The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein. Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; the National Committee for the Performing Arts; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation. Gifts and grants to education at the Kennedy Center are provided by Adobe Foundation; Sandra K. & Clement C. Alpert; AnBryce Foundation; Bank of America; Bernstein Family Foundation; The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; Capital One Bank; Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust; Centene Charitable Foundation; Citibank; The Charles Engelhard Foundation; Clark Charitable Foundation; Community Advisory Board; Mike and Julie Connors; CVS Caremark; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; Fight for Children, Inc.; David Gregory and Beth Wilkinson; Harman Family Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Harris Corporation; Hilton Worldwide; The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation; The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Kiplinger Foundation; The Kirstein Family Foundation; Natalie and Herb Kohler and Kohler Co.; Kenneth and Lucy Lehman; The Macy*s Foundation; Margaret A. Cargill Foundation; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; Jaylee M. Mead†; Linda and Tobia Mercuro; The Meredith Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; The National Committee for the Performing Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; National Trustees of the National Symphony Orchestra; Newman's Own Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Mrs. Irene Pollin; President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts; Prince Charitable Trusts; Rose Mary Kennedy Education Fund; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; Share Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small; Target; Thomas W. Haas Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.; Sherry and Eddie Wachs; Washington Gas; Wells Fargo; Beatrice and Anthony Welters; William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.
KCACTF 2013 REGION 6 ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSOURI, NEW MEXICO, OKLAHOMA, AND TEXAS
HOSTED BY CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE
"Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez" Let the Good Times Roll
I would like to welcome everyone to the Louisiana Mardi Gras season and to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 6 (KCACTF). Please, let me also extend a warm welcome from Centenary College President, Dr. David Rowe, and Centenary Provost, Dr. Mike Hemphill. On behalf of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourism Bureau I’d like to welcome you to our fair cities and encourage you to enjoy all they have to offer.
A great deal of effort has gone into bringing the regional festival to the beautifully opulent Strand Theatre and there are many to thank. Where to begin? Luke Eddy! As the Festival Coordinator he has logged countless hours putting this event together with lots of folks around the college and the community. He has my deepest gratitude. We must also thank the tireless assistance from Shreveport Bossier Convention and Tourism Bureau and Kim Brice, Suzanne Manfredi, and Chris Jay. I express many thanks to our small but feisty theatre department, faculty, Emily Heugatter and Jodie Glorioso, staff, Alan Berry (TD), and students, who have that wonderful “can do” attitude! I must also include the excellent and dedicated staff at the Strand Theatre headed up by Executive Director, Danny Fogger, General Manager, Jennifer Akers, and Production Coordinator, Brandy Bell. Please know, none of this would have been possible without the understanding and assistance of IATSE local 298 and its President/Business Agent, Russell Wingfield. A special thanks to the faculty and staff of Centenary College for their understanding and assistance as our small college doubles in size for the week. Warm thank you to the Friends of the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse and its President, Steve “Red” Vanderkuy. Of course, I could go on and on, but “Let’s Roll.”
Respectfully, Don Hooper, Region 6 Festival Host
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
KCACTF REGION 6 COMMITTEE, NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA PLANNING COMMITTEE
INVITED PRODUCTIONS PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
FESTIVAL MASTER SCHEDULE
IRENE RYAN ACTING SCHOLARSHIPS AUDITION SCHEDULE
WHO’S WHO AT THE FESTIVAL
KCACTF REGION 6 SPONSORS
KCACTF REGION 6 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
KCACTF REGION 6 FESTIVAL HISTORY
MAPS
KCACTF REGION 6 COMMITTEE
Joy Pace, Chair……………….…………………….…McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA Chase Waites, Vice Chair, IR Coordinator………… Lone Star College-Montgomery, Conroe, TX David Blakely, Playwriting Chair……….………………....Rogers State University, Claremore, OK Jim Anderson, Playwriting Vice-Chair…………………..Texas A & M Commerce, Commerce, TX Jason Foreman, Design/Tech/Management Chair……….....Oklahoma City University, OKC, OK Jon Young, Design/Tech/Management Chair……………….University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Christopher Sousa-Wynn D/T/M Vice Chair…………..…Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Rob Kreps D/T/M Vice Chair……………….……….Lone Star College – Montgomery, Conroe TX Bob Stevenson, Arkansas Chair………………………...…...University of Arkansas-Ft. Smith, AR Don Eller, Arkansas Vice-Chair……………………………...Arkansas State University-Beebe, AR Camille Bulliard, Louisiana Chair……………...... Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Paul Crook, Louisiana Vice-Chair……………………...... Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA Harold Hynick, Missouri Chair………………………………….Missouri Vally College,Marshall, MO Micheal S. Foster, Missouri Vice-Chair………….…...... Missouri State University, Springfield, MO Joshua Chenard, New Mexico Chair……………...New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Dr. David Fennema, OK Chair…………………………………….Cameron University, Lawton, OK Fabrice Conte Oklahoma Vice Chair……………………….St. Gregory's University, Shawnee, OK Jerry Ivins, Texas Chair………………………………..San Jacinto College Central, Pasadena, TX Corey Ranson, Texas Vice Chair……………………...Texas A&M Univ– Kingsville, Kingsville, TX Nathan Gabriel, SCC & Directing Coordinator...... Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette,LA Emily Heugatter- SDC Vice-Coordinator……………………….Centenary College, Shreveport, LA Alissa Millar,Irene Ryans Vice Coordinator……………...... University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Mark Charney, ITJA, Dramaturgy & Devised Coordinator………...Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX Michael Burnett, Fringe Coordinator……….……………..San Angelo State Univ, San Angelo, TX Bruce Cohen, PAI Coordinator………………………...……..Arkansas State University-Beebe, AR
KCACTF NATIONAL OFFICERS & STAFF
National Chair……………………………………….….Rebecca Hilliker, University of Wyoming National Vice Chair……………………………………… David Lee Painter, University of Idaho Member at Large ……………………………………………….Maggie Lally, Adelphi University Member at Large……………………………….. David “Kip” Shawger Jr., Ball State University Member at Large………………………………Richard Herman, University of Central Missouri Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison…....Harry Parker, Texas Christian Univ. National Chair, Design/Technologies/Management…Gweneth West, University of Virginia National Vice-Chair, Design/Technologies/Management…….. Rafael Jaen, Emerson College National Chair, National Playwriting Program………………..Georgia McGill, CUNY/Q.C.C. National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program….Jeannette Far, Glendale Community College (California) USITT Representative………………………….Martha Marking, Appalachian State University National Partners of American Theatre Representative………………………….Jere Wade
KENNEDY CENTER STAFF: Artistic Director & Co-Manager…………………………………………………..…Gregg Henry Co-Manager, Administration……………………………………………………….Susan Shaffer Program Assistant………………………………………………………..………….Taylor Hitaffer
REGION SIX FESTIVAL PLANNING COMMITTEE
Don Hooper, Festival Host………………………....Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA Shannon Richey, Festival Coordinator…………………….Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Kaitlin Hopkins, MTI Coordinator…………………………...Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Kari Hatfield, MTI Coordinator………………………………Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
Student Chairs
Festival Transportation: Barry James Acosta VIP Transportation: Clint White Webmaster: Jonathan Satchell Evening Hospitality: Chelsea Hockaday Daytime Hospitality: Cassandra Hermes Irene Ryans and Awards Ceremony: Amanda Proctor DTM Exhibits: Peter DeCuir Box Office Managers: Lorna Dopson Workshop Coordinator: Nathan Gauthier Festival Concierge: Parker Duff Registration: Andrew Wood Running Coordinator: Jordan Fell Managerial Assistant: Victoria Chavis House Manager: Sandy Rather Student Venue Liaison – Strand Theatre: Amanda Spangler Student Venue Liaison – Centenary: Josh Rabalais Costume Parade Assistant: Jordan Fell
Faculty Chairs
On-Site Festival Coordinator: Luke Eddy Technical Director: Alan Berry Festival Host: Don Hooper Student Coordinating Chair: Emily Heugatter Evening Hospitality Chair: Jodie Glorioso Daytime Hospitality Chair: Robert Alford Box Office Coordinator: Rona Leber Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Technical Supervisor: Christian Roberson Graphic Designer: Jeremy Johnson Dining: Parker Higdon and Sodexho Dining Services
KCACTF REGION 6 SCHEDULE
INVITED PRODUCTIONS AND FRINGE PERFORMANCE TIMES
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 11:00am Enron by Lucy Prebble – Sam Houston State University - Strand Theatre
8:00pm Staccato Man by Jacob Scott – Angelo State University Strand Theatre Intermission An Evening of Invited Scenes Featuring Invited Scenes from Region 6, Strand Theatre
Rose State College – Agnes of God Missouri Valley – Heads EOSC – Almost Maine OU – And When We Awoke There was Light and Light UCOk - The Real Story of Prostituted Women NWOkSU – The Hiding Place San Jac South - Koyannisgati TAMU-CC – Farragut North Bossier Parrish CC – Almost, Maine NWOkSU – Little Women TAMU-CC – Wild Honey Lonestar Montgomery – Somebody/Nobody Roger’s State University – Legend of Sleepy Hollow Northwestern State University – Smokey Joe’s Café Northwestern State University – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 11:00am Drømnium - New Devised Piece by Ashley Behm and many students – University of Arkansas – Fort Smith – Strand Theatre
8:00pm Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles L. Mee – West Texas A&M University Strand Theatre
10:30pm Student Fringe Festival – “The Best of the Rest” Holiday Inn Pavilion Room
FRIDAY, March 1, 2013 11:00am Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute – University of Louisiana – Lafayette – Strand Theatre
8:00 pm Spring Awakening by Sater & Sheik – Sam Houston State University – Strand Theatre
10:30pm Student Fringe Festival – Cabaret Night Holiday Inn Pavilion Rooms FESTIVAL MASTER SCHEDULE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
MONDAY, 2/25 DESCRIPTION LOCATION 5:00pm-10:00pm Festival Registration Holiday Inn Pavilion Rooms
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
TUESDAY, 2/26 DESCRIPTION LOCATION 8:00am-8:00pm Festival Registration Centenary SUB 8:00am-midnight Irene Ryan Preliminary Round Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 10:00am-6:00pm SDC Rehearsals Kilpatrick Auditorium 10:00am - 1:00pm KCACTF National Design Haynes Fitness Center Gym (Costume, Lighting, Scenery, Sound) and Stage Management Fellowship set-up
1:00pm - 4:00pm Allied Design & Technologies Haynes Fitness Center Gym (Makeup, Props, Tech Direction, Costume Tech, etc) and Design/Technical Projects set-up
1:00pm-2:00pm DTM Round Table w/teachers Haynes Fitness Center Gym
3:00pm-4:00pm Respondent’s Workshop Faculty Lounge SUB Joy Pace, Region 6 Chair Responding to productions around the region is an important part of our mission with KCACTF. Join me to discuss becoming a production respondent and tips on how to give an effective response.
4:00pm - 10:00pm DTM Exhibit closed for Haynes Fitness Center Gym Respondent's Review
5:00pm-6:00pm Dramaturgy Orientation Smith 107 6:00pm-7:00pm 10-Minute Play Meeting Kilpatrick Auditorium For all Playwrights, Directors, Mentors, and Dramaturgs
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
WEDNESDAY, 2/27 DESCRIPTION LOCATION 7:00am-11:00am Load in Enron Strand Theatre
8:00am-5:00pm Registration Centenary SUB 8:00am-10:30am 10-Minute Play Auditions Whited Room (Cafeteria bldg) 8:00am-10:00am DTM Orientation & Responses Haynes Fitness Center Gym 8:30am-9:45am Dramaturgy Initiative Donald Webb Seminar Room Heather Helinsky
8:30-9:45 ITJA Meeting Magale Library Classroom 9 Nelson Pressley & Mark Charney
8:30am-9:45am WORKSHOPS:
Using Lessac’s Body Energies and Consonant Energy to Bring Characters to Life Organically Daisy Nystul This acting workshop will explore the body and vocal work of Arthur Lessac as it applies to character development and emotional life. This work is effective, energizing, and fun to do. Hall of Fame Room – Bynum Commons
Follow Your Bliss: Discussion on Working in Professional Theatre Bryan Johnson Jackson 304 Join Bryan Johnson, Props and Special Effects Technician for Blue Man Group - Las Vegas, for a discussion on working in professional theatre, how to get there, and the passion for the arts that we all share. Bring your creativity, curiosity and a #2 pencil…‘cause you’re cool like that.
Lighting Worksheets: Choosing the Right Light to Meet your Needs Aaron Mooney Hurley 105 Stage lighting is not a guesser's game. Learn how to use your simple drafting supplies to create lighting section worksheets that will enable you to choose the proper light for the given lighting needs. Avoid those situations in the theatre when you turn on the light and it doesn't do what you expected. While no supplies are required for this workshop, it is recommended that participants bring a non-lined notebook/pad, straight edge, pencils, and eraser.
Stage Management and the Technical Process Jeff Cochran Library Basement Rm. 8 The technical process can be one of the most challenging and stressful periods of a production for a stage manager. During our time together we will discuss the different aspects of the technical rehearsal and how the stage manager fits in. The goal of the session will be to gain a better understanding of the process as a whole and how the stage manager can excel during this time.
The Artist as Citizen ASTEP Alejandro Rodriguez Mickle 114 Do you believe in the power of Art to transform communities? This interactive workshop will focus on how we can delve beyond our technical training to harness our collective power and begin to build a space where everyone’s stories can be heard. Together, we will explore how we can use our craft as a means of ensuring the strength of our communities, our culture, and the future of the American theater. Come and reclaim ownership of your own artistic fulfillment.
Dalton on the Psychological Gesture: What is it and How do you find it? Lisa Dalton Imagine being able, in one breath, to instantly transform into the character's thoughts, feelings, desires, and physicality! For actors, directors, teachers this highly active "playshop" will reveal the powers of Michael Chekhov's most famous and often misinterpreted gift to performing artists: The PG. What is it? Learn 3 pathways to discover the most powerful PG? Come prepared to move freely, with three lines of text from a character. Great to take with Dalton on Directing. Anderson Choir Rm. 120 Carruth
11:00am - 2:00pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Enron by Lucy Prebble Sam Houston State University WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 (cont’)
WEDNESDAY, 2/27 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm DIRECTORS FORUM Strand Chandelier Room Enron
2:30pm-4:00pm DTM Responses Haynes Fitness Center Gym
2:30pm-4:00pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Rehearsal
2:30 – 4:30 ITJA Critic’s workshop Donald Webb Seminar Room Nelson Pressley & Mark Charney
2:30pm-3:45pm WORKSHOPS:
A Picture is worth a 1000 words: Photography Techniques for the Designers Portfolio Matt Smith An in-depth look at how to take great photos for your portfolio. Discussion will include equipment, methods, and challenges associated with theatrical photography. Camera is not required. Mickle 114
Stage Management for Beginners Jonathan Allsup Library Basement Rm. 9 Focusing on application of general stage management skills to individual situations of the participants. Prioritizing rapport and relationship as keys to a healthy process and strong product, we will discuss the tools of the stage manager.
