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KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL TREGION VIII F FEBRUARY 14-16, 2013 Festival XLV LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER KCACTF 2013 - 1 KCACTF 2013 - 2 The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 45

Presents The Forty–Fifth Annual Region VIII Festival 2013 Arizona, Central and Southern California, Hawaii, Southern Nevada, Utah

February 14 – 16, 2013 Los Angeles Theatre Center

Hosted by Latino Theater Company

Presented by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein.

Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation, the National Committee for the Performing Arts, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation.

Gifts and grants to education at the Kennedy Center are provided by Adobe Foundation; Sandra K. & Clement C. Alpert; AnBryce Foundation; Bank of America; Bernstein Family Foundation; The

Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; Captial One Bank; Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust; Centene Charitable Foundation; Citibank; The Charles Engelhard Foundation;

Clark Charitable Foundation; Community Advisory Board; Mike and Julie Connors; CVS Caremark; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation;

Fight for Children, Inc.; David Gregory and Beth Wilkinson; Harman Family Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Harris Corporation; Hilton Worldwide; The J. Willard and

Alice S. Marriott Foundation; The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Kiplinger Foundation; The Kirstein Family Foundation; Natalie and Herb Kohler and Kohler

Co.; Kenneth and Lucy Lehman; The Macy’s Foundation; Margaret A. Cargill Foundation; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; Jaylee M. Mead; Linda and Tobia Mercuro; The Meredith

Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; The National Committee for the Performing Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; National Trustees of the National Symphony Orchestra; Newman’s Own Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Mrs. Irene Pollin; President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts; Prince

Charitable Trusts; Rose Mary Kennedy Education Fund; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; Share Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small; Target;

Thomas W. Haas Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.; Sherry and Eddie Wachs; Washington Gas; Wells Fargo; Beatrice and Anthony Welters; William

R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Information Welcome 6 Festival Information 8 Special Events 9 Invited Productions 13 Workshops 16

Program Areas Acting and Directing 38 Design, Technology & Management 41 Playwriting, Dramaturgy, & Criticism 43 Devised Performance 47

Festival 45 Participants Festival Guests and Respondents 48 KCACTF Festival 45 National Acknowledgements 67 KCACTF Festival 45 Regional Acknowledgements 68 Region VIII Production and Design Respondents 70 Productions entered in Festival 45 72

Service Recognition Region VIII Faculty Recognition 76

Registration for the Region VIII festival grants permission to KCACTF Region VIII and ACTF Management, Ltd., to use registrant’s image or likeness, if captured or recorded at the festival, in print, website or other recorded media. This does not apply to “productions” or other circumstances already subject to reproduction restrictions by contract or directive.

KCACTF 2013 - 5 Paul Stuart Graham, General Manager Los Angeles Theatre Center

Welcome Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to the Los Angeles Theatre Center. We are pleased to be your host for Festival 45 and hope you find time to explore the many facets of our burgeoning and diverse downtown Los Angeles community.

Back in my halcyon days as a theatre student at the University of Massachusetts we WELCOME entered the American College Theatre Festival with a production of Moonchildren by Michael Weller. We were not selected to compete at festival; however, my friend Michael was selected to participate in the Irene Ryan competition. I remember this vividly, as this was my first exposure to competition in the arts. I was happy for my fellow actor, albeit I thought my performance was also worthy of recognition. Weeks later, after much deliberation, I decided to rise above the festival judges’ oversight and applauded loudly for my friend at the conference. He didn’t win the award, but it was a wonderful experience to witness all the talent on the stage. As we left the conference commiserating over “our” loss, I realized that this life in the theatre was not going to be an easy choice—ACTF truly had opened my eyes to the competition and to what it would take to have a professional career in the theatre. Twenty five years later I am still a part of our theatre community and I cherish every moment.

During the past fourteen years I have served as a professor/ administrator at two CSU universities, Cal State Long Beach and Cal State LA, where currently I am on the faculty in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. I have had the opportunity to work with many talented, creative, and insightful administrators, faculty and students. I know that the late Roger Stevens— the Kennedy Center’s founding chairman who started the nationwide festival back in 1969 to serve as a catalyst for improving the quality of college and university theatre in the United States—would be most proud of its accomplishment. I had the pleasure of co-producing a new musical with Mr. Stevens, and we owe a great deal to him for having the vision to have created this vital and compelling theatre festival. Congratulations to all of those involved in celebrating Festival 45!

On behalf of the staff and crew of the LATC, we hope you have an outstanding festival and that you will return to the Center soon. We present our EAST OF BROADWAY Season, beginning in March, and we invite you to review the upcoming season by visiting our website at www.thelatc.org.

KCACTF 2013 - 6 Jose Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director Latino Theater Company—Los Angeles Theatre Center

It is with great joy that we welcome the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the great city of Los Angeles. We invite you to explore the cultural diversity, striking beauty, and artistic energy of this city that the Latino Theater Company calls home.

This year marks our eighth year at the helm of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), a world-class arts center with four unique stages and over 100 years of history in downtown Los Angeles. As the managing entity of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Latino Theater Company is committed to maintaining the Center as a space where diverse peoples, cultures and ideas converge within and through performance.

As a professor of Theater and Directing at UCLA, I am personally committed to advancing college/university theater programs to develop the next generation of socially conscious, aesthetically diverse and boundary pushing artists that will continue to revitalize the field. During economic hardships, such as the one we are experiencing now, the arts are often overlooked or seen as a dispensable luxury. It is during these difficult times that supporting the arts is most critical. Art can inspire, enlighten and feed the soul, it is what sets us apart from the rest of nature - it is what makes us human.

The Los Angeles Theatre Center produces and presents theater, music, dance and spoken word that represents various communities and we open our arms to all who want to take part in a global vision of mutual respect and understanding. Latina/o, Black, White, Asian, Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, LGBT… – we all have a home at the LATC.

Today we open our arms to KCACTF and say bienvenidos/welcome to the students, faculty members, technicians, actors, directors, designers, stage managers, audiences, family and friends associated with this festival. The Latino Theater Company is honored to open the doors of the Los Angeles Theatre Center to such an inspiring commitment and dedication to improving the quality and diversity of college/university theater across the nation.

Saludos,

Jose Luis Valenzuela Artistic Director, Latino Theater Company Artistic Director, Los Angeles Theatre Center

KCACTF 2013 - 7 REGISTRATION & INFORMATION PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION The registration and information desk will be located in the lobby of the Los Go Metro to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the Millennium Angeles Theatre Center. The hours will be Wednesday from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles ! and Thursday - Saturday from 8:00 am to 7:30pm.. The Los Angeles Theatre Center is a five minute walk from the Pershing Square ADMISSION TO PERFORMANCES Metro Red Line Station. Metro provides Metro Bus and Metro Rail transportation steps away from the LATC. http://www.metro.net Only registered festival participants will be able to attend performances with their current KCACTF Region VIII Festival badge. Seating is limited and participants will be admitted on a first–come, first–serve basis.

Venues The festival features four different production venues at the Los Angeles Theatre Center Theatre 1 (492 Seats) Theatre 2 (298 Seats) Theatre 3 (318 Seats) Theatre 4 (99 Seats) FESTIVAL INFORMATION FESTIVAL PARKING Los Angeles Theatre Center Public parking facilities available on Main St. and 6th St. Several well-lit, secu- rity patrolled parking facilities are situated within one block of the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Parking generally costs between $5-$6.

Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Overnight valet parking is currently available at the rate of $35.00 per day. Day valet parking is currently available at the rate of $22.00 per day.

Pershing Square Garage (Overnight Parking) $10/day fee $7/evening & weekend $16/overnight 504 S Olive St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St) 465 W 6th St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St)

Downtown Los Angeles Parking To find parking in downtown Los Angeles by going to http://losangeles.bestpark-

ing.com. Click on Daily and then Neighborhood and Downtown.

KCACTF 2013 - 8 SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESSES – Theresa Rebeck

THERESA REBECK New York productions: Dead Accounts, Seminar, The Understudy, Mauritius, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Spike Heels, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, View of the Dome, and Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist). Publications: Collected Plays Volumes I, II and III, Free Fire Zone, all with Smith & Kraus, and two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With a View, with Random House/Shaye Areheart Books. Film: Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker (adapted from her play The Scene). Awards include the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama and a Peabody Award for her work on “NYPD Blue,” the National Theatre Conference Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award and in 2011 she was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She is the creator of the NBC drama, “Smash.”

Sponsored by The Dramatist Guild as part of The Mentoring Artists Tour

The Dramatists Guild is a member service organization of 6500 playwrights, lyricists, librettists and composers.

The Mentoring Artists Tour serves three purposes: 1. To facilitate a much needed discussion of how all artists work together in the collaborative process of creating theatre, and particularly how living dramatists function in that environment. 2. To educate all artists on the variety of paths to pursuing a professional career in the arts. 3. To educate all artists on the intricacies of working with the text of plays or musicals and how, when and if it’s appropriate to alter content.

Thursday, February 14th Conversation with Theresa Rebeck 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Theatre 1 Los Angeles Theatre Center

KCACTF 2013 - 9 EVENING OF INVITED SCENES Thursday, February 14th 7:30pm Theatre 3 The Evening of Invited Scenes is our Festival’s energetic annual kick–off Los Angeles Theatre Center performance. The selected scenes, chosen from more than 100 associate and participating productions that were recommended, are representative of the diverse offerings seen across Region VIII in 2011. Included are samples of outstanding acting skill, striking ensemble performance, PROFESSIONAL EXPO notable interpretations of classics, and bold renditions of musicals Don’t miss the newest addition to our Region VIII Festival! and contemporary works. • Talk directly to professionals in a variety of specialties. The 39 Steps (The) Odyssey by Patrick Barlow by Michael A. Harding • Get the latest information about joining a professional Directed by Eric Bishop Directed by Michael A. Harding organization, or getting work in your area of interest. MiraCosta College Dixie State University • Get your questions answered about the next step in your career. • Pick up free brochures and magazines. • Check out what’s happening in professional theatres in the area. Aida My Favorite Year • Make suggestions about organizations you’d like to see r Music by Elton John & Tim Rice By Stephen Flaherty & Lynn epresented in the future. Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Ahrens; Falls and David Henry Hawng Book by Joseph Dougherty Directed by Dr. Michael Solomonson Based on the Motion Picture, ‘My Check the daily schedule posted in the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre Choreography by Debra Fisher Favorite Year’, courtesy of Turner Center for the times that representatives from various organizations Music Direction by Julie Neish Entertainment Co., will be available to answer your questions. Northland Pioneer College Screenplay by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo Actors Equity Almost Maine Story by Dennis Palumbo http://www.actorsequity.org

Directed by Jere Van Patten by John Cariani Artists Striving to End Poverty Directed by Janine Christl Musical Direction by Cathey Hauan http://www.asteponline.org Fresno City College Choreography by Kyle C. Greene Mesa Community College Black Theatre Network http://www.blacktheatrenetwork.org Much Ado About Nothing Too Much Light Makes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids by William Shakespeare The Baby Go Blind http://www.broadwaycares.org Directed by Mitchell Thomas by Greg Allen & The Neo-Futurists Westmont College Dramatists Guild of America Directed by Ginny Davis http://www.dramatistsguild.com and Alyse Neubert LA Stage Alliance Merrily We Roll Along Fort Lewis College http://www.lastagealliance.com/ Written by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim Beau Jest Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Directed by Monica Ganas by James Sherman http://www.lmda.org

Azusa Pacific University Directed by Tony Verzner National Theatre Conference Concordia University http://www.nationaltheatreconference.org

Society of American Fight Directors One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest http://www.safd.org By Dale Wasserman Directed by Rodney L. Scott Stage Directors and Choreographers East Los Angeles College http://www.sdcweb.org

United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 http://usa829.org

United States Institute for Theatre Technology http://www.usitt.org

KCACTF 2013 - 10 STUDENT EVENTS STUDENT SOCIAL EVENTS Student Socials are scheduled Wednesday – Friday. Start the week off Next Step Auditions Wednesday, February 14th, with new and old friends as we welcome and Production/ you to Region VIII’s 2013 festival! Technical Interviews KCACTF Region VIII offers Festival participants a wonderful Wednesday, February 13th opportunity to take the next step in their educational or professional 9:00pm – 11:00pm goals with this chance to be seen and heard by major universities Los Angeles Theatre Center and theatre companies. Actors and Singers audition on Friday, Hosted by Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy February 15th, Dancers and Production/Technical Interviews on the 16th. All auditions will be at the Biltmore Hotel. There is a Thursday, February 14th $10.00 registration fee. You can pay this $10.00 at the time of 10:00pm – 12:00pm Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Gold Room registration or at the Festival. Hosted by Weber State University

STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD Friday, February 15th The KCACTF Region VIII Student Advisory Board represents the 10:00pm – 12:00pm student-voice of the region to the Executive Board, gathers feedback Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles from students during the festival, and works alongside the Region VIII Hosted by Santa Monica College Executive Board to create opportunities for student involvement and socialization at festival. A SAB meeting open to all students will be held 12:00pm Saturday, February 16th in Rehearsal Room 4B of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

KCACTF 2013 - 11 FACULTY EVENTS

RESPONDENT WORKSHOP Thursday, February 14th – Saturday, February 16th, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. held in the Heinsbergen Room, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles

Respondents Workshop Coordinator: Special Area Response Facilitators: Judith Royer –Loyola Marymount University Design/Technology/Management: General Respondent Workshop Facilitators: Andre Harrington – California State University, San Bernardino Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount University Rodger Sorensen – Brigham Young University New Plays – National Playwriting Program: Val Limar-Jansen – Freelance Artist Wade Hollingshaus – Brigham Young University Char Nelson – Freelance Playwright Invitational Scenes: bree valle – Cuesta College

The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for Region VIII respondents, new and experienced alike, to share insights into, explore concerns about, and discuss challenges most often encountered in the response process. It provides an opportunity to learn and/or update skills needed for on-site response to productions. The workshop will include viewing of the Festival productions and four sessions dedicated to presentation/discussion of guidelines for response, practicum responses by participants, and feedback on these from the workshop facilitators and participating colleagues. Sessions are scheduled to begin on Thursday, February 14, and continue daily through Saturday, February 16, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. each of these mornings.

SDC Faculty Reception FACULTY RECOGNITION EVENT Join your colleagues throughout our Region for an hors d’oeuvre reception Join your colleagues throughout our region for desserts Friday, February 15th Thursday, February 14th from 4:00 to 5:00 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center from 6:00 to 7:00 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (Gallery). Open to all (Costume Shop). Open to all faculty, staff, and special guests attending festival. faculty, staff, and special guests attending festival.

KCACTF 2013 - 12 INVITED PRODUCTIONSINVITED PARTICIPATING PRODUCTIONS

Thursday, February 14th

Heart Mountain by G. Bruce Smith, Concept by Perviz Sawoski Directed by Perviz Sawoski Santa Monica College Theatre 4, LATC Thursday, February 14th, 9:30 am and 7:30 pm

In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President FDR authorized the relocation of over 100,000 persons of Japanese descent to internment camps in remote areas of the country. Through text, music, dance and powerful imagery, Heart Mountain chronicles the life of a family in one such camp as it struggles to maintain dignity.

Respondents: Jami Brandli & Mauricio Salgado Response: 12:30 pm in Theatre 4, LATC

Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright Directed by Christopher Clark Utah Valley University Theatre 1, LATC Thursday, February 14th, 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm

Brixton, London. 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.

Respondents: Joy Pace & Maggie-Kate Coleman Response: Wednesday, February 8th, 3:30 pm in Theatre 1, LATC

Trojan Women by John-Paul Sartre Directed by Michael Arndt California Lutheran University Theatre 2, LATC Thursday, February 14th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm

What is left in the wake of war? In the ruins of Troy, we meet the “collateral damage” – the wives, mothers and innocents grieving for their lost soldiers. Euripides gives us a powerful and poetic commentary on the nature of war and its aftermath. Though written 2,500 years ago, the production could easily be set in modern-day Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan or any other country plagued by violent confrontations large and small. Can we be civilized and still wage war?

Respondents: Georgia McGill & Timothey Sullivan Response: Thursday, February 14th, 9:00 pm in Theatre 2, LATC

KCACTF 2013 - 13 Friday, February 15th

Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak Directed and Choreographed by Jim Taulli and Craig Tyrl in full collaboration with the company of Godspell. Musical Direction by Diane King Vann California State University, Fullerton Theatre 4, LATC Friday, February 15th, 11:30 am and 7:30 pm

Godspell is the timeless story of a community forged out of love. A clever, witty and sometime satirical retelling of the parables found in the Gospel of Matthew, the Stephen Schwartz musical creates a magical world of color, imagination, and play. The journey which is Godspell, is one of discovery and understanding as a band of merry disciples grapple with this controversial, fascinating, and unusual man named Jesus. Full of comedy, heart, and tenderness, the show’s song and dance casts a powerful spell of love.

Respondents: Shelly Elman & Allison Mosier Response: Friday, February 15th, 1:30 pm in Theatre 4, LATC

The Bronze Star by Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim Directed by Neil H. Weiss Citrus College Theatre 2, LATC Friday, February 15th, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm

Spanning the time period from the Vietnam War to today’s Global War on Terror, The Bronze Star follows an idealistic young soldier on his tour of duty in Vietnam, 1967 as well as his life in post 9/11 Los Angeles. Based on one gay Vietnam Vet’s audio tapes and diaries, The Bronze Star raises questions and issues – PTSD; gays in the military – ultimately revealing true patriotic heroism in the face of adversity as this soldier struggles to lay the ghosts of his past to rest.

