Denver, CO 55 ATHE’S 22Nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Advocacy Business Meeting Focus Group:...... 36 (ADV) Advocacy Committee Room:...... Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Henry Bial, University of Kansas Organizational meeting for members of the Advocacy Committee and for those interested in joining.

Awards Committee Meeting Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Crestone Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Robert A. Schanke, Central College (Emeritus)

Research and Publications Committee Business Meeting Focus Group:...... 28 (RPC) Research & Publications Committee Room:...... Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Ric Knowles, University of Guelph

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM ATME Warm-Up Session Focus Group:...... 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room:...... Grand Ballroom Foyer- 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Start the day in a positive way. ATME provides movement and vocal warm-ups for general participation each morning. Please join us. Movement attire suggested.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 55 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver 5656 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM “Pregnant Dialogues: Maneuvering dangerous discussions of Pregnancy, Birth & Abortion” Focus Group:...... 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program Room:...... Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Lisa Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder “No easy way”: The Language of Reproduction and Abortion in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A Participants:...... Cindy Gendrich, Wake Forest University “Reproductive Science, Gender Expectations, and Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette & Boo” Mark Seamon, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul “’Never Have a Daughter’: The Difficulties of Womanhood, Pregnancy, and Maternity in Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary” Respondent:...... Jane Duncan, Barry University How do scripted interactions around reproduction, and especially the contentious, unsafe topic of abortion manifest on stage, and what do those dialogues reveal?

Adapting Difficult Dialogues: Three Directors Use Case Studies to Address Challenging Topics in Performance Focus Group:...... 8 (DP) Directing Program Room:...... Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Beth Watkins, Allegheny College Adapting “Authentic Dialogue”: Directing Unsafe Ideas in Safe Spaces Participants:...... Becky Prophet, Alfred University Dolls as Danger: Difficult Dialogues in Female Body Images Jennifer Ross-Nostrala, Simpson College The Accidental Adaptor: A Director’s Experience as Writer Directors use adaptation for multiple reasons: to address challenging topics, to experiment with the creative process, to teach methods of constructing meaning onstage. These three case studies examine the challenges of directorial adaptation.

Difficult Dialogues on a Daily Basis: Deans and Chairs Confront Big Issues Administration Focus Group:...... 26 (PDC) Professional Development Committee Room:...... Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Participants:...... Barb Blackledge, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Sarah Gabel, Loyola University Chicago Bryn Jameson, University of the Incarnate Word Sarah Rudolph, University of Wisconsin College Ann Shanahan, Loyola University Chicago Session Coordinator:...Mark Lococo, Loyola University Chicago A panel of Deans, Chairs and Probationary Faculty addresses issues of interest to Theatre Department Administrators and members through creative role play utilizing scenarios solicited in advance from the ATHE membership.

Electronic Technology Committee Meeting Focus Group:...... 25 (ETC) Electronic Technology Committee Room:...... Crestone Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Judith Sebesta, University of Missouri-Columbia The Electronic Technology Committee Annual Meeting. New Members Welcome.

Hell Houses, Kung-Fu Fighting, and the Towers that Didn’t Fall: The Writing of History in 21st Century American Theatre Focus Group:...... 7 (DR) Dramaturgy Room:...... Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Patricia Ybarra, Brown University Co-Coordinators:...... Christian DuComb, Brown University Resounding Towers Christine Mok, Brown University Is Everybody Still Kung Fu Fighting? Participant:...... Rachel Rusch, Yale School of Drama Signaling Through the Hellfire This session examines how three 21st-century American theatre artists, Les Freres Corbusier, Young Jean Lee, and Heather Wood- bury, enter into a difficult dialogue with history.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 57 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM (cont.) History, Border Thinking and Violence in Latina/o American Theater Focus Group:...... 24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis Participants:...... John Fleming, Texas State University Cycles of History: Teatro La Fragua’s Latin American Trilogy Katherine Ford, East Carolina University The Trappings of Home: Violence in Two Cuban Plays Juan Recondo, City University of New York (Graduate Center) Singing Washington Heights in Two Languages: “Border Thinking” and Conceptions of Latinidad in Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s “In the Heights” This panel explores the possibilities of transformation within the cultural work of Latina/o American Theater.

How Can ATHE Respond to Difficult Dialogues? Focus Group:...... 36 (ADV) Advocacy Committee Room:...... Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Chair:...... Cynthia Bates, Siena College Session Coordinator:....Henry Bial, University of Kansas How can ATHE respond to difficult dialogues? A roundtable discussion on a pressing advocacy issue.

Membership and Marketing Business Meeting Focus Group:...... 39 (MM) Membership and Marketing Room:...... Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator.....Julie Rae Pratt, Central Missouri State University

Performance Studies Focus Group’s Emerging Scholars Panel Focus Group:...... 13 (PS) Performance Studies Room:...... Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Peter Civetta, Northwestern University Co-Coordinator:...... Louise Owen The annual, vetted Emerging Scholars Panel for the Performance Studies Focus Group.

Pornography? Why Not?: A Staged Reading of the Erotic, Award-winning play, “Richmond Jim” Focus Group:...... 40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, 2 (ATDS) American Theatre and Drama Society, 18 (TH) Theatre and History Room:...... Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Robert Schanke, Professor Emeritus, Central College The Lost Legacy of Pornographer Cal Yeomans Participants:...... Bud Coleman, University of Colorado Performs role of Mike in “Richmond Jim” Alan Sikes, Hunter College Performs title role in “Richmond Jim” Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor Performs role of Biddy in “Richmond Jim” Called “the first genuinely gay play,” it premiered at Theatre Rhinoceros, was the Best Gay Play of the Year (1979), and was per- formed at the First National Gay Arts Festival.

Schmoozing the Musical: Jewishness as Performance in American Musical Theater Focus Group:...... 11 (MTD) Music Theatre/Dance Room:...... Mt. Oxford - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Harley Erdman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst “Woody Guthrie and Oscar Hammerstein, 1943: The Okie as Jew and the Jew as Oklahoman” Stacy Wolf, Princeton University “Performances of Identity in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE” Participants:...... Henry Bial, University of Kansas “The Role of Muical Theatre in Jewish Organizational Life” Barbara W. Grossman, Tufts University “A Maelstrom of Competing Racism: Stereotypes on Parade in PARADE” Rebecca Rugg, Yale University “Streisand’s First Showstopper: ‘Miss Marmelstein’ as Cultural Striptease” From OKLAHOMA! to PARADE, from Broadway to bar mitzvahs, the musical might be considered a “Jewish American” form. What does this mean for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences? July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver 58 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM (cont.) Theatre Management Debut and New Scholarship Paper Presentations Focus Group:...... 20 (TM) Theatre Management Room:...... Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... James A. Hatfield, The University of Texas at Tyler Theatre Mary Ellen Wright, The University of Texas at Tyler Theatre The debut and new scholarship paper presentations are competitively selected by the TM focus group.