Scene Study Workshop Don K. Williams (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) Hall of Fame Room This workshop aims to give students a taste of the core principles and techniques taught at both the Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City and our sister school the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. The workshop is fully self-enclosed and requires that students bring only themselves and their imagination to participate. The students will write and perform scripts created in class. Through these scripts concepts on imagination, action, creative flexibility, character and relationship are explored. This is a full participation workshop for all participants.
Educator and Actors Equity Association Round Table Tom Miller Anderson Choir Rm. 116 Broyles Share your experiences and insights of being both educator and artist; discuss the challenges of preparing students for a career in theatre.
The Crossroads between Improv and Playwriting Guillermo De Leon Run out of ideas? Caught up in Writer's Block? Not just for sketch, improvisation (and it's rules!) can be a great tool for playwriting! Come, explore, and be prepared to write! Library Student Resource Center
Dalton on Directing with Michael Chekhov Lisa Dalton (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) Lisa Dalton introduces exciting concepts using Michael Chekhov's inspired recommendations for deep audience engagement, dynamic story arcs and rich characterization for directors and actors. Topics include the Trinity of the Psychology, Reversal of the Rehearsal, Japanese Rock Garden and Managing the Helm with Ease. Time permitting, design elements may be included. Both physically interactive and lecture-demo..Great to take with Dalton on the Psychological Gesture. Haynes Gym Dance Room
Mastering the Harold: Moving to Long Form Improvisation Harold Hynick (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) This worskshop will teach students the basic long form improv structure known as the Harold (developed by the late Del Close). Students should commit to both sessions Haynes Gym Aerobics Room
The Action to the Word: Using Shakespearean Scansion to find playable Action Mickle 103 Charles Gordon (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) This workshop will serve as an introduction to Shakespearean scansion as a method for finding playable actions in Shakespeare’s plays. Students will get the opportunity to apply these techniques to Shakespearean monologues. While several monologues will be supplied, students are encouraged to bring in Shakespearean monologues that they have or are currently working on.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 (cont’)
WEDNESDAY, 2/27 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
2:30pm-6:30pm SDC Preliminary Round & Kilpatrick Auditorium Responses (closed session)
4:00pm-7:30pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
4:00pm-6:00pm Rehearsal for “Invited Scenes” Strand Theatre
6:00-8:00 Load in Staccato Man Strand Theatre
4:00 – 5:00 pm Enron RESPONSE Magale Library – Classroom 9 (Rebecca Hilliker & David Lee Painter Respondents)
4:00pm-5:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Gobos: How to use templates to help tell the story Aaron Mooney Turner 105 Patterned light can help evoke mood or can pull attention to where it shouldn't be. Learn how to avoid common mistakes when using gobos onstage. This workshop will explore different gobo types, uses, and applications. We will focus on the subtleties that can be achieved when templates are used carefully and artfully. No rock and roll here, leave your moving lights at home.
Leadership in Theatre: Getting People to Say Yes Clayton Guiltner Mickle 114 How can leaders in commercial and academic theatre get the most out of everyone they lead and gain their trust? This workshop will introduce a unique, practical leadership perspective that will develop a highly effective company of actors, designers, technicians, and theatre support staff. This workshop is for Directors, Stage Managers, Choreographers, Musical Directors, Producers, and leaders in all areas of theatre. Both students and Professors are welcome to attend.
Painting with Air: The Basics of Airbrush Make-up Ashley Bellet Smith 107 This workshop will cover the basics of choosing and buying an airbrush, beginning techniques in painting and make-up, and touch on a variety of applications for use in educational theatre.
What We Do Together Makes a Difference Joe Norton – Broadway Cares Library Basement Rm. 5 It only takes one person to start a revolution for positive change. Learn how Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has empowered college theatre students nationwide to raise money for a variety of causes. Simply by doing what you love, you can help men, women and children across the country or across the street. We’ll show you how.
4:00pm-6:00pm John Cauble Short Play Anderson Choir Rm 120 Carruth Semi-finalist Readings: Thirty Deep by Jordan Morille, Texas State Univeristy Vendetta Day by Page Petrucka, Texas Tech University
5:30pm-7:15pm 10 minute Play Rehearsals Jackson Hall Classrooms 104,105, 106, 111,302 & 304
8:00pm-10:00pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Staccato Man by Jacob Scott Angelo State University Intermission An Evening of Invited Scenes Strand Theatre
10:30pm-midnight Hospitality Suite Holiday Inn Embassy Room (for faculty, staff, and guest artists) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013
THURSDAY, 2/28 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
7:00am-11:00am Load in Drømnium Strand Theatre
8:00am-10:00am SDC Interviews Kilpatrick Auditorium (Smith)
8:00am-10:30am Musical Theatre Initiative Rehearsal Anderson Auditorium
8:00am-10:00am Irene Ryan Finals Rehearsal Riverview Theatre
8:00am-10:00am John Cauble Short Play Anderson Choir Rm 116 Broyles Semi-finalist Readings: Who Am I by Brett Jolly, Cameron University
You Can't Miss It by Hannah Beavers, University of Arkansas
8:00am-10:00am 10-Minute Play Rehearsals Jackson Hall Classrooms 104,105, 106, 111,302 & 304
8:30am-9:45am Dramaturgy Initiative Donald Webb Seminar Room Heather Helinsky
8:30am-9:45am DTM Responses Haynes Fitness Center Gym
8:30am-9:45am WORKSHOPS: A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors Equity and a Practical Guide to the Business MLP Stage Tom Miller – Actors Equity Equity supports and protects the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop offers a candid discussion about how and when to join, pragmatic insight into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating, record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.
Building the Designer’s Portfolio Matt Smith Library Basement Rm. 10 LAB This workshop will explore the various methods of presentation for the design portfolio. Methods discussed will include hard copy, website, PowerPoint, and PDF. Examples will be given, discussion is encouraged.
Us and Them: When Critics and Creators Collide Nelson Pressley Smith 108 Can critics and artists be on the same side? An exploration of what’s ideal and how it happens on the job.
Human Nature and Power Point: Using Both to Build a Better Presentation Ashley Bellet In this workshop we will discuss the current expectations of a basic slide presentation, and how – using examples from Pecha Kucha and TED talks – students and teachers can make their presentations stronger. This is not about how to use Powerpoint, but how to use design and organization to give your presentations maximum impact. Mickle 103
Pop/Rock Music for the Musical Theatre Dave Clemmons Whited Room An overview and listening workshop that gives the student a basic history of the music and how it effects us today in musical theatre.
9:00 – 10:00am Staccato Man RESPONSE Anderson Choir Rm 120 Carruth (Rebecca Hilliker & Matt Neves Respondents)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 (cont.)
THURSDAY, 2/28 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
11:00am-12:30pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Drømnium Ashley Behm & others University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
1:30-2:30 DIRECTOR’S FORUM Chandelier Room (Staccato Man & Drømnium)
1:30pm-3:30pm Irene Ryan Finals Riverview Theatre Showcase
1:30-3:30 ITJA Critic’s Workshop Donald Webb Seminar Room Nelson Pressley & Mark Charney
2:00pm-3:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Are our Students Ready to Enter the Field??? Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF A Town Hall discussion concerning the challenges facing our students and how we, as teaching artists, are meeting the challenges. Are we preparing self-reliant young artists-- playwrights, performers, designers, directors, dramaturgs or hyphenates-- who are ready to enter the field as "self-producers" or "entrepreneurs"? Or are we relying on our cookie-cutters and hoping for the best? We'll share great ideas, strategies and best practices. We'll discuss the current fiscal realities at our institutions and their impact on our students' future. MLP Stage
Advanced 3-D Modeling and Rendering Chris Sousa-Wynn Library Basement Rm. 8 Hands on exploration of advanced 3D modeling and rendering tools, techniques, and tips utilizing Vectorworks/Renderworks. Please bring your own laptop with Vectorworks 2012 or 2013 already installed. (See Vectorworks.com for free download for students and educators)
Acting Basics: Storytelling through Blocking Clayton Guiltner MLP Classroom This workshop is designed for actors of all levels, and takes an interactive approach to understanding how blocking helps actors tell the story through basic elements of gesture, body positions, and movement patterns within a space. This is a participatory workshop, and actors are encouraged to volunteer.
Stage Management Intermediate: Caring for the Production and the People Jonathon D. Allsup Focusing on application of more advanced stage management skills to individual situations of the participants. I will lead a discussion on the 'why' of stage management and the importance of valuing the people along the production of each element of a show. Library Student Resource Center
PACS: Professional Auditions Coaching Session Josh Chenard Anderson Choir Rm. 120 Carruth Geared for students auditioning for Professional Theatre Companies and/or Graduate School programs at the KCACTF Region VI Festival, come and share your work with Festival Faculty, University/College Directors, and other invited guests offering their expertise on clarifying your choices, deepening your connections, and sharpening your performance so that you can present your best possible work at your audition and/or interview! Bring a pen/paper and be prepared to work!
Listening: Meisner Style Kurt A. Edwards, Ph.D. Hall of Fame Room Listening and Focus are often bypassed for character development and diction. The basis of the Meisner Technique is to teach acting students a new way of interacting. This workshop will introduce actors and directors to the seed of the craft of acting by finding "the reality of doing" by listening.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 (cont.)
THURSDAY, 2/28 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
2:00pm-3:15pm WORKSHOPS: (Cont’)
Playwriting Fun (and Fundamentals) E.M. Lewis Library Basement Rm. 9 Join award-winning playwright EM Lewis for a workshop that will help you reach inside yourself and find what you (and your characters) are most passionate about. Bring paper and pen or laptop, and be ready to write! Exercises and prompts will be provided to shake up your imagination. The perfect place for new writers, or anyone who wants to shake it up a little and find some bright, shiny new inspiration!
Creating Solo Performance Dr. William J. Doan (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) This workshop will provide participants with basic techniques and methods for creating a solo performance piece. We will explore techniques for creating solo work generated from one's own story and from research into the stories of others. Haynes Gym Dance Room
4:00-5:00 Drømnium RESPONSE Whited Room –Bynum Commons (Michelle Bombe & Matt Neves Respondents)
3:30pm-6:00pm Musical Theatre Initiative Anderson Auditorium Preliminary Round
3:30pm-5:30pm NEW PLAY READING: Anderson Choir Rm 120 Carruth Same as Sarah by Corey Ranson Texas A&M University Kingsville
4:00pm-5:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Resin Casting for Scenic Models Ronn Campbell Library Basement Rm. 10 LAB If you have ever needed more than one item on a scenic model? Chair s, Doors, People? This workshop is for you. We will explore how to use resin casting to take your scale models to that next level. Also useful for properties.
Commedia Del Arte for the Modern Actor Laura Rikard Hall of Fame Room Learn the traditional stock characters and physicality's of the traditional Commedia dell'Arte. Work with authentic leather mask, learn the principles of the mask and explore improvisations that create lazzis and commedia plays. Apply the work to modern theatrical text through physical and vocal scoring. And have a great time jumping into the extreme world of the Commedia dell'Arte.
Out Smarting Your Smarts: a text analysis strategy for effective directing of actors Part 1 Mark Fleischer A two part interactive workshop focusing on text analysis strategies that lead to effective communication with actors. Text analysis is one of a director's primary tools. Nevertheless, while the time we spend alone analyzing a script generates exciting conceptual ideas, translating our intellectual discoveries into active and digestible direction can be a challenge. In part one student directors will wrestle with scenes from established scripts and analyze the text for information that can be used to direct actors. In part two, student directors will apply their analysis to practical scene work with actors in observed rehearsal sessions. Our main objective will be to communicate more effectively with our actors, by saying less. Jackson 104
Movement and Middle Eastern Dance Christina Willis Haynes Gym Dance Room This workshop is designed to give individuals with no Middle Eastern dance experience a basic understanding of the different types of dance movements and music associated with three different Middle Eastern regions: Egypt – Raks Sharki (commonly called belly dance, includes use of veil) and folk (Saidi – cane dancing); Turkey – Cabaret and Romany (Gypsy); Lebanon/Jordan/Syria – Debke (line dancing). Participants will be taught basic steps from each regional style. These steps can be incorporated into theater productions to add a multicultural dimension to different productions. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 (cont.)
THURSDAY, 2/28 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
4:00pm-5:15pm WORKSHOPS:
The Fusion of Art and Nature-The Santa Fe Opera Tracy Armogast Library Basement Rm. 8 The workshop will include visuals of the facilities, production designs past, present, and future. We will also discuss seasonal employment opportunities.
Devising with ASTEP Alejandro Rodriguez MLP Stage ASTEP artists live at the intersection of the Arts and Global Justice. In this workshop, we’ll be building original pieces of Devised Theater using ASTEP’s unique process-oriented approach. Drawing from your own personal experiences and ideas, a few inspiring prompts, and techniques for devising that an ASTEP facilitator will guide you through, participants will create pieces around a common theme.
5:00 pm-7:30 VIP & Guest Artist Dinner Robinson Film Center
5:30pm-7:30pm 10 Minute Play Rehearsals Jackson Hall Classrooms 104,105, 106, 111,302 & 304
8:00pm-10:15pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles L. Mee West Texas A&M University
10:30pm-12midnight Student Fringe Festival: Holiday Inn Pavilion Rooms Best of the Rest (Non-Advanced Irene Ryan Semi Finalists)
10:30pm-12midnight Hospitality Suite Holiday Inn Embassy Room (for faculty, staff, and guest artists)
FRIDAY, March 1, 2013
FRIDAY, 3/1 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
7:00am-11:00am Load in for Reasons to be Pretty Strand Theatre
8:00am-9:45am 10 Minute Play Rehearsals Jackson Hall Classrooms 104,105, 106, 111,302 & 304
8:00am-1:00pm Professional Auditions and Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Interviews: General Auditions For actors/singers
8:30am -9:30 am Iphigenia 2.0 RESPONSE Anderson Choir Rm 116 Broyles (Rebecca Hilliker & David Lee Painter Respondents)
8:30am-9:45am DTM Responses Haynes Fitness Center Gym
8:30am-9:45am MTI Responses Anderson Choir Rm 120 (Carruth)
8:30am-9:45am Workshops:
Fulbright Scholar Program David McTier Mickle 114 An introduction to the opportunities and application process for faculty and students through the U.S. Fulbright Program.