Respondents: Georgia McGill & Scott Mackenzie Response: Thursday, February 15th, 4:15 pm in Theatre 2, LATC

KCACTF 2013 - 14 Charm by Kathleen Cahil Directed by Tracy Callahan Weber State University Theatre 1, LATC Friday, February 15th, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm

A magical, surreal and transcendentally goofy romantic comedy. Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists are not a rock group and Charm is not your typical history play! Margaret Fuller is plain, Harvard- educated and published, but without a husband or child. It’s New England, 1840, and it’s insufferable. Her friends are the great writers of the day, Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorne. In Charm we slip behind the lives of these literary giants and their unexpected muse, Margaret. Their pursuit of intellectual and emotional intimacy becomes a surreal comedy of manners, provoking the question: What do men and women really want? With wit and delightful theatricality, Margaret glides among the landscapes of the past as she freely imagines a future. She pursues the right to love fully and be who ever she wants to be. Full of luscious language and juicy imagery, Charm is a modern, hilarious and stimulating piece of new work that magically weaves in and out of history.

Respondents: Joy Pace & Marilyn McIntyre Response: Friday, February 15th, 4:30 pm in Theatre 1, LATC

Saturday, February 16th

Untitled Warhol Project Created by Leslie Ferreira & Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Tina Kronis + Richard Alger Directed by Tina Kronis and Leslie Ferreira Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy Theatre 2, LATC Saturday, February 16th, 1:30 pm & 5:00 pm

An explosive multi-disciplinary “docu-collage” that takes as its subject the biographical life of Andy Warhol. Using disparate genres such as cabaret, documentary, fashion show, and movement, Untitled Warhol Project explores a narrative of America and its relationship to fame and celebrity beginning in post-World War II idyll and stretching through 1960s and ‘70s gay disco culture to the celebrity-soaked world of the 1980s— all scored with the music of the Velvet Underground, 1970s disco, and Polish-Czechoslovakian folk music.

Respondents: Brandt Reiter & Joy Pace Response: Saturday, February 16th, 2:45 pm in Theatre 2, LATC

KCACTF 2013 - 15 Thursday, Feb 14 9:00-9:50am (Acting/Directing/Design) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Actor’s Tech-tiquette, or “Okay, I’m here. Now What?” Anne McMills, California State University, Los Angeles

Explore the strange world of tech and the unique actor-designer relationships that exist within this world. What is the lighting designer really doing up there? And how can an actor help to move the process along smoothly?

Participants Prepare: None WORKSHOPS

9:00-9:50am (Talking About Theatre) LATC Costume Shop Educator and AEA Member Roundtable Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association

Share your experiences and insights of being both educator and artist; discuss this challenges of preparing students for a career in theatre.

Participants Prepare: None

9:00-10:50am (Acting/Directing) LATC Dance Studio Impulsive Movement - Taking Physical Risks Laurie Harrop-Purser, Utah Valley University

Motion is derived from E-motion. In life, we speak and move because of what we feel. This workshop will consist of exercises building upon themselves that lead to movement coming from the emotional being rather than the head. This bypasses generic or created movement and brings out impulsive, risky movement that speaks greater emotional truth.

Participants Prepare: Sweats or loose clothing that you can roll around comfortably in, and tennis shoes.

KCACTF 2013 - 16 9-10:50am (Directing) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Directing Culture, Conflict, and Compassion in 21st Century Theatre: The Art of Conceptualized Context and Compromise Theresa Larkin, California State University, Los Angeles

This workshop will explore and discuss vital themes of universal conflict that are found in all great plays. A special emphasis will center on how a director might approach the artistic practice of analyzing, situating, and contextualizing real world conflicts whenever directing theatrical texts by conceptualizing key elements of production and casting with a purposed goal of working towards relevant, inclusive, and healing world perspectives.

Participants Prepare: Writing pads, pencils, favorite play, current daily newspaper, or capacity to pull up current events on iPad or iPhone.

10-10:50am (Acting/Directing) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Louder, Faster, Funnier Phil Ramuno

The rules of Situation Comedy. How to get the laugh and how to get the job. For Actors and Directors. This workshop is a lecture overview of situation comedy.

Participants Prepare: Writing pads, pencils, favorite play, current daily newspaper, or capacity to pull up current events on iPad or iPhone.

10-10:50am (TBD) LATC Costume Shop TBD TBD

Check Information Desk for Updated Workshop Schedule Daily

Participants Prepare: TBD

11-12:20pm (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Form Will Set You Free! Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University

A session of exercises and discussion that will show the importance of embracing the form of any art before the artist can be free to create something new and unique. Mastering the form frees the artist toward new ideas and expressions. Geared toward actors but all will enjoy.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 17 11-12:50pm (Talking About Theatre) LATC Costume Shop A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors’ Equity and a Practical Guide to the Business Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association

Equity supports and protects the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop offers a candid discussion about how and when to join, pragmatic insight into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating, record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.

Participants Prepare: None

11:30-12:50pm (Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance Eric Santagata, Open Jar Institute

Learn a Broadway dance combination.

Participants Prepare: Wear dance attire. All levels welcome.

12:30-2:20pm (Acting/Directing) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Sitcom Scene Study Phil Ramuno

Staging and acting for sitcoms. How to stage comedy scenes from multiple cameras with a discussion of single camera differences. Participants MUST have the Wednesday morning “Louder, Faster, Funnier” workshop. Each Actor and Director will be paired to rehearse and perform one of the provided scenes during the workshop.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable rehearsal clothes.

KCACTF 2013 - 18 1-2:50pm (Management) LATC Costume Shop Stage Management Roundtable: Moving from Student to Professional Meredith Greenburg, California State University, Los Angeles

Professional Stage Managers from the Los Angeles area meet with students to discuss generated topics, covering areas such as Graduate school, unions, working with faculty and peers and new colleagues in the professional world.

Participants Prepare: None

2:00-3:20pm (Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance Eric Santagata, Open Jar Institute

Learn a Broadway dance combination.

Participants Prepare: Wear dance attire. All levels welcome.

2:30-3:50pm (Talking About Theatre) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A What is your Voice: Exploring Your Artistic Voice on Stage Mauricio Salgado, Artists Striving To End Poverty

Do you believe in the power of Art to Transform communities? This interactive workshop will focus on how we can delve beyond our technical training to harness our collective power and begin to build a space where everyone’s stories can be heard. Together, we will explore how we can use our craft as a means of ensuring the strength of our communities, our culture, and the future of the American theatre. Come and reclaim ownership of your own artistic fulfillment.

Participants Prepare: None

2:30-3:50pm (Technology) LATC Theatre 4 Intelligent Lighting for Dummies Chris Eicher and Max Jacobs, California State University, Bakersfield

An introduction to moving lights with a brief lecture of different classes of instruments, control parameters, and basic functionality; followed by “hands-on” application.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 19 3:30-4:50pm (Acting) LATC Dance Studio Sitcoms: Acting for the Laughs! Mary Lou Belli, US Performing Arts

Use TV sitcoms as tool to recognize types of jokes. Do many short exercises for Emmy award-winning directors to hone your rhythm and timing.

Participants Prepare: None

4-4:50pm (Design/Talking About Theatre) LATC Gallery Building a career within the Entertainment Industry Don Guy, Chapman University

This workshop is intended to answer questions and provide insight into how a designer and/or technician can build a career within the Entertainment Industry.

Participants Prepare: None

4-4:50pm (TBD) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A TBD TBD

Check Information Desk for Updated Workshop Schedule Daily

Participants Prepare: (TBD)

Friday, Feb 15 9:00-9:50am (Design) LATC Costume Shop Microcosm of Theatre Experience Kirk Stefferud, Freelance Costume Designer

Practical tips and creative ideas for costuming productions for high schools and small community theatres on a budget.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 20 9:00-10:20am (Devising) HOTEL Emerald Rm Devising Words: Creating and Fine-tuning the Devised Text Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College

This workshop explores strategies for the creation and location of spoken word in devised performance. Students will collaboratively create text with an ensemble, improvise the ways to sculpt the text, and then play with meanings and multiplicities of a performance script. Students will, at the conclusion have the opportunity to perform a bit that they have created.

Participants Prepare: Please be prepared to write (paper and pen) and as well be prepared to move with loose fitting clothes and bare feet.

9:00-10:20am (Playwriting/Dramaturgy) LATC Dance Studio Myth and Ritual for the Modern Play Georgia McGill, City University of New York QCC

This workshop will explore the elements of myth and ritual and their application in modern playwriting. Can we create characters and stories that are as immortal as the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare?

Participants Prepare: None

9:00-10:20am (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B An Introduction to the Art of Puppetry Mark Branner, University of Hawaii, Manoa

This workshop will lead us into the vast ocean of worldwide puppet practice. We push away from the dock, expecting a quick trip. However, the wee ‘rowboat- workshop’ leads us into a boundless sea of disciplines - each with a terrifying depth. We will be lost at sea.. and very happy.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 21 9:00am-10:20pm (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Focal Length of Performance Maria Mayenzet, Saddleback College

Learn how to use the focal length of performance when auditioning for film and television. Learn how to make strong choices with nuance, specificity and moment to moment truth when cold reading for casting directors, directors, producers and network executives. Participants will be filmed and will be able to screen their work and receive a comprehensive diagnostic.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothing. No flip flops.

10:00am -12:50am (TBD) LATC Costume Shop TBD TBD

Check Information Desk for Updated Workshop Schedule Daily

Participants Prepare: TBD

10:30-11:50am (Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Audition Technique for Musical Theatre Singing Auditions Mitch Hanlon, California State University, Fullerton

Things you need to know about how to have a successful singing audition from someone who has cast hundreds of shows and worked with dozens of Broadway legends. Lots of do’s (and a few dont’s) you won’t find elsewhere to give yourself a chance to nail that audition.

Participants Prepare: 6 students will be selected as participants at the beginning of the workshop. Participants should have a short audition selection (16-32 bars only) prepared with music ready for an accompanist). Participants and observers might bring their audition repertoire folder for reference.

KCACTF 2013 - 22 10:30am-11:50am (Playwriting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Playwriting - How it relates to Film and Television writing Bernardo Solano, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

A burst of playwriting exercises, leading to sharing of work, discussion and more writing designed to address the question: how does a playwright also work in film and television?

Participants Prepare: Bring pens and/or pencils and paper. Laptops acceptable, but the paper route is preferable.

10:30-12:20pm (Devising) HOTEL Emerald Rm Ensemble Devising Techniques Katharine Noon & Mark Seldis, The Ghost Road Company

Members of The Ghost Road Company will lead an intensive workshop in our development process, exploring tools the company uses in developing devised performance. Participants will engage in exercises involving the creation of language, imagery, character, and story. Physical in nature, the participants will be guided through a condensed version of Ghost Road’s process of adaptation and storytelling.

Participants Prepare: Clothes you can move in. Bring an image in response to the prompt “Five Years From Now.”

11:00am-11:50am (Playwriting) LATC Costume Shop The Voice of the Playwright - finding it, hearing it, developing it Kathleen Cahill, Playwright

A workshop for young writers which focuses on learning how to develop an individual voice: how to think about the sound of your work, how to hear it and hone it. How does “voice” affect content? Is it a function of content? Is voice like “style.” What is “style” in playwrighting?

Participants Prepare: If possible, bring a sample of your work. We will be doing writing during the workshop.

KCACTF 2013 - 23 11:00am-12:50pm (Devising) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A The Red Square: Devising Work for Actors and Directors, through the Contemplative Dance Practice of Barbara Dilley Barret Ogden, Utah Valley University

Explore strategies of devising work, building ensemble, and examining one’s personal visual expressive palette through the Red Square form, as developed by Contemplative Dance Practice pioneer Barbara Diley, and adapted by one of her former students, Barrett Ogden. A noteworthy influence on development of The Viewpoints, Barbara’s work has been drawn upon by actors, directors, and theatre makers to create a wide range of work, fine tune awareness, and open to the present moment in performance. “Begin again and again. Use everything.” - Gertrude Stein

Participants Prepare: Yoga pants or sweats. optional yoga mats with sitting cushions

Noon -12:50pm (Taking about Theatre) LATC Costume Shop What We Do Together Makes a Difference Timothey Sullivan, Broadway Cares

Learn how Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has empowered college theatre students nationwide to raise money for a variety of causes. Simply by doing what you love, you can help men, women and children across the country or across the street.

Participants Prepare: None

Noon - 1:20pm (Stage Movement) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Wake up your body and Mind with Character Mask and Effort/Shape Tracy Williams, MiraCosta College

A fresh way to wake up your right brain and increase your movement vocabulary with the exploration of Effort/Shape and Character Mask work.

Participants Prepare: Come dressed to move and willingness to create

KCACTF 2013 - 24 Noon -1:20pm(Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance Eric Santagata, Open Jar Institute

Learn a Broadway dance combination.

Participants Prepare: Wear dance attire. All levels welcome.

12-1:50pm (Acting/Directing/Playwriting/Dramaturgy) HOTEL Roman Rm “What’s This Play About, Anyway?” Brandt Reiter, NPP Chair, Region I

A workshop for directors, actors, dramaturgs and playwrights. Learn tools and methodology for approaching a script, breaking it down, and answering that most critical (and most often overlooked) question: What’s the play really about, anyway?

Participants Prepare: None

1-2:20pm (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Commedia and Physical Comedy Rima Miller

How do you find your funny? This workshop will guide you to your won particular body humor and verbal timing. Exercises include improvisation, physical comedy, vaudeville, commedia del’ arte. All levels welcome.

Participants Prepare: Easy, comfortable clothes for warm ups - if you have something extra large or extra small or uncomfortable or colorful or something unique - lots of pockets? Bring it/them for workshop use.

1-2:50pm (Design/Technology) LATC Costume Shop Hat Tricks: An Introduction to Hat Making Becca Bailey Klepko, Utah Valley University

A hands on workshop that introduces patterning and constructing a miniature 3-piece hat from buckram. Helpful for costume technicians and craftspeople who want to gain experience in working with 3-D forms.

Participants Prepare: Regular or leather thimble.

KCACTF 2013 - 25 1:30-2:50pm (Devising) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Making Frankenstein’s Monster: Ensemble-Created Theatre using Disparate Source Material Maggie-Kate Coleman, National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center

Get ready to collaborate! Ensemble building exercises lead to the creation of short pieces of theatre devised in groups based on a random assortment of source material. Participants from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome (performers/directors/dramaturgs/writers, etc.) No experience required, just a willingness to experiment and interest in collaboration.

Participants Prepare: Wear clothes that they feel comfortable moving in. Avoid jeans, dresses, skirts. No street shoes, but bare feet are fine.

2:00-3:50pm (Devising) HOTEL Emerald Rm Interdisciplinary Collaborative Process Theresa Chavez, About Productions

On the eve of About Productions’ 25th anniversary, Artistic Director Theresa Chavez will share some of the company’s history, values, collaboration strategies and process in creating it’s acclaimed interdisciplinary theaterworks. Participants will explore text, movement and sound based techniques and exercises to create short pieces built around the Devised Theatre Project’s prompt: Five Years from Today.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes

2:30-4:20pm (Acting/Directing) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Dance the Scene Terry Glaser, University of San Diego

Based on the work of Michael Chekhov, Dance the Scene is a physical rehearsal technique that integrates the actor’s mind, body, and emotions into a unified performing instrument that connects the actor to the character’s inner life, other actors, and the audience with visceral power.

Participants Prepare: Wear clothing that you can move in comfortably and without restriction

KCACTF 2013 - 26 3:00-4:20pm (Playwrighting) LATC Costume Shop Women Playwrights Initiative Alma Martinez, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, Risa Brainin, Steve Rothman, National Theatre Conference

The National Theatre Conference is a 75 year old organization that has an invited membership of 125 of the leading professional and academic theatre leaders of the American Theatre. A number of these members not only live in Southern California but participate in ACTF. The purpose of our WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS INITIATIVE is to advance the interest of women who seek to write plays for the American Theatre. The workshop will share the current under representative situation of women playwrights in the American Theatre. Discussion will follow with audience participation to look at ways to improve and create more opportunities for women playwrights in live theatre both professionally and academically.

Participants Prepare: None

3:00-4:50pm (Acting/Talking About Theatre) LATC Costume Shop Marketing Basics for the Professional Actor Allison Mosier, The Savvy Actor

The business of acting. Learn the basic tools needed to brand and market yourself as a professional actor to agents and casting directors. We’ll also cover how to use Social Media to obtain auditions and industry connections.

Participants Prepare: Headshot and resume (If you have one, but not a requirement)

4:00pm - 5:20pm (Playwriting/Dramturgy) HOTEL Roman Rm Feedback: What is Helpful and Harmful to the Creative Process Nicholas Pappas

As artists, people always want to offer an opinion on your work. We also want to get opinions on our work. How does one push through all the muck and decide which feedback is helpful to creating stronger work and what will only debilitate you? This session will offer up a way to both give and recieve feedback that will make you better artists and, perhaps even more important, better spectators.

Participants Prepare: Participants should have read Romeo and Juliet

KCACTF 2013 - 27 4:30-5:50pm (Playwriting/Dramaturgy/Talking about Theatre) LATC Costume Shop From Playwrights to Producers - A Discussion of Ten-Minute Play Festivals Jeanette Farr, Glendale College (CA), National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program

Do you want to learn more about producing new plays? A brainstorm and discussion await for playwrights, actors, directors, and producers of new works. This discussion and Q&A will help with self-producing of your new play, putting on a festival at your school, and tips for keeping up with professional standards. All are welcome in the discussion of a true collaborative experience of putting on new works.