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.)

Theatre: A Powerful Tool For Life Focus Group:...... 15 (STRP) Senior Theatre Research and Performance Room:...... La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Bonnie Vorenberg, Senior Theatre Resource Center Participants:...... Charles Ault, Player’s Guild of the Festival Playhouse Theatre for Life: Exercising the Mind and Body Ed Greenberg Improvising Life Shirley Tanzola, Rewriting Stories Over Dinner, Over-Acting, Rewriting Stories to Fit Your Life Robert Yowell, Northern Arizona University Using Memories to Build Community through Theatre Marsha Yowell Using Memories to Build Community through Theatre Theatre is a powerful tool! Explore how to use theatre for life, at all ages and circumstances, to solve problems and build skills as you exercise body, mind, and spirit.

Under the Influence Focus Group:...... 22 (VASTA) Voice and Speech Trainers Association Room:...... Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Susan Patrick Benson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Under The Influence Under The Influence workshop explores the use of speech and voice in developing characters with strong impediments. Distinctive qualities of drunkenness and drug withdrawal are examined.

Unspoken: Things /Not/ Said on the American Stage, 1750-1861 Focus Group:...... 2 (ATDS) American Theatre and Drama Society Room:...... Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University Participants:...... John Frick, University of Virginia “ ‘A Play to Which No Apologist for Slavery Could Object:’ Revisioning Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the American Stage” Peter Reed, University of Mississippi “The Rogue Silenced: Antebellum Theatre and Underclass Agency” Heather Nathans, University of Maryland “ ‘If I forget thee’: Secret and Censored Rituals of Judaism on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage” When early American theatre managers ‘silenced’ dialogues relating to particular political events or figures, or were themselves silenced by outside forces, those actions necessarily resonated outside the playhouse as well. This panel uses three ‘cultural mo- ments’ to explore the impact of ‘silencing’ upon the early American theatre.

8:30 AM - 11:45 AM New Translations and Applications of Stanislavsky for the 21st Century or What your teachers may not have told you about Stanislavsky? Focus Group:...... 1 (AP) Acting Progam Room:...... Castle Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Session Coordinator:....Stephanie Daventry French Stanislavski’s Method of Physical Actions in actor training and rehearsal Participants:...... Sharon Carnicke, Professor of Theatre and Slavic/Associate Dean, New Russian sources on Stanislavski from the 21st Century: applications in acting integrating yoga, cognitive science and improvisation Katya Kamotskaia, Royal Scottish Academy of Theatre and Drama Side by Side, Comparing the New Translation to the Originial Russian word with Jean Benedetti Susanna Weygandt, Middlebury College Training in stage acrobatics today using Stanislavskis method and his contribution to plastika expression A discussion/demonstration of new insights into Stanislavski’s sources and methods, stimulated by current research into previously hidden manuscripts, and training techniques taking final shape only at the culmination of Stanislavskis career.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 59 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM (cont.) Paid Workshop: IchiFuji-Kai Dance Association: Basics of Kabuki Make-up Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Mt. Columbia - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Kaori Ibuki, Helen Moss In this hands-on workshop, attendees will practice basic techniques for applying the white theatrical makeup used by Kabuki actors, geisha, and other theatrical professionals.

Staged Reading for PlayWorks 2008 Winning Script, COMPAÑERAS, by Kathy Coudle King Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Mt. Sopris - Lobby (Hyatt) Session Chairs and Program Coordinator:...... Macaela Carder, Bowling Green State University New Plays Production Coordinator:...... Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University PlayWorks 2008 Winning Script: ...... COMPAÑERAS, by Kathy Coudle King. Director:...... Tom Robson, Indiana University Dramaturg:...... Ara G. Beal, University of Maryland ACTORS:...... James Bunzli, Loyola College, Maryland Jacqueline Marie Garcia, Freelance Terryl W, Hallquist, Vanderbilt University Carmela Lanza-Weil, Towson University Michelle Lopez-Rios, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Lisa Mumpton, Freelance Melissa Schumacher, Freelance Sarah Tames, The Hotchkiss School Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois at Springfield Heather J. Violanti, Freelance

Theatre and Social Change Award for Local Artists Focus Group:...... 16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change Room:...... Training Office - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Respondent:...... Amy Sarno, Beloit College Session Coordinator:....Melanie Blood, SUNY Geneseo Theatre and Social Change will present awards to local artists involved in community based theatre and/or theatre for social change in the Denver area. Artists will present their work in a combination of workshop and performance formats.

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM 2009 Conference Planner’s Meeting #1 Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt)

Asian Theatre Journal Lecture by I Made Bandem Focus Group:...... 3 (AAP) Association for Asian Performance Room:...... Sunlight Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair and Session Coordinator:...... John B. Weinstein, Bard College at Simon’s Rock Lecturer:...... I Made Bandem, Indonesia Institute of Arts Indonesian Modern Theatre: A Struggle for Acceptance The Association for Asian Performance is honored to present a lecture by Prof. Dr. I Made Bandem, renowned dancer, musician, and scholar of the and visual arts of Indonesia.

Creating a COMFORTABLE Dialogue: Viva (Post-Mortem) as a Tool to Develop Collaboration Focus Group:...... NCA, Theatre Division Room:...... Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Julie Rae Pratt, University of Central Missouri Panelists:...... Monica Fay Anderson, Franciscan University of Steubenville Susan Anthony, DePauw University James Brandon, Hillsdale College Michael O’Hara, Ball State University Barbara Parisi, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus This will be a Round Table discussion offering Strategies and Ideas to productively critique the work of colleagues.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver 60 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM (cont.) Debut Presenters’ Workshop of exercises engaging the sensitive dialogue between inner experience and outward expression. Focus Group:...... 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room:...... Mt. Oxford - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Deborah Robertson, Northern Illinois University Participants:...... Kate Amory, Naropa University Using Body-Mind Centering and Growtowski as initiator for physical actions. Leslie Bennett, University of Kansas Creating inner awareness through qualities of movement using Michael Chekhov and Ruth Zaporah's work. Deborah Palmes, North Central College “Having a Ball,” ball-tossing to break down barriers and alleviate performance anxiety Debut Presenters’ Workshop of exercises engaging in the sensitive dialogue between inner experience and outward expression by employing the integration of multiple physical acting training techniques: Body/Mind Centering, Grotowski, Michael Chekhov and Action Theatre. Dialogues with the Unexpected: Found Objects As Writing Stimuli Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Chairs:...... Hank Willenbrink, University of California - Santa Barbara Michael Wright, The University of Tulsa Participants will be asked to bring one found object, to give to another person. Each individual will have the opportunity to experiment with their intuitive playwriting reactions to the objects.

