Collaborative Workspaces

Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Ashland, OR

Founded in 1935, the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon is one of the largest Shakespeare theaters in the country. The Festival operates three theaters, has a budget of nearly $25 million, and employs 450 staff and more than 100actors. During its 38-week season, OSF produces as many as nine plays in repertory, including Shakespeare, rarely explored masterpieces, and contemporary plays. Although Ashland is 300 miles from the nearest urban center, Portland, Oregon (and 600 miles from San Francisco), OSF draws audiences that number 400,000 annually.

The Innovation: OSF developed Collaborative Workspaces, an online communications system with personal, project, organization, and public workspace levels. Currently dedicated to script management, Collaborative Workspaces allows artists, designers, directors, and actors involved in developing, revising and managing a script to post, organize, track, discuss and archive revisions through the entire life cycle of a production.

>> How did they do it? Click on the image to read OSF's innovation story. (PDF, 4 pages)

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Posted October 15, 2010