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Fitchburg State College in association with ALPS/Advanced Lighting & Production Services, Inc., City of Fitchburg, Four Points by Sheraton and Montachusett Regional

Vocational Technical School welcomes you to the

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 41

Region I, January 27-February 1, 2009

Region I is proud to have ALPS/Advanced Lighting & Production Services, Inc., as our primary 2009 participating sponsor.

Theater at the Kennedy Center is presented with the generous support of Stephen and Christine Schwarzman

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is sponsored by The U.S. Department of Education; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Kennedy

Center Corporate Fund; and The National Committee for the Performing Arts.

KCACTF Region I Officers and Executive Committee

ChairKelly C. Morgan

Vice Chairs Jim Murphy Linda M. Sutherland

2nd Vice ChairsRaina Ames (Irene Ryan Chair)

Catherine Hurst (Directing Chair)Directing Committee

Peter Sampieri Adam ZahlerPlaywrighting Co-Chairs

Robert Boles Crystal BrianPlaywrighting Co-Vice Chairs

Brandt Reiter Laurence TocciPlaywrighting 2nd Vice Chair

Jack SheaCritics Workshop Chair

Dan Patterson, Critics Workshop Vice-Chair

Scott R. GagnonDesign & Technology Co-Chairs

John Paul Devlin F. Chase Rozelle, IIIDesign & Technology Co-Vice-Chairs

Eric Cornwell Luke SutherlandDesign & Technology 2nd Co-Vice Chairs

Rafael Jaen Elinor ParkerDramaturgy ChairMagda Romanska

Dramaturgy Vice-ChairSabine Klein

Respondents ChairKathleen Sills

Diversity ChairMary C. Vreeland

National Selection Team Kaleta Brown, Cathy Norgren, Steve Reynolds, Gregg Henry

National Board RepresentativeDavid C. (Kip) Shawger

Festival Production RespondentsMatt Chapman, Lisa Dalton, Russell Garrett, Jerry Goralnick, Tony Howarth, Melissa Hurt, Maggie Lally, Lois Kagan Mingus, Bruce Robinson, William Roudebush, William Schill

Festival Design/Tech Respondents/JudgesJohn Hill, William Kenyon, Cynthia Lee-Sullivan, Anne Mundell, Tina Shackleford, David C. (Kip) Shawger

Regional Selection TeamRaina Ames. Jim Beauregard, Robert Boles, Crystal Brian, Scott Gagnon, Cathy Hurst, Kelly Morgan, Jim Murphy, Dan Patterson, Kathleen Sills, Linda Murphy Sutherland

Irene Ryan JudgesPreliminaries: Lisa Dalton, Russell Garrett, Tim Gleason, Gregg Henry, Lois Kagan Mingus, Mary C. VreelandSemi-Finals: Maggie Lally, Austin Pendleton, Bill RoudebushFinals: Jan Buttram, Mitchell Riggs

Irene Ryan RespondentsPreliminaries: Matt Chapman, Connie Crawford, Erica Hager, Patricia Hawkridge, Melissa Hurt, Kaia MonroeSemi-Finals: Maggie Lally, Bill RoudebushFinals: Jan Buttram, Mitchell Riggs

Student Director Fellowship JudgesRussell Garrett, Gregg Henry, Maggie Lally

Dramaturgy JudgesBridget Frey, Matthew Wilson Smith

Poster CoordinatorSusan Sanders

Poster Design JudgePatricia Kidney

Irene Ryan Coordinator-Jennifer Ouellette

Festival Director–Kelly Morgan

Festival Technical Director Coordinator–Cap Corduan

Administrative Director–Sharon Bernard

Administrative Staff–Jennifer Ouellette

Management InternsAndrew Ciaravino and Michael Kent (Quinnipiac University)

Administrative InternsJeffrey Brazeau (Westfield State College), Caroline Hill (University of Vermont), Tiffany Plante (Keene State College), Matt Gagnon (University of Maine at Machais)

Workshop Coordinator–Steven Bergman

Hospitality Hosts–Matthew Nesmith and Robin Stone

Accompanist-Alisa Bucchiere

House Manager–Kelly Stowell

Festival Assistant-Elisabeth Hughes

Photographer-Jerry Kean

Technical Director for the Dukakis Center for the Performing ArtsJames Dougherty (Middlebury College)

Technical Director/Assistant for Weston AuditoriumLuke J. Sutherland (Community College of Rhode Island), Dir.Matt Babcock (Fitchburg State College), Asst.

Technical Director for McKay AuditoriumJo Nazro (Fitchburg State College)

Technical for Sheraton EventsF. Chase Rozelle III (Eastern Connecticut State College)

Drivers, Guides and additional servicesCoordinator–Michael J. BabineauFitchburg State College Students

Fitchburg State College Technical CrewCraig AllenShannon CreedonDaniel DalyBrittany FaulknerKyle FayanKim HeymanJessie HoyerKatherine Johnson Douglas Maffetone Veronica Moral Kimberly RoseApril Totten

Stage Managers and Time Keepers If there is room I’d like College and University spelled out.Miryam Andrews-Ohlman (Saint Michael’s Coll.)

Sara Bastin (Bridgewater State Coll.)Kat Bernhard (Castleton Coll.)Michael Block (Boston U)Nicholas Bussett (Jenna Cicerone (Worcester State Coll.)Gilly Clarke-Moon (Elise Couisineau (U of Vermont)Robin Fountaine (Samantha Gati (Quinnipiac U)Emily Hyman (U of Vermont)Molly Kaufhold (Rhode Island Coll.)Jessica Kody (Meghan O’Donnell (Bridgewater State Coll.)Stacia Saniuk (Bates Coll.)Lauren Sarnataro (Jessica Savory (U of So. Maine)Jamie Steffen (

Administrative InternsJeffrey Brazeau (Westfield State Coll.)Caroline Hill (U of Vermont)Tiffany Plante (Keene State Coll.)Matt Gagnon (U Maine at Machais)

Technical Scholarship Support CrewDukakis Center for the Performing ArtsKristin Nicole Durinick (Roger Williams U)Crystal Czaja (U Maine Machais)Kim Powe (Western Connecticut State U)Trevor Reid Bates (Roger Williams U)Ryan Gearity (Eastern Connecticut State U)

McKay AuditoriumAnnah Rozelle (Salem State Coll.)Kasey Sheehan (Westfield State Coll.)Danielle Varcasia (U of Vermont)Andrew Barber (Castleton State Coll.)Mike Altieri (So. Connecticut State U)

Weston AuditoriumJason Wadecki (Eastern Connecticut State U)Andrew Silverman (Westfield State Coll.)Tim Lesniak (Westfield State Coll.)Lauren Glover (U of Vermont)Samuel Hewett (Bates College)

Special Thanks to:ALPSActors’ Equity Association (AEA)AlconeApollo Design Technology, Inc.ATHEBarbizonBoston Illumination Group, Inc.

Deborah MorganEnterprise Rent-A-CarFitchburg State College PressFocal PressJamie RogerJohnson Paint Company, BostonMehronNational Partners of the American TheatreNew England Section of the United States Institute for Theatre TechnologyRui AlvesSSDC

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From the president

On behalf of the entire campus community, welcome to Fitchburg State College! We’re very pleased to be hosting the Region I Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for the fourth and final year. It has indeed been an honor.

The previous three festivals were an unqualified success, both in terms of participation and organization, as well as the professionalism of the work. The quality and variety were extraordinary, and we all have reason to be proud of our region’s many triumphs.

My thanks go out to our English/Theater, Industrial Technology, Cultural Affairs and Facilities departments. We at Fitchburg State have become accustomed to hosting outstanding productions, whether by our own theater groups or national- and world class visiting performers. All who dedicate themselves to mounting these productions reflect the larger campus, which has established a reputation for its drive towards excellence in all that it does.

While North Central Massachusetts is alive with the arts, few institutions can lay claim to the depth and breadth of the productions offered at Fitchburg State. We are the cultural center of the region, which dovetails with our larger efforts to reach out to the community and truly add to the richness of our citizens’ lives.

The festival offers students so many opportunities—the rigors and excitement of competition, of course, but also the chance to learn from respected guests, faculty and fellow students, and to grow both professionally and personally. These are noble goals, and we welcome the chance to assist them.

In closing, I’d like to thank those members of the regional community who have stepped forward to help us with hosting this year’s Kennedy Center Events: Advanced lighting Professionals/ALPS, City Of Fitchburg, City of Leominster, Four Points by Sheraton Hotel and Montachusett Regional Vocational School.

Once again, welcome and best wishes. I look forward to personally greeting many of you during your stay in our community.

Sincerely,

Robert V. AntonucciPresident, Fitchburg State College

General Festival Information

Registration/InformationFestival registration will be held in the lobby of the Four Points by Sheraton, the host hotel for the Festival. The hours for registration/information desk are as follows:

Tues., Jan. 27 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.Wed., Jan. 28 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.Thurs., Jan. 29-Fri., Jan. 30 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Sat., Jan. 31 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Festival Headquarters–Four Points by SheratonA contact bulletin board to leave and receive messages will be available in the hotel lobby.

NametagsYour registration nametag is your entry to all performances, events, and workshops. Ushers and workshop coordinators will be checking for these. You must have your nametag with you at all times.

Transportation and ParkingFitchburg State College has a strict parking code. All motor vehicles without proper parking stickers or visitor passes will be ticketed and/or towed during the Wednesday to Friday day events. For the evening, please obey normal parking rules. Do not park in marked No Parking spaces, at yellow painted curbs, in front of fire hydrants or driveways, etc.

Shuttle Service Hours

Wednesday, January 288:15 a.m. Leave Marriott for Four Points7:30 p.m. Leave Four Points for Dukakis CPA9:30 p.m. Leave Dukakis CPA for Four Points10:00 a.m. Leave Four Points for Marriott

Thursday, January 298:30 a.m. Leave Marriott for Four Points8:45 a.m. Leave Four Points for Dukakis CPA9:45 a.m. Leave Four Points for Dukakis CPA2:30 p.m. Leave Dukakis CPA for McKay2:30 p.m. Leave Dukakis CPA for Four Points2:45 p.m. Leave McKay for Four Points3:00 p.m. Leave Four Points for McKay5:30 p.m. Leave McKay for Four Points7:30 p.m. Leave Four Points for Weston10:30 p.m. Leave Weston for Four Points12:30 a.m. Leave Four Points for Marriott

Friday, January 307:30 a.m. Leave Marriott for Four Points3:00 p.m. Leave Four Points for McKay6:00 p.m. Leave McKay for Four Points7:30 p.m. Leave Four Points for Dukakis CPA10:45 p.m. Leave Dukakis CPA for Four Points12:30 a.m. Leave Four Points for Marriott

Saturday, January 318:00 a.m. Leave Marriott for Four Points3:30 p.m. Leave Four Points for Weston6:00 p.m. Leave Weston Theater for Four Points7:30 p.m. Leave Four Points for Weston10:45 p.m. Leave Weston for Four Points1:00 a.m. (Sun.) Leave Four Points for Marriott

MealsA list of local restaurants can be found at the registration table.

Festival Hotel’s “Warning” Policy is in EffectWe are guests of the hotels and must be sure to respect their property and schedules. If hotel security, management, or faculty must be called to your room due to any type of disturbance (i.e. excessive late-night noise, drinking, smoking, etc.), you will be immediately evicted from the hotel and will lose the privilege to participate in the festival for both the current year and the next. You and your school will be held liable for any damage that may occur. As the hotels obey Massachusetts state law, drinking under the age of 21 is prohibited and will be STRICTLY enforced.Smoking is not allowed anywhere inside the hotel. You may smoke outside in designated areas, only.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTSKennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 41

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Festival Registration Host Hotel Lobby

12:30-1:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Staff Meeting Amphitheatre

1:00-7:30 p.m. Design Exhibit Registration Brahms

2:30–3:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Judges Orientation Amphitheatre

2:30–3:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Call & Orientation for Rounds 1 & 2Assigned Group Rooms

Jenna Cicerone, Elise Couisineau & Jessica Savory, Stage Managers A-Beethoven

Jessica Kody & Meghan O’Donnell, Stage Managers B-ShubertMiryam Andrews-Ohlman & Lauren Sarnataro, Stage Managers

C-HammersteinThere is no entry into Irene Ryan Rooms once doors are shut. Be on time if you

want to observe.

