Alan S. Brown
Principal and Founder
Alan S. Brown & Associates, LLC

Alan S. Brown is a noted author, researcher, and management consultant in the nonprofit arts industry. Prior to forming his own consulting practice, Alan served as President of Audience Insight LLC and Associate Principal of AMS Planning & Research Corp., where he studied audiences, visitors, and patterns of cultural participation in almost every major market in the U.S. His work focuses on understanding consumer behaviors related to arts participation and raising the profile of consumer research in the arts industry as a whole.

From 2000 to 2002, he directed the Classical Music Consumer Segmentation Study for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and 15 orchestras, the largest private study of classical music audiences ever undertaken in the U.S. In 2003, he designed and facilitated The Values Study, a groundbreaking participatory research project involving teams of board and staff members from 20 Connecticut arts organizations working in the fields of dance, theatre, classical music and visual arts.

Within the past two years, Alan has directed proprietary studies for Disney Theatrical Productions, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Joyce Theater, the Aspen Music Festival and the University Musical Society, among others. Currently, he is leading a consortium of 15 university presenters in a groundbreaking study of the values and motivations driving attendance and donation.

Lynne Conner
Department of Theatre Arts
University of Pittsburgh

Lynne Conner is a theatre historian, playwright and arts consultant, currently working in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses in theatre and dance history and dramatic literature. A published author and arts journalist, her interests range from theater to dance to criticism to scholarly research.

As an arts consultant, her current research interests are focused on studying the history of audience behavior and psychology in order to design more effective audience enrichment programming for today's cultural consumers. As the principal investigator for The Heinz Endowments Arts and Culture Program Arts Experience Initiative, she has lectured on the topic for Grantmakers in the Arts, Dance USA, and the American Symphony Society. She recently contributed a chapter to the upcoming book, Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life, co-edited by William Ivey and Steven Tepper in conjunction with the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.

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