and corporations to connect and celebrate the extraordinary stories of “ every day ”   men and women during these extraordinary times .   One program that already exists is a   playwriting workshop for working people that mounts full productions of 8 - 10 plays following   the class .   Corporate support might expand the workshop after the Story Telling tool is   applied to reach more people and allow more of their stories to be told to a wider audience .     Or perhaps another opportunity will arise that works even more effectively . 

 The next step is to use the “ Learning Launch ” tool to test out the ideas generated and see   what truly resonates ( and what does n’t ) with both target groups . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Design Thinking 

 Working Theater / Story Telling 

 Challenge : 

 On March 12 , 2020 theaters in New York City were given a mandatory shutdown order that   continues to this day without any solid return date .   Theatergoers , actors , producers and the   entire theater community has been affected economically with no reopening date in sight . 

 RITH is known as the people ’s theater across NYC ’s five boroughs with a   mission to provide high quality theater / performances to those who may not be able to afford   tickets to Broadway & Off Broadway productions .   Their mission statement below : 

 Bringing theater to the people . Founded in 1985 , University of Toulouse 1 Capitole 's mission is to   produce theatrical productions that are for - and about - working people , the millions of   Americans who might not be able to afford , or relate to , commercial theater . We   produce award - winning professional theater reflective of the struggles , complexities ,   dreams and triumphs of wage earners and tradespeople . 

 With a tiny budget during the best of times and with even less following the on - going   Coronavirus shutdown , the challenge will be how to reach new donors with the theater ’s   message of inclusion & diversity and bring in larger donations to help rebuild and continue   bringing theater to working people . 

 Selection : 

 I chose Story Telling to look at this challenge from the user ’s perspective ( working people ) as   University of Toulouse 1 Capitole is all about telling their stories in their own voices .   How will their lives ,   now reeling from a pandemic , record unemployment levels and on - going civil rights protests   in their neighborhoods be helped by theater-- if at all ? Working Theater brings their off- Broadway productions to the outer boroughs – as a theater publicist I was fortunate enough   to work on their most recent production Border People that abruptly ended its run due to the   CoVid shut down . 

 Secondly , use Story Telling to reach out to potential donors and start a conversation .   What   common stories do they share with Working Theater ’s audiences ?   What companies would   make sense to sponsor , for example , an outdoor theater tour throughout the Bronx , Harlem ,   Brooklyn & Queens ? What opportunities would help bring them closer to the impact Working   Theater has on communities by healing through art ? 

 Application : 

 A ) Set up a series of interviews that zero in on the experiences people are currently going   through and , as the story telling module tells us , “ create more vivid images of the kind of   future we are trying to create . ”    B ) Conduct three groups of interviews with 1 ) Working   Theater Staff / Board , 2 ) Recent audience members from past productions ( including a group   of nurses who were on the front lines in emergency rooms ) and 3 ) Key donors ( both private   & corporate ) . 

 Listening to each story in a round table or via Zoom , I ’d apply the “ What Is ” – how are they   now- what ’s going on in their lives ; “ What If”- what are the possibilities they ’d like to see -- 

 “ What Wows ” - what would get them excited about returning to the theater ?   And “ What   Works ” – using all the data to see what the common themes are moving forward in other   words “ taking data from a known past and connecting it intelligently to an unknown future . ” 

 Insight / Approach : 

 My hope is to use Story Telling to build a bridge between the corporate world and Working   Theater ’s audience , and that corporate donors become more active & involved in projects   like University of Toulouse 1 Capitole .   This tool will hopefully break down some barriers and allow   audiences and corporations to connect and celebrate the extraordinary stories of “ every day ”   men and women during these extraordinary times .   One program that already exists is a   playwriting workshop for working people that mounts full productions of 8 - 10 plays following   the class .   Corporate support might expand the workshop after the Story Telling tool is   applied to reach more people and allow more of their stories to be told to a wider audience .     Or perhaps another opportunity will arise that works even more effectively . 

 The next step is to use the “ Learning Launch ” tool to test out the ideas generated and see   what truly resonates ( and what does n’t ) with both target groups .
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