3:00–4:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Round 1: Groups A, B, C Assigned Group Rooms


4:00–5:00 p.m. Response Session Round 1 A-PorterB-GershwinC-Berlin

5:00-6:00 p.m. Response Session Round 2 A-PorterB-GershwinC-Berlin

5:00–6:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Judges Dinner Classics RestaurantFour Points by Sheraton

6:00–6:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Call & Orientation for Rounds 3 & 4Assigned Group Rooms



7:30–8:30 p.m. Response Session Round 3 A-PorterB-GershwinC-Berlin

7:30–9:30 p.m. Design & Tech Exhibition Set-up Brahms/Beethoven

Sara Bastin & Samantha Gati, Stage Managers

8:30–9:30 p.m. Response Session Round 4 A-Porter

B-GershwinC-Berlin

8:30–10:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Judges Meeting with Snack Board Room

9:00–10:00 p.m. 1x2, 6x10 Rehearsals Production Meeting: Writers, Student, Directors, Stage Managers, Mentors

Amphitheatre

10:00-11:30 p.m. I C No Arrlechino MozartBy David KayeUniversity of New HampshireDirected by David Kaye

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Festival Registration Host Hotel Lobby

8:30-9:00 a.m. Audition Announcements for Shubert/StraussIrene Ryans, 1x2s, 6x10s and Odets: Still Waiting Reading

All those interested in auditioning for the 1x2 and 6x10 plays and the Odets: Still Waiting reading, including Irene Ryan candidates and partners, should attend.

9:00-10:00 a.m. I C No Arrlechino Response Porter

9:00-10:00 a.m. Workshop: Jim Murphy & David C. (Kip) Shawger HammersteinRegional Realignment Discussion

9:00-10:00 a.m. Workshop: Elinor Parker SkyClass 7th FloorDigital Rendering for Designers: Corel Painter X

No studio? No problem. You can carry a fully equipped artist's studio on your laptop computer using Corel Painter X program with a Wacom Tablet. Discover how quickly and easily you can enhance your design renderings—from costumes, to scenic designs, to lighting storyboards.

9:00-10:30 a.m. Workshop: Lisa Dalton RodgersAn Actor Repairs: Michael Chekhov's Psychophysical

Techniques

One of the best ways an actor can prepare is to first repair. Come to experience and practice moving like earth, water, air and light. Sharpen the tools that allow freedom for natural creative expression. Dress to play freely and read Michael Chekhov's "On the Technique of Acting." Bring a few lines from a monologue or scene, and for the really passionate, look for KCACTF Preparation link at http://www.chekhov.net/store/calendar.html

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Design & Tech Exhibition Set-up Brahms/BeethovenRafael Jaen and Elinor Parker CoordinatorsExhibitors only.

http://www.chekhov.net/store/calendar.html

9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Auditions for 1x2s, 6x10s and Odets: Still Waiting ReadingShubert/Strauss

9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Theatre Technology Expo Load In Mozart

9:30-11:00 a.m. Workshop: Molly Trainer GershwinCostume Design & The Art of Juggling: Tips Never Taught in

School

Presentation and discussion: one professional free-lance costume designer's experience of real-world costume design in the trenches discussing risks and rewards, watch-outs and tips for success and survival.

10:00-11:30 a.m. Workshop: Jim MurphyTo Hold or Not to Hold, That is the Question Porter

What merits holding a production or not? For faculty and directors who have entered participating productions, those who are considering entering a participating production and those who are curious.

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Andrew Dolph AmphitheatreIntroduction to Show Control & Way Should You Care

Explore the integration of control and cuing of lighting, sound and projection systems in live theater. We'll cover the basics of how to get different types of equipment to talk to each other reliably and how and when that's useful in live productions. We will also examine the range of software choices that are available for different needs, and how to implement them in a production process. Bring your questions!

10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Critics Workshop Session 1:Dan Patterson & Scott Gagnon Board Room

This intense and time-consuming workshop lasts the entire four days of the Festival and frequently involves late night writing sessions. This is for serious students who want to work on writing skills, evaluative sense, and critical eye. Critics are almost universally hated, because there are so many bad ones. Our goal is to help to train good critics who can encourage creative artists to hone their art and craft by providing skillful, objective, and constructive criticism.

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry Goralnick and Lois A. Kagan MingusA Day in the Life of the City (1) Rodgers/Hammerstein

Learn and practice the techniques that The Living Theatre uses to create text, movement and staging. Participants will be exposed to the work of Artaud, Piscator, Brecht’s idea of political theatre and Meyhold’s Bio Mechanics as a form of expressive movement through exercises, performance and the idea of non-fictional acting. The Living Theatre history will be covered and related to the practical aspects of performing in traditional as well as experimental forms. Participants must be available all three days.

12:00-1:30 p.m. Workshop: Rafael Jaen AmphitheatreUsing Photoshop to Create Costume Renderings

Make a successful sketch using computer software. For the beginner and the experienced; explore Word imaging and basic painting techniques using Photoshop, adding light, texture, environment and other exciting details.

1:00-2:30 p.m. Workshop: Lisa Dalton RodgersWho’s Got the “It Factor?” Michael Chekhov Techniques

With Michael Chekhov's tools of Radiation, the Five Guiding Principles and the Four Brothers of Beauty, Ease, Entirety and Form, you can build your “IT FACTOR” powers of charisma and sparkle. Come dressed to play fully and read the recommended preparation for the Actor Repairs workshop.

1:00-4:00 p.m. Design Exhibits Open to the Public Beethoven/Brahms

See what student designers are producing in our region.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Melissa Hurt SchubertGo with the Flow: Yogic Acting for Presence Onstage and

Off

Explore the eight limbs of yogic philosophy and learn how to incorporate them into your acting practice and life. Engage in a short yoga practice and explore acting with these presence-enhancing tenets in mind, specifically attitudes, physicality, breath, and meditation. Please wear movement clothes.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Tony HowarthTearing a Play Apart for the Stage Gershwin

Close reading and discussion of a couple of one-act plays and scenes/monologues from full-length plays to explore dramatic action behind the words—finding the character’s objectives (short- and long-range), identifying the arc of the story, isolating its turning points—to help bring the text of the play to life on the stage.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: PeggyRae Johnson & Wil KilroyHow To Become a Respondent (1) SkyClass 7th Floor

Designed to assist all who are interested in becoming a respondent. Learn how the process works, attend festival productions, meet each day and try out the skills learned. All who complete this workshop will become eligible to respond to regional productions. Participants should attend all 4 sessions.

2:00-4:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry GoralnikLiving Theater Workshop Berlin

A discussion and demonstration of the techniques The Living Theatre Workshops offer to teach to theater departments. A discussion of how The Living Theatre’s creative development from Judith Malina’s work with Piscator to the Beck’s discovery of Artaud and the Bio Mechanics of Meyerhold as well as many other influences have shaped our work. Faculty Only.

2:30-4:30 p.m. Workshop: William RoudebushActing by Mistake Strauss

Based on his book, Acting By Mistake is designed for immediate use at an audition, rehearsal or performance. This is not an acting technique but an application to whatever techniques you already employ. Learn to trust your instincts, utilize your fears and find your way towards the most positive process. Especially useful for early career directors who wish to improve their skills working with actors.

3:00-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Jim Beauregard & Thom DevanthalGive Me Something & I Will Hit You With It! Shubert

A hands on approach to fighting with found objects. Grab a rope, a clipboard, an umbrella, maybe even a shoe, and learn how to pummel someone without really hurting them.

3:00-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Cathy Hurst & Company HammersteinStudent Directing Roundtable Discussion

Discuss student directing opportunities, programming and outcomes. An informal discussion about the nature, challenges and rewards of exploring “student directing” in Region I and its institutions. How could/should/do student directors explore or discover directing opportunities? What strategies are used in YOUR program to integrate student directors? How can KCACTF enhance the growth and development of student directors? OPEN TO STUDENTS.

3:30-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Matt DeLongScenic Textures Rodgers

Textures can play an extremely important role in theatre design. A designer may wish to create a sense of strong realism or use texture, on its own, to add visual interest and impact. For both scenic artists and lighting designers, a textured set, whether it has had the techniques of carving or plaster type material applied, will literally be brought to life by lighting, as the three-dimensional qualities will be brought into play by the use of light and shadows. Learn some techniques in texture innovation in a hands-on environment.

3:30-5:30 p.m. Workshop: Andrew DolphProjections for the Rest of Us Amphitheatre

Come and learn how to escape PowerPoint and create effective projections on a small budget. Explore a variety of relatively inexpensive tools and learn how they can be used effectively in a variety of productions including musical theater, dramas, and a concert choir performance using equipment that's easily available, and inexpensive software tools.

3:30-5:30 p.m. Workshop: Tony Howarth GershwinOne-Minute Plays—From Page to Stage, Part 1

Create and produce one-minute plays. In Part 1, “Getting Organized,” we’ll discuss the parameters of a one-minute play then fan out to write plays in private. Bring copies of any one-minute plays you have written. Playwrights (no experience necessary) and actors, sign up in the lobby ahead of time. Participants must be available for all four sessions.

4:00-5:00 p.m. Design Exhibitors Reception Brahms/Beethoven

5:00-7:30 p.m. V.I.P. Dinner Classics Restaurant

Four Points by SheratonBy invitation only.

5:30-7:30 p.m. 1x2, 6x10 Rehearsals Spaces as assignedShubert HammersteinStrauss Board RoomRodgers PorterGershwin Berlin

6:00-7:30 p.m. Odets: Still Waiting Rehearsal Amphitheatre

8:00 p.m. 451 Dukakis Center for theBy: Robert Lawson Performing ArtsFranklin Pierce UniversityDirected by Robert LawsonJim Dougherty – Festival TD

9:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Semi-finalists announcement Dukakis Center(Or after performance) and Awards ceremony for the Performing Arts

10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 1x2, 6x10 Rehearsals Spaces as assignedHammerstein Board RoomRodgers PorterGershwin StraussShubert Berlin

10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. SSDC (Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers) Presentation Amphitheater

Closed Session

The three student directors being evaluated are: Frank-Thomas Grogan (Eastern Connecticut State University), Doug Oliphant (Central Connecticut State University), Matt Silver (Southern Connecticut State University).

10:30 p.m.-1:00 a.m. Hospitality Suite for Faculty and Guests Presidential Suite(or after show)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

7:30-8:00 a.m. Irene Ryan Stage Managers Meeting Berlin

8:00–9:00 a.m. Designer Breakfast with David C. (Kip) ShawgerClassics

Faculty, staff and students are invited to a discussion on the KCACTF Design and Technology program both national and regionally. Breakfast is Dutch treat.

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Festival Registration Host Hotel Lobby

8:30-9:30 a.m. SSDC Preliminaries Response SessionClosed Session Berlin

9:00-10:00 a.m. 451 Response Strauss

9:00-10:00 a.m. Workshop: William Schill StraussWhat To Do After You Get Off The Bus

The Business of The Business covers the following: Making the transition from academic to professional theater; Establishing yourself in the New York theater community; Meeting Casting Directors; Seeking and Obtaining Agency Representation; The role of a Professional Manager; Understanding the Unions; Working in Regional Theatre; Performing in Television Commercials; Finding Success in Daytime Television; Audition Process and Conduct and “Tools of the Trade.”

9:00-10:30 a.m. Workshop: Lisa DaltonAn Actor Repairs: Michael Chekhov's Psychophysical

Techniques Rodgers

One of the best ways an actor can prepare is to first repair. Come to experience and practice moving like earth, water, air and light. Sharpen the tools that allow freedom for natural creative expression. Dress to play freely and read Michael Chekhov's "On the Technique of Acting." Bring a few lines from a monologue, or scene, and for the really passionate, look for the KCACTF Preparation link at http://www.chekhov.net/store/calendar.html

9:00-10:30 a.m. Irene Ryan Semi-Final Call and RehearsalDukakis Center

For the Performing Arts

9:00-11:00 a.m. Workshop: Tony Howarth GershwinOne-Minute Plays—From Page to Stage, Part 2

In “The First Draft,” a continuation of the morning’s workshop, we’ll read each other’s plays and offer a critique of each play. One-on-one conferences available. Participants must be available for all four sessions.

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Rui Alves, Ed Hyatt, Thomas Ladd MozartIntroduction to Moving Lights: Parameters and

Programming Concepts

Use the ETC Ion / Eos Consoles along with a selection of moving lights. Expect to have hands-on time with the console and follow along with the instructors on how to use moving lights and make several moving light cues.