New York to L.A.: The Business of Acting on the Coasts Don K. Williams Anderson Auditorium This Q & A workshop aims to give students an insight into the differences and similarities of the business and life of an actor in New York and Los Angeles. Led by Don K. Williams, Former Head of Acting for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC and current Associate Artistic Director and Johnny Yoder, Managing Director of the Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles.
Writing Plays for Audiences, or Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me . . .David Blakely Library Computer Lab 1A Playwrights, we often tell people that we "write for the stage" when what we should be telling people is that we write for the audience. Here are some exercises that can get you thinking about your audience and how they can participate in your play. We will discuss writing strategies that keep an audience engaged and apply those strategies in some simple exercises.
Acting with Archetypes Joshua Chenard Hall of Fame Room A unique and exciting approach to actor training! Ever-present in classic mythology, legend, folklore, literature, psychology, art, as well as in our own thoughts and memories, archetypes exist as energies and characters that have spanned time and culture. Utilizing breath, movement, voice, and imagination, we will explore several archetypes that will enhance character development, deepen the connection between text and action, and heighten intuition. Acting with Archetypes will feed your creative spirit and become a valuable asset to your "acting tool box." Dress comfortable and be prepared to move!
Cooks in the Kitchen: Exploring the Director/Stage Manager Relationship. Jeremy Torres & Shannon Richey Library Student Resource Center This workshop, structured as a think tank, will examine the qualities, components, and pitfalls of the working relationship between the Director and Stage Manager. As a student, should you identify as either of these titles, please join us as we work through the complex relationships that exist between the director and stage manager.
8:30am-10:30am Dramaturgy Initiative Donald Webb Seminar Room Heather Helinsky
FRIDAY, March 1, 2013 (cont.) FRIDAY, 3/1 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
11:00am-1:00pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute University of Louisiana - Lafayette
1:00 – 2:00 DIRECTOR’S FORUM Chandelier Room (Strand) (Iphigenia 2.0 & Reasons to be Pretty)
1:30-2:30 DTM Responses Haynes Fitness Center Gym
1:30am-3:30pm John Cauble Short Play Anderson Choir Rm 120 Carruth Semi-finalist Readings:
Nothing But the Blood by Corey Kwoka, Texas State Univeristy Saint Somebody, by Rita Anderson, Texas State Univeristy
1:15-3:15 SDC Rehearsals Kilpatrick Auditorium
1:30pm-6:00pm Professional Auditions and Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Interviews: Call-backs
2:00pm-3:15pm Musical Theatre Initiative Anderson Auditorium Final Showcase Rehearsal
2:00pm-4:00pm ITJA Critics’ Workshop Donald Webb Seminar Room Nelson Pressley & Mark Charney
2:00pm-3:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Ten Minute Play across the Curriculum Kenneth Robbins Jackson 211 Students enrolled in environmental law at Louisiana Tech University explored and applied the process of the ten minute play as a means to examine questions, concerns, and cases and provide a venue for sharing their understandings with others. Dr. Brandon Moore, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Dr. Kenneth Robbins, Professor of Theatre, join forces in this unique application of theatrical techniques.
Out Smarting Your Smarts:a text analysis strategy for effective directing of actors Part 2 Mark Fleischer (must have attended Part 1) Haynes Gym Dance Room PART 2 of A two part interactive workshop focusing on text analysis strategies that lead to effective communication with actors. Text analysis is one of a director's primary tools. Nevertheless, while the time we spend alone analyzing a script generates exciting conceptual ideas, translating our intellectual discoveries into active and digestible direction can be a challenge. In part one student directors will wrestle with scenes from established scripts and analyze the text for information that can be used to direct actors. In part two, student directors will apply their analysis to practical scene work with actors in observed rehearsal sessions. Our main objective will be to communicate more effectively with our actors, by saying less.
Life on the Film Set Blayne Weaver Library Basement Room 9 We will look at the etiquette, conditions and norms of being an actor on a working film with a focus on the technical aspect of acting for the camera.
FRIDAY, March 1, 2013 (cont.) FRIDAY, 3/1 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
2:00pm-3:15pm WORKSHOPS: Cont’
Theatres at Risk: New Approaches to Recover Abandoned Theatre Facilities and Theatrical Practices in the South of the United States Pablo Guerra-Monje & Guillem Alloy Do you know of any abandoned or in disuse theatre? In this workshop you will learn how Theatres at Risk won the Architecture award at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007 with and old run down winter circus in flames, and how it is planning to expand to the South of the US with the support of the University of Barcelona Tech. We will put new ideas on the table; modern theatre show boats and the reconversion of Sound Stages in disuse for the theatre. The project is design to have a global impact through its Open Source Network Design. Format. Faculty encouraged attending. Turner 105
Digital Sound and Music: Concepts, Applications, and Science Jason Romney Jackson 304 This workshop will showcase innovative new curriculum material to aid in the teaching and learning of digital sound and music. These materials have been developed through a collaboration between a computer scientist and a Theatre Sound Designer and sponsored through a grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the curricular materials is to explain the science of digital sound in a way that relates directly to creative practice in the arts.
Playwrighting for Profit David Moberg Library Computer Lab 1A Fully scripted Mystery Dinner Theatre productions, sometimes dismissed by serious theatre professionals, in reality provide effective, challenging, and affordable learning environments for playwrights and performers… and more…these plays offer a real chance for the playwright to collect royalties. Fully scripted mystery dinner theatre productions demand the same rehearsal preparation and painstaking analysis, same spontaneous commitment to the character action and communication process, and same fully actualized characters that traditional plays require. The intimate physical proximity of audience member to performer, the truthful interaction with audience members within the given circumstances of the play, the changing performance venues challenge the playwrights write a play that can succeed and sell to this unique live theatre market.
Grapple and Slap or advanced unarmed partnering for the stage Mark Guinn A review of basic rules of unarmed stage combat and an exploration of the many new strategies being employed for exciting new work. (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) (2:00-4:30) Karpelus Museum
The Physical Actor: WAY beyond the psychological: Aware, Available, Responsive.” The Physical Actor: WAY beyond the psychological! Matt Chapman Hall of Fame Room Join us for this very physical exploration of the work of the actor/creator, from the perspectives of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Improvisation, movement, ferocious play, and total availability will be the territories we encounter! Come prepared to move, play, see, and laugh. (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) (2:00-4:30)
3:30-4:30 pm Reasons to be Pretty RESPONSE Anderson Choir Rm 116 (Broyles) (Rebecca Hilliker & Kip Shawger Respondents)
3:30pm-5:00pm Musical Theatre Initiative Anderson Auditorium Final Showcase
4:00-6:00 DEVISED THEATRE INITIATIVE REHEARSAL Mark Charney & Jodi Jinks Anderson Choir Rm 120 (Carruth)
4:30pm-6:30pm Professional Auditions and Haynes Fitness Center Interviews: Dance Call Dance & Aerobics Studios
FRIDAY, March 1, 2013 (cont.) FRIDAY, 3/1 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
4:00-5:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Design in the Raw Jason Foreman Library Student Resource Center A practice of techniques for exploring very preliminary design ideas. We will experiment with sketching and collaging visual images to suggest emotions and ideas for a written piece. These are typical initial and exploratory steps in the design process. We will use photos, charcoal, and newsprint to create rough inspirational images to guide a designer in the early stages of the process.
Rehearsal Methods for Working with Actors Chuck Ney Library Basement Rm. 9 Early career directors frequently copy the directing styles of their teachers and mentors. They then conduct their own rehearsal using external stylistic factors based on their observations. Often they don’t consider how the rehearsal methods used by practitioners are designed to function. This workshop explores the dynamics that are at the core of different rehearsal methods to help achieve more effective results.
Growing a New Theatre from “Scratch” Robert Ford Library Basement Rm. 7 More and more actors, playwrights, and directors are refusing to wait around to be hired. They're starting their own theatres. Some are from New York and Chicago. TheatreSquared began as an idea in the collective mind of five professionals in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Six years later, it's an award-winning Equity company with a $750,000 budget. Find out how they did it from T2 Artistic Director and playwright, Bob Ford. Share your own story. Dreams can happen.
Acting Shakespeare: Fueling for Power Mavourneen Dwyer Mickle 103 This workshop will involve a lot of physical activity. Speaking Shakepeare’s lines effectively requires a high degree of energy and of commitment to the sustaining of that energy. We will be using games, speial exercises and improvs to learn to power up that energy and to keep it going throughout a speech, scene or play. Text handout will be provided.
All You Want to Know about NAPAT Andrew Gibbs Library Basement Room 8 NAPAT, the National Partners to the American Theatre is an organization of current and past officers and supporters of KCACTF, dedicated to providing scholarships that recognize excellence among student performers. Awards are granted each year in Classical acting, design and playwriting at the national level, and in design here in Region VI. Learn about membership, benefits and the upcoming 10th Anniversary NAPAT conference in Washington, held during the KCACTF in April.
In the Beginning: Getting Started with the Technicians Portfolio Randy Lutz Jackson 216 This work shop will focus on starting a portfolio for the technician; including costumes, carpenters, scenic artists, crafts, wigs and make-up. This will be a relaxed workshop addressing basic elements of portfolios for presentation to potential employers. We will discuss types of projects to include, photographs, labeling, layout, and presentation techniques. Please bring photographs and or digital images of your work, portfolios (in any state of completion) and your resume. If you don't have a portfolio started... just bring your interest and questions. This workshop is about beginning your portfolio!
5:00pm-6:00pm Musical Theatre Finals Showcase Responses Anderson Choir Rm. 116 (Broyles)
5:00pm-7:15pm SDC Rehearsals Kilpatrick Auditorium
5:30pm-7:15pm 10 Minute Play Rehearsals Jackson Hall Classrooms 104,105, 106, 111,302 & 304
8:00pm-10:00pm PERFORMANCE: Strand Theatre Spring Awakening by Sater & Sheik Sam Houston State University FRIDAY, March 1, 2013 (cont.) FRIDAY, 3/1 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
10:30pm-12midnight Student Fringe Festival: Holiday Inn Pavilion Rooms Cabaret & Open Mic Night
10:30pm-12midnight Hospitality Suite Holiday Inn Embassy Room (for faculty, staff, and guest artists)
SATURDAY, March 2nd 2013 SATURDAY, 3/2 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
9:00am-11:30am DEVISED THEATRE INITIATIVE PERFORMANCES Mark Charney & Jodi Jinks Anderson Choir Rm 120 (Carruth) Matt Chapman Respondent
9:00am-11:30am WORKSHOP
The Business of “The Business” Dave Clemmons Mickle 114 This class will focus on making the transition into show business and what to expect---how to arm yourself with the tools you need both in your training and your mental preparation to succeed in the acting world. We like to create a forum to share and discuss what we all struggle with as artists in our lives and how to meet those challenges in a positive, healthy way. We will discuss how to approach your career as a business. And different contracts you work under both non union and union.
9:00am-1:00pm SDC Rehearsals Kilpatrick Auditorium
9:00am-1:00pm Meet & Greet Graduate Centenary Gold Dome Schools & 4-year University Programs
10:00-12:30 Shakespeare Behind Bars Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Screening & Q&A w/Founder & Producing Director – Curt Tofteland
10:00am-5:30pm Professional Auditions & Magale Library – Interviews: Classrooms 5, 7, 8 & 9 Technical/Design/Management
9:00-10:00am Spring Awakening RESPONSE Magale Library Classroom 9 (Matt Neves and David Lee Painter Respondents)
10:00 – 11:00 am DIRECTOR’S FORUM Anderson Choir Rm 116 Broyles (Spring Awakening)
10:00am-11:00am Dramaturgy Initiative Donald Webb Seminar Room
11:00am-12:30pm 10-Minute Play Rehearsal Band Shell (ICO Rain – Karpeles Museum)
11:00am-12:30pm ITJA Critics’ Workshop Donald Webb Seminar Room
SATURDAY, March 2nd 2013 (cont.)
SATURDAY, 3/2 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
1:00pm-3:00pm Performance: Band Shell 10-Minute Plays (ICO Rain -Karpeles Museum)
Coffee Shop Creatures, by Rachael A. Pace, Louisiana Tech University Dances wtih Football, by Prince Duren, Univerisity of Arkansas Densho, by Genevieve Ryan Olson, Northwest Arkansas Community College Hooks, by Jordan Morille, Texas State Univeristy Those Who Wed, by Kevin Talley, Texas State Univeristy Wright and Wrong, by Phoebe Torres, Texas State Univeristy
1:30pm-2:45pm WORKSHOPS:
Lighting the Night Ronn Campbell Hurley 201 Don’t be blue, there is no need to fear the dark. Creating realistic and fanciful night or dark atmospheres on stage can be challenging but, we will explore tips and techniques to help you master the night.
Chat with KCACTF National Award Finalist Jason Foreman Anderson Choir Rm. 116 Broyles Join a discussion with a panel of National KCACTF Award Finalist students who attended the National Festival at the Kennedy Center and the USITT National Conference in 2012. Find out what happens at the National Festival and at USITT. You’ll learn about the professional development opportunities that the finalists get to participate in.
Musical Theatre Performance for Actors whether or not you can sing! Amy Herzberg Interactive workshop in acting and singing at the same time, using proven techniques that are applicable to performers at all levels of experience. Anderson Auditorium
Tom Thumb Theatre: Creative Solutions to Overcome the Obstacles of being a Small Theatre Program Fabrice Conte & Nicholas Graves Round table discussion aimed at sharing strategies and solutions to operating a collegiate theatre department with limited resources, a small student body, and a faculty that gave up sleep years ago.
Devising Theatre: Methods to getting started Laura Rikard (1:30-4:00pm) Hall of Fame Rm. This workshop will explore the process and techniques created by the Odin Teatret in Denmark for devising a theatre piece. Participants will explore how to create blocking by physically scoring text, how to research and utilize source material and how to bring it all together to create a story for the stage. Students will devise a short piece in the workshop. (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH)
Clown for Actors (1:30-4:00pm) Matt Chapman (DOUBLE SESSION LENGTH) In this workshop, we will play with what it means to be truly present on stage and to submit fully to what IS, by jumping into the abyss head-first! Clown study is for all actors who wish to develop their vulnerability and sensitivity to the truth of the moment onstage. Anderson Choir Room Carruth 120
SATURDAY, March 2nd 2013 (cont.)
