Saturday, July 26, 2014 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Morning Warm Up: Dynamic Presence Training Princess C FOCUS GROUP: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) SESSION COORDINATOR: Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College SESSION CHAIR: Adam Noble, University of Houston PARTICIPANT: ATHE Melissa Noble, Rose Bruford College, UK 2014 Please join us for this eclectic conference-wide warm up - something for every BODY to get up and moving.

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Black Theatre Network Alliance Meeting

President’s Suite

FOCUS GROUP:

Conference Committee (CC)

SESSION COORDINATOR: 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 Saturday, July 26, 2014 DREAMSCAPE Casita 5332 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Directing Dreams into Action: Researching Directors and Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Directorial Practice Black Theatre Association (BTA) Casita 5232 Women and Theatre Program (WTP) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Directing Program (DP) Rickerby Hinds, University of California, Riverside SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Emily Rollie, Monmouth College Daniel Banks, City University of New York Women of the Northern Stage: Canadian Women Directors in Kathy Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino Rehearsal Dreamscape depicts the death and inner life of a young woman, SESSION CHAIR: ATHE Myeisha Mills, who dreams through the impact of the twelve Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, 2014 police bullets that kill her. PARTICIPANTS: Anne Fliotsos, Purdue University Enacting Diaspora: Transcultural Encounters, Collective International Women Stage Directors at Work Creation, and the Theatre of Repair Boone Hopkins, Converse College Casita 5308 “I have no Ambition to See a Goodlier Man:” Directing Gender FOCUS GROUP: Performativity Theatre History (TH) How does a director’s dream make its way to the stage? This SESSION COORDINATOR: panel considers international women directors’ work, offering Scott Proudfit, Elon University strategies for documenting artistic process. Collective Creation at Hull House: Southern and Eastern European Diaspora, Progressive Education, and Improvisational Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Stage Reading Theatre Rehearsal #2 Casita 5400 SESSION CHAIR: 86 Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Bowdoin College FOCUS GROUP: The Non-Stop Touring Gypsy-Punk Band: Gogol Bordello’s Dramaturgy Program (DR) Collective Performance of Diaspora and Deracination SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Thomas Riccio, Founding Artistic Director, Dead White An open rehearsal for the staged reading of a newly translated Zombies; University of Texas, Dallas play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group. Celia Herrera Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley New Fire Ceremony - Ceremonial Traveling among and between Dreamed-Up Histories: Ruptured Realities and Invented Chicana/o and Northern Native Communities Performance Bourbon 11 Kris Salata, Florida State University The WorkCenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards: FOCUS GROUP: Grotowski’s Transcultural Legacy in the 21st Century Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Jose Luis Valenzuela , Latino Theatre Company (now the Los SESSION COORDINATOR: Angeles Theatre Center); UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Nelson Barre, National University of Ireland, Galway Television Remembering What Never Happened: Child’s Play, Dreams, and Nia Witherspoon, Florida State University, Tallahassee Memories in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs JULY Ceremonies of Collective Creation: Performance, Spirit, and PARTICIPANTS: Women of Color 24-27 Jessica Hinds-Bond, Northwestern University This panel investigates transcultural collective encounters. A Grain of Salt: The Genesis of Ivan Vyrypaev’s Genesis 2 Keeping in mind distinctions between projects of Jeff Paden, Florida State University “remembering” and of “borrowing,” we aim to facilitate dialogue AZ To Look is to Love: Towards an Ethic for Representing and between differently situated constituencies. Witnessing the Body in Pain What constitutes an appropriately constructed version of history? Panelists examine contemporary playwrights who break down notions of identity performance and world-creation. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Membership and Marketing (MM) Committee Meeting Bourbon 8 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Inviting Devised Work to the Table: Including Devised Work Membership and Marketing Committee (MM) in a Department’s Production Season Princess F SESSION COORDINATOR: David Kaye, University of New Hampshire FOCUS GROUP: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) New Play Development Workshop: Rehearsal Part 2 SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Castile 3 Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: PARTICIPANTS: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Dennis Elkins, Fort Lewis College Acting Program (AP) Cynthia Gendrich, Wake Forest University Design, Technology and Management (DTM) ATHE Edward Kahn, Ohio Wesleyan University CO-CHAIRS: 2014 Tim Miller, Freelance Artist Charlene A. Donaghy, Provincetown Tennessee Williams While universities have long included original, devised work Theatre Festival within their training programs and pedagogy, recently devised Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University theater practice has mainstreamed onto the main stage. Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University

Is There Value in a Theatre Arts and Humanities’ PRESENTERS: Education? Jeffrey Fischer-Smith, Spalding University Princess G Chelsea S. Kauffman, Brigham Young University FOCUS GROUP: Rehearsal for the first half of the plays selected for the New Play Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Development Workshop and Showcase series. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Night Dreaming, Day Dreaming, and the Desert of the Real: Nadja Masura, Women’s Global Leadership Initiative Imagination and Its Sources Wieseltierås Defense of the Humanities Applied to Creating a Castile 5 87 Defense of Theatre Arts FOCUS GROUP: PARTICIPANTS: Theory and Criticism (TC) Rachel Bauer, University of Missouri, Columbia, SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre, Performance, and Art-Making: Keys to the Human David Marcia, Beloit College Spirit Nightmare or Reverie: How the Dream Ballet Shaped the Use Amy Brady, Kean University of Dance in Musical Theatre Theatre Performance Techniques Applied to the Humanities: Castile 4 Student Values Examined through Theatre Games FOCUS GROUP: Shawna Mefferd Carroll, State University of New York, Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Plattsburg The Value of Theatre Education! SESSION COORDINATOR: Brook Davis, Wake Forest University Rene Pulliam, University of Mississippi Saving Face Onstage: How U.S. Theatre Students Prepare To Dream or Not to Dream: Jerome Robbins’ Use of Dance Chinese High Schoolers for Study in the States Reverie in West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof Marjorie Gaines, California State University, Northridge SESSION CHAIR: Theatre Arts as an Educational Paradigm: Teaching Theatre as a Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College Common Core Thinking Tool PARTICIPANTS: JULY Peggy Rae Johnson, Keene State College Dustyn Martincich, Bucknell University 24-27 Why Teach Theatre and the Humanities? Dancing the Fantasy: Dream Ballets Confronting the Travis Malone, Wesleyan College Conventional and Tickling the Taboo in Company, Pippin, and Theatre in the Humanities: The “Original” Pre-Professional The Mystery of Edwin Drood AZ Program Ryan McKinney, City University of New York, Kingsborough Michelle Salerno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Community College Labor Organizing as a Site of Resistance to Neoliberal Policies in Love and Money: George Balanchine’s Use of Dream Ballets in Higher Education Babes in Arms and I Married an Angel In an era of global change, the Arts and Humanities are at a The dream ballet in musical theatre has engaged the audience critical juncture. It’s time to value the skills a theatre education with a look into the psychological journeys of the characters, as offers. fantasy, vision, dream and nightmare. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Spotlight on New Works: Discussion of Newly Published Works in the Fields of American Theatre, African-American 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. Theatre, and Latino/a Theatre Queer Dreams and Homonationalist Nightmares: Castile 1 Performing and Critiquing Queer Belonging MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Sonoran Room American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) FOCUS GROUP: Black Theatre Association (BTA) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATORS: Nicole Eschen, California State University, Northridge Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College, City University of New York The Lavender Nightmare: The Curious Performative Jimmy A. Noriega, College of Wooster Persistence of McCarthyism Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University ATHE PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIR: 2014 Andrew Brown, Northwestern University Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Dreams of Queer Refuge PARTICIPANTS: Sara Wolf, University of California, Los Angles Milly S. Barranger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CHOKRA Loves You!: Disruptions of Heteronationalism in The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Queer Saudi Performance Depression Era Panelists discuss homonationalism by examining queer Cindy Garcia, University of Minnesota performances by BDSM Nation from Taiwan, CHOKRA from Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in the U.A.E., queer performers in South Africa and gay men in U.S. Macelle Mahala, University of the Pacific Penumbra: The Premier Stage for African American Drama Reach Out and Touch Your Audience Casita 5130 Irma Mayorga, Dartmouth College The Panza Monologues, Second Edition FOCUS GROUP: Electronic Technology Committee (ETC) Monica White Ndounou, Tufts University Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: 88 Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers Stephen Schrum, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Distance Learning and Collaboration Naomi J. Stubbs, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York PARTICIPANTS: Cultivating National Identity Through Performance: American Lauren Beck, Northwestern University Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment Re-sounding Shakespeare Don B. Wilmeth, Brown University Judith Sebesta, Independent Scholar The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Crogging: Creative Blogging for Pedagogy, Publication, Depression Era Production, and Fun RESPONDENTS: John Teacher, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Patricia Herrera, Richmond University Distance Learning and Collaboration Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College, City University of New York This session will explore methods of communicating with our Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University multiple audiences through blogging, mobile technologies and Claudia Villegas-Silva, Arizona State University distance learning, in the brave new technological world. This roundtable session offers a lively discussion of newly Reflecting on Dreamscapes in the Desert published works in the fields of American theatre, African- Bourbon 10 American theatre, and Latino/a theatre. Hear the authors JULY FOCUS GROUP: discuss their research and writing process. 24-27 Dramaturgy Program (DR) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: AZ Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania PARTICIPANTS: Kristin Leahey, Northlight Theatre, Columbia College Bryan Moore, Concordia University A roundtable discussion aimed at engaging and disrupting the dramaturgical narrative of Taliesin West within the 2014 ATHE conference experience. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Waiting for the Beautiful Revolution: Revisiting Paradise Now 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM CONT. Princess B The Dream of Inclusivity and Social Justice: Dramaturgy/ MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Performance as Cultural Bridge and Compassionate Action Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) in Devised Work Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Princess A Theory and Criticism (TC) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: SESSION COORDINATOR AND PARTICIPANT: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Jason Fitzgerald, Directing Program (DP) Never Come to the Theatre Again: Paradise Now and the Dramaturgy Program (DR) Paradoxical Politics of Authenticity SESSION COORDINATOR: Chelsea Pace, Arizona State University PARTICIPANTS: Jennifer Buckley, University of Iowa ATHE PARTICIPANTS: Life is Tough on the Kibbutz: Paradise and the Promise of the Maria Beach, Oklahoma State University 2014 Collective Season Ellison, Northern Arizona University Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Company Ryan Hatch, State University of New York and University at Kathleen McGeever, Northern Arizona University Buffalo Regardez-les-jouir: Prolegomena to a Lacanian Reading of When the genesis for the development of a new devised work is Paradise Now rooted in a community, how can dramaturgy and performance serve that community? RESPONDENT: Patricia Ybarra, Brown University The Kinesthetic Environment This panel presents original readings of the Living Theatre’s Meet in the Hall Outside of the FEDEX Office Paradise Now and new evaluations of the relationship FOCUS GROUP: between theatre and revolution that Paradise challenges us to Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) conceptualize. SESSION COORDINATOR: What Dreams May Combine: Physical Theater and Diana Moller-Marino, University of Hartford 89 Improvisation through the Sensibility of Islamic Culture SESSION CHAIR: Princess C CarlosAlexis Cruz, University of North Carolina, Charlotte FOCUS GROUP: PARTICIPANTS: Religion and Theatre (RT) Anna Demers, Kean University SESSION COORDINATOR: Matt Saltzberg, University of Western Illinois Peter Friedrich, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Explore environments in and around the conference through Based on the presenter’s five years running an Iraqi university various movement lenses. Working in stillness or in motion, be drama program, this session continues the search for physical prepared to have your mind blown! and verbal creativity within Islamic culture. The Two-Year College Dream: A Summit of Two-Year Colleges Part 2 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Castile 6 ATHE Annual Membership Meeting: All Conference Forum FOCUS GROUP: Princess D & E Two-Year College Program (TYCP) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Conference Committee (CC) Bill Gillett, Carroll Community College SESSION COORDINATOR: JULY SESSION CHAIR: Henry Bial, University of Kansas 24-27 Thomas Costello, Dutchess Community College The Annual Membership Meeting offers members an This session is part 2 of series round-table offered as a summit opportunity to meet the Governing Council, thank outgoing to identify and address challenges that face Two-Year College officers, and hear from the ATHE President about the state of the AZ Theatre programs. Solutions are offered to the challenges Association. identified in part 1. All are welcome. 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Acting Program (AP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #1 Bourbon 8 FOCUS GROUP: Acting Program (AP) Saturday, July 26, 2014 Dramaturgy (DR) Focus Group Membership Meeting Princess C 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Focus Dramaturgy Program (DR) Group Membership Meeting #1 Castile 4 SESSION COORDINATOR: Bryan Moore, Concordia University, Nebraska FOCUS GROUP: Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) SESSION CHAIR: Karen Jean Martinson, Chicago State University SESSION COORDINATOR: Holly Cate, Muhlenberg College All are welcome at the Dramaturgy Focus Group Membership Meeting where we network, find mentors, and discuss events Please join us to find out more about ATME and learn about and ideas toward planning next year’s conference. what we’re up to in this conference and beyond. Dreaming of Peace, Dreaming of War: Coping through Oral ATHE Awards Committee Meeting Histories 2014 Bourbon 10 Casita 5308 FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Awards Committee (AWD) Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Dani Snyder-Young, Illinois Wesleyan University Amanda Boyle, University of Kansas Created from Within: Queers and Queerness in the Carceral Dreaming of War and Carrying Wounds: Stories of the Wounded Bourbon 11 PARTICIPANTS: FOCUS GROUP: Karen Gygil, John Carroll University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Occupy Cleveland’s Occupy the Heart, Festive Performance and SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Communal Identity Sarah Crockarell, University of Denver Mark Lococo, Loyola University, Chicago Queer Crime Families: The Carceral System at Work in Orton’s Inspirational Responsibility: Creation and Production of In 90 Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Bunin’s