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b esigned D Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin January 6 to 11, 2009 Hosted by Saginaw Valley State University Presented and Produced by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is sponsored by Delta Air Lines Additional support is provided by: The U.S. Department of Education Dr. and Mrs. Gerald McNichols The Laura Pels International Foundation The Kennedy Center Corporate Fund The National Committee for the Performing Arts

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 2009 Festival Productions The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, translated by Jean-Claude van Itallie Purdue University Chekhov’s monumental masterpiece of unrequited love, failed ambition and the changing face of Russian theatre is presented here within a theatrical world of heightened realism and vivid metaphor. Mobile aquariums, the color TV of 1890’s Russia, white period furniture floating on a high gloss black floor, cascading light bulbs, a heightened Edwardian fashion sensibility and Gypsy music all pay homage to Chekhov’s own desire to have symbol and metaphor more fully represent the world of his plays. FRIDAY, January 9 8:00 PM Temple Theatre

How I Learned to Drive The Trojan Women by Paula Vogel by Euripides, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin University of Michigan-Flint Oakland University “How I Learned to Drive” unfolds with all the slow motion clarity of an impend- The Women of Troy struggle with the aftermath of war and destruction of ing car crash as we witness the social dynamic that exposes a young girl to the sys- their beloved homeland. Playwright Ellen McLaughlin developed her riveting tematic sexual predations of her sympathetic uncle. Enacted by the victim’s older interpretation of this classic work in 1996. Performed with prologue/epi- self, this story of loss is transformed into one of recovery and forgiveness. logue by the company and shadow interpreters for deaf and hard of hearing patrons. saturday January 10 FRIDAY, January 9 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM Noon, 3:00 pm & 6:00 pm Malcolm Field Theatre Black Box Theatre

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Balkan Women by Jules Tasca University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Set in Serbia under the reign of Slobodan Milosevic, “The Balkan Women” tells the story of Amina and her activist daughter Samira who are being “detained” in a prison camp for Muslim women. The horrors of war are a daily reality for women caught in an endless cycle of violence.

THURSDAY, January 8 9:00 am, 1:00 pm & 8:00 pm Black Box Theatre

Spike Heels by Theresa Rebeck University of Indianapolis “Pygmalion” goes awry in this contemporary comedy, which explores sex, power, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle. The combatants are a sexy, volatile, young woman and three upscale Boston types: a writer, a lawyer and a fiancée in sensible shoes.

SATURDAY, January 10 9:00 am, Noon & 4:00 pm Black Box Theatre

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel University of Michigan-Flint “How I Learned to Drive” unfolds with all the slow motion clarity of an impending car crash as we witness the social dynamic that exposes a young girl to the sys- tematic sexual predations of her sympathetic uncle. Enacted by the victim’s older self, this story of loss is transformed into one of recovery and forgiveness.

saturday January 10 9:00 AM & 12:00 PM Malcolm Field Theatre

Dearborn Americana by Christian Krauspe Western Illinois University “Dearborn Americana” is a political farce involving three Russian spies who attempt to kidnap Henry Ford so that he can help rebuild the strug- gling new Soviet Union. As an undergraduate theatre student at Western Illinois University, “Dearborn Americana” playwright Christian Krauspe (’07), received a Best New Play award at the ’07 American College The- atre Festival.

SATURDAY, January 10 8:00 PM Temple Theatre

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 2009 Festival Productions Never the Sinner The Saint Plays by John Logan by Erik Ehn University of Wisconsic-Stevens Point Goshen College In 1920s Chicago, two handsome, wealthy young men plan the perfect “The Saint Plays” explore connections between historical saints, contem- murder. Based on the sensational true story of Nathan Leopold and porary life, earthly existence, spirit and eternity. They are poetic, playful Richard Loeb, who shocked the nation when they murdered a 14 year-old and political, and concern themselves with unanswerable questions about boy simply to prove they could, “Never The Sinner” is a compelling look brokenness and suffering. This production also includes an original piece, at the media circus surrounding the “Crime of the Century” and the two “When I Rose (Rose of Viterbo)” written by the playwright in memory of teenagers who stood at the center of it. Goshen College theatre student Deanne Binde.

THURSDAY, January 8 FrIDAY, January 9 1:00 pm & 8:00 pm 12:00 PM & 4:00 PM Malcolm Field Theatre Malcolm Field Theatre

Perfect Little Angel by Aaron Wineman Central Michigan University After trying to black mail Jesus, Bob the Angel is sent to Hell, where he dis- covers Satan and God have a history that no one could have ever expected. Wicked, irreverent fun!

FRIDAY, January 9 11:00 PM Recital Hall

Swap Desk Since admission to all performances is by ticket only, and because each school will receive only a limited number of tickets, a swap desk is available. Participants wishing to exchange tickets may do so Wednesday through Saturday at the Festival Registration Desk. A one-to-one exchange may be made for productions still to be seen at the Festival.

The swap desk will be open 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM on Wednesday and two hours prior to each performance. Participants may trade any valid ticket for any available ticket. In the event that tickets are still available within fifteen minutes of the show’s curtain time, remaining tickets will be distributed without the necessity of a trade. Five minutes before any performance starting time, remaining seats will be available for non-ticket holders.

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Welcome hange” has been the word of the year. In a political campaign year, “change” was held out as a mantra of hope. In the sphere of economics, “change” meant that we no longer “Cdo business as usual. And for Region III of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, “change” is also the name of the game.

It’s a very real change to be in Saginaw, Michigan. The last time our festival was held in this great state was 1985 at Western Michigan University’s Festival XVII. It is significant to be in Michigan 24 years later with a renewed attention to change. The faculty and administration of Saginaw Valley State University and the local businesses have been exceptionally welcoming. This change of venue is a reason for celebration!

Change is not always so easy, and a more difficult example is the reorganization of our region from a collection of five Midwestern states to a region of four. Ohio and all of its constituent schools will officially become part of Region II beginning with the productions of this winter and spring semester. Change of this sort comes with regret, but also with new possibilities. To all our friends and colleagues in Ohio we send our thanks for many years in Region III and our best wishes for great years to come with Region II.

As we wrap up our third festival as co-chairs, we prepare to hand off the leadership of the region to a new team of capable guides. Kerro Knox and Ansley Valentine will step up as the new co-chairs of Region III, and will be joined by a team of willing volunteers. We look forward to the growth in new areas of student directing, dramaturgy, and stage management. New student artists and leaders will be identified in each of these areas. We take pride in the new web-site design, as well as the beginning of “the costume parade” spectacular, but mostly in the accomplishments of each student who participates in KCACTF on home campuses, at the regional festival, or in Washing ton, DC. Congratulations to all for being agents of change: creative artists whose contributions move us forward.

- Finally, in this season of change we can’t help but look back and thank all who have helped with festivals in Milwaukee and Saginaw. Thanks too to the respon dents who visit campuses throughout the year. We have had a great time meeting people within Region - III and around the country. Each individual contact has broadened our outlook on the future of theatre in this country, and has given us hope for the change that is to come.

Tom Mitchell and Sandi Zielinski Co-chairs, KCACTF Region III

Table of Contents KCACTF National Staff...... 7 Festival Respondents and Guests ...... 44 Major Festival Events at a Glance...... 14 Participating and Associate Productions...... 49 Participating Production Responses...... 21 Certificates of Merit...... 51 2009 Design Exposition Participants...... 26 Student Designers for Productions...... 53 2010 Design Projects...... 29 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees...... 55 Special Events...... 31 Associate Production Respondents...... 58 Faculty Memorials...... 32 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees...... 59 National Playwriting Program (NPP)...... 34 Past Regional Chairs...... 60 O’Neill Critics’ Institute Institute, Directing, Dramaturgy...... 36 Previous Festival Productions...... 61 Festival Workshops...... 37

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Festival Credits Saginaw Valley State University Region III Executive Committee Dr. Eric Gilberston, President Tom Mitchell, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Region Co-Chair Dr. Donald Bachand, Vice President of Academic Affairs Sandra Zielinski, Illinois State University, Region Co-Chair Dr. Mary Hedberg, Dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences Michael Swanson, Elizabethtown College, Past Region Chair, National Critics Institute Chair Dr. Steve Erickson, Chair of the Department of Theatre Kerro Knox 3, Oakland University, Region Co-Vice-Chair, Irene Ryan Coordinator Ansley Valentine, The College of Wooster, Region Co-Vice-Chair, Diversity Coordinator Festival Staff Russ Jones, Purdue University, Design and Technology Chair Ric Roberts, Festival Host, Saginaw Valley State University Gion de Francesco, Miami University, Design and Technology Co-Vice-Chair Kelly Helmreich, Registration Coordinator M.C. Friedrich, Michigan Technological University, Design and Technology Co-Vice-Chair Ansley Valentine, The College of Wooster, Program Designer Erik Ramsey, Ohio University, National Playwriting (NPP) Chair Dr. Steve Erickson, Festival Technical Coordinator Steve Feffer, Western Michigan University, National Playwriting (NPP) Vice-Chair Brett Elliott, Student Festival Technical Coordinator Region III State Chairs Jerry Dennis, SVSU Technical Director Michelle Bombe, Hope College, Michigan State Chair John Block, Manager, Temple Theatre Bob Ellis, Cuyhoga Community College, Ohio State Chair Alissa Hetzner and Mary Dyer, Ryan Accompanist Bill Kincaid, Western Illinois University, Illinois State Chair VOLUNTEERS Laura Riddle, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Wisconsin State Chair Katie Sullivan, St. Mary’s College, Indiana State Chair Saginaw Valley State University Staff and Students Michigan Technological University Theatre Students Region III Coordinators and Committee Members-at-Large Western Illinois University Theatre Students Scott Irelan, Augustana College, Dramaturgy Coordinator Sherry McFadden, Indiana State University, Workshop Coordinator Special Thanks Jim Ream, University of Indianapolis, Technical Advisor Sue Hill, Michigan Technological University Amy Sarno, Beloit College, Directing Coordinator Sue Brasseur, Director of University Conference and Events Center Joe Flauto, University of Evansville Wendy Scott, Saginaw County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Mark Liermann, Western Michigan University Jason Hynes,SVSU Student, Thespis Logo Designer Wendy Mortimer, Ball State University Steve Dasher, SJDasher and Company, Program Printers Connie Petersen, Marquette University Dean Yohnk, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Festival Sponsors KCACTF Region III Staff Saginaw Valley State University Temple Theatre Lauren Friesen, University of Michigan-Flint, Historian Dow Chemical Company Sue Hill, Michigan Technological University, Webmaster Saginaw County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Danielle Kiel, Illinois State University, Assistant to the Chairs The Savoy Restaurant, Downtown Saginaw Bay Valley Resort & Conference Center Sheraton Four Points Hotel Holiday Inn Express Special Thank You’s: The Office of Dr. Mary Hedberg, Ramada Inn SVSU Dean College of Arts & Behavioral Sciences Saginaw Valley State University Conference and Events Center The Office of President Gilbertson Saginaw Valley State University The Office of Sue Brasseur & Kristen Willert, University Conference and Events Center The Office of Dr. Donald Bachand, SVSU Vice President of Academic Affairs Departments of Communication & Theatre, Administrative Secretary Kelly J. Helmreich The Office of Jim Muladore, Vice President of Administration and Business Affairs The Office of Matt Wilton, University Campus Dining

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival KCACTF National Staff The Kennedy Center KCACTF Regional Chairs Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman Kelly Morgan, Fitchburg State College, Region I Michael M. Kaiser, President Juliet Wunsch, West Chester University, Region II Darrell M. Ayers, Vice-President, Education Tom Mitchell, University of Illinois; Sandi Zielinski, Illinois State University, Region III Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF Jeff Gibson, Middle Tennessee State University, Region IV Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF Tom Woldt, Simpson College, Region V (National Chair of Chairs) Penelope Hasekoester, Sam Houston State University, Region VI KCACTF National Committee Mindi Logan, University of Portland, Region VII Dr. Harry Parker, National Chair Jim Taulli, California State University-Fullerton, Region VIII Rebecca Hilliker, National Vice Chair Daniel Larocque, Member at Large KCACTF Design and Technologies Chairs David Lee Painter, Member at Large John Paul Devlin; Chase Rozelle, Region I Debra Bergsma Otte, Member at Large Michael Allen, Region II Mark Kuntz, Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison Russ Jones, Region III David C. (“Kip”) Shawger, Jr., National Chair, Design and Technologies Donna Meester, Region IV Karen Anselm, National Vice Chair, Design and Technologies Sharon Sobel, Region V Holly Monsos, USITT Representative J.C. Laucks, Region VI Jeff Koep, National Partners of American Theatre Ronn Campbell, Region VII Geof Eroe, Region VIII KCACTF National Playwriting Program (NPP) The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Committee KCACTF 41 National Selection Team Roger Hall, National Chair Kaleta Brown Joel Murray, National Vice Chair Catherine Norgren Robert Boles; Dr. Crystal Brian, Region I Steve Reynolds Ruth Childs, Region II Erik Ramsey, Region III Deborah Anderson, Region IV David Crespy, Region V Gretchen Smith, Region VI Dr. Eric Prince, Region VII Douglas Hill, Region VIII KCACTF Region III would like to recognize the support, through student award monies, of the following organizations:

The Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers (SSD&C) Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) National Partners of American Theatre United States Institute for TheatreTechnology (USITT) Barbizon Mehron The Alcone Company Focal Press Thomson/Wadsworth Harcourt Brace

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival General Festival Information Registration Shuttle Registration will be open in Groening Commons at the Information Desk, Saginaw Val- Regular shuttle service will be provided to transport festival participants between ho- ley State University. tels and festival events. Service is limited. Please check the schedule insert. Tuesday, January 6 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM Wednesday, January 7 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM Parking Thursday, January 8 9:00 AM to 7:30 PM Free Parking is available on the SVSU campus in J1 and J2 Lots, directly in front of the Friday, January 9 9:00 AM to 7:30 PM University. Parking at the Temple Theatre is available at the ramp directly across the Saturday, January 10 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM street from the theatre. Cost per car $5.00 Multiple Venues/Ticketing Computer Lab and Wireless Access Festival 41 will use multiple venues and an overlapping schedule of productions and A public computer lab is located in Groening Commons. Wireless access may be ob- workshops. Each college or university will be assigned a limited number of tickets for tained in the same area. The network login is Conference and Events. The pass- the participating productions based upon the number of registrants from each school. word is SVSU cards 08. Tickets should be distributed to students by a representative from each institution after checking in at the Festival Registration Desk. Daytime Faculty Room Swap Desk The Faculty Lounge will be in C204. The room will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for all faculty members of participating schools. Since admission to all performances is by ticket only, and because each school will receive only a limited number of tickets, a swap desk is available. Participants wish- Hospitality Suite ing to exchange tickets may do so Wednesday through Saturday at the Festival Registration Desk. A one-to-one exchange may be made for productions The Hospitality Suite for Theatre Faculty and Special Guests will be open Wednesday still to be seen at the Festival. through Saturday evenings at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel Room 605. Shuttles between the Festival Hotels will run during the festivities. The swap desk will be open 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM on Wednesday and two hours prior to each performance. Participants may trade any valid ticket for Disability Accommodations any available ticket. In the event that tickets are still available within fifteen minutes Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) and the Ameri- of the show’s curtain time, remaining tickets will be distributed without the necessity cans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (42 U.S.C. 12101-12213), KCACTF welcomes of a trade. Five minutes before any performance starting time, remaining persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations for those with seats will be available for non-ticket holders. disabilities. If you need assistance, please contact us and we will do everything in our Venues power to meet your request. The Festival features four different production venues: Saginaw Valley State University Directions to Temple Theatre From SVSU campus: Malcolm Field Theatre for the Performing Arts (525 seats), Black Box Theatre Turn Left onto Bay Rd. follow to Tittabawassee Rd. (81 seats), and the Recital Hall (274 seats); and the Temple Theatre (1700 seats). Each Turn Left onto Tittabawassee Rd. follow to I-675 S. venue will provide exciting possibilities for Festival 41 participants and performers. Take I-675 S three miles to the “Jefferson Ave.- Downtown” Exit #2B. and immediately curve right onto North Jefferson. Turn right onto westbound Johnson St. (Dow Event Specific locations and times of all events are indicated in Schedule of Events section Center) Up 1 block on the left is the parking ramp for all downtown events. It is directly of each program area. Participants should check with the Festival Registration Desk in across the street from the Temple Theatre. (Parking is $5.00 per car in the ramp.) Park- Groening Commons for schedule changes. ing is available for free on the streets surrounding the theatre.

Meals To return to the Hotels on the Tittabwassee corridor follow the signs on Johnson Street The Saginaw Valley State University dining area will be open during the festival. Called next to the parking ramp for I-675 North. Well marked. Take I-675 north to the Tittab- RFOC, it will serve buffet-style 11:00AM - 2:00PM from Wednesday through Satur- wassee Rd. Exit, turn left once you exit. day.Cash sales only. The Traveling C-Store provides snacks and drinks, and will be available at the Reg- Emergency Contact Phone Numbers istration Desk daily. SVSU Festival Information Desk (989) 964-4261 SVSU Campus Police (989) 964-4141 Michigan State Police Post (989) 777-3700 Saginaw County Sheriff (989) 797-4580

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Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 11 Regional Reorganization

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KCACTF Kennedy Center AmeriCAn College theAtre FestivAl On August 5, 2008, the National Committee of KCACTF voted unanimously to reorganize the 8 KCACTF Regions. We are all convinced that the new regional boundaries will be a great improvement for our organization for many years to come. 1 The new Region 1 has added the NE part of New York state to the region. It now consists of: Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and NE New York. 2 The new Region 2 has lost the NE part of New York state, but retains the SW part of New York. It has also added the state of Ohio, West Virginia, and the northern part of Virginia. It now consists of: SW New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, northern Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio. 3 The new Region 3 has lost Ohio. It now consists of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. 4 The new Region 4 has lost West Virginia and northern Virginia. It now consists of Kentucky, southern Virginia, Ten- nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. 5 The new Region 5 has lost Missouri. It now consists of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. 6 The new Region 6 has added Missouri. It now consists of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri. 7 The new Region 7 has added the northern parts of California and Nevada. It now consists of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, northern California and northern Nevada. 8 The new Region 8 has lost the northern parts of California and Nevada. It now consists of southern parts of Cali- fornia, southern Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Hawaii.

nAtionAl ProPerties While Alaska and Hawaii will remain, technically, as members of Regions 7 and 8, respectively, they will be designated as National Properties to help those regions with the high expenses involved in sending respondents to those states. This means that the Kennedy Center will work with Regional Chairs in Regions 7 and 8 to coordinate respondents and expenses to Alaska and Hawaii. Continued on next panel

12 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Why is regionAl reorgAnizAtion imPortAnt? It’s been over 15 years since KCACTF last re-drew regional boundary lines and in those years some patterns have become very clear. Every year, some current regions have many more associate and participating entries, as well as many more Regional Festival attendees, than other regions. In fact, some regions regularly have more than twice as many entries and attendees than other regions. The pattern is clear year after year: some of our regions have grown “too large,” while others remain “too small,” based primarily on the number of colleges and universities available to enter in each region with the current regional boundaries. This inequity is of concern to everyone in the country – it makes it more difficult for schools in the larger regions to be recognized for their students’ outstanding work (productions, playwriting, acting, design, etc.) because the number of entries is so much higher. This inequity makes it tougher for the smaller regions, as well. For example, some of them annually struggle to put together a top-notch slate of participating entries for the Regional Festival, or to find excellent representatives to send to the Kennedy Center in the various scholarship programs, because the pool of participants is so small. So the primary goal in reorganization was to re-draw regional boundary lines in such a way that, based on recent trends and statistics, the eight regions would be somewhat closer to one another in number of entries and festival attendees. Of course the regions won’t all be equal, but we’re convinced they will be closer and that was the goal. To accomplish this, some regions are larger geographically, and some are smaller. In some cases, we have moved entire states to a neighboring region. In other cases, we have drawn new regional boundary lines that cut across state lines. The National Committee took into account all of the ramifications of these new boundaries that we could, and while we acknowledge that there will be some growing pains as we adjust to these new regions, we are convinced that in the long-term the organization has been greatly improved.

When does the reorgAnizAtion go into eFFeCt? The new regional boundaries will go into effect for Festival 42, which will begin with associate and participating entries which are entered for the calendar year 2009 – next January. The first set of regional festivals which will reflect the newly formed regions will occur in January and February of 2010. If you have already entered productions for the spring semester of 2009, and you now find yourself in a different region, simply contact your current regional chair. They will help you navigate the changes you need to make in your registration and help answer any questions you may have about your new regional residence. thAnK you We hope you’ll choose to join our sense of excitement about a national KCACTF map that includes 8 regions which are far more equitable. We’re convinced this reorganization is a major positive step forward for all of us, and especially for your talented students whose work we want to recognize in the best way possible.

Dr. Harry B. Parker Two Faculty Events to Discuss Realignment Chair, TCU Department of Theatre Friday, January 9 National Chair, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 5:00 pm-5:30 pm PO Box 297510 State Caucuses–C224 Fort Worth, TX 76129 5:30 Pm-7:00 Pm (817) 257-7625 Faculty Dinner [email protected] Keynote Speaker: Harry Parker, KCACTF National Chair www.theatre.tcu.edu Emeriti Room – Saginaw Valley State University Open to all faculty. Advance registration required. DUE BY 5:00 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 7. No Exceptions. Cost: $10.00

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 13 Major Festival Events at a Glance

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10-Minute Play Festival Auditions Recital Hall Balkan Women Rehearsal Dance Studio (C181)

Design & Tech Design & Tech Registration & Load In Design Expo OrientationTech Malcolm Field Theatre Evening of Scenes Rehearsal Malcolm Field Theatre Evening of Scenes Costume Parade Ryan Finalists Announced Malcolm Field Theatre

Evening of Scenes Info Meeting Tech Malcolm Field Theatre Orientation Tech Black Box Theatre Load In Balkan Women Black Box Theatre

Registration Check In Begins Groening Commons Irene Ryan Check-In Irene Ryan Rehearsals Irene Ryan Preliminary Round Meeting--C224 Judges Ryan Student Orientation Groening Commons Irene Ryan Preliminary Rounds Rooms Various Ryan Semifinalists Announced Groening Commons Irene Ryan Semifinals Group A Recital Hall Group B Seminar D-G Never the Sinner Rehearsal Seminar G Opening Night Party Sheraton4 Points Hotel 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 8:15 AM 8:15 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 8:45 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 2:45 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 8:00 AM 8:30 AM 9:00 AM 1:30 AM uesday, January 6 uesday, 12:00 PM 12:00 11:00 AM 11:00 10:00 PM 10:00 PM 10:00 PM 10:45 01:00 PM 01:00 10:00 AM 10:00 T January 7 Wednesday,

14 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Major Festival Events at a Glance

Tuesday, January 6 5:00 PM Registration Begins & Continues through Festival Groening Commons

Design & Tech Load In Expo Hall Groening Commons

Irene Ryan Check In Groening Commons

7:00 PM Ryan Student Rehearsals

Trojan Women Rehearsal-- Women Trojan Dance Studio (C181) 8:00 PM Evening of Scenes Tech Orientation Malcolm Field Theatre

Wednesday, January 7 8:00 AM

Saint Plays Rehearsal Seminar G Irene Ryan Preliminary Round Judges Meeting C224

8:30 AM Ryan Student Orientation Groening Commons

9:00 AM Ryan Prelim Feedback Ryan Semi Final Feedback Seagull Rehearsal Seminar E Irene Ryan Preliminary Rounds Various Rooms

1:00 PM

Tech Orientation Malcolm Field Theatre

2:00 PM Never the Sinner Load In Malcolm Field Theatre Never the Sinner Malcolm Field Theatre Irene Ryan Finals Up Warm Malcolm Field Theatre Design Reception Design Expo Tech Orientation

Black Box Theatre

2:30 PM Ryan Semifinalists Announced Groening Commons

3:00 PM

Opening Ceremony Irene Ryan Finals Malcolm Field Theatre Never the Sinner Malcolm Field Theatre Never the Sinner Load Out Olympics Tech Malcolm Field Theatre Irene Ryan Semifinals Group A Recital Hall

Group B Seminar D-G Balkan Women Load In

Black Box Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival Auditions Dance Studio (C181)

Balkan Women Black Box Theatre Balkan Women Black Box Theatre Balkan Women Black Box Theatre Load Out Balkan Women 3:30 PM Evening of Scenes Rehearsal Malcolm Field Theatre 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 3:45 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM 8:30 AM 9:00 AM 9:30 AM 1:30 AM 11:30 PM 11:30 12:30 PM 12:30 11:00 AM 11:00 10:30 PM 10:30 12:30 AM 12:30 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 10:30 hursday, JanuaryT hursday, 8

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 15 Major Festival Events at a Glance

7:00 PM Balkan Women Never the Sinner Rehearsal Black Box Theatre Seminar G Never the Sinner Balkan Women Rehearsal Malcolm Field Theatre Dance Studio (C181) 10:30 PM 8:00 PM Balkan Women Load Out Evening of Scenes Black Box Theatre Costume Parade Never the Sinner Load Out Ryan Finalists Announced Malcolm Field Theatre Malcolm Field Theatre 11:30 PM 10:45 PM Tech Olympics Opening Night Party Malcolm Field Theatre State Caucuses--C224 Never the Sinner Show & Tech Never the Sinner Show & Tech Response--C224 Faculty Dinner--Emeriti Room-- Harry Parker Keynote 4 Points Sheraton Hotel Friday, January 9 Thursday, January 8 7:30 AM 8:30 AM Trojan Women Load In Never the Sinner Load In Black Box Theatre Malcolm Field Theatre Saint Plays Load In Malcolm Field Theatre 9:00 AM

Balkan Women Show & Tech Show & Tech Balkan Women Response--C-100 Spike Heels Rehearsal--Dance Studio C181 Dearborn Americana Rehearsal--Seminar G Balkan Women 9:00 AM Black Box Theatre Balkan Women Show & Tech

Ryan Prelim Feedback Response--C-100 Never the Sinner Show & Tech 10:30 AM Response--C224 Ryan Semi Final Feedback 10:00 AM 1:00 PM Ryan Finalist Feedback Ryan Finalist Feedback Arbury 105 Shakespeare Behind Bars (Tickets Required) C100 How I Learned to Drive Rehearsal--Seminar G Balkan Women Arbury 105 Black Box Theatre Never the Sinner 12:00 PM Malcolm Field Theatre Trojan Women Black Box Theatre 3:30 PM Saint Plays Irene Ryan Finals Warm Up Malcolm Field Theatre Malcolm Field Theatre Shakespeare Behind Bars Temple Theatre Tech Theatre Tech Temple Orientation Seagull Load in Theatre Seagull--Temple Seagull Load out Theatre Temple C100 (Tickets Required) 4:00 PM