SATURDAY, 3/2 DESCRIPTION LOCATION
3:00pm-4:15pm WORKSHOPS:
Audition Prep Technique Jonathon Bernstein Anderson Choir Room 116 Broyles This workshop addresses two primary topics: 1) How to prepare for auditions: script analysis, identifying genre & tone, use of script pages as a prop, what to wear, what's expected of you, etc. 2) What to do when you arrive at the audition: how to cope with waiting, how to maintain your focus, who you want to be when you walk into the room, what do you expect of yourself, etc.
Michael Chekhov Technique –An Exploration in Developing Physical Character Bruce Hermann This workshop will introduce and explore some of the foundational concepts of Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. Participants will be on their feet, moving, imagining, and playing. Haynes Gym Dance Rm.
State of Stage Management in Region 6 Jason Foreman This will be a discussion about how the Stage Management Fellowship Program is conducted in Region 6. Stage Management preparations, displays, and participation in festivals has evolved in other regions. We will discuss potential changes for 2014 for Region 6. Students and faculty with a vested interest in stage management should attend. Mickle 114
NAPAT – We want you! Katie Robinson (Founder) Come join your colleagues who have been honored by having meaningful careers in academic theatre. It’s our “club” to share ideas, provide an annual conference in D.C. and support the next generation of theatre professionals. We want to tell you about it! The National Partners of the American Theatre which is closely associated with the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival, is an organization committed to providing opportunities it KC/ACTF students. Founded 10 years ago by a group of people serving on the KC/ACTF National Committee, NAPAT now offers more scholarships for college students than any other theatre organization. It started with the Classical Acting Award and has grown to include major awards in many areas of theatre practice. Every cent we raise is given to support our scholarships. You are eligible to be a Partner purely by caring about our students. Donate your time, your money, or your ideas – but, most of all, your camaraderie. MLP Classroom
3:00pm-5:30pm Performance: Kilpatrick Auditorium SDC Finals
6:00pm-8:00pm AWARDS CEREMONY & Riverview Theater COSTUME PARADE
8:00pm-11:00pm Hospitality Suite Alan’s Loft (for faculty, staff, and guest artists)
IRENE RYANS ACTING SCHOLARSHIPS SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 Irene Ryan Preliminary Orientations, Rehearsals, and Rounds:
TIME DESCRIPTION LOCATION 8:00am-9:00am Orientation Rounds 1-4 9:30am-10:30am Irene Ryan - Round 1* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 10:30am-11:30am Irene Ryan - Round 2* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 11:30am-12:30pm Irene Ryan - Round 3* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 12:30pm-1:30pm Irene Ryan - Round 4* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 1:00pm-1:30pm Orientation Rounds 5-7 2:00pm-3:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 5* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 3:00pm-4:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 6* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 4:00pm-5:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 7* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 5:00pm-5:30pm Orientation Rounds 8-12 6:00pm-7:00pm Irene Ryan Music Rehearsal 6:00pm-7:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 8* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 7:00pm-8:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 9* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 8:00pm-9:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 10* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 9:00pm-10:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 11* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse 10:00pm-11:00pm Irene Ryan - Round 12* Marjorie Lyons Playhouse • Irene Ryan Preliminary Responses will follow immediately after each round in:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 Irene Ryan Semifinal Round Rehearsal and Performance
TIME DESCRIPTION LOCATION 2:30-4:00pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Rehearsal
4:30pm-7:00pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Performance
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 Irene Ryan Final Round Rehearsal and Performance
TIME DESCRIPTION LOCATION 8:00am-10:00am Irene Ryan Finals Rehearsal Riverview Theatre
1:30pm-3:30pm Irene Ryan Finals Riverview Theatre Showcase About the Irene Ryan Scholarships
Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associate productions are eligible for consideration for these $500 regional scholarships. The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional and two national scholarships annually. There are two scholarships of $3500 each for the winners at the national festival in Washington, D.C. In addition, the student judged the Best Partner in the national auditions is awarded a cash prize of $250. The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to pay tuition and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts. Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level.
WHO’S WHO AT THE FESTIVAL
Jonathan D. Allsup (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Jonathan is the Managing Director at the Creede Repertory Theatre where he has stage managed over 500 performances since 2005. Show credits include The Road to Mecca (Arvada Center), 25th Annual Spelling Bee, Sweeney Todd, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Urinetown, Crazy for You, and How to Succeed In Business. Jonathan has stage managed in the loop in Chicago, at Western Washington University, Northwestern College in Orange City, IA, and at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Jonathan teaches stage management workshops and classes at colleges, universities, conferences, and festivals across the country. Jonathan is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association.
Guillem Aloy (Workshop Presenter) (1981) is an architect (ETS Architecture Barcelona, 2007) based in Brussels. His work is deliberately placed between practical and theoretical speculation. Some of his projects has been recognized with several awards such as 1st Prize for an Auditorium (Mallorca, 2010) and has been exhibed in the 4ht International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, in the 11th and 12th Quadriennale Prague and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona. He is currently developing the architectural project of rehab of performance space of Mercat de les Flors and a Culture Centre in Barcelona (2008-2011) and is part of the university research project Observatory of Theatres At Risk, winner of the Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture in 2007.
Jim Anderson (NPP Vice-Chair) Jim Tyler Anderson, teaches playwriting and other Theatre courses at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has also taught at The University of North Texas and Navarro College. His regionally produced plays include Idol Hill, One Soldier Wounded, Motherland, Dump Monkeys and Ruby Rose Rides Again. His one-act, Sanitary Landfill, was a co-winner in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and his full-length play, Written in Dust was a KCACTF regional selection. Jim is also co-founder and Director of the Texas A&M System Advanced Collaborative Theatre Project, which, in its fifteen year history, has produced over 200 student-written plays.
Tracy Armagost (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Tracy Armagost is the Assistant to the Production Director with The Santa Fe Opera. She began 26 seasons ago as a Properties Carpenter Apprentice, then moved on to the Props Running Crew as an Assistant and then ran the Props Running Crew for several years. Her main responsibilities at SFO include overseeing the program for the Technical Apprentices (including recruiting and programming), production scheduling and supervising the onstage rehearsals. She feels that one of the most rewarding parts of her job is meeting students from all around the United States and continually being inspired by their enthusiasm. Tracy will be conducting a workshop entitled “The Fusion of Art and Nature-The Santa Fe Opera”. The workshop will include visuals of the facilities, production designs past, present, and future . We will also discuss seasonal employment opportunities. Tracy will also be interviewing students for the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season and participating as a Stage Management Fellowship Respondent.
Ashley Bellet (Workshop Presenter) is the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at OCU. She received BAs in English and Theatre Design from Sewanee, and her MFA from The University of Memphis. She designed and taught previously at The University of Memphis and at The University of Tulsa, and attended Cobalt Studios for summer studies in Scenic Artistry. She studied scenic and costume design, and has painted and designed props for several professional theatres including the Kentucky Repertory Theatre, Light Opera Oklahoma, Playhouse on the Square, Theatre Memphis, and Germantown Theatre. She is also the Vice Commissioner of Programming of Education for USITT.
Jonathan Bernstein (MTI Finals Auditor, Workshop Presenter) is currently at work developing a dance play entitled The Shape She Makes with choreographer Susan Misner for the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, as well as completing a new musical with collaborators Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth. Directing credits include work at theaters in NYC and all over the country, in addition to serving as the Supervising Director of the still-running revival of the musical Chicago. He is the Artistic Director of The Performing Arts Project, serves on the faculty at the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and is an adjunct professor in NYU’s Musical Theater Writing Program.
Alan Berry (Festival Technical Director) is a Shreveport native and a graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana, where he earned a B.A. in Technical Theatre. Broadway and touring credits: The Who’s Tommy (U.S., Toronto and Germany), The King & I starring Haley Mills, State Fair with Kathryn Crosby, Donna McKechnie and Andrea McArdle, W;t starring Judith Light, Having Our Say, and the 50th Anniversary production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, starring Brian Denehy and Elizabeth Franz. Regional credits: The Who’s Tommy, The Glass Menagerie, Le Petomaine, What the Butler Saw, Marisol, Playland, The Swan and William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Film Credits: The Long Hot Summer, Homeland Security, Blonde Ambition, The Initiation of Sarah, Harold & Kumar 2, The Year Without a Santa Claus and The Great Debaters.
David Blakely (NPP Chair Region 6) is a playwright, actor, musician, songwriter, director, and designer. His plays have been produced all over the United States. His plays: Tales of Shoogilly, the 2003 winner of the Charles M. Getchell Award; Laying Felt, voted "Best of the NeST" in Mockingbird Theatre's 2003 New Southern Theatre Festival; Lime Green Jackals, finalist for the HotCity Theatre Festival and the Seven Devils Playwriting Conference; his adaptation of Frankenstein, a finalist for the David Mark Cohen Award. His musical adaptation of John R. Erickson’s Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business was performed as part of The Tulsa Performing Art Center’s SummerStage 2012. He is Chair of National Playwriting Program for KCACTF Region 6, Associate Professor at Rogers State University, and Director of the RSU Theatre Program. He earned his BFA from the University of Oklahoma and his MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Michelle Bombe (DTM Respondent, Production Respondent) is a Professor of Theatre, Director of Theatre, and Resident Costume Designer at Hope College in Holland, MI. Michelle received her MFA in Design from UTexas-Austin and has designed the costumes for over 100 productions for professional and academic theatre and served as costume designer for the Shakespeare Behind Bars program in KY. Michelle is Chair of Region III of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Her professional credits include 10 seasons at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, The Theatre of Monmouth, and Hope Summer Repertory Theatre.
Camille Bulliard (Louisiana Chair) is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Speaker and Author, as well as serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of Theatre at UL Lafayette. Camille received her BFA in Choreographic Design from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and completed her MFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining ULL, Camille worked professionally in NYC, Dallas and Los Angeles and encompasses a wide range of media and stage acting credits. Camille received her coach training from the Coaches Training Institute, and maintains a private bi-coastal coaching practice servicing Entrepreneurs, Executives and Creative professionals. She is also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and integrates somatic body techniques into her acting training and coaching work. Camille has also co-authored a book with celebrity authors Jack Canfield and Deepak Chopra, titled “Stepping Stones to Success: Experts Share Strategies for Mastering Business, Life and Relationships.”. To learn more about her work, please visit camillebulliard.com.
Mike Burnett, M.F.A – (Committee Member, Fringe Coordinator) Mike has worked with local and international theatre artists on world and American premieres, including When the World was Green by Joe Chaikin and Sam Shepard for the Atlanta Olympics. Credits include lighting for Grammy nominee Leahy, audio for the Allstate Sugar Bowl gala, and scenery for Oklahoma! (Virginia Musical Theatre), Compleat Works of WllmShkspr (Theatrical Outfit), and Whispering to Horses (7 Stages, Atlanta’s top scenic design in 1997). In the mid-90s Mike presented workshops in the USA and Europe on online theatre collaboration. Mike has served as Chair of Theatre at Huntington University and currently is the Assistant Director of Theatre at Angelo State University.
Robert R. Buseick (Honoree ) Is the President of the Community based board of directors of RiverCity Rep, and served for 34 years as Chairman of the Theatre/Speech/Dance Department at Centenary College. He has taught for over 50 years and has directed over 175 productions. His awards and accomplishments include his production of My Sister in This House being performed at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and winning the ACLU's "Defender of the Bill of Rights" Award and multiple "Times Drama Awards" for Best Director. He served as Chair of KCACTF Region 6 from 1993-1996. We honor him this year for his lifetime of service in educational theatre, and support and leadership of KCACTF. Ronn Campbell (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Ronn is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Columbia Basin College. He holds a B.F.A. in design from the University of Idaho and a M.F.A. in scenic and lighting design from Humboldt State University. His past teaching experience includes Western Washington University and the University of Idaho before coming to CBC. Ronn has designed over 150 productions in his career. This includes scenery, lighting and sound for many companies in the Northwest including Washington East Opera, CBC Summer Showcase, Columbia Basin Jazz Orchestra, Mid-Columbia Regional Ballet and Idaho Repertory Theatre. Ronn is currently the Vice- President of the Northwest Drama Conference, former Chair of Design, Technology and Management for Region VII of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival , Webmaster and Stage Management Czar for Region VII and the past Chair of the Northwest Section of United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Ronn is on the current National Selection Team for KCACTF and was Awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion in 2012.
Matt Chapman (Devised Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Matt Chapman is a performer, director, and teacher of physical theatre and clown. Currently on Faculty at Dell'Arte International, he's also artistic director of Brooklyn's Under the Table, which he co-founded in 2001. Matt has taught at Marymount Manhattan and Manhattanville Colleges in NY, and has taught workshops at such places as the Kennedy Center, NYU, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Towson, the University of Iowa, ISU, and the University of North Dakota. Matt works abroad regularly as well; his workshops and performances have included South Africa, Denmark, Colombia, the Netherlands, Canada, and England. He's a graduate of Dell'Arte International and KU.
Mark J. Charney (Committee ITJA, Dramaturgy, Devised Coordinator, Workshop Presenter) just finished a six-year stint as Director of Theatre at Clemson University where he headed the playwriting program. He was recently awarded the honor of Professor Emeritus at Clemson for his 27 years of service there, and took over as Chair of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University this past fall. His adaptation of The Decameron was featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and his 37 Stones, or The Man Who Was A Quarry in DC, New York, SC, and DC. Mark serves as National Coordinator of the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy for the Kennedy Center, and Coordinator of the Dramaturgy Initiative. His play, The Balloon Handler Makes Good, was one of eight plays developed at the ATHE Conference in Washington, DC in 2012 and was performed at the Warner International Festival last summer. His play, The Power Behind the Palette, won the David Mark Cohen award in 2010, and his Clayton Tells a Fib will be performed at the New Plays Festival in Santa Clarita later this spring. He has just completed a chapter in a new screenwriting book for Rutgers Press, which will be released in late 2013, and a new play, Pogrom in Pelzer, adapted from a chapter of a new book on the Zionist Congress from 1902-27, which will tour around the country.
Josh Chenard (New Mexico Chair, Workshop Presenter) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and the Head of Acting at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. The former Head of Performance at Virginia Commonwealth University where he taught Acting and Directing, Josh has led workshops and classes in a variety of schools, theaters, and studios all over the country including in Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles, Lexington, Boston, and Portland, Maine. An Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework(R), Josh is also a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique having earned his certification through the National Michael Chekhov Association and the late Mala Powers, acknowledged worldwide as the foremost authority on Mr. Chekhov's technique. As an actor Josh has performed in educational, repertory, and professional theaters; favorite roles include the Counselor in Clay McLeod Chapman's "Junta High", Chuck in Alan Ball's "All That I Will Ever Be" and Vic in the American Premiere of Xavier Durringer's "A Taste of the Killing on the Tip of the Tongue". Recent directing credits include Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the American Southwest Theatre Company, "Suddenly, Last Summer" at the Richmond Triangle Players and the Virginia Premiere of "Lord of the Flies" for the Henley Street Theatre Company. Josh works privately with clients ranging from actors to lawyers to new anchors exploring acting technique, vocal power, and energetic presence.