Participants Prepare: None

4:30-5:50pm (Devising) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Devising with ASTEP Mauricio Salgado, Artists Striving To End Poverty

ASTEP artists live at the intersection of the Arts and Global Justice. In this workshop, we’ll be building original pieces of Devised Theater using ASTEP’s unique process-oriented approach. Drawing from your own personal experiences and ideas, a few inspiring prompts and techniques for devising that an ASTEP facilitator will guide you through, participants will create pieces around a common theme. Wear comfortable clothing and come prepared to jump into the creative process.

Participants Prepare: Movement clothing

5:00-5:50pm (Talking About Theatre) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About KCACTF On-site Responses ... And Now Get to Ask.” Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University ValLimar Jansen, Freelance Artist Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University

KCACTF production responses are critical to the effective theatre experience. Region VIII leadership is committed to improving the quality and educational value of responses. The purpose of this session is to gather feedback from institutions who have participated in the response process, thereby improving the Respondents Workshop and the quality of the responses themselves.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 28 5:30-7:00pm (Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Expressive Singing for Musical Theatre Intensive Mitch Hanlon, California State Unversity, Fullerton

Are you an actor afraid of singing? Are you a singer who doesn’t get the musical roles you think you’re right for? This workshop is for you. Unleash the actor in your singing! Use these specific tips and techniques to improve your song performance now!

Participants Prepare: 3, possibly 4 individuals will be chosen as participants at the beginning of the workshop. Participants should wear performance (or audition) attire, and bring their musical theatre repertoire book with them with two different songs ready to sing (and music prepared for an accompanist.) No requirements for observers.

Saturday, Feb 16 9-10:20am (Acting/Stage Movement) LATC Dance Studio Freeing the Actor through Mask Work Ginny Davis, Fort Lewis College

The hands-on workshop will explore a series of techniques designed for freeing the actors body and imagination through masked play.

Participants Prepare: Clothing that is non-restrictive for movement.

9-10:20am (Design/Technology) LATC Gallery Design/Tech Portfolio Review Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino

Student Designers bring your portfolios and share them with our national and regional design respondents. This will provide the student with an opportunity to receive feedback about their work from other professional designers.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 29 9-10:20am (Acting/Directing) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College

Drawing on the vocal principles of Hart, Rodenberg, and Linklater, the physical techniques of Laban, Meyerhold, Bogart, and text-in-action exercises, the workshop will help actors unlock one of Shakespeare’s rhythmic, verse speeches. A highly physical and vocal warm-up will complement the actor’s ability to “physicalize” the potential of Shakespeare’s language.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable fitting clothing to move around.

9-10:50am (Design) LATC Costume Shop “Chopped” - The Design Process Brian Healy, Utah Valley University

Inspired by the hit television cooking show, “Chopped,” students will have their conceptual design skills pushed to their innovative limits with two timed rounds of prompted creation. Each group will be presented with a theme and a “box of items” from which they must create a unified, innovative visual representation of their design concept. Will you win, or will you be chopped?

Participants Prepare: There is potential to get very messy. Dress accordingly.

9-10:50am (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Improv for Actors Bill Applebaum, Actors Improv Studio

Improvisation is an essential tool helping actors make strong creative choices by trusting one’s instincts. Improv is not just about being clever or creating comedic sketches. Trust your gut and speak the truth onstage.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes to move in

KCACTF 2013 - 30 10:30-11:20am (Acting/Design) LATC Gallery The Correlation Between Costume Design and Creating a Character as an Actor: How Performance can be enhanced with appropriate rehearsal attire Royce Herron, Glendale Community College (CA)

Both actors and costume designers use the same play analysis techniques to do their jobs. Because clothing is such an integral part of a character’s personality, collaborating with the costumer to find appropriate rehearsal clothing can enhance an actor’s physical performance. It also helps the costumer to ensure that the actor has everything he needs - pockets, easy fasteners, etc.

Participants Prepare: None

10:30-11:50am (Stage Movement) LATC Dance Studio Out of Your Head into Your Body Jerry Prell, California State University, Long Beach

This fast paced, fun movement workshop will focus on energy flow, ensemble building, action/reaction, and following the intuitive physical self.

Participants Prepare: Clothing and footwear to move in

10:30-11:50am (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B The Actor’s Voice...A Vocal Tune-up Harriet Pehde, Elocution Solution

An actor’s voice is his instrument and it needs constant tuning. We will demonstrate and provide exercises for developing: good support for the voice, correct placement, proper resonance, good projection and how to take care of your voice.

Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes

11:00-11:50am (Management/Technology) LATC Costume Shop Regional Theater Production Management Christy Weikel, Center Theatre Group

What does a regional theater Production Manager do? Want to become a Production Manager? A bit of production management exposed in this round table workshop.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 31 11:00-12:50am (Acting/Directing/Dramaturgy) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Greek to Me: Contemporary Acting and Directing Techniques for Approaching Ancient Texts Ian Belton, University of Hawaii, Manoa

The workshop is a hands-on, practical introduction to performing Classical Greek Drama. Through voice and movement techniques rooted in both primordial and post- colonial World Theater, participants will be given basic tools as potential starting points for their own exploration.

Participants Prepare: Required are monochromatic t-shirts (no logos or imprints) and track pants or sweatpants (no shorts, no jeans, no shoes, no socks). Recommended to bring a bottle of water and a small towel. All participants should be prepared to move, speak, recite and partner with others. Please notify me in advance if any participants have specific needs or physical challenges that would effect their involvement.

11:30-12:50pm (Talking about Theatre) LATC Gallery Everything about CSU Summer Arts John Mayer, California State University, Stanislaus

An introduction to CSU Summer Arts presented by John Mayer. GOOD TIMES!!!! Scholarship opportunities!

Participants Prepare: None

12:00-12:50pm (Management) LATC Costume Shop Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Applying for Arts Management Jobs and Internships Camille Schenkkan, Center Theatre Group

Whether you’re seeking a first internship or have your Masters, you need to submit a professional, competitive application. Learn tips & tricks to land your dream position from Center Theatre Group’s intern coordinator.

Participants Prepare: If you have a resume, please bring it to reference during the session.

12:00-1:50pm (Acting/Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Dance Studio Acting the Song Kitty Balay, VASTA/PCPA Theaterfest

Find ease and connection to your song by focusing on your breath and intention.

Participants Prepare: Bring a recording of your accompaniment on an mp3 device.

KCACTF 2013 - 32 12:30-1:50pm (Musical Theatre and Dance) LATC Theatre 4 Auditioning for Musical Theatre David Tinney, Utah Valley University

Principles of song preparation and performance for musical theater. Topics include: song choice, castability, cutting a song, breaking down a song as a scene/ monologue.

Participants Prepare: Participants should be prepared with their best 90 second musical theater selection to be coached in front of the group.

1:00-2:50pm (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A So What’s with all the shaking? An introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework Scott Mackenzie, Westminster College

Fitzmaurice is a dynamic method of voicework rooted in the effective use of the breath to help the actor physically, psychologically, and emotionally understand and make the best use of his or her vocal abilities.

Participants Prepare: Dress to move. Plan to work without shoes.

1:00-2:50pm (Playwriting/Musical Theatre & Dance) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Musicals from Scratch: An Introduction to Writing Musical Theatre Maggie-Kate Coleman, National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

We will cover the basics of structure and song form, rhyme, scansion, and prosody, learn techniques for brainstorming and generating ideas for new musicals, and get started on writing your first lyric! No experience necessary.

Participants Prepare: A notebook and something to write with.

2:00-2:50pm (Playwriting) LATC Costume Shop How to Pitch Your Play: Writing the Synopsis Jami Brandli, Lesley University

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write several types of synopsis for your full-length plays. This will not only help you apply to development programs and query theaters, it will help you verbally pitch your play on the spot. Choose one full-length play you want to pitch and come ready to write.

Participants Prepare: Bring something to write with and on: a laptop, tablet, or paper and pen

KCACTF 2013 - 33 2:00-3:20pm (Acting) LATC Dance Studio Kicking Your Acting Technique Up a Notch Jerry Prell, California State University, Long Beach

Participants will learn and practice Michael Chekhov/George Shdanoff acting technique focusing on the energies of Fire, and Lightness and Ease. Manifesting these essential acting energies will fill auditions, rehearsals and performances with radiance, focus, control, and passion. Fire, Lightness and Ease releases the power to sustain the actor through the physical and mental endurance necessary to work on stage and sound stage.

Participants Prepare: Clothing to move in.

2:00-3:50pm (Acting/Directing/Stage Movement) LATC Theatre 4 Acted Aggression or Why Fight? Steve Rankin, Professional Fight Director

Creating the illusion of reality combined with safety in execution equals a stage fight activity. But the very first thing we must understand is ‘’Why am I fighting?” In this workshop we will explore how and why an actor in a scene might be motivated to resort to the physical activity needed to create the illusion of a violent activity.

Participants Prepare: Loose clothes, knee pads and sensible shoes. No bare feet.

3:00-4:20pm (Playwriting) LATC Costume Shop Playwriting for Children: Choose Your Own Adventure in History or Science Eileen Nagle, Utah Valley University

Using the Choose Your Own Adventure book series format, participants will take a period in history and write an audience interactive play. Each major choice has 2 solutions, he audience makes the choices.

Participants Prepare: Pens, pencils and paper.

KCACTF 2013 - 34 3:00-4:20pm (Acting/Stage Movement) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Say It ... As if Your Life Depended on It! Kitty Balay, VASTA/ PCPA Theaterfest

Do you feel self-conscious about vocal choices? Discover powerful and dynamic vocal activation. We’ll use a familiar text and lots of imagination. It’s already in you. We’re going to let it out. Be prepared to move.

Participants Prepare: Wear comfortable clothes for movement. We will be on the floor

3:00-5:50pm (Acting) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Michael Chekhov Acting Technique John Hugo

An introduction and exploration of the principles and applications of Michael Chekhov Technique. Students will learn new tools they can begin using right away, and have an overview of this inspiring and potent technique.

Participants Prepare: Participants should wear loose clothing and be prepared to move and sweat. No hard shoes please.

3:30-4:50pm (Acting) LATC Dance Studio Voice for the Actor: Finding your Voice with Fitzmaurice Voicework® Cynthia DeCure, California State University, Los Angeles

An introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework® technique with an emphasis on exploring the vibration and resonance of your authentic voice and the potential to unlock its power.

Participants Prepare: Clothes you can move in, not too baggy. Please bring a towel or yoga mat. Participants should bring 4-6 lines of a Shakespeare text to use in the vocal exploration.

KCACTF 2013 - 35 3:30-5:20pm (Acting) LATC Dance Studio The Power of the Close-Up: Personalization On-Camera Marilyn McIntyre, Howard Fine Acting Studio

The focus will be on the “Close-Up” ... letting the camera come to you. Actors often worry about the transition from acting on-stage to acting on-camera when, in fact, personalization is the foundation for both. Thoughts and feelings are fleeting and the camera sees it all. The personalization, specificity and authenticity required will only improve your work on-stage.

Participants Prepare: A small personal object that has a specific significance to you and/or a piece of music that also has some kind of impact personal significance to you. This must be on an Ipod, mp3 player or a smartphone. If you have a portable speaker dock, feel free to bring it. A prepared short (60 sec.) monologue (or section of a monologue) that is age and type appropriate. Bring an extra copy of the script.

4:00-5:20pm (Acting/Directing/Stage Movement) LATC Theatre 4 An introduction to Ann Bogart’s Viewpoints bree valle, Cuesta College

This workshop leads participants through the 6 viewpoints of time and space, as articulated by Bogart, and will explore the Viewpoints through grid-work, the flow, and lane-work, culminating in Open Viewpoints. the workshop is physically intense but allows actors, directors, designers, musicians , and choreographers to create a common language and practical methodologies for staging new work and engendering flexible and spontaneous ensemble playing.

Participants Prepare: Clothing that does not restrict movement

KCACTF 2013 - 36 4:30-5:50pm (TBD) LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B TBD TBD

Check Information Desk for Updated Workshop Schedule Daily

Participants Prepare: TBD

5:00-6:50pm (Acting) LATC Dance Studio The Art of Acting Studio Scene Study Workshop Don Williams, Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC

This workshop aims to give students a taste of the core principles and techniques taught at both the Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City and our sister school the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. The workshop is fully self-enclosed and requires that students bring only themselves and their imagination to participate. The students will write and perform scripts created in class. Through these scripts concepts on imagination, action, creative flexibility, character and relationship are explored. This is a full participation workshop for all participants.

Participants Prepare: None

KCACTF 2013 - 37 IRENE RYAN FOUNDATION ACTING SCHOLARSHIP Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan, who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associate productions are eligible for consideration for the $500 regional scholarships

The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional awards and two national scholarships annually. There are two scholarships of $3,500 each for the winners at the national festival in Washington, D.C.

The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to pay tuition and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts.

Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level. The list of participants continues to expand each year and the auditions are now undoubtedly one of the most exciting educational and artistic opportunities for student actors in the country.. ACTING & DIRECTING & ACTING Thursday, February 14th— Friday, February 15th— Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Los Angeles Theatre Center

7:00 am - 9:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Check In & Warm Up 8:00a - 8:45a IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 1 Check in Bernard’s Theatre 3 9:00 am - 12:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room A 9:00a - 12:00p IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 1 Gold Room Theater 3 9:00 am - 12:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room B 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 2 Check in Emerald Room Theater 3 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 2 Room A 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 2 Gold Room Theater 3 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 2 Room B Saturday, February 16th— Emerald Room Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 1 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 3 Room A Gold Room 9:00a - 6:00p IRENE RYAN - Finals Rehearsal 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 3 Room B Theatre 1 Emerald Room 6:30p - 7:30p IRENE RYAN - Check In and Warm Up Theatre 1 7:30p - 10:00p IRENE RYAN - Finals Theatre 1

KCACTF 2013 - 38 IRENE SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION SELECTORS

Preliminary Room Preliminary Room Semi – Final Round: Final Round: Round A: Round B: Mary Lou Belli Rebecca Hilliker Scott Mackenzie Shelly Elman Bill Applebaum David Razowsky Marilyn McIntyre Allison Mosier Thomas Miller Adam Shapiro Jon Lawerance Rivera Suanne Spoke

FACULTY TIMERS FOR IRENE RYAN ROUNDS:

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OPEN JAR INSTITUTE MUSICAL THEATRE AUDITIONS New York City’s most Broadway-integrated actor training program, The Open Jar Institute provides select students intensive one-on-one training with some of Broadway’s biggest stars, performers, directors, choreographers, agents and casting directors. Open Jar Productions will be attending four regional festivals offering one KCACTF scholarship to their summer institute through these auditions.

Thursday, February 14th Friday, February 15th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm Workshop – Broadway Audition Noon – 1:20pm Workshop – Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance Bootcamp: Dance LATC, Rehearsal Room 5C LATC, Rehearsal Room 5C 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Workshop – Broadway Audition 2:30pm - 5:20pm AUDITIONS - Open Jar Musical Theatre Bootcamp: Dance LATC, Rehearsal Room 5C LATC, Rehearsal Room 5C

NPP AUDITIONS FOR 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Want to help bring a new play to life? Want to perform live at the Festival? Join a creative team of artists from different schools to workshop and perform a concert reading of a student–written 10-minute play. Faculty directors collaborate intensively with student playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, and stage managers to develop scripts and perform a live concert reading during the Festival. Synopses, character descriptions, audition sides, and audition forms are available at the festival website (www.kcactf-8festivalinfo.org/) and at the audition table at the Festival. Select your plays and go audition between Irene Ryan rounds.

Thursday, February 14th 10:00a - 2:30p 10 Minute Plays – Auditions & Callbacks Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles – Mezzanine Level Rooms

KCACTF 2013 - 39 Devised Theatre Projects Interviews/Sign-ups As part of the KCACTF initiative to educate and support devised work, Region VIII is proud to host professional Devising Guest Artists to work hands-on with students during the festival in the creation of an original theatre piece. The devised theatre piece will be showcased/performed on the last day of the festival, Saturday, 16 February at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Theatre 3 from 2:00 to 4:30.

Students wanting to participate with Guest Artists will need to audition/interview and be placed with Guest Artists on Thursday, February 14, at the Host Hotel, the Millennium Biltmore in the Mezzanine Level Rooms rooms between 10:00am and 1:00pm. After placement students will work with the Guest Artist in creating the rehearsal schedule and process.

Thursday, February 14th 10:00a - 2:30pm Devised Theatre Projects -- Interviews/Auditions Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles – Mezzanine Level Rooms

SDC Directing Initiative The future of American theatre rests in the hands of the next generation of directors. Working with actors, breaking down a script, and creating stage pictures while bringing a play to life are only a few of the challenges. As directors develop their aesthetic, they need to be exposed to a variety of styles and opinions on what makes great theatre. It is for these reasons that KCACTF, in partnership with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, sponsors the SDC Student Directing Initiative. The directors will present scenes, observe critical responses by professionals in the field, and participate in workshops Thursday - Saturday.

Regional finalists will present scenes and interview with a panel of professional directors. One student director will be selected to represent Region VIII at the KCACTF National Festival in April.

SDC Student Directing Respondents Saturday, February 16th Bart DeLorenzo 9:00a - 11:00a PRESENTATION - SDC Student Rebecca Hilliker Directing Scenes Jessica Kubzansky LATC, Theatre 4 11:00p - 12:30p RESPONSE - SDC Student Directing Scenes LATC, Theatre 4

Student Directing Observership of New Plays KCACTF, the Region VIII Student Directing program, and NPP are pleased to sponsor an opportunity for student directors (graduate or undergraduate) to observe professional NPP directors during the new play development process. Although this opportunity is offered as a silent observership, mentoring and assisting opportunities between NPP and student directors may arise at the discretion of the NPP director, depending upon availability of the participants involved. Selected directors will be invited to observe the process of directing a reading of a new play from the start of the process (prior to festival) through the completion of the staged reading at festival.

