FLORIDAFALLFALL 2010 2010 THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS FLORIDA FLORIDA THEATRE THEATRE CONFERENCE CONFERENCE WINTER NEWS NEWS 2015 Volume 55 Issue 2 Volume 60 Issue I Fall 2010 Winter 2015 Inside this issue: SETC Festival 2014 Report .................... 2 Secondary School One Acts ....... 3 Secondary School Tech Olympics .. 4 ANNUAL CONVENTION Theatre for Youth Festival ........... 5 March 4–8, 2015 Chattanooga, TN Middle School Festival ................ 6 FTC Scholarships Winners .......... 6 FTC’s Got Talent Winners ........... 6 “Top Ten Reasons for Theatre” .... 7 Community Theatre Festival ........ 8 Distinguished Career Awards .... 10 Festival 2014 Photo Call ............ 12 FTC Board of Directors ............. 14 “Memories of Festival 2014” ..... 15 FTC Membership Form ............ 16 Schedule of Florida Theatres .... 17 FLORIDATheatre is the official newsletter of the Florida Theatre Conference for theatres through- Limelight Theatre’s production of {title of show} will compete at SETC out the state of Florida. As in previous years, FTC will be well represented at South- FLORIDATheatre is published eastern Theatre Conference’s 66th Annual Convention, the largest three times a year and is free of theatre convention of its kind in the country. SETC will bring more charge. To be added to the mail- than 4,000 actors, professional company representatives, design and ing list, contact Steve Bayless at technical professionals, theatre educators, high school and college [email protected] students, commercial exhibitors, community theatre producers and theatre lovers to downtown Chattanooga. President Rick Kerby Limelight Theatre will present their production of [title of show] Executive Director in the Community Theatre Festival. In the High School Theatre Steve Bayless Festival, West Orange High School and Gulf Breeze High School Editor will present their productions of Elephant Man and Next To Normal Susan M. Smith and the Middle School production in SETC’s Fringe Festival will be Orlando’s Howard Middle School with Alex. www.flatheatre.org The SETC Convention will be held at the Chattanooga Con- vention Center, and will also take place at the Chattanooga Theatre Center and the Tivoli Theatre. Attendees will participate in a variety of more than 300 work- continued on Page 9 1 WINTER 2015 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS Festival 2014 Report by Steve Bayless, FTC Executive Director The 2014 Annual Florida Theatre Conference atre [title of show]. Festival (FTC) opened with the presentation from the Over sixty workshops were presented by 58 Asolo Repertory Theatre of A Midsummer Night’s separate presenters, covering everything from Dream. The production was intriguing and well theatre management, to long and short form im- staged and the audience was so involved there was prov, technical theatre sessions, acting, singing, a hush over the crowd (with the occasional laugh or musical theatre and dance. These workshops gasp of surprise). The crowd jumped to their feet at were more popular than ever with a total Con- the conclusion with thunderous applause. After the ference attendance of 1,450 people. production, the actors spent about 45 minutes in a The audition process is a strong component “Talk Back” session with the audience. at FTC; we hosted high school and two year Each of the five play festivals were well attended college transfer auditions for college admission and the audiences and the adjudicators seem pleased and the annual SETC Preliminary Auditions for with the quality and variety of the shows. There were summer entertainment employment for college three Community Theatre Productions, seven Theatre students wishing to move on to the SETC audi- for Youth Productions, two Middle School Produc- tions in March at Chattanooga, TN. tions, and 19 High School One-Act Productions. High School student auditions: 257 Actor/ The following productions will represent the state Musical Theatre students auditioned and 25 of Florida at the annual Southeastern Theatre Confer- Technical students auditioned. ence in March 2015: Transfer students auditions: 43 College Middle School production in the SETC Fringe students auditions Festival: Howard Middle School with Alex SETC Preliminary auditions: 220 college/ High School One-Act productions: Gulf Breeze university students auditioned High School with Next to Normal and West Orange FTC Scholarship auditions: 12 students High School with The Elephant Man completed their paperwork for the two $1,000. Community Theatre production: Limelight The- Scholarships. 