Opening Ceremony 2:00 PM Irene Ryan Finals Temple Theatre Tech Orientation Malcolm Field Theatre

3:00 PM 6:00 PM Trojan Women

Saint Plays Load In Malcolm Field Theatre Saint Plays Malcolm Field Theatre Saint Plays Malcolm Field Theatre Saint Plays Load Out Malcolm Field Theatre LearnedHowI to Drive In Load Malcolm Field Theatre Perfect Little Angel Recital Hall Design Reception Black Box Theatre Design Expo Seagull Load in

How I Learned to Drive Rehearsal-

7:00 PM -Seminar G Seagull Rehearsal

Seminar E 4:00 PM Saint Plays Rehearsal Saint Plays Seminar G Malcolm Field Theatre

Trojan Women Load In Women Trojan Black Box Theatre Women Trojan Black Box Theatre Women Trojan Black Box Theatre Women Trojan Black Box Theatre Load Out Women Trojan Black Box Theatre Spike Heels Load In Black Box Theatre Trojan Women Rehearsal--Dance Spike Heels Rehearsal--Dance Studio (C181) Studio C181 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 7:30 AM 7:30 9:00 AM 12:00 AM 12:00 2:30 PM 11:00 PM 11:00 12:00 PM 12:00 11:00 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 10:30 PM 10:30 10:00 AM 10:00 08:00 PM

Friday, January 9 Friday, 8:00 PM 5:00 PM

16 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival State Caucuses--C224 12:00 PM Spike Heels

Friday, January 9 Black Box Theatre 5:30 PM How I Learned to Drive Saint Plays Load Out Malcolm Field Theatre Malcolm Field Theatre Faculty Dinner--Emeriti Room-- 2:00 PM Seagull Response C100 Harry Parker Keynote How...Drive Load Out 10-Minute Play Festival

6:00 PM Recital Hall Trojan Women Black Box Theatre 3:00 PM Dearborn Americana Load In 7:00 PM Temple Theatre

Saint Plays Response Arbury 105 How I Learned to Drive Load In Malcolm Field Theatre 3:30 PM

Dearborn Americana Rehearsal-- How I Learned to Drive Response- Seminar G -C100

7:30 PM 4:00 PM Trojan Women Load Out Spike Heels Black Box Theatre Black Box Theatre

Trojan Women Response Women Trojan C224 How I Learned to Drive Response--C100 Gold Medallion Dinner Theatre Ballroom Temple 10-Minute Play Festival 8:00 PM Response—Recital Hall Seagull--Temple Theatre 5:00 PM

8:30 PM Gold Medallion Dinner Spike Heels Load In Temple Theatre Ballroom Black Box Theatre 6:30 PM One-Act Readings Recital Hall Minute Rehearsal Play 10 Recital Hall Festival Play 10-Minute Recital Hall Festival Play 10-Minute Response—Recital Hall SelComm Closing Meeting 10:30 PM Spike Heels Load Out Seagull Load out Black Box Theatre Temple Theatre

8:00 PM 11:00 PM Dearborn Americana Perfect Little Angel Temple Theatre Recital Hall 10:00 PM Dearborn Americana Load In Theatre Temple Dearborn Americana Theatre Temple CeremonyAwards Theatre Temple Dearborn Load Out Saturday, January 10 Awards Ceremony 9:00 AM Temple Theatre Spike Heels Black Box Theatre 11:00 PM How I Learned to Drive Dearborn Load Out Malcolm Field Theatre One-Act Readings Sunday, January 11

How I Learned to Drive Malcolm Field Theatre How I Learned to Drive Malcolm Field Theatre Load Out How...Drive DearbornResponse Americana Malcolm Field Theatre Recital Hall 9:00 AM Trojan Women Response Spike Heels Response C224 Recital Hall

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Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 17 2008 Gold Medallion Recipients Chris Jones Tom Hevel

Chris Jones is the chief theatre critic for the Chicago Tribune. Tom Hevel started his life in the theatre at 15 years old work- For more than a decade, he has reviewed and commented ing for the local IATSE in South Bend, Indiana. He then pro- on culture, the arts, politics and entertainment. Along with ceeded to working as a television director and production being the paper’s chief voice on local and national theatrical manager for public television. After leaving public television productions, he also writes a weekly column on culture and he studied with Jeff Koep and Thomas Miller at Indiana Uni- the arts. Jones served for many years as Midwestern theatre versity at South Bend. It was at this time that he became critic for Variety and Daily Variety, publishing several hundred theatre reviews with a par- involved with KCACTF. He started working as the stage manager for the Irene Ryan ticular emphasis on pre-Broadway tryouts. Though a Midwest resident for 24 years, he Acting Scholarship in 1978 and has been doing that since that time. During his in- has covered theatre in numerous cities throughout the United States, including time as volvement with the KCACTF Tom has stage managed productions, operated sound and Variety’s Broadway critic. lighting for festival productions, and responded to lighting designers, sound design- He serves on the editorial board for the Best Plays annual and has also served on the ers and stage managers at regional festivals. Having received a Meritorious Achieve- drama committee for the Pulitzer Prizes. His arts criticism also has appeared in the Los ment Award from the Kennedy Center in 1997, he has been to every Region III festival Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, American Theatre magazine and since 1978. Tom has been working for 26 years as the Auditorium Manager and Facili- numerous other newspapers and magazines. For much of the 1980s he contributed ties Manager for the St. Joseph Public Schools, where he directs and produces all the film reviews, interviews and reports for WCBE-FM in Columbus, Ohio and also served schools stage productions. Tom has directed productions of Macbeth, Three Sisters, as the long-time film critic forColumbus Alive newspaper. He also has reviewed film and Sound of Music, Much Ado, Scapino, Cafe De Coca Cola, Kiss Me Kate, and Our Town, theatre for WFMT radio in Chicago and has contributed chapters to several books. His to name just a few. Many of the students Tom works with have matriculated to colleges numerous guest TV appearances range from “E! The True Hollywood Story” to “Nightline” and universities in the region and beyond. He also has consulted with many colleges, with Ted Koppel. Jones spent ten years teaching at Northern Illinois University, where universities and high schools on different aspects of theatre. He is also a professional he served as assistant chair of the School of Theatre and Dance. He also served as as- golfer and spends his life with his wife Nancy in Benton Harbor, Michigan fishing for sociate dean of DePaul University’s Theatre School. A native of Manchester, England, lake perch. Jones earned a doctorate from the Ohio State University in 1989. He lives with his wife Gillian Darlow and their two young children, Peter and Evan. KCACTF Kennedy Center Gold Medallion The Gold Medallion is a national honor bestowed by the KCACTF Regional Board to those faculty members whose commitment to KCACTF and their students sets an example for all of us. The award, given since 1972, is “presented to those in the KCACTF regions who have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and to the development and quality of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.” Thus, any individual involved with “extraordinary” teaching and production of theatre in the region who is also an “extraordinary” participant in KCACTF Region III is eligible. For those of you new to the process, we present a Gold Medallion from the Ken- nedy Center to the recipient at the closing performance of the festival. Please join us in congratulating these worthy honorees.

Rae Kraft 1973 Donn Finn 1983 Eugenia Erdmann 1996 Wallace Smith 1973 John David Lutz 1984 Robert MacClennan 1997 John H. McDowell 1974 Martin Bennison 1985 Lauren Friesen 1998 Hubert Heffner 1975 J. Thomas Oosting 1986 Mark Shanda 1998 John A. Walker 1975 John K. V. Tammi 1987 John Stefano 1998 Tom Evans (Silver Award) 1975 Charles Dodrill 1988 Jean Seitter Cummins 1999 James Lewis Casaday 1976 Jeff Koep 1989 Steven T. Sarratore 1999 Richard Oberlin 1977 Harlene Marley 1989 Don LaCasse 2000 John Kirk 1977 Garnet Allen 1989 David “Kip” Shawger 2001 Oscar Brockett 1978 Joseph P. Flauto 1990 Frank Rutledge 2002 Leonard Leone 1979 Alvin Goldfarb 1990 Jim Ream 2003 Irvine Smith 1979 Winona Fletcher 1991 Carolyn Gillespie 2004 Calvin Lee Pritner 1979 John Lowery 1991 Gretel Geist 2005 Peter J. Saputo 1980 Lin Conaway 1992 Elliot Wasserman 2006 Richard Den Uyl 1981 Marvin Sims 1993 David DelColletti 2006 Sam Smiley 1981 Lois Carder 1994 Michael Swanson 2007 Carole Brandt 1981 Gene Kozlowski 1994 Steve Reynolds 2008 Abe J. Bassett 1982 Gary Stewart 1995 Terry Stump 2008 Lawrence Devine 1982 Louis Erdmann 1996

18 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Friday, January 9 12:00 PM Shakespeare Behind Bars (Film) C100 (Tickets Required--Available at the Registration Desk) Talk back with Curt Tofteland will follow the showing.

SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS is a tremendously moving film, where the protagonists are not merely defined by their crimes but are afforded dignity and a fresh chance to look truth in the eye, and embrace it. SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS is written and directed by Hank Rogerson and produced by Jilann Spitzmiller. Rogerson and Spitz- miller are a husband and wife team that has collaborated on projects for 15 years, including the award-winning documentary HOME- LAND for ITVS and CIRCLE OF STORIES, also for ITVS, which was part of the Sundance Online Film Festival in 2003. Produced by Philomath Films in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the BBC, with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The film has received other major support from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, and was selected for the first-ever Sundance Institute Documentary Story and Edit Lab, as well as the Sundance Documentary Composer’s Lab in 2004.

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 19 KCACTF National Selection Team Theatre in Rochester NY. Cathy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Mount Kaleta Brown Holyoke College, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Kaleta Brown is a retired fine arts dean and professor emeritus of theatre from Cy- press College. She is a past president of the California Educational Theatre Association (CETA) and the Legislative Action Committee for Arts in Education. Her awards include Steve Reynolds the Region VIII Lifetime Achievement Award, two Kennedy Center Medallions for The- Steve Reynolds, professor of theatre at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, has atre Excellence, the CETA Medallion for dedication to theatre, and CETA’s Outstanding been directing and teaching acting, playwriting, and contemporary American drama Theatre Educator Award. She has been a festival and/or Irene Ryan respondent in sev- since 1981. Recent Wittenberg directing credits include Urinetown, a gender bent Taming eral of the nation’s regions and has directed the Irene Ryan Festival of Scenes at the of the Shrew, The Seagull, The Learned Ladies, and My Fair Lady. Favorites over the years at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Wittenberg include Dancing at Lughnasa, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Boys Next Door, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gogol’s Inspector General set in the American Wild West, All My Sons, and Picnic. In 2000 he directed Dan Stroeh’s it is no desert, which received the 2001 National Cathy Norgren Student Playwriting Award from KCACTF. While completing his MA and PhD at The Cathy Norgren has served KCACTF in a number of administrative capacities for over University of Michigan he directed In Celebration, Ah, Wilderness!, Of Thee I Sing and the 20 years; she is happy to end her official service to KCACTF by being on the National rock musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona. His other productions include Pirates Selection Team. In civilian life Cathy teaches design at the University at Buffalo, where of Penzance, Man of La Mancha and She Loves Me (Springfield, OH Summer Arts Festival), she is Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre & Dance. She teaches at the KC Sum- Camelot, Bye Bye Birdie, Man of La Mancha, The Sound of Music, Gigi and The Unsinkable Molly mer Intensives in Playwriting each July. Cathy is also a member of United Scenic Art- Brown (Croswell Opera House, Adrian, Michigan), Brigadoon (Ann Arbor Civic Theatre), a ists, local 829. As a freelance designer she has designed costumes for: Theatre for Wittenberg alumni showcase of Lloyd’s Prayer (Hollywood), Reckless (Mira Costa Com- Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival munity College) and The Chairs (Wilton, CT Playshop). Reynolds fell in love with theatre of New American Plays; the Cleveland Playhouse; the former Studio Arena Theatre as an undergraduate at Tufts-in-London. He has published reviews in Theatre Journal in Buffalo; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; the and received a N.E.H. Summer Seminar Grant to study American playwrights at Colum- National Shakespeare Company; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Virginia Stage; Vermont bia University. From 2004-2008 Reynolds served as Region III National Playwriting Stage; Pennsylvania Center Stage; and Arden Theatre of Philadelphia. Program Chair. He has received the O.D.K. Teaching Award at Wittenberg and a Ken- Cathy has upcoming designs at the Roundhouse Theatre, Bethesda MD; and GEVA nedy Center Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in College Teaching from Region III of KCACTF. This past November he directed a Julie Harris tribute production of The Member of the Wedding for Cape Rep Theatre on Cape Cod, Massachusetts while on sabbatical from Wittenberg.

Gregg Henry Did You Know... Gregg Henry is artistic director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Fes- tival. Upcoming productions: A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich for Round House Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Theatre and Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe by Tom Isbell and Mark Russell for Kennedy Center’s founding chairman, the The Kennedy Center. Recent productions include the U.S. Premieres of Girl in the Gold- Kennedy Center American College Theater fish Bowl for MetroStage and You Are Here for Theatre Alliance; An Experiment with an Air Pump for Journeymen Theatre Ensemble; Two-Headed and Scaramouche for Washington Festival (KCACTF) is a national theatre Shakespeare Company. Productions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: program involving 18,000 students from Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple by Marco Ramirez, Mark Russell & Tom colleges and universities nationwide which Isbell’s Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Barbara Field’s Dreams in the Golden Country and Norman Allen’s The Light of Excalibur. He has directed development work- has served as a catalyst in improving the shops for Arena Stage’s Downstairs and Centerstage’s First Look. He hosts the MFA quality of college theatre in the United Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in partnership with NNPN. He is artistic States. associate for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences for New Works & Commis- sions, developing projects by Marsha Norman, Jason Robert Brown, Naomi Iizuka, Qui- ara Hudes and others. Gregg is the Curator of the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, and has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Iowa State University and Catholic University of America. Gregg is a proud member of LMDA, The Dramatists Guild and SSDC.

20 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Participating Production Responses Schedule of Events Saturday, January 10 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Production Responses are an opportunity for cast and crew to receive feedback about Perfect Little Angel Show Only Response the work they have presented at festival. Toward that end, we invite several special C-221 guests to attend the festival, and give their considered, professional thoughts about the Trojan Women Show & Tech Response various participating productions. These responses are open to all festival participants. C-224 We encourage you to come and listen to the conversation. They are meant to be a learn- Saint Plays Show & Tech Response ing experience for all. Arbury 105 The Seagull Show & Tech Response Friday, January 9 C-100 9:00 AM-11:00 AM 3:30 PM-5:30 PM Balkan Women Show & Tech Response How I Learned to Drive Show & Tech Response C-100 C-100 Never the Sinner Show & Tech Response C-224 Sunday, January 13 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Spike Heels Show & Tech Response Recital Hall Dearborn Americana Show & Tech Response Malcolm Field Theatre

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Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 21 Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Scholarship Schedule of Events Thursday, January 8 9:00 am-10:30 am Tuesday, January 6 Irene Ryan Preliminary Round Feedback Return to your competition rooms 5:00 pm-10:00 PM Irene Ryan Contestant Check In 10:30 am-12:00 pm Groening Commons, Malcolm Field Performing Arts Center Irene Ryan Semi-Final Round Feedback 7:00 pm-11:00 pm 3:00 pm-3:30 pm Irene Ryan Rooms Open for Rehearsal Irene Ryan Finalists Warm-Up and Rehearsal Malcolm Field Theatre Wednesday, January 7 3:45 pm 7:00 am-8:30 am Malcolm Field Theatre Opens Irene Ryan Rooms Open for Rehearsal Irene Ryan Finalists draw for order 8:00 am-8:30 am 4:00 PM-6:30 PM Irene Ryan Preliminary Round Judges Meeting Opening Remarks C-224 Irene Ryan Final Round Malcolm Field Theatre 8:00 am-8:30 am Friday, January 9 Accompanists available for Irene Ryan Rehearsal Competition Rooms 10:00 AM-11:30 AM Ryan Finalist Feedback 8:30 am-9:00 am Irene Ryan Orientation Saturday, January 10 Groening Commons, Malcolm Field Performing Arts Center 10:15 PM -11:00 PM 9:00 am-2:00 pm Closing Ceremony (After performance of Dearborn Americana) Irene Ryan Preliminary Rounds Awards and Announcement of Irene Ryan Winners Participants will perform scenes with partners Temple Theatre 9:00 am-2:00 pm Irene Ryan Participant Holding Rooms 2:30 pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finalists Announcement Irene Ryan Scholarships Groening Commons, Malcolm Field Performing Arts Center Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, Cal- ifornia, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding 2:45 PM-3:00 pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finalists Check In student performers at each regional festival. These Group A Recital Hall scholarships are made possible by the generosity of Group B Seminar D-G the late Irene Ryan who is best remembered for her Immediately after the announcement, semi-finalists must check in at their portrayal of the lovable and feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ designated performance area. in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associ- 3:00 pm-5:30 pm ate productions are eligible for consideration for these $500 regional schol- Irene Ryan Semi-Final Round arships. Group A Recital Hall The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assis- Group B Seminar D-G tance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. Semi-Finalists will perform two scenes with partners. All festival partici- The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional and two national scholarships pants may attend. annually. There are two scholarships of $3500 each for the winners at the Kerro Knox and Ansley Valentine, Region III Co-Vice Chairs; national festival in Washington, D.C. In addition, the student judged the Best Tom Hevel, Stage Manager Partner in the national auditions is awarded a cash prize of $250. The Irene 8:00 pm-10:00 PM Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation dis- Announcement of Irene Ryan Finalists burses the award through a school designated by the winner, to pay tuition At Conclusion of Evening of Scenes and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts. Malcolm Field Theatre Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level.

22 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Irene Ryan Judges Semi-Final Round Semi-Final Group A Preliminary Round Sandra Marquez, Ensemble Member, Teatro Vista Michael Swanson, Elizabethtown College Illinois Donn Finn, Partner, Mali Finn Casting Steve Snyder, Bradley University Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois at Springfield Semi-Final Group B Bill Wallace, Monmouth College Curt Tofteland, Former Producing Artistic Director, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival Indiana Sandy Birch, Resident Artist, The Purple Rose Theatre Company Mark Abram-Copenhaver, Saint Mary’s College Tom Woldt, Simpson College Bill Jenkins, Ball State University Laurel Goetzinger, Anderson University Michigan Final Round Fred Love, Oakland University John Plumpis, Freelance Actor Keeley Stanley-Bohn, Central Michigan University Sue Ott Rowlands, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Robert Starko, Albion College Jim Taulli, California State University, Fullerton Ohio Teresa Durbin-Ames, Ashland University Michael Bruce Ellison, Bowling Green State University Stephen Skiles, University of Akron Wisconsin Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Dean Yohnk, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Meg Swanson, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Auditions for 10-Minute Play Festival Band Room - A-102 Auditions begin 30 minutes after the posting of Irene Ryan Semi-Finalists. Auditions are open to all students. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity Wednesday, January 7

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This year’s Design & Tech Expo features five major categories, including Realized Designs for costumes, lighting, makeup, scenery, and sound for associate or participating productions. One student designer in each of these disciplines will represent our region at the national festival this April in the Barbizon (costumes/lighting/scenery), Alcone (makeup), or KCACTF Sound competitions. Our regional winner in each of these five categories will receive a cash prize, a book specific to their discipline, and the trip to the Kennedy Center, including travel, hotel, and per diem expenses.

The KCACTF Stage Management Award continues this year, recognizing students nominated from associate or participating productions. These stage managers will support the festival with their management skills, present their work to our respondents, and one winner will represent our region at the national festival in April, and will receive a cash prize, a stage management book, and the trip to the Kennedy Center, including travel, hotel, and per diem expenses.

Regional Design Projects are non-realized designs created for one of the following plays: The Menaechmi, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Crowns, Sacramento 50 Miles, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth. In addition to the oral critiques from our design respondents, each designer will receive written responses from Region III faculty and staff designers and directors.

We are pleased to continue our tradition of showcasing the work of craftspersons and technicians in the Theatre Crafts and Technology Expo, a non-juried exhibition, as well as the work of talented faculty and staff designers in the Faculty and Staff Expo.

Please join us in thanking our hosts, Professor Ric Roberts and his colleagues at Saginaw Valley State University. And, we thank our corporate sponsors, the Alcone and Barbizon corporations as well as Gregg Henry, KCACTF Artistic Director, and Kip Shawger, KCACTF National Design and Technology Chair, for their leadership in creating quality opportunities for designer and technicians in all areas of KCACTF. Enjoy the Exposition! KCACTF Region III 2010 Design Projects In Costume, Lighting, Makeup, Scenery, and Sound Design Sincerely, Elektra by Sophocles ~409 BCE Russ Jones, Chair, Region III KCACTF Design and Technology Othello by William Shakespeare 1604 Gion DeFrancesco, Co-Vice Chair The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl 2004 (Samuel French) M.C. Friedrich, Co-Vice Chair I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright 2004 (Dramatists) Barnum by Cy Coleman, Michael Steward, Mark Bramble 1980 (Tams-Witmark) The Dancing Spider by Marilyn Osterman & Marilyn Kluge 1979 (Dramatic Publishing) 24 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Design, Technology and Stage Management Exposition

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY EXPOSITION Workshop: “Visual Dramaturgy: Mining the Script for Visual Metaphor” Festival guest design respondent Debra Otte, Montclair State University Alcone Company Makeup Design Award C-141 Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence Thursday, January 8 in Costume, Lighting and Scenic Design 9:00 AM – Noon KCACTF Award for Sound Design Excellence National Eligible Design Preliminary Round KCACTF Stage Management Award 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM National Eligible Design Preliminary Round, continued Regional Design Projects 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Faculty and Staff Design Exposition Workshop: “Imagery in Motion,” staging story/text through visual movement Theatre Crafts and Technology Expo Festival guest design respondent Elizabeth Margolius, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of DirectorsLabChicago—C-224 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Schedule of Events Design Reception in the Design Expo Gallery. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Unless otherwise noted, All events held in the Design Expo Gallery Friday, January 9 10:00 AM – noon Tuesday, January 6 Stage Management Preliminary Round 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM 9:00 AM – noon Registration and Load-in Design Projects Final Round 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Wednesday, January 7 Stage Management Preliminary Round, continued 10:00 am– 2:00 pm 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Regional Design Projects Preliminary Round Workshop: “Resin Casting for Scene Designers” 3:30 pm– 4:30 pm Festival guest design respondent Ronn Campbell, Columbia Basin Workshop: “Pursuing a Career in Properties Design and/or Management” College—C-129 Festival guest design respondent Lisa Schlenker, Properties Manager, Sky- 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM light Opera Theatre—C-224 Optional Portfolio Reviews by Design and Stage Management Respondents [Students sign up at registration table in Design Expo Gallery]—C-101 Did You Know... All student designers and stage managers Saturday, January 10 9:00 AM – Noon for associate or participating KCACTF National Eligible Design Final Round registered productions during calendar year 10:00 AM – Noon 2009 are eligible to enter their work in the Stage Management Roundtable: Open forum discussion 2010 festival. Guest respondents Suann Pollock and Erin Maureen Koster—C-101 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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b esigned D regarding the festival design and stage National Eligible Design Final Round, continued mangement competitions can be found at 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Design Expo strike www.kcactf3.org.