Dave Clemmons (MTI Auditor, Workshop Presenter) Dave is an in demand teacher/lecturer having taught at every major music theatre training program in the country as well as Masterclasses in New York, LA, Chicago, Boston, Houston and Orlando. He is a visiting professor at the acclaimed Elon University Musical Theatre Program and is a permanent faculty member and musical director/conductor of The Broadway Theatre Project founded by Anne Reinking, faculty for the Making it On Broadway Intensive Series in New York and LA and is Advising Faculty member at The New York School of Film and Television’s Musical Theatre program. He began his career as a performer on Broadway with roles in Les Miserables (Valjean), The Civil War (original company), The Scarlet Pimpernel (original company and Chaeuvelin on original concept recording). He was featured as Corin/Amiens/Hymen in As You Like It at the Tony Award winning Alley Theatre. He was seen as Jean Valjean in the National tour of Les Miserable (2 years) and the National tours of Jekyll and Hyde as well as regional pre Broadway out-of-town productions of Whistle Down the Wind (by Andrew Lloyd Weber, directed by Hal Prince) and Jekyll and Hyde (The Alley Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Seattle’s 5th Ave. Theatre). Other roles have included Richard in The Lion in Winter, Che in Evita, Freddie in Chess. Dave Clemmons is the founder/owner of Dave Clemmons Casting, whose upcoming projects include the Broadway revival of Driving Miss Daisy, Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland, Grumpy Old Men and Tears of Heaven by Frank Wildhorn. Dave Clemmons Casting has cast Broadway shows including The Boy from Oz (starring Hugh Jackman), Brooklyn (starring Eden Espinoza), Ring of Fire, In My Life, Dracula, The Civil War, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Jamie Lynn Sigler. Off-Broadway shows including the New York revival of Charles Mee’s play, Big Love, Bare, Bat Boy, Altar Boyz, Zanna Don't!, the 2000 revival of Godspell and the National Tours of Cinderella, Evita (directed by Hal Prince), Dr. Doolittle (directed by and starring Tommy Tune), Millie, Cats, Fosse, Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago, Joseph…, Saturday Night Fever, and Moving Out (choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp). Also, International tours (Europe, Asia and Moscow) of Fosse (starring Ben Vereen), 42nd. St.(directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner) and The Sound of Music. Regional plays include History of the Word at the Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre, Making Tracks at San Jose Rep. and The Great Game (directed by Randal Milam) at The Duke Univ. Theatre Co. Other recent projects include the new National tour of Fiddler On the Roof starring Topol/Harvey Firestein, the new Frank Wildhorn musical Wonderland, the new national tour of the musical version of 101 Dalmatians (dir Jerry Zaks, music by Dennis DeYoung) and the national tour of The Wizard of Oz. As a Producer he serves as a Producing Partner for StylesFour Entertainment recently producing the Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy (starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave) and Pee-Wee Herman on Broadway. They have produced/invested in the Tony Award winning Spring Awakening, Talk Radio, the critically acclaimed New York production of Bat Boy and an Intimate Evening with Frank Wildhorn and Friends (starring Frank Wildhorn, Linda Eder and Douglas Sills) and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (starring Judy Gold). Dave Clemmons also serves as casting director and artistic associate for Casa Manana Theatre in Ft. Worth and Flatrock Playhouse, The State Theatre of North Carolina. As a music/vocal director or supervisor Dave has worked on the Broadway production of The Civil War, National Tours of Jekyll and Hyde and The Civil War, Little Shop at The Alley Theatre, vocal director arranger of The Civil War at The Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. and casting director/vocal director /arranger for The Presidential Gala performance of The Civil War at The National Theatre in D.C. starring Trisha Yearwood, Clay Aiken, Larry Gatlin and Hal Holbrook. He has conducted the Broadway Gospel Choir and the Dave Clemmons Choir on The Today Show, the Bravo Network, Carnegie Hall and the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway as well as Linda Eder’s disc Christmas Stays the Same. Dave holds a BM degree in music and vocal performance from the Univ. of Miami, Fl. Dave served as a Minister of Music at First United Church Methodist in Miami.
Jeff Cochran (Workshop Presenter) is the Assistant Professor of Stage and Production Management at Oklahoma City University. As the head of the Stage and Production Program, Jeff oversees both the academic and production components of the program for both the School of Theatre and the Bass School of Music. In addition to his work at OCU, Jeff stays active in the industry, serving as the Production Stage Manager for companies such as Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Jeff currently is an active member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and the International Association of Venue Managers. Finally, Jeff is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.
Bruce Cohen (Coordinator of the Region 6 PAI) and has spearheaded the creation/organization of this new initiative. This is Bruce's second term as a member of the Region 6 committee and he formally served as the Arkansas State Chair for the KC/ACTF. He is Director of the Theater Department and an Associate Professor at Arkansas State University - Beebe as well as a professional director and actor with associations in both the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors Equity Association. As a playwright, his scripts have been produced by Resonance Ensemble and Oberon Theater in NYC, Madlab and Glad Fools Theater Company in the regions. Bruce is the former Artistic and Managing Director of the Utah Musical Theatre (AEA-SPT), and as Producer/Director had the pleasure of contracting and working with the likes of Robert Anthony Jones (performer, 101 Dalmatians; National Tour), Jen Caprio (costume design, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Broadway production), and Jules Aaron (director, Drama-logue and Backstage award winner). Bruce holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Adelphi University, a Master of Fine Arts in Stage Directing from the University of Alabama and has been honored and recognized for his work by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as "One of the Twenty to Watch in 2012".
Fabrice Conte (Oklahoma Vice Chair, Workshop Presenter) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at St. Gregory's University. Fabrice received his Master of Performing Arts from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France) where he studied acting and creative movement, and his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Oklahoma. He has worked professionally as an actor, director and graphic designer both in Europe and the United States. Fabrice is currently serving as the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region VI Oklahoma State Vice-Chair. In 2007, he received the Ruppel J. Jones Award for Excellence in Directing. His work as an illustrator was recently published in the book ACTING: What to Do by Dr. Judith Pender.
Paul B. Crook (Louisiana Vice-Chair) Paul is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Louisiana Tech University, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate acting and directing courses and supervises all student directing projects, in addition to directing for the Department. He also serves as the Director of Recruiting for the University Theatre. Paul has previously served as the Director of Theatre Arts for Andrew College in Cuthbert, GA; on the faculty of Shelton State Community College Theatre; as a Distance Educator for the University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance; was one of the founding directors of the Kentuck Players in Northport, AL and also served as the Artistic Coordinator for the SecondStage Theatre in Tuscaloosa, AL. In addition to his work at Louisiana Tech, Paul has directed and acted in theatres around the nation. He has previously served as the Associate Artistic Director for the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival, a summer rep theatre in Durant, OK and currently serves as the Artistic Director of The B & B Theatre, a company that he formed with his wife, Mary Fran, a theatre professor at Grambling State University. Two of the plays Paul has written:Brit Lit, OR All You Need to Know to Survive Senior English but Were Afraid to Ask and AMLIT! were commissioned for production by Stage Centre, an educational touring theatre company, and toured across the state of Alabama. Two of his ten-minute plays: “Front Porch Requiem” and “LAVALOOOOO!!!” were selected for performance at the nationally known Kentuck Festival of the Arts Ten Minute Play Festival.
Lisa Dalton (Irene Ryan Preliminary Auditor, Workshop Presenter) is President of the National Michael Chekhov Association, Inc. and instructs the NMCA Teacher/Director Certification. www.chekhov.net Since 1980, Lisa has taught in London, Paris, Moscow, Brussels, NY and LA.; judged Emmy’s, Cable Ace, Independent Spirit Awards, many KCACT Fests. Directing credits include 50+ stage shows and a 30-year career on-camera and stage as an actor, stunt player, clown and comedienne. She co- produced the award-winning documentary From Russia to Hollywood: the 100 Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff. Lisa has been developing innovative directorial applications of Chekhov’s concepts for stage and film since 1988.
Guillermo “Billy” De Leon (Playwriting Respondent, Workshop Presenter) is an Emmy nominated writer and performer who holds a Master’s in Theatre from Texas A&M University – Commerce and a Bachelor’s in Theatre from Texas A&M University. He has had over 30 of his plays produced including “Leyendas de Mis Abuelos,” “Faena,” “Cindy the Cinco De Mayo Queen”, and most recently, his children’s show, “Cowgirl Princess on the Moon.” In 1999, as part of a cultural exchange program, his play “Bruja” was selected for a short tour of Mexico by Texas A&M University. Billy is also an accomplished actor, director, and improviser, performing with such groups as Freudian Slip Improv Comedy (College Station), Pavlov’s Dogs (Dallas), and the critically acclaimed, award winning Latino Comedy Project (Austin).
Dr. William Doan (Irene Ryan Semi-Finalist Auditor, Workshop Presenter) co-authored Prophets, Performance and Power and Twice Used Songs: Performance Criticism of the Songs of Ancient Israel. He has had two original works premiere at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival (Southwest Ohio Society of Badasses, 2008 and Villainy, 2009). Doan was a 2011 artist-in-residence at the Mizzou New Play series with his play Bud’s Last Prayer. His most recent publication is a collection of poems titled orantes linguis, published by Corrupt Press, Paris. Doan currently serves as President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2011-2013.
Don Eller (Arkansas Vice-Chair) Don is originally from Northern California where he started doing theatre in high school at the age of 14. He received his BA in Theatre Arts (with a minor in Mathematics curiously enough) from Southern Oregon University and his MFA in Lighting Design from Western Illinois University. He has worked in California, Oregon, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, Michegan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Arkansas. When not racking up milage travelling this land of ours, he is an Instructor of Theatre/Technical Director at Arkansas State University-Beebe, where he recently directed his first Shakespearean play, Richard III. He lives in Beebe with Fred and Izzy, two brain-defective felines he got from one of his students.
Mavourneen Dwyer (Workshop Presenter) currently oversees the Voice Production component of the MFA actor training program at the University of Arkansas/Fayetteville. She teaches graduate acting classes in Period Styles as well as creative exploration of Shakespeare’s texts. Mavourneen supervises all Company Voice Work for the University of Arkansas Department of Drama productions. She recently directed Shakespeare’s “Arcadia” for the UA University Theatre. Mavourneen also presents Shakespeare workshops and master classes and coaches voice and dialects privately. On occasion, she even finds time to keep up with a professional acting career and played the role of Nat in David Lindsay-Abaire’s “The Rabbit Hole”at TheatreSquared (Fayetteville) in 2009.
Kurt Edwards (Workshop Presenter) Dr. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at East Central Oklahoma University in Ada, OK where he teaches performance classes as well as directs the musical theatre study area. His experience as a student, actor, director, and teacher has given him experience with many different theatrical performance theories, including Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekhov, Alexander, and Alba Emoting.
Luke Eddy (Host Festival Coordinator) holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Houston’s Professional Theatre Training Program and a BA in Theatre from Marietta College. Luke has performed extensively at regional theatres around the country, including Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, The American Shakespeare Center, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, the Texas Shakespeare Festival, River City Repertory Theatre, Monomoy Theatre, the Roxy Regional Theatre, and Caesar Ford Amphitheatre, amongst others. Most recently, he was seen at the Houston Shakespeare Festival as Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew and Roderigo in Othello. Locally, he has performed at the River City Repertory Theatre as Alan in God of Carnage and King Phillip in The Lion in Winter; directed Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke and staged the combat sequences in Macbeth, Spring Awakening and The Glory of Living, all at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. Prior to his relocation to Shreveport, Luke was a member of the national touring company of the American Shakespeare Center, playing the title role in Hamlet and Antipholus of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors. He then joined the ASC’s resident company, where he played such roles as Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I, and Lucius in Titus Andronicus, amongst others. Luke works as a freelance artist in the theatre, film, and voiceover industry; is an adjunct faculty member in the Theatre Department at Centenary; and is the Marketing and Publicity Director for the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. Currently, he is pursuing his training as a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association
David Fennema (Oklahoma Chair, Directors Forums) was educated in Wisconsin and has his BS and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After teaching at UW-GB, he earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He has taught at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, the University of Denver and spent the last 30 years teaching at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma where he is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts. He served as OK state vice-chair/chair for the KC-ACTF 1987- 1992 and is presently once again OK state chair. He has directed many productions for colleges and community theatres, acted in both film and theatre and is presently doing research for a text book on multiculturalism and the arts.
Mark Fleischer (SDC Respondent, Workshop Presenter) is the Producing Artistic Director of Adirondack Theatre Festival (ATF) a professional summer theatre committed to new and contemporary works located in Glens Falls, NY. As a director Mark has spent much of his career developing and directing new works as well as creating culturally relevant revivals of classics and musicals. Prior to ATF Mark served as the Managing Artistic Director of Plano Repertory Theatre in suburban Dallas. He holds a BA in English Literature and Communication Arts from Austin College and an MFA in Directing from the Theatre School at DePaul University.
Robert Ford (Workshop Presenter) is the Artistic Director of TheatreSquared, a professional regional theatre in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a company recognized as a national award winner by the American Theatre Wing. Bob also serves as the Director of the MFA Playwriting program at the University of Arkansas. A published author and playwright, Bob teaches playwriting and a variety of related courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Jason Foreman (Region 6 DTM Co-Chair, Workshop Presenter) is the Associate Professor of Scenic Design and the Head of Design and Production at Oklahoma City University. He has designed scenery for over 80 productions during his career; recent design credits include: Angels in America, Legally Blonde, The Tales of Hoffman, and Macbeth. He has worked professionally as a designer and scenic artist for companies around the US, such as Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, West Virginia Public Theatre, City Rep, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Southern Repertory Theatre. He is an active member with USITT and is the Co-Chair for Design, Technologies, and Management with KCACTF Region VI.
Michael Foster (Missouri Vice-Chair) is a tenured faculty member and associate professor of lighting design in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, and is the coordinator of the Design, Technology, and Stage Management degree program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University, and interned at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, England. Upon completion of his MFA he began work for The Mintz Lighting Group, an architectural lighting design firm in NYC whose credits include the relighting of the Jefferson Memorial in DC (Lumen Award) and the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston. After leaving Mintz, he joined the theatre faculty at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida where he was the production manager in the Theatre Arts Department and later an assistant professor of lighting design. Micheal to date has designed the lighting for over 100 productions and his work has been seen across the country including the Utah Musical Theatre (Ogden, UT), Contemporary American Theatre Festival (Shepherdstown, WV), the Monomoy Theatre (Chatham, MA), New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL), Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL) the Modern American Dance Company (St. Louis, MO) and Atrek Dance Company (St. Louis, MO) to name a few. He is a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and an educator member of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD).