2 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS WINTER 2015 Secondary School One-Act Play Festival TWO BEST PLAYS Gulf Breeze High School - Next To Normal West Orange High School - Elephant Man BEST ENSEMBLE CAST RUNNER UP FOR BEST PLAY Booker High School Gateway High School - Vortex Gulf Breeze High School and West Orange High School will be invited to attend and compete at the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s 2015 Annual Conference in Chattanooga, TN, March 5–6. TIE FOR BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS Isaiah Rothstein, West Orange High School Maggie Renfroe, Gulf Breeze High School Fredd Joseph, Gateway High School BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Alex Crosby Blake Lafita West Orange High School Palm Harbor University High School (not pictured) BEST TECH 1st Place Skylar Westak, West Orange High School 2nd Place Verred Havemann, Gulf Breeze High School 3 WINTER 2015 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS Secondary School One-Act Play Festival continued ALL-STAR CAST BEST ENSEMBLE CAST F. W. Buchholz High School Emily Garcia Molly Washington Courtney Hrivnak Lena Sakalla Holmes County High School – Cats Gulf Breeze High School – Next To Normal Tori Steverson Bailey Foxworth Dillon Berry Gage Thomas David Carbaugh Maddie Mateer New World School of the Arts – Inspector General Bayshore High School – Homeless Hamlet Lys-Anaise Marcelin Emma Cuba Brandie Sanchez Academy of Arts & Minds – Trojan Women Seven Rivers Christian School – Check Please Arielle Munteanu Camila Duarte Vienna Sicard Connor Hoey Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High George Jenkins High School – Medea School – Mary Just Broke Up With This Guy Phoebe Alach Ian Mahoney Booker High School – Our Town Fort Walton Beach – Couch Potato Olivia Siegel Lilianna Solum Jimmy Pierce Lecanto High School – 10 Ways To Survive A PK Yonge at University of Florida - Abra Cadaver Zombie Apocalypse Jack Polefko Taylor Black Dr Phillips High School – Clybourne Park Gateway High School – Vortex Ciera Harding Kyle Kleckner Felipe Caitas Palm Harbor University – I Never Saw Another Butterfly F.W. Buchholz High School Erica Perez Lena Sakalla and Kaitlyn Koralewski West Orange High School – Elephant Man Zachary Croft Matt Guernier SECONDARY SCHOOL TECH OLYMPICS WINNER West Orange High School Macy Rhein, Amber Denis, Skylar Wostak, Zachary Croft RUNNER-UP Amos Godby High School Searcy Holley, Bryce Collins, Marcus Donaldson, Jalia Reddick, Ileana Valdez, Tolu OlorunSogo West Orange High School Tech team 4 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS WINTER 2015 Theatre for Youth Festival Outstanding Actress: Jordan Green, Osceola Center for the Arts Greek Mythology Olympiaganza Outstanding Actor: Jorge Jimenez, Osceola Center for the Arts Greek Mythology Olympiaganza Supporting Actress: Meghan Mammoliti, Bay Street Players Young People’s Theatre Dear Edwina Jr Supporting Actor: Kirk Simpson, Bay Street Players Young People’s Theatre Jordan Green and Jorge Jimenez Dear Edwina Jr ALL-STAR CAST U. B. Kinsey Palmview Elementary School of the Osceola Center for the Arts Arts – Patchwork Greek Mythology Olympiaganza Dana Sainvil, Chelise Jones, Kaitlyn Diaz Megan Greco, Sophia Diaz Riley Frielich Be Yourself Co. – Myth Adventures Bay Street Players Young People’s Theatre – Aimee Haufman Dear Edwina Jr. Bridgt Nievinski Magic Curtain Productions MCP Mini Troupe 101 Dalmations Kids Magic Curtain Productions – Charlotte’s Web Payton Lacy Jessica McInis All Star Cast members - Payton Lacy, Aimee Haufman and Jes- OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE sica McInis Be Yourself Company Myth Adventures 5 WINTER 2015 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS Middle School Play Festival Outstanding One Act Alex Howard Middle School Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Caleb Unold Alison Dodson Bully Bully Bully Bully Howard Middle School Howard Middle School All Star Cast Howard Middle School Bully Bullly Alex Director Vickie Treulieh Mia Camps and Pricilla Garcia and River Watkins FTC Scholarship Winners 2014 Fran Walker Scholarship Logan Thomas Goodsen, Ft. Walton Beach High School 2014 Vern Bryant Scholarship Rhiannon R. Bush, St. Cloud High School FTC’s Got Talent 1st. Place Victoria Byrd and Solo Matelau, Booker High School 2nd. Place Anneliese Moon, West Orange High School HONORABLE MENTION Ashley Pachkoski, Seminole High School 6 FLORIDA THEATRE CONFERENCE NEWS WINTER 2015 The Top Ten Reasons Why Theatre is Still Important in the Twenty-First Century By Kevin Brown In a keynote speech addressed to the Association of Theatre in Higher Education in 1992, perfor- mance studies scholar Richard Schechner infamously declared: “Theatre as we have known and practiced it – the staging of written dramas – will be the string quartet of the 21st century”. We are now more than two decades removed from this provocation. What, if anything, has changed about the state of theatre in the twenty-first century? Is theatre dead, as Schechner predicted, or is it still very much alive and breath- ing? In the spirit of retiring “Late Show” host David Letterman’s famous