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 25 2009 Design Exposition Participants Amber Cook, Makeup, Cabaret Designs for Associate or Participating Productions Kristina Smith, Costume, Love’s Labour’s Lost Ashland University Justin Miller, Scene, Love’s Labour’s Lost Daniel Bilewicz III, Costume, Crimes of the Heart Mark Maruschak, Lighting, Crimes of the Heart Michigan Technological University George Maxin IV, Scene, Crimes of the Heart Corinne Gilbert, Costume, Seascape Amanda McKinney, Sound, Crimes of the Heart Colin Brandt, Lighting, Memorandum Corinne Gilbert, Scene, Memorandum Ball State University Ben Campbell, Sound, Memorandum Marciel Greene, Lighting, In the Blood Adam Herman, Scene, Seascape Marciel Greene, Lighting, Songs for a New World Alexandra Purtell, Lighting, Seascape Abigail Wells, Lighting, Violet Jose Cordero & Nicole Kirch, Sound, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Robert Dirden, Makeup, Camino Real Monmouth College Central Michigan University Jennifer Erbes, Sound, The Shape of Things Terri Nikolits, Makeup, Medea Oakland University Edgewood College Mary Gietzen, Costume, Trojan Women Aidan Bobo, Sound, The Straw Chair Katelyn Smith, Costume, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Robert Glowacki, Lighting, Falsettos Elmhurst College Eileen Rozycki, Scene, Trojan Women Nicole Boylan, Costume, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Andrew Wilhelm, Sound, Trojan Women/Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Katie Godbey, Costume, Intimate Apparel Towards the Somme Timothy Casey, Jr., Sound, Agnes of God Purdue University Eureka College Jessica Pribble, Costume, You Can’t Take It With You Shalea Otto, Makeup, Shakuntala Heeyoung Son, Scene, Blue Window Heeyoung Son, Scene, The Underpants Goshen College Sandra Venegas-Cordova, Sound, The Seagull Phil Stoesz, Costume, The Saint Plays Alison Brookins, Lighting, The Saint Plays Ripon College Meg Kennell, Makeup, The Saint Plays Jessica Mann, Lighting, Anatomy of Gray Grace Magnan, Scene, The Saint Plays Emily Swora, Sound, The Saint Plays Saint Mary’s College Annaliese Furman, Lighting, Lend Me a Tenor Grand Valley State University Patrick Kepley, Lighting, Vinegar Tom University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Cassy Schillo, Sound, Dog Sees God Huntington University Andrew Edmonds, Sound, A Midsummer Night’s Dream University of Evansville Steven Manuel, Costume, The Memory of Water Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne Austin Bransgrove, Lighting, The Front Page Joshua Cerri, Sound, Two Rooms Jerica Hughey, Makeup, Dark of the Moon Kevin Loeffler, Scene, The Memory of Water Indiana Wesleyan University Andrew Wheatley, Sound, That Scoundrel Scapin Janell Joseph, Costume, Sunday in the Park with George Rob Pelance, Lighting, Wit University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nick Quinn, Scene, Hamlet Lake Forest College Mario Mazzetti, Costume, A Midsummer Night’s Dream University of Michigan Chris Feurig, Lighting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Craig Kidwell, Lighting, Ella Minnow Pea Justin Lang, Lighting, Pride and Prejudice Marquette University Justin Lang, Scene, Madmen and Specialists Rachel Finn, Scene, The Cherry Orchard Stephanie Shechter, Lighting, Rent Stephanie Shechter, Lighting, As You Like It Miami University Michael Warden, Lighting, Cloud Tectonics University of Michigan – Flint Kaitlin Taylor, Makeup, The Ohio State Murders Natalie Sevick, Sound, How I Learned to Drive Kaitlin Taylor, Makeup, The Taming of the Shrew University of Toledo Michigan State University Briana Rawls, Makeup, The Arabian Nights Amber Cook, Costume, Cabaret Frankie Teuber, Scene, Coronado

26 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 2009 Design Exposition Participants Bridget Benton, Slaying the Dragon University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Hillsdale College April Smet, Lighting, Balkan Women Maria Cantin, Biedermann and the Firebugs Illinois State University University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Caitlin Boylan, Dracula Tim Barbiaux, Scene, Oklahoma! Tim Barbiaux, Scene, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lake Forest College Justin Schmitz, Sound, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Kelly Crook, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Justin Schmitz, Sound, The Diary of Anne Frank University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Miami University Elizabeth Stadstad, Costume, Never The Sinner Stefanie Wagner, Insanity of Mary Girard Christopher Pheiffer, Lighting, Never The Sinner Stefanie Wagner, Ohio State Murders Andrew Broomell, Scene, Never the Sinner Heather Weaver, The Lover Clifford, Hannon, Scene, Never The Sinner Mercer Aplin, Sound, Never The Sinner Monmouth College Heather Hall, The Shape of Things University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Louis Kreienkamp, Lighting, The Rose Tattoo Purdue University Neil Pearse, Sound, The Rose Tattoo Matt Shives, The Seagull James Marek, Scene, Stuart Little Ripon College Valparaiso University Jessica Mann, Arcadia Matthew Weber, Scene, Beyond Therapy Nicholas Osenberg, Anatomy of Gray Western Illinois University Saginaw Valley State University Jonathan Allender-Zivic, Lighting, Dearborn Americana Brett Elliott, The Crucible Western Michigan University Saint Mary’s College Denise Dietrich, Costume, West Side Story Miranda Baxter, Lend Me A Tenor Melanie Berg, Lighting, Moon Over Buffalo Doss Freel, Scene, On The Town Sinclair Community College Emily Krajewski, Scene, Moon Over Buffalo Allyson Wetz, The Tragedie of Macbeth Daniel Warneke, Sound, Moon Over Buffalo University of Evansville Stage Management Barbara Gantt, Into the Woods Ashland University Natasha Cline, Crimes of the Heart University of Michigan Cassandra Flowers, Eugene Onegin Beloit College Mitchell Hodges, Pride and Prejudice Tim McCalister, The Importance of Being Earnest Angela Kiessel, Rent Stephanie Shechter, Carousel Bowling Green State University Andrew Dobbs, Ella Minnow Pea Hillary Gibson, Our Town Andrés Holder, Madmen & Specialists Julie Greeneisen, Godspell University of Toledo Carthage College Christy Prager, Coronado Hannah Binish, Children of Eden Katie Thomas, Arabian Nights Central Michigan University University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Aaron Fent, Arms and the Man Scott Frost, Never the Sinner Marie Misel, Cyrano Keegan Wilson, Kiss Me, Kate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Karen Horns, The Diviners The College of Wooster Amanda Barker, The Good Woman of Setzuan University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Alex Paolino-Gibson, A Flea In Her Ear Rebecca Ruge, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Grand Valley State University Megan Thompson, Vinegar Tom Hanover College

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 27 2009 Design Exposition Participants Corey Lubowich, Lighting, The Menaechmi Regional Projects Elizabeth Lynch, Lighting, The Menaechmi Ball State University Adam McCarthy, Lighting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Christopher Swader, Scene, The Menaechmi Samantha Jarrett, Scene, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Justin Swader, Scene, The Menaechmi Elizabeth Lynch, Scene, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Central Michigan University Holder Andrés, Lighting, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Jessica Korpela, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Natalie Loveland, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus University of Michigan – Flint Joanna Koefoed, Makeup, Sacramento Fifty Miles Christina Bellows, Costume, Crowns Benjamin Motter, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus The College of Wooster Seth Gilbert, Costume, The Menaechmi Nathan Comstock, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Stevo Gilewicz, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Karam Khirfan, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne Monica Snyder, Lighting, How I Learned to Drive Chad Kennerk, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus University of Wisconsin – Parkside Miami University Michael Kaukl, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Rachel Conaway-Bennison, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Sara Bliese, Costume, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth Caroline David, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Western Michigan University Michigan State University Kristen Ahern, Costume, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Nicholas Paola, Costume, Crowns Kathryn Trantham, Costume, Sacramento Fifty Miles Kristina Smith, Scene, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Melanie Berg, Lighting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Valerie, Vanderkolk, Scene, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Nicholas Davidson, Lighting, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Kathryn Trantham, Makeup, Sacramento Fifty Miles Michigan Technological University Kristen Ahern, Scene, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Nicole, Kirch, Sound, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth Kris Thompson, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Wisconsin Lutheran College Kyle Van Howe, Scene, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Aaron Siegmann, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Jose Cordero, Sound, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Kris Thompson, Sound, Doctor Faustus Kyle Van Howe, Sound, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tech/Craft Expo Michigan Technological University Michigan State University Michael McKellar, Costume, Seascape Kristina Smith, Makeup, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Monmouth College Monmouth College Jennifer Erbes, Sound, The Shape of Things Ken Yeater, Lighting, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Oakland University Purdue University Group entry, Tech/Craft, Chekhov in Yalta/Drat! The Cat! Eric Luchen, Scene, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Eric Luchen, Scene, Dr. Faustus Purdue University Ben Paciorkowski, Lighting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Russ, Jones, Paint, You Can’t Take it with You Purdue, Krystle, Smith, Lighting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Amanda Bearss, Scene, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof University of Illinois Amanda Bearss, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Thomas Korder, Tech/Craft, Continuous City Katrina Miller, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Jessica Pribble, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Heeyoung Son, Scene, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Faculty & Staff Exhibitors Heeyoung Son, Scene, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus The College of Wooster Jody Tidwell, Lighting, A Flea in Her Ear Sinclair Community College Shannon Lines, Lighting, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Illinois State University Jan Evans, Costume, The Philadelphia Story University of Evansville Jerica Hughey, Makeup, Crowns Indiana State University Linda Janosko, Scene, Dance of the Sun University of Michigan Craig Kidwell, Lighting, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Miami University Andrew Hill, Costume, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Gion DeFrancesco, Scene, Ohio State Murders Rachel Jahn, Costume, Crowns June Saito, Costume, The Brothers Menaechmus Michigan Technical University

28 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 2010 Design Projects M.C. Friedrich, Costume and Scene, Talley’s Folly Thank you to the following publishers Monmouth College for their donation of prize books. Doug Rankin, Scene, Lysistrata Purdue University Focal Press Russell Jones, Scene, Lighting, Hair, Marat/Sade, ComedySportz University of Michigan-Flint Thomson/Wadsworth Seunghye Cho, Costume, Metamorphoses Stephen Landon, Scene, Metamorphoses and How I Learned to Drive Harcourt Brace Design Project Faculty Respondents Mark Abram-Copenhaver, Saint Mary’s College Michael Beyer, Hillsdale College Melissa B. Bialko, St. Mary’s College Michelle Bombe, Hope College Pavlo Bosyy, Oakland University Jeff Casazza, Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne Seunghye Cho, University of Michigan Flint Ann Dasen, Central Michigan University DON’T MISS Mark Delancey, Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne Joe Flauto, University of Evansville Richmond Frielund, Lawrence University Raymond Gabica, Western Illinois University TECH OLYMPICS Carolyn Gillespie, University of Michigan Flint Thursday, January 7 Laurel Goetzinger, Anderson University David Griffiths, Hillsdale College 11:30 PM–1:00 AM Jessica Hahn, University of Michigan Janet Haley, University of Michigan-Flint Malcolm Field Theatre Roger Held, Michigan Tech University Patricia Helsel, Michigan Tech University Sponsored by Dennis Kerwin, Michigan Tech University Stephen D. Landon, University of Michigan Flint United States Institute for Theatre Kalen Larson, Michigan Tech University Technology Annissa Morgensen-Lindsay, Adrian College Leslie Littell, Oakland University Midwest Section Tracey Lyons, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Patti McCrory, University of Evansville Coordinated by Michael McNamara, Purdue University Jodi Ozimek, Michigan State University Jim Ream, University of Indianapolis Connie Petersen, Marquette University David Delcolletti, Indiana State University Christopher Plummer, Michigan Technical University Get your team together! Jim Ream, University of Indianapolis Alfred Sheffield, Grand Valley State University Karen Sheridan, Oakland University Terry Stump, Sinclair Community College Michael Swanson, Elizabethtown College Jeremy Winchester, University of Evansville David Wolski, Eastern Illinois University Jean K. Wolski, Eastern Illinois University

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 29 The Kennedy Center American College ANDERSON UNIVERSITY Theater Festival Academic and Christian Discovery Marvin Sims Design Fellowship anderson.edu Anderson, Indiana

The Marvin Sims Design Fellowship is sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- forming Arts in celebration of the life of Marvin Sims, who passed away on Christmas Day 2003. Marvin was a vital contributor to the mission of KCACTF; he also served as the Presi- Theatre dent of both the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Black Theatre Network (BTN). at The purpose of the Sims Design Fellowship is to give outstanding young student- and early-career-designers of color an opportunity for educational and professional development. Anderson University Up to three scenic, costume, and/or lighting designers of color will be invited to the Kennedy Center Summer Intensives in Design Collaboration. The fellowship awards include a full tuition grant; travel to and from Washington, D.C.; shared lodging; per diem; and all materials. This rigorous master class will focus on the designer/director relationship by exploring project work selected from Shakespeare, the Greeks and Opera. The full director/designer process, from initial discussion, to research, to thumbnails, to finished renderings and model-building, will be practically explored in the Kennedy Center Design Studios.

Applicants should be current undergraduate or graduate students, enrolled in an accredited college or university; recent graduates of undergraduate or graduate programs; or early career designers. Designs will be chosen on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques. For application deadlines please see the KCACTF web site at http://www.kcactf.org

To apply please submit the following to: Gregg Henry, KCACTF Artistic Director MARVIN SIMS FELLOWSHIPS PO Box 10808 Arlington, Va. 22210

• A letter stating your interest in, and explaining your reasons for, participating in the mas- • Study theatre, music, and dance ter class. • Full theatre season • A resume detailing your design and related experience. • Up-to six color Xeroxes or digital photos from your portfolio offering a strong representa- • Two Lyric Theatre productions tive view of your body of work. Lighting designers should also submit: every year • A small selection of traditional paperwork (cue sheets, light plot, color key, magic sheet) • Study with distinguished faculty representing your work • A brief sampling of visual materials which serve to show your method of research and and guest artists and directors preparation: preliminary sketches, photographic images, "sources of inspiration".

For admissions information, call toll free (800) 428-6414 or visit our Web site at www.anderson.edu.

30 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Special Events Evening of Scenes Special Events Wednesday, January 7 Wednesday, January 7 Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill 10:45 Pm-1:00 am University of Illinois, Springfield Opening Night Party Into The Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine Four Points by Sheraton Hotel The University of Evansville (Indiana) Thursday, January 8 Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton Saginaw Valley State University (Michigan) 6:00 Pm-7:30 Pm Design Reception The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by William Shakespeare, Design Expo Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Borgeson Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) Friday, January 9 5:00 pm-5:30 pm Independence by Lee Blessing State Caucuses Carthage College (Wisconsin) C224 New This Year—Costume Parade! 5:30 Pm-7:00 Pm A showcase of some of the best costumes created in the region this year. Faculty Dinner The 1940’s Radio Hour Keynote Speaker: Harry Parker, KCACTF National Chair Hope College (Michigan) Emeriti Room – Saginaw Valley State University Costume Designer: Michelle Bombe Open to all faculty. Advance registration required. DUE BY 5:00 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 7. Dracula No Exceptions. Cost: $10.00 Illinois State University Costume Designer: Sarah Putnam Saturday, January 10 Chekov in Yalta 5:00 PM-7:30 PM Oakland University (Michigan) Gold Medallion Dinner Costume Designer: Christa Koerner Invitation Only The Taming of The Shrew (a Jingju Version) and Shakespeare Unrehearsed! The Lover Miami University (Ohio) A group of Region III students will perform a Shakespeare play without Seascape prior rehearsal, working with the specialized First Folio Cue Script Tech- Michigan Tech Visual & Performing Arts Dept. nique. Spontaneity and audience interaction are the name of the game in Costume Designer: Corinne Gilbert this unusual performance. Ama and The White Crane thursday, january 8 Sinclair Community College (Ohio) 11:30 PM Costume Designer: Kathleen Hotmer Puppet/Mask Design: D. Tristan Cupp Black Box Theatre Lend Me A Tenor St. Mary’s College (Indiana) Costume Designer: Melissa B. Bialko Just for Faculty Into The Woods and Daytime Faculty Room Scapin The Faculty Lounge will be in C204. The room will be open on Thursday, Friday University of Evansville (Indiana) and Saturday for all faculty members of participating schools. Moon Over Buffalo Western Michigan University Hospitality Suite The Hospitality Suite for Theatre Faculty and Special Guests will be open Wednes- day through Saturday evenings at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel Room 605. Shuttles between the Festival Hotels will run during the festivities.

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 31 Faculty Memorials

retired in December 2005 following 32 years of service to Western Illinois’ Theatre Gene Kozlowski (now Theatre and Dance) Department and the College of Fine Arts and Communica- tion. An actor, director and playwright, Gene joined Western’s theatre faculty in 1973 and was named department chair in 1980. During his tenure he directed, and acted in more than 50 productions, two of which—Landscape of the Body and Agnes of God— were selected among only six productions produced at the regional American College Theatre Festival (ACTF), representing the finest in university and college theatre productions prior to Region III’s formation. Gene also served as head of Western’s acting program; managing director of summer Music Theatre; guest director of the State of Illinois Repertory Theatre; and artistic director and managing director of Western’s Regional Touring Theatre Company (RTTC), for which he had won several national awards for his adaptations of traditional fairy tales and children’s stories. In May 1999, the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education awarded the RTTC the annual recognition award for the company’s outstanding contributions to the arts in Illinois. Thousands of students at WIU, throughout Illinois and around the region had been impacted by his work not only as a teacher and director, but also as an American College Theatre Festival respondent and longtime member of its Executive Selection Com- mittee for Region III. Gene was awarded the John F. Kennedy Center’s Gold Medallion for Excellence in 1994, and was also a recipient of the Illinois Theatre Association’s Life Time Achievement Award. These are dry facts about the life and career of Gene Kozlowski, but such awards and honors do not sum him up. The awards he received were the results of many, many small deeds that he performed with vigor and commitment. No one who worked on a production that Gene responded to for ACTF, or a production that he directed, could ever have failed to note his candor, his ready sense of humor, his remarkable passion and his deep love for the theatre. After his passing in November of 2008, the Gene Kozlowski New Playwright Fund was established in his memory through the Western Illinois University Foundation. In part by Donnie Barker, University Relations and Bill Kincaid (Photo by David Linnenberger)

directed plays at some of America’s most In his first season with The Acting Company, Markle co- Christopher Markle prominent theaters, working with at least directed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and began his long one true legend of the business and a number of genuine stars. professional relationship with distinguished Romanian di- He was an actor himself who had earned a master’s degree in directing at Yale University during rector Livui Ciulei. When Ciulei accepted an invitation to “the absolute heyday of the drama school” and a clever writer who adapted compelling stories for take over the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, he took Mar- the stage. His collaborations with other actors, directors and playwrights spanned the globe. But kle with him. Markle served as resident director at the Guth- to his friends in the Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance, Markle was more rie from 1980 to 1985. than just a colleague with a passion for his craft, a sharp sense of humor and an unquenchable After leaving Minnesota, Markle was a co-founder of curiosity about his world. DearKnows. The New York City-based company is known “Chris was a remarkable talent with tremendous vision, compassion and humanity. He was for innovative work with narrative texts, especially James imaginative, quirky, insightful, human and playful,” said Alexander Gelman, director of the school. Joyce’s “Dubliners,” in which Markle appeared in a variety “He thought of theatre as a holy art. He believed in its transformative power and its innate kind- of roles. ness, wisdom and playfulness.” His professional credits include the Bob Hope Theatre, Markle died Monday, July 28, 2008 of a pulmonary embolism. He was 53. Survivors included the Ohio Space, the Colonnades Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Markle’s wife, Sophia Varcados, a graphic designer in NIU Media Services, and their 10-year-old Festival/LA in Los Angeles, the HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, the Virginia Theatre, the daughter, Zoe. A memorial service on campus took place in the fall. Arena Stage, the Whole Theatre, the ANTA Theatre Company, the Yale Drama and the Sage Reper- “It’s a big blow. It’s the loss of a family member,” said Gelman, who met Markle years ago in tory Company. the New York City theatre community before either came to DeKalb. “Chris was clearly an integral Chris Jones was assistant chair of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance when Markle was hired. part of what we are and what we do – hugely important – but the toll is always more human than A faculty member from 1990 to 2000, Jones now is chief theatre critic for the Chicago Tribune. professional.” “Chris struck me as an intensely intelligent guy and an unbelievably talented, creative artist. He “He was unpredictable in the best sense,” added Robert Schneider, a professor of theatre history never took an easy way out – he didn’t know how to take an easy way out – and his work was and criticism. “His enthusiasms could take him to completely unexplored territory.” ‘A generosity always fresh, innovative and maverick,” Jones said. of spirit’. Jones remains impressed by Markle’s willingness to take chances, especially during his early Born Dec. 16, 1954, in Gary, Ind., Markle earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in days at NIU. 1976 and a master’s of fine arts in directing from Yale in 1979. He immediately became associated “Part of excellence in theatre flows from ambition and a sense of scope, and that was something with The Acting Company, founded by John Houseman and Margot Harley. Markle later worked he brought to it that many don’t,” he said. “When you’re a relatively new professor, you do things closely with Houseman to stage the New York and London revivals of “The Cradle Will Rock,” the you know you can succeed at, but he always went for it anyway, regardless of the cost. I’ve always national tour of which Markle directed. admired that about him. It’s the mark of a true artist.”

32 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival the subtlety of the turn of a dramatic phrase; and who had an almost endless ability Memories of Gene Kozlowski to listen to talk from the heart about theatre and about life, and to offer much tough- ness and humor in response. As a young director of theatre, I found that much of what I first started coming to Region III festivals as a faculty member in Gene had to say about acting, directing, and program administration was profoundly When the early 1990s (one of those memorable Carbondale festivals...), one useful to me. of the people most memorable to me was a tall, John-Wayne sized man whose voice When I become Region III chair, it was about the same time that Gene stepped down boomed when calling across the lobby to a friend, and who usually had students clus- from the Region III selection committee, and I thought that the region and I were los- tered around him in laugh-filled, or at other times intensity-laden, conversation. This ing a good counselor. But then I applied for a job teaching at Gene’s school, and all dirty blonde man with glasses had the jaunty bearing of one of those guys who hung of a sudden Gene was my dean. Gene had something to do with my getting that job, out at the bowling alley when I was a kid, and also seemed to have the savvy of a Chi- and I wish I could pay that one back. While at Western, I came to also see how Gene cago pol. had built up his program and led it to great success out in the prairie – partly because, When I met Gene Kozlowski at my first Selection Committee meeting the following it seemed, with Macomb as your surroundings, you would really want to do a lot of winter, his strongly expressed his opinions about shows he’d seen and liked or dis- theatre. And, while there, it became even more apparent how strong a supporter of liked around the region – including some he criticized at his own school – supported KCACTF Region III Gene was. He believed in the shared learning, the camaraderie, and my sense from Carbondale that Gene was something of a colossus in our region. The the late-night talks of the festival; but he also believed that the shows, workshops, and fact that other committee members might laugh with him, but usually agreed with him, networking improved his students’ careers at and after college. When I left Western, made this stature seem more functional and real. Gene hired me for an adjunct position teaching theatre history online, which allowed Gene’s dinner conversations concerning the shows at the Saturday evening SelComm me to maintain the regional chair’s position for the length of my term. I will always be dinner made sense when I later found out that he had chaired the old, pre-realignment grateful to him for that too. (the 1980s realignment, not this year’s) KCACTF region that included only Illinois and Gene’s passing takes from us that laugh...that grin...those jokes and stories. But it Wisconsin. The fact that he ran a theatre program in what seemed like the boonies (of will leave us with a theatre program that continues to thrive, and with a region that, western Illinois) to me that offered graduate degrees and assistantships – in Macomb, even with further changes upcoming, will benefit from his boisterous views, his firmly Illinois, I thought? -- gave further proof that Gene had earned his stature and influence held standards, and his fervent belief in his students and in KCACTF. the hard way. And then, my taking up serious smoking for a few years made Gene and I – the only —Michael Swanson smokers at a number of Selection Weekends – roommates annually. And that’s when I came to understand that under Gene’s blustery exterior was a man who appreciated

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 33 National Playwriting Program (NPP) Schedule of Events Saturday, January 10 8:30 am-9:00 AM Tuesday, January 6 Ten Minute Play Organizational Meeting 9:00 pm-10:00 pm Recital Hall Ten-Minute Play Organizational Meeting 9:00 am-12:00 PM Recital Hall One-Act Readings Wednesday, January 7 The Outside World by Nick Abeel, University of Evansville 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Playing by Cecilia Copeland, Ohio University Production Stage Manager for One-Act Plays: Cassandra Flower, Univer- Ten-Minute Play Casting Organizational Meeting Band Room - A-102 sity of Michigan Response to One-Acts 3:00 PM-5:30 PM Respondents: Aaron Carter, Deborah Anderson, Roger Hall Auditions for Ten-Minute Plays Recital Hall Band Room - A-102 2:00 pm-4:30 pm Thursday, January 8 SSDC Award Final Round 8:30 am-9:00 AM 10-Minute Play Festival Staged Readings Ten Minute Play Organizational Meeting Response to 10-Minute Plays Recital Hall Recital Hall 9:00 am-12:00 PM Sunday, January 11 One-Act Readings 9:00 AM-11:00 AM Two Men and a Car by Nick Knittel, Ohio University Response to Dearborn Americana Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride by Reina Hardy, Ohio University NPP Respondent: Roger Hall Production Stage Manager for One-Act Plays: Cassandra Flower, Univer- Malcolm Field Theatre sity of Michigan Response to One-Acts Respondents: Aaron Carter, Deborah Anderson, Roger Hall Recital Hall Did You Know... Friday, January 9 8:30 am-9:00 AM The Region III History Project requests Ten Minute Play Organizational Meeting your participation in building our archive Recital Hall collection which is located in the Lawrence 9:00 am-12:00 PM and Lee Library on The Ohio State University One-Act Readings The Switch Room by Jason Lenz, Western Michigan University (Columbus) campus. You can assist us in Now and at the Hour of by Karen Wurl, Western Michigan University our efforts by placing programs, workshop

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34 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 10-Minute Play Festival Armed with Peanut Butter by Dana Formby, Ohio University Tuesday, January 6 Director: Louise Cracknell, Purdue University 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Stage Manager: Rebecca Ruge, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Organizational Meeting: Playwrights/Directors/Mentors/SMs Faculty Advisor: Scott Irelan, Augustana College Recital Hall Bronzeville Gold by Anetria Cole, Oakland University Wednesday, January 7 Director: Morgan Maul-Smith, Beloit College 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage Manager: Stefanie Wagner, Miami University Ten-Minute Play and Director’s Project Casting Organizational Meeting Faculty Advisor: George Angell, Hillsdale College Recital Hall 3:00 PM-4:30 PM Auditions for Ten-Minute Plays and Director’s Project Recital Hall Auditions begin 30 minutes after the posting of Irene Ryan Semi-Finalists. Auditions are open to all students. Friday, January 9 6:00 pm-10:00 pm Tech For All Staged Readings Recital Hall BRAVO Saturday, January 10 11:30 am-1:30 pm Run Through For All Plays Recital Hall 2:00 PM-4:30 pm Staged Reading Performances Recital Hall Ten Minute play responses Respondents: Deborah Anderson, Aaron Carter, Roger Hall Production Stage Manager: Maria Cantin, Hillsdale College Assistant Production Stage Manager: Alex Paolino-Gibson, College of Wooster

Gas Station Daisies by Rachel Wedding McClelland, Indiana State University Director: Ben Fergus, Western Michigan University Stage Manager: Bridget Benton, Hanover College Faculty Advisor: Janeve West, Monmouth College

Wet Glue by Scott Watson, Grand Valley State University Director: Matthew Fayfer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Stage Manager: Kelly Crook, Lake Forest College CELEBRATING OUR CENTENNIAL IN 2013 AS THE Faculty Advisor: Amy Sarno, Beloit College SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE

Mark Zimmerman, President • John P. Connolly, Executive Director Gun Metal Blue Bar by Frithjof Peterson, Western Michigan University Director: Emily Cherry, Western Illinois University Stage Manager: Mitchell Hodges, University of Michigan Faculty Advisor: Peter Papadopoulos, Indiana State University