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Stage Managers’ Preliminary Interviews GershwinTina Shackleford

9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Design Response Beethoven/Brahmsfor National and Regional Entries

Preliminary Round of professional designers’ response to student work presented for the Region I, Mehron and Barbizon awards competition. Student designers must be present at their pre-assigned response time in order to qualify for award consideration. Quiet observers are welcome.

9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Theatre Technology Expo Open Mozart

Exhibits and workshops by Boston Illumination Group, Rosco, Rosco Textures, Focal Press, Barbizon, Apollo Design Technology, and ALPS.

9:30-10:30 a.m. Workshop: Stephanie Dean HammersteinPowering Vocals: Movement in Musical Theatre

Performance

Explore how movement can help connect the voice and the body during performance.

9:30-11:30 a.m. Workshop: Claudia Traub StraussZen and the Art of Acting

Use meditation, relaxation, Alexander technique, yoga and being in the now to support your text work, creativity, power, vulnerability and awareness.

10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Critics Workshop Session 2Dan Patterson & Scott Gagnon Board Room

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Kaia Monroe ShubertContact Improv for Actors

A step-by-step exploration of contact improv fundamentals and accompanying Barteneiff principles for beginners and intermediates. Expand your personal movement vocabulary, kinesthetic intelligence, range of motion, and innate dance skills. Very physical. Come dressed to sweat.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Bruce Robinson GershwinNYC Pitfalls for the Young Writers

We’ll spend part of our time on possible dangers for the writer-as-businessman—who needs both to subsist and to disseminate his art in the Tall Town. We will then target potential hazards for the writer-as-artist.


Continue work begun on Wednesday. Participants must be available all three days.

10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Dukakis Center for the Performing Arts

Stage Managers

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Elinor Parker SkyClass 7th FloorDigital Rendering for Designers: Adobe Photoshop

Use Adobe Photoshop as a design tool in costume, lighting, and scenery. Hands-on.

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Workshop: Melissa Hurt StraussIt’s Soooo Easy!: Lessac’s Kinesensic Voice and Body for

Everyday Living

Move through Lessac Body and Voice explorations to tap into your optimal and most healthful self. Lessac work extends beyond stage clarity, tone and physical agility, but

encourages continual discoveries for the actor’s body and voice in everyday life. Please wear movement clothes.

12:00-1:30 p.m. Workshop: F. Chase Rozelle III, John David Paul, Cynthia Lee-Sullivan, & Jeff Modereger PorterGetting Your Start as a Professional Designer

Established professionals who have found and explored some of the many career paths available to someone interested in a career in technical theatre discuss how they got their starts. Learn strategies for your start and discover career directions you might have never considered.

12:00-1:30 p.m. Workshop: Jan Buttram AmphitheatreLet’s Put On a Play

A thumbnail sketch on producing Off-Off-Broadway. Includes selecting a play, creating a budget, raising the money, locating a theatre, marketing, creative and technical staffing and casting. Also includes a brief overview of new play festivals.

12:30-2:00 p.m. Workshop: Larry Nye ShubertCreativing Movement

Join a movement workshop that incorporates the use of the alphabet, shapes, colors and emotions to help the actor discover ways to motivate their characters through movement. Excellent for teacher's looking for new ways to instruct theatre and dance classes for all ages.

12:30-2:30 p.m. Workshop: Sheryl Stoodley & Daniel MorbyrnePhysical Theatre in An Ensemble Setting—Serious Play!’s Actor Training Process Hammerstein

Physical discipline, concentration, artistic ensemble collaboration are stylized acting techniques of the Serious Play! Acting Process, drawing on the exercises of Tadashi Suzuki and Anne Bogart's Viewpoints vocabulary and compositional work—combine in a unique way to empower the actor to embody a play's physical action and to clarify the communication of content.

12:45-1:45 p.m. Design Exhibits Open to the Public Beethoven/Brahms

1:00-2:00 p.m. Workshop: Rich Dale MozartGobos and Projections for the Stage

Learn about products available to create unique and exciting atmospheres on the stage. Discover the appropriate time or opportunity to use an effect and to create the right amount of effects to NOT upstage the performers or action. Various motion effects will be shown and discussed. The discussion will also show how to create new effects using existing equipment available in most theatres.

1:00-2:30 p.m. Workshop: Lisa Dalton RodgersWho’s Got the “It Factor?” Michael Chekhov Techniques

With Michael Chekhov's tools of Radiation, the Five Guiding Principles and the Four Brothers of Beauty, Ease, Entirety and Form, you can build your “IT FACTOR” powers of

charisma and sparkle. Come dressed to play fully and read the recommended preparation for the Actor Repairs workshop.

1:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry Goralnick and Lois A. Kagan MingusLiving Theater Workshop for Faculty Strauss

A discussion and demonstration of the techniques The Living Theatre Workshops offer to teach to theater departments. A discussion of how The Living Theatre’s creative development from Judith Malina’s work with Piscator to the Beck’s discovery of Artaud and the Bio Mechanics of Meyerhold as well as many other influences have shaped our work. Faculty Only.

1:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Bonnie Baggeson & Deb AcquavellaStage Management Tips and Techniques Berlin

Discuss and explore professional stage management in today’s theatrical industry. We will cite differences in styles and techniques depending upon the venue within which we are employed.

1:00 -4:00 p.m. Stage Managers’ Preliminary Interviews GershwinTina Shackleford

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: PeggyRae Johnson & Wil KilroyHow to Become a Respondent (2) Skyclass 7th Floor

Continuation of workshop begun on Wednesday.

1:45-5:30 p.m. Design Response Beethoven/Brahmsfor National and Regional Entries

Preliminary Round (continued) of professional designers’ response to student work presented for the Region I, Mehron and Barbizon awards competition. Student designers must be present at their pre-assigned response time in order to qualify for award consideration. Quiet observers are welcome.

2:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Rui Alves, Ed Hyatt, Thomas Ladd MozartAdvanced Moving Light Techniques

Intended for someone who has experience with moving lights either from a previous class or from actual use. We will go into more detail with the function of palettes, effects and other more advanced functions. Participants will work on consoles with the instructors to create moving light effects.

2:30-3:30 p.m. Judges Meeting for Irene Ryan Semi-FinalsGazebo RestaurantFour Points by Sheraton

2:30-4:30 p.m. Workshop: John Hudson HammersteinPart One: Shakespeare: A New Paradigm

After a presentation of the evidence for a new leading candidate as a solution to the ‘authorship controversy’, the so-called ‘dark lady,’ a 'black,' Jewish/Marrano woman, from a family of Venetian Jews of Moorish origin, Aemelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645) will be a panel discussion with Mr. Hudson, Mitchell Riggs, Thom Delventhal and guests.

2:30-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Nicolas Roesler ShubertRestorative Movement Theater

A movement workshop that uses focus exercises to help an ensemble at the beginning of developing a piece, or one that just needs to get out of it's head. Through acting displacement and story/character building techniques that originate from the National Theater Institute, the Wooster Group, the SITI Company and the FullStop Collective there are other ways to work a piece of text, or to create a new piece entirely. Come prepared to move!

2:30-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Brianne Beatrice RodgersSanford Meisner Workshop

Basic 'Meisner' terminology, understanding 'repetition exercises,' Students present monologues or scene work and will be coached 'moment to moment' keeping the actors on their ACTION.

3:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry Goralnick and Lois A. Kagan MingusLiving Theatre Workshop for Students Strauss

An overview of The Living Theatre history and an introduction to various techniques we use in our creative process for creating movement, text and staging. Learn how the work of Piscator, Artaud and Meyerhold have influenced and been applied in our creative work.

3:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Brandt Reiter HammersteinWhat’s This Play About Anyway?

Directors and actors--learn tools and methodology for approaching a script, breaking it down, and figuring out that most important (and often overlooked) question: what is the play really about? We will be using Michael Weller's "At Home."

3:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Tony Howarth GershwinOne-Minute Plays, Part 3

In “The rewrite,” a continuation of Wed. sessions, we’ll read the rewrites and offer a final critique. Participants must be available for all four sessions.

3:30-5:30 p.m. SSDC Rehearsals Porter, BerlinClosed Session Gershwin

3:30 p.m. Public Speech/Private Thought McKay Theaterby Craig Handel Fitchburg StateDean CollegeDirected by Craig HandelJo Nazro – Festival TD

5:30-7:30 p.m. 1x2, 6x10 Rehearsals Spaces as assignedShubert StraussRodgers Board RoomPorter GershwinBerlin Hammerstein


Amphitheatre

5:30-7:30 p.m. V.I.P. Dinner Bangkok HillBy Invitation Only

8:00 p.m. An Ideal Husband Weston TheaterBy Oscar Wilde Fitchburg StateBridgewater State CollegeDirected by Dr. Suzanne RamczykLuke Sutherland & Matt Babcock, Festival TDs

11:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m. Faculty Showcase Shubert/Strauss

If your teacher is an actor, you students would LOVE to see them up on the stage. See them practice what they preach! About a month before the festival, faculty received a scene to study and memorize without knowing who their partner would be. All is revealed at the Showcase, where they meet their partner and dive into the scene together at the moment of performance – which gives a whole new, literal meaning to playing a scene as if “for the first time!” Take it from those who’ve done it – it’s a great adrenaline rush and a really good time!

10:45 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 1x2, 6x10 Rehearsals Spaces as assignedHammerstein Board RoomRodgers PorterGershwin BerlinAmphitheatre Classics (Back room)


Friday, January 30, 2009

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Festival Registration Hotel Lobby

8:00-9:00 a.m. Public Speech Response Amphitheatre

8:00-9:30 a.m. Region I Faculty Meeting Classics RestaurantFour Points by Sheraton

Faculty from all colleges and universities in Region I are strongly encouraged to attend this informational breakfast session with Region I officers. Bring questions, concerns, and ideas. Participate in making your Regional Festival and activities more accessible to you, your program and your students. This will be followed by Creative Conversation with Gregg Henry, National KCACTF Artistic Director, in Amphitheatre, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

8:00-11:00 a.m. Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Response Hammerstein

8:30-9:30 a.m. Workshop: Carrie Ann Quinn ShubertMethod for a New Millennium

How to apply traditional method acting techniques, such as sense memory, to contemporary non-realistic and avant-garde theatre. A fun, unique way to approach scenes and characters! Acting exercises and scenework on feet and discussion afterwards.)

9:00-10:00 a.m. Ideal Husband Response Board Room

9:00-10:00 a.m. Workshop: John Forbes and Mark Evancho PorterLighting Designers’ Paperwork Trail

A discussion of paperwork useful to the lighting designer centers around types of paperwork collected by the Workshop Leader from designers around the country and provided to the participants on a CD or online.

9:00-10:30 a.m. Workshop: Dana Yeaton RodgersGoing Solo: Writing and Performing the One-Person Show

Get wild and practical all at once. Going solo offers the writer-performer limitless theatrical possibilities; it’s also cheap to produce, easy to tour, and—like a good audition monologue—it allows you to showcase your particular talents.

9:00-11:00 a.m. Workshop: Tony HowarthOne-minute Plays—From Page to Stage, Part 4 Gershwin

In “Putting the play on its feet,” a continuation of the previous sessions, interested actors will receive scripts and have a chance to rehearse. Playwrights will be able to make last-minute adjustments based on actor feedback, then we’ll have script-in-hand readings, followed by response. Participants must be available for all four sessions.

9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Design Response Brahms/ Beethovenfor National and Regional Entries

Finalist Round of professional designers’ response to student work presented for the Region I, Mehron and Barbizon awards competition. Student designers must be present at their pre-assigned response time in order to qualify for award consideration. Quiet observers are welcome.


Exhibits and workshops by Boston Illumination Group, Rosco, Rosco Textures, Focal Press, Barbizon, Apollo Design Technology and ALPS.

9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Workshop: Matt DeLongUsing Color in Light Mozart

Learn the basics of using color as an effective design tool. The interaction between lighting, scenery, and costume design is vital. We focus on and demonstrate interaction between these elements and different methods of creating color.

9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Moving Lights Open Console Time Mozart

Technical assistance on the moving light consoles in the Theatre Technology Exposition Hall will be available for anyone who would like to try what they have learned or ask any questions that were not answered in the classes.

9:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. Workshop: Gregg HenryCreative Conversation Amphitheatre

Come discuss your issues interests, and ideas with the Artistic Director of KCACTF.

