Thursday, July 24, 2014 Friday July 25, 2014 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CONT. 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM Women and Theatre Program (WTP) and Lesbian, Gay, ATME Morning Warm Up: Satisfaction Cycle Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Joint Focus Group Princess C Debut Panel FOCUS GROUP: Sonoran Room Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) FOCUS GROUPS: SESSION COORDINATOR: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College Women and Theatre Program (WTP) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Erika Berland, Naropa University Jason Fitzgerald, Columbia University Please join us for this special conference-wide warm up based SESSION CHAIR: on Body-Mind Centering. ATHE Rose Malague, University of 2014 RESPONDENT: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Jennifer DeVere Brody, Stanford University 2015 Conference Planners’ Meeting 1 Heather J. Denyer, The City University of Castile 1 Queering Spaces for Feminism in Koffi Kwahulé’sLes Recluses FOCUS GROUP: Natalie Goodnow, University of Texas, Austin Conference Committee (CC) Are We Desolate? A Transnational Feminist Response to SESSION COORDINATOR: Chicana/o Myth-Making Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor Sonya Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder Achieving the Dream: From ATHE Staged Reading to Beneath the Text: Gender Performance in Aerial Dance Renewed Production This joint session between WTP and LGBTQ highlights Casita 5332 emerging theatre scholars working in gender and/or sexuality FOCUS GROUP: studies and presenting at ATHE for the first time. Dramaturgy Program (DR) 65 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM SESSION COORDINATOR: 2014 ATHE Awards Ceremony Kathleen Jeffs, Gonzaga University Princess D-G The Challenge of The Force of Habit: Identity and Renewal from ATHE Reading to University Production FOCUS GROUP: Awards Committee (AWD) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Bryan Moore, Concordia University Dani Snyder-Young, Wesleyan University PARTICIPANTS: Sarah Brew, Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Visiting the Doctor: Mending Tirso’s Love the Doctor at ATHE Keynote Speaker: Luis Alfaro Aoise Stratford, Cornell University Princess D-G Hotel Conference Rooms as Dream Spaces: Ten Minute Plays FOCUS GROUP: from Page(s) to Stages Conference Committee (CC) This session will explore staged readings at previous ATHE SESSION COORDINATOR: conferences which have experienced the renewal of full Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota, Vice President of productions elsewhere. We will learn from the processes, Conference lessons, and experience of fulfilling the dream of a production, JULY KEYNOTE SPEAKER: and how the experience at ATHE contributed to the process. Luis Alfaro 24-27 Advocacy (ADV) Committee Meeting Keynote Presentation and Dialogue with Professor Tiffany Ana Bourbon 8 Lopez FOCUS GROUP: AZ 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM Advocacy Committee (ADV) 2014 ATHE Opening Reception SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Princess H & I, Exhibit Hall Kathryn Ervin, State University, San Bernardino FOCUS GROUP: Join us for an opportunity to update and address issues of the Conference Committee (CC) committee. SESSION COORDINATOR: Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota, Vice President of Conference Friday July 25, 2014 Build it and They will Come: Fostering Institutional Investment for a Diversity-Focused Theatre Company 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CONT. Castile 4 Affecting Kinesthesia from Internal and External Awareness FOCUS GROUP: in Viewpoints Practice Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Casita 5400 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Scott Phillips, Auburn University Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) PARTICIPANTS: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Tessa Carr, Auburn University Jeff Casazza, Indiana University, Purdue University Heather May, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Using Kinesthetic Awareness to Create Language and Story A roundtable discussion on the establishment and maintenance PARTICIPANTS: of a diversity-focused theatre company in institutions that Erika Berland, Naropa University ATHE privilege the polytechnic over the liberal arts. 2014 Initiating Kinesthetic Response from the Tissues of the Body in Viewpoints Practice Chairs and Deans: Ideas, Strategies, Dialogue This participatory workshop explores various perspectives on Castile 5 kinesthetic awareness and response in viewpoints practice with FOCUS GROUP: the goal of unleashing creative possibilities. Professional Development Committee (PDC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Arts Summit Meeting James Peck, Muhlenberg College President’s Suite PARTICIPANTS: FOCUS GROUP: Randy Colborn, Indiana University, South Bend Conference Committee (CC) Brant L. Pope, University of Texas, Austin SESSION COORDINATOR: Chairs and Deans meet together to discuss issues involving Henry Bial, University of Kansas academic and artistic leadership and administration. A great Bordering on Queer opportunity to share ideas among kindred spirits! 66 Princess F Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Debut Panel FOCUS GROUP: Casita 5232 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Directing Program (DP) Kareem Khubchandani, Northwestern University SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago Andrew Henkes, University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION CHAIR: Where’s The Party? Lesbians and Queers Transgress Lewis Magruder, Miami University Gayborhood Borders PARTICIPANT: Elias Krell, Northwestern University Bob Chanda, Texas Tech University Flesh and Fire: The Making of Performativity in the Singing The Village: An Interactive Journey of the Imagination Voice James McMaster, University of Texas, Austin This session provides a venue to graduate students or first time The Performative Sustenance and the Erotics of Solidarity presenters at ATHE to present a paper or conduct a workshop Lucas Messer, Scottsdale Community College related to Theatre Direction in teaching and research. Queering Space: Queer Migrant Paraclub Performances JULY This panel explores how material and discursive borders 24-27 produce queerness, and how queer performances potentially eschew the rigidity of these borders. AZ Friday July 25, 2014 Going to the Chapel: Dreaming of a Queer Wedding Princess A 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CONT. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Dreamin’ Black Churches Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Princess C Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) FOCUS GROUP: Religion and Theatre (RT) Black Theatre Association (BTA) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College Tabitha Chester, Denison University SESSION CHAIR: No Daughter of Mine: Performing Sexuality as a Preacher’s Ken Nielsen, Princeton University Daughter PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Joy Brooke Fairfield, Stanford University Douglas Jones, Rutgers University Thomas Meacham, University of Connecticut ATHE PARTICIPANTS: Laine Zisman Newman, University of Toronto 2014 Anndretta Lyle, University of California, Los Angeles In a post-DOMA world of homonormativity, where gay Playin’ Church in Paris: Touring Productions of Langston citizenship is often premised upon the institution of marriage, Hughes’ Black Nativity 1962-1965 how might we dream of a queer wedding? Tiffany Trent, Arizona State University Peter and Cornelius: A Biblical Performance of Inclusivity Interrogating the American Dream/Performing the American Reality RESPONDENT: Princess G Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University FOCUS GROUP: This panel will explore the role dreams play in the reversal Theatre and Social Change (TASC) and maintenance of the status quo in many Black Christian traditions. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Lisa Brenner, Drew University Dreaming of New Content: Other Asian Performance Forms Too Big: NJ Princess B PARTICIPANTS: 67 FOCUS GROUP: Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Wayne State University Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Too Big: Detroit SESSION COORDINATOR: Evelyn Diaz Cruz, University of San Diego David Jortner, Baylor University Too Big: Borderlands Kamishibai: The Paper Street Theatre of Japan Lesley Delmenico, Grinnell College SESSION CHAIR: Balancing Acts Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University Celeste Miller, Grinnell College PARTICIPANTS: Wolves and Sacred Cows Geetha Creefield, University of London Performances from and a discussion of a multi-campus Folklore Performance and Cultural Reception for an collaboration based on interviews across the U.S. about attitudes International Audience towards money and opportunity post the financial crisis. Ronald Gilliam, University of Hawai’i Uygher Dance Scholars and teachers know about the major classical Asian theatres. This panel will introduce lesser known but popular Asian performance forms for the generalist audience. JULY