Difficult Dialogues: Development of Directing during the KC/ACTF Festival. Focus Group:...... 37 (KC/ACTF) KC/ACTF Room:...... Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....James A. Hatfield, The University of Texas at Tyler Theatre Respondents:...... Jay Edelnant, University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls Jeff Koep, University of Nevada at Las Vegas David Lee-Painter, The University of Idaho Harry Parker, Texas Christian University A round-table discussion of directing practice and pedagogy as represented by recent KC/ACTF festival productions, linking discussion occurring at the national KC/ACTF festival with discussion the annual ATHE conference.

Graduate MFA Training - Undergraduate Education, Auditioning for the MFA... Stepping off the Ledge. Focus Group:...... 29 (U/RTA) University/Resident Theatre Association Room:...... Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Scott Steele, Executive Director, University/Resident Theatre MFA faculty/theatre professionals discuss relations between undergraduate education and MFA training. They also examine preparing students for the U/RTA Auditions/Interviews used by graduate programs and theatres to recruit candidates in acting, directing and other fields.

In Search of Gay Performance: Past, Present, and Future Practices Focus Group:...... 10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Room:...... Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Frederick Corey, Arizona State Univerity Co-Coordinators:...... Thomas King, Brandeis University Boying our Greatness in the Posture of a Whore Moe Meyer, University of New South Wales Celebrity Jack: The Internet and the Death of Camp Participants:...... Peter Carpenter, Columbia College Dancing the Cowboy Out: Queering Masculinity at Oil Can Harry’s Jay Scott Chipman, Nebraska Wesleyan University William Friedkin’s ‘Crusing’ 25 Years Later: Reassessing the Representation of Gay Identity and Protest E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University Beyond the DL: Sex in the South Focusing on transformations of gay identity performance since Stonewall, participants will address what might be gained in re- membering gay male practice/performance from previous decades. What does “gay male + performance” mean today?

Katrina, Jena, and Racial Injustice: A Drama Without Dialogue, Played in the “Land of the Free” on the USA Stage! Focus Group:...... 5 (BTA) Black Theatre Association Room:...... Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Aileen Hendricks Southern, University Baton Rouge “Talk About Katrina and Jena: A National Tragedy of Racial Injustice in the ‘Land of the Free’” Participants:...... Laura Hope, Loyola University New Orleans “After the Maelstrom: Katrina, New Orleans, Race, and the Emerging Performance of City-State Nationalism” Pamela Monteleone, University of North Florida “The Jena Project” July 31- August 3, 2008 Patrick Tyndall, Pennsylvania State University Grand Hyatt Denver “The Crime of ‘Worthlessness’: Theatrical Connections to Katrina and Jena 6” 61 This panel examines the performance of racial injustice in Lousiana/USA on and off stage inDenver, relation to Hurricane COKatrina and civil rights protests surrounding the “Jena 6.” ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM (cont.) Latina/o Focus Group Debut Panel Focus Group:...... 24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group Room:...... Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, Mt. Holyoke College Session Coordinator:....Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis Particiapnts:...... Michael Mellas, Miami University “Hybridity, Border Crossing, and Ghosting: Using Prevailing Magical Realist Traits to Explore a Reconnection with Cultural History in José Rivera’s Cloud Tectonics” Andrew Gibb, University of California, Santa Barbara Found in (Re)Translation: Latina/o Theatre and the Anglo Archive” Kelly Lynn Hogan, Knox College Reinventing Caliban: Revisioning the Native Ethnic Subject Respondents:...... Francine A’Ness, Dartmouth College Tiffany Ana Lopez, University of California, Riverside Presentation of papers by junior scholars who have not yet presented at ATHE selected through competitive evaluation of papers.

Music as Performance: The Voice And/As Instrument Focus Group:...... 13 (PS) Performance Studies Room:...... Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Georgia Metal Machine Music: Mari Kimura’s “GuitarBotana” Session Coordinator:....Elizabeth Patterson, Elon University “We’re All Gonna Blow:” Axing the Vox of Ani DiFranco Participant:...... Nicholas Cook, Royal Holloway, University of London Always More Than Literal: Metaphorical and Literal Application of “Voice”

Whose voice is expressed in music performance? How does the materiality of instrumentation complicate the assertion of that voice? This collection of papers considers the multiple functions of “voice” in music performance.

Music, Passion and Truth: 1 term to 4-year Strategies for Integrating Acting and Musical Theatre Training Focus Group:...... 40 (MD) Multidisciplinary Focus; 11 (MTD) Music Theatre and Dance, 22 (VASTA) Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association, 1 (AP) Acting Progam Room:...... Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Robert Barton, University of Oregon Participants:...... Rocco Dal Vera, University of Cincinnati Joe Deer, Wright State University A hands-on workshop teaching landmark skills. Includes pedagogy and syllabus development for various training arcs.

New and Emerging Scholarship: Using Theatre to Address the Difficult Issues of Life Focus Group:...... 15 (STRP) Senior Theatre Research and Performance Room:...... La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Joy Reilly, Ohio State University Health and Wellness Through Comedy Participants:...... Sally Bailey, Kansas State, University The Stolen Cart: Life Issues through Drama Sandy Hale A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Old Age: My Cancer in Performance Jenny Stoessner, Ohio State University Using Puppets to Explore Difficult Dialogues Sometimes it’s the tough issues that make the best theatre. Learn how to deal with aging, illness, health and wellness as you bring creative insight to difficult situations.

Not Jewish Enough? – Jewish Identity in Performance and Text – Questioning Authenticity, Intention, and Reception. Focus Group:...... 14 (RT) Religion and Theatre Room:...... Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Davida Bloom, SUNY Brockport The Unsettling Journey: When a Performance Isn’t “Jewish Enough”. Participants:...... Jessica Hillman-McCord, SUNY Fredonia “Jewish Soul:” Performing Jewishness on the Musical Stage Ted Merwin, Dickinson College Non-Jewish Playwrights in the American Jewish Theater Ellen Wolfson, University of Colorado How Secure Are We? Jews in Relation to Other Oppressed Groups. July 31- August 3, 2008 Respondent:...... Henry Bial, University of Kansas Grand Hyatt Denver 62 This panel explores several difficult questions surrounding Jewish identity. Who can authentically create and embody it? How is it received? And what residue remains? Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM (cont.) Putting Pedagogy and Research into Dialogue: Difficulties, Alternatives, and Reforms Focus Group:...... 28 (RPC) Research & Publications Committee Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Joshua Abrams, Roehampton University John Fletcher, Louisiana State University Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Washington, Bothell Participants:...... Kristin Hanson, Kirkwood Community College Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh, Rollins College Respondent:...... Jill Dolan, Princeton University This roundtable addresses the often-troubled relationship between research and teaching. Panelists from varied academic institu- tions explore how we might remedy the frequent conflicts between these two aspects of our lives.

