Who’s Who At Festival Forty‐Two:

NWDC Keynote Guest: Friday 1:30‐2:50 In the Mandalay Ballroom B

Kunal Nayyar, plays the role of Rajesh on THE BIG BANG THEORY and it is his first as a regular on a television series. He had a guest starring role on NCIS. Nayyar is currently writing his first feature film, and his critically acclaimed play, "Cotton Candy," continues to run in New Delhi. His theater acting credits include "Huck and Holden" at the Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles, for which Kunal was awarded best male lead in a play on the West Coast by the Garland Awards, and "Loves Labors Lost" at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, England. Always a performer, Nayyar began acting in musicals and plays at a young age. After high school, he left India for the United States where he majored in business and took many acting classes at the University of Portland. In his senior year, he was nominated as the best actor in his play, "The Rose Tattoo," and was given an invitation to the American College Theater Festival (ACTF) to compete in an acting competition where he eventually won the Mark Twain Award for comic brilliance as well as a fellowship to the prestigious Sundance Theater Lab. He went on to receive his Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) from Temple University in Philadelphia. Nayyar played badminton for his school team and competed at state level in the region of North India. He is also a fanatical fan of cricket. He is said to have a killer shoulder shimmy. According to Nayyar, wikipedia says his name means "one who sees beauty in everything" and it comes from a Himalayan bird known as the Painted Snipe. He was born in London, England, and spent most of his younger years growing up in New Delhi, India. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

USITT Keynote Guest: Thursday 3‐4:30 in the Mandalay Ballroom A

Andrea Bechert has designed scenery for over 250 productions and numerous world premieres at theatres across the country including Colorado Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, The Starlight Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Wildwood, Marin Theatre Company, Opera San Jose, Center Repertory Theatre, and many others. Her designs have been included in the 2005 World Design Expo and her scenic, costume, and projection designs for Mad Forest were selected for the Recent Student Works exhibit at the 1996 Prague Quadrennial. Awards include three Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a Denver Ovation Award, and more that 20 other regional design awards. She has taught at or been a guest at several universities including Stanford, Ohio University, and University of Wisconsin. Andrea is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

Special Guests:

Amy Attaway is in her second season as Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Prior to joining Actors, she was a freelance actor and director. Recent directing credits include 3:59am: a drag race for two actors in the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Drunken City with The Necessary Theatre and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (staged reading) at Actors. Amy is co‐founder and past director of the Theatre Alliance of Louisville, and is a proud member of Actors Equity.

Robert Boles has worked professionally as an actor and a director since 1972. He has worked both on and off Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, as well as in film and television. Currently he is in his fifth year as head of the theatre program at the University of New Haven, and is the NPP Region One Playwriting Chair.

Bill Bowers has traveled throughout all 50 of the United States and Europe as an actor, mime and educator. His original mime shows, ‘NIGHT SWEETHEART ‘NIGHT BUTTERCUP and UNDER A MONTANA MOON have been produced Off Broadway to critical raves. His newest play HEYOKAH/HOKEHAY, a devised ensemble piece, premiered this year at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where Bill was named Artist of Eminence. Bill’s recent play, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, had a sold out run at the Rattlestick Theater Off Broadway, and has also been produced at Berkshire Theater Festival and the Adirondack Theater Festival. Bill has been hailed by critics as “a great American mime”, winning the Dallas Ft Worth Critics Award, Best of the Berkshires and the New York Times Pick of the Week. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING is now touring the United States, with recent performances in Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, and Alaska. His Broadway credits include Zazu in THE LION KING, and Leggett in THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. He appeared with John Turturro Off Broadway in THE SOULS OF NAPLES, as well as in Naples Italy. He has also appeared in New York at Ensemble Studio Theater, Here, LA MA MA, St. Anne’s Warehouse, and the NY Fringe Festival. Bill holds an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from his alma mater, Rocky Mountain College. He presently teaches at New York University, and is a teaching artist for the PaperMill Playhouse, Urban Stages, and the Institute for Arts and Humanities Education. He regularly presents workshops and master classes, and has studied with the legendary Marcel Marceau. www.Bill‐Bowers.com

Julie Denninghoff was a piano performance major at Florida State University, She has music directed / accompanied for Musicana Dinner theatre and the Burt Reynolds Theatre, as well as for Seattle Musical Theatre, The Fifth Avenue Theatre and Village Theatre. With over 200 shows to her credit, she was the Managing Artistic Director of the Washington Academy of Performing Arts and now teaches at Bellevue College in WA. Julie has worked with Broadway artists John Kander, Rob Fisher, Terrence Mann, Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen and Jay Binder to name a few. She is the musical director/coordinator/accompanist with the Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa Florida.

Jay Edelnant is Professor of Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He teaches courses in theatre research, directing, and dramatic theory, directs and writes plays, and has served as Department Head, Director of Theatre, and Director of Graduate Studies. He has served as a consultant for various state, national, and international educational and arts agencies, has been a Sasakawa Fellow at the Japan Studies Institute, a Roy Carver Fellow, and has received the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. He also completed a term as the National Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Amy Feinberg is the Head of Directing Playwriting and Production at The University of the Arts and the Producing Artistic Director of The Hypothetical Theatre Company, Inc. in NYC. In New York, she has directed the premieres of There or Here by Jennifer Maisel, My Sweetheartʼs the Man in the Moon by Don Nigro, Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn starring Joanna Merlin, The Action Against Sol Schumann by Jeffrey Sweet, Ordinary Heroes and Almost Grown Up by Aviva Jane Carlin, Gun Club by Hunt Holman, Quake and Sparrow Project by Melanie Marnich, Sitting Pretty by Amy Rosenthal, Buying Time by Michael Weller and its extended run with the help of SB Productions; The Heart of Art by Michael Weller, Mickey's Home, American Blues, Hot Date, and the critically acclaimed Ghost on Fire by Michael Weller. For the National Park Service, Amy wrote, directed and produced Ellis Island Stories which was in residence at Ellis Island 1992‐2000 and now tours nationally to schools, festivals, etc. Other NY and Regional Credits include: Topdog/Underdog at The Freedom Theatre (Forbidden Culture), There or Here workshop at Play Penn, Orphans by Lyle Kessler at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Samm Art Williams' Brass Birds Don't Sing (World Premiere) for Jewish Theatre of the South (Atlanta, Ga), Almost Grown Up at Sacramento Theatre Company, The Action Against Sol Schumann at Jewish Theatre of the South, Shedding Light by Rich Orloff at Shadowlands Theatre (NY), Hunt Holman's Gun Club with The Cherry Lane Alternative and Melanie Marnich's Quake for Lincoln Center Directors Lab and LA premiere. She regularly directs for the University of the Arts. Amy holds an MFA in directing from Northern Illinois University and is a proud member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the Actors Equity Association, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Dan Gray is the Resident Scenic Designer, Associate Professor and current Head of the Design/Tech Area at The Ohio State University Department of Theatre. Dan’s regional theatre credits include numerous designs for; The George Street Playhouse, Capital Rep, Players Theatre Columbus, the Delaware Theatre Company, CATCO and The Human Race Theatre Company. He also designs for many Central Ohio companies including; BalletMet, Opera Columbus, The Dayton Ballet, Red Herring Theatre Company, The Columbus Symphony, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and The Columbus Zoo.