The Credeaux Canvas Their Own Words: A Vietnam Chronicle PARTICIPANTS: Amy Tichy, Independent Scholar Roxxy Duda, University of Colorado, Boulder One Hunger Pang Away Disestablishing Master Bifurcation: Representations of Exploration of oral histories in performance. How to cope with, Intersectionalized, Queer Identities in Contemporary Theatre work through, and respond to events such as the Hadley Kamminga-Peck, University of Colorado, Boulder and Occupy Movements. Oberon’s Carceral Graduate Student Subcommittee Brown Bag Lunch and Info The papers in this panel employ Michel Foucault’s carceral Share system to explore how boundaries, deviance, punishment, and Bourbon 9 resistance operate around queer subjectivities in drama. FOCUS GROUP: Double Down or Diversify? The Musical Theatre Educator’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) Dilemma SESSION COORDINATOR: Castile 3 Aoise Stratford, Cornell University FOCUS GROUP: SESSION CHAIR: Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Heidi Schmidt, University of Colorado, Boulder JULY SESSION COORDINATOR: Bring a bite to eat and an optional teaching tip (or problem) to 24-27 Amy Fritsche, Kent State University share, and join grads for lunch and conversation. SESSION CHAIR: Heroic Journeys: Superscenes for Directors, Actors, Caleb Goh, National University of Singapore Teachers, and Devisers AZ PARTICIPANTS: Princess B Jeremy Sortore, American Repertory Theater, Moscow Art FOCUS GROUP: Theater School Institute Directing Program (DP) Discussing current practices and ongoing dilemmas of musical SESSION COORDINATOR: theatre educators preparing students to achieve their dreams by Jane Brody, DePaul University being both type aware and artistically versatile. Myth and heroes are the unconscious dreams of humankind. Their essence and structure form most dramatic texts. Superscenes physically recapture them for today’s theatre. Saturday, July 26, 2014 (Re)acting to Identities of Conflict: Performing Memory and History in Latin America 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CONT. Princess A “I Can Do That”: Performing Race in Musical Revivals FOCUS GROUP: Princess G Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: SESSION COORDINATOR: Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Jimmy Noriega, College of Wooster Black Theatre Association (BTA) Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) PARTICIPANTS: Stuart Day, University of Kansas SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: The “Arizona Law” as Catalyst for Cross-Border Understanding Donatella Galella, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Promise of (Dis)Pleasure: Yellowface in Contemporary Postdramatic Memories on the Chilean Stage Musical Revivals Analola Santana, Dartmouth College ATHE A Latin American Freak Show: Identity Politics in Yuyachkani’s 2014 PARTICIPANTS: Hecho en Perú Kathryn Edney, Regis College Getting out of Dahomey: Reviving Show Boat and the This panel examines Latin American performances, where Contingencies of Racial Performance notions of identity are crucial to the action onstage, providing Bryan M. Vandevender, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh critiques of the current state of political discourses. Chorus Lines and Color Lines: Race, Ethics and Authenticity in Religion and Theatre (RT) Focus Group Membership Reviving a A Chorus Line on Broadway Meeting Panelists will unpack significant racial performances in musical Casita 5232 revivals in which the initial casting, sociocultural contexts, and FOCUS GROUP: texts themselves have significantly changed. Religion and Theatre (RT) Journeys of Renewal; Re-visioning Novels for the Stage SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College Castile 5 91 FOCUS GROUP: Please join the Religion and Theatre Focus Group for its annual Black Theatre Association (BTA) business meeting. All conference attendees are welcome. SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Focus Kathryn Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino Group Membership Meeting PARTICIPANTS: Castile 1 Maisha Akbar, Fort Valley State University FOCUS GROUP: Renewing A Tradition; Lynching Dramas, Adaptation and Social Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Justice SESSION COORDINATOR: La Donna Forsgren, University of Oregon Bonnie L Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Re-visioning Wonderland: Adapting Victorian Literature for SESSION CHAIR: Twenty-First Century Spectators Barbara Parisi, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus These artists will present papers about the “renewal” Learn about the focus group and how you can contribute to its experienced by producing a work based on a novel. Critical goals, leadership, and future plans. Discover Senior Theatre questions include what changes were experienced/explored by news and trends. the faculty, staff students and/or curriculum? Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Focus Group Performance Studies (PSFG) Focus Group Membership Membership Meeting JULY Meeting #1 Casita 5320 24-27 Sonoran Room FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) AZ SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Chanelle Vigue, Virginia Commonwealth University Joseph Cermatori, Columbia University Come to the annual TASC Focus Group Membership meeting to SESSION CHAIR: see how you can get involved. Megan Shea, New York University Please join us for the first part of our annual membership meeting, where we’ll begin brainstorming conference ideas for PSFG at ATHE 2015. Saturday, July 26, 2014 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CONT. SETC Getchell Award Winning Play Development Workshop Rehearsal Utopic Dreams and Nightmare Visions 1: Re-imagining and Princess F Re-performing Angels in America in the New Millennium Castile 6 FOCUS GROUP: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) SESSION CHAIR AND PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Daniel L. Patterson, Keene State College Theatre History (TH) NEW PLAYS PRODUCTION COORDINATOR SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University Wes Pearce, University of Regina PLAY: ATHE PARTICIPANTS: The Missing Link, by Robert Plowman, Hollins University, Virginia Anderson, Connecticut College Nova Scotia 2014 Beyond Angels: Broadway Theatre and the AIDS Epidemic FIRST RUNNER UP: Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell, University of Utah Life Is Mostly Straws, by Richard Manley, New York (Re?)Examining the Mormon Influence on Tony Kushner’s SECOND RUNNER UP: Angels in America Crowded Eden, by Rich Amada, Virginia Todd Coulter, Colby College DIRECTOR It Looks Like Ft. Collins Roy: Angels in America as Performed Terryl W. Hallquist, Vanderbilt University Utopian Protest ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Shane Grant, Millsaps College Anne Healy, University of Texas at Arlington Intimate Angels: Negotiating the Epic in Productions of Angels DRAMATURG: in America in Small Venues Jan Lewis, Wesleyan College Curtis Russell, University of Utah SCENOGRAPHER: (Re?)Examining the Mormon Influence on Tony Kushner’s Charles Erven, Loyola Marymount University Angels in America 92 ACTORS: This panel investigates and challenges historic understandings Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson, Bucknell University of how Angels in America must be staged and recounts exciting Mark Hutchinson, Bucknell University new performative interpretations of Kushner’s opus. Connie LaMarca-Frankel, Pasco-Hernando Community College Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Focus Group Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois, Springfield Membership Meeting Jeff Wax, Lone Star College-CYFair Casita 5130 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM FOCUS GROUP: Bingo Raffle & Refreshments Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Princess H & I, Exhibit Hall SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Rosemary Malague, University of Pennsylvania Conference Committee (CC) SESSION COORDINATOR: Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM Changing Skins: Transgender Folktales as Performed JULY Inquiry and Advocacy about the Fluidity of Gender 24-27 Casita 5332 FOCUS GROUP: AZ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) SESSION COORDINATOR: Milbre Burch, University of Missouri, Columbia Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity and Humanity (performance) RESPONDENT: Holly Hughes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Award-winning performance of transgender folktales interwoven with commentary examines marginalized stories, traditions and research to critique a binary system of gender identification. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Dream Genders and National Desire Castile 6 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. FOCUS GROUP: Collaboratively Dreaming B(l)ack: A Discussion Across the Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Disciplines Casita 5130 SESSION COORDINATOR: Kathryn LeTrent, Virginia Commonwealth University MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Staging Marital Domesticity in The White Snake: post- Acting Program (AP) Revolutionary China and Contemporary Black Theatre Association (BTA) Dramaturgy Program (DR) SESSION CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Katherine Mezur, The Museum of Performance and Design, Karen Bowdre, Arcadia University San Francisco Japan’s Cute Technologies and Dream Genders: Robot Girls, PARTICIPANTS: Dolls, and Lightness ATHE Veronda Carey, Oakton Community College Le’Mil Eiland, Illinois State University PARTICIPANTS: 2014 Monica White Ndounou, Tufts University Ivy Ichu Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan This workshop seeks to build a practical framework for working Deconstructing Shakespeare and Jingju in Cleopatra and her across disciplines when analyzing, researching, and producing Clowns plays. Guanda Wu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Nandan, Gender Plasticity, and the Formation of the Dichotomy Creating Performances Using Dreams as Source Material of Artistic Femininity vis-a-vis Natural Masculinity in Casita 5320 Republican China (1912-1949) FOCUS GROUP: This panel with papers will explore gender in stylized Asian Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) theatre forms as supportive of or subversive to the larger fantasy SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: of a nation’s identity. Jeff Casazza, Indiana University and Purdue University, Fort Wayne Dreaming Creativity Across Campus Transforming Dream Imagery into Performance Castile 5 93 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: PARTICIPANTS: Acting Program (AP) Judith Chaffee, Boston University Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Ensemble Dream Enactment Advocacy Committee (ADV) Using the dreams of participants as source material, this SESSION COORDINATOR: workshop will explore, combine and adapt various techniques to Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri create and shape performances. Renewing Student Creativity: An Act of Resistance Digital Scholarship Panel SESSION CHAIR: Bourbon 11 Jennie Pardoe, University of Missouri FOCUS GROUP: PARTICIPANTS: Research and Publications Committee (RPC) Michael Ellison, Bowling Green State University SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Scott Magelssen, University of Washington William Palmer, University of Missouri PARTICIPANTS: Renewing Student Creativity: An Act of Resistance (co-author) Shane Breaux, Graduate Center, City University of New York Lisa Porter, University of California, San Diego Nancy Friedland, Columbia University Cultivating the Creative Mind JULY David Z. Saltz, University of Georgia Kim Rubinstein, University of California, San Diego 24-27 Naomi Stubbs, LaGuardia Community College, City University Cultivating the Creative Mind (co-author) of New York Bryan Vandevender, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Emerging practices in digital humanities. Invited participants The Creative Process: Renewing General Education through the AZ will discuss their various experiences with—and the future of— Fine and Performing Arts non-print research and publication in theatre and performance. This panel explores the use of acting exercises to teach creativity to non-arts majors and considers how such courses advocate for the value of theatre. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Imagined Theatres: A Staged Reading of a Fictional/ Theoretical Universe 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Bourbon 8 Dreaming Together: Navigating Hope in Community-Based FOCUS GROUP: Theatre Theory and Criticism (TC) Princess D SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Daniel Sack, Florida State University Theatre and Social Change (TASC) PARTICIPANTS: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Kyle Gillette, Trinity University Julie Rada, Arizona State University Rachel Joseph, Trinity University Rehearsing Resiliency: Dreams and Obstacles at the Creative Alice Rayner, Crossroads Theorists of the stage present a collection of micro-fictions PARTICIPANTS: ATHE describing imagined theatrical performances. Occasional Ben Gunter, Florida State University theoretical glosses situate these fictional worlds as propositions 2014 Community in Translation: Putting Florida’s History Onstage about the nature of the theatre. with Everyday Citizens Richard Gustin, University of Wisconsin Legal Acts and Dreams of Justice Harnessing Hope: Strategic Collaborations in Surviving the Cycle Princess G Karen Jean Martinson, Chicago State University FOCUS GROUP: The Only Way Out is the Way Through: Devising Hope Amidst Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) the Heartache on Chicago’s South Side SESSION COORDINATOR: This panel explores community-partnered performances which James Ball, University of Maryland, College Park dared to dream in spite of barriers, through navigating the Dreams of Engagement and Enforcement: Staging International Law slipperiness of “hope” and the nebulous language of aesthetics. SESSION CHAIR: Paige McGinley, Washington University, St. Louis How to Produce and Direct Interactive Courtroom Dramas Casita 5232 PARTICIPANTS: 94 Laurie Frederik, University of Maryland, College Park FOCUS GROUP: Pleas of Innocence, Guilt, or Something in between: Theatre and Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Sport in Criminal Courtrooms SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Sarah Kozinn, Occidental College Bonnie L Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center The Scripted Simulacra of Reality Courtroom Dramas PARTICIPANTS: Karen Shimakawa, New York University Steve Shear, PrimeTime Players Re-Performing Exclusion: Performative Appeals Susan Shear, PrimeTime Players This session travels between the courtroom and the stage, to Courtroom dramas are easy to direct and stage. Use The Steele Deal find dreams of juridical refuge, (extra)legal resistance, and as your guide to theatre that’s audience participation at its best! institutional renewal that drive action and art. I’m Not the Dream that You had Before: A Roundtable on the Open Forum: Planning ATHE’s Future Future of the American Musical Theatre Canon Castile 4 Bourbon 9 FOCUS GROUP: FOCUS GROUP: Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Patricia Ybarra, Brown University JULY Bryan M. Vandevender, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Join the discussion about planning ATHE’s future. Make your 24-27 SESSION CHAIR: voice heard! Judith Sebesta, Higher Education Policy Institute PARTICIPANTS: Open Session: Advocating for Your Theatre Department AZ Mark Cosdon, Allegheny College Bourbon 10 Donatella Galella, The Graduate Center, the City University of FOCUS GROUP: New York Professional Development Committee (PDC) Stuart J. Hecht, Boston University SESSION COORDINATOR: Laura MacDonald, University of Portsmouth Jim Peck, Muhlenberg College Ronald Zank, Culver-Stockton College SESSION CHAIR: This session addresses the future of the musical theatre canon Kathryn Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino and the long-term significance of recent trends: jukebox Contribute to this session focused on what you need to know to musicals, movicals, superhero musicals, transnational musicals, advocate for your theatre department. and revivals. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Recovery and Renewal: Performing New Dreams of Native American Women 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Princess C Our Sounds, Our Laughs, Our Heroes: Performing the FOCUS GROUP: (Jewish-)American Dream Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Princess E SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Heidi Nees, Miami University Theatre History (TH) Indian Maidens to Teachers and Warriors: ReIMAGining Native SESSION COORDINATOR: American Women in Outdoor Historical Dramas Kane Anderson, University of Puget Sound Super-Immigrants and Jewish Americanism in David Bar Katz’ SESSION CHAIR: The History of Invulnerability Stefani Overman-Tsai, University of California, Santa Barbara PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Jaye Darby, University of California, Los Angeles ATHE Rick DesRochers, Long Island University, Post Activism, Renewal, and Transformation in Contemporary The Family Act Goes to School: The Marx Brothers, Vaudeville, 2014 Native Women’s Theater and Americanization Deanna Downes, University of Colorado, Boulder Liz Kinsley, Northwestern University A Participatory Theatre Methodology for the Navajo Women’s The Isle is Full of Noises, Sounds, and Sweet Airs: Rhetorical Energy Project A/Effects of Shakespearean Sound in Manhattan’s Ethnic Theatres, 1880-1924 Adrian Manygoats, Northern Arizona University A Participatory Theatre Methodology for the Navajo Women’s Excavating the history of Jewishness on America’s stages, Energy Project this panel reveals how Shakespeare, the Marx Brothers, and Beth Osnes, University of Colorado, Boulder Superman served Jewish artists (re)negotiating anxieties of A Participatory Theatre Methodology for the Navajo Women’s assimilation. Energy Project Palabras del Cielo: A Critical Dialogue on Latina/o Theatre Lindsay Weitkamp, University of Colorado, Boulder for Young Audiences’ Plays and Playwrights A Participatory Theatre Methodology for the Navajo Women’s 95 Castile 3 Energy Project FOCUS GROUP: This panel seeks to explore ways in which Native American Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) women resist Western constructs and methodologies and renew SESSION COORDINATOR: their roles through women-centered native performances. Jimmy Noriega, College of Wooster Southwest Directs: Workshop with Regionally-based Latina/o Youth and Journeys of Transformation: Theatre of Professional Directors (Part 1 of 2) Migration, Exile, and Home Casita 5308 SESSION CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Jorge Huerta, University California, San Diego Directing Program (DP) PARTICIPANTS: SESSION COORDINATOR: Cecilia Aragon, University of Wyoming Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago An Historical Analysis of the Development of Latina/o TYA Jose Casas, Playwright SESSION CHAIR: The Role of the Latina/o Playwrights in 21st Century Theatre for Lewis Magruder, Miami University Young Audiences PARTICIPANTS: Christina Marin, Emerson College Rachel Bowditch, Arizona State University JULY Reclamando Nuestros Derechos: Examining the Intersection Dwayne Hartford, Childsplay between Latino/a Theatre for Young Audiences and Human Kathleen M. McGeever, Northern Arizona University 24-27 Rights Joya Scott, Associate Artistic Director and Resident Dramaturg, Orange Theater Group This panel examines the historical, cultural, social, and political Eva Tessler, Associate Artistic Director Borderlands Theatre AZ dimensions of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, focusing Matt Watkins, Artistic Director, Orange Theater Group on the future development of the growing genre. Stephen Wrentmore , Arizona Theatre Company In this double session, regionally-based professional directors demonstrate rehearsal methods though work on scenes from a common script with undergraduate student actors. Saturday, July 26, 2014 2:15 PM - 5:30 PM 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM CONT. Paid Workshop #3 - Kinan Valdez: Theatre of the Sphere: An Ancient American Approach to Activist Theatre The Family Dream House 1: Staging Home and Contested Princess B Spaces Princess A FOCUS GROUP: Conference Committee (CC) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Dramaturgy Program (DR) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Religion and Theatre (RT) Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minnesota Women and Theatre Program (WTP) How can the philosophy of Ancient America resonate for activist SESSION COORDINATOR: artists, community-arts practitioners, and contemporary theatre Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College makers? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the foundational principles of “Theater of the Sphere,” a holistic SESSION CHAIR: ATHE approach to activist/ensemble theatre based on Mesoamerican Jen-Scott Mobley, Rollins College 2014 thought and developed by El Teatro Campesino. PARTICIPANTS: Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University SETC Getchell Award Winning Play Showcase Attention must be Paid: House and Housewife in Death of a Princess F Salesman FOCUS GROUP: Amanda Clarke, McGill University Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Home Games: Contesting Domestic Geographies in Marie SESSION CHAIR AND PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Jones’s A Night in November Daniel L. Patterson, Keene State College Jessie Glover, Otterbein University New Plays Production Coordinator Dreaming in Rachel’s House Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University This panel is part of a three-session series that explores how the PLAY: family house has been re-dreamed on stage, through ritual, and The Missing Link, by Robert Plowman, Hollins University, using collaborative performances. Nova Scotia 96 FIRST RUNNER UP: The Utopic Frontier: Theatrical Explorations of the Dreams Life Is Mostly Straws, by Richard Manley, New York of America Sonoran Room SECOND RUNNER UP: Crowded Eden, by Rich Amada, Virginia FOCUS GROUP: American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) DIRECTOR Terryl W. Hallquist, Vanderbilt University SESSION COORDINATOR: Alex Iben Cahill, University of Missouri, Columbia ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: The Land of Regretted Dreams: Success in America for Anne Healy, University of Texas, Arlington Immigrant Playwrights DRAMATURG: SESSION CHAIR: Jan Lewis, Wesleyan College James Cherry, Wabash College SCENOGRAPHER: PARTICIPANTS: Charles Erven, Loyola Marymount University Amy Hughes, Brooklyn College ACTORS: “The Only Real American Play”: Dreams of National Unity in Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson, Bucknell University Harry Watkins’s The Pioneer Patriot Mark Hutchinson, Bucknell University JULY David Mayer, University of Manchester Connie LaMarca-Frankel, Pasco-Hernando Community College The American Frontier across the Pond Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois, Springfield Jeff Wax, Lone Star College-CYFair 24-27 Laura Mielke, University of Kansas Good Place, No Place: Utopic Evasions in the Staging of America The Playwrights and Creative Teams focus group presents a public performance of the winner of the Getchell award for This panel examines the complex and contradictory visions of AZ Playwriting, co-sponsored by the SETC. America as constructed by immigrants and citizens from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Cultivating Empathy: Essential Training for Actors and Engaged Citizens of the World 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Casita 5332 Arabic and Arab-American Theatre: Beyond the Desert FOCUS GROUP: Sonoran Room Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Terry Glaser, University of San Diego SESSION COORDINATOR: Actor Training as Empathy Training James Al-Shamma, Belmont University Collective Trauma and the Great Good Place: Saadallah PARTICIPANTS: Wannous’s The Glass Café Wendell Beavers, Naropa University Exchanging Oneself for the Other: Essential for the Actor, a PARTICIPANTS: Lifesaver for the Planet Hala Baki, California State University, Northridge Matt Saltzberg, University of Western Illinois ATHE The Funny Thing about Arabs: A Study of Subversive Composing Empathy: Synaptic Synchronicity Commentary in Arab-American Stand-Up Comedy 2014 Megan Stahl, Tufts University Using specially adapted Michael Chekhov, meditation, and To Be Seen and Heard: Culture as Resistance in Rohina Malik’s Viewpoints exercises, learn methods for inspiring your students Unveiled to imagine change, take action, and make their dreams realities. Panelists address theatrical and performative strategies Desert(ed) Vistas: Performing Spaces, Embodied Identities, formulated to counter Orientalist stereotypes as projected on and Defining Dreams the Arab world and, by extension, Arab-Americans. Princess D FOCUS GROUP: Closing the Loop: Reflections on and Dreaming the Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Possibilities of Assessment in Theatre Pedagogy Princess G SESSION COORDINATOR: Raimondo Genna, University of South Dakota FOCUS GROUP: Bad Frontiers: American Dreams, Identities, and Performing Professional Development Committee (PDC) Savage Deserts 97 SESSION COORDINATOR: Travis Malone, Virginia Wesleyan College PARTICIPANTS: Lindsay Livingston, Brigham Young University SESSION CHAIR: Dreaming the Deserted Past: Contemporary Performances of Monica Stufft, University of San Diego Gun Violence PARTICIPANTS: Megan Shea, New York University Jane Duncan, NOVA Southeastern University Dreams of Deserted Companionship: Mass Hysteria as Bradley Griffin, Pepperdine University Performance Open roundtable where leaders and participants from Through the landscapes of hysteria, gun culture, and the savage Assessment Strategies and Pedagogical Applications working frontier, this panel explores the performativity of physical and pre-conference will share their discoveries and discuss conceptual desert(ed) spaces. opportunities created by assessing theatre pedagogy.