Religion and Theatre Emerging Scholars Debut Panel, 1 of 2 Focus Group:...... 14 (RT) Religion and Theatre Room:...... Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....John S. Sebestyen, Trinity Christian College Participants:...... Brooke Kiener, Whitworth University; Spokane, WA Practicing Hospitality in Community-based Theatre Projects Zorwyn R. Madrone, Naropa University How Contemplation Affects Creating Performance Mitch Mattson, Independent Teaching Artist Stylized History: The Shape and Spirit of Javanese Shadow Puppets This annual debut panel features emerging scholars in Religion & Theatre exploring the difficult dialogues present in performative activities.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM AAP Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 3 (AAP) Association for Asian Performance Room:...... Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... John Weinstein, Simons Rock College of Bard Session Coordinator:....Claire Conceison , Tufts University All AAP members and friends are encouraged to attend our membership meeting.

ATDS Board Meeting Focus Group:...... 2 (ATDS) American Theatre and Drama Society Room:...... Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Mark Cosdon, Allegheny College A meeting of the American Theatre and Drama Society’s (ATDS) officers.

ATHE Latina/o Focus Group Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group Room:...... Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis Patricia Ybarra, Brown University Business and Membership meeting of the Latina/o Focus Group

Design and Technology Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 6 (DT) Design and Technology Room:...... Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... P. Gibson Ralph, State University of New York College at Brockport Business meeting for the Design and Technology Focus Group

Directing Focus Group Membership Meeting #1 Focus Group:...... 8 (DP) Directing Program Room:...... Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Jerrold Scott, Case Western Reserve University Business meeting for the Directing Focus Group.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (cont.) New Play Development Workshop Part II: Rehearsal Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Char Nelson, Brigham Young University Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Jeffrey Ullom, Vanderbilt University Rehearsal for playwrights, directors, actors, dramaturgs, and designers for the New Play Development Program.

PACT Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Maroon Peak Session Coordinator:....Fred Rubeck, Elon University Co-Coordinator:...... Pamela Turner, Ben Franklin Academy and Multishades Atlanta This is the first membership meeting of the Playwrights Program. All interested parties are welcome to attend. Attending our meetings is one of the best ways to get involved with our programming!

Religion and Theatre Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 14 (RT) Religion and Theatre Room:...... Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Chair:...... Lance Ghavari, Arizona State University Session Coordinator:....Heather Beasley, University of Colorado at Boulder

TASC Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change Room:...... Training Office – 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Amy Sarno, Beloit College Co-Chair:...... Melanie Blood, SUNY-Geneseo The general membership meeting of Theatre and Social Change Focus Group (TASC) is used to discuss issues pertaining to the 2008 pre-conference and conference. The focus of the session also includes annual elections, reports, and goal setting. Everyone is welcome!

Theory and Criticism Annual Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 17 (TC) Theory and Criticism Room:...... Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Chase Bringardner, University of Texas at Austin Christin Essin Yannacci, University of Arizona The Theory and Criticism focus group welcomes members and prospective members to its annual business meeting.

TLA Membership Meeting #1 Focus Group:...... 19 (TLA) Theatre as a Liberal Art Room:...... Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Chair:...... Mark Lococo, Loyola University Session Coordinator:....Bernadette Hamilton-Brady

VASTA Membership Meeting Focus Group: ...... 22(VASTA) Room: ...... Mt. Oxford – 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator: ...Beth McGee, Case Western Reserve University

Women and Theatre Program Membership Meeting Focus Group:...... 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program Room:...... Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Participant:...... Natka Bianchini, University of Maryland, College Park Business meeting for the Women and Theatre Program--open to all members, non-members welcome.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 12:30 PM - 3:45 PM Dress Rehearsal for Staged Reading of David Mark Cohen Play Reading Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Mt. Sopris – Lobby Level (Hyatt) Session Chairs and Program Coordinators:...... Dennis Black, Freelance Sharon Mills Andrews, Wake Forest University New Plays Production Coordinator:...... Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University Play:...... ELEPHANT’S GRAVEYARD, by George Brant, University of Texas, Austin David Mark Cohen Award Alternate Winners: Second Place:...... Jimmy Cory, by Kevin Daly, Indiana University Third Place:...... Sow and Weep, by Nitzan Halperin Director:...... Dan Patterson, Keene State College Assistant Director:...... Pam Pepper, Lehigh University Production Assistant:...Barbara Waldinger, Queens College ACTORS:...... Daniel Ballard, Texas Tech University Steven G. Berglund, Central Michigan University Jason Conner, Western Illinois University Katie Courtien, Brooklyn College, CUNY Steve Earnest, Coastal Carolina University Kim B. Harris, William Jewell College PeggyRae Johnson, Keene State College Wil Kilroy, University of Southern Maine Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University Brent Stansell, Brooklyn College, CUNY Robin Stone, Roger Williams University Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois, Springfield Crystal Verdon, Freelance Barbara Waldinger, Queens College Greg White, Freelance 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM Plenary: “Elephants in the Room?: Manifestos on Subjects We Don’t Want to Talk About” Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Steve Peters, Wayne State University Speakers:...... Jill Dolan, Princeton University Jorge Huerta, University of California, San Diego Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri, Columbia Mark Heckler, Valparaiso University Doug Paterson, University of Nebrasaka, Omaha Sandra Shannon, Howard University 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Catchy ’Toons: Parody and the New Animated Musical on Film and Television Focus Group:...... 11 (MTD) Music Theatre/Dance Room:...... Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Margaret Ball, East Stroudsburg University Participant:...... Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College The Uses of “Enchanted”: Parody, Princesses and the Disney Animated Movie Musical The panelists in this session examine the relationship between parody, musical theatre and animated television shows and films, especially Enchanted, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Simpsons and Family Guy.

Copyright for the Theatre Professional Focus Group:...... 20 (TM) Theatre Management Room:...... La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Todd Alan Price,Esq. Participant:...... Sean Kelley This session will focus on what the theatre professional needs to know about copyright, including what is copyrightable, what constitutes infringement, and how to avoid a lawsuit.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 65 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (cont.) Difficult Dialogues: The Trials of Women Directors Building Careers Focus Group:...... 8 (DP) Directing Program Room:...... Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Anne Fliotsos, Purdue University “Look at All My Trials & Tribulations”: Directing the Broadway Musical Chair:...... Rebecca Daniels , St. Lawrence University Participants:...... Ann Shanahan, Loyola University Chicago Women in the “City of Big Shoulders”: Common Factors Impacting Careers of Female Theatre Directors in Chicago Wendy Vierow, SUNY New Paltz The Status of Early to Mid-Career Women Directors Panelists present new research about the careers of women directors, evaluate the current status of women in directing, and con- sider directions for the future.

Dramaturgy Debut Panel Focus Group:...... 7 (DR) Dramaturgy Room:...... Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Cynthia M. SoRelle, McLennan College Participants: ...... Kathleen McGhee, Anderson University Illuminating the past: The faded glory of Quindaro, Ks” Andy Pierce, University of Missouri-Columbia “Rock ‘n’ Roll, Theatre, and Tears: The Onion Cellar at the American Repertory Theatre” Neena Arndt, A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, Dramaturg “The Onion Cellar” Adjudicators:...... Shelly Orr, San Diego State University Bruce Sevy, Denver Center Theatre Influential work by emerging dramaturgs in educational and professional theatre. Participants have been selected through a competitive process.