KCACTF 2013 - 40 DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION

The Design, Technology & Management Exhibition gives outstanding student designers regional recognition and the opportunity to exhibit their work at the Regional Festival, as well as the chance to attend the KCACTF National Festival or the USITT conference. Throughout festival the designs will be critiqued by theatre professionals on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques.

National KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence and Allied Design and Technology Award The purpose of the KCACTF response and presentation of awards is to provide student designers and technicians with feedback from professionals working in the field; to give outstanding student designers and technicians national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for outstanding student designers to exhibit their work at the Kennedy Center and/or USITT. Designs and other allied crafts will be appraised on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and visual presentation techniques.

Any student may take part in the KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence, KCACTF Allied Design and Technology Award and/or the KCACTF Stage Management Fellowship Program, as long as their school has entered at least one associate or participating entry during the festival year. All entries must have been realized and produced at their home institution. Participants must attend their regional festival, and display the materials and documentation of their design process and execution.

One regional award recipient – a national finalist – in each area (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and allied crafts) will be announced at the regional festival. National finalists in scenery, costumes, lighting and sound will be invited to exhibit their design display, and will attend, the national festival in Washington, D.C in April. Each Allied Design and Technology regional award recipient will be invited to exhibit their design display and attend the annual USITT Conference.

Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Awards for Excellence in Technology and Design The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas has partnered with KCACTF to award students from each region a one-week master class in the area of their choice. SILV classes may include Computer Drafting, Computer Modeling, Rigging, Automation, Props & SFX, Sound, Makeup & Masks, Wigs, Lighting Technology, Patterning, Projections & Video, and Moving Lights.

Each award includes a full tuition grant, housing, daily breakfast and lunch. Transportation is not included.

Regional Internships At each regional festival, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of allied theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient.

KCACTF Allied Design and Technology SILV Award At each national USITT conference, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of allied theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient of an eight-week scholarship with SILV.

Focal Press Rafael Jaen Show Case Award This recognition is dedicated to students presenting their work for the first time as a regional entry at the Design, Technology & Managements exhibit in each KCACTF region. The award honors design substance and innovative ideas and is meant to inspire young DTM practitioners encouraging their learning in the Design, Technologies and Management fields. Award recipients receive a FPRJ certificate, a Focal Press credit to purchase three (Focal Press) books of their choice, and an opportunity to have their work represented in the digital display at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo. The award is for regional entries rather than the national Barbizon and KCACTF entries.

KCACTF 2013 - 41 Regional Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence in Scenery, Costume, Lighting, Sound, Makeup, Properties and Technical Direction.

Regional Design Projects Regional Design Projects are intended to serve Region VIII student designers with the opportunity to showcase their work for non-realized design projects, and to receive response to their work that will help them improve their design skills and grow as designers. There will be two entry divisions: Undergraduate and Graduate. All entrants must be currently enrolled students of colleges and universities in Region VIII at the time of the festival. Categories of entry include Scene Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Makeup Design and Sound Design. (Wig/Hair Designs may be included as a Makeup Design entry, and Projection/Media Designs may be included under either Scenic or Lighting Design)

National Stage Management Fellowship Finalists are selected from throughout the region and informed prior to Festival. Each of the eight KCACTF regions will select on Stage Manager to be awarded a fellowship to attend the national festival.

Selection will be based on the following: professionalism and completeness of the prompt script and other paperwork; effectiveness of coordinating and managing a festival event, based on the respondent’s feedback from the regional event coordinator; personal demeanor and communication skills, based on interviews and follow-up workshops; and written material, submitted prior to the Regional Festival.

FESTIVAL DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT SELECTORS

Ann Closs-Farley, Red Colegrove, Chris Gees, MC Friedrich, Caitlin Lainoff, Cricket Myers, Tom Ontiveros

DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday, February 13th 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Lighting/Sound Designer Presentations 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm LOAD IN - Design Exhibits LATC Gallery LATC Lobby 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Stage Management Orientation Saturday, February 16th LATC Founders Room 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Design Exhibit open for public viewing Shepherd Union Ballroom A Thursday, February 14th 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Design Paper Projects Response 8:00 am - 10:00 pm Design Exhibit open for public viewing LATC Lobby LATC Lobby 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage Management Response 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Costume/Makeup Designer Presentations LATC Costume Shop LATC Gallery 1:00 pm - 2:50 pm Design/Tech General Response 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Costume/Makeup Designer Presentations LATC Rehearsal Room 4B LATC Gallery 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Stage Management Fellowship Interviews 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Costume/Makeup Designer Presentations LATC Vault LATC Gallery 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm LOAD OUT Design Finals LATC Lobby Friday, February 15th 8:00 am - 10:00 pm Design Exhibit open for public viewing LATC Lobby 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Scenery/Properties Designer Presentations LATC Gallery

KCACTF 2013 - 42 PLAYWRITING, DRAMATURGY & CRITICISM THE DAVID MARK COHEN NATIONAL PLAYWRITING AWARD

Region VIII forwards two plays to the national office for consideration for The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, which promotes the writing and production of new plays while honoring and perpetuating the memory of David Mark Cohen, Professor of Playwriting, University of Texas–Austin. KCACTF will present this award to a student or a working playwright whose play is premiered and produced by a college or university theatre program. The selected playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, possible publication by Dramatic Publishing Company, and up to $500 to defray travel and expenses to attend a script–in–hand reading at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s annual August conference..

DAVID MARK COHEN AWARD NOMINEES Traces of Utopia by Bruce Goodrich, California State University-Fullerton A Second Birth by Ariel Mitchell, Brigham Young University

JOHN CAUBLE SHORT PLAY AWARD Region VIII forwards two student-written one-act plays to the national office for consideration for invitation to the national festival and further competition for the The John Cauble Short Play Award. It is named for Dr. John Cauble, Professor Emeritus of UCLA, who provided guidance and support for the establishment of the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program. The winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, and a professional development opportunity designed specifically for the winning playwright.

NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM ONE-ACTS READINGS (in alphabetical order)

Germs and Viruses by Kirt Shineman, Arizona State University Top Billing by Cliff Clinton, Chapman University Director: Lou Clark, Arizona State University Director: Matthew Bokuniewicz, Chapman University Description: An Arab country, similar to Syria, is ready for a new leader. Will Description: The son of a famous stand-up comedian prepares to speak at his the country return to its dictator, anti-American regime, or is it time for a father’s funeral, and while struggling to find the words, he begins to see his father democracy? Seban, a blogger, begins to rally her readers, and, like a virus, a in a new light through the eyes of his father’s comic friends. pro-democracy up-rising grows. Yet, Seban isn’t the cure her country thinks she is. ALTERNATE: Death & Dying by LeShawn Holcomb, California State University-Fullerton Three Little Piggies: Walter Gaines, University of Hawaii-Manoa Three Little Piggies. One-Act Play Respondents: Director: Mark Branner, University of Hawaii at Manoa Jami Brandli, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter Description: Storytime. An estranged father realizes it is his turn to put his daughter to beddy-bie. She has chosen “the Three Little Pigs” for the 200th time. A harried father attempts to get his daughter to sleep by racing through the story, only to have her ask “why?” after “why?” The father becomes more and more frustrated with his daughters’ delays, until he finally decides to answer her by “scaring her to sleep”. It backfires as the wolf comes to life, devours the pigs, and attempts to engulf his daughter. A cautionary tale about fatherhood & the disintegration of innocence.

KCACTF 2013 - 43 The KCACTF National Ten–Minute Play Award

Region VIII will forward two student–written 10–minute scripts from our Ten–Minute Play Festival for consideration for an invitation to the national festival. A panel will read the sixteen regional winners and pick a play and three finalists to invite to the national festival in April (four playwrights in total). Those four plays will again be presented as staged readings in the Kennedy Center Theatre Lab with casts made up of the national Irene Ryan acting scholarship finalists or professional actors. The outstanding Ten–Minute Plays for each region (eight regions, sixteen plays) may be published by Dramatic Publishing Company. The winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, and an Active Dramatists Guild membership.

Black Hair Diaries by Yasmin Madadi & Tonye Doukpolagha, The Shoelace by Chelsea Hickman, Brigham Young University University of California-Riverside Director: Carol Damgen, California State University-San Bernardino Director: Rachel Tracie, Azusa Pacific University Description: In ten minutes, you can sort the laundry. You can pay the bills. Description: A documentary play on the politics of good hair, bad hair, and You can even take a moment to think or relax. Time has a way of slipping by, hairiness. Based on over 30 interviews, this collection of monologues digs up but we choose what to do with it what we may. For Emily and Mitch, the last questions on race, hair, and femininity. ten minutes of their relationship encapsulates questions of God’s reality, what the word “faith” means, and ultimately, if they should remain together. Christmas for June by Jillian Pagan, California State University-Los Angeles Director: Matt Omasta, Utah State University Tattoo You by Lisa Kenner Grissom, Lesley University Description: June awakens to find her long-lost Mother in her apartment, waiting Director: Jennifer S. Holmes, Whittier College to give her mysterious gifts to make up for having missed the last few years’ worth Description: When two women meet in the bathroom at their 20th high school of Christmases. reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some scars don’t fade away. Loving Icarus by Emma de Beus, Columbia University Director: Shad Willingham, California State University Northridge Ten-Minute Play Respondents: Description: Falling in love is scary. Wanting more, afraid to lose yourself even Jami Brandli, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter when there’s so much to be gained.

Play Date by Sofya Weitz, Loyola Marymount University Director: Chris Cannon, Santa Ana College Description: Celia likes Logan. She likes him a lot. She may be a little unconventional in how she displays her affections, but when she cooks up a plan to trick Logan into dinner alone with her, things, as they often tend to, do not go as planned. In the process, Celia desperately uses her strange yet endearing qualities to win Logan, and us, over.

KCACTF 2013 - 44 THE NAPAT PLAYWRITING AWARD

Region VIII will forward one student-written play for consideration for the NAPAT Playwriting Award, an expense-paid trip to a NAPAT Workshop in Las Vegas.

REGIONAL NOMINATION FOR NATIONAL PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE PLAYWRITING AWARD

Mirrors by LeShawn Holcomb, California State University-Fullerton

NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, February 14th – Friday, February 15th – Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Los Angeles Theatre Center 8:30 am - 10:00 am 10 Minute Plays – 7:30p - 9:30p PERFORMANCE - NPP One-Acts Creative Team Orientation LATC Theatre 3 Corinthian/ Roman Rooms Saturday, February 16th 10:00 pm - 2:30 pm 10 Minute Plays – Auditions & Callbacks 10:00 am - 1:00 pm PERFORMANCE & RESPONSE - Mediterranean & Cordoban Rooms 10 Minute Play Festival 2:30 am - 4:30 pm 10 Minute Plays – Casting LATC Theatre 3 Cordoban Room

DRAMATURGY & JOURNALISM INSTITUTE LMDA/KCACTF STUDENT DRAMATURGY AWARD

The LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award recognizes student dramaturgs’ contributions to theatre production and educational projects in dramaturgy at their colleges and universities. It comes through collaboration between Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), with additional support from the Association for Theatre in Higher Eduction (ATHE).

The Regional Fellowship recipient will receive membership in LMDA, an all-expense-paid residency at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in mid-April, and multi-day workshops with leading artists in both production and new-play dramaturgy. Recipients of the National LMDA/KCACTF Fellowships receive residencies with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, or the Kennedy Center/National New Play Network’s MFA Playwrights’ Workshop in the summer.

Region VIII Festival response to the student dramaturgs’ projects will take place on Friday, February 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Each entrant will present and discuss his or her work and receive verbal feedback from the respondents. This session is open to the public, and we encourage all to attend.

Wednesday, February 13 Friday, February 15 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. LOAD IN—DTM & Dramaturgy Exhibits 9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Interview/Response: LMDA/KCACTF LATC Lobby Dramaturgy Fellowship LATC Lobby

Saturday, February 16 DRAMATURGY RESPONDENTS 4:00–6:00 p.m. LOAD OUT DTM & Dramaturgy Exhibits Maggie-Kate Coleman and Nicholas Pappas LATC Lobby

KCACTF 2013 - 45 PROGRAM NOTE AWARD

The Program Note Award recognizes the work of student dramaturgs who write engaging, informative program notes for participating or associate KCACTF entries during this festival year (January-December 2012). Entrants submit an application form, as well as a copy of the note as it appeared in the program of a participating or associate status production. Please come and read the participants’ work in the Lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

THE INSTITUTE FOR THEATRE JOURNALISM & ADVOCACY (Formerly the National Critic’s Institute Scholarship)

The Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy offers a scholarship for an outstanding student critic to work with professional theatre critics and arts writers at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, each summer. At all eight KCACTF Regional Festivals, nominated student critics write critiques of plays performed at the festival. One finalist is selected from each region to compete at the national level. The national winner attends the Eugene O’Neill Center during the national writing conference in July, working with leading professional newspaper, magazine, and new-media critics from across the United States. All expenses will be paid.

During our regional festival, student critics learn from peers and professional critics. They attend shows and write critiques in traditional and new media, and critique their critiques together in a seminar setting.

Thursday, February 14 10:00 a.m. - 11:50 pm Journalism Workshop, Part 1 HOTEL Roman Room

Friday, February 15 12:00 pm –1:50 pm Journalism Workshop, Part 2 HOTEL Roman Room

Saturday, February 16 10:00 a.m. - 11:50 pm Journalism Workshop, Part 3 HOTEL Roman Room

CRITICS INSTITUTE CO-COORDINATORS & RESPONDENTS

Tony Frankel and Colin Mitchell

KCACTF 2013 - 46 DEVISED PERFORMANCE DEVISED DEVISED PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING

New to KCACTF, this focus on Devised Performance is intended to give space, voice, recognition and credibility to processes and productions which are created outside the text-based traditions, and which utilize the non-traditional, non-linear, multi-disciplinary and collective tools of creating performance. As we develop our craft, new perspectives and processes for creating exciting and original theatre emerge. The festival offers significant opportunities to explore devised performance including working with professional Guest Artists, bringing your own work to the festival, and participating in workshops. In particular, the Devised Theatre Project will be a great place to learn about the tools, and contribute to the disciplinary conversation.

Saturday, February 16th – Los Angeles Theatre Center 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm Devised Performance Project Theatre 3

Devised Performance Project TITLE: Five Years from Today

SOME OF THESE PARAMETERS INCLUDE: • Ensemble will select their sources of inspiration as their creative container (examples: a photograph, a poem, a fictional or non-fictional short story, a memory, a question, etc.). Ensemble will be asked to clearly articulate how their sources informed process and product, form and content. • Each ensemble will create a unique performance vocabulary informed by their source materials. This vocabulary should include movement, voice, visual image, sonic landscape, text and scenic environment and communicate the piece’s style and aesthetic. Ensemble should consider time restraints and travel considerations. These parameters are designed to form a creative container to spark your imaginations and deepen your exploration.

Opportunity for Students to Work with Professional Theatre Artists in Creating a Devised Theatre Piece As part of the KCACTF initiative to educate and support devised work, Region VIII is proud to host professional Devising Guest Artists Theresa Chavez, Rima Miller, Mark Seldis, Katherine Noon and Rose Portillo. to work hands-on with students during the festival in the creation of an original theatre piece. (Please see website for the list of Festival Guest Artists: http://www.kcactf-8.org/festival_info_guests.html.)

AUDITIONS/INTERVIEWS TO WORK WITH GUEST ARTISTS: Students wanting to participate with Guest Artists will need to audition/interview and be placed with Guest Artists on Thursday, February 14, at the Host Hotel, the Millennium Biltmore in the Mezzanine Level Rooms between 10:00am and 2:30pm. After placement students will work with the Guest Artist in creating the rehearsal schedule and process.

Workshops and other opportunities in Devised Performance In addition to the Devised Theatre Project there will be other opportunities to be a part of the Devised Performance programming at the festival. We are offering workshops that focus on the creating of devised performance including: Making Frankenstein’s Monster, Devising Words, Ensemble Techniques, and devising with Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP) to name a few.

For more information go to: http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_devised.html. If you have questions please contact Kathryn Moller, [email protected].

KCACTF 2013 - 47 SPECIAL GUESTS Bill Applebaum Bill Applebaum, has served on the SAG Conservatory Board for the last 3 years. He is the founder of Actors Improv Studio and is a teacher, actor, writer and director. Bill trained and performed at the Chicago Second City Theatre for 5 years, and was a founding member of The Second City ETC Theatre. He studied improvisation with Del Close, Paul Sills, Sheldon Patinkin, and Jo Forsberg. Bill has used improvisation skills in films, tv, commercials and theater work including The Victory Gardens Theatre, The Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Matrix Theater, the Falcon Theatre, and The Saban Theater.

Bill’s approach to teaching improvisation builds on what he learned from the creators of modern improvisation. Improvisation is more than just being clever or good at playing games. It helps actors activate their imaginations, and gives them skills to think, write and edit while auditioning and performing. Improvisation makes actors better performers by training them to trust their instincts and make stronger creative choices. Bill’s philosophy is “Improv is

not an end unto itself, but a means to being a better actor.”