Forrest Hartman has more than a decade of daily newspaper experience, including nine years as the arts editor for the Reno Gazette‐Journal, the most widely circulated publication in Northern Nevada. An accomplished film, television and theater writer, he has interviewed many of the biggest names in entertainment, and his byline has appeared in some of the nation’s largest newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, Arizona Republic and Indianapolis Star. Although he has written on a wide variety of topics, Forrest is best known as a film critic, and his syndicated DVD/Blu‐ray review column runs in three daily newspapers, as well as smaller publications including www.ForrestHartman.com. Forrest’s journalistic endeavors have been honored in the Nevada Press Association's Better Newspaper contest each of the nine years that he has worked for the Gazette‐Journal, most notably with a first place for Entertainment Writing in 2002 and a second place for Critical Writing in both 2007 and 2009. Forrest received a bachelor's degree in Information and Communication Studies (with an emphasis on Journalism) and a minor in music from California State University, Chico, in 1990, and he is a member in good standing of the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and Broadcast Film Critics Association. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Scott Horstein is a dramaturg and director formerly based in Los Angeles, now on faculty as Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Contemporary Theater at Sonoma State University. In Los Angeles, he was Manager of Play Development for Cornerstone Theater Company, one of the country’s most celebrated multi‐ethnic, community‐based theater companies. He was also the Literary Director for the Black Dahlia Theater, a leading new play theater. His freelance dramaturgy credits include classic and contemporary work at the country’s leading regional theaters, including Denver Center Theater Company, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, and the Old Globe, where he dramaturged for Arthur Miller on his penultimate play Resurrection Blues. He has worked with such leading playwrights as Sarah Ruhl, Octavio Solis, David Edgar, Austin Pendleton, and James Still, and with such leading directors as Bill Rauch, Mark Lamos, and Kyle Donnelly.

Mark Kuntz is currently on the theatre faculty at Western Washington University after spending eleven years at Eastern Oregon University. He received his BA in theatre arts from the University of Washington and his MFA in directing from the University of Oregon. Mark has twice served as a member of the National Selection Team for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and is currently the National Chair. He is Past Chair of Region VII and Past President of The Northwest Drama Conference.

Michael Legg is in his third season at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his second as Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company. Before coming to Actors, he spent three years as a theatrical agent in New York. His former clients can still be seen on Broadway, in television/film, and in regional theatres across the country. Prior to his time in New York, he spent seven years teaching and directing at both high school and university levels. He holds an MFA in acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a proud member of Actors Equity.

Dr. John Mayer is chair of the theatre department at CSU Stanislaus. He is the coordinator for the CSU Summer Arts intensive with Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. He continues to work as an actor/director, most recently participating in a staged reading with actor Jeremy Renner, and a performance workshop with academy award winner Alan Arkin. A former student of Chicago's famed Second City, John is a Chicagoan through and through.

Tom Miller: Prior to joining the staff of Actors' Equity Association, Tom was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway, with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre, at Opryland USA, and in Europe. He can be seen in the documentary “Show Business – The Road To Broadway” hosting a Broadway Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade Tom served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom has been an Equity Member since 1983.

Char Nelson, adjunct faculty in Playwriting at Brigham Young University, currently chairs the National Playwriting Program for KCACTF, Region VIII, coordinates the New Play Development Workshop for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and represents the Dramatists Guild of America for Utah. She created and teaches a new BYU Independent Study Playwriting course, which serves students world‐wide and offers individualized feedback on writing exercises, and two drafts of ten‐minute and one‐act plays. It features an interactive website where students post plays and receive peer‐ driven feedback. Char is an experienced actress, director, and dramaturg, and a produced and award‐winning playwright. She recently began exploring movement as vital element in her plays. She has worked with new plays for nearly twenty years in a variety of settings.

Chuck Ney is a professor and head of directing in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Texas State University. He has directed at New York City’s Working Man’s Clothes Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, and Manhattan Clearing House Contemporary Performing Arts Center. Recent Texas State directing credits include Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Going after Cacciato (world premiere of Romulus Linney’s adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s novel), A Little Night Music, Transposing Shakespeare, and Tongue of a Bird. Since 2004 he has traveled to Shakespeare theaters, interviewing artistic directors and directors about their working methods. He has written articles for American Theatre and is presently finishing a book, Directing Shakespeare in America.

Michelle Ney has designed scenery and costumes for theatre and opera companies including The Colony Theatre and The Theatre at Boston Court (Los Angeles), Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Austin Shakespeare, and Austin Lyric Opera. Recent projects: Going After Cacciato; Macbeth; Gulls; The Comedy of Errors; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Cymbeline; Bat Boy: the Musical; and Tongue of A Bird. Michelle’s work was featured in the Prague Quadrennial International Design Exposition, and published 3 times in TD&T. Michelle is Head of Design & Technology at Texas State University. She also taught at University of Idaho, University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward’s University and is Design Chair for Region VI.

Robin Payne has been with the Denver Center Theatre Company for the past five years as the Properties Director. Prior to working out West she was at the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program teaching scenic design and properties production. Other credits include building properties for a number of shows on Broadway like Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. She is a member of SPAM (Society of Properties Artisans and Managers).

James Peck is an actor, writer, director and games player who has performed and taught throughout Europe since the mid 1980’s. An overwhelming desire to find an alternative approach to acting led him to Dell’Arte International. After graduating school’s MFA program in 2006, James became full time faculty where he teaches ‘The Vocal Body’ and ‘Games Dynamics’.