Fresh Print Series I: Difficult Dialogues Focus Group:...... 28 (RPC) Research & Publications Committee Room:...... Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Jennifer Devere Brody, Northwestern University Ramón Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University Participants:...... Michelle Elam, Stanford University Harry Elam, Stanford University A showcase of innovative research in theatre and performance studies. Focusing on the conference theme, “difficult dialogues,” this series stages three conversations among a diverse array of academic “couplings.”

Genre and Form in Black Performance Cultures Focus Group:...... 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program Room:...... Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Stephanie L. Batiste, University of California at Santa Barbara Black Performance and the Filmic Gaze Chair:...... Hershini Bhana-Young, SUNY Buffalo The Limits of Engaging Painful Images Participants:...... Nancy Cho, Carlton College Ntozake Shange and the Politics of Genre Terri Francis, Yale University Sampling Josephine Baker: Cuts from Touki Bouki, Alma’s Rainbow and Madame Sata Anna Beatrice Scott, University of California at Riverside Techniques of Torture or Transpositions and Impositions This panel explores the meaning made and undone at the crossroads of form--in the fissures of the blurring and shifting of generic categories in Black performance.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver 66 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (cont.)

Nuyorican Performances: The Cultural Production of Music, Theater, and Cultural Venues Focus Group:...... 24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group Room:...... Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Participants:...... Patricia Herrera, Dartmouth College Witches, Butterflies, and Healers: Spiritual Performance Activism in the Work of Nuyorican Solo Performers Tiffany Ana López, University of California, Riverside The Politicization of Violence in the Work of Miguel Pinero and Migdalia Cruz Marisol Negrón, Brandeis University “El Cantante”: Negotiating Performance, Cultural Authority, and Proprietary Rights during the 1970s New York Salsa “Boom” Wilson Valentín-Escobar, Hampshire College Multiple Publics and Converging Aesthetics: Re-Performing the City Between Harlem to Loisada Respondent:...... Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez Mt. Holyoke College This panel examines how various forms of productions, be it musical, theatrical, or institutional, intervene in the making and re-making of Nuyorican aesthetics, styles, and forms.

Pedagogical Dialogues: Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Focus Group:...... 26 (PDC) Professional Development Committee Room:...... Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University Carbondale MI as the Bases for Course Development in Undergraduate Theatre Participants:...... Valerie French, American University Between Reason and Passion: Athens and Antigone Gail Humphries Mardirosian, American University Between Reason and Passion: Athens and Antigone Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Washington MI: Acting, Voice, Movement and Shakespeare Jenna Moscowitz, Cambridge Center for Adult Education MI and Young Audiences, Inc. Seymour Simmons, Winthrop University MI and Art Inspired by Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences this panel engages in the difficult dialogue of reaching the learner on a variety of levels from multiple perspectives.

Performing History - Engaging and Innovative Theatre Focus Group:...... 15 (STRP) Senior Theatre Research and Performance Room:...... Pikes Peak – 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Steven Pennell University of Rhode Island Participants:...... 8 members of Unexpected, Unexpected Company of Laramie c/o Germaine St. Fables, Foibles and Follies of Laramie City Marsha Yowell “Montana Love Story” the life painter Charles Marion Russell and his wife Nancy Bob Yowell, Northern Arizona State University “Montana Love Story” the life painter Charles Marion Russell and his wife Nancy Performing History, exploring and critiquing the past in perfomrance can be engaging an innovative theatre. Two area productions share performances.

*LINKS* Playing to Transgress: A Forum and Playback Theatre Workshop For Generating Dialogue in the Multicultural/Multilingual Classroom Focus Group:...... 16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change Room:...... Castle Peak – 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Co-Coordinators:...... Nestor Bravo-Goldsmith, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Jorge Gonzalez, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Mariah Keko, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Jen Yin Lin, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Isel Rodriguez, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Xanthia Walker, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts Phyllis Wong, Arizona State University-Herberger College of the Arts The goal for our workshop is to take the real life scenarios that the academic community encounters in the multicultural/multilingual classroom and engage in a process of critical dialogue through the use of forum and playback theatre.

Plenary Breakout Session Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Crestone Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt); Grand Ballroom Foyer – 2nd Floor July(Hyatt) 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 67 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (cont.) Taxonomy of Digital Performance II: The Difficult Dialogue Between Virtual and Real Focus Group:...... 25 (ETC) Electronic Technology Committee Room:...... Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Stephen Schrum, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg “Virtuality: A Production of Euripides THE BACCHAE in Second Life” Chair:...... Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University Participants:...... Vanessa Ford, University of Georgia “Let’s Get Physical: Corporeal Embodiment in Virtual Theaters” Nadja Masura “Reflections on Digital Theatre” With mediated communication becoming more prevalent, theatre practitioners are turning to virtual worlds as performance venues. The panelists examine ways in which the lines between virtual and real are blurring.

Theatre Education As Life Preparation: A Discussion of Howard Gardner’s FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE Focus Group:...... 19 (TLA) Theatre as a Liberal Art Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Beth Watkins, Allegheny College Participants:...... Cynthia Allan, Pittsburg State University Five Minds, One Discipline: The Future of Theatre Education Sarah Rudolph, University of Wisconsin Colleges Community-Based Theatre in the Curriculum: How Many Minds Can Come Together? Richard Runkel, Alverno College Beyond Basics in the General Education Curriculum: How Theatre Courses Develop Respectful and Ethical Minds Panelists share their research and responses to stimulate an open discussion of Howard Gardner’s FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE.

Theatre History Debut Panel Focus Group:...... 18 (TH) Theatre and History Room:...... Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Daniel Smith, Northwestern University Participants:...... Nathan Hedman Philippe de Loutherbourg and the Cross-Class Exorcism of the Demonic Stephen Huff “Disciplined Heads: Eighteenth-Century British Culture and “The Lecture on Heads” Tom Robson The Mercury Cradle: Orson Welles’ Forgotten Staging of “The Cradle Will Rock” Respondent:...... Natayla Baldyga, Florida State University Emerging scholars present work that has been selected by a jury of three theatre historians.

4:00 PM - 7:15 PM Adjudicated Workshop of Debut and Adapted Acting Exercises Focus Group:...... 1 (AP) Acting Progam Room:...... Mt. Oxford - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Pamela Chabora, Ph.D, North Dakota State University Theatre Arts Participants:...... Hillary Bucs, Western New England College Acting Action Verbs Joan Kole, Age Quake Theatre, Artistic director Acting Skills for Special Populations (Older adults and Developmentally Challenged) Lori Leigh, Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Revitalizing the Monologue Ann Shanahan, Loyola University Chicago Environmental Theatre Project Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois at Springfield The Non-Verbal Verb Game Respondents:...... Kelly Lynn Hogan, Knox College Lionel Walsh, University of Windsor A participatory workshop presenting a variety of new acting exercises (and adapted old exercises) developed by the presenters to deal with specific acting problems.