Nathan Gabriel (SDC Coordinator) is an educator and professional director who received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from Temple University, where he also taught. Now an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana Performing Arts Department, he also serves as both their Season Coordinator and the Coordinator of the Stage Directors and Choreographers division of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 6. He has worked at over a dozen professional theaters including the Tony award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; The Arden Theatre in Philadelphia; Northern Lights Playhouse; Festival International de Louisiane; and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, he also currently serves as a part of the selection committee for the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Terrance McNally New Play Award. From 2006 to 2009 Nathan served as Associate Artistic Director of Cincinnati’s New Edgecliff Theatre, where he helped increase audience attendance and private donations by directing several shows each season and creating the award-winning Cincinnati Directors Competition. He has worked and studied with master directors such as Michael Kahn, Mark Lamos and Doug Wager. His productions have received much critical praise and his awards include a Cincinnati Acclaim Award and official recognition from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Excellence in Directing.
D. Andrew Gibbs (Workshop Presenter) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Drama at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, a past Chair of Region VI and a NAPAT Board member. He heads the MFA Lighting Design program at Arkansas and also maintains a private practice as a theatre consultant. Research interests include theatre architecture, lighting manufacturing processes and finding good burgers and fries.
Chuck Gorden (Workshop Presenter) is an Associate Professor, Head of Directing, and Production Coordinator for the University of Texas at El Paso. Prior to UTEP, he served as the Head of Directing at the University of Arkansas. He has directed more than 100 productions. He is a member of AEA, SAG, and the Dramatist’s Guild. He has worked at many professional theatres, including Missouri Repertory Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Actors Ensemble, and Gypsy Theatre. He is former Chair of Playwriting for Region VI and a recipient of the John Cauble Award for Short Plays.
Nicholas Graves (Workshop Presenter) is an Assistant Professor of Theatrical Design and Technology at St. Gregory's University. Nicholas recently completed his MFA in Scenic Design at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he served as an Assistant Instructor both in the classroom and shops since 2009. In his tenure there his designs included A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hair, Language of Angels, Marat/Sade, and Hayfever. His BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology is from Abilene Christian University in Abilene Texas where his design work was comprised of Star Spangled Girl and SHORTS!: A Ten Minute Play Festival. For the last two years Nicholas has spent the summer season in Bigfork, MT at the Bigfork Summer Playhouse designing sets for their summer season, ranging from Guys and Dolls to The Wedding Singer. Prior to Bigfork, Nicholas spent his summers as the Theatre Department Head at Camp Airy outside of Baltimore, MD. He is a regular attendee of the Southeastern Theatre Conference national convention and was co-presenter of a workshop last spring aimed at getting young designers their first jobs at the professional level.
Pablo Guerra-Monje (Workshop Presenter) Studied at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico of Madrid, In those years he was a founding member of the FELE; Frente Escenico de Liberacion Espacial (Scenic Front of Space Liberation). Continue his studies at the University of Memphis. Worked at the Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Santa Fe Opera. After teaching at the High School level joins Bob Stevenson at UAFS. In 2011 presented his design work at the Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre.
Clayton Guiltner (Workshop Presenter) is Assistant Professor of Theatre in Acting and Directing at Southern Arkansas University and serves as the Producing Artistic Director for the newly formed Grex Group Theatre in New York City. Mr. Guiltner holds an M.F.A. in Directing (The University of Oklahoma), an M.A. in Leadership (Bellevue University), and a B.A. in Theatre (The University of the Ozarks). Additional training includes master workshops in voice and movement and youth theatre from The American Conservatory Theatre and Actors From the London Stage. He has numerous academic and commercial directing credits, and is a VASTA and SDC member.
Mark D. Guinn (Workshop Presenter) is the Director of the School of the Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University. He is a Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors and Certified Teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat.
Kari Hatfield (MTI Coordinator) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the BFA program at Abilene Christian University. Kari teaches the Music Theatre private voice and group classes, has directed productions such as Time Stands Still, The Pirates of Penzance, and The King and I, and serves as a Vocal Director. Kari is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and is a Distinguished Voice Professional with the New York Singing Teacher’s Association. Kari also serves on the board of Ecumenica: A Journal of Theatre and Performance.
Heather Helinsky (Dramaturgy Initiative) received her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the A.R.T./ MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, where she worked with international directors Krystian Lupa and Viktor Ryzhakov and American directors Robert Woodruff and Scott Zigler. Her adaptation of Bulgakov’s Zoya’s Apartment ran at the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre, Russia in 2006. As a new play dramaturg, she has been collaborating with playwrights Caridad Svich, Connie Congdon, Rob Zellers, Matthew Ivan Bennett, Elaine Jarvik, Toni Press-Coffman, Tammy Ryan, Thomas Gibbons, and Ellen Struve. Regionally, she has worked at the American Repertory Theatre, Arizona Repertory Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Telluride Playwrights Festival, and Sundance Theatre Lab. Her latest project is the National New Play Network rolling world premiere of Caridad Svich’s new play Guapa. She is currently the Visiting Instructor of Dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University. www.helinskydramaturgy.com Gregg Henry (Artistic Director – KCACTF, SDC Respondent, Irene Ryan Prelim Auditor) Recent productions: Kennedy Center: Tom Isbell’s The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (from the Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick) a current Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Production- Theatre for Young Audiences, Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe (in partnership with the White House Historical Association, with songs by Mark Russell), Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of Excalibur, Theatre Alliance (2012) and Hub Theatre (2011)- Helen Pafumi and Jason Lott’s Wonderful Life, Round House Theatre- Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country, WSC Avant Bard- Julie Jensen's Two-Headed and Barbara Field's adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych for Metro Stage and You Are Here by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance. Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Catholic University: Whales by Bob Bartlett, Miranda is Morning by Stephen Spotswood. He is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences and is director of the Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. For eleven years, he has curated and co-produced the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free event at the Kennedy Center, featuring concert readings and open rehearsals of new work by the theatres in the DC and Baltimore Metro area. For these Festivals he produced special readings of Marco Ramirez’ A Million Billion Thunders or Where Two Trees Make an X, Lee Blessing's The Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig's Baskerville, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Three Musketeers, and Treasure Island. He produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with NNPN. Gregg has acted, directed, and/or staged the fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University. He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, on the National Advisory Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA], and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Bruce Hermann (Workshop Presenter) teaches acting at Texas Tech University. He studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and later returned to teach there. He received his MFA in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University and has taught acting in conservatories and university programs throughout the US and Europe. Bruce has also maintained an active professional career as an actor and director. He is a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.
Amy Herzberg (Workshop Presenter) is Professor of Drama and head of the MFA Performance program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Active as a director and musical director, Amy also works in new play development and teaches courses in basic and advanced acting, Meisner, and, of course, musical theatre.
Emily Heugatter (SDC Vice Coordinator) holds an MFA in Acting from DePaul University in Chicago; a BFA in Acting from the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah; graduated with a degree in Theatre from Interlochen Arts Academy; and trained at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Regionally, she has performed with The Texas Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, The St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre, The Salt Lake Acting Company, The MUNY Theatre, The St. Louis Shakespeare Company, Orthwein Theatre, West End Players Guild, and Chicago’s Appetite Theatre Company, among others, as well as abroad at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ms. Heugatter is currently an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing at Centenary College, where she has directed Baby With the Bathwater; A Steady Rain; Big Love; Macbeth; A New Brain; The Tempest; Never the Sinner; The House of Yes; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning; as well as Metamorphoses and The Glory of Living, which were selected to perform at the 2009 and 2012 Festivals for KCACTF Region VI. Regionally, she has directed for the Houston Shakespeare Festival (assistant,) Ozark Actors Theatre, Northeastern Illinois University, the Salt Lake City School District, The University of Utah’s Theatre School for Youth, Characters and Company, and Under Construction Productions. Ms. Heugatter is the author of Playground Shakespeare: Bringing the Bard to Life, a guide for teachers of all grade levels to bringing Shakespeare into the classroom. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.
Dr. Rebecca Hilliker (KCACTF National Chair, Production Respondent) is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wyoming where she teaches dramatic literature and directing. She has directed over 50 productions during her career including a production of Susan Glaspel’s Trifles for a symposium on “Susan Glaspel’s Trifles: Culture, Society and the Law” that took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. The symposium brought together lawyers and scholars from across disciplines and from throughout the world to look at the issues of responsibility in the play. Rebecca has received 12 Meritorious Achievement Awards in directing from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 7—and one on the national level. She is currently the National Chair for KCACTF and served on the National Selection Team for that organization several years ago. Her production of Acetylene written by student Erik Ramsey was selected in regional competition as the new student play national winner fifteen years ago and was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is the recipient of the prestigious Horace Robinson Award from the Northwest Drama Conference for her contributions to the region as director, educator and leader and of two Kennedy Center Gold Medallions given by the National Executive Board and the Regional Executive Board for her leadership and service. She is also the recipient of the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences Exemplary Faculty Award as a role model for College Faculty.
Don Hooper (Chair Department of Theatre & Dance – Centenary College, Host Committee Chair) Don received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1980 from then East Texas State University, now Texas A&M-Commerce and then to Southern Illinois University to be awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in Scenography in 1982. He began working in professional theatre in the St. Louis area at various theatres including the Little Theatre on the Square as a designer and technical director. From there he branched out into summer stock and regional theatre in Oklahoma and Arizona. Five years later he received a posting at the Arizona Theatre Company as a production manager and resident designer. While centered in Tucson he also designed industrials for companies such as Dow Chemical and Ford, among others. Upon leaving the west coast, Don became an assistant professor of theatre at Centenary where he has remained for 26 years. Currently he is Theatre and Dance department Chair and has just been awarded the position of full Professor. Don has designed sets and/or lighting for over 160 productions at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. During his time in Shreveport he has designed for many local theatres, performance companies, and businesses including the Shreveport Opera, Shreveport Ballet, Peter Pan Players, and others. He has also designed for Collective Artists in London, Natchez Opera, the Oklahoma Shakespeare Festival, Horseshoe Casino, Harrah’s Casino, Loggy Bayou, and other businesses about town and the region. Don has, during the 1980s and 90s hosted several Louisiana KCACTF State Festivals on the campus of Centenary. He has for over two decades wanted to host the Regional Festival at the Strand Theatre. All the pieces finally fell into place with the heroic efforts of Danny Fogger at the Strand and Russell Wingfield, President of Stagehands Local, 298.
Kaitlin Hopkins (MTI Coordinator) Has performed in theater, television, film and radio for 30 years. Favorite credits;Broadway: Noises Off, Anything Goes, Grinch. Off-Broadway she originated many roles including Meredith in Bat Boy- The Musical (Drama Desk and Ovation Award nominations), Bare a Pop Opera and The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Kaitlin has made over 50 Film and television appearances including; Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Nanny Diaries, “Law and Order” “Law and Order SVU” & “Law and Order CI”, “Star Trek-Voyager”, “Spin City”,“Rescue Me” and three years as Dr Harrison on “Another World”. Kaitlin currently heads the Musical Theatre Program at Texas State University www.kaitlinhopkins.com.
Harold Hynick (Missouri Chair, Workshop Presenter, Director’s Forum) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Missouri Valley College and has founded three Improv companies at three different colleges. Currently he is the Missouri State Chair for KCACTF Region VI. In his spare time he is an actor, having most recently appeared as Bob Ewell in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre.
Jerry Ivins (Texas Chair) Chair of Fine Arts and Artistic Director of Theatre and Film is in his 18th year as an instructor at San Jacinto College, and 17th year as the artistic director of theatre and film. He has also served nine years as the chairman of the art and journalism departments, and one and a half years as interim associate dean of fine arts and language arts. Dr. Ivins received his associate degree from Paris Junior College, bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from University of Houston, and his doctorate from Texas Tech University. Besides being an accomplished actor and stage director, “Doc” has directed and/or cast more than 300 films, commercials, and plays. He has served seven years on the University Interscholastic League (U.I.L.) Committee on Academic and Production Standards, six years on the U.I.L. Administrative Committee, State Theatre Curriculum Committee, OAP Committee on Standards of Adjudication and Judging Practices, and was the Convention Director for the Texas Educational Theatre Association (TETA) TheatreFest in 2007 and 2009. Dr. Ivins and his wife, Renee, are proud parents of McKenzie, and twins, Sarah and Caitlynn.
Bryan Johnson (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) is a Props and Special Effects Technician with BLUE MAN GOUP - Las Vegas. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bryan realized his passion for creativity at a very young age. Bryan was the 2010 KCACTF National Alcone Makeup Design award winner, as well as a 3-time KCACTF Region 6 award winner. His work has been featured in publications, including “Lighting & Sound America.” Bryan’s theatrical work includes; Props Design and Artisanship, Magic/Illusion Design, Mask Making, Puppetry, Lighting Design and Special Effects Makeup. Bryan is active with The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and enjoys getting the opportunity to once again be involved with KCACTF.
Rob Kreps (DTM Co-Vice Chair) is an associate professor of drama and program coordinator for the live entertainment technology program at Lone Star College-Montgomery. Prior to that he was at the Kincaid School where he was the technical director and scenographer. Before landing in the Houston area, Rob was an assistant professor of design at Eastern Oregon University. Rob has a Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Alaska-Anchorage. His professional technical credits include the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Idaho Repertory Theatre, Eccentric Theatre Company, Alaska Theatre of Youth, Anchorage Opera, Alaska Classical Ballet Academy, Trollwood Performing Arts School, and Festival Dance of Idaho. Rob is a five-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for meritorious achievement in design and has been recognized by the Alaska State Senate for his work in touring A Piece of My Heart to two cities in Russia with UAA.