Beate Pettigrew is the National Irene Ryan Scholarship Audition Coordinator and was honored to be a part of the National Selection Team in 2007. She has served KCACTF as Region V’s Chair, national Chair of Chairs, Workshop Coordinator, and Dramaturg Coordinator. She is an alumni of Emporia State and the University of Kansas and graduated summa cum laude as a Hallmark Fellow from the University of Missouri‐Kansas City with an MFA in Theatre Direction. She has directed over 50 academic, semi‐professional, and professional plays. Beate is currently the Artistic Director for the Theatre Dept. at Johnson County Community College in Kansas City, a top‐ten community college.

Nick Roesler is the Associate Director of the National Theater Institute's Theatermakers Summer Intensive. He is also a proud member of FullStop Collective, where he fills the dual roles of actor and webguru. Devoted to theatrical experimentation, he has recently had the pleasure of working with the Wooster Group, SITI Company, as well as collaborating on several new and exciting pieces with emerging companies.

Michelle Seaton is currently the Artistic Director of Dark Luna Productions. She was the resident director and actor for Stark Raving Theatre in Portland, Oregon. She is currently a member of SDC and a professional actor/director in New York City. She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University and has worked at theatres such as the The Eugene O’Neil , The American Globe Theatre in New York, St. Louis Repertory Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. She has studied with Amy Saltz, Pamela Berlin, Deborah Hedwall, Israel Hicks , Tyrone Marshall and William Carden. Recent directing credits include Cloud Tectonics, Dog Sees God, Voir Dire and Stop Kiss. Acting Credits include Andromache in Women of Troy, Viola in Twelfth Night, Mary in Serenading Louie and the world premiere of Cupid and Psyche where she played Aphrodite.

Sharon Sobel serves as Resident Costume Designer and Professor in the Department of Theatre at University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has designed costumes for productions at The Bermuda Festival, The Juilliard School, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Long Island Stage, New York International Fringe Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Asolo Center for Performing Arts, Madison Repertory Theatre, Nebraska Repertory Theatre and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. She has also designed costumes for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. Sharon designed costumes for the premiere of week 5 of Suzan‐LoriParks’ 365 Days/365 Plays at Queens Theatre in the Park and The New York Public Theatre. A graduate of the MFA program at Carnegie‐Mellon University, she is a member of United Scenic Artists of America – Local 829. Sharon is immediate past Chair of Design and Technologies for KCACTF Region V.

Rob Urbinati is a freelance director and playwright based in New York City. He has directed for the Culture Project, the Public Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Company, Classic Stage Company, Pearl Theatre, HERE, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New York Fringe Festival (Best Musical), and the New York Music Theatre Festival (Honorable Mention), as well as many plays for the Drama League. Rob received his M.A. at the University of Nebraska Omaha, and his Ph.D at the University of Oregon. He has directed at New York University, Clark University, Concordia College, Doane College, LaGuardia Community College, Bloomsburg University, as well as the University of Nebraska and The University of Oregon. Rob is Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre in the Park, where he curates the Immigrant Voices Project, a new play program which develops plays by writers who represent the diverse demographics of New York City. Rob’s plays include Cruel & Barbarous Treatment, Miss Julie in Hollywood, Karaoke Night at the Suicide Shack, Shangri La, Rebel Voices and Mama's Boy. Two of his plays; Hazelwood Jr. High and West Moon Street, are published by Samuel French. Rob has developed various projects for Disney Creative Entertainment, and serves on the Lark Theatre Playwrights Week Selection Committee. Three productions that Rob has directed, Lost, Syndrome, and Border/Clash, and one that he wrote, Hazelwood Jr. High, were selected to be videotaped for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Rob is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. [email protected], www.roburbinati.com

Elizabeth van den Berg, Region II Vice Chair, Associate Response Circuit Coordinator. She performed with Synetic Theatre in DC as “Ugolino” in Dante last spring. As an actor she has toured the US with Oliver!, and been seen on many DC stages, including Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and the Warner Theatre. KCACTF named her a top teaching Artist in 2005, and she received a Gold Medallion for her service to KCACTF in 2006. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. A proud member of all three performing arts unions: AEA, AFTRA and SAG, as well as VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association). She has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Grad Acting program, and a BA in theatre from San Francisco State University.

JOHN VREEKE (Director) For the past nine years John was based in Washington DC. He directed the critically acclaimed and Helen Hayes nominated production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at H Street Theater/Forum Theater and Boom for Woolly Mammoth which received four Helen Hayes nominations including director and production. He received positive critical notice and an extended run of full houses for his re‐invention of Fiddler on the Roof for Olney Theater in Maryland and directed Karen Zacharius’s new children’s play Chasing George Washington for the Family Theater at the Kennedy Center which is currently touring the nation. He directed the hugely popular production of the K of D by Laura Schellhardt for Woolly Mammoth. He has two Helen Hayes Nominations for his adaptation and direction of Lady Chatterley’s Lover for Washington Shakespeare Company which he originally adapted with Mary Machala for Book It Repertory Theater in Seattle in 1997. While in DC he directed a major production of Homebody/Kabul for Woolly Mammoth and Our Lady of 121st Street at the Kennedy Center, Born Guilty for Theater J which earned him another Helen Hayes nomination, Death and the Maiden, the Tattooed Girl a new novel/play by Joyce Carol Oates, and the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s Bal Masque at Theater J, a critically acclaimed production of Tiny Alice and Death and the Kings Horseman for WSC, Opus and Red Herring for Everyman Theatre, Heroes, One Good Marriage and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again at Metro stage, the Monument and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You for H Street Theater. This past season he directed a new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull for Theater J in DC and the Caretaker for the Salt Lake Acting Company. This spring he will direct Dying City for the Public Theatre in Seattle and Gruesome Playground Injuries for Woolly Mammoth. During the nineties in Seattle he was the associate producer and casting associate for the CBS TV Series Northern Exposure.

Catherine Wallis is excited to participate in the KCACTF region VII festival, in 2004 she received the Region V stage management award while attending the university of Nebraska. She has stage managed for the Resident Ensemble Players – Newark, DE, the Nebraska Repertory Theatre – Lincoln, NE, The Dallas Children’s Theatre – Dallas, TX, The Snowy Range Summer Theatre – Laramie, WY, and the National tour of The Wizard of Oz with the American Family Theatre Company. She is currently working on her MFA at the University of Delaware ‐ Professional Theatre Training Program.