Should Be by Karl Gfall, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Director: Jeanette Turner, University of Toledo Stage Manager: Megan Thompson, Grand Valley State University Faculty Advisor: Laura Riddle, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 35 O’Neill Critics’ Institute Institute, Directing, Dramaturgy O’Neill Critics’ Institute Events Directing Events Thursday, January 8 Wednesday, January 7 10:00 AM-12:00 PM 5:00 PM First O’Neill Critics’ Institute meeting Design Storm Initial Meeting Computer Lab C-141 C-224 Introduction to the Critics’ Institute staff and participants Distribution of event schedule and procedures Basics of reviewing Thursday, January 8 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM 11:00 AM Attend Never the Sinner Director’s Project Malcolm Field Theatre With response to the director immediately following Friday, January 9 C-100 Presentation Hall Respondents: John Lepard, Andre Minkin, Tom Woldt 9:00 AM Deadline for Never the Sinner review Friday, January 9 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Attend Never the Sinner response session 11:00 AM SSDC Student Directing Showcase-Fellowship 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM With response to the director immediately following O’Neill Critics’ Institute meeting (Closed Preliminary Round) Computer Lab C-141 C-100 Presentation Hall Discussion of Never the Sinner in terms of written review and oral response Respondents: James Taulli (SSDC Associate Member), Christine Traister Discuss reviewing in different theatrical configurations 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Attend The Trojan Women Saturday, January 10 Black Box Theatre 2:00 PM 5:00 PM Design Storm Presentation Seminar D Deadline for The Trojan Women review Respondents: Tommy Gomez, John Lepard, Jodi Omez 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM 5:00 PM Attend The Seagull Design Storm Response Session Temple Theatre Seminar D Saturday, January 10 2:00 PM-4:30 PM 9 :00 AM SSDC Student Directing Showcase-Fellowship (Public Final Round) Deadline for The Seagull review 10 Minute Plays 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Recital Hall Attend How I Learned to Drive Respondents: Andre Minkin, Fortunato Pezzimenti, Christine Traister Malcolm Field Theatre 4:30 PM-6:00 PM 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 10 Minute Play Response O’Neill Critics’ Institute meeting Respondents: Andre Minkin, Fortunato Pezzimenti, Christine Traister Computer Lab C-141 Location TBA Meet with Chris Jones, chief theatre critic, Chicago Tribune, and former O’Neill Critics’ Institute chair; Discussion of The Seagull and The Trojan Women reviews Dramaturgy Events 5:00 PM Deadline for How I Learned to Drive review Friday, January 8 10:00 am 8:00 PM-10:00 PM Dramaturgy Talkback Session Dearborn Americana Scott Irelan Temple Theatre C-101 Region III Awards ceremony immediately after performance 1:00 pm Region III and Dramaturgy: Ways of Getting Involved Scott Irelan C-101 36 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Festival Workshops Each workshop shows the area(s) of theatre it will cover. The numbers of participants Workshops are the suggested attendance number, based on the work and/or space available. Workshops are one of the best things about KCACTF Region III Festival. You have an Workshop attendance is on a first-come/first-served basis. Presenters reserve the right incredible opportunity to learn new skills, interact with master teachers and guest art- to limit numbers and may turn you away once the room is full. ists, and share in the joy of theatre with colleagues across the region. If workshop attendees need to bring supplies or wear comfortable clothing, that is listed. Wednesday, January 7 10:00 AM A-102 Organic Directing: A Truly Hands Off Approach to Staging a Play Greg Fiebig 10:00 AM A-105 Rendering with Pastels: History and Techniques David Tidwell 10:00 AM A-107 Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: No Kidding! Bill Kincaid 10:00 AM C-129 Listening To The Art of Sound Christopher Plummer 10:00 AM C-130 Strategies for Successful Response to Performances Roger Held 10:00 AM C-224 The Journey from Stage to Screen Anthony Reimer 1:00 PM A-102 Organic Directing: A Truly Hands Off Approach to Staging a Play Greg Fiebig 1:00 PM Seminar E Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework James Eikrem 3:00 PM A-102 Wireless Microphone Mixing Christopher Plummer 3:00 PM C-130 Dumb, Dumber, and Dangerous: Safety Analysis Kalen Larsen 3:00 PM Seminar E Restorative Theatre Nicholas Roesler 3:30 PM C-224 Pursuing a Career in Properties Design and/or Management Lisa Schlenker 4:30 PM C-141 Visual Dramaturgy: Mining the Script for Visual Metaphor Debra Otte Thursday, January 8 10:00 AM A-102 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Vocal Techniques for Radio Drama Patricia Helsel & Dennis Kerwin 10:00 AM A-105 Integrating Theatre and Academics: How to Win Colleagues and Influence Patrons Greg Fiebig 10:00 AM A-107 Artistic Integration of Sign Language Interpreters Shelly Tocco & Dan McDougall 10:00 AM C-129 Inside, Outside and All Around the Bo Linda Janosko 10:00 AM C-130 Composing Major Moments Ann Folino White 10:00 AM C-181 Shakespeare’s Language in Performance Chrissy Calkins Steele 10:00 AM C-223 A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors’ Equity and a Practical Approach to the Business Tom Miller 10:00 AM Seminar E Groin Shots are Funny DC Wright 10:00 AM Seminar G The Journey from Stage to Screen Anthony Reimer 10:00 AM SVSU Shop Cardboard Construction for the Stage Jerry Dennis 1:00 PM A-102 Stage Management: How to Make the Job Fun Tom Hevel 1:00 PM A-105 Integrating Theatre and Academics: How to Win Colleagues and Influence Patrons Greg Fiebig 1:00 PM A-107 Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: Advanced Bill Kincaid 1:00 PM C-100 Comic Technique: The Science of Comedy William Irwin 1:00 PM C-130 Composing Major Moments Ann Folino White 1:00 PM C-141 Cad Based Software In Costume Shop Leslie Littell 1:00 PM C-181 Dance Auditions for Actors Teresa McCollough 1:00 PM C-182 Auditioning for Musical Theatre Fabio Polanco 1:00 PM C-223 Maximizing Equity: Producing with Professional Alumni and Faculty to Enhance Your Theatre Program Actors’ Equity Business Rep 1:00 PM C-224 Strategies for Successful Response to Performances Roger Held 1:00 PM Seminar G Developing Character in Rehearsal Through Chekhov Kurt Edwards

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 37 Festival Workshops Thursday, January 8 3:00 PM A-102 Wireless Microphone Mixing Christopher Plummer 3:00 PM A-105 Lighting Design Off Line Editing Alfred Sheffield 3:00 PM A-107 Rendering with Pastels: History and Techniques David Tidwell 3:00 PM C-100 Comic Technique: The Science of Comedy William Irwin 3:00 PM C-130 Dumb, Dumber, and Dangerous: Safety Analysis Kalen Larsen 3:00 PM C-223 Maximizing Equity: Producing with Professional Alumni and Faculty to Enhance Your Theatre Program Actors’ Equity Business Rep 3:00 PM C-224 Who Loves You Baby?...Saying What Needs To Be Said Andre Minkin 3:00 PM Seminar E Restorative Theatre Nick Roesler 4:00 PM C-224 Imagery in Motion: Staging Story/Text Through Visual Movement Elizabeth Margolius Friday, January 9 10:00 AM A-102 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, Gotta Belt Fred Love 10:00 AM C-101 Dramaturgy Talkback Session Scott Irelan 10:00 AM C-181 Shakespeare’s Language in Performance Chrissy Calkins Steele 10:00 AM C-182 Alexander Technique Holly Rocke 10:00 AM C-223 URTA/Undergraduate Acting programs Sara Falconer 10:00 AM C-224 Auditioning For Film And Television: The Art and the Business Donn Finn 10:00 AM Seminar G Seeing With Your Body Jeff Casazza 1:00 PM A-102 Throwing Language into Space: Staging the Spatial Metaphor Janeve West 1:00 PM A-105 Theatre Lighting in Eastern Europe: Traditional and Unusual Approaches Pavlo Bosyy 1:00 PM C-101 Region III and Dramaturgy: Ways Of Getting Involved Scott Irelan 1:00 PM C-129 Resin Casting for Scene Designers Ronn Campbell 1:00 PM C-130 Restorative Theatre Nick Roesler 1:00 PM C-181 Ensemble-building in Rehearsal D. Ohlandt 1:00 PM C-182 Delectable Dialects Kitty Karn & Carolyn Blackinton 1:00 PM C-223 URTA/Preparing Undergraduate Designers Sara Falconer 1:00 PM C-224 GET A BIGGER PROBLEM: Notes on a Career John Plumpis 1:00 PM Seminar E Groin Shots are Funny D.C. Wright 1:00 PM Seminar G Developing Character in Rehearsal Through Chekhov Kurt Edwards 3:00 PM C-100 Turning Actors into Script Detectives: Directing and Self-Coaching Through Stanislavski’s Joseph Fahey Method of Physical Actions 3:00 PM C-101 Portfolio Review Design & Tech Respondents 3:00 PM C-182 Alexander Technique Holly Rocke 3:00 PM C-223 URTA Undergraduate Design/Discussion Sara Falconer 3:00 PM Seminar E The Power of StillPoint Michael Ellison 4:00 PM C-130 Teaching Stage Management Nancy Uffner

Did You Know... Workshops are filled on a first come/first served basis. If there is a workshop you really want to attend, be sure to arrive early. Seats fill quickly.

38 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Festival Workshops Saturday, January 10 10:00 AM C-101 Stage Management Roundtable: Open Forum Discussion Suann Pollack & Erin Koster 10:00 AM C-181 The Powerful Presence: Effort, Risk, Momentum, Joy James Peck 10:00 AM C-182 Delectable Dialects Kitty Karn & Carolyn Blackinton 10:00 AM C-223 URTA/Undergraduate Actors/Discussion Sara Falconer 10:00 AM C-224 Who Loves You Baby?...Saying What Needs To Be Said Andre Minkin 1:00 PM C-130 he Journey from Stage to Screen Anthony Reimer 1:00 PM C-181 The Powerful Presence: Effort, Risk, Momentum, Joy James Peck 1:00 PM C-223 URTA/Undergraduate Actors/Discussion Sara Falconer 1:00 PM Seminar E Stage Combat Christina Traister 2:00 PM C-101 Hosting a Festival Szelinski/Mitchell/Knox/ Valentine/Roberts 3:00 PM A-102 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, Gotta Belt Fred Love 3:00 PM C-101 Festival Feedback Szelinski/Mitchell/Knox/ Valentine/Roberts 3:00 PM C-224 Working With Shadow Sign Language Interpreters Shelly Tocco and Dan McDougall 3:00 PM Malcolm Motors and Motor Controls for Production Tom Korder – 6:30 PM Field Theatre Workshop Descriptions

A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors’ Equity and # of Participants: 16 Artistic Integration of Sign Language Interpreters a Practical Approach to the Business Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Shelly Tocco and Dan McDougall Tom Miller TerpTheatre Actors’ Equity Association Alexander Technique Oakland University’s production of The Trojan Women The seminar describes Equity’s mission: to support and pro- Holly Rocke incorporates a highly-specialized form of sign language tect the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. It explains Eureka College interpreting for Deaf theatre patrons -- “Shadowing.” how and when to join and outlines contracts and benefits. The Alexander Technique is a mind-body philosophy focus- Meet with members of the production team, cast and The seminar offers insights into balancing artistic & business ing on the process. This workshop will allow participants to

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academic environment to a professional career. Acting Education/Outreach Voice/Speech duction. b esigned Acting Stage Management Business of Theatre What to Bring: Please bring pencil and paper # of Participants: UnlimitedD # of Participants: No limitation # of Participants: Unlimited Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Auditioning for Music Theatre Advanced Unrehearsed Shakespeare: Practical Auditioning For Film And Television: The Art and Fabio Polanco Application the Business Ashland University Bill Kincaid Donn Finn This workshop will run participants through the process of Western Illinois University Mali Finn Casting preparing a professional musical theatre audition. The work- Following a very brief review session, participants will per- Most actors who pursue film/television careers lack some shop will discuss selection and appropriateness of material, form complex group scenes from Shakespearean plays, fol- basic skills as auditioneers. This workshop offers specific attire, the audition itself and follow up. lowing the performance guidelines of the technique. Bold- help in: Analyzing an audition script–the “sides”; getting Acting Music/Musical Theatre ness, commitment and strict adherence to the guidelines are ready to “get ready” for the audition; working on camera; What to Bring: Participants should bring two short all the actors have to hang onto on this wild, spontaneous having the right photograph, reel, resume and dress; contrasting songs in the appropriate key. Participants should ride through the text. Not for the faint of heart! Come ready effective interview and reading techniques. dress as if attending an audition and memorize and prepare to jump in. Acting both selections. Acting # of Participants: 30 # of Participants: 10 What to Bring: Participation limited to those who have Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Length of Workshop: 120 minutes previously done the “Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed – No Kidding” workshop, either this year or in the past.

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BE HERE NOW: Acting and Being Present on the with suggested exercises that lead toward technical mastery John Plumpis Stage of each passage while preserving the integrity of the dialect. Professional Actor John Plumpis Acting Music/Musical Theatre Voice/Speech Thoughts from the life of this working actor: worry, struggle; Professional Actor What to Bring: Participants are encouraged to bring joys great and small. Included: hot tips, things I wish I’d What does it mean to be present and in action on the stage? examples from their own repertoire known, lessons of experience. Come with questions you Why is it a mystery? We will investigate bringing ourselves # of Participants: Unlimited thought you’d never ask. Most importantly will examine the forth through exercises, games and short scenes. An inspir- Length of Workshop: 90 minutes nature and privilege of a life in the Theatre. I promise an ing session on noticing and clearing that noise you listen to, inspiring session. when you could be acting instead! Developing Character in Rehearsal Through Acting Arts Administration/Management Education/Outreach Acting Directing Chekhov Film/TV/Radio Career as an artist What to Bring: Wear comfortable clothing. Bring a Kurt Edwards What to Bring: a notebook. notebook. Indiana Wesleyan University # of Participants: unlimited # of Participants: unlimited Michael Chekhov’s acting technique primarily deals with im- Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Length of Workshop: 90 minutes ages, especially visceral ones, that short-circuit complicated and secondary mental processes. Through four directed ex- Getting into Grad School – a discussion between Cardboard Construction for the Stage ercises, a prop discovery, imagination of atmospheres, and Student Actors and Graduate School Faculty Jerry Dennis super-hero designed psychological gesture, actors learn to Sara Falconer Saginaw Valley State University re-create character references to discover the character’s in- University/Resident Theatre Association Learn how to build cheap but sturdy scenic elements from ternal nature and drive. Acting faculty from U/RTA institutions discuss the Do´s and simple cardboard. Acting Directing Don’ts of getting into Grad school including issues such as Scenic What to Bring: Comfy clothes are suggested working with a coach, selection of material, callbacks and the # of Participants: 12 # of Participants: 20 often ignored subject of the interview process. Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Acting Graduate School/ Assistantship/ Fellowship/ Intern- ship Comic Technique: The Science of Comedy Dumb, Dumber, & Dangerous: Doing Safety # of Participants: no maximum William Irwin Analyses Length of Workshop: 90 minutes University of Michigan-Flint Kalen Larson This workshop will explore proven techniques that are at the Michigan Technological University Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! Gotta Belt! roots of all comedy. We will develop a working vocabulary Participants will see images of and analyze typical theatrical Fred Love of comic technique, view brief clips from comedies that ex- spaces learning to identify potential hazards and how to solve Oakland University emplify our findings, and discover how these skills work by them. Industry standard safety forms will be used as guide- To belt is to commit oneself to a song by every possible embodying them in improvisations. lines in the analysis. Speed and accuracy will be rewarded! means of identity with its text and music, allowing the voice Acting Production Management/Technical Direction Safety to express itself through an uninhibited release of sound. # of Participants: 20 # of Participants: Any This workshop hopes to increase a singer’s knowledge and Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Length of Workshop: 90 minutes respect for this required and unique Broadway sound. Acting Music/Musical Theatre Composing Major Moments Ensemble-Building in Rehearsal What to Bring: Bring your music. Accompanist provided. Ann Folino White D. Ohlandt # of Participants: 50 Michigan State University Lake Forest College Length of Workshop: 90 minutes This workshop introduces students to the basic tenets of Go beyond warm ups and icebreakers and learn how to use staging for the creation emphatic figures, dynamic images, experiential activities to get your cast and crew thinking more Graduate School Discussion for Stage Managers, mood, character and relationships. Using a combination of like an ensemble! We will learn how to adapt, lead, and Directors and Theatre Managers inspiration exercises students will learn techniques for and “process” structured problem-solving adventures for theatri- Sara Falconer practice composing meaningful stage pictures that are aes- cal rehearsals. University Resident Theatre Association thetically striking and appropriate to the drama. Company Management Directing Education/Outreach Discuss the process of getting into graduate school for Direc- Directing Stage Management tors, Stage Managers and Theatre Managers using the U/RTA Diversity Workshop: What to Bring: Casual clothing, closed-toe athletic shoes auditions and interviews. What are schools looking for in po- What to Bring: Paper, pencil, clothes that you can move in # of Participants: 20 tential graduate students in these areas? # of Participants: 10 Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Arts Administration/Management Directing Graduate Length of Workshop: 90 minutes School/ Assistantship/ Fellowship/ Internship Stage Man- Faculty Feedback Forum to Festival 41 agement Dance Auditions for Actors Co-Chairs Sandra Zielinski and Tom Mitchell, Region III. And # of Participants: Unlimited Teresa McCullough Co-Vice-Chairs Kerro Knox and Ansley Valentine Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Indiana State University This open meeting for all festival faculty members is Students will be led through a movement audition, coached your opportunity to respond to all aspects of KCACTF. Groin Shots Are Funny-- Comedic Fighting by the instructor about what she looks for in casting for a # of Participants: All faculty DC Wright show. No experience is necessary. Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Western Illinois University Dance/Movement We will be looking at comedic style fighting, with the empha- What to Bring: Clothing that is suitable for movement. Faculty Session: Interested in Hosting A Festival? sis on that ever important comic target, the groin. # of Participants: as many as the space will allow Co-Chairs Sandra Zielinski and Tom Mitchell, Region III. And Acting Dance/Movement Stage Combat Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Festival Host Ric Roberts What to Bring: athletic shoes, comfortable clothes you can This open meeting for all faculty members interesting in move in Delectable Dialects hosting a future festival at their institutions. Find out the # of Participants: 24 Kitty Karn & Carolyn Blackinton ins and outs of this exciting process. Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Western Illinois University # of Participants: All faculty Consistently maintaining dialects throughout musicals brings Length of Workshop: 50 minutes continuity to productions. Demonstrations of spoken and GET A BIGGER PROBLEM: Thoughts on a Life in the sung passages usually performed in dialect will be presented, Theatre

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Vocal Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Maximizing Equity: Producing with Professional Techniques for Radio Drama Alumni and Faculty to Enhance Your Theatre Patricia Helsel & Dennis Kerwin Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework® Program Michigan Technological University James Eikrem An Actors’ Equity Business Representative Performers will learn nuances of the microphone, and a Central Michigan University Actors’ Equity Association variety of vocal techniques in creating dynamic characters James Eikrem of Central Michigan University, a Certified How do I hire alumni who have joined Equity? Can Equity through participating in a fully simulated radio broadcast of Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, will offer an faculty members perform with our students? What is a The Hithchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. overview of the signature elements of Catherine Fitzmaurice’s “waiver”? Is it difficult to utilize Equity Actors? This workshop Film/TV/Radio Sound Voice/Speech cutting edge vocal training: “Destructuring”, use of yoga in- provides a basic primer on your Equity options – the U/RTA What to Bring: Quiet shoes spired tremor positions for release of tension, and “Restruc- Agreement, Guest Artist Contract, and more. Your alumni # of Participants: 17 turing”, use of the transversus abdominis for breath support. Actors and Stage Managers can offer an extra professional Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Acting Dance/Movement Directing Film/TV/Radio Mu- edge to your students, program, and school. This workshop sic/Musical Theatre Voice/Speech provides handouts and is Q & A driven. How To Make The Job Fun: Working As a Stage Diversity Workshop: Yes Arts Administration/Management Company Management Manager on Tour What to Bring: Participants need to wear comfortable Marketing Production (General) Public Relations/Commu- Thomas Hevel clothing for movement. No jeans please. A small cushion nications St. Joseph Schools for the head and a larger pillow for the lower back are # of Participants: Unlimited Learn how to work as a stage manager on the road, keep recommended. Length of Workshop: 50 minutes everyone working and the ability to have a pleasant work re- # of Participants: 20 lationship while traveling and working with the same people Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Motors and Motor Controls for Production for weeks on end. This workshop will also cover the neces- Thomas Korder sary organizational skills to work effectively. The Journey from Stage to Screen University of Illinois Arts Administration/Management Film/TV/Radio Light- Anthony Reimer Hands-on training in the application and use of motors in The- ing/Electrics Production Management/Technical Direction The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, School of Film & atrical Production. Students will learn about electricity and Stage Management Television motor theory and will get an opportunity to actually wire and # of Participants: 20 This workshop helps actors adapt their stage acting operate the components used in motion control operations. Length of Workshop: 50 minutes technique to the specific needs of the camera. Actors will Scenic bring prepared monologues and transform them into camera # of Participants: 12 participants, more can observe Inside, Outside and All Around the Box ready monologues. Cold copy may be available for actors Length of Workshop: 180 minutes Linda Janosko without prepared pieces. This is an interactive workshop Indiana State University where the actors will be encouraged to participate. Optional Portfolio Reviews An exploration exercise to create a visual representation our What to Bring: Please bring prepared monologues if you Design and Stage Management Respondents individual interior and exterior facades and discover how they have them Students sign up at registration table in Design Expo Gallery can be perceived by others. # of Participants: 30 # of Participants: No limitation Acting Design Education/Outreach Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Length of Workshop: 50 minutes What to Bring: pencils or pens # of Participants: 20 KCACTF/LMDA Dramaturgy Talkback Session Organic Directing: A Truly Hands-Off Approach to Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Scott R. Irelan Staging a Play Augustana College Greg Fiebig Imagery In Motion Staging Story/Text Through This session is dedicated to sharing viewpoints regarding the Indiana Wesleyan University Visual Movement entries in the LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy competi- If theatre is truly a collaborative art, perhaps the director’s job Elizabeth Margolius tion. is to mediate the collaboration. This workshop will examine Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of DirectorsLabChicago Literary/Dramaturgy how the director can facilitate collaboration by building trust Using numerous images representing the modern to the his- # of Participants: Open to all and motivating actors and technical theatre artists to achieve torical, the literal to the abstract, and the photographic to the Length of Workshop: 120 minutes their potential as well as the production’s potential. painted, this 90 minute hands-on workshop will explore the Directing intriguing technique of staging story/text through visual move- Lighting Design Off Line Editing # of Participants: 20 Alfred Sheffield Length of Workshop: 50 minutes ment. Led by Chicago based stage director Elizabeth Margo- Grand Valley State University lius, this workshop is ideal for designers, actors, and directors Light Desk OLE’s As a lighting designer would you like to: Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: No Kidding! alike. Please wear clothing in which you are able to move! work in your pajamas away from the theatre; program on your Bill Kincaid # of Participants: 25 own schedule; or, try out and learn outrageously expensive Western Illinois University Length of Workshop: 50 minute new light desks for free? If so, you need to check out off line A fast and dirty introduction to some of the fundamental editing. rules of performing Shakespearean scripts without rehearsal. Integrating Theatre and Academics: How to Win Lighting/Electrics Participants will be on their feet working with this technique Colleagues and Influence Patrons # of Participants: No Limit beyond room size before the end of the workshop. Greg Fiebig Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Acting Indiana Wesleyan University What to Bring: No flip-flops. Far too many theatre programs struggle for acceptance among Listening to Learn the Art of Sound # of Participants: 30 the myriad of academic disciplines. This workshop will exam- Christopher Plummer Length of Workshop: 120 minutes ine the “nuts and bolts” of engaging the broader academic Michigan Technological University community in academic theatre by means of targeting spe- Through listening to examples we will explore how sound can The Power of StillPoint cific disciplines for each production and seeking avenues for manipulate the relationship between audience, performer, Michael Ellison collaboration and dialogue during and post-production. and text. Bowling Green State University Arts Administration/Management Marketing Production Sound The Power of Stillpoint: While young performers frequently (General) Public Relations/Communications Finding a Niche # of Participants: Unlimited fear stillness, often the most compelling moments in a perfor Academic Theatre Length of Workshop: 90 minutes formance are the stillest. Come explore relaxation, centering # of Participants: 20 and stillness techniques to enhance the power of your per-

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formances. provide needed materials (pastel sets and paper) Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Acting Directing Music/Musical Theatre # of Participants: 25 Strategies for Successful Responses to What to Bring: Bring part of a song or monologue you are Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Performances working on. Roger Held # of Participants: 25 Resin Casting for Scene Designers Michigan Technological University Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Ronn Campbell The workshop provides an opportunity for participants to Columbia Basin College learn how experienced responders approach their task, to The Powerful Presence: Effort, Risk, Momentum, # of Participants: No limitation practice themselves and receive advice from their colleagues. Joy Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Presenters offer four different strategies for responding to James Peck performances followed by discussion and organization of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre Restorative Theatre participants responses to Festival productions. After attend- An intensive workshop in the Dell’Arte International Training Nicholas Roesler ing a performance, the group meets to hear participants’ System developed over 30 years of actor training and Theatre National Theatre Institute responses. Making. Based in the nature of play and includes work on the “Restorative Theatre” is a workshop designed to enhance a # of Participants: All faculty actor’s presence, physical efforts, movement, and improvisa- performer’s awareness of his or her presence on stage. By Length of Workshop: 90 minutes tion. using movement exercises from a combination of companies Acting Dance/Movement Nick Roesler will work with the performer’s duty to be ever- Teaching Stage Management What to Bring: Clothes that are easy to move in present on stage. This movement workshop can unlock a Nancy Uffner # of Participants: 35 performer by taking risks with energy, to foster the creation University of Michigan Length of Workshop: 120 minutes of new work. A few of us have bona fide Stage Management pro- Acting Dance/Movement Summer Positions grams, and many lighting designers, directors and tech Preparing Undergraduate Designers: Can What to Bring: Movement clothes directors find themselves teaching and mentoring stage U/RTA Help? A discussion for design faculty from # of Participants: Twenty management students. Bring resource lists, syllabi, etc., undergraduate programs Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Sara Falconer if you’d like to share them with others. University Resident Theatre Association Seeing With Your Body # of Participants: All faculty welcome A dialogue between faculty from U/RTA member schools and Jeff Casazza Length of Workshop: 50 minutes undergraduate design teachers. Examines skills and compe- Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne tencies a student should acquire, including course sugges- As actors we tend to be exclusively visual. This workshop Theatre Lighting in Eastern Europe: Traditional and tions and/or experiences. A discussion of what students will explore how actors can become more aware of their Unusual Approaches should consider regarding grad. school and a career. Bring bodies and their surroundings and then generate movement Pavlo Bosyy concerns, observations and questions. based on these discoveries. Oakland University Design Education/Outreach Graduate School/ Assistant- Acting Dance/Movement We will explore the lighting practices of two major Eastern- ship/ Fellowship/ Internship What to Bring: Sweats or other clothing that allows freedom European theatre set-ups, the state-supported resident reper- # of Participants: Unlimited of movement tory company and the independent non-repertory company. Length of Workshop: 90 minutes # of Participants: 30 Traditional and unusual approaches towards stage lighting Length of Workshop: 90 minutes will be presented. Pursuing a Career in Properties Design and/or Design Lighting/Electrics Scenic Management Shakespeare’s Language in Performance Diversity Workshop: Yes Lisa Schlenker Chrissy Calkins Steele What to Bring: Properties Manager, Skylight Opera Theatre Principia College # of Participants: 40 # of Participants: No limitation It is the actor’s job to make Shakespeare’s language Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Length of Workshop: 50 minutes clear and understandable to an audience. Explore techniques for analyzing Shakespeare’s text that Throwing Language into Space: Staging the Spatial Region III and Dramaturgy: Ways of Getting will bring clarity and emotional life to the language. Metaphor Involved Exercises will examine rhythm, sound, antithesis and Janeve West Scott R. Irelan the use of you vs. thou through scenes and monologues. Monmouth College Augustana College Acting Voice/Speech This hands-on workshop is intended for the undergraduate This session is dedicated to clarifying expectations for the # of Participants: 20 theatre student with an interest in directing. Working with LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award as well as high- Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Anne Bogart’s concept of the spatial metaphor, students will lighting two new regional opportunities that are separate have the opportunity to use this technique. competitions: The Production Book and Program Notes. Stage Combat Acting Directing Literary/Dramaturgy Christina Traister What to Bring: Participants are requested to dress # of Participants: Open to all Michigan State University-Visiting Assistant Professor comfortably as they will be asked to be both actor and director Length of Workshop: 50 minutes This is an introduction to unarmed stage combat by a Cer- in this workshop. Pants and tennis shoes. tified Teacher and Fight Director with the SAFD (Society of # of Participants: 20 Participants Rendering with Pastels: History and Techniques American Fight Directors). Basic techniques that will be Length of Workshop: 50 minutes David Tidwell covered include slaps, punches, kicks, falls, hair pulls, and Turning Actors into Script Detectives: Directing Ashland University chokes. and Self-Coaching Through Stanislavski’s Method An overview of pastels as a rendering medium. Discussion Stage Combat of Physical Actions of materials, technique demonstrations and hands-on What to Bring: Clothing to move in and athletic shoes. Joseph Fahey experience. Workshop participants will have the opportunity # of Participants: 20 The Ohio State University Mansfield to dabble & experiment with workshop-provided rendering Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Stanislavski’s Method of Physical Actions, if applied in dy- materials. Individuals are invited to bring their own Dry namic ways, can unlock new script evidence for directors Pastel sets and come prepared; this workshop can be quite Stage Management Roundtable: Open forum and actors. Through simple strategies participants will en- messy. discussion hance their audition materials and directors will observe and Scenic Costume Lighting Design rendering techniques Suann Pollock and Erin Maureen Koster engage in techniques rooted in this exciting exploration of What to Bring: Dry Pastel set if they have one. I will # of Participants: No limitation character and text in action.