E.M. Lewis (Playwriting Respondent, Workshop Presenter) received a 2012 Fellowship in Playwriting from the New Jersey Council for the Arts, and the 2010-2011 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for Song of Extinction and the 2008 Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She's the NJ Rep for and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. Recent: Song of Extinction at the Guthrie and at CUNY Hostos College, Apple Season in the Six Women Playwriting Festival, playwright-in-residence for the New Voices for the Theater program in Richmond, VA, and the world premiere of Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday at HotCity Theater in St. Louis, MO. Current: working on an epic new play set in Antarctica called Magellanica, and a solo piece called The Gun Show. Lewis is a member of the 2013 Playwrights Theater of NJ Emerging Women Playwrights Project and Page 73's Interstate 73 Playwriting Workshop. www.emlewisplaywright.com
Randy Lutz (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) has been with The Santa Fe Opera for 30 years and is currently the Properties Director, liaising with national and international designers and directors. Annually, he attends professional conferences to interview applicants in all technical departments for The Santa Fe Opera, including costumes, stage properties, scenic art, stage operations and electrics. He reviews portfolios of potential staff technicians and aspiring technicians for the opera’s Apprentice Technician Program, which is one of the most respected programs of its kind in the country.
David McTier (Workshop Presenter) is Professor of Theatre at Sam Houston State University. He was a 2012 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Kosovo, where he taught at the University of Prishtina and directed at the National Theatre. Dr. McTier currently serves on the National Review Committee for the Balkans.
Alissa Millar (Irene Ryan Vice Coordinator) is a professional actor, director, and voiceover artist based in Oklahoma. Acting credits include: Indiana Repertory Theatre – Bianca in Taming of the Shrew, Calphurnia in Julius Caesar, multiple roles in A Christmas Carol; Phoenix Theatre – Catherine in Proof, Claire in Boston Marriage, and Emily in Bluff. Other regional credits include Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Percy in the University of Oklahoma summer stage production of Henry IV, Part 1, and Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her voice has been heard on hundreds of regional and national television and radio commercials, for diverse clients including many hospitals, restaurants, casinos, Cellular One and Purdue women’s basketball. Alissa has studied at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London (with Jane Lapotaire and Mark Rylance), Shakespeare Festival L.A., the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, and Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, she filmed a role for the upcoming Terrence Malick film To The Wonder. She is an Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Oklahoma and teaches acting technique for Freihofer Casting’s Actor Factory.
Tom Miller (Workshop Presenter) Prior to joining the staff of Actors' Equity Association, Tom was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway, with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre, at Opryland USA, and in Europe. Tom is a graduate of Indiana University. For over a decade Tom served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Equity Member since 1983.
David Moberg (NPP Exchange Region 4, Workshop Presenter) is currently Chair of the Performing and Visual Arts Department at Indian River State College in Florida. He has directed over 250 main stage, black box, and touring productions at IRSC. A published playwright, Mr. Moberg has written full- length dramas, comedies, interactive murder mysteries, one-acts, and collections of monologues. Portions of Mr. Moberg's writings are available at NoTechTheatre.com publishing. His newest play, Hunting Aliens, was selected and performed at the Region IV 2010 KCACTF Festival in Daytona Beach, FL. David Moberg currently serves as the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Playwrighting Project Chair for Region IV. Region IV constitutes the southeastern United States. In April of 2010, he was awarded the three year Fine Arts Community Fellowship by IRSC. Mr. Moberg was awarded the 2009 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV National Festival Faculty Fellowship in Playwriting. He is also a recipient of the Florida Theatre Conference Distinguished Career Award and the IRSC President's Cup for Excellence.
Aaron Mooney (Workshop Presenter) serves as Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at Oklahoma City University. He holds an MFA in Theatre Design from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Theatre Education from The University of Tulsa. Aaron designs lights in myriad fields, including: Theatre, Musical Theatre, Dance, Opera, Museum Exhibition, Fashion, Concerts, and Special Events. Aaron has lit show and events in spaces as large as Radio City Music Hall (NYC), the Beacon Theatre (NYC), and The Joint at the Hard Rock Casino (Tulsa), as well as many spaces so small that they barely deserve to be called theatres.
Dr. Brandon Moore (Workshop Presenter) is an instructor in environmental science area with a new interest in effectively integrating the arts into science education.
Matt Neves (Region 8 Vice-Chair, Irene Ryan Semi’s Auditor, MTI Respondent, Production Respondent) is the incoming Chair of KCACTF Region VIII and the Producing Artistic Director for Performance Riverside, a professional theatre in residence on the Riverside City College campus in Riverside, California. Formerly the Director of Arts Administration at Southern Utah University and Associate Artistic Director for the Neil Simon Festival, he also served as the Theatre Department Chair and the Associate Dean for the College of Performing and Visual Arts at SUU. He was also the Associate Managing Director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Matt has degrees in Directing (M.F.A, Exeter; B.A., BYU) and Arts Management (M.B.A., Illinois State). Directing credits include: Christmas Carol: On the Air, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Oklahoma!, The Mikado, and Chicago for Performance Riverside; Rumors, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, Chapter Two, and Fools for the Neil Simon Festival; Born Yesterday, George Washington Slept Here, You Can’t Take It With You for Hale Center Theater; Saturday’s Warrior/The White Star for Omega Productions (regional tour); Miss Saigon for Dixie State College; Lend Me a Tenor, Beyond the Horizon, How To Succeed…, Forum for SUU.
Chuck Ney (Workshop Presenter) is a professor and Head of Directing at Texas State University. He has been artistic director at Idaho Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Clearing House Contemporary Performing Arts Center, and Mary Moody Northen Theatre. He has directed at such theatres as New York City’s Working Man’s Clothes Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, and The Kennedy Center. Since 2004, he has traveled to Shakespeare theaters from coast to coast, interviewing over 60 artistic directors and directors about their working methods and productions. He has written articles for American Theatre and is presently finishing a book, Directing Shakespeare in America.
Joe Norton (Workshop Presenter) is the Director of Education & Outreach for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the charity voice of the American Theatre industry. He has been an actor, playwright and producer for various companies in New York City. Joe has been a featured speaker for the American Association of Community Theatre conference, the Montana Theatre Educator’s Conference, and a repeat panelist for NYC’s annual Volunteer Opportunities in the Arts Conference, and the Theatre for Public Health forum at NYU. Joe served on the governing board of the Educational Theatre Association from 2000 – 09 and currently serves on the New York Chapter Board, as well as on the advisory board for the Northeast Thespian Festival (Hall of Fame recipient, 2009), and attends many chapter festivals as a guest artist and adjudicator. He is also on the advisory board for R’Evolucion Latina (founded by In The Heights cast members) and The Jazz Drama Program (NYC). Joe is a life-long Thespian, a member of EdTA, NYSTEA, AACT, Theatre Communications Group and the Dramatists Guild. He is the recipient of the national HIV/AIDS Partnership’s annual Red Ribbon Leadership Award (2006) and EdTA’s President’s Award (2007) and Standing Ovation Award (2006) for BC/EFA. He is the author of several plays; his one act play, School Night, is published through Playscripts, Inc (honorable mention, 2010 Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC).
Daisy Nystul (Workshop Presenter) is the chairperson of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma where she teaches acting as well as voice and movement for the actor. Ms. Nystul is the author of the Introduction to Theatre textbook entitled "Interactive Introduction to Theatre: Improving Life One Act at a Time" and a Beginning Acting textbook entitled "Everything You Need to Know About Acting But Forgot to Ask". She is a member of SAG, AEA, and is a Certified Lessac Trainer (voice, speech, and acting.) She is also the recipient of the Vanderford Distinguished Teacher Award—Excellence in Teaching for the College of Arts Media and Design.
Joy Pace (Region 6 Chair, Workshop Presenter) is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Itinerant Theatre, Inc., southwest Louisiana’s professional theatre company. She is Coordinator of Theatre at McNeese State University Joy earned her B.A. from Centenary College of Louisiana, and her M.F.A. in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Though a native Texan, Ms. Pace has lived in various areas of the country. Joy taught at Kentucky Wesleyan College where she was head of theatre and advisor to the Wesleyan Players, Virginia Commonwealth University, and McMurry University. Joy has worked professionally as an actor, director, vocal coach, instructor, and stage manager. Some of those credits include Itinerant, Theatre, Inc., La Petit Little Theatre/ Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans; The Blue Ridge Theatre Festival, Barksdale Theatre, Theatre Gym, and The Neighborhood School of The Arts in Richmond, VA; The Independent Theatre, Region 14 ESC, and Buffalo Gap Historic Village in Abilene, TX; and Theatre Workshop and Riverpark Center in Owensboro, KY. She has worked in Educational Theatre for 15 years and enjoyed teaching every aspect of theatre while directing and finding avenues to continue acting. Her most recent directing credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, All My Sons, Pygmalion, Othello, Waiting for Godot, Working: a musical, and The Long Christmas Ride Home. Her favorite recent acting credits include “Maggie” and “Rosa” in Itinerant, Theatre Inc.’s production of The Writers, "Josie" in A Moon for the Misbegotten, “Sister Aloysius" in Doubt , and "Cornelia Scott" in Something Unspoken. Joy is greatly looking forward to a life filled with theatre, her great passion.
David Lee-Painter (Irene Ryan Auditor) is the National Irene Ryan Scholarship Audition Coordinator and is honored to have had the opportunity to wear many hats in KCACTF over the years - from Region VII Chair, National SDC Directing Coordinator, proud member of the 2008 National Selection Team, and now, National Vice Chair. David is a professor of performance at the University of Idaho, working professionally at both the Idaho and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, Idaho Repertory Theatre, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Three Tall Women, and The American Stage Company in St. Petersburg Florida, among others. His production of Moby Dick represented North America at the 1996 ASSITEJ World Congress in Rostov on Don Russia. “I am so grateful for the life-long friends and colleagues I’ve made being a part of KCACTF, and the opportunity to bear witness to the passionate, inspired work of the next generation of theatre artists.”
Nelson Pressley (ITJA Workshop Presenter) has covered theater for The Washington Post since 1999. His reviews and features have appeared in American Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine, The Sondheim Review, Best Plays, and elsewhere; he has profiled Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winners. He has taught at Shepherd University and the University of Maryland; he is completing his dissertation on U.S. contemporary political playwriting.
Corey Ranson (Texas Vice-Chair) Corey is Assistant Professor, Director of Theatre Activities at Texas A & M University – Kingsville, the oldest A&M in South Texas. He handles all of the producing, directing and design for the program, among other things. Corey has worked over 15 years in live theatre, professionally and non-professionally, as an actor, director, designer and educator in the Dallas Fort Worth and surrounding areas. He has directed over 100 productions and designed over 80. He has worked with just about every theatre in the DFW area. He has been full-time Artistic Director/ Producer for Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre (an AEA, SPT-1), north of Dallas from 2000-2003, and Artistic Director for the Harbor Playhouse in Corpus Christi, TX. (2004-2007) And also the co-founder and former Artistic Director/ board vice-president to Corpus Christi’s new Aurora Arts Theatre, which opened in 2009. As an educator, Corey has been teaching courses over the years, in theatre, stagecraft and theatre design for Tarrant County College, Cedar Valley College, Wharton County Junior College, University of North Texas and Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, before coming here to TAMUK in 2008 as full-time faculty. Corey holds a Master’s Degree in Drama in Directing from Texas Woman’s University and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre for performance and course study in design and directing from Texas Wesleyan University.
Shannon Richey (Festival Coordinator and Workshop Presenter) has been a production and equity stage manager for over fifteen years. She is also the stage management instructor at Texas State University. Recent credits in Dance include: Heaven-Earth-One with Blue Lapis Light, April Fools and Souls of our Feet with Tapestry Dance Company. With Austin Shakespeare: Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Tempest, Mary Stuart, and Measure for Measure. Additional selected credits include: Let Me Down Easy at American Repertory Theatre and ZACH Theatre, The Arizona Project with Anna Deavere Smith at the Herberger Theatre, Jennifer Holliday in Concert at the Paramount Theatre, Hair, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, Jelly's Last Jam, Jouet, Pride's Crossing, The Rocky Horror Show, The Exonerated, Big River, and Master Class. At ZACH Theatre, she served as HUB Co-Coordinator for 365 Days/365 Plays and as Fuse Festival Production Manager at H.E.R.E in Manhattan. As a Company Manager, Ms. Richey toured with the Greater Tuna Corporation on Greater Tuna and The Foreigner.
Professor Laura Rikard (Workshop Presenter) is head of the BFA Acting program at SFASU. A stage/film and devising performer and director, acting coach and public speaking. She studied Commedia dell’Arte with master teachers Antonio Fava and Carlos Garcia, physical theatre in Denmark with Odin Teatret, and received a Master of Arts from Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts where she performed onstage with Sir Paul McCartney. She has taught acting, movement, mask, and theatre to youth in England, New York City and various universities, colleges and theatres in US & UK. She has worked with Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Ken Campbell and Meryl Streep. She was awarded the Best Acting Award at the 2011 Virginia Film Festival. Her students have won the National Shakespeare Competition, and been accepted to top training programs.
Dr. Kenneth Robbins (Workshop Presenter) is the author of 21 published plays and recipient of numerous national playwriting awards. He teaches playwriting among other things at Louisiana Tech University.
Kathryn D. (Katie) Robinson, (Irene Ryan Auditor, Workshop Presenter) founder and distinguished partner of the National Partners of the American Theatre, has served KC/ACTF as National Chair, Region IV Chair, and respondent for many, many productions and Irene Ryans over the past 25 years. Among others, she founded the NAPAT acting scholarships and the Lee Hicks Best Partner Award. She currently serves as Director of the School of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University’s interdisciplinary Capital College.
Alejandro Rodriguez (Workshop Presenter) is a theater artist, educator, and program coordinator for Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), a nonprofit that provides arts education and empowerment programs for underserved youth. He is a graduate of Juilliard and has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Guthrie Theater, and on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. His solo piece Shook Ones has been awared multiple residencies for continued development. As an educator, he has six years experience teaching, administrating, and developing arts programming all over the country, including in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, D.C., and four of the five borough of New York City.
Jason Romney (DTM Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Jason Romney's sound design work has been heard at Triad Stage, Playmakers Rep, Alliance Theatre Company, Piedmont Opera, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, Elon University, No Rules Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Utah Festival Opera, and others. He is on the sound design faculty in the School of Design and Production at UNC School of the Arts. Mr. He also serves as vice commissioner for the computing industry on the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Sound Commission.
David C. (“Kip”) Shawger, Jr. (DTM Respondent, Production Respondent) is a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Executive Committee Member-At-Large and past National Chair of Design, Technology, and Management. A native of New Jersey who received a bachelors’ degree in Drama from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a masters’ degree in Design from Bradley University, he is an award winning designer with over 350 design credits and 40 years experience in education, community, professional theatre, television and film. Currently he is the Coordinator of Design for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. He emphasizes a strong commitment to KCACTF. In 2001, he received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion of Excellence for his work with ACTF. He has also worked on a Kennedy Center Fellowship with Ming Cho Lee. Professionally, his credits include designs for the Actor’s Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco with the late William Ball, American Entertainment Productions, and Carnival Cruise Lines out of both the Los Angles and Miami ports-o-call. In 1990, he designed the award winning New York production of PELLEAS AND MELISANDE at the Schapiro Theatre directed by Maggie Mancinelli. Kip has been cited for excellence by the National Endowment for the Arts and is a recipient of exhibition and purchase awards such as the Prague Quadrennial and United States Institute for Theatre Technology Biennial Showcases. Dedicated to the education and training of young theatre artists, his design students attend graduate programs and work in the professional theatre and film industry from New York to Los Angeles.