Bryan Willis serves as playwright‐in‐residence for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance at Seattle Repertory Theater. He is currently working on a commission from Book‐It Theater in Seattle and a full‐length play scheduled for an extended workshop at Seattle Rep. His plays have appeared throughout the U.K., Israel, Japan, U.S. and Canada, including A Contemporary Theater (two commissions), New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. and Riverside Studios in London. His work has also been featured on NPR and BBC Radio (commission for Sophie). Bryan is the proud recipient of a Theater Fellowship from Artist Trust and has worked in the literary departments of many theaters, including Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center (NYU's Playwright‐in‐Residence) and Tacoma Actors Guild. He was recently elected to the KC/ACTF 2011 national selection team. Bryan, his wife Susan and their son, Zach, live in Olympia with their dog, Frieda, a.k.a., the Greased Pig from the Planet Krypton.

William J. Wolak plunged into theatre as an undergraduate at Central Connecticut State University in 1957. He graduated from CCSU in 1959 with a B.S. degree. He earned his MA from St. Louis University (1961), and his Ph.D. from Tulane University (1967). Dr. Wolak taught theatre arts in colleges for 43 years at 6 Colleges or Universities. He retired from the faculty of the University of the Pacific in 2007 as Professor Emeritus. He was Chair of the UOP Theatre Arts Department for 8 years. Dr. Wolak has served as Regional VIII North, Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). He was the past the past Vice‐Chair and Chair of the KCACTF Region VIII, National Playwriting Committee. He has also served as a dramaturge at Regional Festivals. He has served as a resident dramaturge for the Bay Area Playwright's Festival and the Upstart Stage, a developmental theatre in Berkeley, California. Dr. Wolak serves as an adjudicator‐reader for ATHE's (American Theatre in Higher Education) national Ten‐minute Play Contest. For his service to theatre at American colleges through his association with the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival, he has received the prestigious Kennedy Center Medallion three times, and the Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Wolak was selected as a KCACTF Region VIII Fellow in 1997. In 2009, ATHE selected him as the 2009 Playwriting Teacher of the Year.

2010 National Selection Team:

Jeanette Farr holds an MFA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her plays have been produced in the United States and abroad including Off‐off Broadway, Canada, Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Singapore, and Japan. Her work has been recognized by the Nevada Arts Council, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Her work is published through Smith & Kraus, Dramatic Publishing, Black Box Press, originalworksonlinepublising.com and theatrehist ory.com. Jeanette is an alumnus of the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive (2007) working with playwrights David Ives, Marsha Norman, Lee Blessing, and Melanie Marnich. Through KCACTF, she has responded to over 150 new plays as a regional respondent, guest respondent in Regions I, II, IV, VII, Past Chair of the National Playwriting Program for Region VIII, and recently appointed as Regional Fellow for Region VIII. She has been commissioned by Sierra Repertory Theatre to adapt Yoshiko Uchida’s children’s story, Journey to Topaz for touring; her play, Blue Roses, based on the life of Rose Williams won the international playwriting competition for Prospect Theatre Project, and her play, Pitchin’ Pennies At the Stars was a finalist in the Mildred and Albert Pinowski Playwriting Competition. She was the Literary Associate and Assistant to the artistic Director at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. She is currently the Chair of Theatre Arts at Glendale Community College, Glendale, California where she has produced and directed a variety of plays including the popular series, Motel Chronicles commissioning playwrights to write plays taking place in a motel room. In Los Angeles, she has had new plays included for Moving Arts in Los Angeles, and the Secret Rose Theatre in the NoHo Arts District. Jeanette is a proud member of the Dramatists' Guild.

Paul J. Hustoles is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he has also been Artistic Director of Highland Summer Theatre since 1986. Paul received his B.F.A. from Wayne State University, his M.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. A college instructor for thirty‐ five years, he has taught in Missouri, Texas, Mississippi and Michigan. He is the past Artistic Director of M&M Productions (Ann Arbor, MI) and of The Mule Barn Theatre (Tarkio, MO). He just directed his 186th show (recent titles include Into the Woods, The History Boys and Miss Saigon), having produced close to 500 in his career (so far). He will celebrate his 38th consecutive year of summer stock in 2010. Paul began his association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in 1983 and he directed the Irene Ryan Winner's Circle Evening of Scenes at the Kennedy Center for Festivals 30, 34, 35 and 36; and was the Master of Ceremonies for Festival 41. For the past four years, he has served as a judge for the KCACTF National Musical Theatre Award. For the past twelve years he has been the Region V Festival Registrar and has been on the Region V Regional Advisory Board or ExecutiveCommittee or Selection Committee since 1987. Paul has received personal KCACTF commendations for his directing of The Secret Garden, Medea and Metamorphoses. At Minnesota State Mankato, he has produced and advised five productions (all directed by students) that haven been invited to the regional festival. Since 1999 alone, he has produced and advised 39 Irene Ryan regional Semi‐finalists, 19 Finalists and his department has been awarded 62 Certificates of Meritorious Achievement. He has personally directed 30 Associate Productions. He directed his student's award winning play, Mint, at the Region V Festival 39. Two of his students/advisees have won the Region V Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition and another won the Region V Student SSDC ten‐minute scene competition. Paul currently represents Region V on the NAPAT (National Partners American Theater) Board. He has been fully committed to and engaged in the work of the KCACTF for 26 years as a director, producer, respondent, selector, adjudicator, festival host, leader and all‐around dependable worker.

Lynne Koscielniak's lighting and set designs have represented the United States at the Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design (’07) and at World Stage Design Exposition (’05 & ‘09). She has designed in such venues as: Steppenwolf, Virginia Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Irish Classical Theatre (Buffalo), and Victory Gardens (Chicago). Her work includes: the Chicago premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s EURYDICE (Piven Theatre,Chicago); THE NUTCRACKER for Neglia Ballet Artists featuring the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; lighting designs for dance: Bill Evans and Jump Rhythm Jazz Project; and set, light, and costume design for the world premiere of the musical, PARALLEL LIVES (Riverside Opera Ensemble, Theatre for the New City, NYC). Based in Buffalo, NY, she is an Associate Professor of Scenography and the Director of Design and Technology at the University of Buffalo. She served as the Chair of Design and Technology for Region II, Kennedy Center American Theater Festival and holds an MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University. Her work has earned her an Emerging Designer Residency (Steppenwolf), a Joseph Jefferson Citation Nomination, and The Michael Merritt Scholarship for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Lynne is a member of United Scenic Artists ‐ Local 829.