Excellence in Playwriting Award Committee Meeting 24-27 Sonoran Room FOCUS GROUP: AZ Awards Committee (AWD) SESSION COORDINATOR: Dani Snyder-Young, Illinois Wesleyan University Friday July 25, 2014 The Artists Speak!!: A Creative State of the Field about Latina/o Theatre in the U.S. Today 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CONT. Bourbon 10 Perspectives on the Acting Profession FOCUS GROUP: Castile 3 Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Roxanne Shroeder-Arce, University of Texas, Austin SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Michael Lueger, Emerson College Alma Martinez, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, ANDA Anna Cora Mowatt and her Boston Audiences Just Like Us by Karen Zacarias: A Tri-Partisan (Democrat, PARTICIPANTS: Republican, Latino) Theatrical Debate on Immigration Reform Rick DesRochers, Long Island University Carlos Morton, University of California, Santa Barbara Post Truth or Truthiness? The New Humor of Vaudeville ATHE Soy Fronterizo in Early Twentieth-Century America - Buster Keaton’s The Guillermo Reyes, Arizona State University 2014 Playhouse Latino Theater Thrives (or Tries to) in Arizona Franklin Lasik, University of Missouri Elaine Romero, University of Arizona From Stage to Age: Trixie Friganza in Hollywood Chicago Dramatists Coming of Age on the Arizona/Mexican Max Shulman, Tufts University Border The Opium Dream and the Myth of the American West Five Latina/o theatre artists currently engaged in theatrical This panel will combine four papers featuring performers who activities across the U.S. offer their own reflections on the were able to dream up new versions of themselves or of their development, creation, and reception of Latina/o work. America. Theatre History (TH) Focus Group Membership Meeting Research and Publication (RPC) Committee Meeting Casita 5320 Bourbon 9 FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Theatre History (TH) Research and Publications Committee (RPC) 68 SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Charlotte McIvor, National University of Ireland, Galway Alan Sikes, Louisiana State University SESSION CHAIR: Troubleshooting the Dream; Sharing Ways to Help Devised Robert Schanke, Emeritus, Central College Productions Work in the Liberal Arts Casita 5130 Please join us for discussion of the current projects and future goals of the Research and Publications Committee. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Resistance to Renewal: The Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Collaboration Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Casita 5308 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Anjalee Hutchinson, Bucknell University Dramaturgy Program (DR) PARTICIPANTS: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Harmony Arnold, Seattle University Kristin Leahey, Northlight Theatre, Columbia College Rich Brown, Western University PARTICIPANTS: Mark Hutchinson, Bucknell University JULY Victoria DeIorio, DePaul University Sarah Martin, Trinity University Erika Hughes, Arizona State University Two designers, two lead deviser/directors and one technical 24-27 Jennifer Kokai, Weber State University director assemble to speak frankly about the complications of This panel will address collaborations between theatre and ensemble created work and share ideas and tips. other disciplines, particularly how these partnerships may lead AZ to shared resources, renewed creativity, and new audiences.

Strategic Planning (SPC) Committee Meeting Castile 6 FOCUS GROUP: Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Patricia Ybarra, Brown University Friday July 25, 2014 American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Focus Group Membership Meeting 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Bourbon 11 2014 ATHE Plenary - Dream Activism and Pedagogies for a FOCUS GROUP: Changing America American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Princess D & E SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Mark Cosdon, Allegheny College Conference Committee (CC) A membership meeting for The American Theatre and Drama SESSION COORDINATOR: Society (ATDS). Open to all members, and to those interested in Angela Marino, University of California, Berkeley joining ATDS. MODERATOR: Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group Membership PANELISTS: Meeting ATHE Catherine Cole, University of California, Berkeley Castile 6 2014 Barclay Goldsmith, Borderlands Theater, Tucson FOCUS GROUP: Dulce Juarez, Teatro Nopalero and DREAMer activist Black Theatre Association (BTA) Raquel Rubio, Borderlands Theater and Ethnic Studies SESSION COORDINATOR: lecturer, Tucson Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University RESPONDENT: SESSION CHAIR: Patricia Ybarra, Brown University and ATHE President-Elect Patrick Sims, University of Wisconsin, Madison This panel proposes an alternative direction for dreaming: Meeting and networking opportunity for artists and scholars starting from indigenous perspectives and on-the-ground interested in black theatre. Focus group business and elections activism in Arizona and moving through institutions of will be conducted. All are welcome. higher education. Panelists share local models of production and activist engagement that meet a new imperative in Desertscapes: Perception and the Desert the classroom: to understand and respond to the shifting Castile 4 demographics and economic conditions that affect our students, FOCUS GROUP: 69 our jobs, our universities and the state of the field. “Dream Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Activism” proposes models for sustainable movement-building SESSION COORDINATOR: to envision new ways to teach and practice theater in higher Vivian Appler, University of Pittsburgh education around the country. Alma: Atacama’s High Altitude Desert Affords Performances of Celestial and Terrestrial Unknowns 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM SESSION CHAIR: 2014 Career Achievement Winners David Bisaha, University of Pittsburgh Castile 3 The Iliad and the Semi/Desert Imaginary: American FOCUS GROUP: Storytelling in Dry Lands SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Dani Snyder-Young, Illinois Wesleyan University Douglas Appler, University of Kentucky, Lexington SESSION CHAIR: Guided by Desert History: Placemaking through Historically- Daniel Banks, City University of New York Inspired Public Art PARTICIPANTS: Maria Enriquez, University of Pittsburgh Harry Elam, Jr., Stanford University Borderlands, Cultural Difference, and the Imagined Crossings of Luis Valdez, El Teatro Campensino Librotraficante JULY A dialogue and Q and A with this year’s winners of the Ellen Katie Inderbitzen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 24-27 Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre Desert Dreams of a Marine Geochemist: Deep Ocean Vents and and the Career Achievement Award in Academic Theatre. Aquatic Ephemera This panel investigates the relationship between perception and AZ desert environments. Imaginaries of/with desert landscapes are considered through the contexts of policy, archaeology, science, and performance. Friday July 25, 2014 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Focus Group Membership Meeting 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CONT. Casita 5400 Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Focus Group FOCUS GROUP: Membership Meeting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Castile 5 SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Jason Fitzgerald, Columbia University Design, Technology and Management (DTM) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Cassidy Browning, University of Texas, Austin Denise Massman, Siena College At the LGBTQ Focus Group Membership Meeting, participants SESSION CHAIR: discuss the goals, leadership, and future plans of the focus group. Owen Collins, Washington and Lee University Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group Membership ATHE Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Membership Meeting 1 Meeting 2014 Bourbon 10 Princess C FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Directing Program (DP) Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago Ron Gingerich, Dickinson State University SESSION CHAIR: The annual business and fellowship meeting for all who are Lewis Magruder, Miami University interested in the many forms of Music Theatre and Dance. Dreaming of Shared Place: Site Specific Performance and National Communication Association and Theatre as a Change Liberal Art (TLA) Focus Group Collaborative Working Casita 5320 Session FOCUS GROUP: Casita 5232 Theatre and Social Change (TASC) FOCUS GROUP: 70 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Nadja Masura, Virtual Performance Collective SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Site-Specific Sonoma: Strengthening Community through Matt Saltzberg, University of Western Illinois Performing Place PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Monica Anderson, Franciscan University of Steubenville Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University James Brandon, Hillsdale College Performing Freedom Summer, Imagining Justice: Site- Specific Karen Gygli, John Carroll University Engagements with the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement This session will examine political theatre from an ontological Lisa Biggs, Michigan State University and epistemological perspective. Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Role of Performance in South African Women’s Liberation Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Focus Group Membership Meeting Electronic Technology (ETC) Committee Meeting Bourbon 8 Bourbon 9 FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Electronic Technology Committee (ETC) JULY SESSION COORDINATOR: 24-27 Terry Brino-Dean Interactive Theatre Program (ITP) Subcommittee Membership Meeting AZ Castile 1 FOCUS GROUP: Advocacy Committee (ADV) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Michael Ellison, Bowling Green State University A meeting of the Subcommittee on Interactive Theatre, which is part of the Advocacy Committee. Anyone interested in Interactive Theatre is welcome to attend. Friday July 25, 2014 Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Focus Group Membership Meeting 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CONT. Casita 5308 Staging Latinidad: Reports from the Field Engaging Recent FOCUS GROUP: Productions of Latin American and Latina/o Plays Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Princess A FOCUS GROUP: We Are Not Dreaming towards a Technology, but Becoming Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Our Dreams SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Casita 5130 Gloria Waldman, City University of New York, Emerita, York FOCUS GROUP: College and The Graduate Center Theory and Criticism (TC) Report from the Field: Latino Theatre in New York: Selections SESSION COORDINATOR: from the 2014 Season Kevin Brown, University of Missouri ATHE PARTICIPANTS: Digitizing Performance 2014 Teresa Moreno, University of North Texas and TANTO (Teatro PARTICIPANTS: Alianza of North Texas Organizations) Lisa Abbott, Southern University Report from the Field: Latino/a Theater in Dallas, A Year in David Coley, St. Joseph’s Academy Perspective Dreaming Singularity: Ontology of an Intermedial Actor Kimberly Ramírez, LaGuardia Community College, City Steve Gerlach, University of California, Santa Cruz University of New York Nothing But a Shadow: The Dream-world of Holographic Report from the Field: The Akuara Teatro Miami Production of Hybridity Fango (Mud) by María Irene Fornés Samuel Kolodezh, University of California, Irvine Tlaloc Rivas, University of Hamlet 2014: A Kingdom under Surveillance; Utilization of Report from the Field: Directing a Pulitzer Prize winner, Quiara Multimedia in Design and Performance Alegría Hudes’ Water By The Spoonful This panel explores the theoretical underpinnings of hybrid Roxanne Shroeder-Arce, University of Texas, Austin forms of live and mediated performance. Report from the Field: Salt and Pepper by José Cruz González at 71 the Zach Theatre in Austin What Shall We Do with this Focus Group Called “Religion Claudia Villegas-Silva, Arizona State University and Theatre”? Report from the Field: What’s in Now, Latin American Theatre Princess B in Festivals Here and Abroad FOCUS GROUP: Participants offer reports from the field that thoughtfully Religion and Theatre (RT) explore productions by both Latin American and Latino/a SESSION COORDINATOR: playwrights and companies in Latin America and the US. Megan Sanborn Jones, Brigham Young University This session will continue an ongoing conversation with Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Focus Group Membership Religion and Theatre members over the efficacy of our focus Meeting group name. Casita 5332 FOCUS GROUP: Women Seeking Refuge Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Princess G SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Shawna Mefferd Carroll, State University of New York, Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Plattsburgh SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Lindsay Cummings, University of Connecticut JULY James Brandon, Hillsdale College Trauma Narrative as Dramatic Structure: How the Story of 24-27 Hillary Bucs, Western New England University Telling One’s Story Shapes Theatre about Refugee Experience Alison Frost, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi PARTICIPANTS: Jay Sierszyn, Wisconsin Lutheran College Jay Ball, Central Washington University AZ Christine Williams, Lee University Remembering “Methods of Barbarism”: The Boer War and the Annual meeting for members interested in promoting the study Mourning Voice of Reza de Wet and the teaching of theatre as a liberal art. Agenda includes: Rachel Lewis, George Mason University officer nominations and conference planning. Queer Refugee Performance and Acts of Cultural Citizenship This panel explores performances by and about refugee women, considering when and how performance succeeds (and sometimes fails) to act as a refuge. Friday July 25, 2014 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Be It Even So Humble, There’s No Nightmare Like Home Bourbon 9 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Staged Play Reading Rehearsal FOCUS GROUP: Sonoran Room American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University Homer’s Violent Homecoming: Rinde Eckert’s Highway Ulysses SESSION COORDINATOR: Rosemary Malague, University of Pennsylvania SESSION CHAIR: SESSION CHAIR: Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University Maya Roth, Georgetown University Co-opted, Comatose, or Cobras?: Housewife Moms in The ATHE American Dream and True West 12:00 PM - 3:15 PM PARTICIPANT: 2014 Workshop #2 - Theater Grottesco Workshop: Silent Andrew Gibb, Texas Tech University Storytelling American Night[mare]: The Immigrant Dream in Current Princess F Latino Drama FOCUS GROUP: This session explores the ways in which, over the course of the Conference Committee (CC) last half century, theatre has promulgated nightmares where the SESSION COORDINATOR: American dream once flourished. Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota Devising the American Dream PARTICIPANTS: Castile 4 John Flax, Theater Grottesco Elizabeth Wiseman, Theater Grottesco FOCUS GROUP: Directing Program (DP) 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM SESSION COORDINATOR AND PARTICIPANT: 72 Bingo Raffle & Refreshments Christine Young, University of San Francisco Princess H & I, Exhibit Hall PARTICIPANTS: FOCUS GROUP: Ann Marie Costa, Davidson College Conference Committee (CC) Thomas Costello, Duchess Community College SESSION COORDINATOR: Matthew Mazuroki, Youngstown State University Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor Michael Mufson, Palomar College Laura Smiley, Slippery Rock University PSI Fluid States Peter Zazzali, University of Kansas Castile 4 This roundtable examines the impact of devising processes FOCUS GROUP: anchored in the mythology of the American Dream on students’ Conference Committee (CC) creative imaginations, social consciousness, and artistic agency. SESSION COORDINATOR: Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University Doric Wilson Memorial Panel on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Theatre An introduction to the Fluid States Conference. Bourbon 8 FOCUS GROUP: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) JULY SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: 24-27 Adriano Cabral, Arizona State University PARTICIPANTS: Yovani Flores, Arizona State University AZ Cole Reed Kate Saunders Joy Young In honor of LGBTQ Theatre pioneer Doric Wilson, this panel will discuss the challenges and achievements of artists creating LGBTQ theatre in Arizona today. Friday July 25, 2014 Embodied Dramaturgy as Compassionate Action in Women of Lockerbie, Eclipsed and The Lonely Soldier Monologues 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Castile 1 Dream Lessons: What I Know Now that I Wish I Knew Then MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Princess D Dramaturgy Program (DR) FOCUS GROUP: Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Women and Theatre Program (WTP) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Kristen Rogers, Texas Tech University Milbre Burch, University of Missouri, Columbia PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Cheryl Black, University of Missouri, Columbia Walter Byongsok Chon, Yale School of Drama Esther Lee, University of Maryland PARTICIPANTS: Rosemary Malague, University of Pennsylvania Talya Kingston, Hampshire College ATHE Kim Marra, Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Company Heather Nathans, Tufts University 2014 Rebecca Worley, Southern Illinois University Beth Osborne, Florida State University Judith Sebesta, Higher Education Policy Institute Panel explores how dramaturgy is embodied in/around productions of three plays by women about women, moving This roundtable session gathers an impressive group of actors and audiences toward cultural awareness and accomplished female scholars, asking them to share their top 5 compassionate action. tips for women entering the field today. How are Historically Black Colleges and University Theatre Dream to Reality: Meeting A New Common Core Mandate Programs responding to LGBTQ Issues and Why? for Vocal Success Castile 3 Casita 5308 FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Black Theatre Association (BTA) Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Cleo House, Texas Southern University Marjorie Gaines, California State University Northridge 73 LGBTQ - is There a Place is the Sun for Us on the HBCU Stage? PARTICIPANTS: John Graham, Drake University A panel roundtable discussion, with excerpts from papers, on the presence or lack thereof of LGBTQ issues on the theatrical This workshop will focus on teaching vocal strategies to adults stages of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. and young students who want to become dynamic speakers. Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Activist : History, Legacy, and Future Directions Dreamscapes--The Im/Possibilities of War and Politics Princess A Princess E FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Theory and Criticism (TC) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Jimmy Noriega, College of Wooster Jane Barnette, University of Kansas SESSION CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Jorge Huerta, University California, San Diego Rachel Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PARTICIPANTS: West German Anti-Theater: Resisting Fascism and Dreaming Hector Garza, East Carolina University for the Future Radical Pedagogy: ETC and Theatre for Social Change JULY Laura Lodewyck, Northwestern University Angela Marino, University California, Berkeley The Violence of Homecoming: Theatrical Representations and 24-27 Inspirations and New Models in Communi-versity Teatro the Performance of War Elizabeth C. Ramirez, Our Lady of the Lake University Anja Pletikosa, Goethe University AZ How Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino Influenced a Chicana An After War Screen Theatre Historian for a Life in Academic and Professional Max Shulman, Tufts University Theatre Dismissing Utopianism: Teaching and Engaging with the Kinan Valdez, El Teatro Campesino Activist’s Dream El Teatro Campesino: A View from the Inside Participants will engage with the challenges and possibilities As we approach the 50th anniversary of El Teatro Campesino, of political performance and the theatre of war as a means of this panel examines the history, influence, legacy, and future enacting change. trajectory of the famed theatrical troupe. Friday July 25, 2014 PRESENCE - IMAGE - ACTION: Using a Grotowski-Based Approach to Training First Year Acting Students. 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Casita 5400 Opening Doors: A Roundtable of Past Music Theatre/Dance FOCUS GROUP: Debut Panelists Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Castile 6 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Kate Kohler Amory, Salem State University Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) IMAGE - Connecting impulse with story SESSION COORDINATOR: Donatella Galella, The Graduate Center, City University of PARTICIPANTS: New York Liz Stanton, New York University - Experimental Theatre Wing SESSION CHAIR: PRESENCE - Laying the Groundwork in Physical Acting Brian Valencia, Yale University ATHE Training for First Year Students PARTICIPANTS: 2014 Jeremy Williams, Convergences Theatre Collective Kathryn Edney, Regis College ACTION - Building a Score from Physical Isolations Sarah Ellis, Roundabout Theatre Company Sandra Graham, Babson College Often young students want to leap immediately to application Bryan M. Vandevender, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh or ‘real’ acting. This workshop will present exercises towards Greg White, Broadway Tonight, University of Central process-oriented training with skeptical beginning actors. Oklahoma Professional Development (PDC) Committee Meeting This roundtable will bring together Music Theatre/Dance Bourbon 10 debut panelists from the past ten years who will share their FOCUS GROUP: experiences and pieces of advice with younger scholars. Professional Development Committee (PDC) Peripheral Devisings: Performing Women Negotiating SESSION COORDINATOR: Borders James Peck, Muhlenberg College Casita 5232 The Professional Development Committee will discuss ongoing 74 FOCUS GROUP: projects and consider proposals for new projects. Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Religion and Theatre (RT) Focus Group Debut Panel - SESSION COORDINATOR: Emerging Scholars Debut Panel in Religion and Theatre: Amy Sarno, Beloit College Religious Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal Plan B: Exposing the Brutto in Bella Figura Bourbon 11 SESSION CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Lesley Delmenico, Grinnell College Religion and Theatre (RT) Internal Impositions: Women Devising Against Boundaries in SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Immigrant London Roy Brooks, The University of Georgia PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Julie Lewis, Community College of Baltimore County Anne Fleming, Villanova University War Stories Staged: Dramatizing Conflict Next Year In Jerusalem: The Arc of Emancipation in Matthew Victoria Petterson Lantz, Sam Houston State University Lopez’s The Whipping Man Whither Wanders Wanda? An Exploration of Border Crossing in Erin Stoneking, Cornell University the Work of the Wandering Uterus Project Secular Theatre and Religious Discourse: A Meditation on Hand JULY Joy Powell, Missouri Baptist University to God Opening Their Boundaries: Re-voicing the Dreams of Trafficked Scott Venters, 24-27 Girls through Ethnographic Process and Performance Better to Burn’: The Stage, the Church, and the Construction of Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Northeastern Illinois University Women in Late Fourth-Century Antioch Whither Wanders Wanda? An Exploration of Border Crossing in In this session, emerging scholars examine the intersections of AZ the Work of the Wandering Uterus Project religion and performance, building upon the conference’s theme Using ethnographic processes to examine women negotiating of performance as refuge, resistance, and renewal. intercultural boundaries reveals under-voiced territories. This round-table considers devised and ethnographic performances that reveal the borders women negotiate. Friday July 25, 2014 Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Debut Panel Princess G 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Reparative Re-enactments: Performances of Historical Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Memory and Activism in East Asia Princess C SESSION COORDINATOR: Christine Williams, Lee University MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Association for Asian Performance (AAP) PARTICIPANT: Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Andrea del Moral, University of California, Davis Theatre History (TH) Devising the Novel: Crossing Borders between Devising, Adapting, Stage and Classroom SESSION COORDINATOR: Melissa Wansin Wong, The Graduate Center, City University RESPONDENT: of New York Jon Sebestyn, Trinity Christian College ATHE SESSION CHAIR: This session offers an opportunity for graduate students to Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine present on a topic related to the teaching or the study of theatre 2014 PARTICIPANTS: as a liberal art. Alyssa Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies To Sleep, Per “Dance” to Dream: Dramaturgy, Dream Scenes, Katherine Mezur, Mills College Dance and Directing Elizabeth Son, Northwestern University Casita 5332 This panel explores performances of memory, redress, FOCUS GROUP: and activism. We ask how contemporary re-enactments of Dramaturgy Program (DR) historical traumas and injustice address the shifting political SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: subjectivities of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Teresa Stankiewicz, Freelance Dramaturg and Playwright The Resilience of a Balanced Staff/Faculty Workload in the The Ethereal Quality of Dance: How to Embody Objectives of Desert of Academia Symbolist Theatre in Rachilde’s Madame La Mort Castile 5 PARTICIPANTS: FOCUS GROUP: Jacob Hellman, University of Wisconsin, Madison 75 Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Dance Macabre: Dreams, Prophecies, and Fiddler on the Roof SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Deborah Kochman, Florida State University Ellen Jones, Youngstown State University Beyond the Book: Visual Storytelling and American Dreams in PARTICIPANTS: Oklahoma! Jessica Pribble, Central Washington University Ariel Nereson, University of Pittsburgh P. Gibson Ralph, The College at Brockport, State University of Counterfactuals as Dreaming: Bill T. Jones’s Dancing Elizas New York This panel explores the dramaturgy in staging dream scenes This moderated round table discussion will allow us to share with dance. Scholarship, live readings, and performances will solutions or ask questions of peers; something not possible create a dream-space for movement, research, and discussion. at our home institutions where there are no other designers and technicians with the same work responsibilities. Session Attendees will be invited to join this moderated discussion.