Mary Lou Belli Mary Lou Belli is an Emmy Award winner producer, writer, and director. On BET, she has just fished directing “Second Generation Wayans”, “Reed Between the Lines,” and “The Game,” the spinoff to “Girlfriends” which she directed for 7 consecutive seasons. With over 125 episodes to her credit, Mary Lou directed “Monk,” “Living with Fran” starring Fran Drescher, “Misconceptions” starring Jane Leeves, and “Eve” starring hip hop artist Eve, as well as “The Hughleys,” “Charles in Charge,” “Major Dad,” and “Sister, Sister.” Mary Lou received BET nominations for directing “Girlfriends” and “One on One” as well as a Prism Award for “Girlfriends.” She lectures frequently throughout the United States including many universities such as AFI, NYU, Northwestern, and UConn. She is the co- author of three books: The Sitcom Career Book and Acting for Young Actors and Directors Tell the Story. She teaches at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She has served as judge and/or guest speaker for four consecutive years for the

FESTIVAL GUESTS & RESPONDENTS GUESTS FESTIVAL CSU Media Arts Fest, a judge for the Miss America Outstanding Teen Pageant, a jury member at the Sapporo Short Festival, a lecturer at the Chautauqua Institute, and a panelist for Women In Film, the DGA, SAG, and AFTRA.. She has been a guest artist at the International Thespian Festival for secondary school theatre where she gave workshops to thousands of teens and high school theatre teachers. She just finished shooting a web series starring Jennifer Lewis and Shangela as well as sizzle reel for Funny or Die.

KCACTF 2013 - 48 Jami Brandli JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include Technicolor Life, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!), The Sinker, M-Theory as well as shorter works. Her work has been produced and developed at HotCity Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, WordBRIDGE, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Moving Arts, Milwaukee Rep, Rogue Machine Theatre, among other venues. She received the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award and Holland New Voices Award and was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She is also an ongoing contributing writer for Loyola Marymount University’s productions of “Hidden Heroes: Service to the World.” In addition, she was a contributing writer for the Elliot Norton Award-Winning production of PS: Page Me Lager, a finalist for the Disney ABC TV Writing Fellowship and a Visiting Playwright for the 2009 ATHE Conference. Her short plays are published with Smith & Kraus. Jami lives in Pasadena, CA where she’s at work on scripts for both stage and screen and a novel. For her day job, she teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University’s low-residency MFA program in Boston. Jami is represented by The Gersh Agency. www.jamibrandli.com.

Kathleen Cahill Kathleen Cahill’s awards include the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, two Edgerton Foundation Awards and a Drama League Award. Her play Charm was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award. Her produced musicals include for The Navigator, Friendship of the Sea, Dakota Sky; an opera, Clara, two opera/ cabarets, Fatal Song, and A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties. She is listed as one of the top twenty-five songwriters in the new Directory of Musical Theatre Writers. Her plays include the comedy, Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) the comedy, Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Henri Louise and Henry (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare) and The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.) She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express, which opened the Cinema Arts Festival in Houston and played at the Quad Theatre this spring in New York. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company. For the past decade she has written the introductions presented by Laura Linney and Alan Cummings on Masterpiece/Mystery on PBS.

KCACTF 2013 - 49 Theresa Chavez Theresa Chavez is an interdisciplinary theater artist whose work, as writer/director, producer and playwright, has been seen extensively in Southern California and throughout the U.S., in Canada, and on national television. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of About Productions, a Los Angeles-based company that creates original interdisciplinary theaterworks and educational programs that provoke new perspectives on history, humanity, and culture. The company is dedicated to collaboration in generating new work in order to create artistic and community dialogue. Over the past twenty-four years this artistic and educational work has focused on uncovering buried cultural histories, exploring notions of cultural identity and authenticity, voicing new historical points of view, exploring the human spiritual and creative condition, and defining the relationship between memory, history, and cultural artistic practice. Chavez’ artistic practice is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature. She has worked with many different artists from architects to singer/songwriters, and with historians and cultural critics in the realization of numerous theaterworks. These include the recently premiered, “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe,” a collaboration with Louie Pérez of Los Lobos and her long-time collaborator writer/actress/director Rose Portillo. Other

recent and notable theaterworks include “By the Hand of the Father,” “On earth as it is in heaven,” “They Shoot Mexicans, Don’t They?” and “L.A. Real.” She has also collaborated with historian and writer Norman Klein, singer/ songwriters Alejandro Escovedo and Quetzal Flores, new music composer Anne LeBaron, jazz composer/musician Vinny Golia, choreographer Francisco Martinez, filmmakers Isaac & Jude Artenstein, cinematographer Claudio Rocha, video artist Janice Tanaka, architect Gustavo Rincon, and experimental lighting designer Noah Riskin. A published playwright, Chavez is included in “Women Playwrights of Diversity,” a book which describes the work of ninety women identified by professional theaters or scholars as significant theatre voices. From 1991 to 2007, she directed and taught in the California Institute of the Arts Interdisciplinary Studies program. In addition to her training as a dancer and musician, she earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in photography from California Institute of the Arts and an interdisciplinary B.A. in the social sciences from UCLA.

Ann Closs-Farley Ann Closs-Farley (Costume Designer) recent credits include Coney Island Christmas, Eric Idle’s What About Dick?, The Pee-wee Herman Show: Broadway, Disney’s Toy Story: The Musical, An Evening Without Monty Python, Gronholm Method, Beat Goes On, Cabaret of Souls, Around The World in 80 Days, Margo Veil, Pinocchio,Girls Talk, Having It All, The Fool and The Red Queen, Naked Before God, and Land of the Tigers. She has received multiple Ovation Awards but most recently for Ken Roht’s 99-Cent Only Calendar Girl Competition and Center Theatre Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award. Ann has received L.A. Weekly and Garland Awards for her work on Bat Boy: The Musical, When Tigers Smoked Long Pipes, and Echo’s Hammer, among many others. Closs-Farley is a long time member of the Los Angeles Actors’ Gang and evidEnce room companies. She currently styles the World Poker Tour on television, is an Art Director for Big Machine Productions and teaches costume design for the La Opera, CTG, The HeArt Project, Turning Pages and local Los Angeles Elementary and High Schools. Her favorite title is Designer and stylist for Pee Wee

Herman. She is currently designing two shows for over seas and is excited about the challenges and adventures this new year has in store for her.

KCACTF 2013 - 50 Red Colegrove RED COLEGROVE has been working with Los Angeles theatres to achieve their technical goals since 2000, providing his experience and expertise in a community that feels more like family to him than employment. After graduating from the Los Angeles Theatre Academy, he spent 2 summers at the Santa Fe Opera. Following SFO he served as Technical Director for The Colony Theatre, and later The Rubicon Theatre. He has worked for dozens of theatres in multiple capacities from design and construction to financial planning and touring. Red was the senior project manager for G&G Design Associates until 2008 when he decided to open his own set construction company, Grove Scenery. Since branching out on his own, he has built scenery for A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre, The Colony, Celebration Theatre, International City Theatre, Circle X, Playwright’s Arena, Cabrillo Music Theatre, The Rubicon, The Odyssey, NoHo Art Center, The El Portal, The Falcon, UCLA Medical Center, The Odyssey, The Groundlings and many more. Along with moving Grove Scenery forward, Red runs the Design Shop for the Art Institute of California - Hollywood, instructing students in set construction, furniture design and fabrication.

Maggie-Kate Coleman Maggie-Kate Coleman (Senior Program Representative, National Theatre Institute) A Brooklyn-based theatre artist, she has written and collaborated on plays, musicals, operas, songs, dance pieces, and multidisciplinary-hard-to- define theatre events. Maggie-Kate’s recent work includes book & lyrics for POP!, last seen at Pittsburgh City Theatre starring Anthony Rapp as Andy Warhol (music by Anna. K. Jacobs). POP! Is a winner of three Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, recipient of seven Helen Hayes Award nominations, and a Pittsburgh Tribune Top Ten choice of 2012. Other recent work includes From a Childhood (music by Erato Kremmyda), and lyrics for Field Trip: A Climate Cabaret, a devised piece about female climatologists (with Superhero Clubhouse at the Lamont-Dorothy Earth Observatory). Her work has also been seen at Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, York Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, New York Theatre Barn, Lincoln Center, and NAMT. Current projects include: libretto for Lightning Man (music by Jeffrey Dennis Smith, lyrics by Shoshana Greenberg); Lost Things, an original opera originally developed through New York City Operas Word’s First? Librettist project (with Jeffrey Dennis Smith); and untitled RAIOACTIVE project, a multidisciplinary work created in collaboration with Erato Kremmyda and Sam Pinkleton. She is a founder and co-curator of BASTARD PLAYGROUND, a monthly gathering for genre-flexible artists of live performance soon to be in partnership with The new Drama League Center in TriBeCa. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Theater Institute.

KCACTF 2013 - 51 Bart DeLorenzo Bart DeLorenzo is the founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles where he has directed many local and world premieres over the past 17 years including plays by Charles Mee, David Greenspan, Adam Bock, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Martin Crimp, David Edgar, Naomi Wallace, and Edward Bond, among others. His recent work with the company includes Chekhov’s Ivanov, Len Jenkin’s Margo Veil and Adam Bock’s The Receptionist, co-productions with the Odyssey. Recent freelance work includes the world premiere of Donald Margulies’s Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at A Noise Within, Bertolt Brecht’s In The Jungle Of Cities at Calarts, the world premiere of Justin Tanner’s Day Drinkers at the Odyssey, Karen Zacarias’s Legacy of Light and Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse, King Lear for the Antaeus Company, Michael Sargent’s The Projectionist at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and the premieres at South Coast Repertory of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Doctor Cerberus and Donald Margulies’s Shipwrecked (later revived at the Geffen Playhouse), Charles Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica for TheSpyAnts at Inside the Ford, Jean Racine’s Britannicus at Cal Rep, and Center Theatre Group’s kick-off premiere event of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays all over the Music Center

plaza and on the steps of Disney Hall. He is on the faculty at Calarts. For his work, he has received six LA Weekly awards, three Backstage Garlands, three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, and is the 2012 recipient of TCG’s Alan Schneider Director Award.

Shelly Elman SHELLY ELMAN is a Professor of Theatre at the University of West Georgia, where she’s taught since 1996. She is currently serving as the Immediate Past Regional Chair for KCACTF Region 4 (the Southeast). Elman has directed over 25 productions while at UWG. She has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1987.

Elocution Solution Elocution Solution, Ann Geller and Harriet Phede, are certified and licensed speech pathologists with theater backgrounds. They have worked for over 25 years with voice, diction and accent reduction clients. Harriet and Ann see students individually at their studio, Elocution Solution, and have presented voice workshops for various groups such as SAG Conservatory, and museum gallery teachers. They are published authors of an accent reduction program, and an oral aerobic program for articulation. You can learn more by visiting their website at www.elocutionsolution.com.

Tony Frankel TONY FRANKEL A graduate of the CSUN Theater Department, Tony Frankel has since worked in the theater as a producer, director and casting director. He sight-reads piano and has worked as a music director and accompanist, helping performers to develop cabaret acts. As an actor, he has appeared in over 70 productions. After writing for Back Stage, he turned to theater criticism in 2008, becoming critic-at-large at Stage and Cinema, for which he is now Editor-in-Chief. Stage and Cinema critiques theater, film, music, concerts, etc., around the country and currently has over 35 writers contributing to the site – www.StageandCinema.com. Aside from the arts, Tony has been a community activist and – being a National Parks fanatic – has experienced 307 of 394 U.S. National Parks.

KCACTF 2013 - 52 M.C. Friedrich M.C. Friedrich is an associate professor of Design and Technical Theatre at Michigan Tech where she is the scenographer teaching lighting design, costume design & construction, and scenic design. She has worked for the Spoleto Festival USA, in Charleston, South Carolina, The Boston Lyric Opera, Massachusetts, and in Philadelphia for The Philadelphia Company, The Freedom Theatre, and The Drama Guild. She was a scenic artist for the Broadway bound production, Monday After the Miracle. M.C. is the 2005 Faculty Fellow in lighting for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and is the immediate past Co-Chair of Design, Technologies, & Management for Region III of the KCACTF. She is active in the Education Commission and Costume Design & Technology Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. M.C. is the senior editor/chair of the USITT Costume Poster Session. She is currently on the Board of Directors of USITT Midwest. She has attended industrial short courses in color technology at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute for Technology, and has adapted color science theory for theatre design.

chris gees CHRIS GEES is a veteran in the beauty industry, creating beautiful looks for men and women for over 10 years. With his recent career turn as a personal stylist for dozens of celebrity clients, he is now blazing a path of success in Hollywood. After honing his skills as a hair and make-up artist in various salons across northern Florida, he re-located to Los Angeles where he has worked with such talents as Omarosa, Brandon T. Jackson, Danity Kane, Kim Burrell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Trina McGee, Claudia Jordan, Olivia Jones, Brittany Russell-Perry, Doug E. Fresh, Yo Yo, Clifton Powell, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams, Lalah Hathaway and Tiffany Hines just to name a few. While lending his talents on numerous film and television sets, he has also styled for photo shoots with The Mecca Girls, Candy Girls, Absolute Vodka, Urban Ink Magazine, DADA Clothing, Wealthy Minds Clothing and many more. Chris has also been recruited as a stylist for many red carpet events, including the Academy Awards, the VMAs, the Grammy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the BET Awards and several film premieres. When The Gees is not busy on location, he enjoys serving his local clientele at M Studio, 9006 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, California., 850-445-5153.

KCACTF 2013 - 53 Gregg Henry Gregg Henry (Artistic Director – KCACTF) Recent productions: Theatre Alliance (2012) and Hub Theatre (2011) Helen Pafumi and Jason Lott’s Wonderful Life, the Kennedy Center- Tom Isbell’s The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (from the Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick), Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe (in partnership with the White House Historical Association, with songs by Mark Russell), Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of Excalibur, Round House Theatre- Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country, WSC Avant Bard- Julie Jensen’s Two-Headed and Barbara Field’s adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych for Metro Stage and You Are Here by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance. Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Catholic University: Whales by Bob Bartlett, Miranda is Morning by Stephen Spotswood. He is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences and is director of the Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. For eleven years, he has curated and co-produced the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free event at the Kennedy Center, featuring concert readings and open rehearsals of new work by the theatres in the DC and Baltimore Metro area. For these Festivals he produced special readings of Marco Ramirez’ A Million Billion Thunders or Where Two Trees Make an X, Lee Blessing’s The Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Three Musketeers, and Treasure Island. He produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with NNPN and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Gregg has acted, directed, and/ or staged the fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University. He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, on the National Advisory Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA], and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Don Hill Don Hill has worked in the professional theatre as a stage manager, production manager, director, producer and union negotiator in a 35 year career spanning both coasts. At the Los Angeles Theatre Center he stage managed the world premier of Nanawati by William Mastrosimone, starring Bill Pullman. For the Mark Taper Forum, he was production stage manager for Street of the Sun. Off-Broadway he stage managed Secret Honor produced by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall. During his five years as production manager for the Los Angeles Theatre Center he supervised 66 main stage productions 54 of which were new works. As production manager for inaugural season of the Geffen Playhouse he worked with such prominent directors as Joe Mantelo on Love, Valor, Compassion and Adrin Hall on Quills. As Associate Producer for the Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Hill worked with such personalities as Carol Burnett, Bebe Neuwirth and Elaine Stritch. The higlight of Don’s experience at the LBCLO was creating with (Tony Award wining producer Barry Brown), the legendary presentation of Company in Concert, with the original

Broadway Cast at Lincoln Center. For 12 years Hill served on the board of LA STAGE ALLIANCE (formerly THEATRE LA). This organization created the Ovation Awards. Under his guidance, the Ovation Awards show has honored such theatre greats as Stephen Sonhdiem and August Wilson. Don is currently the Head of the Graduate stage Management at UCI has been award the Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2009 and 2012.

KCACTF 2013 - 54 Rebecca Hilliker Dr. Rebecca Hilliker is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance where she teaches directing and dramatic literature. She has published numerous articles and reviews for such journals as Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, Within the Dramatic Spectrum, New England Theatre Journal, Nineteenth Century Theatre, and the Journal of Popular Culture. She has directed over 50 productions during her career and including a co-directed production of Susan Glaspel’s Trifles for the symposium “Susan Glaspel’s Trifles: Culture, Society and the Law” that took place in Tel Aviv. Rebecca is former chair for the KCACTF Region VII, has served on the national selection team and is currently National Chair of KCACTF. She is a strong advocate of supporting new student work and developed the one-act festivals of original student plays that takes place each year in Region VII. Her production of Acetylene written by student Erik Ramsey was selected in regional competition as a new student play national winner and presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rebecca assisted Moises Kaufman in the development of the play The Laramie Project and appears in the HBO movie of the production both as an actor and character. She is the recipient of the prestigious Horace Robinson Award from the Northwest Drama Conference for her contributions to

the region as director, educator and leader. She has also received two Kennedy Center Medallions for her service— one regional and one national and 10 Certificates of Merit for her directing.

John Hugo John Hugo was the protégé of Jack Colvin, who was the protégé of Michael Chekhov. Colvin’s keen insights, deep experience with, and applications of Chekhov Technique were unrivalled. Hugo’s training began with private sessions with Colvin in 1981, and he came to work with Colvin in countless classes, plays, scenes, presentations, workshops, and taught side-by-side with him at his acting studio until his untimely death in 2005. Since then Hugo has conducted classes and workshops in Chekhov Technique throughout Los Angeles, and also teaches privately.