GREGG HENRY Artistic Director KCACTF. Recent productions: A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich for Round House Theatre, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe by Tom Isbell and Mark Russell for The Kennedy Center, the U.S. Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych for MetroStage and You Are Here by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance; Shelagh Stevenson’s An Experiment with an Air Pump for Journeymen Theater Ensemble; Julie Jensen’s Two‐ Headed and Barbara Field’s adaptation of Scaramouche for Washington Shakespeare Company. Productions for Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple by Marco Ramirez, Mark Russell & Tom 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 workshops for Arena Stage’s Downstairs and Centerstage’s First Look series. He hosts the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in partnership with the National New Play Network. He is artistic associate for Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences for New Works & Commissions, developing projects by Marsha Norman, Jason Robert Brown, Naomi Iizuka, Quiara Alegría Hudes and others. Gregg is the Curator of the annual Page‐to‐Stage New Play Festival at the Kennedy Center. 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. 2010 Region VII Executive Committee & Planning Board, and NWDC Governing Board:

George Caldwell holds a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. He teaches at Oregon State University where he both designs and directs. In the past George has served on the faculty at Washington State University and University of Illinois‐ Chicago. He has also designed for the Goodman School of Drama, Spokane Interplayers, Spokane Symphony, Spokane Opera, Linfield College, Western Washington University and Northwest Public Television‐PBS. Last year he designed The Shape of Things, produced in Beverly Hills by Danny DeVito. George is the Managing Editor of Northwest Theatre Review.

Ronn Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Columbia Basin College. He holds a B.F.A. in design from the University of Idaho and a M.F.A. in scenic and lighting design from Humboldt State University. His past teaching experience includes Western Washington University and the University of Idaho before coming to CBC. Ronn has designed over 130 productions in his career. This includes scenery, lighting and sound for many companies in the Northwest including Washington East Opera, WWU Summer Stock, CBC Summer Showcase, Mid‐Columbia Regional Ballet and Idaho Repertory Theatre. Ronn is currently the Chair of Design & Technology for Region VII of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the past Chair of the Northwest Section of USITT.

Reid Davis is a Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at St Mary's College and earned his PH.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. His work as a professional director includes three years as Associate Director of the Apprentice Company at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, where he directed “Lynette at 3 AM" for the Humana Festival of New American Plays, assisting writer/director Athol Fugard on the American premiere of My Children! My Africa! at New York Theatre Workshop, and directing in the MFA program at American Conservatory Theatre. He is a core company member of Shotgun Players (Berkeley) where he will direct the West Coast premiere of Emily Mann's A Seagull in the Hamptons this spring.

Patrick Dizney teaches at Western Washington University and serves as VP of the NWDC and on the KC/ACTF Regional Selection Committee. He received his MFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program, and subsequently moved to New York, where he worked professionally for 6 years. His credits include prime time television, national commercials, industrial videos, children's theatre, 2 national tours, Off and Off‐Off Broadway, feature and independent film, and Regional theatre including: Artists Repertory Theatre, West End Theatre (Portland), Maine Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Penobscot Theatre and Theatre! Theatre! He also wrote, produced and performed in his one‐person show Inveigler on Theatre Row in NYC. His directing credits include: 36 Views by Naomi Iizuka, The Diviners by Jim Leonard Jr., and original works Meatgrinder Waltz (at 13th Street Rep in NYC), Convention by Dan Erickson, and If Dreams Came True by former KC/ACTF National Chair Mark Kuntz. This is his fourth year at WWU, where he teaches cinema, acting and play analysis.

Tammis Doyle is chair of the Theatre Arts Department at Bellevue College and President of the New West Drama Conference. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Directing from the University of Washington. Tammi has directed professionally and educationally in San Francisco and Seattle. She has both premiered and revived plays and musicals (including her own work.) She is the founder of Music Theatre Works in Seattle, dedicated to the development and production of new and challenging musical theatre. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Theatre Puget Sound.

Joseph Gilg is on the faculty of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon where he teaches acting and directing. In another life he was a lighting designer and worked with Southern Utah University and the Utah Shakespeare Festival as well as Rockford College, the Rockford Dance Company and the New American Theatre in Rockford, IL. He also served as Artistic Director of the Oregon Repertory Theatre in Eugene, OR for a time. During the summers he produces the Mad Duckling Children’s Theatre in Eugene. Joseph spent one year as a lecturer at Regent’s College in London and fulfilled a Fulbright appointment at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan teaching acting and directing. When not at the theatre Joseph is on the trails around Eugene training for marathons and competed in the Boston Marathon in April of 2008.

John Hill is the head of the theatre program at Front Range Community College and the Founder, Artistic Director of the Front Range Family Theatre Project. In 2008 John was honored with the Kennedy Center Medallion and in 2006 with the KCACTF Region VII Horace Robinson Award. In 2002 he won the KCACTF Award for New Program Development at FRCC for his production of All in the Timing. John also served as the Costume Shop Director and an Instructor for the Colorado State University Theatre Arts Program from 1997‐2006. During 2006‐07 he served as a visiting faculty member for the University of Idaho Department of Theatre & Film. John holds a BA in Performance from Loretto Heights College in Denver, CO and a MFA in Costume Design from the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln. For the last 20 years, Hill has served the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as a Regional Respondent, Board Member and Clinician in three different regions. Currently he serves Region VII as the Vice‐Chair for Design & Technology and Festival Scheduling Czar.

David Lee‐Painter is Professor of Theatre, former chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Idaho. For the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival David is the outgoing Chair of Region VII, past national Chair of Chairs, national Member at Large, proud member of the 2008 National Selection team, and the National Directing Coordinator. David earned an MFA in directing from Illinois State University, and has worked professionally at both the Idaho and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Idaho Theatre for Youth, and The American Stage Company in St. Petersburg Florida, among others. His production of Moby Dick represented North America at the 1996 ASSITEJ World Congress in Rostov on Don Russia. He shares his wonderful life with his darlin’ wife Nancy, four furry critters and two magical almost‐college‐graduate daughters – Allix & Molli.

Mindi L. Logan is currently Associate Professor and head of the acting program at the University of Portland in Portland, OR, where she continues to work as a professional actor on stage and film. She just finished playing Kate Keller in “All My Sons” at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland. Mindi received her M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University where she studied under William Esper and Maggie Flannigan. Mindi is Chair of Region VII and was awarded the National Acting Fellowship from the Kennedy Center in 2004.

