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Work with me

Good stories need good strategy.

Two ways to build the story your season needs: together, or on your own. Both come from the same years running development, fundraising, and marketing from one desk inside a performing arts organization.

Done with you · The practice
Narratives.

Story strategy for the performing arts.

Turn a season into something audiences want to step inside. I take your repertoire, find the story audiences can enter through, and build the campaign plan your small team can actually execute. One season, written for your organization.

Audience & friction audit
Narrative strategy
Visual world brief
Momentum map
Budget strategy
Explore Narratives →
Do it yourself · The systems
Toolkits.

The systems I used, packaged.

For the person doing the job without the department. Each toolkit is a short plain-language guide, the working files I actually used, and the word-for-word scripts for the conversations that matter. Nothing theoretical: what I did, what worked, and where I got it wrong.

The Small-Shop Development Toolkit
The Arts Marketing Kit
The Fundraising Event Toolkit
From $39, or all three in the bundle.
Browse the Toolkits →
Not sure which?

If you want it built with you, around your season, start with Narratives. If you’d rather start tonight with a proven system, start with the Toolkits.

Come find me after the show.
Have a story worth telling, a room worth gathering, or something interesting you’re building?

Twenty minutes, on a call: a season, a story, or whatever you’re making. Not a sales pitch, and not for everyone, but if that sounds like you, let’s talk.

Book 20 minutes →or write first, hello [at] bykatiespencer.com
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Katie Spencer.