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Aurora Theatre — Cold Outreach

Target: Aurora Theatre — professional nonprofit theatre — 128 East Pike St, Lawrenceville GA 30046

Tier: C — community / long-game

Channel: Email boxoffice@auroratheatre.com (primary, general/box-office). Instagram DM @aurora.theatre (alternate).

Contact: No published named human — address the theatre/team. Do not invent a name or title.

Ref: I5 in targets.md (Web-sourced candidates 2026-09-20 batch)

Built: 2026-09-20

Context

Aurora Theatre is a professional nonprofit theatre, not a commercial venue. The I5 row says it's in Season 31, running education programming and a full sponsor apparatus out of 128 East Pike St in Lawrenceville. The row's own read on it: a program-dense nonprofit where video is the fundraising language.

Thirty-one seasons is a long run to keep a building alive in Gwinnett. A website can list the season, the education programs, and the sponsors. It can't show the people who make it go: whoever's on the stage, the kids in the classroom, the room on East Pike Street. That gap is one honest short piece.

The offer: One free short piece, they pick the story. No strings on the first one, they own the footage.

What I have: A verified org and its public channels — boxoffice@auroratheatre.com, IG @aurora.theatre, FB @AuroraTheatre, X @auroratheatre, LinkedIn /company/aurora-theatre, phone 678.226.6222. The row names no human and publishes no direct staff email, so the email addresses the theatre/team and routes through the box office rather than a fabricated person.

Email (primary — boxoffice@auroratheatre.com)

Subject: A free short piece on Aurora Theatre

Hi Aurora Theatre team —

Thirty-one seasons is a long run for a theatre in Lawrenceville. A website can list the season and the education programs and the sponsors. It can't show what keeps it going: the people on the East Pike Street stage, the kids in class, the room itself.

I'm Brandyn, Ghost Coast Video out of Atlanta. I make short documentary pieces for the arts stories that don't fit on a page. I'd like to make one for Aurora, free. You pick the story — the theatre, the education program, whatever's real and worth showing. You own the footage, no strings on the first one.

Worth a reply?

— Brandyn

ghostcoast.video

Word count: ~125 words.

Instagram DM (alternate — @aurora.theatre)

Hey — Brandyn, Ghost Coast Video. I shoot short documentary pieces for Atlanta's arts scene.

Thirty-one seasons of professional theatre in Lawrenceville. That won't fit on a page. I'd like to make one short piece for Aurora Theatre, free. You pick the story, you own the footage.

Worth a reply?

— Brandyn / ghostcoast.video

Word count: ~50 words.

Before sending

1. No named contact in the I5 row. The message addresses "Aurora Theatre team" and does not invent a person's name or title. If Brandyn finds a real staff or board contact (artistic director, managing director, education lead) before sending, swap the greeting to that name.

2. Facts confined to the I5 row. Professional nonprofit theatre, Season 31, education programming, full sponsor apparatus, Lawrenceville (Gwinnett) / 128 East Pike St — all from the row. Nothing else is invented. No new emails, handles, names, productions, season details beyond Season 31, sponsors, events, dates, metrics, clients, or testimonials.

3. Channels confirmed in the row. WEB auroratheatre.com, EM boxoffice@auroratheatre.com (general/box-office), IG @aurora.theatre, FB @AuroraTheatre, X @auroratheatre, LinkedIn /company/aurora-theatre, phone 678.226.6222. Email is primary; the IG DM is a labeled alternate — do not triple-send.

4. Tier C register. Friendly/community, no hard sell. The wedge is the free piece, not a pitch.

5. Word counts under cap. Email ~125 words, DM ~50 words.

6. No AI attribution, no AI tells. Reads as one person writing to a theatre; no corporate scaffolding, no em-dash stacking, no "not just X, it's Y" scaffold.

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