Rhett Luedtke is an associate professor of theatre at George Fox University with a special emphasis in acting and directing. He currently serves as the Director for the GFU University Players, and is the Directing Coordinator for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VII. He received his B.A. from Valparaiso University in Indiana and his M.F.A. in Directing from Illinois State University. Before arriving at George Fox University, Rhett worked as the assistant artistic director and director of touring programs for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and as the artistic and founding director of Small Time Outreach Productions in Auburn, Alabama. Rhett has worked with many theatres across the country including the Salem Repertory Theatre, the Idaho Repertory Theatre, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the Festival at the Marsh in New Brunswick, and Heartland Theatre in Bloomington, IL.

Michael Phillips is Coordinator of the KCACTF Dramaturgy Initiative and Coordinator of the Region VII National Critics Institute. He is the Head of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Western Oregon University, where he teaches Theatre History, Literature, Directing, and Dramaturgy. Michael earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1996. He is a professional director and dramaturg, with directing credits at Salem Repertory Theatre in Salem, OR, Lancaster Opera in Lancaster, PA, Lord Leebrick Theatre Company in Eugene, OR, and The Neighborhood Playhouse in Atlanta, GA. Recent dramturgy credits include work with Sojourn Theatre in Portland, OR and Salem Repertory Theatre.

Eric Prince (NPP Chair Region VII), Professor of Theatre at Colorado State, has written extensively on Samuel Beckett and directed many Beckett plays. He has directed productions of his own plays in venues as diverse as London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Scarborough, Plymouth, Augsburg, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Berlin and San Diego. Five of his plays were finalists for the British National Student Drama Festival, two of them Kafka's Last Request and Wildsea Wildsea, receiving the prestigious London Sunday Times Playwriting Award and Best Production Awards. For many years Eric worked in close association with Britain’s most popular playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Two plays, Love Is In The Air and Red Roses have been professionally produced by Ayckbourn's nationally acclaimed repertory company, The Stephen Joseph Theatre.

Scott Robinson begins his forth year as department chair and eighth year as a member of the CWU faculty. Prior to his arrival at CWU, Robinson was a faculty member at the University of Montevallo, and taught at Northern Michigan University, Illinois State University, and Lethbridge Community College. His professional work includes Idaho Repertory Theatre , Illinois Shakespeare Festival and Utah Musical Theatre. He has received several Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival awards including the Gold Medallion of Excellence, along with meritorious awards for his costume design work on Fantasticks, and Man of La Mancha and scenic designs for Bird Woman: The Story of Sacajawea, and the world premiere of Blankity Blank. He has been a reviewer for the American Library Association's Choice Magazine. He has served on numerous state and regional theatre organization's boards and committees and currently serving as the Financial Officer of Kennedy Center ACTF Region VII. Robinson received his A.A. degree in Mid‐Management from Brigham Young University ‐ Idaho [Ricks College], his B.F.A. in Design from the University of Lethbridge in Canada, and his M.F.A. in Theatre from Illinois State University in Normal. Robinson's CWU design credits include Man of La Mancha, Jungalbook, The Laramie Project, Hayfever, Tartuffe, Blankity Blank and Much Ado About Nothing, . He is thrilled to be the costume designer for the world premiere of Fame Forever: Reunion and Rebirth, and for the opportunity to work in Maine with the Waterville Opera House.

Leigh Selting is a Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance department at the University of Wyoming, where he teaches acting, directing, stage combat, and acting for the camera. Also an Equity actor, free‐lance director, and Equity stage manager, he has worked in various theatres around the country. Broadway credits include work as a production assistant on the Tony‐nominated Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass, directed by Julie Taymor (Lion King), and as a production assistant/stage manager for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes starring Stockard Channing, and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien (Hairspray, The Full Monty). He also worked as the assistant to the director for the Toronto production of Shirley Valentine (starring Helen Reddy). Leigh currently serves as the Vice‐Chair of Region VII of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. He is married to Marsha Knight, professor of ballet at UW, and has two sons, one step‐son, and is proud to have batted .750 in the Broadway Show League!

Workshop Presenters:

Gary Armagnac has over 25 years of professional experience as an actor and director with Utah Shakespearean Festival and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and trained with the renowned Shakespeare and Company. Gary is a Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of the Pacific.

Austen Anderson (AFTG Co‐Founder)‐ Received his A.A. Degree from Centralia Community College, and his B.F.A. From the University of Idaho.He most recently directed Animal Fire Theatre's pilot production Henry V. College acting credits include: Tartuffe, Neuron Down, Urinetown, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Idaho), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, Fuddy Meers, Mere Mortals, Pippin, How to Succeed in Business..., and Peter Pan (Centralia). Regional credits include: Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and Chaps (Idaho Repertory Theatre).

Dr. Cecilia Aragón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and Chicano Studies at the University of Wyoming. As a Theatre scholar, educator, and artist, she is a specialist in Theatre for Young Audiences and U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/o Theatre. Dr. Aragon has taught at both the secondary and university levels and has an extensive background in both Chicano studies and Theatre and Performance, including significant experience as an actor and director. Cecilia’s work, especially with U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/o theatre, pushes for the performance of voices for those who have been traditionally marginalized including Latina/o and Latin American peoples.

Christina Barrigan is the United States Institute of Theatre Technology North West section chair and head of design at Central Washington University. As a lighting designer she has worked internationally, her work being seen in Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States. Professionally, she has lit sea‐creatures, ice shows, music acts, production shows, singers, magicians, jugglers, and comedians in situations ranging from theatrical performances, theme parks, corporate/industrial events, cruise ships and concerts.

Daniele Brown has spent the last 12 years working professionally in the theatre industry. She is currently working in sales and project coordination for Barbizon Light of the Rockies in Salt Lake City. She spent 5 years on the lighting staff at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City and has a BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA and attended graduate school in the MFA lighting program at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

Mike Coletta is the director of the Nuthouse Improv Comedy Troupe at Washington State University.

Jerry Dougherty has worked in opera, dance, theatre, and musical theatre as a production manager, technical director and designer. He joined the Department of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University in 2005 as the production manager. He most recently was the Production Stage Manager for the CWU production of “ART!”.

David Eames‐Harlan (AFTG Co‐Founder) Dave recently completed his MFA studies in directing and playwriting at the University of Idaho. In just under five years at UI, he designed for, performed in or directed more than 20 productions. Recently, he played Van Helsing in Dracula, The Untold Story. He also directed the final show of the spring UI theatre season: Quake. Dave performed in the past two Idaho Repertory Theatre seasons (Montague ‐ Romeo and Juliet, Stan ‐ Chaps!, Sea Captain ‐ Twelfth Night.) Other recent roles include Snelgrave in One Flea Spare and Cleante in Tartuffe at UI. Dave designed sound for Kissing and Trio with Flute at the Theatre Artists Studio in Phoenix. His play Interment premiered in the 2007 IRT season.

