Sam Freeman

Storytelling | Theatre | Arts Marketing

Tag: theatre

  • Marketing DIY: Heat mapping your auditorium

    Heat mapping your venue has always been an incredibly good thing to do. It allows you to look at where you can place pricing bands, squeeze additional income and even develop accessibility. But can you do it yourself? I think so, and so, over the next 1,159 words I’ll be going through the process of…

  • Gaffer – Opening soon

    Gaffer – Opening soon

    This June I’m directing a revival of a play called Gaffer. I’m finding it hard to articulate how I feel at this moment in time, 4 weeks before the show opens and 2 weeks before we start the next stage of intensive rehearsals. I was recommended the play by a friend of mine, Duncan Clarke,…

  • Arts Marketing: Now What? (Part 1)

    I’ve not written a post about arts marketing for a while so, as I find myself on box office in a quiet moment I thought I’d pop down some thoughts I’ve been having recently. If you work in marketing you may disagree with them – then again I could be about to provide a moment…

  • Gig #15 – Vinyl, Liverpool (Compere)

    Usually when I have a gig in the evening I spend the entire day worried, feel sick and have the urge to flee, extremely quickly. So it works to my benefit not to know about a gig until late so when Binty let me cover him as compere for the Pros and Coms gig down…

  • Surviving a seeming arts apocalypse… (part 1)

    It seems not a day passes without further signs in the decline of British Theatre in the regions, from the liquidation of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews to Taunton’s Brewhouse moving into administration it seems clear (in the media at least) that the arts are enduring a torrid time of uncertainty, fear and closure.…

  • On The Edge

    It’s a weird experience I’m going through this week. I’ve had an odd ‘career’ as a writer so far to date. Produced work includes a show in a restaurant about cous cous, and a studio show with a panda suit,  necrophilia jokes and, quite naturally lots of eerie silences. In common with everything I’ve done…