Matt Smith (Workshop Presenter) is the University Theatre Technical Director / Resident Designer for Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Matt's design and work experience includes: SRO Associates, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Sea World, Alamodome, as well as multiple community theatres throughout the state of Texas.
Christopher Sousa-Wynn (DTM Co-Vice Chair, Workshop Presenter) is a Freelance Designer, Assistant Professor of Scenic Design and Lighting Design for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Texas State University. Previously he was the Resident Scenic Designer for PCPA Theaterfest, a professional repertory theatre company, in Santa Maria, California. He serves on the board of directors for Dogtown Theatre Company in Ellensburg, WA Christopher earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine and his Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Fresno. He has designed scenery for numerous theatrical productions and has recently started designing corporate events and working on television productions. Currently he is exploring the use of new interactive technologies in theatrical events to tell stories in new and unique ways. Examples of his work can be found at www.sousa-wynn.net.
Bob Stevenson (AR State Chair) Bob has an MFA in Acting from the University of Montana with a specialty in physical performance and a BA in Theatre performance from Ouachita Baptist University. He has been the director of theatre at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith since 2004. Bob has worked in professional theatre in Montana, Wyoming, California, and Arkansas and has also appeared on television in the hit show "Friends". He has also received national recognition from the Kennedy Center for his original productions "CORRIGENDA" which he created with Kurt Smith and Michelle Green, and "Imogen". Also, he has had four of his directing efforts included in the Regional KC/ACTF in the last seven years. In addition to being the Artistic Director for the program at UAFS, Bob teaches courses in acting, directing, and theatre history. This is his fourth and final year as a part of the KC/ACTF Regional Committee, and he'd like to thank everyone for help making his time here great and memorable.
Curt L. Tofteland (MTI Preliminary Auditor, Workshop Presenter) is the founder and producing director of the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare Behind Bars (SBB) program. Now in its eighteenth year, The program uses art, theatre, and the works of William Shakespeare to offer theatrical encounters with personal and social issues to the incarcerated, allowing them to develop life skills that will ensure their successful reintegration into society. From 1995-2008, Curt facilitated the SBB/KY program at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, producing and directing fourteen Shakespeare productions. The 2003 SBB/KY production of The Tempest, was chronicled by Philomath Films producing a documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, that premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and went on to screened at 40+ film festivals around the world, winning 11 film awards. Curt currently facilitates the adult Shakespeare Behind Bars/Michigan program at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights and SBB’s first co-gender, court-ordered juvenile Shakespeare Behind / Beyond Bars programs at the Ottawa County Juvenile Detention Center and the Juvenile Justice Institute. Along with his work as a prison arts practioner, Curt travels to college campuses to deliver lectures, teach master classes, screen the SBB documentary, and facilitate post-screening audience talk-backs. Curt is a national and international speaker. He has been invited to deliver TEDx talks at TEDxEast NYC and TEDx Macatowa. In April, he will deliver his third TEDx talk in Berkeley. Curt is a published essayist and poet. Currently, he is writing his own book, Behind the Bard-Wire: Reflection, Responsibility, Redemption, & Forgiveness . . . The Transformative Power of Art, Theatre, and Shakespeare. From 1989-2008, Curt served as producing artistic director of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival where he produced fifty Shakespeare productions, directed twenty-five Shakespeare productions, and acted in eight Shakespeare Productions. Curt is the recipient of two distinctive fellowships, from the Fulbright Foundation and the Petra Foundation, for his work with Shakespeare in corrections.
Jeremy O. Torres (Workshop Presenter) is the publicity & recruitment coordinator and a member of the directing faculty at Texas State University. He has directed plays in New York City, The Kennedy Center and many theaters in Central Texas. Some of his favorites include the New York revival of Penetrator, the premiere of House of Several Stories, and the critically acclaimed Austin production of Valparaiso. Jeremy was the Artistic Director of the search party, an Austin collaborative, for three seasons and is now the Producer and Artistic Director for Theatre Synesthesia who will have an Austin premiere this May with The Wimpee Plays. Jeremy approaches each production with a genuine spirit of collaboration and is honored to be presenting a workshop for the KCACTF region 6 festival with his friend and colleague Shannon Richey.
Chase Waites (Region 6 Vice Chair, Irene Ryan Coordinator) is chair of Drama and Live Entertainment Technology at Lone Star College-Montgomery in the Houston area where his directing and design credits include Peter Pan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Respondent’s Choice-KCACTF) Private Eyes (Respondent’s and Directors’ Choice, Texas State KCACTF-2011), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lend Me a Tenor, Too Much Memory (Committee’s Choice, Texas State KCACTF-2010), Rent, The Miss Firecracker Contest, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Little Shop of Horrors, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, A Trio of Ones, Mind’s Prison, Goodnight Desdemona (Good morning Juliet), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Noises Off, The Actor’s Nightmare, Home Front, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Foreigner, The Shape of Things, The Sleeper, 96 Minutes, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and The Problem. Chase teaches acting, introduction to theatre, and theatre history. A Ft. Worth native, he spent ten years in New Orleans where he served as the artistic director of theatre and fine arts department chair at Jesuit of New Orleans. Production credits in New Orleans include award-winning productions of Tracers, The Boys Next Door, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and regional premieres of Dead Man Walking, The Who’s Tommy, Footloose, and Copacabana. He received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the University of New Orleans. Chase also serves as Member-at-large for Outreach in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, is a member of Texas Educational Theatre Association and is Treasurer on the board of directors for the Crighton Theater in Conroe, Texas. Blayne Weaver (Irene Ryan Finals Auditor, Workshop Presenter) A native of Bossier City, Louisiana, Weaver has studied in New York, Oxford University and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature. In 2002 he co-wrote and acted in the critically acclaimed feature film Manic, which stars Don Cheadle and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Weaver then formed Secret Identity Productions. Through SIP he wrote, directed and starred in the feature film "Outside Sales", which won awards on the film festival circuit and was released on DVD nationwide. Weaver wrote, directed and played a small role in SIP’s next feature "Weather Girl" with an ensemble cast that boasted Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch. "Weather Girl" had an extensive festival run followed by a theatrical and a worldwide television release. Recently, Weaver wrote, directed and starred in SIP’s next feature "6 Month Rule". The film opened theatrically on June 1, can now be seen on iTunes and will be released on Blu-Ray this Valentine’s day. Weaver currently works as a director, writer and actor in Los Angeles.
Don K. Williams (Irene Ryan Finals Auditor, Workshop Presenter) As director: off Broadway credits include: Lebensraum, Turn of the Screw, Look Back in Anger, Libidoff. Off Off Broadway credits include: The Tempest, Macbeth, Miss Julie, On the Verge, Three Against Thebes, Blue State, American Drama Pocket Edition, Betrayal, Strawberry One Act Festival. Regional credits include: Arsenic and Old Lace, Macbeth, Speed The Plow, Midsummer Nights Dream, LibidOff, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, the Laramie Project, All in the Timing, Prelude to a Kiss, the Dining Room. At Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC: The Shape of Things, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Shore Fish, Angels in America, Death of a Salesman, That Championship Season, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, the Rhimers of Eldritch, Necessary Targets, Suddenly Last Summer, Museum, the Blue Room. As actor stage: Don has worked at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 78th Street Theatre Lab, the Harold Clurman Lab Theater, the Denver Center Theater Company, the Marin Theatre Company, the San Jose Stage Company, the California Shakespeare Festival, Theatre 1050, Hot Ink to name a few. Film/commercial/ television: “Nash Bridges,” “Never Wear a Dead Man’s Shoes,” “Midnight Caller” and numerous regional and national commercials. Don has also served as executive producer for the Gotham Opera and for the last three years as associate head of acting for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC. Don holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.
Christina Wills (Workshop Presenter) has studied Middle Eastern dance since 1997. Through her studies, she has learned a variety of authentic folkloric styles, including Tunisian Scarf Dance, Moroccan Shikhat, Ghawazee (Egyptian Gypsy), Egyptian Nubian, Turkish Rom (Gypsy), Egyptian Cabaret and Folkloric, and Turkish Cabaret. From 2001 to 2008, Christina performed and taught Middle Eastern dance professionally in the Philadelphia area. She relocated to Kansas City in 2008. She received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Arkansas in 1998, and in 2007 she earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Christina is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at Rockhurst University. Dance website: http://www.lailabellydance.com
Jon Young (DTM Co-Chair) is an Assistant Professor of Scenic Design for the School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma and the Co-Chair of DTM for Region 6. His Scenic design for The Odyssey was exhibited in the USITT Design Expo Long Beach, CA and selected for publication in the Summer 2012 issue of TD&T. His Scenic design for After Juliet was exhibited at World Stage Design 2009 in Seoul Korea. Young is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His design work can be viewed at Dscenicstudio.com.
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AN ORGANIZATION OF THEATRE EDUCATORS AND OTHERS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF THEATRE ARTISTS.
Each year NAPAT PRESENTS A CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD OR A DESIGN AWARD AT EACH OF THE KCACTF REGIONAL FESTIVALS A DESIGN AWARD shall be presented at Region VI!
A NATIONAL CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD
THIS YEAR’S AWARD IS CO-SPONSORED BY THE PRESTIGIOUS SHAW FESTIVAL IN ONTARIO, CANADA AND WILL INCLUDE A 2-3 WEEK INTERNSHIP AT THE FESTIVAL
A NATIONAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD Typically a week – long study-tour
A PLAYWRITING EXCELLENCE AWARD
THE STUDENT RECIPIENT WILL RECEIVE AN ALL- EXPENSE-PAID TRIP TO A WEEK-LONG PLAYWRITING SEMINAR SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY of NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
ALL AWARDS FUNDED BY MEMBER DUES AND CONTRIBUTIONS Join us: Contact Membership Chair Joyce Cavarozzi [email protected] or D. Andrew Gibbs NAPAT Board Member for Region VI [email protected]
MANY PARTNERS ARE PRESENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE KCACTF NATIONAL COMMITTEE
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS OF 2012
Abilene Christian University Amarillo College Angelo State University Arkansas State University - Beebe Blinn College-Brenham Campus Bossier Parish Community College Cameron University Centenary College of Louisiana Central Texas College Clovis Community College East Central University Eastern Oklahoma State College El Paso Community College Fontbonne University Grambling State University Grayson College Hardin-Simmons University Henderson State University Hendrix College Howard College Jacksonville College Lon Morris College Lone Star College-Montgomery Lone Star College-North Harris Louisiana Tech University Lyon College McNeese State University Midwestern State University Missouri State University Missouri Univ of Science and Technology Missouri Western State University North Central Texas College Northeastern State University Northwestern Oklahoma State University Northwestern State University of Louisiana Oklahoma Baptist University Oklahoma City University Ouachita Baptist University Park University Rockhurst University Rogers State University Rose State College Saint Louis University Sam Houston State University San Jacinto College – South San Jacinto College Central Southern Arkansas University Southern Methodist University St. Gregory's University State Fair Community College Sul Ross State University Tarrant County College SE Campus Tarrant County College Northwest Campus Texas A & M Kingsville Texas A & M University – Kingsville Texas A&M University - Commerce Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Texas Christian University Texas State University Texas Tech University Trinity Valley Community College Tulsa Community College University of Louisiana- Lafayette University of Arkansas Fort Smith University of Arkansas Pine Bluff University of Central Arkansas University of Central Oklahoma University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of New Mexico University of New Orleans University of Oklahoma University of Texas at El Paso University of the Ozarks West Texas A&M University
KCACTF REGION 6 Past Chairs Michelle Ney 2010-2012 Penny Haskoester 2008-2011 Claudia Beach 2005-2008 David Hoover 2002-2005 Bob Willenbrink 2000-2002 Charles Harrill 1999-2000 Adonia Placette 1996-1999 Robert Buseick 1993-1996 D. Andrew Gibbs 1990-1993 Kathryn Robinson 1987-1990 Lee Hicks 1984-1987 Richard Weaver 1981-1984 Nancy Vunovich 1978-1981
PAST PRODUCTIONS PERFORMED AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL
Festival I 1969 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Lysistrata University of Texas—Austin (TX) An Enemy of the People Festival II 1970 Grambling College (LA) A Raisin in the Sun Festival III 1971 East Texas State University (TX) The Time of Your Life Southern Methodist University (TX) Oedipus the King Festival IV 1972 Southeastern Oklahoma State University (OK) Of Mice and Men Southern Methodist University (TX) Liberty Ranch Central State University (OK) A Moon of Misbegotten Festival VII 1975 Louisiana State University (LA) Juno and the Paycock Festival IX 1977 Texas A&M University (TX) Stories to be Told Midwestern State University (TX) Who’s Happy Now Festival X 1978 Angelo State University (TX) Sideshow Festival XII 1980 Trinity University—Dallas (TX) Ladybug, Fly Away Home Festival XIV 1982 Prairie View A&M University (TX) Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope Festival XV 1983 Centenary College (LA) My Sister in This House Festival XVII 1985 University of Tulsa (OK) What I Did Last Summer Festival XXI 1989 Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (LA) Fool for Love Festival XXII 1990 Texas Women’s University (TX) Six Women with Brain Death University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Chess Festival XXIV 1992 Louisiana State University (LA) Balcony Scene Festival XXVI 1994 Amarillo College (TX) Breaking the Code Festival XXVII 1995 University of New Orleans (LA) Father’s Prize Poland China Festival XXVIII 1996 Collin County Community College—Plano (TX) Stand Up Tragedy Festival XXIX 1997 Prairie View A&M University (TX) Fences West Texas A&M University (TX) The Homage That Follows Festival XXX 1998 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Guarding the Bridge (ALT) University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Call of the Serpent God to Me Festival XXXII 2000 University of New Orleans (LA) Lot’s Daughters Festival XXXIII 2001 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Drive-In America Festival XXXV 2003 Sam Houston State University (TX) The Laramie Project Festival XXXVI 2004 University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Festival XXXVII 2005 University of Arkansas—Pine Bluff (AR) The Hip Hop Project Festival XL 2008 University of Oklahoma (OK) Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout Festival XLI 2009 Texas State University – San Marcos (TX) House of Several Stories