July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver 68 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 4:00 PM - 7:15 PM (cont.) Living Difficult Dialogues: LGBTQ Playwrights Engaging the World Focus Group:...... 10 (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Room:...... Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Frank Miller, Georgia State University Participants:...... Tony Berto, University of Guelph Laramie Dean, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Rich Espey, Baltimore Playwrights Festival Jon Fraser, C.W. Post Campus/Long Island Univerisity David Gaard Max Hafler, National University of Ireland Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University Benjamin Marshall, Middlesex Community College Robin Reese, Penn State Altoona Susan Russell, Penn State University Vanda Wark, Metropolitan College of New York A broad cross-section of LGBTQ playwrights discuss the unique challenges and rewards of writing theatre that expresses alternative views of sexuality and gender, and present brief readings from their works.

Paid Workshop: Dijana Milosevic: Workshop on Actor Training Using Barba Techniques Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Mt. Columbia - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Dijana Milosevic, Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic This workshop will be of great interest to actors, directors, playwrights, and those specializing in voice, movement, performance studies and theatre and social change.

The Inner Work of the Viewpoints: Mindfulness-Awareness Practice and Elegant Pedestrian Vocabulary Applied to the Inner Work of the Viewpoints Focus Group:...... 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room:...... Training Office – 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Session Coordinator:....Bethany Jean Urban, Naropa University Teachers:...... Wendell Beavers, Naropa University Barbara Dilley, Naropa University Applying mindfulness-awareness—the ground of meditation practice—to “maps of space” and viewpoint lenses of emotion, image/story, and somatic sensation. Based on work being developed at Naropa University’s MFA program.

Staged Reading of David Mark Cohen Award Winning Play Focus Group:...... 12 (PACT) Playwrights and Creative Team Room:...... Mt. Sopris – Lobby Level (Hyatt) Session Chairs and Program Coordinators:...... Dennis Black, Freelance Sharon Mills Andrews, Wake Forest University New Plays Production Coordinator:...... Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University Play:...... ELEPHANT’S GRAVEYARD, by George Brant, University of Texas, Austin David Mark Cohen Award Alternate Winners: Second Place:...... Jimmy Cory, by Kevin Daly, Indiana University Third Place:...... Sow and Weep, by Nitzan Halperin Director:...... Dan Patterson, Keene State College Assistant Director:...... Pam Pepper, Lehigh University Production Assistant:...Barbara Waldinger, Queens College ACTORS:...... Daniel Ballard, Texas Tech University Steven G. Berglund, Central Michigan University Jason Conner, Western Illinois University Katie Courtien, Brooklyn College, CUNY Steve Earnest, Coastal Carolina University Kim B. Harris, William Jewell College PeggyRae Johnson, Keene State College Wil Kilroy, University of Southern Maine Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University Brent Stansell, Brooklyn College, CUNY Robin Stone, Roger Williams University Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson, University of Illinois, Springfield Crystal Verdon, Freelance Barbara Waldinger, Queens College Greg White, Freelance Public performance of the 2008 winner of the David Mark Cohen Award Winning play, to be followed by an open discussion with the playwright, director, and cast. July 31- August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 69 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 4:00 PM -5:30 PM We’re Not in Kansas Anymore?: Teaching Race and Gender issues in the Midwest Focus Group:...... 5 (BTA) Black Theatre Association Room:...... Sunlight Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Session Coordinator:....Donna Edmond, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis Co-Coordinator:...... Paul Jackson, Miami University Participant...... Kathryn Bentley, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Regina Turner, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Changing demographics in the mid west require that ATHE address this topic. “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore?: Teaching Race and Gender issues in the "Midwest" seeks to explore race and gender concerns in a region that historically has been behind in dealing with issues of race and gender.

5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Acting Theory and Classroom Pedagogy Focus Group:...... 01 (AP) Acting Program Room:...... Castle Peak – 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club)

American Theatre and Drama Society Debut Panel Focus Group:...... 2 (ATDS) American Theatre and Drama Society Room:...... Mt. Wilson - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Cheryl Black, University of Missouri ATDS Debut Panel Introduces New Scholarship in American Theatre and Drama.

Book and Performance Review Writing Workshop Focus Group:...... 28 (RPC) Research & Publications Committee Room:...... Blanca Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Judith Sebesta, University of Missouri-Columbia Participants:...... Terry Brino-Dean, Seton Hill University Melissa Gibson, California State University, Fresno THEATRE JOURNAL and THEATRE TOPICS book and performance review editors offer an interactive workshop designed to help younger scholars propose and submit reviews to the journals.

Capturing the Ineffable: A Tribute to Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) Focus Group:...... 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement Educators Room:...... Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Ken Elston, George Mason University Marcel Marceau: Breathing Things True Jeanine Thompson, The Ohio State University Physicalizing the Thought: Marceau’s Techniques & Playwriting Style Annette Thornton, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI The Language of the Heart: Marcel Marceau’s Legacy Three students of Marcel Marceau discuss his life and work, the influence of his teachings in our current work, and the challenges and joys of carrying on a master’s legacy.

Disabled Performers In (and Against) the Mainstream Focus Group:...... 16 (TASC) Theatre and Social Change Room:...... Mt. Evans B- 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Oliver Gerland, University of Colorado at Boulder Participants:...... Victoria Ann Lewis, University of Redlands The Last Taboo: The Disabled Actor Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University Crip Humor in the Florida Actual Lives Project Leading disability rights activists, scholars and theatre artists address the relationship between disabled performers and dominant trends in American society, actor training, and stage practice.

Dramaturgy, the Dramaturg, and Conversation: Challenges and Opportunities Both Inside and Outside the Rehearsal Hall Focus Group:...... 30 (LMDA) Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas Room:...... Mt. Princeton - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....Geoffrey Proehl, University of Puget Sound Chair:...... L. Indra Lusero, Luz Reproductive Justice Think Tank Participants:...... Gretchen Haley, Iliff Theological Seminary DD Kugler, Simon Fraser This panel examines the relationship between dramaturgy and conversation, exploring the difficulties and potential that human be- July 31- August 3, 2008 ings encounter when they attempt to bridge the gap between one self and another. Grand Hyatt Denver 70 Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM (cont.) Embodied Dialogues: The Work of Naomi Wallace Focus Group:...... 23 (WTP) Women and Theatre Program Room:...... Mt. Evans A - 2nd Floor (HCC) Chair:...... Erica Stevens Abbitt, University of Windsor Written on the Body (Politic): The Innovative Praxis of Naomi Wallace Session Coordinator:....Lindsay Cummings, Cornell University The Speaking Body: Naomi Wallace and the Performance of the Self Participants:...... Erica Stevens Abbitt, Savannah State University The Culmination of the Politics and Identity of Wallace’s Body of Dramatic Works in “Things of Dry Hours” Charles Haugland Transformations of Menace: Threat, Naomi Wallace, and the Legacy of Harold Pinter This panel explores the ways in which Naomi Wallace’s plays create, provoke, and embody dialogues on politics, identity, affect, and social change.