Creating Theatre with and for Seniors Castile 6 FOCUS GROUP: Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) SESSION COORDINATOR: JULY Bonnie L Vorenberg, ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 24-27 SESSION CHAIR: Penny Petersen AZ PARTICIPANTS: Peggy Burgess, Freedom Plaza Senior Living Community Lynnell Corbett, Sun City Anthem Theatrical Society (SCATS) Ann McDonough, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Susan Shear, PrimeTime Players Learn how Senior Theatre companies combine scenes, improvisation workshops, murder mystery dinner theatre, and variety shows to create programs that have something for everyone. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Indigenous Actors--The Im/Possibilities of Representation 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. Princess E Dream Big: Artistic Literacy for the 21st Century FOCUS GROUP: Princess A Theory and Criticism (TC) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Stefani Overman-Tsai, University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION COORDINATOR: Dreaming of a Future: Hawaiian Culture in Performance Today Jay Sierszyn, Wisconsin Lutheran College PARTICIPANTS: SESSION CHAIRS: Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder Beth Osborne, Florida State University Using Site-Specific Devised Theatre in Chajul, Guatemala to Jeanine Belcastro Went, Colorado State University Dream of a Healthier Future ATHE James Brandon, Hillsdale College Kaarin Johnston, College of Saint Benedict, Saint John’s Gibson Alessandro Cima, Tshwane University of Technology 2014 University Dreaming the Impossible: Sarafina! in Black and White and Richard Major, Milligan College Color-Aware Casting in South Africa Christopher Matsos, The University of Findlay Haley Honeman, Arizona State University Shawna Mefferd Carroll, State University of New York, Performance and Mayan Identity in the Yucatan Peninsula Plattsburgh Heidi Nees, Miami University Kathy Privatt, Lawrence University The Im/Possible Archive: Traversing the Written Archive in a Emily Rollie, Monmouth College Field of Embodiment Kathleen Sills, Merrimack College Scholars/practitioners reflect on the challenges of This roundtable of scholars, teachers, and practitioners will representation of indigenous actors in Guatemala, South Africa, apply the principles in Nancy Kindelan’s Artistic Literacy to the Yucatan Peninsula, Hawaii, and in the archive. theatre studies in liberal arts environments and beyond. KICKIR: Keeping it Critical, Keeping it Real Dreaming the Character: Embodying Archetypes to Deepen Princess C 98 and Heighten the Character MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Casita 5320 Black Theatre Association (BTA) FOCUS GROUP: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Acting Program (AP) Women and Theatre Program (WTP) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor Laurelann Porter, Arizona State University Dreaming the Character: Embodying Archetypes to Deepen and SESSION CHAIR: Heighten the Character Erika Hughes, Arizona State University Participants will explore three Archetypal Characters using PARTICIPANTS: Michael Chekhov’s Imaginary Body and Centres exercise and Kareem Khubchandani, Northwestern University apply to them to a character from a play. Beliza Torres Narvez, University of Texas, Austin Erica Ocegueda, Arizona State University Asantewa Sunni-Ali, Arizona State University A round table discussion of solo performance as practice-based research addressing issues such as racial identity, gender performance, community engagement, and dance as cultural JULY expression. 24-27 AZ Saturday, July 26, 2014 Religion and Theatre: New Methodologies for Research, Performance, and Pedagogy 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. Castile 5 Performing a Nightmare, Enacting a Fantasy: Collaborative FOCUS GROUP: Creation in/through David Ives’ Venus in Fur Religion and Theatre (RT) Bourbon 11 SESSION COORDINATOR: FOCUS GROUP: Claire Maria Chambers, Sogang University Directing Program (DP) From Theology to Theory/Theatre: Liturgy and Sacred Space SESSION COORDINATOR AND PARTICIPANT: Kelli Coleman Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION CHAIR: Allan Davis, University of Maryland, College Park PARTICIPANTS: Queer Embodiment, for and in Behalf of: Performing Baptisms Kellyn Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara for the Dead and Sacred Historiography Jeff Mills, University of California, Santa Barbara ATHE This session demonstrates and develops strategies for creating PARTICIPANTS: 2014 consensus- based rehearsal methods that dismantle the Debra Caplan, City University of New York traditionally hierarchical relationship between actor and A Synagogue of Art: Religion, Culture, and the “Theology” of director in the production of scripted drama. Modern Jewish Theatre Kurt Edwards, East Central University Publishing Books with Academic Presses Brecht on Sunday: Comparing Performance Notes of Theatre Bourbon 10 and Homiletics FOCUS GROUP: Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University Research and Publications Committee (RPC) Gods in the Studio: Religion, Language, and Practice SESSION COORDINATOR: Barbara Lewis, University of Massachussetts, Boston Alan Sikes, Louisiana State University Return and Resurrection: Reclaiming the Sanctity of Self in SESSION CHAIR: August Wilson’s Penal Play Carolyn Roark, Editor, Ecumenica Edmund Lingan, University of Toledo, Ohio Academic press editors will discuss book publication across Methodological Approaches to the Study of Religion and 99 the span of the scholarly career, from submitting a first book Theatre proposal to editing a book series. Ben Phelan, Louisiana State University Working Machines: Automata and the Protestant Work Ethic A core working group will present the results of a year-long book proposal project on methodologies for addressing religion in theatre and performance studies.