Jessica Kubzansky Jessica Kubzansky is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, CA, and an award-winning director working nationally in venues such as South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Silk Road, The Aurora, The Publick, and many others. At The Theatre @ Boston Court, a great many world premieres: Michael Elyanow’s The Children, Jordan Harrison’s Futura, Laura Schellhardt’s Courting Vampires, Salamone/McIntyre’s Gulls (a musical adaptation of The Seagull), Mickey Birnbaum’s Bleed Rail, Carlos Murillo’s Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & 32, Jean-Claude Van Itallie’s Light, Cody Henderson’s Cold/Tender, plus Williams’ Camino Real and Hare/Brecht’s Mother Courage. Recently elsewhere: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Antaeus Co.), The 39 Steps (La Mirada), Julia Cho’s The Language Archive (East/West); Jen Haley’s Breadcrumbs, Hamlet with Leo Marks, Winter’s Tale (Theater150); Mauritius

(Pasadena Playhouse), The Glass Menagerie, Toys in the Attic, Heartbreak House (The Colony Theatre); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Sheila Callaghan’s Kate Crackernuts (24th Street Theatre), world premieres of Julie Hébert’s Tree (EST/[Inside the Ford]), Bryan Davidson’s War Music (Geffen Playhouse), plus so many more. Kubzansky, who teaches at UCLA and has her MFA from CalArts, is the recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle’s Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.

KCACTF 2013 - 55 Caitlin Lainoff Caitlin Lainoff is an LA based scene designer and puppetry artist who received her MFA from CalArts. She designs for theater and film in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, among other places. She also teaches a variety of art classes and special programs at LACMA. She ran an after-school puppetry program at Plaza de la Raza for five years. Caitli has designed three seasons with the Independent Shakespeare Company in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. At the Chance Theatre, she designed Jerry Springer: the Opera, which won an Ovation award for best musical in an intimate space. In Philadelphia, she has designed for the Nice People Theatre Company, InterAct, and Flashpoint Theatre Company whose production of Slip/Shot was named Top 10 Productions of the Year. This past spring she designed the Riot Group’s show Sophie Gets the Horns, which premiered in New York and was described as “highbrow and brilliant” by New York Magazine. Over the fall, she toured two shows to the east coast: Star was part of the Soulographie project, which took place at La Mama, and Little Zoo, an original toy theater puppet opera, premiered at the University of Connecticut and went on to perform at Machine Project, Los Angeles.

Scott MacKenzie Scott A. MacKenzie is an Associate Professor and Director of Theatre at Pennsylvania’s Westminster College and Vice Chair of KCACTF Region II. Scott earned his MFA in Acting at Michigan State University, Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit, and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. His acting credits include film, television, and theatre. Favorite roles include Joe Keller in All My Sons and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Among his directing credits are: All My Sons, The Subject Was Roses, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, Born Yesterday and Kiss Me, Kate and the English language premier of The Baker From Madrigal, an adaptation of Spanish playwright Jose Zorilla’s Traidor, inconfeso y martir. Research and production interests revolve around devising, adaptation, and theatre of social engagement, and all their possible permutations. While on active duty with the U.S. Army Reserve, he directed Ron Carlson’s Bigfoot Stole My Wife, the first play produced by personnel working in Baghdad’s International Zone.

JOHN MAYER JOHN MAYER is chair of the theatre Department at CSU Stanislaus and coordinates workshops for CSU Summer Arts with Steppenwolf Classes West and ’Chicago Style Comedy.’ John is a native of Chicago and received his PhD at the university of Missouri and his MFA in Acting at Western Illinois University. He studied improvisation with Del Close at Second City, as well as Alan Arkin, Sheldon Patinkin, and Paul Sills. He has worked professionally with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Snowy Range Summer Theatre.

KCACTF 2013 - 56 Georgia McGill Georgia McGill is the National Chair for KCACTF’s National Playwriting Program and Chair of the Dept. of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at the City University of New York Queensborough Community College. She was a member of the KCACTF National Selection Team in 2007 and is a former Region II NPP chair. As a writer and director her interests lie in new plays drawn from ancient mythology. Her latest play, Antigone’s City, premiered in 2011 with the support of a grant from PSC. Georgia has directed extensively both nationally and internationally.

Marilyn McIntyre Marilyn McIntyre is an award-winning actor whose extensive stage credits include leading roles on and off Broadway, regionally and in LA. Among her film credits: Heaven’s Rain (opp. Mike Vogel – Blue Valentine, Miami Medical), On Holiday (opp. Harry Dean Stanton), Statistics, The Divided, First Daughter (Forest Whitaker, director),

The Ring 2, Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, and the hit shorts George Lucas in Love (Joe Nussbaum, director), and Into the Unknown. TV credits: GH: Night Shift (recurring guest star), Watch Over Me (series regular), Cold Case, Judging Amy, X-Files, Profiler, et al, and contract roles on five daytime dramas including. Ms. McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Ted Brunetti Studio, SAG Conservatory at AFI, and “Elon in LA” (Elon University, NC). She has taught at the Old Globe/USD MFA Program, USC, UT-Austin, et al. She holds a BFA (UNC School of the Arts) and an MFA (Penn State). Marilyn studied with Uta Hagen in her LA Master Classes, and is featured on her teaching video doing Object Exercise #10, “Historical Imagination”. www.MarilynMcIntyre.com

Rima Miller Rima Miller received her MFA in Theatre from the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) at Harvard University in Cambridge. She has performed professionally with the A.R.T., and has served as Artist in Residence for the states of Massachusetts, Ohio and New Mexico. Ms. Miller has also served as the Artistic Director of the Riolama Theatre/ Dance Ensemble, a company dedicated to original devised work including Sketches to my Father, Design for Death, Dance Salad: a Beauty Pageant for the Attractively Challenged, Fallen Angel, A Call to Prayer, The Hanging Cure, and Lullaby. Rima has also choreographed and/or directed The Love of Three Oranges for the Santa Fe Theatre Festival, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Santa Fe Pro Musica. Rima’s is especially skilled in the style of Commedia dell’ Arte and the creation of comic characters. Ms. Miller’s Guest Director work includes Jonah, an original devised work at Grinnell College, an adaptation of Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid at Fort Lewis College, and Blood Wedding at Coe College. Ms. Miller is presently the owner and director of YogaMoves a studio dedicated to healing and arts. At YogaMoves, Ms. Miller teaches teen comedy theatre where participants create and perform original devised productions. Aside from her professional work, Rima dedicates a portion of her artistry to under served public school

programming in rural New Mexico.

KCACTF 2013 - 57 Tom Miller Tom Miller was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway and Europe. Additionally, he performed with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at Opryland USA. For over a decade he served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Education. Proud Equity Member since 1983.

Colin Mitchell Colin Mitchell (actor/writer/director/producer/editor-in-chief) Currently Editor-in-Chief of the popular Los Angeles Theatre site Bitter Lemons (www.bitter-lemons.com), he has worked professionally in the entertainment industry for that last 22 years. As an actor he was in the Broadway (Lincoln Center) and National Tour productions of the play

Six Degrees of Separation. Film: Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, LA Confidential, Combination Platter and The Chocolate War, TV: Star Trek: The Next Generation, and dozens of Off-Broadway and Regional Productions across the country, including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington D.C. As a writer, Mitchell is a 2003 Paramount Pictures Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellow, Finalist for the 2006 Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, Finalist for the 2005 Alleyway Theatre Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, Winner of a 2009 Maddy Award for Outstanding Writing, Nominated for the 1998 ADAA Best Solo Performance Award and Winner of the 1996 Dramalogue Awards for Acting and Writing. Mitchell has also written comics for Marvel Comics, written, directed and produced two shorts, Memphis Calling starring Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine), winner of the San Joaquin International Film Festival Best Short Film and Labor Intensive starring Rich Sommer (Mad Men), as well as having his first feature, Welcome to September, produced and released through Scarpaci/Kelly Productions. He has written screenplays for such notable companies as Alcon Entertainment, Automatic Pictures, Keylight Entertainment, Scarpaci/Kelly Productions, Bee Holder Productions and Wil-Horn Enterprises, and such notable producers as Steve Wegner (Insomnia, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary, Wicked), Rainn Wilson (The Office, Juno), Nellie Bellflower (Neverland, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and Steven Lee Jones (You Don’t Know Jack). As a playwright: NYC productions include, Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Ensemble Studio Theatre and God’s Butt, At the Break of Day, Stolidly Opposed, New Jersey, Double Take and Too Many Sugars in the Tea at the Nat Horne Theatre. In Seattle: Like a Beast and Musing at the New City Theatre and Stolidly Opposed with the AHA! Theatre Company. In San Francisco: The Edinburgh Castle Theatre produced Linden Arden Stole the Highlights and Flurrious. In Los Angeles: Mission to Mate at the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Breaking and Entering at Theatre 40, Musing at The Production Company, Bitten by a Fly at the Actor’s Lab, Yolanda and the Black Muslim Bakery at the Falcon Theatre, Turnips & Passion at the Sierra Stage. Mitchell is a member of Ensemble Studio

Theatre/LA.

KCACTF 2013 - 58 Allison Mosier Allison Mosier is a Los Angeles-based actor and director, however she is most commonly known as, “that girl from the Cami Secret commercial.” Allison has been on the production teams of nine Broadway shows and consults as a career and marketing coach for The Savvy Actor. She is currently appearing in a regional tour of The Vagina Monologues and has starred in numerous theatrical productions across the country. Recently stage appearances include the award-winning production of Pulp Shakespeare at Theater Asylum in Los Angeles, Radio Broadway: The Hits of 1958 at Town Hall in Manhattan, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Lincoln Center. Film credits include starring in the multi-award winning WTFU, co-starring on ABC’s One Life to Live and CBS’s As the World Turns, and numerous commercials. Directing projects include Squiggy and the Goldfish (Workshop Theatre-NYC), The Who’s Tommy (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Staten Island Philharmonic), The New Kid (Regional Tour) and Freefall (Theatre Studio Inc.)

Cricket S Myers Cricket S. Myers (Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Regional Theater:

The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation Nomination), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject was Roses, School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation Nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Ovation Nomination), Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theater); In The Wake, (Berkeley Rep); Wrecks, Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation Nomination, NAACP Nomination) (Geffen Playhouse); Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Life Could be a Dream, Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse); Dinner with Friends (La Mirada Theater). Selected LA designs include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Ovation Nomination), Tuesdays with Morrie (Rubicon Theater); Cousin Bette (Ovation Nomination) (Antaeus Theater Company); Life Could be a Dream (Hudson Theater); dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation Nomination) (Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ovation Nomination) (Ford Amphitheater); Battle Hymn (Ovation Nomination) (Circle X); Grace and Glorie (Ovation Nomination), Free Man of Color, Better Angels, Mary’s Wedding (Ovation Nomination), Master Harold and the boys (NAACP Nomination), Trying (Ovation Nomination) (Colony Theater); Hunter Gatherers, Impending Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater). www.cricketsmyers.com

Katherine Noon Katherine Noon is the artistic director of the Ghost Road Company. Partial list of GRC Projects include Elektra-La-La – Spanish Kitchen and Edinburgh Fringe, Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk in collaboration with Burglars of Hamm - Theatre of NOTE, NY Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, The Clytemnestra Project in collaboration with Theatre of NOTE, Orestes Remembered: The Fury Project - Powerhouse Theatre, Fury Factory Festival, San Francisco. In 2009, the company reworked the Oresteia trilogy, presenting part 2 at NaCl in NY and the Arcata Playhouse in N. California, part 3 premiered at the Getty Villa, and the entire trilogy, Home Siege Home, premiered at [Inside] the Ford in spring 2009. She most recently collaborated on the development of Stranger Things with Ghost Road and performed in the piece at the Ko Festival in Amherst and AVT in LA. She also directed the premiere of Laurel Ollstein’s The Dark Ages for Playwrights Arena. In Warsaw with Ghost Road she

worked with Studium Teatralne on GRC’s newest piece, The Bargain and the Butterfly. GRC is a member of The Network of Ensemble Theatres and Katharine has served on the board. She is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for contribution to Los Angeles Theater and is a professor at Loyola Marymount University. —Photo by Patti McGuire.

KCACTF 2013 - 59 Tom Ontiveros Tom Ontiveros designs with light and projection for theatre, dance, and live music. Credits include: The Exonerated (NYC premiere), The Tune In Festival at the Park Avenue Armory, Schick Machine (Hong Kong Cultural Centre), The Tyrant (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art), Garden of Deadly Sound (Hungarian National Theatre Festival; Cluj, Romania), The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Cond. Marin Alsop), Full Circle, Nada Que Declarar with Allyson Green Dance (Danspace), Slide Dir. by Rinde Eckert (Ojai Music Festival), Enemy Slayer (Cond. Michael Christie, Phoenix Symphony), Garden of Lila (Japan America Theatre), Motherfucker with the Hat, Sideways Stories from Wayside School (South Coast Rep), Candida, Indiscretions, My Old Lady, and Visions of Kerouac (The Marin Theatre Co.), Contagion, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Language of Angels, and Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights (Intersection for the Arts), Summertime, Wintertime, and First Love (The Magic Theatre), Most Wanted (The La Jolla Playhouse), Placas Dir. by Michael John Garces (SF International Arts Festival), Seed, Café Vida, Making Paradise, and On Caring for the Beast (Cornerstone Theater Co.). Additional venues include the San Diego Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondavi Center, Joyce SoHo, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Zellerbach Studio Theatre, The Culture Project, and the Japan America Theatre. Tom is an

Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at USC.

Joy Pace Joy Pace (Chair, Region 6 KCACTF) is the Coordinator of Theatre at McNeese State University and co-founder of Itinerant Theatre, Inc. Joy earned her B.A. from Centenary College of Louisiana, and her M.F.A. in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Though a native Texan, Ms. Pace has lived in various areas of the country. Joy taught at Kentucky Wesleyan College where she was head of theatre and advisor to the Wesleyan Players, Virginia Commonwealth University, and McMurry University. Joy has worked professionally as an actor, director, vocal coach, instructor, and stage manager. Some of those credits include Itinerant, Theatre, Inc., La Petit Little Theatre/Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans; The Blue Ridge Theatre Festival, Barksdale Theatre, Theatre Gym, and The Neighborhood School of The Arts in Richmond, VA; The Independent Theatre, Region 14 ESC, and Buffalo Gap Historic Village in Abilene, TX; and Theatre Workshop and Riverpark Center in Owensboro, KY. She has worked in Educational Theatre for 15 years and enjoyed teaching every aspect of theatre while directing and finding avenues to continue acting. Her most recent directing credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, All My Sons, Pygmalion, Othello, Waiting for Godot, Working: a musical, and The Long Christmas Ride Home. Her favorite recent acting credits include “Maggie” and “Rosa” in Itinerant, Theatre Inc.’s production of The Writers, “Josie” in A Moon for the Misbegotten, “Sister Aloysius” in Doubt , and “Cornelia Scott” in Something Unspoken. Joy is greatly looking forward to a life filled with theatre, her great passion.

Nicholas Pappas NICHOLAS C. PAPPAS’ play, The Ballad of 423 and 424 was the recipient of the 2012 Heideman Award as well a finalist for the NAPAT award in playwriting and The KCACTF Ten Minute Play Award. His plays have been performed in London, Edinburgh, D.C. (The Kennedy Center), Kentucky (The Humanna Festival, The Actors Theatre of Louisville), San Francisco, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Michigan, Boston, and Vermont. Plays that have received production include The Dreams In Which

I’m Dying (reading, dir. Jon Tracy), The Greatest American Porno, Go Or Go Ahead, The Sonnet Plays, and Know Thy Enemy. He has BAs in Theatre Arts: Performance and English: Creative Writing (SFSU) and an MFA in playwriting (SFSU). He is currently working on a graphic novel called Phinnaeus’ Wake. More information and samples of all his work can be found at nicholascpappas.com.

KCACTF 2013 - 60 Phil Ramuno Phil Ramuno is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, who recently executive produced a prime-time police action series in Romania for MediaPro Pictures. His international credits include four other series in Romania and two hit comedy series in Moscow. He co-authored the best-selling ‘Sitcom Career Book.” For the stage, Phil has directed the Ovation-nominated “Flirting with Morty” the world premiere of “Sundays in L.A.” and “Sugar Happens” which just finished a 9 week run at Burbank California’s Sidewalk Theater. He has directed seven pilots and hundreds of episodes of American network and syndicated situation comedies, variety and reality/talk shows. This includes “Grace Under Fire,” “Charles in Charge,” “9 to 5” and “The Ted Knight Show.” His short film “Bringing Up BayBay” was a feted at the Mill Valley Film Festival. He is an adjunct professor at The University of Southern California prestigious graduate film school and has also taught at both Emerson College and Endicott College in Boston. He recently taught directing for the Los Angeles Inner City Filmmakers youth program and comedy at the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory.

Steve Rankin STEVE RANKIN has been an actor, director and fight director for 35 years. He has worked extensively on Broadway, Off-

Broadway and Regional Theaters. His work is currently in Australia, London and Singapore and at the prestigious Stratford Festival in Canada. He has also staged for opera, film and television. His credits on Broadway include: Memphis, Jersey Boys, The Farnsworth Invention, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls, The Real Inspector Hound, Anna Christie and The Who’s Tommy. Metropolitan Opera Company: Rodelinda, Faust, Iphegenie at Tauride and Boris Godonov. At the Stratford Festival: Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Caesar and Cleopatra. Regional Theaters include: The La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Pennsylvania Center Stage, The Ahmansen, Center Stage (Baltimore), Virginia Stage Company, GEVA and The Asolo Theatre. He is an Associate Artist at the Globe Theater in San Diego and is an adjunct professor at the California Institute of the Arts.