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Acting Dance/Movement Directing Production (General) midst of criticism, and scrutiny. Learning the techniques of What to Bring: Notepad would be helpful, as would a playwriting are just half the battle. The other half is learning prepared audition piece. (Not all participants are required to to be truthful with yourself about the sum total of who you have an audition piece, nor will all audition pieces be worked are and what your revelations could mean to someone else. with the facilitator) So when the question is asked, “Who loves you baby?”, at # of Participants: 30 least one of the persons should be “you”. Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Playwriting What to Bring: Please bring notebook or paper, and pen or Undergraduate Actor Training…Can U/RTA Help? pencil A discussion for acting faculty from undergraduate # of Participants: 30 programs Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Sara Falconer University / Resident Theatre Association Wireless Microphone Mixing A dialogue between U/RTA member school acting faculty Christopher Plummer and undergraduate acting teachers. We will discuss what Michigan Technological University students should be counseled to consider regarding graduate We will approach wireless microphones from foundations school and a career; what U/RTA schools are looking for in in acoustics, system design and mic mounting through to grad. school candidates and ideas on how to help students Broadway Standards of microphone mixing. prepare for the U/RTA auditions. Bring concerns, observa- Sound tions and questions. # of Participants: Unlimited Acting Graduate School/ Assistantship/ Fellowship/ Intern- Length of Workshop: 90 minutes ship # of Participants: Unlimited Working With Shadow Sign Language Interpreters Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Shelly Tocco and Dan McDougall TerpTheatre Undergraduate Design Education…Can We Help? Did The Trojan Women peak your interest? Join Terp- A discussion for student designers with U/RTA Theatre and cast members from The Trojan Women faculty Sara Falconer for a workshop demonstrating the intricate relationship University Resident Theatre Association between actors and interpreters sharing the stage. Dis- Design faculty from U/RTA institutions discuss the Do´s and cussion and activities will include blocking techniques, Don’ts of getting into Grad school including portfolio prepara- interaction development, and getting the most artistic tion, working with an adviser, and the often ignored subject impact for the entire audience. of the interview process. # of Participants: Unlimited Design Graduate School/ Assistantship/ Fellowship/ Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Internship # of Participants: Unlimited Length of Workshop: 90 minutes Using CAD based software in the Costume Shop Leslie Littell Oakland University Workshop will provide a demonstration of how one CAD based software program for pattern making can be an asset in the costume shop when time is of the essence and drafting from scratch just can’t be done. Examples from the Oakland University production of “Trojan Women” will be used. Costumes /Design # of Participants: 15 Length of Workshop: 120 minutes Visual Dramaturgy: Mining the Script for Visual Metaphor Debra Otte Montclair State University # of Participants: No limitation Length of Workshop: 50 minutes Did You Know... Who Loves You Baby?...Saying Over 1500 students, faculty, and staff attend the Region III What Needs To Be Said... Andre Minkins Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival each year— Winston-Salem State University making it one of the largest regional festivals in the country. The artistry of theatre starts with the playwright. Playwrights that have to come to grips with the details of their own lives; the loves, hates, biases, and demons. This workshop is designed to help those, who desire to do so, to accept the experiences that make them who they are. To have the strength to share the stories that need to be told, even in the

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 43 Festival Respondents and Guests Film/Granada based on the book by Rebecca West, and a television adaptation of Sandra Birch Laura Palmer’s Shrapnel In The Heart. In addition, he has served as an acting coach on Sandra Birch has been a Professional Actress for 26 years. She has several films and television series. been a Resident Artist and voice and movement teacher for Jeff Dan- Donn received his BA and graduate degree from the University of Minnesota, a Certifi- iels at The Purple Rose Theatre Co. since its inception in 1992. She cate in Film Direction from the Belgrade Academy, and has been in actor training with has won the coveted Detroit Free Press Best Actress Awards for Julie Eric Morris for the past eight years. He has received several grants including five sab- Johnson, Blithe Spirit and Stand and The Encore Michigan Best Actress baticals, a Carnegie-Mellon grant in Actor Training, US Education Study grant in Eastern in a Comedy Wilde Award all while at the Purple Rose. She was a BFA major at Central European Theatre and Film Education, and Michigan Council for the Arts to develop Michigan University. Her professional training was done in Toronto and Vancouver, outreach programs for migrant and minority children. He was inducted into the Theatre Canada where she was a Landed Immigrant working primarily with The Artete Physi- College of Fellows in April 2005. cal Comedy Co. and Theatre Beyond Words. Her film study was done at The National He is currently on the board of the National Partners of the American Theatre, served Film Board in Toronto. Sandra has also done numerous commercials, voice-overs and as Region III Chair and Past Regional Chair for the American College Theatre Festival. CBC radio dramas. He has been a workshop leader for several Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regional events and several regional theatre and film organizations such as the Ronn Campbell Southeast Theatre Conference and the SAG Conservatory, Ronn Campbell is the scenic & lighting designer and technical director for the Theatre Arts Department at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington. He holds a BFA in design from the University of Idaho and a MFA in scenic design from Humboldt State University. His past teaching experience includes Western Washington University and the University of Idaho before coming to CBC. Currently Ronn teaches Introduction to The- atre, Survey of Theatre History (online) and a variety of design classes. He has designed for many companies in the Northwest including Washington East Opera, Idaho Repertory Theatre, WWU Summer Stock, CBC Summer Showcase, and Central Wash- ington University. Ronn serves as the current Chair for the Inland Northwest section for the United States Institute of Theatre Technology, and is active in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as the current Chair of Design for Region VII. Ronn has won many awards for his designs but some of his favorites include Les Liaisons Dangeruses (lighting), Sweeney Todd (scenery), and The Rivals (scenery).

THE NATIONAL PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE IS AN ORGANIZATION OF THEATRE EDUCATORS AND OTHERS WHO Donn Finn ARE DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF THEATRE ARTISTS. Donn Finn is a casting partner in the office of MALI FINN CASTING MANY PARTNERS ARE PRESENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE KCACTF NATIONAL COMMITTEE and adjunct Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Cali- fornia State University in Fullerton where he taught the professional THE NAPAT CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD IS PRESENTED EACH YEAR AT THE KCACTF NATIONAL FESTIVAL AND IS FUNDED BY MEMBER preparation semester for the MFA cinema acting program. He was CONTRIBUTIONS an Associate Professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan where THIS YEAR’S AWARD WILL BE CO-SPONSORED BY THE PRESTIGEOUS he co-founded the theatre department and taught acting and directing. His first teach- SHAW FESTIVAL IN ONTARIO, CANADA ing experience was at Oberlin College where he served both the theatre and opera AND WILL INCLUDE A 2 – 3 WEEK INTERNSHIP AT THE FESTIVAL. programs as a director. He has also been a guest artist/lecturer at the University of THE PARTNER’S ALSO PRESENT CLASSICAL ACTING AWARDS AT EACH Michigan, University of New Mexico, University of Texas-El Paso, University of Detroit, OF THE KCACTF REGIONAL FESTIVALS, AND A DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Otterbein College, Dubrovnik Summer Festival School, Zagreb Academy of Theatre, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo Academy of Theatre and Join us: Contact Membership Chair Joyce Cavarozzi Film, Queensland Theatre Academy in Brisbane, Australia and a teaching associate for [email protected] Arthur Ballet at the University of Minnesota. Current film casting projects include:Lucky You, The Assassination of Jesse James by that Coward Robert Ford, Seraphim Falls, and a new James Cameron project. Recent credits include: Eight Mile, Phonebooth, Titanic, La Confidential, Green Mile, Wonder Boys, The Matrix I, Ii, Iii, Last Days, Elephant and “61” for HBO (Emmy Award) to name only a few. His film directing experience includes Black Lamb, Grey Falcon for Bosna

44 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Festival Respondents and Guests tology Pageant. Erin holds an MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University and Tommy A. Gomez a BA in Theatre from the College of Wooster. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Tommy A. Gomez appeared at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, where he played Association. Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew and Jaques in The Tamer Tamed. At A.C.T. he has performed in The Three Sisters and Enrico IV (both directed by Carey Perloff) and in seven productions of A Christmas Carol. Other John Lepard theatre credits include productions at the Old Globe Theatre, Berkeley John Lepard is the Executive Director of the Williamston Theatre, an As- Repertory Theatre, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Georgia Shakespeare Fes- sociate Artist at the Purple Rose Theatre Company, and a member of the tival, TheatreWorks, the Aurora Theatre Company, BoarsHead Theatre, the Wisconsin Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and American Federa- Shakespeare Festival, three seasons with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and four seasons tion of Television and Radio Artists. John is also an instructor at Lansing with the California Shakespeare Festival. Gomez has also done extensive work as a Community College, where he will be directing Lanford Wilson’s Balm in drama instructor at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan, teaching incar- Gilead in March, and in January, he will direct The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The- cerated youth in Michigan, Alabama, and California’s juvenile justice system, and in the Moon Marigolds at The Williamston Theatre. Recent directing credits include Talley’s A.C.T. Summer Training Congress. Folly at the Williamston Theatre, and Recent Tragic Events at Michigan State University. John received his BA in Theatre from Michigan State University and his MFA from the Jeffrey Koep University of Nebraska Lincoln. Jeff is currently Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Ne- vada, Las Vegas, a position he has held since 1995. Sandra Marquez A few of the many Boards he serves include: Liberace Foundation Na- Sandra Marquez has been an ensemble member of Teatro Vista, the tional Board (Chair); National Partners-American Theatre (Co-Founder/ midwest’s only Equity Latino theatre company, since 1997 and served Chair); Society of American Fight Directors(Chair); Green Architecture as the Associate Artistic Director from 1998 -2006. In addition to her Foundation (Secretary); DiPalma Forum for Public Television (Director); Las Vegas many theatre credits with Teatro Vista, she played the lead in The Or- Philharmonic (Advisory Board); UNLV-Singapore; Sarajevo (Bosnia) Music Festival, and egon Shakespeare Festival’s recent production of Breakfast, Lunch And National Committee member of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Dinner by Luis Alfaro. Other credits include Anna In The Tropics at Victory Gardens The- for 25 years including 3 years as National Chair. He served as Regional Chair for Re- atre; Mariela In The Desert, Electricidad, Massacre, Zoot Suit and A Christmas Carol at gion 3 for 3 years. The Goodman Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire, The Boiler Room, One Arm (directed He has directed over 300 productions during his career including producing the Mid- by Moises Kaufman), and the title role in Sonia Flew at Steppenwolf Theatre. She has west premiere of Little Shop of Horrors which he later directed for Hope Repertory The- also worked at American Theatre Company, Victory Gardens and Madison Repertory atre; Captain Bly Around the World directed for PBS; the Midwest premiere of Bent, the theaters. Ms. Marquez is a member of AEA, AFTRA, and SAG and has worked in many premiere of George Fischoff’s Promised Land that played NYC for 5 years; and, all but 6 industrial films and national commercials. Film and TV credits include Timer, Stranger of the plays in the canon of Shakespeare. than Fiction, Prison Break, Women’s Murder Club and Big Bang Theory. Currently she Honors include: Two John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medallions for Contributions to Ex- is directing the premiere of Tanya Sarcho’s Our Lady Of The Underpass for Teatro Vista cellence in the Theatre; Paddy Crean Award for contributions to stage fight direction; at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago. She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern Outstanding Teacher of the Year from Central States Speech Association; Outstand- University. ing Adjudicator Award from Southwest Theatre Association; Medallion for Outstand- ing Contributions to Education presented by Clark County School District; and, North Carolina Playwrights’ Center Distinguished Service Award presented by Governor Jim Tom Miller Martin. In April 2008, Dr. Koep was inducted into the College of Fellows of American The- Prior to joining the staff of Actors’ Equity Association, Tom was an Ac- atre. tor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway and Europe. Additionally, he performed with the Atlanta Bal- let, Ballet Florida, the Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at Opryland USA. Erin Maureen Koster He can be seen in the documentary Show Business – The Road To Broad- way hosting a Broadway opening night Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade Erin Maureen Koster is a professional freelance stage manager in New Tom was honored to serve as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of York. Her most recent credits include The Language of Trees (Round- Indiana University with a degree in Education. about), Beyond Therapy (Bay Street Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival), Democracy in America (PS122), and Rebel Voices with Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Other favorites: Escape from Bellevue (West- Beth Entertainment), Tea and Sympathy (Keen Company), Dying City (Lincoln Center), and Les Freres Corbusier’s Hell House and A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scien-

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 45 Festival Respondents and Guests Chair of Region II, served as Chair of that region from 2002-2005 and Design Co-Chair Andre Minkins prior to that. In 1999 and 2005, she was honored to receive the Kennedy Center Gold Andre Minkins is Theatre Director at Winston-Salem State University in Medallion for her work with KCACTF. She holds an MFA in Design from Tisch School of Winston-Salem, NC. He has been a professor of theatre for many years the Arts, New York University and her undergraduate degree from Calvin College. and enjoys participating in the development of willing young minds. Minkins has produced and directed many plays throughout the country, and as the Artistic Director of the International Black Film Festival Jodi Ozimek of Nashville, based in Nashville Tennessee, and 7am Productions, a theatrical perfor- Jodi is delighted to be with the Design Storm this year as a judge. She mance company based in Greensboro, NC, Minkins has helped to create professional has been an active participate in ACTF since 1999 in Regions I and III. opportunities for some of those willing minds. He has written over 20 plays, with more Jodi is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (MSU). She soon to come, and is currently working with some producing organizations to develop received her BA in theatre from MSU and her MFA in costume design several screenplays. As a coordinating participant with the National Black Theatre Fes- from Purdue University. Regional credits include: Art, Every Christmas tival, he has attended to, and/or worked with, many of theatre, film, and televisions’ Story Ever Told (Williamston Theatre), West Side Story, South Pacific (Maine State Mu- most successful performers and some of the industry’s biggest stars. Minkins has led sic Theatre), Two Rooms, Lobby Hero (Portland Stage Company), Driving Miss Daisy, many workshops across the U.S. and counts it a privilege to return to this region again Enchanted April (Good Theatre), Gypsy (Texas Star Theatre), Deathtrap (Lewiston Public this year. Theatre). Select educational designs include: The Servant of Two Masters, Blood Broth- ers, The Magic Flute and Company (University of Southern Maine), Well, Babes in Arms, Allison Moody Arts or Crafts (Michigan State University). Allison Moody graduated from Indiana University with her MFA in acting and holds a BFA in theatre performance from Drake University in Des Fortunato Pezzimenti Moines, Iowa. She was recently seen in Indiana Repertory Theatre’s pro- Fortunato Pezzimenti has served as the Associate Artistic Director of the duction of A Christmas Carol as the Laundress and Plump Sister. Other Irish Classical Theatre since 1993 and has assisted the company’s Co- Indiana credits include Miep Gies in Cardinal Stage Company’s The Diary Founder and Artistic Director in all aspects of artistic endeavor, including of Anne Frank and Brown County Playhouse productions as Marge in Suds, Rhetta the selection and casting of plays. Fortunato assumed the role of Pro- Cupp in Pump Boys and Dinettes, Diana in Lend Me a Tenor, Teresa Phillips in How the ducing Director for ICTC, the equivalent of the company’s Chief Operating Other Half Loves, and Sheila in The Boys Next Door. IU productions include Arkadina in Officer, in July of 2007. The Seagull, Viola in Twelfth Night, Maura in Reel (for which she received an Irene Ryan Over the past 18 years, Fortunato has directed numerous shows for the company, to nomination), Meg in The Birthday Party, and Liz Morden in Our Country’s Good. She great critical acclaim. Last year’s production of The Servant of Two Masters was a box teaches classes in both acting and voice and speech and is a voice and dialect coach office smash and earned him Buffalo’s prestigious ARTVOICE ARTIE Award for Out- and private monologue coach. Allison is a founding member of Chicago’s Brown Couch standing Direction of a Play. During the same season, he directed ICTC’s wildly popular Theatre Company. production of Charley’s Aunt. These successes led to his designation as Best Director by Buffalo Spree Magazine for the 2007-2008 Season, and the Irish Classical Theatre Company was honored as Debra Bergsma Otte the Best Theatre Company in Buffalo and Western New York, respectively, by both Debra Bergsma Otte is a faculty member at Montclair State University. She previously two separate panels of distinguished judges and the readers of ARTVOICE and Buffalo served as Director of both the Theatre and Arts Management programs at Long Island Spree Magazine. University. Her design credits include costume designs for CBS; the Joffrey Ballet; His productions of Amadeus and She Stoops to Conquer likewise received high praise Linda Tarnay; Merce Cunningham; many regional, Off-Broadway and university pro- with Amadeus winning the ARTVOICE ARTIE Award for Outstanding Production of a ductions; puppet design for Henson Associates; and industrial design work for Parker play in the 2005-2006 Season. He has received ARTIE nominations on seven separate Davis, Chrysler and Burger King. Recent credits include costume designs for Men of occasions for Outstanding Direction of a Play, winning twice for Eugene O’Neill’s Long Mahjongg (The Electric Theatre Company and Queens Theatre in the Park), Land O’Fire Day’s Journey into Night and Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert. (Jersey City Theatre) and Eurydice (Montclair State University). She produced and de- Fortunato received an ARTIE Award for Career Achievement in Theatre in 1998.Se- signed The Bakkhai, which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was one of lected directing favorites for ICTC include The Misanthrope, Wit, My Sister in this House, seven professional companies to perform, through the invitation of the Cyprus Centre The Emperor Jones, The Collection, A View from the Bridge, Betrayal, Tartuffe, Someone of International Theatre Institute, at the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama Who’ll watch Over Me and Remembrance. in 2002. In the past ten years, she has produced and costumed six productions that Fortunato has conducted many voice workshops in the Western New York area and performed at the KCACTF Region II Festival including Skriker, which performed at the has voice coached many local on-air personalities. National Festival in 1998. She is currently a Member-at-Large on the National Commit- He has played a leadership role in expanding the company’s cultural diversity and tee and has served as Chair-of-Chairs, Festival Production Respondent in Region V and outreach as a liaison/director for ICTC in successful theatrical collaborations with The Regional Design Respondent in Regions I, III, IV, V and VI. She is the Immediate Past Paul Robeson and Ujima Theatre Companies. He has also developed ICTC’s thriving

46 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Festival Respondents and Guests school matinee program and has been instrumental in bringing urban and disadvan- and many others. Other regional PSM credits include Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, taged high school students to ICTC at no charge under the auspices of the Classics for BoarsHead Theatre, Candlewood Playhouse and Cincinnati Ballet. As a director, Ms. Kids initiative. Pollock has directed productions including The Phantom Tollbooth; Bat Boy, The Musi- Fortunato served as a part-time faculty member of the University at Buffalo’s Depart- cal; Seussical; Camelot; The Nerd and several staged readings for the Cincinnati Play- ment of Theatre and Dance from 1993 to 2007 before taking on the title of Producing house including a 45 minute adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. This spring she has the Director for the Irish Classical Theatre Company. honor of directing Urinetown, The Musical for Miami University. Currently Ms. Pollock is General Manager with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and continues to be a proud John Plumpis member of Actors’ Equity. In the fall of 2008 John played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at Port- land Center Stage in Oregon. In 2007 he completed a five and a half year Anthony Reimer run playing Timon in the national company of The Lion King directed by Anthony, a Colorado native, has recently graduated with his MFA from Julie Taymor. Immediately following he joined the 2007 Colorado Shake- the Alabama Shakespeare Festival PAT Program and returns to New York speare Festival playing Truffaldino in The Servant Of Two Masters, Puck where he studied at the School for Film and Television and is a gradu- in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in Julius Caesar. ate of their Two Year On-Camera program. Prior to New York, Anthony National companies: Barrymore, starring Christopher Plummer, directed by Gene earned his B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Col- Saks; Neil Simon’s Laughter On The 23rd Floor, directed by Jerry Zaks. New York: The orado and was a resident actor at the longest summer stock company west of the Mis- Actors’ Company Theatre (company member 11 shows); Primary Stages; Mint Theatre sissippi, the Little Theatre of the Rockies. Favorite roles include Max in The Sound of Company; NorthEastern Co.; Riverside Shakespeare Co. Regional: Portland Center Music, Barney in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Jimmy in No, No, Nanette and Charles, Stage; Yale Rep; Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC; Mason Street Ware- the Dauphin in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s mounting of John Barton’s “War of house; Capital Rep; Fairfield Theatre Co.; Missouri Rep; PlayMakers Rep; North Caro- the Roses”. Anthony is a die hard Sopranos fan, enjoys learning all about the culinary lina Theatre; Merrimack Rep; Paper Mill Playhouse; Utah, Montana, Three Rivers, and arts of Italy and Mexico, and loves the writings and radio broadcasts of Will Rogers. Virginia Shakespeare festivals. International: Suzuki Company of Toga. Television: Anthony’s love and thanks go out to all friends and family who have made this journey Law and Order: SVU; 7th Heaven; One Life to Live; Another World; Guiding Light. Film: possible in life, but most importantly to his Heavenly Father, for whom without Him, ‘Til There Was You. Training: MFA, University of Delaware, Professional Theatre Train- none of this would be possible. Mom & Dad – Thank You so much “Throw off the bow- ing Program. lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain John has conducted master classes and workshops at over 50 colleges and universities across the nation, and at multiple conferences of the Kennedy Center American Sue Ott Rowlands College Theater Festival. His lecture Stories Make The World, was delivered as the Dean Sue Ott Rowlands began her tenure as Dean of the College of Liber- keynote address at KCACTF Region VII Festival, and is published in the 2007 volume al Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnical University in July of the Northwest Theatre Review. He directed George Kaufman’s If Men Played Cards 2007. Ott Rowlands served as Interim Dean at Toledo from 2005-2007. As Women Do and John Mortimer’s The Dock Brief for The Actors’ Company Theatre in Prior to this appointment she served as Chair of the Department of The- NYC. He is a proud member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA. atre and Film from 2002-2005. From 1997-2002 she was an Associate In the winter of 2009 he will appear in Of Mice and Men with the Resident Ensemble Professor and Head of the Acting and Directing Program in the Department of Theatre Players, the professional company of the University of Delaware, Professional Theatre at Ohio State University. She is the founding artistic director of Glacity Theatre Collec- Training Program, directed by the legendary Adrian Hall. tive in Toledo and the Cleveland Women’s Theatre Project, both professional theatres. She is the former Associate Artistic Director of Round House Theatre in Washington, Suann Pollock DC and Managing Director of The Actor’s Space in New York City. Ott Rowlands’ career Formerly a Resident Stage Manager at the 2004 Regional Tony Award has spanned higher education administration, university teaching, arts administration winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for 14 years, Suann Pollock is and professional theatre. She continues to work actively as a theatre professional and pleased to have stage managed close to 70 productions there including travels extensively as part of her ongoing efforts to establish and promote international John Doyle’s production of Company which was awarded the 2007 Best study abroad opportunities and international arts exchanges. Revival Tony. Other Playhouse productions have included A Little Night As a member of Actors’ Equity Association, Ott Rowlands has worked at theatres Music with Donna Mckechnie; Notebook of Trigorin with Lynn Redgrave; The Musical around the country including Columbus’ CATCO and Red Herring Theatre; Dayton’s Hu- of Musicals (The Musical!); Othello; Pure Confidence; This Wonderful Life; Love, Janis; man Race Theatre; Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre; New York’s The Actor’s Space; and A Christmas Carol; The Crucible; Always ... Patsy Cline; The Smell of the Kill; An Infinite Round House and Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She recently performed in The Gin Ache; Havana is Waiting; God’s Man in Texas; Art; Wit; Appalachian Strings; Beehive; The Game at Virginia Tech. Her one-woman show, Mercury Seven with Signs Following pre- Little Foxes; A Tuna Christmas; The Turn of the Screw; Valley Song; and A Brief History of miered at Columbus’ Red Herring Theatre in 2003. Her second solo piece, Tony Kush- White Music. Playhouse premieres include Everything’s Ducky; Leap; Red Corners; Hid- ner’s The Homebody from Homebody/Kabul, toured Hungary in two tours during 2006, ing Behind Comets; Men on the Take; and Coyote on a Fence. During this time Ms. Pol- and has been performed numerous times in the U.S. She has performed throughout lock was also the Production Stage Manager for Music Theatre of Wichita for 12 years India, Taiwan, New Zealand, Hungary, Romania, Wales, and Italy. working on at least 60 musicals including Hairspray; Beauty and the Beast; Ragtime, In addition to Ohio State University and the University of Toledo, Ott Rowlands has