Engaging Dialogue: Voices of Reception Focus Group:...... 17 (TC) Theory and Criticism Room:...... Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Chase Bringardner, University of Texas at Austin Pitching the Pitch to Pocket the Velvet: Consumerism as Engaged Response in the Medicine Show Chair:...... Christin Essin Yannacci, University of Arizona Participants:...... Kelly Howe, University of Texas at Austin “Can I tell them what it means yet?”: Using Image Theatre to Facilitate Dialogue and Explore Reception Theories in Large Lecture Classrooms Stefka Mihaylova, Northwestern University Viewers in Distress: Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Democratic Dialogue as a Theory of Spectatorship Jon Sherman, Northwestern University Absent Touches: Space, Documentation, and Performance Respondent:...... Stacy Wolf, Princeton University In this panel, part of the “Engaging Dialogue” series, participants investigate the relationship between the dialogic and reception to challenge notions of dialogue as an always necessarily positive or productive practice.

Is home where you are or is home where you come from: Enacting Difficult Dialogues in Hybrid Reality Focus Group:...... 7 (DR) Dramaturgy Room:...... Pikes Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Judith Rudakoff, York University The Photobiography Project and Roots/Routes Journeys to Home: Border Crossings in Hybrid Reality Participants:...... Andrew Houston , University of Waterloo Ashley’s Parking Space: the Commute from Cyberspace to a Concrete Place in Paved over Paradise Laura Levin, York University Transnational Sitings: Finding Common Ground in Online Performance Jorge Luis Morejon, York University The Exiled Voice: Cybertheatrical Performance in a Multivocal Ritualized Space Common Plants: Cross Pollinations in Hybrid Reality is a transcultural, multidisciplinary, international research/creation project working with professional artists and students to create and share original work inspired by the common themes of exploration of home, voice and identity through a website.

Issues in Asian Theatre Pedagogy Focus Group:...... 3 (AAP) Association for Asian Performance Room:...... Mt. Yale - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Session Coordinator:....David Jortner, Penn State -Erie, The Behrend College Participants:...... Claire Conceison , Tufts University David Jortner, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College John Weinstein, Simon’s Rock of Bard Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University Asian theatre specialists will discuss strategies for increasing the incorporation and understanding of both modern and classical Asian theatre forms into a general theatre curriculum.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM (cont.) Latina/o Community in Theater and Theater in the Latina/o Community Focus Group:...... 24 (LFG) Latina/o Focus Group Room:...... Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC) Session Coordinator:....Michelle Lopez-Rios, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Nuestra Voz, Nuestra Historia: Our Voice, Our Story; A Community Production in Milwaukee Co-Coordinators:...... Marcela A. Fuentes, New York University Models of Political Engagement: El Teatro Jornalero! and Secos y Mojados Community Theater and Latin/a/o Aesthetics Coya Paz, Northwestern University “We Drink Tecate and Listen to Aventura”: Pan-Latinidad and Community Building in Chicago Latina Theater This combination panel and workshop will explore theater that reacts to the issues faced by Latinas/os, that is created by Latinas/os, and engages dialogue in the community.

Music Theatre/Dance Informal Meeting Focus Group:...... 11 (MTD) Music Theatre/Dance Room:...... Maroon Peak - 2nd Floor (Hyatt) Chair:...... Mary Jo Lodge, Lafayette College Session Coordinator:....Ron Gingerich, Dickinson State University An informal gathering of all who are interested in Music Theatre and Dance. An opportunity to renew old friendships and make new ones.

Negotiating Scenography: Design Processes in Devised Performance Focus Group:...... 6 (DT) Design and Technology Room:...... Mt. Harvard - 3rd Floor (Hyatt) Co-Coordinators:...... Sarah Martin, Adelphi University Devising with Scenography: The work of Kristen Marting at the HERE Arts Centre Participants:...... Phil Groeschel, University of Missouri - Columbia Comprehension from Incomprehensibility: John Conklin’s ‘Dance of Death’ Ethan Krupp, Bloomsburg University Scenography in the Tectonic Theatre Project Session Coordinator:....Anthony Dean, University of Winchester, UK Scenography in the work of Anne Bogart This session explores the dynamic role of scenography in devised or visually-led performance through an examination of sceno- graphic processes exemplified in the work of specific theatre practitioners and practices.

*LINKS* Performance Studies and Improvisation Focus Group:...... 13 (PS) Performance Studies Room:...... Sunlight Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Joshua Abrams, Roehampton Univesity Session Coordinator:....Peter Civetta, Northwestern University Participants:...... Richard Pettingill , Lake Forest College The Performance of Authenticity in Improvisational Music Jeffrey Scott, Texas Tech University Nonlinear Aspects of Improvisation Lian Sifuentes, Colorado College Beautiful Street Theater: 72 hours on the Union Square Traffic Island, NYC This panel brings the Link’s theme of improvisation to the world of Performance Studies, exploring how the two interact and engage with each other.

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Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) 5:45 PM - 7:15PM The Ultimate “Difficult Dialogue”: Theatre Riots Focus Group:...... 18 (TH) Theatre and History Room:...... La Plata Peak - 37th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Kevin Browne, University of Central Arkansas Session Coordinator:....Rick Jones, Stephen F. Austin State University Of Pre-Meditation and Precedent: Thoughts on the “Bottle Riot” of 1822 Participants:...... Cindy Bates, Siena College Unlikely Catalysts: Encouraging Theater Riots in the Press Patrick Bynane, Texas Woman’s University As Good a Gentleman as You Are: Thomas Sheridan and the 1747 Smock Alley Riots This session looks at theatre riots, concentrating on three events not directly related to the content of the play being presented: the 1747 riots at Smock Alley, the 1822 “Bottle Riot,” and the Astor Place Riots.

5:45 PM - 8:00 PM "Two-Year" College Focus Group Dinner Out Focus Group:...... 21 (TYCP) Two-Year College Program Room:...... Off-Site Session Coordinator:....Barbara Marder TYCP TYCP members have dinner and chat together at a convenient nearby restaurant. Site will be posted on conference bulletin board.