9:30-11:30 a.m. Workshop: Orestes MihalyCareer Opportunities in Technical Theater Berlin

This is a practical and informative workshop that covers the wide range of job possibilities in Technical Theatre. Learn first hand how many people with different skill sets it takes to run an effective scenic organization which caters to Broadway, corporate industrials, theme park attractions, tours and much more. Production Resource Group (PRG) is the world’s leading entertainment technology company with work that spans the globe. Techies and actors will also learn about PRG Scenic Technologies summer internship program which helps students decide what career path is right for them, as well as possibilities of employment at other PRG divisions.

10:00-12:30 p.m. Love Drunk (World Premiere) Reading Shubert/StraussBy Romulus LinneyDirected by Kelly MorganWith Austin Pendleton and Rebecka Jones

"An older man picks up a much younger woman in a bar and brings her to his retreat, an Appalachian palace. Her littered past collides with his need and what follows is an inspired dance of sexual tension." This production will run March 28-April 19, 2009, at The Abingdon Theater in NYC.

10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Critics Workshop Session 3: Dan Patterson & Scott GagnonBoard Room

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Stage Managers’ Final Interviews SkyClass 7th FloorTina Shackleford

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SSDC Final Presentation AmphitheatreOpen to the public

KCACTF respondents attended regional productions (associate or participating) and nominated outstanding student directors for the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) National Fellowship Audition. Those directors who were selected to compete at the regional festival chose 5-minute scenes to direct using the KCACTF national guidelines and then rehearsed at home colleges. SSDC judges have examined the students' prompt books, judged preliminary round auditions, engaged in interviews and attended rehearsals at the regional festival. The final scene competition will determine the regional winner who will go to the national festival in April 2009.


Continue work begun on Wednesday. Participants must be available all three days.

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Workshop: Cathy Hurst & Company PorterFaculty Directing Roundtable Discussion

Designed as an opportunity to discuss student directing opportunities, programming and outcomes. An informal discussion about the nature, challenges and rewards of exploring “student directing” in Region I and its institutions. How could/should/do student directors explore or discover directing opportunities? What strategies are used in your program to integrate student directors? How can KCACTF enhance the growth and development of student directors? OPEN TO FACULTY.

12:00-1:30 p.m. Workshop: John Forbes, Greg Ramos, Mark Evancho, and Sarah Carleton Berlin

Collaboration: Directors and Lighting Designers

Discuss the collaborative process between directors and lighting designers, including comparative script analysis and preparation, translation of general production concepts into lighting approaches, adaptation of the lighting approach during tech and dress rehearsals, and post production evaluation.

12:30-1:45 p.m. Workshop: Brenda Shepard & Larry Zoll GershwinFuture of Lighting Controls

What is the future of theatrical controls, and why should you care? Different applications require different controllers and control protocols. We’ll help demystify the present and future of control while exploring some of the more popular desks and controllers and discuss how computer and networking technology are affecting the way we communicate with our lighting equipment.

12:30-2:00 p.m. Workshop: Larry Nye ShubertW.W.F.D.—What Would Fosse Do?

Introduces the students to Bob Fosse's unique approach to dance. Explore, jazz dance, isolations and the creative movement dialogue recognized as Fosse. Learn individual steps along with a short choreographed piece. No previous dance training required. Wear movement clothes

12:30-2:00 p.m. Workshop: Katie Kohler Amory StraussSomatic Movement for the Actor

Learn to use somatic movement as a way to engage the sensitive dialogue between inner experience and outward expression of the actor.

12:45-1:45 p.m. Design Exhibits open to the public Beethoven/Brahms

1:00-2:30 p.m. Workshop: Bill Mootos, Dona Sommers, Tom MillerCareer in the Theater: The Role of the Theatrical Unions

Board Room

If you want to act, learn more about the three professional actors’ unions—Actors' Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) This informative discussion will cover how and when to join a union and the variety of contracts and benefits that affect members. Q & A driven with take home materials. Designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.

1:00-3:00 p.m. 1x2 Presentations Amphitheatre

This Is Family Money By William C. Fancher (Boston University)Tim Gleason, DirectorJamie Steffen, Stage Manager

Hard Rain By Steven Barkhimer (Boston University)Bill Roudebush, DirectorMolly Kaufhold, Stage Manager

1:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop: John Hudson Rodgers/HammersteinPart Two: Performing Shakespeare’s Hidden Allegories

After his presentation on the Bassano theory that suggest that many of the allegorical features make sense if the plays were written as Jewish religious allegories, by England’s Marrano/Jewish poet Aemelia Bassano Lanier, there will be a panel discussion with Mr. Hudson, Mitchell Riggs, Thom Delventhal and guests.

1:30-2:15 p.m. Moving Lights Open Console Time Mozart

Technical assistance on the moving light consoles in the Theatre Technology Exposition Hall will be available for anyone who would like to try what they have learned or ask any questions that were not answered in the classes.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Alexander Bagnall PorterTheater Planning and Construction

Ever wonder how your performance space got built? An overview of the complete construction process, from initial concept through owner training. Learn about the key players in the process, how the architectural design process is typically phased and how end users can fit into the process. Discover the many professional opportunities within the architectural design and construction industry for those with theater training.

1:30:-3:00 p.m. Workshop: PeggyRae Johnson & Wil KilroyHow to Become a Respondent (3) Skyclass 7th Floor


1:45-5:30 p.m. Design Response Beethoven/Brahmsfor National and Regional Entries, if needed

Finalist Round (continued) of professional designers’ response to student work presented for the Region I, Mehron and Barbizon awards competition. Student designers must be present at their pre-assigned response time in order to qualify for award consideration. Quiet observers are welcome.

2:15-5:15 p.m. Workshop: Rui Alves, Ed Hyatt, Thomas Ladd MozartIntroduction to Moving Lights: Parameters and

Programming Concepts

Use the ETC Ion / Eos Consoles along with a selection of moving lights. Expect to have hands-on time with the console and follow along with the instructors on how to use moving lights and make several moving light cues

2:30-3:45 p.m. Workshop: Brenda Shepard & Larry Zoll GershwinAlternative Light Sources

As technology advances, wondrous new Lighting Tools are being developed. There is an incredible list of new sources that are now available to Lighting Designers including: Color Changing Fluorescent Fixtures using Single Color Phosphor Lamps, a variety of LED and OLED Fixtures ranging from one to seven colors, flexible Electroluminescent surfaces, and recently showcased at LDI, the new Plasma Light Source from Luxim. Want to investigate these new and exciting choices? We’ll help you sort it all out!

3:00-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Matt Chapman StraussThe Living Performer: Actor’s Tools at Work

Very physical exploration of the power of the actor in time and space! Using ensemble awareness, honesty, availability, and a ferocious sense of play, investigate what it means to be alive onstage. Be prepared to move, laugh, and see. Grounded in the perspectives of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

3:00-4:30 p.m. Workshop: Kaia Monroe HammersteinYoga for Singers

A beginning to intermediate level session focusing on the asanas (poses) and pranas (breath work) that specifically enhance the singer's technique. Special attention will be given to the core and alignment. Come dressed appropriately. A yoga mat is highly desirable.

3:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry Goralnick and Lois A. Kagan MingusLiving Theater for Students Shubert


3:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Crystal Tiala Board RoomModel Building Techniques

Hands-on workshop building basic items for theatrical models in 1/4" scale. Look at techniques for walls, furniture, and texture and practice some ideas of your own.

4:00-5:30 p.m. Workshop: Michael Maynard AmphitheatreSelected Topics in Audio

Hands on workshop for anyone interested in live audio includes a wide list of topics, from basic acoustic principles to audio special effects to system setup and measurement. We will have gear to put your hands on including a variety of loudspeakers, microphones, a console or two, and loudspeaker modeling and measurement software.

3:30 p.m. Pope Joan McKay TheaterBy Michelle Poynton Fitchburg StateBoston UniversityDirected by Tara MatkoskyJo Nazro – Festival TD

5:30-7:30 p.m. 6x10s Rehearsals Spaces as assignedShubert HammersteinStrauss RodgersPorter Berlin


6:00-7:30 p.m. V.I.P. Dinner Slattery’s Restaurant

8:00 p.m. The Matchmaker Dukakis Center for theBy Thornton Wilder Performing ArtsKeene State CollegeDirected by PeggyRae JohnsonJim Dougherty – Festival TD

10:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Finalists Announcement(or after the show) and Awards ceremony Dukakis Center for the

Performing Arts

11:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. Second Scene Showcase Shubert/Strauss

Second chances pay off too! Irene Ryan Nominees not selected for the semi-finals get the opportunity to strut their stuff and present either their second prepared scene or monologue. Signup for these few slots is on a first come, first present basis! “Rejection” is not a word for the truly professional. The process will be announced Wednesday immediately following the production.

10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 6x10 Rehearsals Spaces as assignedHammerstein RodgersPorter BerlinAmphitheatre Gershwin


Saturday, January 31, 2009

8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Festival Registration Hotel Lobby

8:00-9:00 a.m. Pope Joan Response Amphitheatre

9:00-10:00 a.m. The Matchmaker Response Amphitheatre

9:00-10:00 a.m. Workshop: James Rone RodgersCLIMB Theater: The Actor as Creator, The Actor as

Educator

Catch a glimpse of a style of interactive theatre that engages the actor as a creator, a performer, and a facilitator of dialogue. Led by the Teaching Company Director of CLIMB Theatre, a touring educational theatre company, based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, that offers undergraduate semester-long internships and post-graduate employment to young actors. Ashley Heaston assists.

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Rui Alves, Ed Hyatt, Thomas Ladd Mozart

Advanced Moving Lights

Intended for someone who has experience with moving lights either from a previous class or from actual use. We will go into more detail with the function of palettes, effects and other more advanced functions. Participants will work on consoles with the instructors to create moving light effects.

9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Design Response Beethoven/Brahmsfor National and Regional Entries

Finalist Round (if necessary) of professional designers respond to student work presented for the Region I, Mehron and Barbizon awards competition. Student designers must be present at their pre-assigned response time in order to qualify for award consideration. Quiet observers are welcome.


Exhibits and workshops by Boston Illumination Group, Rosco, Rosco Textures, Focal Press, Barbizon, Apollo Design Technology and ALPS.

10:00-10:30 a.m. Auditions: James Rone RodgersClimb Theater Auditions Session 1

Group auditions of no more than 10 people at a time. Sign up at the information desk in the lobby. Wear sensible shoes!

10:00-11:00 a.m. 1x2 Response Porter

10:00-11:30 a.m. Irene Ryan Finalists Rehearsal Weston TheaterFitchburg State

10:00 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Workshop: Meron Langsner StraussAdvanced Stage Combat

An advanced unarmed stage combat workshop exploring choreography styles meant to simulate popular perceptions of the martial arts for stage or screen. Limit of 12 students who should have prior stage combat experience.

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Orestes MihalyCareer Opportunities in Technical Theater Berlin

This is a practical and informative workshop that covers the wide range of job possibilities in Technical Theatre. Learn first hand how many people with different skill sets it takes to run an effective scenic organization which caters to Broadway, corporate industrials, theme park attractions, tours and much more. Production Resource Group (PRG) is the world’s leading entertainment technology company with work that spans the globe. Techies and actors will also learn about PRG Scenic Technologies summer internship program which helps students decide what career path is right for them, as well as possibilities of employment at other PRG divisions.

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Magda Romanski & Sabine Klein GershwinWorking with a Dramaturg

Examine the three main tracks of dramaturgical careers--Production Dramaturgy, Institutional Dramaturgy, and Dramatic Criticism. Informative and useful for dramaturges, directors, designers and actors.

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Workshop: Crystal Tiala SkyClass 7th FloorBeginning Vectorworks

Try a sample version of Vectorworks drafting for scenic designers. Intended for beginners, however, all questions will be welcome. (Not intended for lighting designers.) Bring your laptop or use ours.

10:30-11:00 a.m. Auditions: James Rone RodgersClimb Theater Session 2


11:00-11:30 a.m. Auditions: James Rone RodgersClimb Theater Session 3


10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Dana Yeaton RodgersGoing Solo: Writing and Performing the One-Person Show

Get wild and practical all at once. Going solo offers the writer-performer limitless theatrical possibilities; it’s also cheap to produce, easy to tour, and—like a good audition monologue—it allows you to showcase your particular talents.