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 47 Festival Respondents and Guests been on the faculties of university and professional training programs throughout the in Los Angeles at the Stella Adler Theatre. Currently, Mr. Taulli is the Region VIII Chair country including Circle-in-the-Square, New York University, The Actor’s Space, The for KCACTF. American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, Western Maryland College, Webster University in St. Louis, and The Cleveland Play House. She continues to teach Curt L. Tofteland internationally and has conducted residencies at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama Curt L. Tofteland brings thirty years of professional theatre experience to School and Victoria University (Wellington, NZ), National Taiwan University (Taipei), his roles of artistic director, producer, director, Equity actor, award win- Chetana Theatre (Calcutta, India) and Rangayana Theatre (Mysore, India), the Univer- ning playwright, academic educator, conference panelist and presenter, sity of Debrecen and the University of Szeged (Hungary). workshop facilitator, professional development trainer, and drama artist- As a stage director, Ott Rowlands has worked in Cleveland at Porthouse Theatre, The in-residence. From 1989 to 2008, Curt was the Producing Artistic Direc- Cleveland Play House, Dobama Theatre, Beck Center, The Halle Theatre, the Cleveland tor of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. As a director and an Equity actor, he has 200+ Women’s Theatre Project and The Cleveland Theatre Company. Additionally, she has professional productions to his credit. Additionally, he has presented 400+ perfor- directed productions in Columbus, OH at The Contemporary American Theatre Compa- mances of his one man show Shakespeare’s Clownes: A Foole’s Guide to Shakespeare. ny and Ohio State University (including Orpheus Descending with Czech scenographer Curt conducts residencies, workshops, and master classes at theatres and universi- Jaroslav Malina); in Washington, DC at Round House Theatre and The Asian American ties throughout country. Curt is the Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally Theatre Project; and in New York at The Studio of the Actor’s Space. For The University acclaimed Shakespeare Behind Bars program. Philomath Films chronicled SBB in a of Toledo, she has directed Richard III (with scenographer Malina), Gypsy, and Once on documentary that premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and 40+ film festivals this Island. With a particular interest in the development of new scripts, Ms. Ott Row- around the world winning a total of 11 film awards. Curt is a published poet and essay- lands has directed a number of world premiere productions including Behind the Mask ist. His latest essay is published in the new Sourcebooks edition of The Tempest. He with L.A. actor Ted Lange. She is a member of the professional directors’ union, the designed, wrote, and hosted the award winning creative thinking series, Imagine That Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. for Kentucky Educational Television. Curt was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Bellarmine University, the Fleur- Lisa Schlenker de-lis Award from the Louisville Forum, Petra Foundation Fellowship, Al Smith Fellow- Lisa Schlenker is an Augustana College BA alumna in music and theatre, ship in playwriting from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Mildred A. Dougherty Award and a 1988 graduate of the MFA program in Theatre Technology at the for communication from the Greater Louisville English Council, and a Distinguished University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lisa is most often found managing Theatre Alumni Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA the Properties Department for the Skylight Opera Theatre, where she is in Acting. in her eighteenth year. She is also an active member of the national prop professional organization The Society for Prop Artists & Managers. Lisa’s prop design Christina Traister and scene design work has been seen on the Milwaukee stages of Theatre X (Liberace: Christina Traister is currently an Assistant Professor of Classical Act- The Magic of Believing - Props Design, Singing in a Strange Land – Scenic Design), Af- ing, Voice and Stage Combat at Michigan State University, teaching in rican American Children’s Theatre (The Frog Who Wanted To Be A Singer - puppets and the MFA, BFA and BA programs of the theatre department. Prior to re- masks), Renaissance Theaterworks (Zara Spook and Other Lures -Props Design, Full locating back to her home state of Michigan, she was a San Francisco Gallop, Memory House - Scenic Design), Milwaukee Shakespeare Company (Macbeth based actor for twelve years. She has professionally acted and fight directed at such - Scenic and Prop design), Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Well – Scenic Design), and theaters as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festi- Skylight Opera Theatre (Three Penny Opera - Props Design, Viva La Mama, A Water Bird val and BoarsHead Theatre. Additional teaching and fight directing venues include the Talk, Gianni Schicchi – Scenic Designs). Through Artists Working in Education, Lisa has American Conservatory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Michigan Shakespeare Fes- mentored students in mask work, scenery and puppetry at Clarke Street School on their tival, North Carolina School of the Arts: SSISC, University of San Diego, University of production of A Nanny Goat’s Gruff. She is a believer in the importance of funding for California-Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Additional regional arts education in our public schools. theatre acting credits include Carmel Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare at Stinson and Center Repertory Company. Christina holds an MFA in acting from the Alabama James R. Taulli Shakespeare Festival and a BFA in acting from the University of Michigan. James R. Taulli is currently a Professor of Theatre at California State University, Fullerton where he heads both the directing and BFA per- Tom Woldt formance programs. His professional directorial credits include City of Tom Woldt is Chair of KCACTF Region V and National Chair of Chairs. Angels, Guys and Dolls, and Pump Boys and Dinettes for Utah Musical He serves as the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Simpson Theatre; and Meet Me in St. Louis for Capital Playhouse. Other projects College in Iowa, where he teaches courses in theatre history and per- include Voices of Hope for the Crystal Cathedral; Capistrano for the Mission Pageant formance. He received his MFA in Directing from Minnesota State Uni- Foundation; Three Days of Rain for Bridge Theatre Company; and God’s Favorite for versity-Mankato, his PhD in Theatre History/Literature/Criticism from the University the Neil Simon Festival. Mr. Taulli has directed premiere productions of the musical, of Nebraska-Lincoln, and served an internship in Stage Management and Directing at Wigged Out! for Stray Productions; the WWII drama, Maiden Voyages for Asian Ameri- the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Tom directed The Woman In Black which appeared can Repertory Theatre; and 24 Hours, a new musical that was produced most recently at the 2000 Region V Festival and was chosen as the Honorable Mention production

48 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Participating and Associate Productions to the national festival in Washington. In his 15-plus years of affiliation with Region V and KCACTF, Tom has served as the Region V Registrar, Historian, Workshop Coordi- Associate Productions nator, Irene Ryan Coordinator, Selection Team member, Workshop Leader, Irene Ryan Illinois Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Bradley University Respondent and Production Respondent. In 2000, he received Simpson College’s Out- Agnes of God, Elmhurst College standing Junior Faculty Award. Recent directing projects have included: Push-Up 1-3, Arms and the Man, Western Illinois University The Seven-Year Itch, Into the Woods, The Trojan Women: Stories of Love and War, Love’s Bald Soprano, Western Illinois University Labour’s Lost, My Sister in This House and Godspell. Big Love, Lake Forest College Boy Friend, Lewis University Caucasian Chalk Circle, Principia College Participating Productions Cloud Nine, University of Illinois-Springfield A Night of One Act Plays, Miami University Cloud Nine, Elmhurst College A Russian Comedy, Cuyahoga Community College Cole, Elmhurst College ALONE (on a double bill with LIFE CHANGES), Adrian College Dancing at Lughnasa, North Central College Death and the King’s Horseman, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Ama and the White Crane, Sinclair Community College Dracula, Illinois State University An Experiment with an Air Pump, Sinclair Community College Electra, Lake Forest College Arms and the Man, Central Michigan University Experiment with an Air Pump, Lewis University Fastest Woman Alive, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale The Balkan Women, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The Full Monty, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Boy Gets Girl, Moraine Valley Community College Glass Menagerie, Elmhurst College Crimes of the Heart, Ashland University Hamlet, Bradley University Intimate Apparel, Elmhurst College The Crucible, Saginaw Valley State University Lion in Winter, Western Illinois University Dearborn Americana, Western Illinois University Lysistrata, Monmouth College Dog Sees God, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Medea, Eastern Illinois University DRAT! THE CAT!, Oakland University Merry Widow, Illinois State University Metamorphoses, Lewis University Hecuba, Aquinas College A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Hedda Gabler, University of Indianapolis A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elmhurst College Hotel Cassiopeia, Indiana State University A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lake Forest College Much Ado About Nothing, Principia College How I Learned to Drive, University of Michigan-Flint Oresteia, Bradley University Journeys - Bill A, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Period of Adjustment, University of Illinois Springfield Journeys - Bill B, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Philadelphia Story, Illinois State University Pirates of Penzance, Bradley University Just Politics, University of Wisconsin -- Sheboygan Playing for Time, Illinois College LIFE CHANGES (on a double bill with ALONE), Adrian College The Shape of Things, Monmouth College Living Out, Anderson University Spring’s Awakening, Illinois State University The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Lincoln College Macbeth, Sinclair Community College Sylvia, Lewis University Metamorphoses, University of Michigan-Flint Tartuffe, Illinois State University Never The Sinner, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point The Visit, Western Illinois University Odell and Myrna, University of Wisconsin -Oshkosh Women’s Minyan, Western Illinois University Yerma, Illinois State University Power Plays, Xavier University Raised in Captivity, Bowling Green State University INDIANA The Saint Plays, Goshen College Absolutely! (perhaps), Goshen College Albert Herring (opera), Anderson University The Seagull, Purdue University As It Is In Heaven, Huntington University Shakuntala, Eureka College Beyond Therapy, Valparaiso University She Loves Me, North Central College Blue Window, Purdue University Camino Real, Ball State University Slaying the Dragon, Hanover College Children of Eden, DePauw University Spike Heels, University of Indianapolis Company, University of Evansville The Trojan Women, Oakland University Dark of the Moon, University of Evansville A Doll’s House, Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Welcome Home, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Parkside Einstein and The Roosevelts, DePauw University Well, Kalamazoo College The Front Page, University of Evansville Well, Michigan State University Hair, Purdue University You Can’t Take It With You, Purdue University The Heidi Chronicles, Valparaiso University How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Indiana Purdue Fort

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 49 Participating and Associate Productions Wayne (IPFW) The Importance of Being Earnest, Albion College The Importance of Being Earnest, Valparaiso University The Insanity of Mary Girard, Adrian College In the Blood, Ball State University Jane Eyre, Lansing Community College Into the Woods, University of Evansville Kiss Me, Kate, Central Michigan University Into the Woods, University of Indianapolis The Lieutenant of Inishmore, University of Michigan-Flint Lend Me a Tenor, Saint Mary’s College Little Women: The Musical, Cornerstone University Marat Sade, Purdue University Love’s Labour’s Lost, Michigan State University The Memory of Water, University of Evansville Madmen and Specialists, University Of Michigan A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Huntington University Medea, Central Michigan University The Music Man, Huntington University The Memorandum, Michigan Technological University Natural Selection, DePauw University A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Grand Valley State University Quilters, Goshen College The Misanthrope, Aquinas College Radium Girls, Huntington University Miss Nelson Is Missing, Saginaw Valley State University Red Herring, University of Indianapolis Moon Over Buffalo, Western Michigan University Romeo and Juliet, Bethel College Nickel And Dimed, Grand Valley State University That Scoundrel Scapin, University of Evansville North Star, Western Michigan University Seussical, The Musical, Anderson University Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme, Oakland Songs for a New World, Ball State University University Stop Kiss, Saint Mary’s College On The Town, Western Michigan University Sunday in the Park With George, Indiana Wesleyan University Our Lady of 121st Street, Western Michigan University Two Rooms, Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Pride and Prejudice, University of Michigan The Underpants, Purdue University Rabbit Hole, Albion College Violet, Ball State University Rent, University of Michigan Waiting For Godot, Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Rocket Man, Central Michigan University Wit, Indiana Wesleyan University Romeo and Juliet, Adrian College Wonderful Town, Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Seascape, Michigan Technological University Michigan Second Class, Hope College Seven Passages, Western Michigan University 1940’s Radio Hour, Hope College Alice in Wonderland, Calvin College Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Grand Valley State University The Shape of Things, Albion College Alice in Wonderland, Lansing Community College Anatomy of Gray, Albion College The Shape of Things, Adrian College Side Man, Saginaw Valley State University The Andrews Brothers - The New ‘40s Musical, Saginaw Valley State University The Tempest, Calvin College Twelfth Night, Hope College Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Kalamazoo College Another Antigone, Adrian College Vinegar Tom, Grand Valley State University Wait Until Dark, Cornerstone University Art, Saginaw Valley State University As You Like It, Saginaw Valley State University The Water Engine, Saginaw Valley State University West Side Story, Western Michigan University Barnum, Adrian College Biedermann and the Firebugs, Hillsdale College The Winter’s Tale, University of Michigan-Flint The Women of Lockerbie, Calvin College Brenda Bly: Teen Detective, Oakland University By Jupiter, Oakland University You Never Can Tell, University of Michigan Zombie Prom, Hillsdale College Cabaret, Michigan State University Carousel, University of Michigan Ohio Chekov in Yalta, Oakland University An Ideal Husband, Cedarville University The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Central Michigan The Arabian Nights, The University of Toledo University Baby with the Bathwater, Ohio State University-Newark COPA, University of Michigan-Flint Bat Boy, The University of Toledo Crimes of the Heart, Hope College Cloud Tectonics, Miami University Cripple of Inishmaan, Oakland University Company, Bowling Green State University Cyrano, Central Michigan University Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Cuyahoga Community College Death and the King’s Horseman, Kalamazoo College Coronado, The University of Toledo Dimly Perceived Threats To The System, Aquinas College The Crucible, Ashland University Ella Minnow Pea, University of Michigan Dead Man Walking, Ashland University Esperanza Rising, Aquinas College A Dolls House, Cleveland State University Eugene Onegin, University of Michigan Expecting Isabel, Ashland University Expecting Isabel, University of Michigan-Flint A Flea in Her Ear, The College of Wooster An Experiment With An Air Pump, Lansing Community College Godspell, Bowling Green State University Falsettos, Oakland University Good Woman of Setzuan, The College of Wooster Hedda Gabler, Hillsdale College The Lover & The American Century, Miami University Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Michigan Technological University Insanity of Mary Girard, Miami University How I Learned To Drive, Western Michigan University Medea, Heidelberg College

50 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Certificates of Merit Ohio State Murders, Miami University PostMortem, Ohio State University-Newark Certificates of Merit Taming of the Shrew, Miami University Karen Thompson, Romeo and Juliet, Adrian College, Lighting Design Three Sisters, University of Akron James Harris, Anatomy of Gray, Albion College, Lighting Design Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Ohio State University-Newark Ben Hardin, Rabbit Hole, Albion College, Student Director Our Town, Bowling Green State University Katie Doll, Dead Man Walking, Ashland University, Stage Manager Ubu Rex, The University of Toledo Ed Nick McCrea, Dead Man Walking, Ashland University, Sound Designer Marciel Greene, Songs for a New World, Ball State University, Lighting Design Wisconsin Minda Beaty, Songs for a New World, Ball State University, Stage Management Anatomy of Gray, Ripon College Cassidhe Hart, The Tempest, Calvin College, Dramaturgy and Front-of-House Anything Goes, Wisconsin Lutheran College Display Arcadia, Ripon College Elizabeth Shaefer, The Tempest, Calvin College, Dramaturgy and Front-of-House Blithe Spirit, Concordia University Display Blood Wedding, Lawrence University Jonathan Abolins, Independence, Carthage College, Lighting Design The Bluest Eye, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicole Renee Moore, Alice in Wonderland, Cedarville University, Dramaturgy The Cherry Orchard, Marquette University Tom Worall, Crossing Delancy, Cedarville University, Dramaturgy Children of Eden, Carthage College Matthew J.A. Kerr, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Edgewood Diary of Anne Frank, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse College, Lighting Design The Diviners, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Paul Milisch, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Edgewood College, Dogs of the Blue Gods & The Sugar Plum Fairy, University of Wisconsin Director Oshkosh Megan Gaber, The Fourth Wall, Edgewood College, Stage Manager The Foreigner, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Kristin Peterson, The Wiz, Edgewood College, Stage Manager The Fourth Wall, Edgewood College Phil Riegle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elmhurst College, Sound Design and The Good Person of Setzuan, University of Wisconsin -River Falls Original Compositions The Good Person of Setzuan, Carthage College Christopher Pazdernik, Intimate Apparel, Elmhurst College, Director The Importance of Being Earnest, Beloit College Amanda Rae Janke, Nickel and Dimed, Grand Valley State University, Costume Independence, Carthage College Designer Knight from Olmedo The, Lawrence University Wanda McGuire, Slaying the Dragon, Hanover College, Costume Designer Last Mass At St. Casimir’s, Carthage College Jack Murphy, Slaying the Dragon, Hanover College, Special Effects Design Little Women: The Musical, Concordia University Laura Van Tassell, 1940’s Radio Hour, Hope College, Stage Management Look Back in Anger, University of Wisconsin -River Falls Sarah Watkins, Twelfth Night, Hope College, Scenic Design The Love of the Nightingale, University of Wisconsin-Madison Paul K. Anderson, Twelfth Night, Hope College, Technical Director Macbeth, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Paul Dennhardt, Spring’s Awakening, Illinois State University, Director A Midsummer Night’s Dream, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chad Lowel, Spring’s Awakening, Illinois State University, Set Design Miles Gloriosus, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Sarah Hamilton, Spring’s Awakening, Illinois State University, Lighting Design Moon Over Buffalo, Marquette University Caitlin Fergus, Electra, Lake Forest College, Set Design Oklahoma!, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Annette Thornton, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Director Our Town, University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac Ensemble, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Performance Peter Pan (the musical), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Nikko Benson, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design The Playboy of the Western World, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Conner Lewis, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design The Rose Tattoo, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Kristin Hammargren, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design Six Characters in Search of an Author, Edgewood College Gwen Kelly-Masteron, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design Something’s Afoot, University of Wisconsin -River Falls Brune Macary, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design The Straw Chair, Edgewood College Sara Ross, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design A Streetcar Named Desire, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alex Bunke, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design Stuart Little, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Hesper Junnke, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design Telling Tales, University of Wisconsin -River Falls Charlotte King, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design Violet, Viterbo University Kate Cummings, Blood Wedding, Lawrence University, Music Design The Winter’s Tale, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Acting Ensemble, The Knight from Olmedo, Lawrence University, Performance The Wiz, Edgewood College Kevin Kaucher, Sylvia, Lewis University, Sound Design Jason Aguirre, The Boy Friend, Lewis University, Student Choreographer Jay S. Rozema, The Insanity of Mary Girard, Miami University, Sound Design Cast and Crew, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Central College, Ensemble Performance Colleen White, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Central College, Choreographer Did you know.... Scott Bedell, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Central College, Sound Design Robert Glowacki, Falsettos, Oakland University, Lighting Design Michigan colleges and universities enter the most Associate Eileen Rozycki, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the productions in Region III. This year, the total topped 75. Somme, Oakland University, Design Collaboration and Concept Kate Smith, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Oakland University, Design Collaboration and Concept Richard L. Barnes II, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the

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Somme, Oakland University, Design Collaboration and Concept Devin Nee, Playboy of the Western World, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Andrew Mark Wilhelm, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards Sound Design the Somme, Oakland University, Design Collaboration and Concept Ensemble, The Laramie Project, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Performance Ametria Cole, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Devin Nee, The Story of Opal, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Set Design Oakland University, Design Collaboration and Concept Bobby Sharon, The Story of Opal, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Lighting Design Original Music, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Principia College, Music Phil Woodings, The Story of Opal, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Sound Design Accompanament Ensemble, The Winter’s Tale, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Ensemble Performance Chris Holland, Hair, Purdue University, Student Lighting Design Cassy Schillo, Miles Gloriosus, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Sound Design Russ Jones, Hair, Purdue University, Set Design Louis M. Kreienkamp, Miles Gloriosus, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Emily Waecker, Marat/Sade, Purdue University, Costume Design Lighting Design Nick Osenberg, Anatomy of Gray, Ripon College, Stage Management Maddie Webber, Something’s Afoot, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Props Jessica Mann, Arcadia, Ripon College, Stage Manager Chris McDougall, Something’s Afoot, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Props Maggie Hall, Arcadia, Ripon College, Sound Karen Biedermann, Something’s Afoot, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Props Brett Elliot, The Andrews Brothers, Saginaw Valley State University, Scenic Members of the Company, The Visit, Western Illinois University, Ensemble Work Design Daniel Warneke, Moon Over Buffalo, Western Michigan University, Stage Manager Jerry Dennis, The Water Engine, Saginaw Valley State University, Sound Effects Bear McBride, The Water Engine, Saginaw Valley State University, Sound Effects Cullen Humphreys, The Water Engine, Saginaw Valley State University, Sound Student Designers for Participating or Associate Productions Effects The following students were eligible to enter the Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence John Parcell, Ama and the White Crane, Sinclair Community College, in Scenic, Costume and Lighting Design, the Mehron Makeup Design Award or the KCACTF Award Composer/ Music Director for Sound Design Excellence competitions. This list includes all names received by December 10, Running Crew, Stop Kiss, St. Mary’s, Scenic Changes 2008. Wardrobe Crew, Stop Kiss, St. Mary’s, Wardrobe Changes Chris Hariasz, Three Sisters, The University of Akron, Lighting Design Adrian College Frankie Teubel, Coronado, The University of Toledo, Set Designer Justin Kulman, Lighting, Barnum Joshua Marsh, Dark of the Moon, University of Evansville, Costume Design Company, You Never Can Tell, University of Michigan, Performance Anderson University Corey Dorris, Madmen and Specialists, University of Michigan, Ensemble Brooke Lose, Scene, Living Out Performance Seth Moore, Madmen and Specialists, University of Michigan, Ensemble Aquinas College Performance Dave Fletcher, Sound, Dimly Perceived Threats to the System Joseph Moses, Madmen and Specialists, University of Michigan, Ensemble Performance Ashland University Joseph Walker, Madmen and Specialists, University of Michigan, Ensemble George Maxin, Scene, Dead Man Walking Performance Jennifer E. Sikora, How I Learned To Drive, University of Michigan-Flint, Ashland University Dramaturgy Justin Bilewicz, Costume, Crimes of the Heart Joe Pollack, Oklahoma!, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Lighting Design George Maxin IV, Scene, Crimes of the Heart Tim Barbiaux, Oklahoma!, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Scenic Design Mark Maruschak, Lighting, Crimes of the Heart Justin Schmitz, The Diary of Anne Frank, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Sound Design Ball State University Derrick Falkowski, The Diary of Anne Frank, University of Wisconsin-La Meg Kissel, Scene, Violet Crosse, Lighting Design Abby Wells, Lighting, Violet Ensemble, A Streetcar Named Desire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Performance Ball State University Jen Murray, A Streetcar Named Desire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kaitlyn Head, Costume, In the Blood Stage Management Zach Roland, Scene, In the Blood Design Team, A Streetcar Named Desire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marciel Greene, Lighting, In the Blood Designs Carrie Scott, Sound, In the Blood Sam Renner, A Streetcar Named Desire, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kaitlyn Head, Make-up, In the Blood Technical Director Peter Simon, Dogs of the Blue Gods / The Sugar Plum Fairy, University of Ball State University Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Soundscape Mike Paddock, Sound, Camino Real Zanna Kina, Macbeth, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Lighting Design Robert Dirden, Make-up, Camino Real Bradford Chapin, Macbeth, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Sound Designer and Composer Beloit College Christine Czerwinski, Macbeth, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Production Andrea Fields, Scene, Blue Window Stage Manager Leah Arneson, Lighting, Blue Window Aaron Greenberg, Playboy of the Western World, University of Wisconsin Laura Greenberg, Sound, Blue Window -Parkside, Costume Design Zanna King, Playboy of the Western World, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Bowling Green State University Lighting Design Tim Shaffer, Sound, Raised in Captivity

52 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Student Designers for Participating or Associate Productions Sarah Colburn, Scene, Dracula Carthage College Ryan Finley, Lighting, Dracula John Abolins, Lighting, Independence Drew Schmidt, Sound, Dracula Tracy Swiatly, Make-up, Dracula Cuyahoga Community College Caitie Entwistle, Costume, Yerma Bethany Vannoy, Costume, A Russian Comedy Cassie Mings, Lighting, Yerma Stephanie Kugli, Scene, A Russian Comedy Adan Berlanga, Sound, Yerma David Krupla, Lighting, A Russian Comedy Trevor Neff, Make-up, Yerma Ameera Ansari, Costume, Tartuffe DePaul University Eric Garneau, Scene, Tartuffe Ari Fulton, Costume, Hurrah for the Next Who Dies Ryan Finley, Lighting, Tartuffe Alex Banuelos, Scene, Hurrah for the Next Who Dies Rachel Dunagan, Sound, Tartuffe Chase Corman, Lighting, Hurrah for the Next Who Dies Ameera Ansari, Make-up, Tartuffe Christina DiRisi, Sound, Hurrah for the Next Who Dies Indiana State University DePauw University Sarah Berg, Costume, Hotel Cassiopeia Erin Nessler, Costume, Children of Eden Christopher Hansen & Jeremy Pugh, Scene, Hotel Cassiopeia Linda Bradford, Scene, Children of Eden Eli Van Sickel, Sound, Hotel Cassiopeia Christopher Burton, Sound, Einstein and The Roosevelts Sarah Berg, Make-up, Hotel Cassiopeia Mary Kathyrn Tilly/Margaret Lynch, Costume, Natural Selection Donald Smith, Sound, Natural Selection Indiana Wesleyan University Janell Joseph, Costume, Sunday in the Park With George Elmhurst College Zac Middaugh, Lighting, Sunday in the Park With George Katie Godbey, Costume, Agnes of God Janell Joseph, Costume, Wit Joe Badsing, Scene, Agnes of God Rob Pelance, Lighting, Wit Aleya Schwartz, Lighting, Agnes of God Maggie McKay, Make-up, Wit T.J. Casey, Sound, Agnes of God Kristen Speckmann, Costume, Cole Lake Forest College Michael Manocchio, Scene, Cole Mario Mazzetti, Costume, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Chris Feurig, Lighting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Goshen College Adrienne Nesbitt, Costume, Absolutely! {perhaps} Marquette University Doug Hallman, Lighting, Absolutely! {perhaps} Rachel Finn, Scene, The Cherry Orchard Derek Koch, Sound, Absolutely! {perhaps} Meg Kennell, Make-up, Absolutely! {perhaps} Miami University Adriel Santiago, Scene, Quilters Shiree Campbell, Costume, Cloud Tectonics Jessica Brubaker, Lighting, Quilters Shiree Campbell, Scene, Cloud Tectonics Doug Hallman, Sound, Quilters Michael Warden, Lighting, Cloud Tectonics Sara Ribar, Sound, Cloud Tectonics Hope College Bobby Voss, Scene, The Insanity of Mary Girard Amanda Spanstra, Costume, Twelfth Night Matt Harr, Lighting, The Insanity of Mary Girard Katie Collins, Scene, Double Take: The Lover and The American Century Hillsdale College Matt Harr, Lighting, The Taming of the Shrew (a Jingju version) Robyn Phipps, Scene, Zombie Prom Maria Cantin, Lighting, Hedda Gabler Michigan State University Lori Sands, Scene, Well Huntington University Paul Bourne, Lighting, Well Andrew Edmunds, Sound, The Music Man Princess Souvenir, Sound, Well

