EPISODE 3 – INSIDE LIVERPOOL’S ROYAL COURT
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What makes one of the largest production houses in the UK tick? This week Nick chats to Iain Christie from Liverpool’s Royal Court and learns how they have managed to break down barriers between themselves and their audiences and used that engagement (plus some other unique strategies) to maximise revenue. Iain also shares how Liverpool’s Royal Court planned and executed the theatre’s most recent major redevelopment work.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Liverpool’s Royal Court’s major redevelopment
- How to go about raising funds for a redevelopment project
- How to get audiences interested in what you do
- Changing the audience perception of traditional theatre
- Ticketing and audiences are only one part of the business
- How to maximise revenue using different strategies
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About Our Guests
Featured Guest
Nick Stevenson
Head of Customer Success
Nick is instrumental in working with all of our customers to get the most out of Ticketsolve and he helps them to grow as an organisation. He is also instrumental in developing our marketing strategy, and business development in the UK. Nick is an arts guy through and through, previously working in theatres in Wales in senior marketing and business development roles. Nick is Welsh by the way. His party trick is saying “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” three times fast while playing the guitar. Not really. But we can live in hope.
Featured Guest
Iain Christie
Marketing Manager, Liverpool’s Royal Court
Born and raised in Liverpool, Iain’s theatre career has been broad, he has worked as a barman, usher, stagehand, fire officer, box office assistant and marketing assistant. In 2001 he became the youngest Marketing Manager in the city and helped expand the Rawhide Comedy Club leading them to eventually take over the grand old Royal Court theatre in 2005 – now Liverpool’s Royal Court where he has continued to use creative approaches to help make the theatre one of the most successful in the city.
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