11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Critics Workshop Session 4: Dan Patterson & Scott GagnonBoard Room

11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Auditions: James Rone RodgersClimb Theater Session 4


11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Workshop: Jim Beauregard StraussIllusions of Violence

Stage Combat workshop where participants will work on basic hand-to-hand skills. Learn how to punch, kick and choke someone without really hurting them. Dress to Move!!!

12:00-1:00 p.m. Workshop: Meron Langsner GershwinWriting the Fight

Stage combat, for playwrights and dramaturges, addressing both stagecraft and dramatic structure. Major topics will include plot structure, character dynamics, and production concerns.

12:00-2:00 p.m. Workshop: Jerry Goralnick and Lois A. Kagan Mingus

Living Theater for Students Shubert


12:00-5:00 p.m. Design-Tech Portfolio & Resume Reviews BerlinRafael Jaen & Jeff Modereger

Sign-up at the Design-Tech Expo desk for helpful critique of your portfolio & resume. We will offer next-steps advice and marketing tips.

1:00-2:30 p.m. Workshop: Matt Chapman StraussLiving Performer: The Actor’s Tools at Work

Very physical exploration of the power of the actor in time and space! Using ensemble awareness, honesty, availability, and a ferocious sense of play, investigate what it means to be alive onstage. Be prepared to move, laugh, and see. Grounded in the perspectives of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

1:00-2:30 p.m. Workshop: John Hill & Tom McCabe PorterQuick Change Frogs and Other Oddities

Youth theater presents unique design challenges that aren’t always encountered in other theatrical forms. This conversation and exploration of specific solutions for working in this genre will spark inspiration and creative options for your next project.

1:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Emmanuel Chaulet HammersteinPost-Performance Blues and Pre-Performance Jitters: A

Balancing Act

Learn how to find emotional balance and true closure after the close of a show. This workshop will assist participants to learn how to keep the character’s strength, protect integrity when playing negative personalities, say goodbye to a character, rebalance the inner self and keep creative balance and energy throughout the roller coaster of a performing artist’s life.

1:00-3:00 a.m. Dramaturgy Response Session and DiscussionMatthew Wilson Smith and Bridget Frey Gershwin

LMDA (Literary Managers and Dramaturges of the Americas), ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education), and KCACTF offer an award year to recognize a student dramaturge. Professional dramaturges will respond to this year’s entries and offer a discussion on the responsibilities and duties of a dramaturge. Welcome quiet observers.

1:00-3:30 p.m. Odets Still Waiting (World Premier) ReadingBy Josh Perlstein Amphitheatre

Written as a companion piece to Waiting for Lefty, this original piece is based on the life of its writer Clifford Odets. Best known as the voice of the working class during the 1930´s, Odets struggled in the second half of his life to master the ways of Hollywood and never lived down his testimony in front of the McCarthy committee. This open workshop will continue to develop the play which is scheduled to have its premiere in April. Open

to students and Faculty to work the piece here at the festival, there will be 3 rehearsals and a public reading/discussion.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Workshop: PeggyRae Johnson & Wil KilroyHow to Become a Respondent (4) Skyclass 7th Floor


1:30-3:30 p.m. Workshop: William RoudebushActing by Mistake Strauss

Based on his book, Acting By Mistake is designed for immediate use at an audition, rehearsal or performance. This is not an acting technique but an application to whatever techniques you already employ. Learn to trust your instincts, utilize your fears and find your way towards the most positive process. Especially useful for early career directors who wish to improve their skills working with actors.

1:30-4:30 p.m. Tech Olympics MozartCrystal Tiala

All college and university students may sign up o- site to participate in the Tech Olympics sponsored by New England Section of USITT. Events will include: Hanging and focusing a lighting instrument; driving a screw into wood; knot tying--bowline and clove hitch; reading a blueprint; fast costume changing and sewing. Judges are professionals from the New England area. Winners will be determined by their speed, accuracy and care. First prize is an award certificate, $50 and a package from Barbizon and second prize is a package from Barbizon.

2:00-2:15 p.m. A Day in the Life of the City Actors Call Shubert

2:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop: Peter Sampieri AmphitheatreDirector/Designer Collaboration

Seminar/discussion between theatrical designer Sara Ossana and Mr. Sampieri about the process, struggles and opportunities that arise between directors/designers when collaborating on a play/text. We will use our process on The Pillowman at Gamm Theatre as a jumping off point, and share photos and models/versions of our production.

2:15 p.m. A Day in the Life of the City Performance Concourse

2:30-3:30 p.m. Workshop: William Schill StraussWhat To Do After You Get Off The Bus

The Business of The Business covers the following: Making the transition from academic to professional theater; Establishing yourself in the New York theater community; Meeting Casting Directors; Seeking and Obtaining Agency Representation; The role of a Professional Manager; Understanding the Unions; Working in Regional Theatre; Performing in Television Commercials; Finding Success in Daytime Television; Audition Process and Conduct and “Tools of the Trade.”

3:00 -3:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Finals Call Weston TheaterFitchburg State College

3:30-4:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Finals Judges Orientation Weston Theater

Fitchburg State

4:00-6:00 p.m. Irene Ryan Finals Weston TheaterElise Couisineau & Jessica Kody, Samantha Gati, Stage

Managers Fitchburg State

5:00-7:00 p.m. Strike Design Exhibition Displays

6:00-7:30 p.m. Tech 6x10s Weston TheaterFitchburg State

6:00-7:30 p.m. Irene Ryan Finals Judges Dinner Bootlegger’s

6:00-7:30 p.m. V.I.P. Dinner Bootlegger’sBy invitation

8:00-9:30 p.m. 6x10 Presentations Weston TheaterLuke Sutherland & Matt Babcock, Festival TDs

Fitchburg State

Mirror Image by Allison Cirbus (Stonehill College)Nicholas Bussett, Stage ManagerBrandt Reiter, Director

Last Call by Robbi D'Allessandro (Lesley University)Michael Block, Stage ManagerMelissa Hurt, Director

Snap by Olivia Demeter (Suffolk University)Kat Bernhard, Stage ManagerKathleen Sills, Director

Deer Crossing by Mary Conroy (Lesley University)Gilly Clarke-Moon, Stage ManagerTony Howarth, Director

Bob's Car by Gillian Durkee (Middlebury College)Stacia Saniuk, Stage ManagerBruce Robinson, Director

Who You Got To Believe by Charlene A. Donaghy (Lesley University)Robin Fontaine, Stage Manager Sulochana Dissanayake, DirectorTony Howarth, Mentor

9:30-10:30 p.m. Awards ceremony Weston Theater(or after the 6x10s) (Fitchburg State)

11:15 p.m.-12:45 a.m. Closing Dance Party Ballroom (or after the awards)


Sunday, February 1, 2009

9:00-1:00 a.m. Irene Ryan Finals Response Hammerstein

9:00-10:00 a.m. 6x10 Feedback Amphitheatre

10:00-11:00 a.m. Executive Committee Meeting Board Room

WHO’S WHO AT THE FESTIVAL

Debra A. Acquavella (Workshop Leader) is Production Manager of Emerson Stage and Co-Head of the BFA Stage/Production Management program at Emerson College. Broadway: PSM of the Metamorphoses at Circle in the Square; Master Harold...and the boys with Danny Glover; Jane Eyre, The Musical. Off-Broadway: Falsettos at Playwrights Horizons; The Thing About Men at the Promenade; and Metamorphoses at Second Stage Theatre. Regional Theatre: Actors Theatre of Louisville; Baltimore’s Centerstage; Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Trinity Rep; Studio Arena; The Shakespeare Theatre.

Rui Alves (Workshop Leader) has been the Rental Manager for A.L.P.S/Advanced Lighting & Production Services for the last three years. He attended U-Conn as a Technical Theatre major and worked at regional and summer theatres as staff and as a freelance electrician, before moving to Boston. He has been with A.L.P.S. for over 8 years.

Raina Ames (Region I 2nd Vice Co-Chair; Irene Ryan Chair; Regional Selection Team) is Director of Theatre Education at University of New Hampshire. Ames has also served as Director of Education at Theatre Virginia. Regional direction includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, Palace Youth Theatre. On campus directing credits include: And Then They Came For Me: Remembering The World Of Anne Frank; The Nastiest Drink In The World; The X Factor; Midwives. This spring Ames’ original family musical The Boy Who Stood Still will debut at UNH.

Kate Kohler Amory (Workshop Leader) has performed in many off-Broadway productions including the role of Spider in the critically acclaimed The Life of Spiders, Einstein's Dreams (Culture Project), Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing (Lincoln Center's Rose Theater). She has performed with many regional theaters including Shakespeare & Company and New England Shakespeare Festival. She holds an MFA from Naropa University, Masters from RADA/Kings College London and is a certified Somatic Movement Educator.

Matt Babcock (Technical Assistant Weston), a 2007 graduate from Fitchburg State College, is currently working at Foxwoods Resort and Casino with Entertainment and PSAV as a Stagehand, and lead lighting technician. In his spare time he is a technical consultant for Griswold High School Drama Department. Matt Started with KCACTF while still a student where he won the National Meritorious Achievement Award in Scenic Design. He also has nominations for the Barbizon Award in lighting.

Bonnie Baggesen (Workshop Leader) is the co-head of the BFA program in Stage/Production Management at Emerson College. Professional stage manager for over 20 years for regional and commercial theatre. Credits include 9 seasons at Trinity Repertory Company. Production stage manager for Playmakers Repertory Company and Rites and Reason Theatre. National tours of Damn Yankees and Sunset Boulevard. While earning an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University she substituted on The Lion King and Search for Signs of Intelligent Life.

Alexander G. Bagnall (Workshop Leader) is currently a Staff Consultant at Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc., and specializes in the area of sound system design. Alex’s background includes work at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and at the theater consulting firm Auerbach Pollock Friedlander. He has a B.A. in Theatre

from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. in Technical Design and Production with a concentration in theater planning from the Yale School of Drama.

Brianne Beatrice (Workshop Leader) is a "Sanford Meisner Expert" who received her BFA in Acting from Salem State College and her MFA in Acting from The Pennsylvania State University. Brianne is Professor of Acting at Salem State College and Umass Boston. She also teaches Film Acting at The Actors Workshop Boston. As a Finalist at ACTF four consecutive years in a row, and winner of the 'Best Classical Actor' award, Beatrice is pleased to bring "Meisner' and 'Truthful behavior in imaginary circumstances' to Region I.

James T. Beauregard (Region I Immediate Past Co-Chair; Regional Selection Team) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Technical Director at Dean College, Franklin, MA. Directing resume includes: Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Three Musketeers, Much Ado About Nothing, and Scapino! Stage Combat is Jim's specialty and has toured and taught extensively with an elite performing troupe and he continues to teach and choreograph. Jim has spent the past seventeen years as a featured performer at the Medieval Manor in Boston. For ten years Jim served as Artistic Director.

Steven Bergman (Region I Festival Workshop Coordinator) is Performing Arts Instructor for the Littleton (MA) Public Schools. His published plays include: Have a Seat, Please, Marvin and Julius (Heuer Publishing), History, At The Buzzer (Brooklyn Publishers), and Cutting the Leash (JAC Publishing and Promotions). Composer: The Curse of the Bambino, Jack The Ripper, scores for Comedy of Errors, and Book of Days. Musical Director: over 100 productions throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Sharon Bernard (Region I Administrative Director) has performed in several productions at FSC. Her most recent performances have been The Rimers of Eldritch (Mavis) at FSC and A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Cratchit) with Cornerstone Performing Arts Center. She was a member of the FSC company which took The Laramie Project to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sharon has directed short plays for AmeriCulture Arts Festival and Stratton Players including Heart Smart by Linda Eisenstein and Samuel Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu. She’s a graduate of FSC and holds an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.

Robert Boles (Region I Playwriting Co-Chair; Regional Selection Team) is the director of the University of New Haven theatre program. His production of Columbinus was performed at last year's festival. Bob spent most of the last 30-odd years as an actor and director, working both on and off Broadway, in many regional theatres around the country, as well as film and television. He was awarded the Lipkin Prize for playwriting in 2005. He is a member of Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, Dramatists Guild, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Crystal Brian (Region I Playwriting Co-Chair; Regional Selection Team) is Professor of Theater and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Quinnipiac University and founded the Quinnipiac University Theater for Community, producing and directing original plays and adaptations that have won critical acclaim. Brian has published articles on the subjects of theater and community and theater and social and has also published chapters in several anthologies on the work of Horton Foote, and is currently completing a critical biography of the playwright. Brian received MFA and PHD degrees in theater from UCLA.