Illinois College Michigan Technological University Cole McFarren, Sound, Playing for Time Audio Creative Lab class, Sound, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Fits 5, 6, 7 Corinne Gilbert, Costume, Seascape Illinois State University Corinne Gilbert, Make-up, Seascape Sarah Hamilton, Lighting, Spring’s Awakening Adam Herman, Scene, Seascape Valerie Lawrence, Sound, Spring’s Awakening Alexandria Purtell, Lighting, Seascape Tracy Swiatly, Make-up, Spring’s Awakening Corinne Gilbert & Colin Brandt, Scene, The Memorandum Sarah Putnam, Costume, The Merry Widow Colin Brandt, Lighting, The Memorandum Marissa Grandone, Make-up, The Merry Widow Ben Campbell, Sound, The Memorandum Pilan Boonpha, Scene, The Philadelphia Story Drew Schmidt, Lighting, The Philadelphia Story North Central College Ilona Nemeth, Make-up, The Philadelphia Story Jon Rippe, Lighting, She Loves Me Sarah Putnam, Costume, Dracula Scott Bedell, Sound, She Loves Me

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 53 Student Designers for Participating or Associate Productions Michael Frohling, Lighting, The Full Monty Oakland University Adriane Howard, Costume, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Christa Koerner, Costume, Chekov in Yalta Bobbie Bonebrake, Scene, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Josh Rotarius, Scene, Chekov in Yalta Michael Frohling, Lighting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard Barnes, Lighting, Chekov in Yalta Adriane Howard, Make-up, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sam Zepik, Sound, Chekov in Yalta Marianne Idalski, Make-up, Chekov in Yalta The College of Wooster Julie Czaenecki, Costume, Drat! The Cat! Rachael Feola, Costume, The Good Woman Of Setzuan Bobby Glowacki, Scene, Drat! The Cat! Mary Gietzen, Costume, Brenda Bly: Teen Detective University of Evansville Karlie Driscoll, Scene, Brenda Bly: Teen Detective Andrew Wheatley, Sound, That Scoundrel Scapin Mary Gietzen, Costume, The Trojan Women Jennifer Schottstaedt, Costume, Company Eileen Rozycki, Scene, The Trojan Women Ashlee Springer, Scene, Company Richard L. Barns II, Lighting, The Trojan Women Austin Bransgrove, Lighting, Company Andrew Wilhelm, Sound, The Trojan Women Joshua Marsh, Costume, Dark of the Moon Katie Hardy, Make-up, The Trojan Women Austin Bransgrove, Lighting, The Front Page Kate Smith, Costume, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Matt Jones, Sound, The Front Page Eileen Rozycki, Scene, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Richard L. Barns II , Lighting, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Somme Andrea Bouck, Costume, Hamlet Andrew Wilhelm, Sound, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme Nick Quinn, Scene, Hamlet Anetria Cole, Make-up, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme University of Indianapolis Purdue University Manny Casillas, Sound, Into the Woods Shelby Newport, Costume, The Underpants Heeyoung Son, Scene, The Underpants University of Michigan Neil Hufford, Sound, The Underpants Justin Lang, Lighting, You Never Can Tell Emily Waecker, Costume, Marat Sade Stephanie Shechter, Lighting, Rent Stephen Barnes, Scene, Marat Sade Craig Kidwell, Lighting, Ella Minnow Pea Jason Ducat, Sound, Marat Sade Justin Lang, Lighting, Pride and Prejudice Emily Waecker, Shelby Newport, Jessica Pribble, Costume, Hair Justin Lang, Scene, Madmen And Specialists Chris Holland, Lighting, Hair Robert James, Sound, Hair University of Michigan-Flint Jessica Pribble, Costume, You Can’t Take It With You Kaydie Brooks, Costume, How I Learned to Drive Russell Jones, Scene, You Can’t Take It With You Monica Synder, Lighting, How I Learned to Drive Jason Greene, Lighting, You Can’t Take It With You Natalie Sevick, Sound, How I Learned to Drive Tim Fara, Sound, You Can’t Take It With You Emily Waecker, Costume, Blue Window University of Toledo Heeyoung Son, Scene, Blue Window Frankie Teuber, Scene, Coronado Jason Greene, Lighting, Blue Window Dan Norton, Lighting, Coronado Jason Knox, Sound, Blue Window Eric Burian, Sound, Coronado Shelby Newport, Costume, The Seagull Steven Stransky/Eric Burian, Sound, The Arabian Nights Sandra Venegas, Sound, The Seagull Briana Rawls, Make-up, The Arabian Nights

Ripon College University of Wisconsin-Parkside Maggie Hall, Sound, Arcadia Aaron Greenberg, Costume, The Playboy of the Western World Jessica Mann, Lighting, Anatomy of Gray Zanna King, Lighting, The Playboy of the Western World Devin Nee, Sound, The Playboy of the Western World Saginaw Valley State University Nikki Kulas, Make-up, The Playboy of the Western World Brett Elliott, Scene, The Andrews Brothers - The New ‘40s Musical Bradford Chapin, Sound, Macbeth Brett Elliott, Lighting, The Andrews Brothers - The New ‘40s Musical Aaron Greenberg, Make-up, Macbeth Brett Elliott, Lighting, The Crucible Michael Kaukl, Costume, Welcome Home, Jr., Devin Nee, Scene, Welcome Home, Jr., Sinclair Community College Bobby Sharon, Lighting, Welcome Home, Jr., Holly Fischer, Make-up, Ama and the White Crane Phil Wooding, Sound, Welcome Home, Jr., Nathanael Springer, Sound, Macbeth Michael Kaukl, Make-up, Welcome Home, Jr., Michael Kaukl, Costume, The Foreigner Southern Illinois University Carbondale Zanna King, Lighting, The Foreigner Bobbie Brown, Scene, Death and the King’s Horseman Devin Nee, Sound, The Foreigner Rebel Mickelson, Costume, The Fastest Woman Alive Scott Schroeder, Lighting, The Winter’s Tale Beth Clark, Scene, The Fastest Woman Alive Phil Wooding, Sound, The Winter’s Tale Christine Jackey, Lighting, The Fastest Woman Alive

54 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Will Barnhart and Darline Hun , Costume, Momen’s Minyan Elizabeth Stadstad, Costume, Never The Sinner Will Barnhart and Darline Hun , Costume, Momen’s Minyan Cliff Hannon, Scene, Never The Sinner Ali Shubert, Scene, Momen’s Minyan Chris Pheiffer, Lighting, Never The Sinner Greg Griffin , Lighting, Momen’s Minyan Mercer Aplin, Sound, Never The Sinner Jacob Schenk, Sound, Momen’s Minyan Elizabeth Stadstad, Make-up, Never The Sinner Ann Dunn, Costume, Lion in Winter Mark Lohman, Scene, Lion in Winter University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Tony Luetkenhaus, Lighting, Lion in Winter Louis Kreienkamp, Lighting, Miles Gloriosus University of Wisconsin-River Falls Western Michigan University Nic Moen, Scene, The Good Person of Setzuan Doss Freel, Scene, On The Town Nic Moen, Scene, Look Back in Anger Emily Krajewski, Scene, Moon Over Buffalo Adam Oster, Lighting, Look Back in Anger Melanie Berg, Lighting, Moon Over Buffalo Dan Warneke, Sound, Moon Over Buffalo University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Denise Dietrich, Costume, West Side Story April Smet, Lighting, The Balkan Women Keith Roelfsema, Sound, West Side Story

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Tony Sherony, Scene, Diary of Anne Frank Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Scholarship Nominees Derrick Falkowski, Lighting, Diary of Anne Frank The following students were nominated for the 2007 Regional Irene Ryan Foundation Brittany Jacob, Costume, The Diviners Acting Scholarship by their directors and by the KCACTF regional respondents who visited Tim Barbieaux, Scene, A Midsummer Night’s Dream their campuses. The list includes all names received by December 15, 2008. Derrick Falkowski, Lighting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Justin Schmitz, Sound, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Illinois Bradley University, Sarah Duncan, Justin Verstraete, The Oresteia University of Wisconsin-Madison Bradley University, Eric Zuber, Urinetown Rachel Pabst, Costume, The Bluest Eye Eastern Illinois University, Bailey Murphy, Tim Tholl, Medea Aaron Kennedy, Scene, The Bluest Eye Elmhurst College, Nicole Boylan, Nicole Urso, Agnes Of God Matt Albrecht, Lighting, The Bluest Eye Elmhurst College, Josh Lutz, Laura Matthews, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Michele Traband, Sound, The Bluest Eye Elmhurst College, Kaitlin Fleharty, Andrew Behling, Cloud Nine Michele Traband, Make-up, The Bluest Eye Elmhurst College, Manda Gervase, Ceara Windhausen, Cole Maggie Foss, Costume, A Streetcar Named Desire Elmhurst College, Arik Borstad, Erica Litwin, Intimate Apparel Ken George, Scene, A Streetcar Named Desire Greg Hofmann, Lighting, A Streetcar Named Desire Elmhurst College, Michael Manocchio, Katie Meyers, The Glass Menagerie William Curry, Costume, The Love of the Nightingale Illinois College, Amanda Warner, Melody McNeill, Playing For Time Greg Hofmann, Lighting, The Love of the Nightingale Illinois State University, Jeff Kurysz, Megan Miller, Dracula Illinois State University, Ryan Hallahan, Jackie Trabilsy, Spring’s Awakening University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Illinois State University, Katherine Strosani-Johnson, Jake Olbert, The Merry Louis Kreienkamp, Lighting, Dog Sees God Widow James Marek, Scene, Stuart Little Illinois State University, Megan Storti, Brynne Barnard, The Philadelphia Story Louis Kreienkamp, Lighting, The Rose Tattoo Illinois State University, Michael Tepeli, Annie Rix, Tartuffe Illinois State University, Amanda Roeder, Max Ganet, Yerma Valparaiso University Lake Forest College, David Esturain, Kayla Lord, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Matt Weber, Scene, Beyond Therapy Lake Forest College, Alexandra Fisher, Julianna Hincks, Electra Micki Heronemus, Lighting, Beyond Therapy Michelle Maier, Sound, Beyond Therapy Lake Forest College, Tom Sargent, Emily Forsgren, Big Love Lewis University, Tyler Harpster, Sarah Gibbons, Metamorphoses Viterbo University Lewis University, Amanda Claire Lowe, Siobhan Yore, An Experiment With an Air Jessica Rietzler, Costume, Violet Pump Chris Winnemann, Lighting, Violet Lewis University, Jenna Bruno, Tyler Harpster, Sylvia Brian Pekol, Sound, Violet Lewis University, Katie Sisto, Jason Aguirre, The Boy Friend Lincoln College, Vanessa Bolash, Craig Noort, The Sweetest Swing In Baseball Western Illinois University Monmouth College, Laurel Buckley, Melissa Metz, Lysistrata Ann Dunn, Costume, The Visit Monmouth College, Jessica Boggie, Jonathon Snowdon, The Shape Of Things David Badon, Scene, The Visit Moraine Valley Community College, Vera Kelly, Rocco Ayela, Sarina Ranftl, Boy Western Illinois University Gets Girl Ali Shubert, Scene, Arms and the Man Jessica Snyder, Costume, Dearborn Americana Principia College, Justin Taylor, Lauren Sander, Much Ado About Nothing Tony Luetkenhaus, Scene, Dearborn Americana Principia College, Anna Procter, Neil Jacobsen, The Caucasian Chalk Circle Jonathan Allender-Zivic, Lighting, Dearborn Americana Southern Illinois University, Segun Leslie Jordan, Racquel Mckenzie, Death And The King’s Horseman Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Laura Colin, Aaron Clark, A Midsummer

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 55 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees

Night’s Dream Saint Mary’s College, Kristina Marinelli, Lend Me A Tenor Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Aaron Clark, Ben Voelker, The Fastest Saint Mary’s College, Caroline Walker, Aislynn McGovern, Stop Kiss Woman Alive University of Evansville, Laura Gragtmans, Dillon Heape, Company University Of Illinois at Springfield, Ashley Warren, Dwight Langford, Cloud 9 University of Evansville, Ben Charles, Erin Wilhelm, Dark Of The Moon University Of Illinois at Springfield, Ben Bearns, Joey Cruse, Period Of Adjustment University of Evansville, Sally Cade Holmes, Dawn Schulz, Into The Woods Western Illinois University, CJ Langdon, Holly Weikal, The Bald Soprano University of Evansville, Jared Michael Brown, Taylor Bailey, That Scoundrel Western Illinois University, Jillian Weingart, Glen Wall, Arms And The Man University of Evansville, Ben Kahre, Sam Hicks, The Front Page Western Illinois University, CJ Langdon, Colleen Johnson, Dearborn Americana University of Evansville, Lisa Kitchens, The Memory Of Water Western Illinois University, Colin Wasmund, Sara Pavlak, Lion In Winter University of Indianapolis, Chelsey Wood, Into The Woods Western Illinois University, Nicole Farmerie, Susan Brumme, Momen’s Minyan University of Indianapolis, Chelsey Wood, Red Herring Western Illinois University, Joshua S. Murphy, Jonathan Self, The Visit Valparaiso University, Ali McLaughlin, Beyond Therapy Western Illinois University, Nicole Farmerie, Susan Brummet, Women’s Minyan Valparaiso University, Ashleigh Stochel, The Heidi Chronicles Valparaiso University, Lisa Morton, The Importance Of Being Earnest Indiana Anderson University, Theo Hicks, Albert Herring (Opera) Michigan Anderson University, Debbie Fights, Alvin J. Morrison, Seussical, The Musical Adrian College, Tiffany Taylor, Alone Anderson University, Kristen Noonan, Wesley Cate, 1940s Radio Hour Adrian College, Kyle Bucholz, Mackenzie Fader, Barnum Anderson University, Heather Frisby, Lisa Ermel, Living Out Adrian College, Bridget Leary, Deveny Lopinski, Crimes Of The Heart Ball State University, Curtis Becht, Kate Martin, Camino Real Adrian College, Marcus Laban, Laura Shank, Life Changes Ball State University, Bridget Gillenwater & Michael Chandler, Violet Adrian College, Bridget Leary, Amy VanBecelaere, Romeo And Juliet Ball State University, Yutopia Essex, David Guiden, In The Blood Adrian College, Ryan Chalou, Amy VanBecelaere, The Insanity Of Mary Girard Ball State University, Kayla Marsh, Jaclyn Hennell, Songs For A New World Adrian College, Nicholas Fuqua, Justin Kulman, The Shape Of Things Bethel College, Jessica Spencer, Ryan Yoder, Romeo And Juliet Albion College, Joseph Robertson, Sabrina Sutherlan, Anatomy Of Gray Depauw University, James Patton, Brandon Piper, Children Of Eden Albion College, Kelly Voigt, Steve Dudas, The Shape Of Things Depauw University, Caitlin Brown, Nicholas Pearson, Einstein And The Roosevelts Aquinas College, Rachel Pineiro, Lizzy Sulkowski, Esperanza Rising Depauw University, Christopher Burton, Natural Selection Calvin College, Benjamin Buursma, Tony Terpstra, Alice In Wonderland Goshen College, Mike Honderich, Andrea Kraybill, Absolutely! {Perhaps} Calvin College, Moriah Ophardt, Brandon Dewyn, The Tempest Goshen College, Angie Noah, Adrienne Nesbitt, Quilters Calvin College, Emily Hanna, The Women Of Lockerbie Goshen College, Adriel Santiago, Ben Jacobs, Grace Eidmann, Saint Plays Central Michigan University, Cameron Dodge-White, Arms and the Man Hanover College, Jon Becraft, Jacob Cooper, Mera Kathryn Corlett, Slaying the Central Michigan University, Quentin Crump, Cyrano Dragon Central Michigan University, Ian Boley, Kiss Me, Kate Huntington University, Deanna Repic, Cassandra Quinn-Dyar, A Midsummer Night’s Central Michigan University, Saraha Ledtke, Ian Boley, Little Women: The Musical Dream Central Michigan University, Scott Freeman, Lauren Moss, Medea Huntington University, Samantha Freeman, Meghan McClaine, As It Is In Heaven Central Michigan University, Andrew Papa, Rocket Man Huntington University, Kristen Lynne Kohaut, Peter Owens, Radium Girls Central Michigan University, Cameron Dodge-White, The Complete Works Of William Huntington University, Abigail Allwein, The Music Man Shakespeare (Abridged) Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne, Brett Tubbs, Jessica Butler, How To Succeed In Cornerstone University, Nathan Reynolds, Reagan Boomershine, Little Women: Business Without Really Trying The Musical Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, Breanna Conrad, Jessica Butler, A Doll’s Cornerstone University, Adam Miller, Amy Groen, Wait Until Dark Sherry House Grand Valley State University, Scott Watson, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, Chad Kennerk, Blane Pressler, Wonderful Grand Valley State University, Whitney Hershberger, Nickel And Dimed Town Grand Valley State University, Christian Whitney Hershberger, Seven Passages: Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, Elizabeth Alberding, Jon Kasunic, Two Stories Of Gay Rooms Grand Valley State University, Anna Walters, Vinegar Tom Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, Aaron Mann, Greg Boyles, Waiting For Hillsdale College, Katelyn Rasmussen, Natalie Scarlett, Biedermann And The Godot Firebugs Indiana State University, Justin Renner, Hotel Cassiopeia Hillsdale College, Elizabeth Stone, Christian Campbell, Hedda Gabler Indiana Wesleyan University, Hannah Alphonse, Brian Dykstra, Sunday In The Park Hillsdale College, Kate Jones, John Scribner, Zombie Prom With George Hope College, Isaac Bush, Jon Sprik, Twelfth Night Indiana Wesleyan University, Ana Menefee, Melissa McQueen, Wit Hope College, Brittany Stock, Candice Tindell, 1940’s Radio Hour Purdue University, Lauren Sivak, Maria Souza, Blue Window Hope College, Stacy Thomas, Ben Hertel, Crimes Of The Heart Purdue University, Lincoln Stentz, Greta Wohlrabe, Hair Hope College, Maggie McGurn, John Telfer, Second Class Purdue University, Patrick Midgley, Rob Hinds, Marat Sade Kalamazoo College, Grace Mcgookey, Alex Clothier, Angels In America, Part One: Purdue University, Greta Wohlrabe, Dawn Glover, The Seagull Millennium Approaches Purdue University, Dawn Glover, Matthew David Gellin, The Underpants Kalamazoo College, Naseem Mazloom, Death And The King’s Horseman Purdue University, Stevie Chaddock, Andrea Morales, Kathryn Allen, You Can’t Kalamazoo College, Emily Harpe, Well Take It With You Lansing Community College, Emily Hawkes, Alpha Psi Omega: One Act Festival

56 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees

Lansing Community College, David Brown, An Experiment With An Air Pump Heidelberg College, Emily Bastin, David Grover, Medea Lansing Community College, Samantha Seybert, Kasie Flaherty, Jane Eyre Miami University, Laura Ferdinand, A Night of One Act Plays Michigan State University, Kellyn Uhl, Stephanie Koenig, Love’s Labour’s Lost Miami University, Jason Howard, Cloud Tectonics Michigan State University, Rusty Broughton, Jennifer Shafer, Cabaret Miami University, Caroline David, Double Take: The Lover and The American Century Michigan State University, Dana Benson, Well Miami University, Aaron Epstein, Ohio State Murders Michigan Technological University, Dieter Rudolph, Seascape Miami University, Bryan Schmidt, The Insanity of Mary Girard Michigan Technological University, Dan Freeman, The Memorandum Miami University, John Crowley, The Taming of the Shrew (a Jingju version) Oakland University, Alexandra Zorn, Brenda Bly:Teen Detective OSU-Newark, Alyse Cho, Ashley Greene, 30 Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Oakland University, Adrienne Podjun , Chekov In Yalta Go Blind Oakland University, Jordon Solomon, Drat! The Cat! OSU-Newark, Seth Foley, Alyse Cho-Foley, Baby With the Bathwater Oakland University, Alex Pedica, Falsettos OSU-Newark, Dave Lisa Ridenouk, Tony McClure, Post Mortem Oakland University, Brett Radke, David Meese, Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Sinclair Community College, Lauren Deaton, Ama and the White Crane Towards The Somme Sinclair Community College, James Rosselli, The Tragedie of Macbeth Oakland University, Allison Kochanski, The Trojan Women Sinclair Community College, Chaney Mason Morrow, An Experiment with an Air Saginaw Valley State University, Kaith Del Rio, Chad Baker, Art Pump Saginaw Valley State University, Tyler Frank, Erinn Holm, As You Like It The College of Wooster, Phillip Mcleod, Owen Reynolds, A Flea in Her Ear Saginaw Valley State University, Tyler Frank, Chad Baker, Side Man The College of Wooster, Allison Wadleigh, Meredith Overcash, The Good Woman Saginaw Valley State University, Caleb Knutson, The Andrews Brothers - The New of Setzuan ‘40s Musical The University of Akron, Toni Clair, Twelfth Night Saginaw Valley State University, Caleb Knutson, Colleen Cartwright, The The University of Akron, Erika Rylow, India Burton, Three Sisters Crucible University of Toledo, Elif Erturk, Brad Arner, Coronado Saginaw Valley State University, Amanda Muelle, Mat Eaasterwood, The Water University of Toledo, Pat Miller, Brett Bowling, Bat Boy: The Musical Engine University of Toledo, Katie Rediger, Betsy Yeary, The Arabian Nights University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Lee Tyler Chrisman, Joseph Richter, You University of Toledo, Gordon James, Tyria Allen, Ubu Rex Never Can Tell Xavier University, Zoe Teets, Peter York, Power Plays University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Joseph Moses, Laura Lapidus, Madmen And Wisconsin Specialists Beloit College, Katie Brennan, Madeleine Roux, The Importance of Being Earnest University of Michigan-Flint, Samantha Hogan, The Copa Carthage College, Vanessa Schroeder, Aileen Farrel, Children of Eden University of Michigan-Flint, Samantha MacFarland, Mike St. Cyr, Expecting Carthage College, Dana Peters, Rae Loftis, Independence Isabel Carthage College, Kenton Rauwerdink, Julia Yob, Last Mass At St. Casimir’s University of Michigan-Flint, Bart Allen Burger, How I Learned to Drive Carthage College, Dana Peters, Thomas J. Novak, The Good Woman of Setzuan University of Michigan-Flint, Jenny Amble, Timothy Corbett, Jessica Back, Concordia University, Silvia Matus, David Mews, Blithe Spirit Metamorphoses Concordia University, Rachel Guenther, Lacey Kaufman, Little Women: The Musical University of Michigan-Flint, Andrea Anthony, Alan Cross, The Winter’s Tale Edgewood College, Megan Gaber, Jay Gabel, Six Characters in Search of an Author Western Michigan University, Natalie Hurdle, How I Learned To Drive Edgewood College, Monica Donnelly, Rori Flynn, The Fourth Wall Western Michigan University, Louis Sallan, Moon Over Buffalo Edgewood College, Kenna Victoria Hartshorn, Anne Blust, The Straw Chair Western Michigan University, Janai Travis, North Star Edgewood College, Megan Gaber, Tashona Brown, The Wiz Western Michigan University, Hannah Sielatycki, On The Town Lawrence University, Cara Wantlan, Brune Macary, Blood Wedding Western Michigan University, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Our Lady of 121st Street Lawrence University, Mike Axtell, Peter Welch, The Knight from Olmedo Western Michigan University, Scott Wiltsie, Seven Passages Marquette University, Bonnie Auguston, Jennifer Shine, Moon Over Buffalo Western Michigan University, Cassandra Sandberg, West Side Story Marquette University, Nick Inzeo, Phillip J. Berns, The Cherry Orchard Ohio Ripon College, Ashley Retzlaff, Brandi Gaspard, Anatomy of Gray Ashland University, Rachel Frady, Jacob Kinney, Dead Man Walking Ripon College, Cady Cummings, Paul Steffens, Arcadia Ashland University, Mary Allison, Nicole Hale, Crimes of the Heart University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac, Briana Gens, Our Town Ashland University, Ashley Conlon, Mark Leach, The Crucible University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Derek Knabenbauer, Suzi Lindner, Josh Bowling Green State University, Tommy Thurston, Ali Schmidt, Company Weishaar, The Balkan Women Bowling Green State University, Ashley Brown, Casey Toney , Godspell University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Maddie Fendrick, Allyssa Dunn, A Bowling Green State University, Cory Stonebrook, Darin Kerr, Raised in Captivity Midsummer Night’s Dream Bowling Green State University, Heather Utsler, Janell Blanks, Our Town University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Zachary Keenan, Drew Birmingham, The Cedarville University, Annalise Hickok, Michael Domeny, Alice In Wonderland Diviners Cedarville University, Jordan T. Hickling, Grant C. Honsen, An Ideal Husband University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Lindsay Yach, Ali Close, Diary of Anne Frank Cedarville University, Jessica Hickling, Kasey Renae Risins, Crossing Delancey University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Molly Hoffmann, Natalie Wikstrom, Cleveland State University, Eric Perusek, Lew Wallace, A Doll’s House Oklahoma! Cuyahoga Community College, Joseph Dunn, The Russian Comedy University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stephanie Monday, David Wilson-Brown, A Cuyahoga Community College, Tiffany Trapnell, Christian Prentice, Complete Streetcar Named Desire Works of William Shakespeare University of Wisconsin-Madison, Katie Olsen, Andy Talen, The Love of the

