My name is Nathan Claycomb, and I'm a business development manager with sight
and sound theatres, and what that basically means is, I represent sight and sound theaters,
two locations, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Branson, Missouri.
I represent them around the world, and mainly, domestically here in the United States.
So, we travel around and we promote the theater, the live theater that we do,
and in hopes of bringing tour groups and individuals to the theater year round.
So, all of our productions are actually biblically based.
So, we take stories from the bible that people would be very familiar with, like, Noah,
or Jonah, or Moses, which is what we have on our stage right now, in Lancaster.
And then, we stage them in very epic scale.
So, it's a three hundred foot wrap around stage, with 40 live animals, and about a cast of 50.
So, it's something that you really can't find anywhere else in the World.
A day for me, as business development manager, really consists of continuing relationships
that we have already established.
So, that might be in the form of emails, phone calls, or site visits with any of our partners.
Sometimes that's tour operators who bring buses to sight and sound theaters.
Other times, it's going to be our local partners, such as, our restaurants, or hotels,
to really make sure that they have what they need to be successful in partnering with us
and also, to make sure that folks are aware of the shows that we have
and the productions that we put on.
I'd say in your average day, I'm reaching out to about three
or four of our partners, or our guests.
Sometimes, it's fielding guest's phone calls or inquiry's, wanting to know what's coming next,
or wanting some details about the area and what they can do
in Lancaster County, other than our production.
When I'm not in the office, which is about, I'd say about a hundred days a year,
that I'm not actually physically in the office, I'm traveling throughout the country.
So, these are tour and travel shows.
Which is where we have the seven minute, kind of speed dating,
appointments with the travel industry.
We're telling them about our product, but we're also learning about them,
and that's one of the most important roles, is to find out what the consumer is looking for
and what the end user of our experience wants to have at sight and sound theatres.
And then, after meeting with them,
it's all about the follow-up and months' worth of follow-up