Kaleta Brown (KCACTF National Selection Team) is a retired dean and professor emeritus of theatre from Cypress College. She is a past president of the California

Educational Theater Association and the Legislative Action Committee for Arts in Education. Kaleta has been honored with the Region VIII Lifetime Achievement Award, two Kennedy Center Medallions for Theater Excellence, the CETA Medallion for dedication to theater and CETA’s Outstanding Theatre Educator Award. She has served as an Irene Ryan respondent nationally and directed the Irene Ryan Festival of Scenes at the Kennedy Center.

Alisa Helene Bucchiere (Accompanist) received her BM degree from the University of Lowell, MM from Westminster Choir College and is pursuing her PhD in Music Education at Boston University. She is on the music faculties at Northern Essex Community College and Fitchburg State College. Alisa was the music director/madrigal singer in A Christmas Carol, music director/accompanist for Olympus on My Mind; music director/Juno in The Tempest at the Newburyport Firehouse Center for the Arts and music director/accompanist for The Pirates of Penzance, also at the Firehouse.

Jan Buttram (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Finals Judge & Respondent) is Artistic Director and founding member of Abingdon Theatre Company began her acting career at New Orleans Repertory Theatre. She was touring with The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas when she began writing plays. Performed across the U.S., Abingdon introduced Glory Girl; Zona, the Ghost of Greenbrier; Private Battles, The President and Her Mistress, The Parker Family Circus and Texas Homos. Backwoods won a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays; she is published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus and Heinemann Books.

Matt Chapman (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Preliminaries & Production Respondent) plays with physical theatre and clown. He is Artistic Director of Under the Table, a Brooklyn-based ensemble, and he teaches and performs with Dell'Arte International. Matt has worked in South Africa, England, Holland, Denmark, and the US, where he teaches at Marymount Manhattan. He has taught workshops at the Kennedy Center, NYU, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Towson, Luther, the University of Iowa, and UND. Matt is a graduate of Dell'Arte International and KU.

Emmanuelle Chaulet (Workshop Leader) is Adjunct Theatre Faculty at the University of Southern Maine, director/founder of Starlight Acting Institute, who trained with the Michael Chekhov technique and a was a Fulbright Scholar at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. She is a certified RYSE III, and Reiki practitioner who developed a unique method Energize! A Holistic Approach To Acting. Her recently published book, A Balancing Act explores recovering your highest creative self, the essence of your character and true emotional balance.

Cap Corduan (Region I Festival Technical Director Coordinator) is currently head of the Technical Theatre Program at Fitchburg State College and earned a BFA from Central CT State University and an MFA from University of Illinois. Cap was assistant TD at the Empire State Institute for Performing Arts, head of Design & Technical Theatre at Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts and ATD and Lighting Supervisor at Mohegan Sun Casino.

Eric Cornwell (Region I Co-Vice Chair of Design and Technology) is the technical director and lighting designer at Southern Connecticut State University. For the 20 years prior to that he was a free-lance designer based in New York City. His touring work has taken him to five continents and several islands. He has coordinated the KCACTF national festival’s lighting project for seven years, working with the 24 top regional lighting, sound, and stage management students during the festival week at the Kennedy Center.

Connie Crawford (Workshop Leader) teaches acting and directing in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University. She is the Marsha Z. West Director-in-Residence for Rites and Reason Theatre in the Africana Studies Department and a resident instructor and director at Perishable Theatre in Rhode Island. Connie has performed on and off Broadway, on daytime TV, on Saturday Night Live, in independent films and as a member of the Acting Company.

Rich Dale (Workshop Leader) is the Lighting Design Representative at Apollo Design Technology, providing creative, technical, and product training assistance on Apollo products to lighting professionals and students within the entertainment and academic arenas. At Walt Disney World Company, Rich worked as lighting designer, lighting director, lighting crew chief, production manager, and resort and cruise line project manager. He holds an AS from the Art Institute, Fort Lauderdale, and an Undergraduate Certificate in Technology & Management from the University of Maryland.

Lisa Dalton (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge; Production Respondent) specializes in teaching Michael Chekhov’s technique for actors, writers, directors and teachers. She is the owner of www.chekhov.net and has produced various DVD’s for Actor Training. Lisa has taught in London, Paris, Moscow, Brussels, NY and LA; judged Emmys, Cable Ace, Independent Spirit Awards, and KCACTF. Acting credits include ER, Melrose Place, Carnivale, Dr. Quinn plus many commercials; co-founded the National Michael Chekhov Association, offering its 16th Annual Actor/Teacher Certification Intensive this summer.

Stephanie Dean (Workshop Leader) is an Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University. She teaches musical theatre, acting, voice and movement. She completed her undergraduate work in musical theatre at Emerson College, and holds an MFA in acting and directing pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an actress, a director and a vocal coach. Most recently, she has worked on Ragtime, The Fantasticks, Fortress and Smokey Joe’s Café.

Matt DeLong (Workshop Leader) is the North Eastern Sales Manager for Rosco Laboratories, a major manufacturer of entertainment products including gel, gobos, paint, and fog. Matt holds a BFA in Design & Technical Theatre and is a member of I.A.T.S.E. Previous to Rosco, Matt has experience in touring, lighting design, and rigging. In his free time Matt still designs and works with a number of regional theatre companies.

Thom Delventhal (Workshop Leader) has choreographed, executed or captained fights for over 70 productions at various educational and professional institutions including The Hartford Stage Company, Carnegie Mellon University, The Boston Ballet Theatre, The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The 3 Rivers Shakespeare Company. Productions include Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Richard II, Cymbeline, Othello, The Grapes of Wrath, Cabaret, The Philadelphia Story, Woyzeck. An Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University, he teaches Acting, Voice, Improv, Stage Combat, Mask and Dialects. His production of Fuddy Meers was invited to the Region I Festival.

John Paul Devlin, (Co-Chair for Design and Technology) has been the Resident Designer and Technical Director for Saint Michael's College, and Resident Designer and Production Manager for the Saint Michael's Playhouse since returning to New England in 2001. The Playhouse was recently recognized by the Drama League of New York for our efforts by membership in its "Theatre Excellence in America" program. John has

designed regionally for Vermont Stage, Lost Nation Theatre, Northern Stage, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act, Black Hills Playhouse, Milwaukee Children's Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

Andrew Dolph (Workshop Leader) is the Special Events Coordinator for AV Services at UNH. He provides sound, lighting and projections for events that range from Traditional Jazz to symposia. He has mixed for Clark Terry, Branford Marsalis and many others as well as 3 US Presidents. He is Technical Director for the ORHS Auditorium, a freelance designer of sound, lighting and projections and an educator for the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium where he flies the DefinitHD projection system.

Jim Dougherty (Technical Director Dukakis Center) is the Associate Technical Director and Properties Supervisor at Middlebury College. He received his degree in Architecture from Princeton University, where he was involved in designing and producing for many of the theatre organizations there. He also had the opportunity to work with the McCarter Theater. Jim joined Middlebury's Theatre Department in 1995 after working with the American Repertory Theatre and as a member of Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English theater staff.

John Forbes (Workshop Leader) has designed lighting for the Old Globe Theatre (winning of three Los Angeles Dramalogue awards), the Arizona Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, Saint Michael’s Playhouse and the Vermont Stage Company. He is one faculty at the University of Vermont, and his design for Metamorphoses there was displayed at the World Stage Design Exhibition in Toronto. While teaching at the University of San Diego he served as the technical liaison between the University and the Presidential Debate Commission for the final Presidential Debate of 1996 held there.

Bridget Frey (Dramaturgy Respondent/Judge) was the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturge of Boston Theatre Works from 2002-2008. She was production dramaturge on many shows, including the Elliot Norton Award-winning productions of Angels in America and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She produced BTW Unbound, the annual new play festival. Her work in new play development includes tenures at the American Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company and American Stage Festival. She was the recipient of the LMDA Residency Grant for her work on Homebody/Kabul.

Scott Gagnon (Region I Critics Workshop Vice-Chair; Regional Selection Team) is co-chair of the Performing Arts Dept at Emmanuel College. He completed his postgraduate study in Theatrical Directing at Emerson College in 1994 and has since directed at Turtle Lane Playhouse, Savoyard Light Opera, Longy School of Music, Riverside Theater, MIT, and elsewhere. He is the author of book and lyrics for Black Sox: The 1919 World Series, and has worked since 2000 on special summer theater programs for young performers and on weekend theater workshops for mentally handicapped adults.

Russell Garrett (Production Respondent; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge; Student Director Fellowship Judge) is the Artistic Director of Foothills Theatre Company in Worcester, MA, where he has overseen critical and popular successes such as The Full Monty, The Underpants, and Buddy! as well as having staged the hit productions Beehive!, The Musical of Musicals, The Rocky Horror Show, and As Bees in Honey Drown. As a director and choreographer, he has mounted successful productions around the country. As an actor, Russell has performed in several Broadway shows and National Tours.

Lisa Gim (Panelist) is an Associate Professor at Fitchburg State College. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University and her M.A. from University of California at Berkeley.

Her research interests include Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Early Modern women writers, and drama. She has essays in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens, Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello, Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England, and is revising her book, (Re)presenting Regina: Literary Representations of Queen Elizabeth I by Women Writers.

Tim Gleason (Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge; One-Act Play Director) is the founder and artistic director of KNOW Theatre, a 76 seat Off-Broadway house in Binghamton, NY. He has appeared in over seventy shows up and down the east coast, from NYC to Fitchburg State's AmeriCulture Arts Festival for three consecutive years. He studied at SUNY Binghamton and with Joanna Beckson in NYC. He continues to provide ongoing education for actors young and old.

Jerry Goralnick (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent) has worked with The Living Theatre for twenty years. His credits with the company include Ali Sayed in Capital Changes, Brick Blume in Anarchia which he co-directed, Einstein in Waste, Hitler in I and I, The Answerer in The Tablets, Zev in Poland 1931 as well as a dozen other productions. He co-directed The Body of God, and stage-managed the Obie Award winning Living Theatre Retrospectacle. Mr. Goralnick co-founded and co-directs The Living Theatre Workshops and has taught Living Theatre techniques around the world.

Erica Reynolds Hager (Irene Ryan Preliminaries Respondent) a graduate of Syracuse University's drama department has been acting, directing and teaching professionally for 15 years. Acting credits include: Steel Magnolias, Our Town, The Fantastiks, On Golden Pond, The Oldest Living Graduate, and Round and Round the Garden. Directing credits include: Beirut, Pippin, Interview, Harvey, Hello Dolly, and Godspell. Erica is Head of Upper School at Applewild School in Fitchburg.

Patricia Hawkridge (Irene Ryan Preliminaries Respondent) holds an MFA in Dramatic Arts with a concentration in Acting & Speech from the George Washington University. She is Chairman of the Department of Theatre Arts at Salve Regina University and Artistic Director of LA VOCE: Theatre That Speaks, a new theatre company in RI devoted to producing works that explore the voices of underserved populations. She was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in Theatre from Rhode Island College in recognition of her career in theatre.

Ashley Heaston (Workshop Leader) joined CLIMB Theatre as an Actor-Educator in 2004. Her experiences in the field preceded her appointment as Assistant Director of the Teaching Company in 2006. She has written and performed countless interactive workshops with thousands of students of varying backgrounds and abilities all over the Midwest and has assisted in training Actor-Educators in CLIMB's interactive theatre methods.

Gregg Henry (Artistic Director KCACTF; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge; SSDC Judge) Upcoming: A Sleeping Country, Round House Theatre and Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe, The Kennedy Center. Recent: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, MetroStage; You Are Here, Theatre Alliance; Two-Headed and Scaramouche, Washington Shakespeare Company, Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Kennedy Center. Directed development workshops for Arena Stage and Centerstage Hosts the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop with NNPN. Artistic associate for KCTYA for New Works & Commissions. MFA University of Michigan, member of LMDA, The Dramatists Guild and SSDC.

John Hill (Workshop Leader; Design/Tech Respondent) is founder and head of the theatre program at Front Range Community College, Artistic Director of the Front Range Family Theatre Project and was honored with the 2008 Kennedy Center medallion and the 2002 KCACTF Award for New Program Development. For more than 18 years, he has served KCACTF as a Regional Respondent, Board Member and Clinician. Currently he serves Region 7 as the Vice-Chair for Design & Technology and Festival Scheduling Czar.