The Two-Year College Dream: A Summit of Two-Year College Theatre Programs Part 1 Casita 5130 JULY FOCUS GROUP: Two-Year College Program (TYCP) 24-27 SESSION COORDINATOR: Bill Gillett, Carroll Community College AZ SESSION CHAIR: Thomas Costello, Dutchess Community College This two-part series round-table is offered as a national summit for Two-year college Theatre program representatives to collectively identify challenges that face Two-year Theatre programs, and share strategies for meeting these challenges. All are welcome. Friday July 25, 2014 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Adapting/Transgressing Shakespeare: Text and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Whose Work Is It and Can You Use It? - Intellectual Property Bourbon 11 of a Stage Production Casita 5320 FOCUS GROUP: Theory and Criticism (TC) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Acting Program (AP) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) David McCandless, Southern Oregon University Directing Program (DP) Queerly Wiving it in Windsor: Shakespeare, John Dennis, and Alison Carey SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Miriam Mills, Rider University PARTICIPANTS: ATHE PARTICIPANTS: Edward Isser, College of the Holy Cross Rachel Bowditch, Arizona State University Girls Will Be Boys: All-Female Productions of Shakespeare 2014 David Callaghan, University of Montevallo Steve Vineberg, College of the Holy Cross Paul Lazarus Branagh Vs. Whedon: Two Filmic Treatments of Much Ado Sharon Ott About Nothing Laura Penn, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers This session analyzes specific adaptations of Shakespeare, with Ron Schechtman, Society of Stage Directors and a particular regard for how performance (de)constructs gender Choreographers and sexuality. Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago Artists and Scholars: Successful Models of Collaboration This panel, with representation from the Society of Stage Princess E Directors and Choreographers, will explore and illuminate the sometimes-confusing issue of intellectual property as it relates FOCUS GROUP: to academic theatrical performance. Dramaturgy Program (DR) SESSION COORDINATOR: 2:15 PM - 5:30 PM 76 Gwendolyn Alker, New York University Jane Chambers Rehearsal and Performance PARTICIPANTS: Sonoran Room Daniel Banks, DNAWorks FOCUS GROUP: Victor I. Cazares, Playwright Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Shelley Orr, San Diego State University SESSION COORDINATOR: Patrice Rankine, Purdue University Rosemary Malague, University of Pennsylvania Patricia Ybarra, Brown University SESSION CHAIR: The relationship between artist and critic has often been a Maya Roth, Georgetown University contentious one. In this roundtable, participants will investigate PLAYWRIGHT: innovative collaborations between theatre artists and scholars. Gina Young Community and Identity: Difficult Dialogues and Student PLAY: Leadership for Socially Just Communities FEMMES: A Tragedy Casita 5400 The dress rehearsal takes place from 2:15-3:30 PM, and the FOCUS GROUP: staged reading begins at 3:30 PM. Advocacy Committee (ADV)

Paid Workshop #2: Luis Alfaro: Getting Your Hands Dirty SESSION COORDINATOR: JULY Princess B Reid Davis, Saint Mary’s College of California In this experiential workshop, Saint Mary’s College student 24-27 FOCUS GROUP: Conference Committee (CC) educators facilitate interactive theatre exercises to identify campus values, develop creative responses, and work towards SESSION COORDINATOR: inclusive excellence. AZ Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota Friday July 25, 2014 Dream Ecology: Exploring the Relationship between American Identity, Mythology, and History 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. Princess D Creating a Dream Season: Roundtable on Best Selection FOCUS GROUP: Practices and Productions for Academic Theatre American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Castile 5 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Patrick Bradley, Tufts University Acting Program (AP) “I’d Rather Rope Steers than Talk Politics with You”: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Confronting the Angry West in Curse of the Starving Class Jeanne Leep, Edgewood College PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Neal Hebert, Louisiana State University Siobhan Bremer, University of Minnesota, Morris “Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines”: Climatology and the Peter Cocuzza, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Invisible History of Gaslight on the American Stage ATHE Richard Gustin, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac Travis Malone, Virginia Wesleyan College Bradley Stephenson, University of Missouri 2014 Amy Seham, Gustavus Adolphus College American In(ter)dependence, Disability, and The Good Jeff Wax, Lone Star College, CyFair Daughter Sharing best practices and successful production titles from Through an examination of ecological relationships, this panel multiple programs, this roundtable discusses pedagogies in the addresses questions of perceived identity, social mythology, and season selection process for academic theatre. the dream-like nature of American history.