Renewing the Dream Process: Design Projects that Move from Dream (Concept) to Reality Casita 5232 FOCUS GROUP: Design, Technology and Management (DTM) SESSION COORDINATOR: Lynne Porter, Fairfield University Design Assessment and Collaboration Rubrics PARTICIPANTS: Scott Hengen, Montgomery College JULY Design Project Inspired by Museum Exhibit Analysis 24-27 Ellen Jones, Youngstown State University Engaging Entry-Level Design Students AZ Design instructors share design projects and educational processes that encourage beginning design students to explore various aspects of the design process. Saturday, July 26, 2014 The Personal is Political: Indicting Immigration Policy through Theatre 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CONT. Casita 5130 Southwest Directs: Workshop with Regionally-based MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Professional Directors (Part 2 of 2) Directing Program (DP) Casita 5308 Dramaturgy Program (DR) FOCUS GROUP: Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Directing Program (DP) SESSION COORDINATOR: SESSION COORDINATOR: Lisa Brenner, Drew University Ann Shanahan, Loyola University, Chicago SESSION CHAIR AND PARTICIPANT: SESSION CHAIR: Evelyn Diaz Cruz, University of San Diego, Director of De Lewis Magruder, Miami University of Ohio Donde? PARTICIPANTS: ATHE PARTICIPANT: Rachel Bowditch, Arizona State University 2014 Alicia Tafoya, Northwest Vista College Dwayne Hartford, Childsplay RESPONDENTS: Kathleen M. McGeever, Northern Arizona University Milbre Burch, University of Missouri Joya Scott, Associate Artistic Director and Resident Walter Byongsok Chon, Dramaturg, Orange Theater Group Susan Proctor, Rockhurst University Eva Tessler, Associate Artistic Director Borderlands Theatre Matt Watkins, Artistic Director, Orange Theater Group This session was inspired by the conference locale: Stephen Wrentmore, Arizona Theatre Company performances of two plays depicting how immigration policies affect people politically, socially, and psychologically; panel In this second session, regionally-based professional directors discussion follows. demonstrate rehearsal methods though work on scenes from a common script with undergraduate student actors. Transnational Visions: Performative Interventions in Latin American and Latina/o Performance The Dance Captain: A Dream Job or an Impossible One? Castile 3 Castile 4 FOCUS GROUP: 100 FOCUS GROUP: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND PARTICIPANT: Analola Santana, Dartmouth College Valerie Accetta, University of Alabama, Birmingham PARTICIPANTS: PARTICIPANTS: Annette Levine, Ithaca College Staci Alley, University of Alabama Who are we (Not) to Perform This? Jill Gorrie, San Diego State University Teresa Marrero, University of North Texas This roundtable discusses the Dance Captain, examining the Theoretical Considerations: Crossings, Intentional Theatrical history of the profession, the skills needed and the role of women Liminality and the Locus of Memory in the field. Yvette Martinez-Vu, University of California, Los Angeles An Object of Resistance: An Analysis of the Theatrical Backdrop in Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya’s (FOMMA) Buscando Nuevos Caminos Iani Moreno, Suffolk University Act Globally, Think Locally: Transnational Connections to JULY Border Issues in Hugo Salcedo’s Nosotras que los Queremos 24-27 Tantos Colleen Rua, Bridgewater State University Act Globally, Think Locally: Transnational Connections to AZ Border Issues in Hugo Salcedo’s Nosotras que los Queremos Tantos This panel examines Latin American and Latina/o performances that engage in a transnational vision of art by focusing on methods used to stage performative interventions. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Staged Reading Curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Bourbon 10 Deviant Dreams, Normative Nightmares: Performing FOCUS GROUP: Feminist Revenge Fantasies Dramaturgy Program (DR) Princess G SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: FOCUS GROUP: Carrie J. Cole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Women and Theatre Program (WTP) DIRECTOR: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Joseph Megel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lisa Sloan, University of California, Los Angeles Midday lunches or Petite Dejeuner du Midi By Ramón Griffero Lesbian Femme-inist Fatale: Avenging Violence against Women in Split Britches’s Lesbians Who Kill TRANSLATOR: Adam Versényi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill / PARTICIPANTS: PlayMakers Repertory Company ATHE Jocelyn Buckner, Chapman University Fantasies of Domestic Revenge: Violence and Terror in Lynn A staged reading of a newly translated play curated by the 2014 Nottage’s POOF! and Por’knockers Dramaturgy Focus Group. Domnica Radulescu, Washington and Lee University Dream Building and Sustaining Momentum: Strategies for Feminist Angry Humor and Humorous Revenge: Balkan Girls Fostering Organizational Diversity through the Arts Gone Rogue Sonoran Room This panel brings together critical perspectives on performances FOCUS GROUP: that stage feminist revenge fantasies. Black Theatre Association (BTA)

Digital Dreams: The Impact of Technology in Dance-Media SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Performance Patrick J. Sims, University of Wisconsin, Madison Casita 5308 PARTICIPANTS: FOCUS GROUP: Michael Dinwiddie, New York University Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Michael Pinkney, University of Florida Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University 101 SESSION COORDINATOR: Kevin Brown, University of Missouri This Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group and Black The Character of Media in Performance Theatre Network Joint Session is designed to discuss ways in which theatrical experiences in professional, community and PARTICIPANTS: educational settings can help shape an organizational discourse Anna DeMers, Kean University around issues of diversity and inclusion. The Character of Media in Performance Shana MacDonald, University of Waterloo, Canada Dreaming with Collective Imagination: Devising in and Engaged Artistry: Shary Boyle’s Live Projection Performances across the Liberal Arts Curriculum Teresa Stankiewicz, University of Missouri Princess D Telematic Dance: Creating Dream Spaces with Movement and FOCUS GROUP: Technology Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) This panel explores the use of technology in dance-media SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: performances, including the combination of live dancers with Janeve West, Cornell College digital projections and telematic dance. Dreaming Together; Imagine, Suppose and Devise in Partnership with the Liberal Arts Curriculum PARTICIPANTS: JULY Jessie Mills, Wabash College As Dreams are Made On; Empowering an Ensemble of 24-27 Individuals through Collaboration and Devised Theatre Melissa Thompson, University of Arizona AZ Dreaming a Bigger Dream; Devising beyond Identity Politics in the Liberal Arts Beth Watkins, Allegheny College Devising is a Dream Act; Liberal Arts, Devising and Practice-led Research Practitioners and educators of devised performance discuss and share examples of interdisciplinary experimentation encouraged in their liberal arts curricula. Audience participation in discussion is welcomed. Saturday, July 26, 2014 Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Dreaming of Praxis--Pushing the Limits of Im/Possibilities in Rehearsal, 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. Pedagogy, and Performance Dreams for the Future: Empowering Students through Princess E Service-Learning Projects FOCUS GROUP: Castile 6 Theory and Criticism (TC) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Two-Year College Program (TYCP) Jane Barnette, University of Kansas SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Ryan McKinney, City University of New York, Kingsborough David Coley, Saint Gregory’s University Community College Unholy Nightmares: Liveness, Repetition, and the Theatrical PARTICIPANTS: Continuum Steven Hitt, City University of New York, LaGuardia ATHE Neal Hebert, Louisiana State University Community College Dreaming of a Better Prompt Book: Im/Possibility and 2014 Mauricio Salgado, Artists Striving to End Poverty Performance Notation Stefanie Sertich, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College Sofia Hurtado, Louisiana State University Dreaming of a Better Prompt Book: Im/Possibility and A panel exploring how theatre programs