{"id":15,"date":"2022-09-28T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:55:12","slug":"about-alan-harrison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/about-alan-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"About Alan Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alan Harrison<\/a><\/strong> is a writer, father, performer, consultant, recovering artist, and the author of the industry best-seller “Scene Change: Why Today’s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact,<\/a><\/strong> \u201cScene Change 2: The Five REAL <\/em>Responsibilities of Nonprofit Arts Boards,\u201d<\/a> and his latest and last of the trilogy, \u201cScene Change 3: The Ones Who Get It.\u201d<\/a> For 30 years, he has led, produced, directed, promoted, raised money for, starred and failed in over 300 theatrical productions on and Off-Broadway and at prestigious (and not so prestigious) nonprofit arts organizations across the country. He\u2019s also a two-time “Jeopardy!” champion so, you know, there\u2019s that.<\/em> The arts invoke passion (mostly from artists), but nonprofit arts are only successful when they result in measurably positive change among those that need it most. When a nonprofit\u2019s donors are also its recipients, then its mission devolves into meaningless puffery, flapdoodle, and codswallop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To purchase your own copies of the Scene Change<\/em> trilogy, just click here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3SZFIb0<\/a>. If you’re an Amazon.com customer, click here: https:\/\/amzn.to\/49aomzo<\/a>. Or, just stop by your favorite bookstore and order the set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Harrison is a writer, father, performer, consultant, recovering artist, and the author of the industry best-seller “Scene Change: Why Today’s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact, \u201cScene Change 2: The Five REAL Responsibilities of Nonprofit Arts Boards,\u201d and his latest and last of the trilogy, \u201cScene Change 3: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1390,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-15","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/about-scene-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":15,"position":0},"title":"About Scene Change","author":"artsjournal_mcowfs","date":"September 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In early 2024, we laid out the problem and gave you a path. The result: SCENE CHANGE: WHY TODAY'S NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TO STOP PRODUCING ART AND START PRODUCING IMPACT. In late 2024, we gave you discussion prompts and rules to help you figure out the answers on your\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/all-3-in-square-format.jpg?fit=897%2C897&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/all-3-in-square-format.jpg?fit=897%2C897&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/all-3-in-square-format.jpg?fit=897%2C897&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/all-3-in-square-format.jpg?fit=897%2C897&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/scenechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}