Cultivating Professional Recognition beyond the Border of Embracing the Muse: An Experimental Method in the Theatre Academia for Theatre Academics Navigation of Intuition and Embracing One’s First Creative Castile 1 Impulses Casita 5232 FOCUS GROUP: Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) FOCUS GROUP: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) SESSION COORDINATOR: Season Ellison, Northern Arizona University SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: 77 Translating the Performing Artist/Scholar Nicholas Irion, Texas Tech University PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Anne Beck, Eastern University Mark Charney, Texas Tech University Film + Theatre = Success, We Hope... Randall Rapstine, Texas Tech University Michelle Hayford, Florida Gulf Coast University In this workshop, participants will experiment with alternative Bridging Academic Divides through Ethnodrama: Dog Wish, a writing methods, testing the potential lengths to which Case Study conscious dreaming, intuition and imagination can guide creative output. On this panel we ask: “How might we capitalize on theatre’s collaborative nature to cultivate artistic practice and Exposing Theatre Students to Prison Theatre scholarship within interdisciplinary and liberal studies Bourbon 9 programs?” FOCUS GROUP: Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) SESSION COORDINATOR: Bonnie L Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center SESSION CHAIR: JULY Joy Reilly, Ohio State University 24-27 After older women inmates participated in Lifewriting classes, undergraduate theatre students were added to the experience, bringing out new dimensions in both young and old. AZ Friday July 25, 2014 LIGHT - The Ethereal Design Element Casita 5130 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Impossible Dreams of Original Musicals: Revitalizing the Conference Committee (CC) Art of Musical Theatre through Collaboration between Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Scholarship and Production Development Directing Program (DP) Princess C SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: James Hatfield, California State University, Los Angeles Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Jeffery Koep, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Tracey Elaine Chessum, Point Park University/Artistic Director, Pallas Theatre Collective PARTICIPANTS: Brackley Frayer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas PARTICIPANTS: ATHE D. Andrew Gibbs, University of Arkansas Sarah Taylor Ellis, Independent Composer John Wolf, Wayne State University 2014 The Yellow Wallpaper Development Team, Pallas Theatre Jim Wren, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Collective Established directors and lighting designers examining the Brian Valencia, Yale University, Development Team, Pallas communication process: how do directors and lighting designers Theatre Collective collaborate during a design process realized so late in the In collaboration with Pallas Theatre Collective, this rehearsal process? demonstration panel posits that partnerships between university theatre departments and new musical development Performance Philosophy Pedagogy: The Dream of Educating organizations are mutually beneficial both culturally and a Revitalized Society pedagogically. Castile 4 FOCUS GROUP: Josefina López and Theatrical Engagement with Borders Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) and Immigration Politics Bourbon 8 SESSION COORDINATOR: Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University 78 FOCUS GROUP: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) SESSION CHAIR: Margaret Meran Trail, Victoria University SESSION COORDINATOR: “There is a Sphinx in the Corridor of E Building!”: Critical Marci McMahon, University of Texas, Pan American Practice at Victoria University The Sounds of Josefina López’sDetained in the Desert: Listening to Immigration, Race, and Gender PARTICIPANTS: David Fancy, Brock University SESSION CHAIR: Mindfulness Meditation as Technology for “Becoming Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University Imperceptible” in Performance Philosophy and Performance PARTICIPANTS: Practice Megan De Roover, Arizona State University Cissie Fu, Leiden University Re-Thinking the Border Wound in Josefina López’sDetained in Academy, Conservatory, University: Transdisciplining the Desert Performance in The Hague Tiffany Ana López, University of California, Riverside Violence, Bodies and Borders: Immigration and/as Trauma in This session features scholarship that invokes the contexts Recent Plays by Josefina López of performance philosophy to respond to the challenges neoliberalism poses to higher education. Marci McMahon, University of Texas, Pan American JULY The Sounds of Josefina López’s Detained in the Desert: 24-27 Listening to Immigration, Race, and Gender This panel spotlights the recent works of playwright Josefina AZ López, particularly her staging of home and the desert as conflicted sites of refuge, resistance, resilience, and renewal. Friday July 25, 2014 The Role of Movement Training and Somatic Work in Releasing the Actors/Performers Imagination 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. Castile 6 Performing War, Dreaming of Peace FOCUS GROUP: Castile 3 Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Niamh Dowling, Rose Bruford College, London Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Theory and Criticism (TC) PARTICIPANTS: Rachel Jett, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center SESSION COORDINATOR: Marianne Kubik, University of Virginia Lindsey Mantoan, Stanford University Sara Romersberger, Southern Methodist University SESSION CHAIR: In this practical workshop and discussion four practitioners will Bart Pitchford, University of Texas, Austin explore from four different perspectives the role of movement ATHE PARTICIPANTS: and somatic training in releasing the imagination. 2014 Sara Brady, Bronx Community College, City University of New York Theatre History (TH) Focus Group Debut Panel Jacqueline Viskup, University of California, Santa Barbara Princess F Military force is paradoxically framed as necessary for peace. FOCUS GROUP: Similarly, performances about war dream of peace. This panel Theatre History (TH) investigates this interaction between war and peace. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Sam O’Connell, Worcester State University Publishing Articles in Academic Journals: How, Where, and Why This session presents the 2014 winners of the Theatre History Bourbon 10 Focus Group Debut Panel Competition. FOCUS GROUP: Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive Research and Publications Committee (RPC) Casita 5320 SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: 79 Alan Sikes, Louisiana State University Theatre and Social Change (TASC) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR: D. J. Hopkins, San Diego State University Daryl Harris, Northern Kentucky University PARTICIPANT: Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive Daniel Sack, Florida State University PARTICIPANT: Editors from peer-reviewed scholarly journals will offer insights Aretta Baumgartner, Center for Puppetry Arts and answer questions on publishing articles for academic Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive presses. Through Negro Spirituals, chants, poetry, and archival runaway The Dream: Theatre as Foundational, not Frivolous through slave ads, this ritual theatre-styled performance celebrates those Common Core State Standards who pursued freedom’s dream by any means necessary. Casita 5308 FOCUS GROUP: Professional Development Committee (PDC) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Marjorie Gaines, California State University Northridge PARTICIPANT: JULY Travis Malone, Virginia Wesleyan College 24-27 The Common Core State Standards require theatre skills for success. This workshop will address how to meet that challenge. AZ Friday July 25, 2014 Developing a Movement Training Curriculum: Serving Our Students with Quality-Driven Pedagogy 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Princess C Choreographing Migration: Movement, FOCUS GROUP: Geography, and Belonging Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Casita 5332 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Anna DeMers, Kean University Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Pedagogically Speaking: Quality over Quantity SESSION COORDINATOR: Ariel Nereson, University of Pittsburgh PARTICIPANTS: Migrating Through History: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Ezra LeBank, California State University, Long Beach Company’s 100 Migrations Making the Impossible Real Susan Pfeffer, University of Nevada, Reno SESSION CHAIR: ATHE Focus, Layer, Link in the Move-Sound Laboratory Maria Enriquez, University of Pittsburgh 2014 Dancing the Iraqi Diaspora: Refugee Identities in the U.S. Artemis Preeshl, Loyola University, New Orleans Middle Eastern Nightclub From Position to Action Matt Saltzberg, University of Western Illinois PARTICIPANTS: On A Desert Island: How Movement Curriculum Sequences in Meiver De la Cruz, Northwestern University an Actor-training Program Matthew McMahan, Tufts University French Ballet and the Importation of Savage Values: the Case of This session will discuss movement curriculum sequencing Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes with quality-driven content and approaches to administrative constraints and the “desert island” phenomenon that many This panel tracks how choreographies of movement and movement instructors experience. migration function as intertwined global processes operating throughout history. Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Staged Reading Open Rehearsal #1 Creatures from the Dreamscape: Puppetry as a Practice for Castile 6 80 Social Change Princess B FOCUS GROUP: Dramaturgy Program (DR) FOCUS GROUP: Theatre and Social Change (TASC) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania SESSION COORDINATOR: Laura Purcell Gates, Bath Spa University, United Kingdom An open rehearsal for the staged reading of a newly translated Monstrous Bodies: Using Puppetry to Engage with Perceptions play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group of Disability Dream Dialogues: The Pedagogy of Collaborative PARTICIPANTS: Conversations Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College Sonoran Room Socially Engaged Shadow Puppetry in the Balinese Wayang MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Kulit Directing Program (DP) Beth Osnes, University of Colorado, Boulder Dramaturgy Program (DR) Solar-powered Shadow Puppet Theatre in the Navajo Nation for Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Clean Energy Awareness SESSION COORDINATOR: This workshop session invites participants to explore three Lindsay Cummings, University of Connecticut JULY puppetry practices that enact social change, and to dream up SESSION CHAIR: 24-27 new ideas for harnessing puppetry’s transformative potential. Aoise Stratford, Cornell University PARTICIPANTS: Lynn Deboeck, University of Kansas AZ Alice Reagan, Barnard College Megan Rivas, Carnegie Mellon University Michael Yawney, Florida International University This roundtable addresses the pedagogy of collaborative dialogue, or how we teach students to engage colleagues in productive, dynamic, and open conversations across creative fields. Friday July 25, 2014 Dreaming Lorraine: Meditations on New Landscapes of Theatre and Performance within the African Diaspora 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. Castile 5 Dream of a Queer Planet: Alternative Embodied Pedagogies FOCUS GROUP: for Actor Training Black Theatre Association (BTA) Casita 5308 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Paul Bryant-Jackson, Miami University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Tarell Alvin McCraney: With Apologies, Back to the Queer Future SESSION COORDINATOR: Joy Brooke Fairfield, Stanford University PARTICIPANTS: Becoming Animal Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Texas Southern University Black Women’s Performance Pieces: Revisioning the American SESSION CHAIR: Dream to include African American Resistance, Resilience, and Joshua Bastian Cole, City University of New York Renewal ATHE Dysappearing Bodies Michael Dinwiddie, New York University 2014 In this participatory workshop, we will investigate what queer Les Blancs and Les Negres: Alterity in Lorraine’s Vision of and trans-centric theatre training pedagogy might look, sound Future Blackness and feel like. LeMil Eiland, Illinois State University Dreaming about the End(s): Performative Research Pushing against Post-Black Aesthetics and Longevity Contemplates Theatrical Eschatology Nicole Hodges-Persley, University of Kansas Casita 5130 Something out of Nothing: Improvising New Paths for a MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Transcultural Black Theater Practice Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Khalid Long, University of Maryland, College Park Religion and Theatre (RT) Are We There Yet? Considering Post-Race Theatre Theory and Criticism (TC) Tom Robson, Millikin University SESSION COORDINATOR: Sharing the Burden: Exploring Colorful Neighborhoods in Charles Gillespie, University of Virginia Predominantly White University Theatre Departments 81 SESSION CHAIR: Susan Watson-Turner, Lehman College, City University of Justin Crisp, Yale University New York Artists’ Collaborations: A Requisite for the Future PARTICIPANTS: Justin Kosec Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Stanford University Nostalgic Dreams: On Eisa Davis’s Angela’s Mixtape and the By performing original analysis, this panel asks how theatre Future of Blackness dreams about the end of time, who we are, and how we can talk about it. Drawing upon inspiration from the seminal theatre artist Lorraine Hansberry, this roundtable explores future and varied landscapes of Black and African American performance and theatre.

Dreaming of the End Princess G FOCUS GROUP: Religion and Theatre (RT) SESSION COORDINATOR: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College JULY Feeling the Future: Excess and Absence in Apocalyptic 24-27 Performances SESSION CHAIR: Allan Davis, University of Maryland, College Park AZ PARTICIPANTS: John Fletcher, Louisiana State University Thanatopian Performatives: Acting toward the End Scott Magelssen, University of Washington Imagining Nuclear Armageddon: Hiroshima, The Enola Gay, and the Performance of the Atomic Age This panel examines performances that dream of The End in order to consider how they shape conversations about memory, history, human agency, and ethical responsibility. Friday July 25, 2014 Graduate Student (GSSC) Subcommittee Membership Meeting 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. Bourbon 8 Dreaming Up New Visions of the Avant-Garde: The FOCUS GROUP: Problems and Possibilities of Contemporary Experimental Professional Development Committee (PDC) Performance Castile 4 SESSION COORDINATOR: Heidi Schmidt, University of Colorado, Boulder FOCUS GROUP: Theory and Criticism (TC) SESSION CHAIR: Aoise Stratford, Cornell University SESSION COORDINATOR: Claire Canavan, Texas State University Come with feedback on this year’s Graduate Student From Honkey Tonk to Haute Couture: Postmodern Aesthetics Symposium, ideas for next year, and ready to elect a new GSSC ATHE and the Rude Mechanicals co-chair. 2014 SESSION CHAIR: How to Direct When You Are Not a Director Jessica Del Vecchio, The Graduate Center, City University of Princess E New York FOCUS GROUP: “Something More Delicate than Camp”: Half Straddle’s Queer Directing Program (DP) Politics and Aesthetics SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Hillary Bucs, Western New England University Rachel Anderson-Rabern, University of New Haven PARTICIPANTS: Nature Theater of Oklahoma and the Ethics of Form Veronda Carey, Oakton Community College Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida Brian Foley, Arizona State University Objects Are Perfect Tragic Heroes: Kris Verdonckås’ Trans- The Director and Designer Collaboration with Faculty and Digital Expressions Student Designers T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, University of Toronto Alison Frost, Texas A&M University, Corpus Cristi Articulated Symmetries: Ars Mechanica and (Post-)Dramatic Time Management and Organizing a Production Schedule for a 82 Correspondence Musical Theatre Production Taking as our examples companies from New York City, Austin, Nathan Gabriel, University of Louisiana Toronto, and Brussels, this panel investigates the aesthetics, Checklist: The Basics of Directing a Scene ethics, politics, problems, and possibilities of contemporary Matthew Mazuroski, Youngstown State University experimental performance today. Translating an Acting Background into Directing Skill Sets