and non-profit Performance Notation organizations can collaborate to create valuable civic David Marcia, Beloit College engagement opportunities that offer students both social- Perezhivanie: The Past, the Fictional, and the Rhythm of Lived emotional and theatrical educations. Experience (Im)migrant Dreams 2: American and Other, Performing Inga Gerner Nielsen Cultural Citizenship Fiction Pimps the Ways of Materializing Imagination Casita 5130 Danielle Sather, Texas A&M University MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Paradise Now in Prison: Children’s Prison Art Project and The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Living Theatre 102 Theatre History (TH) Jon Foley Sherman, Franklin and Marshall College Theatre and Social Change (TASC) The Neutral Mask is Not Neutral SESSION COORDINATOR: Scholar/practitioners explore how the im/possible, from Megan Geigner, Northwestern University liveness and Stanislavski to prisons and masks, can spark Assimilation and Hyphenate Identity: Italian Performance at innovations in practice and performance. Hull House Living Fiction; Real Time: On Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz SESSION CHAIR: Castile 5 Charlotte McIvor, National University of Ireland, Galway FOCUS GROUP: PARTICIPANTS: Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Maria Patrice Amon, University of California, Irvine and San Diego SESSION COORDINATOR: Contested Cultural Citizenship in Bloody, Bloody Andrew Beth Hoffmann, George Mason University Jackson Realizing Gatsby: Figuring the Authenticity of Narrative in Gatz Andrew Gibb, Texas Tech University PARTICIPANTS: Citizenship and Justice: Las Gorras Blancas, El Partido del John Collins, Elevator Repair Service Pueblo Unido, and Nuevomexicano Civil Rights Making Gatz: The Five-Year Experiment in Putting The Great JULY Papers consider the dramaturgy of theatrical and everyday Gatsby, all of it, On Stage 24-27 performances of Americanness, citizenship, and “the other” Jon Foley Sherman, Franklin and Marshall College in moments of nation-making in the long 19th-century United Waiting, Wanting, Witnessing at Durational Performance States. This panel places scholars in dialogue with ERS’s artistic AZ director, John Collins, to consider how Gatz materializes and temporalizes the (American) dream-spaces of Fitzgerald’s novel. Saturday, July 26, 2014 The Family Dream House 2: Re-Dreaming Home in Performance 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM CONT. Princess A Living the Dream: Professional Development Panel for MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Theatre and Social Change Practitioners/Scholars Dramaturgy Program (DR) Casita 5320 PERFORMANCE STUDIES FOCUS GROUP (PSFG) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSION - FOCUS GROUPS: Religion and Theatre (RT) Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Two-Year College Program (TYCP) SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Professional Development Committee (PDC) Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Liz Foster-Shaner, University of Wisconsin Emily Klein, Birmingham-Southern College Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Pittsburgh’s Squonk Opera and San SESSION CO-CHAIRS: Francisco’s Magic Bus Perform Locality and Hometown ATHE Sarah Senff, University of Missouri Michael Wilson, City University of New York Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, Concordia University, Montreal 2014 The Making of Attawapiskat is no Exceptionà: Positions, PARTICIPANTS: Implications and Affective Responses Lisa Brenner, Drew University Christopher Ceraso, Drew University LaRonika Thomas, University of Maryland Kimberly Dark, California State University, San Marcos [RE]BUILT/[RE]SCRIPT/[RE]PURPOSE: The Performance of Theresa R. Dudeck, Chapman University Identity and Domestic Place-Making in the Work of Theaster Gates David Kaye, University of New Hampshire This panel is part of a three-session series that explores how the Julie E. Lewis, Community College of Baltimore County family house has been re-dreamed on stage, through ritual, and Professional practitioners/scholars provide advice on the using collaborative performances. current job market and funding opportunities for people who are The Resilient Actor - Renewing Sensation from the Inside Out particularly interested in Theatre and Social Change. Bourbon 9 Putting the Science in Your Science-Themed Play FOCUS GROUP: Castile 3 Acting Program (AP) 103 FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Connie Rotunda, State University of New York, New Paltz SESSION COORDINATOR AND CHAIR: PARTICIPANTS: George Morgan, California Institute of Technology Nancy Saklad, State University of New York, New Paltz This panel will discuss research methods and writing Participants will experience the internal life of the character techniques to keep the science themes and references in your through inner sensations supported by the physical ease play accurate and bullet proof. discovered in the Feldenkrais work. Please bring a few lines of memorized text to work with. Teaching Teachers to Dream: Social Engagement in Theatre Teacher Education Wet Dreams: New Perspectives on Pornography, Burlesque, Princess C and the Pleasures of Viewing FOCUS GROUP: Casita 5232 Theatre and Social Change (TASC) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR AND PARTICIPANT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Kellyn Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara SESSION COORDINATOR: PARTICIPANTS: Aaron Thomas, Florida State University JULY Kristin Katsu, Western Illinois University Pornography and its Double: Cruelty, Pleasure, and the Theatre 24-27 Joan Lazarus, University of Texaxs, Austin of Artaud An interactive panel considering the possibilities and PARTICIPANTS: practicalities of social engagement in theatre teacher education. Frank Miller, Georgia State University AZ Strippers, Sisters and Saphists: Queer Representation in Films about Burlesque Ken Nielsen, This Piece of Filth: Kane, Pornographic Tragedy, and the Ethics of Spectating This panel reconsiders voyeurism, pornography, and the theatrical pleasure of viewing. Panelists reconsider pornography and burlesque as productive lenses for viewership and ethical considerations. Saturday, July 26, 2014 8:30 PM 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Black Theatre Association Networking Dinner Offsite Vessel Presents Unreal City: Remixes of the Arizona Landscape FOCUS GROUP: Hotel Grounds – meet at Princess Falls Black Theatre Association (BTA) FOCUS GROUP: SESSION COORDINATOR: Conference Committee (CC) Patrick J. Sims, University of Wisconsin, Madison SESSION COORDINATOR: Networking opportunities for faculty, graduate students and Rachel Bowditch, Arizona State University others who are interested in BTA and mentoring up-and- coming artists and scholars of Black Theatre. Individuals are Unreal City: Remixes of the Arizona Landscape is silent devised responsible for his/her own meal and beverages. Location TBA. work that explores the beauty, poetry, and fragility of the desert, ATHE the reality of water shortage, and the prospect of Phoenix becoming one of the largest ghost towns in the world when our 2014 water supply runs out—Phoenix as a mirage.

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Intimate Acts: Banned Play Readings Princess D FOCUS GROUP: Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) SESSION COORDINATORS: Jason Bisping, University of Colorado, Boulder Patricia Herrera, University of Richmond Karen Jean Martinson, Chicago State University

PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS: 104 Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story, by Cherrie Moraga The Great Goodness of Life, by Amiri Baraka The Panza Monologues, by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdes

DIRECTORS: Samanta “Sami” Cubias** Laura Dougherty Rosa Lisbeth Navarrete** Jason Ramirez Mary Stephens* PERFORMERS: Erica Ocegueda* Alex Bonte** Jeff Paden Jennifer Covarrubias** Logan Phillips* Samanta “Sami” Cubias** Marcelino Quiñonez Micha Espinosa Solimar Otero JULY Yovani Flores* Kimberly Ramirez Martha Herrera-Lasso** 24-27 Adrian Ramos** Joshua Inocencio Sharee Rivera** Steffan Jones* Natalie Sanchez** AZ Alma Martinez Tomas Stanton* Eric Mayer-Garcia Aaron C. Thomas Rosa Lisbeth Navarrete** Rashaad Thomas*

*Participants in the Banned Plays reading series and programming for Arizona State University-Performance in the Borderlands **Teatro and the Performance Collective, University of California, Berkeley