David Razowsky DAVID RAZOWSKY is one of the top teachers of theatrical improvisation and acting. He has been called “the guru of improvisation, an improviser’s improviser,” who connects the mindfulness of Buddhism with improvisation’s core principals of being in the moment, taking care of your partner, and groundedness. As a cast member of the world famous Second City David has worked with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Rachel Dratch, Nia Vardalo, George Wendt, Martin Short, and others. David was the Artistic Director of The Second City Los Angeles, a master teacher at iO West, a guest teacher for The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, a consultant to Dreamworks, BBC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago Theatre. He is adjunct faculty in the California State University system, and has been a featured performer and lecturer at the Chicago Improv Festival, The San Francisco Improv Festival, the Vancouver Improv Festival, and The Kennedy Center. David continues to act and direct professionally in Los Angeles. His podcast “A.D.D. Comedy with Dave Razowsky and Ian Foley” is known for being informative, insightful and inspiring, and is available for streaming and downloading at iTunes.

KCACTF 2013 - 61 Brandt Reiter Brandt Reiter (KCACTF Region I National Playwriting Program Chair) is a New York-based director, actor, playwright, and educator. He teaches Theatre at CUNY Queens College and the University of New Haven, and film at SUNY Westchester. Also a journalist, Brandt was jazz critic at the LA Weekly from 2000-2004 and has written for the Village Voice and All About Jazz New York. MFA, Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; BA, American Studies, Temple University; Certificate, Film Theory and Criticism, Sorbonne, Paris.

Jon Lawrence Rivera Jon Lawrence Rivera (Director) most recently directed the following world premieres: a new adaptation of Euripides’ Helen by Nick Salamone at the Getty Villa, Tea, With Music, by Velina Hasu Houston and Nathan Wang, The Girl Most Likely To by Michael Premsrirat, Cages by Leonard Manzella, bonded by Donald Jolly (2012 GLAAD Award nomination), The

Sonneteer by Nick Salamone (LA Times Best Play of 2011), Calligraphy by Velina Hasu Houston, Road To Saigon at East West Players and Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at the Theatre @ Boston Court. Other recent works include: The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, Miss Saigon by Schönberg/Boublil, Ruby, Tragically Rotund by Boni B. Alvarez, Laws of Sympathy by Oliver Mayer, The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim, Sea Change by Nick Salamone (2009 LA Weekly Award for Directing), The Third From the Left by Jean Colonomos (2008 NY Fringe Festival), Hillary Agonistes by Nick Salamone (2007 NY Fringe Festival Award for Directing), Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn. A five-time Ovation Award nominee, he is the founding artistic director of Playwrights’ Arena and his productions have garnered over 100 local and international awards.

Mauricio Salgado Mauricio Salgado is the Director of Domestic Programming for ASTEP. Mauricio handles recruitment and curriculum development for ASTEP’s domestic programs. Originally from Miami, Florida, Mauricio graduated with a BFA from The Juilliard School and has been invited by organizations around the world (the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Peru and India) to teach the ASTEP methodology. In March of 2009, he was presented with the prestigious Martin E Segal Award in recognition of his outstanding work with ASTEP.

Eric Santagata Eric Santagata comes directly from the Broadway production of Chaplin, which opened at the Barrymore Theater on September 10th, 2012. Some of his Broadway and New York credits include The Apple Tree, Face the Music (Encores!), Stairway to Paradise (Encores!), Happiness (Lincoln Center) and The Scottsboro Boys for which he served as assistant

director/choreographer to Susan Stroman. Mr. Santagata has worked at some of the premiere theatres across the country including, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, The MUNY, and PCLO.

KCACTF 2013 - 62 Camille Schenkkan Camille Schenkkan, Educational Programs Manager, Center Theatre Group: A graduate of Claremont Graduate University’s Arts Management program, Camille serves as the Educational Programs Manager for Center Theatre Group and the volunteer Development Director of Circle X Theatre Co. in Los Angeles, CA. Camille Co-Chairs the national Emerging Leader Council for Americans for the Arts and serves on the Advisory Board for Emerging Arts Leaders/LA. In recent years, she has coordinated volunteer management for the national Theatre Communication Group conference, the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and ARTmageddon LA, the citywide art party held during the latest I-405 shutdown. She loves animals, running, and cooking.

Mark Seldis Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company with whom he co-created and directed the workshop productions of Excavate the Monster at 24th Street Theatre and Duck[t] Tape Soup at Shakespeare Festival/LA and the Diavolo space. Mark also produced the tour of Clyt at Home to Amherst, MA, the various incarnations of Ghost Road’s

Four Dervishes, the ensemble’s Oresteia adaptation (including Orestes Remembered, Elektra, and Home Siege Home) and Stranger Things (with Kim Glann ) in Los Angeles and on tour. In 2007, on behalf of Ghost Road he helped coordinate the Los Angeles productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days and co-directed Ghost Road’s week of the play. He has directed world premieres of two of Ken Urban’s plays (Absence of Weather for Moving Arts at LATC in 2005 and Nibbler for Theatre of NOTE in 2009) and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From 1990 to 2000 he was the Managing Director and Producer for The Actors’ Gang. Recently, Mark directed two of the FLASH Theatre plays (written by Tom Jacobson and Oliver Mayer, respectively) for Playwright’s Arena. In 1999 Seldis co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest. He is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for Excellence in Los Angeles Theater and Production Manager for Education at The Music Center. —Photo by Patti McGuire.

ADAM SHAPIRO adam shapiro currently plays White House reporter Evan on NBC’s new comedy 1600 Penn. He was most recently seen in the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Destin Cretton’s feature I Am Not A Hipster. His next projects include David Chase’s Not Fade Away and Louis Letterier’s Now You See Me, Indie thrillers The Den and The Answer, and the upcoming comedy Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant. Other film credits include: A Single Man, The House Bunny, Café, Disney’s Prep & Landing, Short Term 12. TV: Scandal, Mistresses, Grey’s Anatomy, Better With You, The Closer, Medium, Moonlight, Gilmore Girls, Sweet Life of Zack and Cody, Jake in Progress. Adam has appeared on stage as “Mark” in RENT (Los Angeles), the world premiere musical Hey, Morgan! At the Black Dahlia, You are Here, The Accidental Blonde, the World Premieres of Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette and Assistance with IAMA Theatre Company, and in the West Coast Premiere of Manuscript at The Elephant. Adam is the chairman of the founders board of IAMA Theatre Company. For more info check out www.shappy.net

KCACTF 2013 - 63 Suanne Spoke SUANNE SPOKE is a multi-award winning actor/producer/coach. She has made over 150 appearances on stage and in film & television, most recently on “Private Practice” and recurring on “Switched at Birth”. In 2013, she will be seen in the upcoming films “Mom”, “Dumped”, and “Our Sweet Little Life”. On stage, Suanne has twice won the Ovation Award, the Garland Award and the LA Weekly award for Best Performance in numerous productions, and has also been awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and the Garland Award for Best Production/Producer. During her lengthy stage career, she has served on the Board of Directors for both the Company of Angels and Deaf West Theatre. Suanne currently serves on the faculty in the Graduate Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches acting and she is producing the upcoming documentary “Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life” about jazz great Warne Marsh. Suanne has also taught at Deaf West’s Summer School and does specialized audition technique seminars. She has coached on the set of “That 70’s Show” and served as an acting consultant for the UCLA Extension for screenwriters and UCLA/US Performing Camps. She has had the honor of participating as an actress at the Sundance Lab, participated on panels for ActorFest (both in Los Angeles & New York) and been a juror for the Newport Beach Film Festival. She is a member of Film

Independent, SAG, AFTRA and AEA.

Timothey Sullivan TIMOTHEY SULLIVAN is currently a producer for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Previous to his time at BC/EFA, Tim was the Production Director for the Tony Award winning Intiman Theatre. He is also the Associate Director for Charles Busch’s annual off – Broadway production of Times Square Angel. As an educator, he was Production Director for Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program. He spent several seasons as the Production Stage Manager for Harvard University’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. He has taught courses and seminars at various high schools and colleges throughout the United States.

Christy Weikel Christy Weikel is the Production Manager at the Kirk Douglas Theatre part of Center Theatre Group. She was a founding member of Triad Stage, an Equity Theater, in Greensboro, NC. During her time at Triad Stage, she held the positions of Resident Stage Manager, Company Manager, General Manager, and Production Manager. Throughout her career, she worked at the Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Festival/LA, PCPA, and Yale Repertory Theater. She was an Assistant Professor at Ball State University where she developed the Stage Management program. She was an Adjunct Professor at Greensboro College and High Point University where she has taught Stage Management, Arts Management, Production Management and Theater Appreciation. Christy has her MFA in Stage Management from Yale University.

KCACTF 2013 - 64 Don Williams DON WILLIAMS (Associate Artistic Director for the Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City) As director: Off- Broadway: Lebensraum, Turn of the Screw, Look Back in Anger, Libidoff, Waiting For Lefty. Other New York: The Tempest, Macbeth, Miss Julie, On the Verge, Three Against Thebes, Blue State, American Drama Pocket Edition, Betrayal and American Theatre Pocket Edition. Los Angeles: Waiting For Lefty, Marisol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre. Carrying with IAMA Theatre Company. Regional: Waiting For Lefty, Arsenic and Old Lace, Macbeth, Speed The Plow, Midsummer Night’s Dream, LibidOff, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, the Laramie Project, All in the Timing, Prelude to a Kiss, the Dining Room. At Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC/New York University: The Shape of Things, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Shore Fish, Angels in America, Death of a Salesman, That Championship Season, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, the Rimers of Eldritch, Necessary Targets, Suddenly Last Summer, Museum, the Blue Room. As actor: Don has worked at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 78th Street Theatre Lab, the Harold Clurman Lab Theater, New York University, The Producers Club, the Denver Center Theater Company, the Marin Theatre Company, the San Jose Stage Company, the California Shakespeare Festival, Theatre 1050

and the Hot Ink Play Series to name a few. Film/commercial/ television: “Nash Bridges,” “Never Wear a Dead Man’s Shoes,” “Midnight Caller” and numerous regional and national commercials and industrials. Don has also served as executive producer for the Gotham Opera in New York City. Since 2002 Don has served as a senior Faculty member for the Stella Adler Studio Wing of New York University and for the last three years as Head of Acting. Currently, Don serves as the Associate Artistic Director for both the Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles and the Stella Adler Studio, NYC. Don also serves as coordinator for AoA’s Professional Actor’s Workshop. Don holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and a BA from California State University, Fresno.

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KCACTF 2013 - 66 KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Kennedy Center KCACTF Design, Technology & Management Chairs David M. Rubenstein, Chairman Region I-Co-Chairs Michael M. Kaiser, President Charlie Wittreich, SUNY Suffolk Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President, Education Luke J. Sutherland, Community College of Rhode Island Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF Region II-Keith Hight, College of Southern Maryland Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF Region III-Kathleen Donnelly, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Region IV-Ron Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University KCACTF National Officers Region V-Sheila Tabaka, Southwest Minnesota State University • National Chair-Rebecca Hilliker, University of Wyoming Region VI Co-Chairs- • National Vice Chair-David Lee Painter, University of Idaho Jason Foreman, Oklahoma City University • National Chair, National Playwriting Program-Georgia McGill, CUNY Jon Young, University of Oklahoma Queensborough Region VII-John Hill, Front Range Community College • National Chair, Design, Technology & Management -Gweneth West, University Region VIII-Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino of Virginia • Member at Large-Maggie Lally, Adelphi University KCACTF National Playwriting Program (NPP) • Member at Large-David Shawger Jr., Ball State University The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Committee • Member at Large-Richard Herman, University of Central Missouri Region I Chair-Brandt Reiter, University of New Haven • Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison-Harry Parker, Texas Christian Region II Chair-Scott Frank, Washington and Jefferson College University Region III Chair-Ansley Valentine, Northern Michigan University • National Vice-Chair, Design, Technology & Management-Rafael Jaen, Emerson Region IV Chair-David Moberg, Indian River State College College Region V Chair-Patrick Carriere, Minnesota State University, Moorhead • National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program – Jeanette Farr, Glendale Region VI Chair-David Blakely, Rogers State University Community College (California) Region VII Chair-Joseph Gilg, University of Oregon • USITT Representative – Martha Marking, Appalachian State University Region VIII Chair-Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University • National Partners of American Theatre Representative- Jere Wade

KCACTF Regional Chairs Region I Co-Chairs- Raina Ames, University of New Hampshire Catherine Hurst, St. Michael’s College Region II-Elizabeth van den Berg, McDaniel College Region III-Michelle Bombe, Hope College Region IV-Jeffrey Green, Georgia Southwestern State University Region V-Rick Anderson, Kirkwood Community College Region VI-Joy Pace, McNeese State University (Louisiana) Region VII-Leigh Selting, University of Wyoming Region VIII-John H. Binkley, California State University Northridge

KCACTF 2013 - 67 REGION VIII Region VIII Advisory Board/ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Festival Selection Committee

Regional Chair Program Coordination John H. Binkley Devised Program Coordinator California State University Northridge Kathryn Moller Fort Lewis College Regional Vice Chair Matthew A. Neves Directing Program Coordinator Performance Riverside Leslie Ferreira Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy Immediate Past Regional Chair James R. Taulli Diversity Consultant/Excellence in Education California State University, Fullerton Val Limar-Jansen Freelance Artist National Playwriting Program Chair Wade Hollingshaus Festival Registrar Brigham Young University Richard Bugg Southern Utah University National Playwriting Program Vice Chair Jim Holmes Invitational Scenes Coordinator Loyola Marymount University bree valle Cuesta College Immediate Past National Playwriting Program Chair Char Nelson Irene Ryan Coordinator Brigham Young University Christopher Clark Utah Valley University Chair, Design, Technology & Management Andre Harrington Next Step Auditions Coordinator California State University, San Bernardino Meredith Greenburg California State University, Los Angeles Vice Chair, Design, Technology & Management Catherine Zublin Past Regional Chair Weber State University Brad Myers California State University, Fresno Past Chair, Design and Technology Geof Eroe Professional Expo Coordinator Phoenix College Char Nelson Freelance Playwright

Region VIII Secretary Virginia Ludders Glendale Community College, AZ KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 REGIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REGIONAL 45 FESTIVAL KCACTF

KCACTF 2013 - 68 Respondents Workshop Circuit 3 Design Coordinator Judith Royer Shiz Herrera Loyola Marymount University California State University, Los Angeles

Student Stage Management Coordinator Circuit 4 Coordinator Shiz Herrera Julie Holston California State University. Los Angeles South Mountain Community College

Technical Production Coordinator Circuit 4 Design Coordinator JD Sargent Kara Thomson Freelance Designer Mesa Community College

Theatre Criticism Program Coordinator Circuit 5 Coordinator (Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy & Dramaturgy) Chuck Erven Bob Nelson Fresno City College University of Utah Circuit 5 Design Coordinator Workshop Coordinator Vacant Rodney Scott East Los Angeles College Circuit 6 Coordinator Eric Bishop Circuit Coordination MiraCosta College

Circuit 1 Coordinator Circuit 6 Design Coordinator Lori C. Siekmann Vacant Concordia University Irvine Circuit 7 Coordinator Circuit 1 Design Coordinator Lisa Hall Hagen Vacant Utah Valley University

Circuit 2 Coordinator Circuit 7 Design Coordinator Carol Damgen Brent Innes California State University, San Bernardino Dixie State College

Circuit 2 Design Coordinator Region VIII Student Advisory Board Vacant SAB Chair Jacob Porter Circuit 3 Coordinator Utah Valley University Shad Willingham (current) California State University, Northridge Gil Gonzalez (through May 2012) Whittier College

KCACTF 2013 - 69 REGION VIII PRODUCTION & DESIGN RESPONDENTS Region VIII could not function without the service of the production and design respondents. These fine educators take time out of their busy schedules to go out and share with students across the region their insights on theatrical performance.