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 57 Associate Production Respondents

Nightingale University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Adam Boucher, Jake Mandel, Dogs of the Blue Gods & The Sugar Plum Fairy University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Amy Malcom, Chris Baker, Macbeth University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Nikki Kulas, Jonathan Finnegan, The Playboy of the Western World University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Meggie Greivell, Alecia Annachino, The Story of Opal University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Kelsey Anderson, Maddie Weber, Look Back in Anger University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Abbi Bennet, Angel Brelie, Something’s Afoot University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Eric Douglas, Maggie Myre, Telling Tales University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Beth Van Kumpen, Marc Berg, The Good Person of Setzuan University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, David Colton, Just Politics University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Thomas Bevan, James Roland, Never The Sinner University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, David Franz, Christopher Gonyo, Dog Sees God University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Tyler King, Shantelle Szyper, Miles Gloriousus University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Abigail Halon, Michael Bevis, Peter Pan University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Garrett Volpendesta, Kientré Gill, Stuart Little University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Ashley Arroyo, Saundra Montijo, The Rose Tattoo Wisconsin Lutheran College, Sarah Tullberg, Erica Ortenblad, Dead Man Walking Wisconsin Lutheran College, Ezekial Noah Drews, Vince Pelligrino, Anything Goes

Bill Wallace, Monmouth College Mark Ridgeway, Indiana University Purdue University- Associate Production Respondents Catherine Weidner, DePaul University Fort Wayne ILLINOIS Kristen Williams Kip Shawger, Ball State University Susan Patrick Benson, Southern Illinois University at James Zager, University of Illinois Jim Stark, Hanover College Carbondale Katie Sullivan, Saint Mary’s College Cyndee Brown, Illinois State University INDIANA Andy White, Valparaiso University Allison Cameron, Eastern Illinois University Mark Abram-Copenhaver, Saint Mary’s College Jason Conner, Western Illinois University Melissa Bialko, Saint Mary’s College MICHIGAN egla hassan, Western Illinois University Jennifer Blackmer, Ball State University Michael Allen, Adrian College Bill Kincaid, Western Illinois University Jeff Casazza, Indiana University Purdue University— George Angell, Hillsdale College Adam Lewis Fort Wayne Michelle Bombe, Hope College Deanna Luetkenhaus, Southeast Missouri State Doug Caskey, Goshen College James Brandon, Hillsdale College University Michael Daehn, Ball State University Andy Callis, Lansing Community College Dennis Mae, Lake Forest College Mark DeLancey, Indiana University Purdue University— Ben Cole, Grand Valley State University Christopher Marino, Illinois State University Fort Wayne Denise Cole, Central Michigan University Patrick McCreary, Principia College Kurt Edwards, Indiana Wesleyan University James Daniels, Western Michigan University Chris Mitchell, Eastern Illinois University Greg Fiebig, Indiana Wesleyan University Krik Domer, Michigan State University Tom Mitchell, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana Anne Fliotos, Purdue University Emily Duguay , Western Michigan University Tony Noice, Elmhurst College Laurel Goetzinger, Anderson University Nancy Eddy, Central Michigan University Marcus Olson, Western Illinois University Kristine Holdvedt, Purdue University M.C. Friedrich, Michigan Technological University John Oertling, Eastern Illinois University Michael Jackson, Indiana State University Lauren Friesen, University of Michigan - Flint Barry Pearson, Millikin University Linda Janosko, Indiana State University Tom Glynn, Western Michigan University Janice Pohl, Elmhurst College Ann Kessler, Valparaiso University Chaya Gordon, Michigan State University Nancy Taylor Porter, Illinois College Karen Kessler, Ball State University Janet Haley, Aquinas College Vincent Rhomberg, Southern Illinois University at Patti McCrory, University of Evansville Mike Ingraham, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Carbondale Michael McNamera, Purdue University William Irwin, University of Michigan - Flint Holly Rocke, Eureka College Tom Mitchell, University of Illinois Stan Jensen, Central Michigan University Jo Slowik, Lewis University John O’Connell, Indiana University Purdue University- Deborah Keller, Aquinas College Tyler Smith, Illinois State University Fort Wayne Kerro Knox, Oakland University Steve Snyder, Bradley University Lee Orchard, Valparaiso University Karen Libman, Grand Valley State University Jeff Steele, Principia College Jane Purse-Wiedenfeldt, Indiana University Purdue Mark Liermann, Western Michigan University Eric Thibodeaux, University of Illinois Springfield University—Fort Wayne David Leugs, Calvin College Kevin Trudeau, Lewis University Richard Rand, Purdue University Leslie Littell, Oakland University Missy TT, University of Illinois Springfield Jim Ream, University of Indianapolis Ed Menta, Kalamazoo College

58 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Nominees Jodi Ozimek, Michigan State University Skelly Warren University of Wisconsin-Platteville Linda Sterling, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1979 Lanny Potts, Kalamazoo College Jeffrey Stephens*, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Bill Stine, Illinois State University, 1980 Ric Roberts, Saginaw Valley State University Tim Troy, Lawrence, University Mark Tymchyshyn´, Wayne State University, 1980 Steve Reynolds, Wittenberg University * also an associate respondent in 2008 Angelina Fiordelessi, University of Detroit, 1981 ´ Rob Roznowski, Michigan State University Andrea Huber , Illinois Wesleyan University, 1981 Spring and Fall 2008 Christia Stinson´, University of Evansville, 1982 Janet Rubin, Saginaw Valley State University Bob Amsden Ripon College Aris Tompulis, McMurray College, 1982 Stephanie Sandberg, Calvin College Joe Anderson University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Jodi Ewen´, University of Evansville, 1983 Karen Sheridan, Oakland University Jim Butchart, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Ellen Jane Smith, Northwestern University, 1983 Ansley Valentine, College of Wooster Jamie Cheatham, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Mary Bremer, University of Detroit, 1984 Royal Ward, Albion College Beth Cherne ,University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Lisa Schultz, Illinois State University, 1984 Ann White, Michigan State University David Eggebrecht, Concordia University Wisconsin Lauren Love, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1985 Jeremy Winchester, Michigan State University Jeff Entwistle, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay David Studwell´, Purdue University, 1985 OHIO Charles Grover University, of Wisconsin-Whitewater Shawn Durr, Western Illinois University, 1986 , Michael Burnett, Ashland University Roger Held Michigan Technical University Tim Gregory, Otterbein College, 1986 , Kathleen Cleary, Sinclair Community College Lisa Kornetsky University of Wisconsin-Parkside John Morgan, Wheaton College, 1987 Herschel Kruger, Carthage College Todd Neal, The Ohio State University, 1987 , Bob Ellis Cuyahoga Community College Mary Leonard ,University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Tif Luckinbill, University of Evansville, 1988 Michael Ellison, Bowling Green State University Chester Loeffler-Bell, Marquette University Bruce Orendorf, University of Illinois, 1988 Joe Fahey, Ohio State University Tracey Lyons ,University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Twyla Haferman, University of Evansville, 1989 Joe Flauto, Evansville University Kaoime Malloy University, of Wisconsin-Green Bay Sara Jackson, Illinois State University, 1989 Cornel Gabara, The University of Toledo Christopher Markle, Northern Illinois University Jeff Lieber´, University of Illinois, 1990 Fred Gloor, Cuyahoga Community College Martin McClendon, Carthage College Blake Steury, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Rick Groetzinger, Heidelberg College Janet McLean Viterbo, University 1990 Arthur Grothe, Cuyahoga Community College D. Ohlandt Lake Forest, College Anne Bogaard, Earlham College, 1991 , Shirley Huston-Findlay, The College of Wooster Gary Olsen University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Lindley Curry, University of Illinois, 1991 , Diane Merchant, Cedarville University Kathy Privatt Lawrence University Heather Currie, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1992 Jan Nelson-Gompper, Wisconsin Lutheran College Brent Langdon, University of Evansville, 1992 , Matt Moore Cedarville University Laura Riddle ,University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Rob C. Caisley, Illinois State University, 1993 Fabio Polanco, Ashland University Jay Sierszyn Wisconsin, Lutheran College Heather Siemsen, Illinois Wesleyan University 1993 Mark Shanda, Ohio State University Jeffrey Stephens, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Martin P. McClendon, University of Illinois, 1994 Steve Skyles, The University of Akron Meg Swanson, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Tirzah Wise, Otterbein College, 1994 David Tidwell, Ashland University Joanne Whitney ,Beloit College Gretchen Cleevely´, Miami University, 1995 Dave Williams, OSU-Newark Jim Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Mary Catherine Garrison, University of Evansville, 1995 Ansley Valentine, The College of Wooster , Heather Dilly, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1996 , Nealy Glenn, University of Evansville, 1996 Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Scholarship Eric Gutman, Western Michigan University, 1997 WISCONSIN Esau Pritchett´, Oakland University, 1997 Fall 2007 (did not appear in the 2008 festival Recipients Former KCACTF Region III Irene Ryan Foundation Acting Ian Brennan, Loyola University-Chicago, 1998 program) Sam Jaeger, Otterbein College, 1998 Jim Butchart* University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Scholarship recipients for East, West, and combined Fes- Andy Hager, Illinois State University, 1999 Jamie Cheatham* University of Wisconsin-Parkside tival regions are: Laura Frances Love, Illinois State University, 1999 Tom Colwin University, of Wisconsin-Whitewater Dan Crane, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1972 Geoff Stephenson, Bowling Green State University, 2000 Sean Dooley University, of Wisconsin-River Falls Lon Huber, Hanover College, 1972 Jud Williford, University of Evansville, 2000 David Eggebrecht*, Concordia University Wisconsin David Patrick Kelly, University of Detroit, 1973 Joe Calarco, Western Michigan University, 2001 Walter Elder, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Richard Snyder, Illinois State University, 1973 Rebecca McGraw, Illinois State University, 2001 David Gardiner Viterbo, College Mike Fairman, University of Evansville, 1974 Rob Robinson, University of Evansville, 2002 Charles Grover*, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater John Nowak, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1974 Kelli Giddish, University of Evansville, 2002 Mandy Hart University, of Wisconsin-La Crosse Dan Butler´, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Andy Sinclair, Illinois State University, 2003 Jeanne Leep Edgewood, College 1975 Jeremy Clark, Purdue University, 2003 Mary Leonard*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse John Speckhardt, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1975 Christopher Grant´, University of Evansville, 2004 Frank Ludwig, Viterbo University Rebecca Guy´, University of Evansville, 1976 Larry Herron, Western Michigan University, 2004 Christopher Markle*, Northern Illinois University John Oliver Priest, Northwestern University, 1976 Amanda Folena´, Purdue University, 2005 Janet McLean*, Viterbo University Bob Romeo, Illinois State University, 1977 Larry Herron, Western Michigan University, 2005 Jan Nelson* Wisconsin, Lutheran College Lynn Topping´, Indiana State University, 1977 Matt Renskers, Ball State University, 2006 Laura Riddle* University, of Wisconsin-Green Bay Laurie Ross, University of Evansville, 1978 Nick Vienna, Western Illinois University, 2006 Jay Sierszyn*, Wisconsin Lutheran College Bruce Young, Illinois State University, 1978 , Sharon Rolf´, University of Evansville, 1979 Kelli Crump, Western Illinois University, 2007 , Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 59 Past Regional Chairs

Kyle Johnson, Ball State University, 2007 Erin Neufer, Ball State University, 2008 Anne Thompson, Illinois State University 2008 ´ Denotes National Winner

Lin Conaway 1989-91 Jeff Hendry 1989-90 Past Regional Chairs Tom Oosting 1992-94 Lauren Freisen 1989-91 Sidney L. Berger 1968-69 Lauren Friesen 1995-97 Terry Allen 1991-94 Calvin Pritner 1969-70 Marvin Sims 1997-98 Jean Seitter Cummins 1994-97 Audley Grossman 1969-70 John Stefano 1998-00 Gene Terruso 1997-98 Rae Kraft 1970-72 Carolyn Gillespie 2000-03 Steven T. Sarratore 1998-00 Audley Grossman 1970-74 Michael Swanson 2003-06 Elliot Wasserman 2000-01 John Ahart 1972-74 Dean Yohnk 2001-03 Herb Felsenfeld 1975-77 Past Playwriting Chairs Ron Dye 2003-04 Peter Saputo, Jr. 1975-77 Steve Reynolds 2004-08 Christian H. Moe 1974-75 Frieda Bridgeman 1978-79 Martin Bennison 1974-77 Donald Finn 1978-79 Tom Evans 1978-79 Past Regional Design Chairs Martin Bennison 1980-82 John Kirk 1976-81 Mike Griffith 1979-83 Carole Brandt 1980-82 Sam Smiley 1980-82 Joe Flauto 1983-88 Arno Selco 1983-84 Jewell Fitzgerald 1982-84 Lois Carder 1988-91 M. James Young 1983-84 Charles “Chuck” Vicinus 1983-85 Jeff Entwistle 1991-96 John K. V. Tammi 1984-85 Leon Van Dyke 1985-86 Kip Shawger 1996-00 Alvin Goldfarb 1986-88 Harlene Marley 1986-88 Tim Kupka 2000-03 Jeffrey Koep 1986-88 Barry Robinson 1986-88 Terry Stump 2003-06 Art Hopper 1989-90 Festival XXXVIII: 2006, Bloomington and Normal, Illinois; Previous KCACTF Region III Festival Productions Illinois State University and Eureka College Ashland University Proof Festival XL: 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Central Michigan University Ain’t That a Kick in the Head Cardinal Stritch University and Marquette University Kalamazoo College Phenomenon of Decline Adrian College The Polar Bear Club Oakland University † Urinetown DePaul University Good Worker University of Toledo Homebody/Kabul Hope College ´Rose and the Rime University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Red Herring Marquette University Poor Tom University of Evansville Ánatomy of Grey Michigan State University Arts or Crafts University of Wisconsin-Madison Crumbs From the Table of Joy North Central College Thoroughly Modern Millie Valparaiso University † Side by Side by Sondheim Southern Illinois University-Carbondale dReamtRippin’ University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Life Sentence University of Indianapolis The Shape of Things Indiana State University Leavesakes University of Toledo Topdog/Underdog Lawrence University, Wisconsin Language of Angels Western Michigan University Dracula Wisconsin Lutheran College A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Festival XXXVII: 2005, Bloomington and Normal, Illinois; Festival XXXIX: 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Illinois State University and Eureka College Cardinal Stritch University and Marquette University Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Lying Lies Cardinal Stritch University † The Burial at Thebes Indiana State University Mechanics of Flight Central Michigan University The Roommate Western Illinois University Stud Ducks and Horny Toads The College of Wooster Ńocturne University of Indianapolis Endgame Indiana University-Bloomington Reel Western Michigan University Óthello Michigan State University Expecting Isabel Purdue University Buried Child Oakland University Knick-Knack Principia College Motoring Purdue University The Importance of Being Earnest Miami University Bourbon at the Border Sinclair Community College Footfalls Marquette University Dead Man Walking Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Antarctica Ashland University The Maids University of Wisconsin–Parkside Fifth of July Wright State University Reinventing Romance

´ Production appeared at the National Festival, Washington D.C. ´´ Winner of the National Playwriting Award † Festival Showcase Production

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Festival XXXVI: 2004, Bloomington and Normal, Illinois; Festival XXXI: 1999, Indianapolis, Indiana; Illinois State University and Eureka College Franklin College and the University of Indianapolis Adrian College Sex Conversation Ball State University Jesus Christ Superstar Valparaiso University Anna Karenina Wright State University A Piece of My Heart University of Evansville Á Plague of Angels University of Michigan-Flint Éarl, the Vampire Henry Ford Community College The Tempest University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Endgame University of Akron Winesburg, Ohio Illinois State University Angels in America, Part I Marquette University ´Quid Pro Quo Wright State University Homestead Saginaw Valley State University American Son Michigan State University The Merchant of Venice University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Metamorphoses Miami University The Real Inspector Hound Hillsdale College Rosenstrasse Festival XXX: 1998, Indianapolis, Indiana; University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The Christmas Schooner Franklin College and the University of Indianapolis University of Evansville Jack’s Holiday Festival XXXV: 2003, Evansville, Indiana; Oakland University Othello University of Southern Indiana Muskingum College In Search of the Red River Dog Calvin College As It Is In Heaven Valparaiso University The Servant of Two Masters University of Michigan-Flint Master Harold and the Boys... University of Wisconsin-Green Bay On the Verge University of Evansville Street Scene Western Illinois University The Great American Justice Game University of Wisconsin Madison Hamlet Adrian College Ain’t No Puppet Ball State University The Laramie Project Southern Illinois University-Carbondale ´Musk: The Elk Play Viterbo University King Me Southern Illinois University Carbondale Up on Mount Nebo Festival XXIX: 1997, Riffe Center, Columbus, Ohio; Lorain Community College Kumashakana Asi Otterbein College and The Ohio State University University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Fuddy Mears University of Michigan-Flint Farther West University of Evansville The Seagull Festival XXXIV: 2002, Evansville, Indiana; Kalamazoo College Joe Hill University of Southern Indiana Wright State University ´1913: The Great Dayton Flood Loyola University Not Even the Children Ball State University Dancing at Lughnasa Purdue University Sueno University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign The School for Wives University of Indianapolis Coming Home Oberlin College Birdblind Lorain Community College Rashomon Ball State University Dig for Fire Marquette University The Merry Wives of Windsor Indiana State University Performing My Life Festival XXVIII: 1996, Riffe Center, Columbus, Ohio; University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls Otterbein College and The Ohio State University University of Evansville Jekyll and Hyde Sinclair Community College ´The Overcoat University of Evansville Vinegar Tom Festival XXXIII: 2001, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Marquette University and the Miami University The Colored Museum University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Western Michigan University The Scarlet Letter Hanover College Moving Day National-Louis University This Is Not A Pipe Dream Purdue University Candida Illinois Wesleyan University Front University of Wisconsin-Madison Spring Awakening Adrian College Closure Wittenberg University ´Ít Is No Desert Roosevelt University ´Mrs. Coney University of Wisconsin-Whitewater The Cripple of Inishmaan University of Evansville The Caucasian Chalk Circle Festival XXVII: 1995, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Central Michigan University Killin’ Time University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Assassins Ball State University Wit University of Evansville O Pioneers! Western Illinois University Marat/Sade Indiana State University The Tempest Northern Michigan University ´Haywire Festival XXXII: 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Marquette University and the Miami University Romeo and Juliet University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Oakland University Stags and Hens North Central College The Pirates of Penzance Purdue University The Gut Girls Festival XXVI: 1994, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Lawrence University Translations University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 1776 Hillsdale College Macbeth Illinois Wesleyan University Threnody Western Michigan University Native Son University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Light in the Village University of Michigan-Flint Godspell University of Evansville Edith Stein Illinois State University T he Plague of the 20th Century Indiana State University Woyzeck Butler University ´Beckettworks Ball State University Company

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 61 Previous Festival Productions

Festival XXV: 1993, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Festival XIX: 1987, The Ohio State University Sinclair Community College Measure For Measure Kent State University Other Places University of Michigan-Flint M. Butterfly Wright State University Of Mice and Men Illinois State University Our Country’s Good Western Michigan University As Is University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Camp Meeting Oberlin College The Water Engine Oakland University Ćloud 9 University of Evansville Óklahoma Rigs University of Evansville The View From Here Oakland University Gorey Stories Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Out On a Ledge and Wild Festival XVIII: 1986, The Ohio State University Asses of the Devil Western Michigan University Fifth of July Festival XXIV: 1992, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale University of Michigan-Flint The Way of the World Ball State University Ghetto Hanover College Hansel and Gretel Eastern Michigan University Word Kent State University Legend Indiana State University ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore University of Evansville Strider Michigan State University And the Man in the Mirror was Smoking a Cigar Northern Michigan University Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris University of Evansville Along the Yellow Breeches Festival XVII: 1985, Western Michigan University Western Illinois University Conquest of My Brother Indiana State University Daddy’s Gone to Mother in Heaven Wright State University The Glass Menagerie University of Evansville The Tempest Festival XXIII: 1991, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana University-Bloomington Forest Game University of Michigan-Flint Tales of the Lost Formicans Wayne State University Appear and Show Cause University of Evansville Into the Woods Wright State University Terra Nova Illinois State University ´White Boned Demon Michigan State University One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest University of Wisconsin-Green Bay In Circles University of Detroit ´The Brig Hanover College Dancing Lessons Oakland University Alice! Wayne State University Stop the Great War Festival XVI: 1984, Western Michigan University Oakland University The Boyfriend Michigan State University The School for Scandal Festival XXII: 1990, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne Western Michigan University Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Northern Illinois University Execution of Justice University of Detroit Philemon University of Evansville The Rose Tattoo Illinois Wesleyan University ´Working Western Michigan University Goblin Market University of Michigan-Flint The Sleeping Beauty Ball State University Cabaret University of Evansville Ladyhouse Blues Indiana State University ´Downwinder Dance University of Toledo Candide Wright State University Is There Life After High School? Festival XV: 1983, Indiana University-South Bend Festival XXI: 1989, Western Illinois University Otterbein College Abelard and Heloise University of Wisconsin-Green Bay India Song Hope College ´Tea and Sympathy Illinois State University Á Raisin in the Sun Indiana University Talk Show University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Learning to Fly University of Evansville A Streetcar Named Desire Northeastern Illinois University From Morn Till Midnight Indiana State University Danton’s Death University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point The Runner Stumbles Kalamazoo College El Grande De Coca Cola Festival XXI: 1989, Indiana University-South Bend Festival XIV: 1982, Indiana University-South Bend Oberlin College Cinders Miami University Friday’s Child Western Michigan University On the Verge Eastern Illinois University ´Seduced University of Michigan-Flint Museum Indiana University-Bloomington ´´The Cashier University of Evansville Roots in a Parched Ground University of Evansville ´Between Daylight and Boonville Miami University Celebration Extra Brokers Frozen Wright State University Tarts Kent State University Lobo A-Go-Go Hanover College Bedlam’s Belles University of Michigan-Flint The Front Page Festival XX: 1988, Indiana University-South Bend University of Evansville ´Spring Awakening Festival XIII: 1981, University of Akron Miami University A Lie of the Mind University of Toledo The Robber Bridegroom Hope College The Dining Room Wayne State University Wild Oats Western Michigan University ´Quilters Oakland University ´Jeririgg Indiana State University Dessert at the Wafflehouse Breakfast Anytime Northwestern University ´Swansong for a Unicorn Antioch College Quien Vive? University of Illinois ´Red Peppers Plus Wright State University Bird on the Wing Wright State University Aspirations ´ Production appeared at the National Festival, Washington D.C. ´´ Winner of the National Playwriting Award † Festival Showcase Production

62 Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Previous Festival Productions University of Evansville Áll the Way Home Festival V: 1973, Indiana Central College Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne Runaways Marygrove College, University of Detroit A Comedy of Errors Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne ´Dames at Sea Festival XII: 1980, University of Akron University of Illinois ´Head of State Hanover College ´´The Diviners University of Evansville Lysistrata University of Michigan-Ann Arbor The Lion and the Jewel Hanover College Á Man is a Man The Ohio State University The Lion in Winter Kalamazoo College Pantagleize Hope College Mack and Mabel Wayne State University The Three Musketeers University of Evansville The Mound Builders Wayne State University Philadelphia, Here I Come! Festival IV: 1972, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University University of Akron Ceremonies in Dark Old Men Festival XI: 1979, Bowling Green State University Ohio University Dracula Wright State University ´Look Back In Anger Southern Illinois University-Carbondale ´Home Miami University Sticks and Bones Hanover College ´The Rimers of Eldritch Indiana State University The Devils Northern Michigan University Salome University of Pittsburgh Much Ado About Nothing University of Michigan Waiting for Godot Hanover College Ánd They Dance Real Slow in Jackson Valparaiso University You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Indiana University-Bloomington Hard Up Festival III: 1971, Ohio University Festival X: 1978, Wright State University Cleveland State University ´The Birds Wayne State University ´The Amorous Flea Indiana State University The Crucible University of Evansville The Cherry Orchard Southern Illinois University-Carbondale ´The Caretaker Ohio Wesleyan University Kennedy’s Children Hope College Hallelujah! Miami University The Contractor University of Evansville ´The Imaginary Invalid Festival IX: 1977, Wright State University Ohio University The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Central Michigan University Are We There Yet? Indiana Central College The World of Carl Sandburg Indiana State University The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It Festival II: 1970, Michigan State University Calumet College Guys and Dolls Ohio University ´The Birthday Party University of Evansville Romeo and Juliet Michigan State University The Comedy of Errors The Ohio State University Scapino Hanover College ´Peer Gynt Hanover College Who Can You Trust? College of Mount St. Joseph Spoon River Anthology Festival VIII: 1976, Central Michigan University Butler University The Trial University of Evansville Áh, Wilderness! Festival I: 1969, Ohio University Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne ´Hair University of Evansville Arms and the Man Adrian College The Farce of Scapin Hiram College Colors in the Dark Hanover College Heaven is Deep Wayne State University Á Flea in Her Ear University of Detroit ´The Me Nobody Knows Ohio University Hail Scrawdyke! Michigan State University Our Town University of Michigan-Ann Arbor The Homecoming Festival VII: 1975, The Ohio State University-Mansfield Indiana University-Bloomington The Hostage Hope College Bullmoose Mackinac College John Brown’s Body University of Notre Dame Fellows Bowling Green State University Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Illinois State University Óne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Allegheny College Telemachus Clay University of Evansville The House of Blue Leaves Purdue University Loot Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne Marathon ‘33 Miami University Tom Paine Festival VI: 1974, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne University of Evansville As You Like It Purdue University Busy Dyin’ Southern Illinois University-Carbondale ´Lying in State Central Michigan University A Delicate Balance University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ´The Servant of Two Masters Wabash College Fortune and Men’s Eyes Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis Hedda Gabler Hanover College Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

Region III 41st Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 63 Additional Bios & Notes

Aaron Carter Aaron Carter is the Literary Manager at the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. He has taught and been a guest artist at Grinnell College, DePaul University, Indiana University Northwest and Roosevelt University. He also teaches at Chicago Dramatists, where he is a resident playwright. Recently, his play Panther Burn was produced by MPAACT at Victory Gardens Greenhouse and was nominated for the Black Theater Alliance’s Lorraine Hansberry Award. His latest play, Iowa Akhbar, was presented as part of the KNF Series in New York. He is currently at work on a new commission from Victory Gardens made possible by the Wallace Foundation. Aaron is also the creator of the blog New Terminology For Dramaturgy (NTFD).

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