Tony Howarth (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent; Ten-Minute Play Director and Mentor) is a working playwright whose credits include a dozen one-act plays plus several full-length plays: Thornwood, produced off-Broadway, across the U.S., Europe, Tanzania, and made into an award-winning independent movie; Sundown, (Sonora Playhouse, Sonora, CA);Dream City Twosome(off-Broadway); Billy Bubblehead, at the Axial Theatre, Pleasantville, NY, where he conducts a playwrighting workshop; A Silver Throne,(AmeriCulture Arts Festival). He has received grants from the Death in America Foundation and the Drama League, and was playwright-in-residence for the award-winning, Mint Theatre in New York City.

John Hudson (Workshop Leader) has an M.A. in Shakespeare and Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He is Artistic Director of the Dark Lady Players, and the developer of one of the top Shakespeare theories, recently listed by the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, and demonstrated in 3-proof of concept allegorical productions in 2007-8. The home page www.darkladyplayers.com has a video-clip from a documentary on his work. Download Posner’s review ‘Rethinking Shakespeare’, from the press section.

Cathy Hurst (Region I 2nd Co-Vice Chair; Regional Selection Team; Directing Chair) has been a tenured professor and stage director for over twenty-five years. She is currently on the faculty at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Cathy is the principle-staging director at OperaWorks, in Los Angeles, California. In 2008, she co-developed and directed and original opera for the company, “I CANDY,” which featured thirty-one international singers. Cathy is the KCACTF Directing Chair for Region One.

Melissa Hurt (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Preliminaries & Production Respondent; Ten-Minute Play Director) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation appraises Lessac’s kinesensic work as an acting practice with Merleau-Ponty’s ideas of the phenomenal body for embodied presence. She has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Theatre Pedagogy. Melissa is a designated Lessac practitioner, actor, director, dramaturg and 20th century and contemporary American theatre history researcher. She lives in Sydney and hopes to return to the United States with a faculty appointment in the fall.

Ed Hyatt (Workshop Co-leader) is President-Boston Illumination Group and worked as lighting electrician, ME, LD and Rigger with a variety of rock tours ranging from Neil Diamond to U2. Ed has designed for live and recorded television, enjoyed 6 years of systems design and sales for Barbizon and later formed Boston Illumination Group in 1996. Member USITT, IES, ESTA, and ETCP Electrician.

Rafael Jaen (Workshop Leader; Design & Technology 2nd Co-Vice-Chair Region I) Costume Designer; most recent credits include Speakeasy's The Seafarer, Lyric Stage's Follies, and Publick Theatre's The Seagull and Hay Fever. He is a USA 829 Member, KC/ACTF Respondent, and USITT Portfolio Review Chair for USITT Costume Commission. He is a USITT '08 Grant Recipient. He is also the author of the book: Developing & Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio; Design-Tech Faculty at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Web site: www.rafaeljaen/biz.

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PeggyRae Johnson (Workshop Leader) is a freelance actor and director with more than 200 theatre and television productions, voice-overs, commercials, and industrials to her credit. She teaches full time in the Theatre and Dance Department at Keene State and part-time at Franklin Pierce University. PeggyRae coordinated the Region I Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships and has served as Associate Chair with Wil Kilroy. She was awarded the Kennedy Medallion in 1999 and honored by the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild with a Lifetime Member Award for service and leadership to NH Theatre.

John Marshall Jones (Workshop Leader) (Northwestern U '84, NAST, ATHE) has been a successful network television star for many years. His most popular television series, “Smart Guy,” played to over 21 million viewers per week in the U.S. on the Disney Channel from 2000-2004. Mr. Jones is also a published author, and successful theater/film producer. His acting credits include 4 series regular roles, 20 films, and over 100 television appearances. He is presently a nominee for New York's prestigious Audelco Award for Best Actor in a theatrical performance (2007). www.imdb.com/name/nm0428426/

Rebecka Jones (Love Drunk Staged Reading) started as a visual artist until entering graduate school at Ohio University; there, she trained to be a professional actor and earned her MFA. She is an adjunct professor of drama at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, where she teaches acting. A member of the Actors’ Equity Association, she has performed in professional theatres including Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage. Last year, with three other professional actors, she founded Theatre 4, a theatre company based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Jerry Kean (Photographer) likes to work outdoors with natural light. He began doing photos detailing men’s clothing for Esquire Magazine’s fashion shows, and The Men’s Fashion Association including Pierre Cardin, Henry Grethel and Calvin among others. He photographed all of Kristi Yamaguchi’s personal appearances as well as her fashion press kits. Jerry has photographed seminars and fund raising events for The Museum of Television and Radio. Some of the people he photographed include Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Walter Cronkite and Carol Burnett.

William Kenyon (Design/Tech Respondent) is Head of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in Design & Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the resident designer for the American Indian Dance Theatre, which performs internationally each year. Recent performances have included the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Wolftrap, and the Qatar International Arts Festival. Professor Kenyon also serves as the Co-Commissioner for Education with USITT and is a member of USA Local #829 in the areas of Lighting and Sound Design.

Patricia Kidney (Poster Design Judge) is Coordinator of Graphic Design Program and Department Chair for Visual Arts at Northern Essex Community College. She has taught Graphic Design at NECC for many years.

Wil Kilroy (Workshop Leader) is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine, Co-founder of the National Michael Chekhov Association, Director of the USM Teen Theatre Academy, and has taught/directed in London and Greece. Wil has worked professionally as an actor, director, and workshop presenter and is a former chair of KCACTF. He has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, the Michael Chekhov Studio, the National Shakespeare Conservatory, URI and U. of I.

Sabine Klein (Region I Vice-Chair Dramaturgy) teaches dramatic literature, theory and criticism, and theatre history at Westfield State College, MA. She holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center where she has presented scholarship on early German drama and theatre at the American Society for Theatre Research, the Northeastern Modern Language Association, and the German Studies Association. She has also performed or directed with a variety of professional and semiprofessional theatre companies, most notably the Los Angeles Theatre Workshop, Glimmerglass Opera, the Cooperstown Theatre Festival and Orpheus Theatre.

Thomas Ladd: (Workshop Co-leader) Project Manager and Lighting System Engineer for Boston Illumination Group. Past employment has included positions with Production Arts and Electronic Theatre Controls in NYC. Thomas has participated in the design and system engineering of the lighting systems that now operate CNN, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the United Nations and other theatrical and architectural installations in the Northeast. Member IESNA, ETCP Electrician.

Maggie Lally (Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Judge; Production Respondent; SSDC Judge) has been actively involved in developing new works as a director for the past 20 years. Plays include: Lonely Planet, The Foreigner, The Boys Next Door and Eleemosynary at Michigan Ensemble Theatre and Killer’s Head and The Dumbwaiter at Barrington Stage Company. Maggie has directed many readings of new plays at venues including: The Public Theatre, NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, Barrington Stage Company, Jewish Repertory Theatre and through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Maggie is an associate professor of Theatre at Adelphi University and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Meron Langsner (Workshop Leader) was one of three writers in the country to receive an inaugural National New Play Network Emerging Playwright residency last season. His plays have been performed around the country and overseas, and he was recently included in an anthology by Applause Books. As a fight director, Meron has recently composed violence at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage, Zeitgeist Stage, and Tufts. MFA: Brandeis, MA: NYU/Tisch, Doctoral Candidate: Tufts University.

Cynthia (Cindy) Lee-Sullivan (Panelist; Design/Tech Respondent) is the properties manager at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. She got her BA in theatre (costume design) from Hope College and her MFA (technical theatre production / set design) from the University of Georgia. Cindy has toured with A.R.T. to Spain, Japan, Russia, and most recently to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival with Three Sisters directed by Polish director Krystian Lupa.

Romulus Linney (Playwright–Love Drunk) is the author of three novels, many stories and forty plays, produced throughout the United States and abroad. He has received two Obie Awards, one for Sustained Excellence in Playwriting, two National Critics Awards for Best Plays of the Year, three Drama-Logue Awards, and many grants and fellowships. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which gave him its Award in Literature and its Award of Merit Medal for Drama

Michael Maynard (Workshop Leader) is currently a Senior Consultant specializing in the area of sound systems design for Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc., in Sudbury, MA. His projects typically involve design consulting and system layout using CAD and loudspeaker modeling software. Typical projects include: worship spaces, performing arts and theatre, paging systems, training rooms, and outdoor systems. Mike’s projects

benefit from a broad background of experience, including systems design, manufacturing, and installation for both sound reinforcement and theatrical lighting.

Orestes Mihaly (Workshop Leader) founder of PRG (Production Resource Group). As General Manager of Scenic Technologies in New Windsor, NY, Orestes has been tapped to keep this facility on the cutting edge of live entertainment, scenic fabrication and mechanization. His focus over the past 3 years has been to develop a strong internship program for students all over the country and expose them to all aspects of a commercial scene shop, as well as a backstage pass to the PRG lighting, audio, scenic and video aspects of NYC Broadway shows.

Tom McCabe (Workshop Leader) is founder and Artistic Director of PaintBox Theatre, a theatre of imagination and improvisation for all ages based in Northampton, MA. In the 1980’s Tom created and served as Artistic Director of The Children’s Theatre of Massachusetts which twice garnered NETC’s Moss Hart Award for excellence in the field of children’s Theatre. A Parent’s Choice Award winning storyteller, Tom has performing for more than 1,000,000 people across North America and Europe during the last 30 years.

Tom Miller (Workshop Leader), prior to joining the staff of Actors' Equity Association, 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, Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at Opryland USA. He can be seen in the documentary Show Business-The Road To Broadway hosting a Broadway Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade Tom was honored to serve as a voter for the annual Tony Awards.

Lois Kagan Mingus (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge), a member of The Living Theatre since 1988, has appeared in dozens of productions with the company in New York, Europe and Latin America, also performing regularly with Dadanewyork and The Wycherly Systers. She is Co-Founder of The Living Theatre Workshops and Action Racket Theatre and recently spoke at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minnesota about using theatre as a tool for social change. Lois is listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment in America.

Jeff Modereger (Workshop Leader) is Chair of the Department of Theatre at UVM, teaching classes in technical scenery, scene painting and scene design. Mentored by Jo Mielziner, Jeff has 300 design productions to his credit. He is represented by the National Holocaust Museum's exhibit and tour of Remember the Children: Daniel's Story. Most recently his work was seen at Northshore Music Theatre and Roundhouse Theatre in MD. Jeff is currently working on Looking Over the President's Shoulder for Vermont Stage Company.

Kaia Monroe (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Respondent) is a professor at SCSU, and actor/singer/dancer. Regional credits: Geva Theatre, the Fulton Opera House, Missouri Rep, Weston Playhouse, Texas Shakes and the Kennedy Center. National tours: Swingtime Canteen, Joseph. Directing: Glasslight Theatre, Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp, Goodspeed. Recordings: “Sacred Harp” with NYC’s Ephraim’s Harp. Teaching: School for Film and Television (NYC), Cornell College, and Long Wharf Theatre. Training: MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, certified yoga instructor, and the Dell’Arte School.

Bill Mootos (Workshop Leader) is an actor based in Boston and New York. Most recently, he appeared with Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC, the Hanover Center in Worcester, and the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Bill is a member of AFTRA,

the Boston Actors’ Equity Liaison Committee, served on the Board of Directors of StageSource, and is a National Board Member of the Screen Actors’ Guild. He has also appeared in a number of commercials and independent films.

Daniel Morbyrne (Workshop Leader), Associate Artistic Director for Serious Play!, is a full-time faculty member at The Drama Studio, Springfield. Dan has studied with and worked as a director, writer, editor, teacher, and fight choreographer with Serious Play!, and as an actor has toured to New York City, London, and Edinburgh. Dan has taught classes and workshops at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, Holyoke Community College, and Westfield State College. Last season he co-directed and toured Commedia dell Smartass for Serious Play!

Kelly Morgan: (Region I Chair; Regional Selection Team) Founder-Mint Theater, NYC. Directing: Abingdon Theater, (Another Vermeer); Steppenwolf Theater, (Uncle Bob); Mint Theater (Thornwood, Jeremy Rudge); The Long Wharf/Theater for Community-Quinnipiac University (Medea); Contemporary American Theater Festival (Baby Dance); AmeriCulture Festival (A Raisin in the Sun, Oldest Living Graduate); Edinburgh Festival (The Laramie Project). Received the Commonwealth Commendation for Service to The Arts and KCACTF Directing Fellowship. Will direct premiere of (Love Drunk) by Romulus Linney this spring.