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James Arrington, Utah Valley University J. Daniel Herring, California State University, Fresno Judy Bauerlein, California State University, San Marcos Shiz Herrera, California State University, Los Angeles Lisa Berger, University of San Diego Royce Herron, Glendale Community College - CA John Binkley, California State University, Northridge Eve Himmelheber, California State University, Fullerton Eric Bishop, MiraCosta College Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University Christopher Boltz, Fresno City College Jim Holmes, Loyola Marymount University Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University Julie Holston, South Mountain Community College Janine Christl, Fresno City College David Huber, Freelance Artist Anthony Carreiro, Long Beach City College Val Limar Jansen, Freelance Artist Christopher Clark, Utah Valley University Megan Sanborn Jones, Brigham Young University Maria Cominis, California State University, Fullerton Jodi Julian, Riverside City College Lou Clark, Arizona State University James Knudsen, Fresno City College Cathy Crane, Long Beach City College Jenny Kokai, Weber State University Carol Damgen, California State University, San Bernardino Nina LeNoir, Chapman University Harry Demas, East Los Angeles College Ellyn Gersh-Lerner, California State University, Northridge Kevin Dressler, Mesa Community College Susanna Levitt, Rio Hondo College Edward Emanuel, California State University, Fresno Lynda Linford, Utah State University Chuck Erven, Fresno City College Darby Lofstrand, Northern Arizona University Kathryn Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino Marilynn Loveless, La Sierra University Jennette Farr, Glendale Community College Virginia Ludders, Glendale Community College - AZ Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College Jim Lunsford, California State University Northridge Ken Gray-Scolari, Glendale Community College Josh Machamer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jim Greer, NAPAT Chris Mangels, College of the Sequoias Lisa Hall Hagen, Utah Valley University Maria Mayenzet, Saddleback College Lia Hanson, Vanguard University John Mayer, California State University, Stanislaus Michael Harding, Dixie State College Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino Brad Myers, California State University, Fresno Brian Healy, Utah Valley University Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright Carin Heidelbach, Merced College Bob Nelson, University of Utah REGION VIII PRODUCTION AND DESIGN RESPONDENTS AND DESIGN VIIIREGION PRODUCTION

KCACTF 2013 - 70 Matt Neves, Performance Riverside Jere O’Donnell, California State University, Stanislaus John Owens, Central Arizona College Tom Provenzano, California State University, San Bernardino C. Tim Quinn, Fresno City College Mark Ramont, California State University, Fullerton Katie Rodda, San Diego City College Robin Russin, University of California, Riverside JD Sargent, Pepperdine University Peter Senkbeil, Concordia University Debra Shapazian, Fresno City College Jan Shelton Hunsaker, Dixie State College of Utah Lori Siekmann, Concordia University Diane Sisko, Los Angeles City College Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University Aaron Spjute, Fresno City College Craig Tyri, California State University, Fullerton Kara Thomson, Mesa Community College Bree Valle, Cuesta College Tamiko Washington, Chapman University Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University C. Julian White, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona Shad Willingham, California State University, Northridge Bob Yowell, Northern Arizona University

KCACTF 2013 - 71 FESTIVAL 45 PRODUCTIONS (A) Associate Productions (P) Participating Productions CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Dracula (A) American Victory (P) Hotel Paradiso (A) Bocon (A) The Talking Stick (A) The House of the Spirits (A) Theatre of New Voices (A) POV (A) Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes (A) CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO Assassans (P) AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Bronte (P) Merrily We Roll Along (P) The Elephant man (P) The Seagull (A) Our Lady of 121st Street (A) The Sty of the Blind Pig (P) BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY undergrad (A) Arabian Nights (A) Wonder of the World (P) Holiday (P) Little Eyolf (A) CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON Loves Labours Lost (A) A Bright New Boise (A) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (A) Baby with the Bathwater (A) Merchant of Venice (A) Carousel (A) A Second Birth (P) The Diary of Anne Frank (A) The Drunken City (A) CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY Godspell (P) Androcles and The Lion (A) Hansel & Gretel (A) Forever Plaid (A) Little Women - The Musical (A) Our Town (A) Measure for Measure (A) The Will Rogers Follies (A) Metamorphoses (A) Moonchildren (A) CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY Ordinary Days (A) Knocked Under (P) The Spoon River Project (A) Trojan Women (P) Traces of Utopia (A) Twisted Wine (A)

PRODUCTIONS THAT ENTERED FESTIVAL 45 FESTIVAL ENTERED THAT PRODUCTIONS CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, POMONA Curse of the Starving Class (A) CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES Dracula (A) 12-1-A (P) Tartuffe (P) The American Pilot (P) E (A) CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBIPSO The John Lion New Plays Festival (P) God’s Ear (P) A Lie of the Mind (P) A Streetcar Named Desire (A) Oleanna (P)

KCACTF 2013 - 72 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE CUESTA COLLEGE Avenue Q (A) The Three Musketeers (P) Life is A Dream (A) Satellites (A) DIXIE STATE COLLEGE Spring Awakening, The Musical (A) (The) Odyssey (P) Ubu Roi (A) Guys and Dolls (A) Yellow Face (A) Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe (P)

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE Cabaret (A) Hamlet (A) No Child (A) The Importance of Being Earnest (P) The Trojan Women: A Love Story (A) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (P) The Twists and Turns of Edgar Allan Poe (P) EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE CENTRAL ARIZONA UNIVERSITY The Ark (A) Oklahoma (P) Love Rides the Rail or (A) Will the Mail Train Run Tonight CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY Company! (A) EL CAMINO COLLEGE COMPTON CENTER An Evening of Student Directed One-Acts (A) The Good Woman of Setzuan (P) If All The Sky Were Paper (A) Rimers of Eldritch (A) FORT LEWIS COLLEGE Summertime (A) 30 Neo-Futurist Plays (A) from Too Much Light CITRUS COLLEGE Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 plays The Bronze Star (P) The Imaginary Invalid (A) Kill Me Deadly (A) Radium Girls (A) Pippin (A) Why Torture is Wrong, (P) and the People Who Love Them COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS Boeing-Boeing (P) FRESNO CITY COLLEGE Urinetown: The Musical (P) Almost, Maine (P) Mauritius (P) CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, IRVINE Tape (P) Beau Jest (A) Teasers: An Evening of Short Plays (P) The Fantasticks (P) The Princess and the Pea (A) GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (ARIZONA) Till We Have Faces (P) No Exit (P) Rashomon (P) Working (P)

KCACTF 2013 - 73 GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (CALIFORNIA) NORTHLAND PIONEER COLLEGE A Doll’s House (A) Aida (A) Godspell (A) PHOENIX COLLEGE GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE Blood Wedding (P) Twelve Angry Men (A) Cabaret (A) Some Girl(s) (P) LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY The Imaginary Invalid (P) RIO HONDO COLLEGE The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (P) 10 Minute Play Festival (A) Anna and the Tropics (A) LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE - THEATRE ACADEMY A Late-Autumn Night’s Audition (P) The House of Blue Leaves (P) One Act Play Festival (A) Salt (P) Untitled Warhol Project (P) RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE The Crucible (P) LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Thoroughly Modern Millie (P) Pinter X Three (P) References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (P) SADDLEBACK COLLEGE Almost, Maine (A) MARYMOUNT COLLEGE PALOS VERDES A Christmas Carol (A) The Spider’s Web (A) Spring Awakening (A) Spring Festival of One Act Plays (A) SANTA ANA COLLEGE MERCED COLLEGE American Soldiers (P) Endgame & Red Cross (A) Tartuffe (A) SANTA MONICA COLLEGE The Skin of Our Teeth (A) Arsenic and Old Lace (A) The Front Page (P) MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Heart Mountain (P) The Dining Room (A) James and the Giant Peach (P) Zorro (Z) or The Curse of Capistrano (P) Tartuffe (P) Yonadab (P) MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (MUSIC DEPARTMENT) My Favorite Year (P) SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Master Harold and the Boys (A) MIRACOSTA COLLEGE The Miracle Worker (A) The 39 Steps (Psycho Cast) (A) The Servant of Two Masters (A) The 39 Steps (Birds Cast) (A) Henry IV, Part I (A) SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE Oedipus the King (A) In Conflict (P) Real Women Have Curves (A)

KCACTF 2013 - 74 SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY WESTMONT COLLEGE Almost, Maine (A) Much Ado About Nothing (P) As You Like It (A) A Christmas Carol on the Air (A) WHITTIER COLLEGE Edgar Allan Poe’s: Nevermore (P) She Stoops to Conquer (A) Little Women - The Musical (A) The Taming of the Shrew (A) The Mousetrap (A) Rabbit Hole (A) When (P)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Intention in Time (A)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO Anatomy of Grey (A) The Beaux’ Stratagem (A)

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY The Miracle Worker (A) Pirates of Penzance (A) Two Headed (A)

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY Androcles and the Lion (A) Cato (A) How to Succeed in Business (A) The Secret Garden (A) Short Attention Span Theatre - (A) 10 Minute Play Festival Vincent in Brixton (P)

VANGUARD UNIVERSITY The Comedy of Errors (P) The Servant of Two Masters (P)

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Charm (P) Cradle Will Rock (A) Lucky Stiff (P) Tartuffe (A)

KCACTF 2013 - 75 KENNEDY CENTER MEDALLION

Each year, the eight KCACTF regions honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm to the development of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Most importantly, recipients have demonstrated a strong commitment to the values and goals of KCACTF and to excellence in educational theatre. It is the most prestigious regional award given by KCACTF and is considered one of the great honors in theatre education.

2012 Kennedy Center Medallion Recipient

Virginia Ludders – Glendale Community College, Arizona Virginia has been an enthusiastic supporter of KCACTF from the time of her introduction to the festival when she participated in the Circuit 4 - Arizona Theatre Festival and her first regional festival at Sonoma State University. She was and is still amazed at all that KCACTF has to offer college students.

A graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Virginia attended Grand Canyon University, earned an MA from Arizona State University and a certificate in Shakespearian performance from LAMDA. After relocating from Illinois to Arizona, she accepted employment as a high school theatre teacher, developed a theatre program, helped found a chapter of the International Thespian Society, became the Arizona State Thespian Director and served on the international board.

In addition to teaching high school theatre, she has taught at Arizona State University, ASU-West and, for the past twenty-five years, at Glendale Community

FACULTY RECOGNITION FACULTY College, directing the theatre arts program. Over forty-five years, she has directed well over a hundred plays and musicals, including a KCACTF regional invitational scene and an invited production (Quilters) 2003. Although retired in 2009, she can still be found on campus three days a week teaching various theatre and film courses. In her spare time she volunteers at a local community theatre where she builds costumes.

As a region board member, Virginia serves as secretary, has participated in the Irene Ryan acting competition in various capacities, has served as circuit four coordinator, hosted several state theatre festivals and in 2005 cohosted the regional. Additionally, she continues to respond to a dozen or more college and university productions each year.

ATHE/KCACTF Innovative Teaching Award

Founded in 1986, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is a non-profit professional organization representing college and university theatre departments and administrators, faculty, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. ATHE’s mission is to support and advance the study and practice of theatre and performance in higher education. Toward that mission, we are pleased to grant the annual ATHE Prize for Teaching Innovation to an individual in each KCACTF region who has demonstrated their ability to discover new pathways for student success in the field of theatre. It is our pleasure to recognize Terry Glaser as the 2013 Region VIII winner of the ATHE Prize for Innovative Teaching.

2012 ATHE/KCACTF Innovative Teaching Award Recipient

Terry Glaser - University of San Diego Terry has worked in academia and the professional theatre for over 25 years, as a stage director, playwright, translator, acting teacher, and actor. She has taught at UCSD, USC, CalArts, Earlham College, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio-USA West, and the Old Globe Theatre, and has directed at professional theatres and opera companies across the country. Currently, she is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of San Diego’s Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department, where she has been teaching since 2005. Her recent directing assignments at USD were The Government Inspector and The Beaux’ Stratagem.

KCACTF 2013 - 76 In February 2012, a scene from The Government Inspector opened the Evening of Invitational Scenes at the KCACTF Region 8 Festival. Terry has twice won Outstanding Director awards at San Diego theatre festivals. Terry’s translations of classic plays, including A Flea in Her Ear and The Frogs, and operas, including Orfeo and Croquefer, have received professional and university productions. In 2011, she premiered her original one-person show The Mysterious Dwarf, in which she performs as the writer Nikolai Gogol.

Terry has developed a comprehensive training method for acting in opera and is finishing a text book on that subject. Her other teaching specialties include the Michael Chekhov Technique and neutral mask. Terry also develops and conducts courses and seminars in the application of acting techniques to the worlds of teacher-training, business, and law. Terry holds a B.A. in Playwriting from Brown University and an M.A. in Theatre (Directing) from Syracuse University.

Excellence in Theatre Education Award

This honor, given for the first time in 1997, recognizes faculty and staff in various universities and colleges throughout the region who go “beyond the call of duty” in devoting their time, efforts, talent, and energies on behalf of the students and in support of the other faculty and staff of their institution. The following recipients of the “Excellence in Theatre Education Award” are individuals recognized by the Board of Governors of the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival, Region VIII for their unique commitment to their students, their colleagues, their institution, and their profession. We wish to honor their vision, knowledge, high intention, and sincere effort in fostering, supporting and developing a greater respect and appreciation for theatre, theatre education, and all who participate in it.

2012 Excellence in Theatre Education Recipient

Kevin Dressler – Mesa Community College Kevin Dressler hails from Tacoma, Washington, and has a long history as an educator. His first experience was teaching English to a combined class of Southeast Asian and Spanish-speaking students in 1980. Kevin loved was hooked to teaching. Besides working professionally as an actor and director throughout Western America, Kevin always worked teaching acting classes and directing student productions, most often through the theatre for youth programs at the theatres wherever he was employed.

His beginning as full time educator came at Mountain View HS in Mesa, Arizona, where he inherited 3 speech team members. He quickly built the team to 55 students that won the state speech title. A position opened in the theatre department at the school and Kevin promptly built that program and won numerous state one-act play competitions.

Besides working at the secondary level, Kevin also taught as an adjunct for various colleges in the Maricopa College system in 1987. In 1991, he co-founded what became Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC), a professional, classical theatre company that is in residence in Mesa. Since its inception, SSC has performed matinee productions for over 120,000 school students throughout Arizona. Kevin avidly maintains contact with area high school theatre teachers and strives to build connections with them and their students.

In addition to an M.F.A. from Utah State University, Kevin has an M.A. in Counseling and a M.Ed. in College Administration. He is currently the Executive Director of the Theatre Arts and Film Department at Mesa Community College and is the head of the performance program.

KCACTF 2013 - 77 Marilynn Loveless – La Sierra University Marilynn Loveless is the artistic director of the theater program at La Sierra University in Riverside, where she teaches acting, directing, and writing classes. Involved as a respondent with the KCACTF since 1999 (in Region VII and Region VIII), she has directed/produced more than 70 shows earning meritorious achievement awards from the KCACTF, for her direction of Othello (2005), The Taming of the Shrew (2006), The Accidental Death of An Anarchist (2007) and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (2011). Her previous career as a writer/producer in television involved the production of more than 135 half-hour television shows in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. The recipient of several writing grants, one of Marilynn’s screenplays made the short-list for the Sundance feature film project in 2001.

In 2006 and 2007 Marilynn co-wrote two award-winning Christmas shows that were aired on the Hallmark Channel.

Marilynn was awarded a Ph.D. from the School of Arts at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia in 2004 for her renegade ficto-critical dissertation, Mrs. Shakespeare: Muse, Mother, Matriarch, Madonna, Whore, Writer, Woman, Wife--Recovering a Lost Life, that tells the plausible story—including historical and theoretical support—of how Mrs. Shakespeare acquired the necessary skills, education and experience to write the works appropriated by her husband, William. Her work was cited for academic excellence by earning perfect scores from the external examiners.

Peter Sham – Southern Utah University Peter currently serves as associate chair/director of theatre for Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. He is most recently known for his work as bookwriter/lyricist on Lend Me A Tenor The Musical (Brad Carroll, composer), which celebrated a successful run at the Gielgud Theatre on London’s West End and has plans to open on Broadway in 2014. He is the author of three other musicals Toyland, It’s a Dog’s Life: Man’s Best Musical and Waxworks, and the plays Shakespeare’s Moby Dick, a classical adaptation of Herman Melville’s American masterpiece, Twinkle, Twinkle, ‘Killer’ Kane (written with William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist), and A Christmas Carol On The Air (also written with Brad Carroll). A veteran regional actor for over 30 years, he was a principal member of the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival for eleven seasons, and has performed at such places as the Asolo Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Eastside Playhouse, Perry Street Theatre, Artpark and Yale Summer Cabaret. Notable roles include, Salieri in Amadeus, Benjamin Franklin in 1776, Henry Brock in Born Yesterday, King Henry in Henry IV Part One, Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune and Sancho in Man of LaMancha, starring Robert Peterson. As an educator, he has served as visiting assistant professor of theatre at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and adjunct professor of acting/guest director at Elon University in North Carolina. Peter has directed numerous productions throughout the Eastern United States and Utah and has served as artistic director of the Eichelberger Performing Arts Center in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and Bristol Valley Playhouse in Naples, New York. He holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Delaware’s nationally acclaimed Professional Theatre Training Program. Peter is married to director/choreographer/ actress, Kirsten Sham, and blessed with two remarkable children, Olivia and Orlando.

KCACTF 2013 - 78 Arthur Wagner – University of California, San Diego Arthur Wagner is one of the original pioneers of the American College Theatre Festival. In 1969, he brought a play, HAIL SCRAWDYKE by David Halliwell to the festival hosted by Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1969, where he met (and later befriended) the production’s adjudicator, famed critic John Lahr. Arthur served as the Vice President of the American College Theatre Association, an original parent company of ACTF from 1974-1976 and was put in charge of ACTF during that period. In 1977, he served as President of ACTA and worked with the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Arthur was born in New York City on May 11, 1923. Having graduated from Stuyvesant High School in NYC, he earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1946 and a M.A. degree in Theatre Arts two years later from Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Wagner served as supervisor of dramatic activities at the Jewish Community Center in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1948-49 and as artistic director at the Springfield Civic Theatre in 1949-50. He went on to study with Paul Mann at the Actors Workshop in New York City from 1953-1955. Wagner was named head of the Theatre Arts Department and director of the Annie Russell Theatre at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida in 1956 and held the position for nine years while earning his Ph.D. in Drama from Stanford University in 1962.

From 1965 to 1967 he served as professor of drama at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana where he established the Graduate Actor Training Program. He spent two years as a professor and director of Graduate and Undergraduate Actor Training Programs at Ohio University before moving to Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1971, after serving for three years as professor of drama and founder/director of the Graduate Actor Training Program at Temple University, Dr. Wagner joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1972. He served as the founding Chair of the UC San Diego Department of Drama from 1972 to 1977 and from 1977 until his retirement in 1991, he was head of the Graduate Professional Actor Training Program. Professor Wagner also serves on the Board of Trustees of the La Jolla Playhouse. A gifted professional actor and director, he has numerous directing and acting credits and is a member of Actors Equity.

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