Randall A. Enlow is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of the Pacific and serves as the Scenic and Lighting Designer for the Department of Theatre Arts. . Rand began his theatre career at the age of six at The Cleveland Play House. He has been designing for 30+ years and has worked in all forms of theatre including opera, musical theatre, and film. Since moving to California he has designed for Sierra Repertory Theatre, Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Stockton Opera Association and others. He has received several awards from KCACTF including the 2006 Region Eight Design Fellowship Nomination. MFA Case Western Reserve University.

Marc Haniuk MFA, is an Assistant Professor of Scenic Design and Resident Scenic Designer for the Department of Theatre Arts/Central Theatre Ensemble at Central Washington University.

Tom Hird serves as Chair of the Northern California Section of the US Institute for Theatre Technology. A professor, department chair, TD, and resident designer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University East Bay, Hird's educational contribution and design work have won recognition from USITT, KCACTF, and other professional organizations. He currently supervises the online Arts Management Career Development Certificate at CSUEB and produces international tours for his department.

Kent Homchick is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Scenic and Lighting Design. He has worked in in a number of major regional theaters, has had national tours, and teaches film and theatrical design for the University of Colorado in Denver.

Joe Jacoby teaches theatre at North Idaho College, community college located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He is a product of the northwest, having earned his B.A. from Boise State University and his M.F.A. at the University of Idaho. There are some people who might disparage his love of puns, but his theory is that David Lee‐Painter is just jealous.

Nathan Johnson received his Master’s in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. Since graduation, Nathan has performed at regional theatres across the nation – most notably the Yale Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company and South Coast Repertory. He has also appeared on several television shows including The O.C., Veronica Mars, Numb3rs and Medium. At Yale, he was the recipient of the Constance Welsh Memorial Scholarship and the Oliver Thorndike Acting Award and received his BFA (summa cum laude) from the University of Evansville. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association.

Marsha Fay Knight (MFA University of Utah ’83) is a Professor at the University of Wyoming where her primary responsibilities lie in the teaching of ballet, historical dance, character dance, and period movement for actors. Marsha's UW production credits include NUTCRACKER, COPPELIA, PULCINELLA and INANNA, QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. Her experience also includes choreography for numerous musical theatre productions. Marsha’s contemporary ballet Of a Mind was selected for presentation at the Kennedy Center in May 2006 through the adjudication process of the American College Dance Festival. Marsha currently serves the American College Dance Festival Association as the Northwest Conference Regional Director. Marsha is co‐director and choreographer of Six Songs from Ellis.

Cathie McClellan worked in regional theatres for over two decades, in all aspects of costume design and technology, and as a make up artist for film and television. She has taught courses in flat patterning, draping, Victorian women's wear, men's patterning, costume crafts and fabric modification as well as general sewing techniques at Northern Arizona University, Syracuse University, Northern Illinois University, University of Arizona, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Brigham Young University. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Matthew McKinney is the technical director for the University of Nevada Reno where he teaches courses in CAD, technical theatre II, scene design, and others.. He received his MFA from San Diego State University in 2006. There he worked as technical director for numerous theatrical and film productions as well as being giving the rare opportunity to work as an assistant technical director at the world famous Old Globe Theater. He worked on several shows including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which would later premiere on Broadway. For the past two years he has also been the technical director for The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

Ian McNeely (AFTG Co‐Founder): Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2009 Rex Rabold Fellow. Regional credits: Music Man, Paradise Lost, Don Quixote (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Alexander and the Terrible... (Idaho Repertory Theatre) Les Misérables, Camelot (Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre). Academic: Tartuffe, Urinetown, Death of a Salesman (University of Idaho). Education: BFA University of Idaho.

Adam Mendelson is the Assistant Professor of Lighting and Sound at the University of Wyoming. He has held the same position at the University of Texas at Arlington and at Stephens College in Columbia, MO. As a lighting and sound designer, he has designed for theatres across the country including Okoboji (IA) Summer Theater, Nebraska Repertory Theater, Fitchburg (MA) State College, and Wyoming’s Snowy Range Summer Theatre. With a deep interest in dance and performance art, he has lit and produced over 150 shows on the academic and professional stages (as well as a few hotel conference rooms and church basements, “Anything the lights up is in your purview as a lighting designer”) His lighting design for MacBeth at the University of Nebraska‐ Lincoln won a KC/ACTF Barbizon Award for Excellence in 2003. Some of his most challenging productions were the touring original dance pieces that he took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2003, 2006 and 2009. The 2006 work entitled Upon Close Inspection was hailed for its “visually stunning images.”

Dr. Patrick Newell teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wyoming. Patrick has performed with companies such as the Asheville Lyric Opera, Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival, and the Santa Fe Opera. He is the Resident Stage Director of the Helios Ensemble in Dallas, Texas.

John O'Hagan is an Assistant Professor of Theatre (Acting) at the University of Wyoming. He joined the faculty in 2008. Prior to that he taught as a sabbatical replacement in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Idaho, spent two seasons as a member of the resident acting company at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and six years as Director of Education at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.

Michael O'Neill received his BA in Theatre from Castleton State College and was subsequently accepted into the world‐ renowned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Upon graduation Michael was chosen to tour with the Greatest Show on Earth an honor bestowed on only three other graduates. For three years Michael toured extensively, performing in some of the largest and most prestigious venues throughout North America. Additionally, Michael helped promote the circus by making numerous television appearances including Good Morning America, The Today Show, and MTV. Following his stint with Ringling Bros., Michael furthered his education at the Dell â Arte International School of Physical Theater in Blue Lake, California. He was then recruited by the Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre in Portland, Oregon, and for three years performed shows throughout the United States. Most recently Michael has spent time creating, directing, and performing original works throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. He is the co‐founder of the Nomadic Theatre Company in Portland, Oregon, and the producer of the Portland, Oregon chapter of Clowns Without Borders, a non‐profit organization that provides entertainment to underprivileged communities throughout the world.

Dean Panttaja is the Producing Artistic Director of the Idaho Repertory Theatre and Department Chair at the University of Idaho. A freelance professional and professor of lighting and scenic designer, his credits include Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Falaki Theatre (Egypt), Santa Barbara Repertory, Pacific Art Center, Tacoma Actors Guild, Spokane Inter‐Players, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Showtime, and Dark Horse Films.