Fulfilling Older Performers’ Dreams: Where do You Fit in? Bekka Readon, Miami University Bourbon 10 From Actor to Director: A Pathway to Tenure Ed Simone, St. Bonaventure University FOCUS GROUP: Directing Mixed Casts of Majors and Non-Majors in Classical Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Texts SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Bonnie L Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Professional and experienced academic directors provide targeted advice for professors required to direct at their PARTICIPANTS: universities, but who do not have professional training in J.C. Alvarez, Sparking Memories Traveling Theatre directing. Lynnell Corbett, Sun City Anthem Theatrical Society Rose Marie Kasper, Sun River Community Theatre Joy Reilly, Ohio State University JULY Steve Shear, PrimeTime Players 24-27 With the advent of a new generation of older performers, theatre lovers of all ages are discovering that there’s something in it for AZ everyone! Friday July 25, 2014 Race, Space, and Appropriation of Territory: Re-Historicizing the Other in American Theatre 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. Bourbon 9 Jinju (Beijing Opera) and the State in the People’s Republic FOCUS GROUP: of China American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Princess A SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Allison Gibbes, Florida State University Association for Asian Performance (AAP) “This is My Texas”: Disillusionment and the American West in SESSION COORDINATOR: Michael John LaChiusa’s Musical Giant Siyuan Liu, University of British Columbia Censoring the “Eight-Big-Capture” Plays PARTICIPANTS: Chrystyna Dail, Ithaca College SESSION CHAIR: The Bitter Taste of Sugar: U.S. Colonialist Tactics Explored in David Rolston, University of Michigan Who Are the Weavers? ATHE PARTICIPANTS: Jacob Davis, University of Illinois 2014 Xing Fan, Bates College Challenging Clybourne Park A Hinny’s Dilemma: Three Mountains as an Early Modern Fonzie Geary, Lyons College Jingju Creation in the PRC Desert Anti-Heroes: The Effects of Manifest Destiny on a Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak, University of Hawaii Crumbling America in Two Depression-Era Plays State Concerns and Jingju Creation: New Plays and Productions Panelists examine how American playwrights portray the for the Most Recent National Festival of Jingju Art struggles between dominant and non-dominant cultures, The three papers in this panel offer case studies that and the ways in which historically opposing cultures share problematize jingju’s troubled relationship with the PRC geographic space. government from the 1950s to the 21st century. Re-imagining Theatre History: Developing Games and L.A. Theatre Works Liminal Pedagogy Castile 1 Casita 5232 FOCUS GROUP: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: 83 Conference Committee (CC) Theatre and Social Change (TASC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Anna Lyse Erickson, L.A. Theatre Works Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) PARTICIPANT: SESSION COORDINATOR: Michele Cobb, L.A. Theatre Works Andrew Kircher, The Graduate Center, City University of New Delve into the L.A. Theatre Works comprehensive collection of York 450+ classic and contemporary audio-recorded plays. Explore PARTICIPANTS: the unique production process of live audio play recordings, Jane Barnette, University of Kansas and investigate the potential usages of LATW recordings Shane Breaux, The Graduate Center, City University of New and technologies in higher education theatre classrooms, York productions, and research. Bethany Holmstrom, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York New Play Development Workshop: Rehearsal Part 1 Princess F This session will develop and play-test a game on El Teatro Campesino, with a post-workshop discussion on making theatre MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: history games for survey and seminar classes. Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Acting Program (AP) JULY Design, Technology and Management (DTM) 24-27 SESSION CO-CHAIRS: Charlene A. Donaghy, Provincetown Theatre Festival AZ Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University PRESENTERS: Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Spalding University Chelsea S. Kauffman, Brigham Young University Rehearsal for the second half of the plays selected for the New Play Development Workshop and Showcase series. Friday July 25, 2014 Transnational Feminist Utopias and Dystopias Casita 5320 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Refugee Performances: the Fluid State of Social Action Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Princess D SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Domnica Radulescu, Washington and Lee University Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) From the American Dream to the American Nightmare: Gender SESSION COORDINATOR: and the Immigrant Experience in Romanian Contemporary Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University Theater Four Faces of Omarska PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: Marcy Arlin, Pace University and Immigrant Theater Project Marin Blazevic, Zagreb University Eastern European Women Playwrights post-1989: Hoping for ATHE PSi #21 Fluid States: Performances of UnKnowing Utopia, Expecting Dystopia 2014 PARTICIPANTS: Emma Futhey, Tufts University Jisha Menon, Stanford University The Splintered Psyche: Theatrical Text, Gendered Perspective, Dreaming Proletarians and the Israeli/Palestinian Discourse Mshai Mwangola, Kenya Cultural Centre Mina Sohaj, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign Transcending Boundaries Resistance, Gender, Occupiers, and the Occupied: A This panel, drawn from 15 clusters that will comprise PSi 21 Comparative Case Study of Theater Productions in Sarajevo and in 2015, engages the idea of performance as refuge by looking Belgrade during the Wars of Yugoslav Secession 1991-1995 at instances of performances of refugees in zones of extreme The panel Transnational Feminist Utopias and Dystopias violence and trauma. proposes a unique exploration of daring theatrical and performative projects by women artists from Eastern Europe Resistance, Renewal, and the NEH Summer Institute on and Israel. Roman Comedy in Performance Castile 3 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM 84 FOCUS GROUP: Vessel Presents Spectrum: Community Waterfall Theatre History (TH) South Pool SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Daniel Smith, Michigan State University Conference Committee (CC) Renewing Roman Comedy: Concepts of Cultural Translation SESSION COORDINATOR: and Critique Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota, PARTICIPANTS: Vice President for 2014 Conference Steve Earnest, Coastal Carolina University Experience this local performance group and enjoy snacks and a Roman Comedy and Acting Styles cash bar at the South Pool. Seth Jeppesen, Brigham Young University Dreaming about Jobs and Dissertations: A Graduate Student’s 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Perspective on the NEH Institute Latino Theatre Commons Participants in the 2012 NEH Summer Institute on Roman President’s Suite Comedy in Performance reflect on their experiences in practice- 8:30 PM based research and pedagogies. Graduate Student Subcommittee (GSSC) Social The Actor’s Dream: Memory Training for Actors Offsite JULY Bourbon 11 FOCUS GROUP: 24-27 FOCUS GROUP: Professional Development Committee (PDC) Acting Program (AP) SESSION COORDINATOR: AZ SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Aoise Stratford, Cornell University Miriam Mills, Rider University SESSION CHAIR: Learn practical tips on how to train your brain to memorize Heidi Schmidt, University of Colorado, Boulder faster, reduce stress, gain confidence and remember virtually Join fellow graduate students for offsite food and drinks. Meet anything you’ll encounter on-stage. in the lobby at 7:30 to organize transport. Check Facebook group for updates. Friday July 25, 2014 Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:30 PM CONT. 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM Music Theatre/Dance Fellowship Gathering Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Offsite Morning Warm Up: Dynamic Presence Training FOCUS GROUP: Princess C Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Ron Gingerich, Dickinson State University, North Dakota SESSION COORDINATOR: A gathering of people interested in Music Theatre and Dance to Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College socialize and share session ideas. Will meet at the designated SESSION CHAIR: location then migrate to a public space for refreshments. Adam Noble, University of Houston Two-Year College Program (TYCP) Focus Group Open PARTICIPANT: ATHE Dinner Melissa Noble, Rose Bruford College, UK 2014 Offsite Please join us for this eclectic conference-wide warm up - FOCUS GROUP: something for every BODY to get up and moving. Two-Year College Program (TYCP) 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM SESSION COORDINATOR: Black Theatre Network Alliance Meeting R. Scott Hengen, Montgomery College, Rockville President’s Suite SESSION CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Bill Gillett, Carroll Community College Conference Committee (CC) Open to all interested in the Two-Year College Program Focus SESSION COORDINATOR: Group. Henry Bial, University of Kansas

Cornering Your Market: How to Foster your Marketing Savvy for a Thriving Career as an Actor Casita 5320 85 FOCUS GROUP: Acting Program (AP) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Suzanne Hunt Jenner, Pasadena City College and American Academy of Dramatic Arts PARTICIPANTS: Linda Brennan, American Academy of Dramatic Arts Theresa Hayes, American Academy of Dramatic Arts Leigh Kennicott, California State University, Northridge Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University Actors learn the strategies needed to maximize their opportunities and set a marketing plan in motion for a fulfilling and thriving career in all mediums. JULY 24-27 AZ