Christopher Caltagirone
Research Director
AMS Planning & Research Corp.

Christopher Caltagirone joined the AMS Connecticut office in 2003 and is a Director focusing on audience and market research. Christopher has been working in the arts industry for over a decade and, as a student in the Arts Policy and Administration program at The Ohio State University, studied various aspects of public arts policy, political science, arts education and organizational theory.

Christopher has worked on a variety of audience research projects for visual and performing arts organizations throughout the U.S. He recently completed major projects for the Greater Columbus Arts Council (OH), Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (TX), Opera San Jose (CA) and the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice (FL). He has also conducted audience and market research for TheatreWorks (CA), Trinity Repertory Company (RI), Huntington Theatre Company (MA), Hartford Stage (CT), Shakespeare Santa Cruz (CA), Oregon Bach Festival (OR), Orange County Performing Arts Center (CA) and The Joyce Theater (NY). Christopher was responsible for the Americans for the Arts Nationwide online survey conducted by AMS in 2007 and has assisted on cultural impact studies in Minneapolis, MN, Louisville, KY and Houston, TX. Christopher also oversees the Association of Performing Arts Presenters National Salary Survey for AMS. These projects have included an array of quantitative and qualitative research (including customer data file analyses, audience intercept surveys, web, mail and phone surveys, focus groups and individual depth interviews). In 2007 he participated in a workshop at the California Association of Museums Conference titled, "Mining Your Customer Data for Fundraising and Audience Development."

As a graduate student at OSU, Christopher provided research assistance for several projects related to public arts policy and intellectual property issues. He was also a teaching assistant for a class on contemporary visual art and music. Christopher is completing a dissertation focused on interorganizational relationships between commercial theatre producers and not-for-profit theatres. In 2004, he presented preliminary findings at the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference held at George Mason University (his paper is available in PDF format).

Before returning to school, Christopher worked for several non-profit organizations including the Girl Scouts, March of Dimes and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, where he was responsible for fundraising, sponsorship solicitation and volunteer development in the Southeastern Pennsylvania region. Christopher earned his Bachelor's degree in Theatre from Kutztown University and a Master's degree in Theatre from Villanova University.