Tracy Power is currently a Performer/Educator for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California region. As a performer educator she has the opportunity to travel northern California teaching health messages through the magic of live theater. Tracy holds a B.S with a double major in Communications and Theater(Honors)from Mississippi University for Women. She moved to California in January of 2009 to complete an acting internship with the B Street Theater in Sacramento.

Gregory Pulver is professor of Costume Design at Western Washington University Theatre Arts. He teaches courses in Design Communication, Costume Design I, II, III, Costume History, Millinery, Stage Makeup, Portfolio Development and Puppetry. Mr. Pulver holds an MFA in costume design and choreography from Humboldt State University, CA. He is the 1993 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Costume Design Winner for his work on Three Penny Opera. Gregory lives part‐time in Portland, OR where he works as a professional costume designer, set designer, set dresser and property designer.

Kelly Quinnett. She performed regionally at Interplayers Theatre, Kincaid Repertory Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, New York Theatre Lab, Coeur D’Alene Summer Theatre and Mill Mountain Playhouse. In 1990 she won National Irene Ryan Acting Competition presented by The Kennedy Center / American College Theatre Festival, which led to her being placed under a development contract with ABC. She appeared on ALL MY CHILDREN as Maria Monterey (1990, 1991) and on ONE LIFE TO LIVE as Blaine Adams (1991.) Films include: Frank with John Gries, Home of the Brave with Samuel Jackson, MOZART AND THE WHALE (with Josh Hartnett, 2005), THE BASKET (with Peter Coyote, 1998), MR. WRITE (with Paul Reiser and Martin Mull, 1994), BROTHERS AND SISTERS (with Franco Nero, 1991.) Since 1998 she has taught Acting at the University of Idaho and performed as a Guest Artist in numerous productions for Idaho Repertory Theatre.Kelly is an Associate Professor and Head of Acting at the University of Idaho.

Mattie Roquel Rydalch writes scripts and builds plays, some of which include orchestrated musical scores. She participates in directing, dramaturgy, and technical positions. She staged a reading of her play Lights in Provo, Utah, where her plays How I Died and Day Pass received Vera Hinckley Mayhew Awards. Her plays Finding Each Other Dead and Strange Attractors were read at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. She looks forward to a fully‐mounted production of her full‐length play, Strange Attractors, this February at the University of Idaho, where she is a current M.F.A. Dramatic Writing candidate and teaching assistant.

Lauren “Lojo” Simon is an award‐winning playwright, freelance journalist and MFA candidate in dramatic writing at University of Idaho. Her play, Heartland, written with Anita Simons, premiered at MiraCosta College in California and was invited to the ACTF Region 8 in 2009. Heartland won the 2008 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, placed second in the 2009 KCACTF David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Competition and was an alternate in the 2008 ATHE Playworks. The Care and Feeding of Wild Birds is one of six 10‐minute plays invited to the KCACTF Region 7 in 2010. Lo’s TYA play, Mi Corazon, will be presented as a staged reading at the University of Idaho in the spring 2010.

Michael J. Smith is a Professor of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University. He is also a director, actor (SAG, AEA, AFTRA) and member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association). Michael teaches a wide variety of performance classes to both undergraduates and graduates, and specializes in dialect coaching and dialect acquisition. To that end, he has been a dialect coach for over twenty high school, university, and professional productions, including such shows as BRIGADOON, HARD TIMES, THE FOREIGNER, TRANSLATIONS, MY FAIR LADY, and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. He has received KCACTF Certificates of Merit for Directing (THE LARAMIE PROJECT), Dialect Coach (HARD TIMES), and Performance (Scrooge in SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS).

Lisa A. Tromovitch, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of the Pacific is a co‐founder of Maine Shakespeare Festival and now runs the Livermore Shakespeare Festival. She trained with the renowned Shakespeare and Company.

Ed Trujillo has a BA St. Mary's College‐English; University of Washington, MA Drama, University of Massachusetts‐Post Graduate work in Theatre; Additional Training: Barie Rolf‐Commedia 'dell arte; Marcel Marceau. Ed has taught at DVC for over 18 years and currently Drama Area Chair. He worked for two years as at the Ethnic Cultural Theater at UW and worked with such companies as Black Arts West (African American), Red Earth (Native American) The Exclusion Act (Asian American) and with several Chicano Teatro groups. He has taught: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Acting, Movement for Actors; Playwriting, History of Theatre, Shakespeare, Multicultural Perspectives in American Theatre
 and Auditioning. He was awarded Teacher of the Year at DVC, Excellence In Theatre Education KCACTF Region VIII, and Peacemaker of the Year by the Center for Development and Conflict Resolution Panels.

Cheri Vasek is Associate Professor of Costume Design and Technology at the University of Idaho. In addition to courses in costume design and theatrical makeup, she also teaches costume crafts (masks and millinery) and Asian Theatre History. Ms. Vasek has worked as a costume craftsperson in several professional regional theatres throughout the United States, including The Guthrie Theatre and American Conservatory Theatre. She has been the head Costume Dyer at the prestigious Santa Fe Opera for 3 years. She is an invited presenter for intensive theatrical dyeing short courses at universities throughout the U.S. Ms. Vasek’s costume design credits include The Corps of Discovery and Pirates of Penzance for UI, Comedy of Errors and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for Idaho Repertory Theatre, Death and the Kings Horseman for Washington State University, and Dracula for Spokane Interplayers Ensemble.

Robert Vaughn received his BA in theatre from Linfield College in 1997. He later obtained his MFA in scenic design at Northern Illinois University in 2003. Rob has returned to Linfield as Technical Director and Sound Designer where he also teaches Sound Design and Introduction to Theatre. He has even managed to design professionally in various Portland area venues.

Chris Will is originally from Loveland, Colorado. He received his BFA in Theatre and Dance from the University of Wyoming followed by a Master of Performance in Musical Theatre from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. While in the UK, Chris had the wonderful experience of working with some of the key producers and practitioners currently working in theatre ‐ including Martin Lowe (MD Mama Mia) and was honored to represent the United States as Young Buddy in a West End star‐studded production of Follies in Concert, which was specially arranged by Sir Cameron Mackintosh. Chris has also performed in several workshops for new musical theatre, including the opportunity of working with Jason Robert Brown.

KCACTF will provide reasonable accommodations for participants with disabilities at the KCACTF Region VII Festival. To request an accommodation please contact the Regional Chair. Requests for accommodations must be received at least 6 weeks in advance of the festival.