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Casual Conversation: A Graduate Student Social Event and Open Forum with New Hires Focus Group:...... 26 (PDC) Professional Development Committee Room:...... Off-Site Session Coordinator.....Emily Cherry, Western Illinois University Co-Coordinator...... Christopher Krejci, Louisiana State University Participants:...... Jay Gipson-King, Florida State University Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Washington Jennifer Popple, University of Colorado, Boulder This off-site social event will be a casual gathering of graduate students, GSSC representatives, and junior faculty to encourage cross-university networking and mentorship. Please meet in hotel lobby.

microFringe Festival Stage #1 Focus Group:...... 45 microFringe Festival Room:...... Mt. Elbert - 2nd Floor (HCC)

8:00 PM- 8:30 PM Cranberry: The Human Revelation of Joan Crawford Matt Saltzberg, University of Missouri-Columbia “Cranberry” is a solo performance of an adaptation of an interview between Joan Crawford and entertainment journalist Arthur Unger, found in the UMC’s Western Historical Manuscript collection.

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM Cul.de.sac Meridith Crosley Gary Grundei Lizi Watt Cul.de.sac is a story told through the images of Norman Rockwell and physical story telling about a wife and husband who seemed to be living the perfect suburban life…

10:00 PM - 10:30 PM Improvisation within set material: an examination via live performance in the solo theater piece, “Happiness.” Heather Harpham A twenty minute performance piece, “Happiness,” followed by brief question and answer period. Developed using the improvisation techniques of Action Theater, this piece explores questions of the body’s fragility and regeneration power.

10:45 PM - 11:15 PM She and the Empty Living Room Jorge Rubio, Colgate University Carolina Sotolano, Colgate University April Sweeney, Colgate University A chamber play in one-act. An exploration of (anti) communication, disobedient tongues, a missing left foot, a dance, a relationship, a poem, or a broken heart. She and the Empty Living Room is a play in translation (literally) about the act of translation, repression/oppression, and the language in your head that turns you into someoneJuly 31- else.August 3, 2008 Grand Hyatt Denver Denver, CO 73 ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) microFringe Festival Stage #2 Focus Group:...... 45 microFringe Festival Room:...... Grays Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Tornado Season Emily Harrison, University of Colorado TORNADO SEASON: a work in progress exploring the intersections of faith and weather phenomenon: where the Bible Belt meets Tornado Alley; where floods meet fires; cowboys, debutantes, crystal meth, America.

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM “Nine months - A Journey” Tammy Meneghini, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “Nine months - A Journey” - A retrospective journey through movement, song, and story of one womans’ journey across the prairie into a whole new landscape called "motherhood."

9:30 PM - 9:45 PM Color me White Dan Crozier, Allegheny College A white, middle aged, gawky, heterosexual, Caucasian male’s struggle with identity. So, what’s the problem?

10:00 PM - 10:30 PM “Violence in Our Times” Kato Buss, University of Oregon Kathy Thomas, University of Oregon Robert Vrtis, University of Oregon This swordfighting extravaganza ricochets from the dawn of time, through the Crusades, and the Opium Wards, to reveal today’s tension between war, economy, religion, and the fruits of the Earth.

microFringe Festival Stage #3 Focus Group:...... 45 Micro-Fringe Festival Room:...... Longs Peak - 2nd Floor (HCC)

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Stage #3 - 8 x 10 Penny Cole, University of Colorado 8 X 10 is a performance piece consisting of eight separate monologues, each approximately 3 minutes in length, reflecting various points of view about the war in Iraq.

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM “Good At That” Leslie Pasternack, Muhlenberg College “Good At That,” by Leslie Pasternack, introduces a gentle janitor who takes pride in his (sometimes unsavory) work. Meet the friend you’ll want near you at the end.

9:30 PM - 9:45 PM “The War Overseas: A Love Story – A Reading” Rebecca Daniels, St. Lawrence University Based on actual wartime letters, and told from a daughter’s perspective, this one-woman performance (from a larger work in progress) juxtaposes WWII experiences with the love story in those letters.

10:00 PM - 10:30 PM Chat/piles: A Body of Memory and Place Meg Sullivan, University of Texas, Austin A multi-vocal solo performance, Chat/piles: A Body of Memory weaves history, ethnography, and geography to manifest place as in-process, a form of resistance, and a site for hopeful imagining.

10:45 PM - 11:15 PM “Scenes from DEAD MAN WALKING by Tim Robins; Past Directors of “Dead Man Walking” will present scenes from the play, a powerful dramatization of the personal side of the death penalty. They will also host a talk-back. Michael Elkins, Norte Dame de Namur University James Gallant, Elms College Charlene Gould, Avila College July 31- August 3, 2008 Barbara Marder, Anne Arundel Community College Grand Hyatt Denver 74 Ann Shanahan, Loyola University Chicago John Taylor, Adams State College Denver, CO ATHE’s 22nd Conference: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement Concurrent Sessions

Friday, August 1, 2008 (cont.) microFringe Festival Stage #4 Focus Group:...... 45 Micro-Fringe Festival Room:...... Mt Evans A & B – 2nd Floor (HCC)

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Cabaret Murderess Elise Morrison, Brown University Molly Flynn, Brown University Michell Liu Carriger, Brown University Cabaret Murderess utilizes live-action film, site-specificity and a critical research/performance process to explore the interplay between contemporary women’s bodies and the lives of the women of Denver’s “Wild West” brothels.

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING. Bill Bowers hit Off Broadway solo play. Hilarious, Heartbreaking, and unbelievable TRUE STORIES . Bill Bowers Selections from Bil Bowers’ hit Off Broadway play, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING. Hilarious, heartbreaking and unbelievable TRUE STORIES from the life of this mime and actor. Growing up in the wilds of Montana, working On Broadway, and studying with Marcel Marceau.

9:30 PM - 9:45 PM Improvisation #105 Sarah Hickler, Emerson College Improvisation #105 is an improvisational physical theater solo, based in the practice of Action Theater™. ActionTheater™ is a physical approach to actor training and performance that integrates movement, vocalization and speech.

10:00 PM - 10:30 PM Festus the 3-Legged Wonder Dog Domenick Scudera, Ursinus College This performance piece explores the crazy real-life adventures of one mischievous, special, 3-legged therapy dog and the amazing people he has met.

10:45 PM - 11:15 PM “99 Questions You’ve Always wanted To Ask An African American” Mark Cryer, Hamilton College “99” is a multi-media play about race. Armed with a video camera actor, playwright Mark Cryer weaves a funny, poignant and powerful story about what we know about each other as the other.

11:00 PM - 12:30 AM Journal Editors’ Reception Focus Group:....28 (RPC) Research & Publications Committee Room:...... Crystal Peak – 38th Floor (Pinnacle Club)

Saturday, August 2, 2008 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM FGR Breakfast with the President Focus Group:...... 38 (CC) Conference Committee Room:...... Crystal Peak – 38th Floor (Pinnacle Club) Chair:...... Steve Peters, Wayne State University

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM ATME Warm-Up Session Focus Group:...... 4 (ATME) Association for Theatre Movement EducatorsRoom: Room...... Grand Ballroom Foyer- 2nd Floor (Hyatt)

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