Anne Mundell (Workshop Leader; Design/Tech Respondent) is a Scenic Designer and Head of Design at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Anne is Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Growing Theater Outreach and is a founding partner with CMU’s Robotics Institute of The Roboceptionist Project. She is a member of USAA in Scene Design and Scenic Art and on the Boards of Pittsburgh City Theatre and The Marilyn G. Rabb Foundation’s Murals Project. Anne earned her BA from Kenyon College and MFA from Brandeis University.

Jim Murphy (Region I Co-Vice Chair; Workshop Leader; Regional Selection Team) is a faculty member at Northern Essex Community College. He and his wife, Susan Sanders, have collaborated as director and designer on many productions, both at NECC and professionally. Jim is a past recipient of a faculty fellowship in directing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This past summer he received an NEH grant to study Shakespeare at the American Shakespeare Center in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Jo Nazro (Technical Director McKay Auditorium) is a Senior at Fitchburg State College, Majoring in Technical Theatre. Jo was a transfer student from Eastern Connecticut State University where she worked on The Visit, and The Sandcastle. Her most recent accomplishment was directing Seascape with Sharks and Dancer for her senior project this past December. Other accomplishments at Fitchburg State include numerous assistant technical directing assignments, stage management, master electrician work, as well as design in both sound and lighting.

Matt Nesmith (Region I Hospitality Co-Chair) is an assistant professor and director of the music theatre program at the University of New Hampshire, a designated practitioner of Lessac Kinesensic voice and movement training, and continues to act and direct professionally. He earned a B.A in music from South Dakota State University, an M.M. in vocal performance and an M.F.A. in Theatre from The University of South Dakota.

Cathy Norgren (National Selection Team) is Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre & Dance at the University at Buffalo and also teaches KC Summer Intensives in Playwriting each July. She is a member of USA, Local 829 and as a freelance designer has designed

costumes for a number of regional theatres including Theatre for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Cleveland Playhouse to name only a few. Cathy holds a BA cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, and a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Larry Nye (Workshop Leader) is an Assistant Professor at SCSU and Director of Dance at Stagedoor Manor where he directed and choreographed the world premiere of High School Musical. He has directed and choreographed numerous productions including How to Succeed in Business… and receiving a KCACTF Meritorious Award for Dance Choreography. At the Barn Theatre he directed and choreographed the first regional release of The Producers. Larry received his B.F.A. from the University of Arizona and his M.F.A. from The University of Oklahoma and is a member of A.E.A

Jennifer Ouellette, (Region I Irene Ryan Coordinator) earned her B.F.A. in Theatre from Central Connecticut State University in May, 2000, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with Theatre Department Honors. Following graduation, she studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. She is presently taking time off from the theatre to focus on her new full-time position as Visual Lead with Coldwater Creek.

Elinor Parker (Region I 2nd Co-Vice Chair of Design and Technology) is the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Westfield State College. With her fine arts background, a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, and an MFA in Scenography from the University of Kansas, she enjoys working as both a costume and scenic designer. She's designed for a wide arrange of shows including: Camelot, Steel Magnolias, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cherry Orchard, and Tom Stoppard's Voyage: Coast of Utopia, Part I.

Daniel L. Patterson (Region I Critic’s Chair; Regional Selection Team) is Chair of Theatre and Dance at Keene State College in NH. Professor Patterson chairs the Critics Institute and is a member of the executive board for KCACTF Region I. He has been a festival respondent and consults on the Critics Institute for several other regions in KCACTF. Professor Patterson graduated from the University of Texas. He is most proud of the fact that he has performed in fourteen of Shakespeare’s plays.

John David Paul (Workshop Leader) is a member of the theatre faculty at Minnesota State University-Mankato and serves as Vice-Chair of Design and Technology for KCACTF Region V. He has designed or built over 200 shows and projects for theatre, opera, dance, themed entertainment, trade shows, commercials, retail spaces. Films: Assistant Art Director for Fargo and Grumpier Old Men; Set Designer for Jingle All the Way, The Cure and Feeling Minnesota. John has also taught Theatre or Film courses at California Institute of Arts, Chapman University, Dordt College and Northwestern College.

Austin Pendleton (Irene Ryan Semifinals Judge; Love Drunk Staged Reading and Q&A) is a gifted actor, director, and writer who has appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1962 in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad. Mr. Pendleton is an alumnus of Yale University and was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Director for his 1981 production of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. He is associated with the Williamstown Festival Theatre, the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble, and is a Professor at the HB Acting studio in New York.

Josh Perlstein (Director/Playwright—Odets: Still Waiting) is associate professor of Theatre at CCSU where he has taught for the last 15 years. He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts in Directing and acted and directed in the Boston area in the 1980's. His productions of Keely and Du in 2002 and Lebensraum in 2003 were regional

finalists for KCACTF. Josh most recently appeared as Oberon in Boston in Theatre Omnibus’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Jack Cory.

Carrie Ann Quinn (Workshop Leader) is a professional actor, teacher and director of stage and screen. She is Assistant Professor of Theatre at U Mass Boston and has taught Method for a New Millennium Technique at Boston University and the University of Notre Dame in Australia. She earned an MFA in Theatre Education and a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studying at the legendary Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She is a member of SAG, ATHE, KCACTF, AEA.

Brandt Reiter (Region I Co-Vice Chair of Playwriting; Ten-Minute Play Director) is a Manhattan-based director, playwright, journalist and teacher. He has worked in stage, film and television in New York and Los Angeles, and was jazz critic for the "LA Weekly" from 2000-2004; currently he contributes to the Village Voice and All About Jazz New York. Brandt teaches Acting and Dramatic Literature at the University of New Haven, and Rhetoric and Composition at CUNY Bronx. His first full-length play, End of Play, premieres at NYC's Center Stage Theater in April 2009. MFA, Theatre (Directing & Playwriting), Sarah Lawrence College; BA, American Studies, Temple University; Certificate, Film Theory and Criticism, Sorbonne, Paris.

Steve Reynolds (National Selection Team) is professor of theatre at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and teaches directing, acting, playwriting and contemporary American drama. He has served as Region III National Playwriting Program Chair and received a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in College Teaching. This past November he directed a Julie Harris tribute production of The Member of The Wedding for Cape Rep Theatre on Cape Cod. He completed his MA and Ph.D at the University of Michigan.

Mitchell Riggs (Workshop Leader; Irene Ryan Finals Judge & Respondent) has produced several feature films, over 50 original theatrical events, and nine plays. He has performed as an actor in dozens of productions including the North Carolina and Illinois Shakespeare festivals, and is a founding member of three Manhattan theatres including The Signature Theatre Company. He has most recently been a lecturer at NYU and Stony Brook University teaching Understanding Theatre and Acting. Watch the trailer for his documentary The Dark Lady Discovery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gxt2zdp0w.

Bruce J. Robinson (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent) writes mainly for theatre and television. The first of many productions of the play, Byrd’s Boy opened at Primary Stages (featuring David McCallum). Another Vermeer was instrumental in his winning the Berrilla Kerr Award, was a finalist at the O’Neill, and was produced by Theatre 40 and the Abingdon Theatre (starring Austin Pendleton and directed by Kelly Morgan). Among theatres at which Bruce's work has been performed are the Ensemble Studio, Westbeth, Denver Center, and the John Houseman. Among the many TV shows for which he’s written are Gary Goldberg’s Brooklyn Bridge and Glenn Caron’s Showroom. www.brucejrobinson.com

Nick Roesler (Workshop Leader) is a proud member of the FullStop Collective, to which he brings his talents as actor, and director. Nick's recent credits include Howard Blackburn in The Morgan Theater Project (Mystic Seaport), Macbeth in 3 Kings and Their Dead (Are the Fish Happy?). Current work includes the FullStop Collective's new adaptation of Oliver Saks' Muiscophilia. He is currently the Associate Director of the National Theater Institute's TheaterMakers Summer Advanced Program and the Senior Admissions Officer for NTI.

Magda Romanska (Region I Dramaturgy Chair) is an Assistant Professor, Head of Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy Advisor at Emerson College's Department of Performing Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, a B.A. from Stanford University and was an exchange scholar at the Yale School of Drama’s Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She served on the editorial board of Theater Magazine, Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and Diacritics. She is a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and member of LMDA.

James Rone (Workshop Leader) has been an Actor-Educator, resident playwright and Teaching Company Director for CLIMB Theatre since 2001. Eleven of his plays have been included in CLIMB Theatre’s repertory for the 2002-2009 seasons. He has facilitated interactive theatre workshops for Minnesota Office of Higher Education, the Minnesota Autism Society, the Minnesota Teachers’ Association, and the National Get Ready! Conference, among dozens of other organizations and K-12 schools. He has studied with Michael Rohd and Augusto Boal.

William Roudebush (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent; One-Act Play Director) Bill has directed over 250 productions at such theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, Walnut Street Theatre, Syracuse Stage Company, Theatre Virginia, Queens Theatre in the Park, Florida Studio Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mint Theatre Company, Miami Opera Guild, Palm Beach Opera and many others. His book Acting By Mistake is available at bookstores or online at www.xlibris.com.

F. Chase Rozelle III (Region I Co-Chair of Design and Technology; Workshop Leader; Technical Director Sheraton) is a member of the performing arts department faculty at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is also the Technical Director of the Harry Hope Theatre. His professional experiences include engineering scenery for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatres, and international trade shows as well as world wide, national, and local television.

Susan Sanders (Poster Design Coordinator) is a professor of English and Theater at Northern Essex Community College. She is the advisor to the Top Notch Players, the college theater company, which has been active in KCACTF since the 1970’s. The players brought a new play, Home, to the festival in 1979. In 2002 she was awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion for service to Region I as a respondent, member of the selection team, and hospitality coordinator.

Peter Sampieri (Workshop Leader; Region I Directing Committee) is a professional freelance director and college professor who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He has taught and directed at Brown University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, New England Conservatory, Roger Williams University, Providence College, OperaWorks, in Northridge, California, and Northwestern University’s National High School Institute. He has directed Off-Broadway at The Cherry Lane Theatre, as well as many regional equity theatres all over the New England.

William Schill (Workshop Leader; Production Respondent) heads a New York City management firm providing talent for motion picture and daytime television dramas including All My Children, Guiding Light, and One Life to Live. He is a faculty member and adjudicator for The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, served on the Board of the National Association of Talent Representatives, Inc., is the Casting Director for The Abingdon Theatre Company in NYC and on the Board of the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA.

Tina Shackleford (Design/Tech Respondent; Stage Management Fellowship Judge) teaches stage management at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Her professional credits include work with La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Group Theatre, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Dallas Theater Center, as well as collaborations with Theatre de la Jeune Lune and the Latino comedy group Culture Clash. Directing credits include work with the Iowa Playwrights Festival and the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival. She holds an MFA from the University of California-San Diego.

David C. (Kip) Shawger, Jr. (National Chair of Design and Technology; Design/Tech Respondent; Workshop Leader) is the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Chair of Design and Technology. A native of New Jersey, he is an award wining designer with over 300 design credits and 30 years experience in education, community, professional theatre, television and film. Kip was a member of the KCACTF National Selection Team in 2008 and in 2001 he received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion of Excellence for his work with ACTF. He has also worked on a Kennedy Center Fellowship with Ming Cho Lee.

Jack Shea (Region I 2nd Vice Chair of Playwriting) is the Coordinator of the Theatre Arts Program at Westfield State College. He teaches acting, directing, playwriting, script analysis, and directs the Program’s productions. He earned a BA in History from Stanford and an MA in Critical Studies and MFAs in Acting and Directing from UCLA. He was formerly an Assistant Professor and Guest Artist in Residence at The University of Memphis where he taught acting in the B.F.A. program and directing in the M.F.A. program. He is a member of Equity, SAG, and AFTRA.

Brenda Shepard (Workshop Leader) is a Systems Integrator with Barbizon Light of New England developing and integrating Lighting and Rigging Systems. Project work includes Jordan’s Furniture IMAX Theatre and Jordan’s Furniture Beantown, The Boston Opera House, The Fine Arts Center Concert Hall and Rand Theater at the university of MA/Amherst, Emerson College Tufts Performance and Production Center and the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Brenda serves as President of I.A.T.S.E. Local 232 as well as being an active stagehand. She has a Masters Degree from Boston University in Broadcast Production.

Kathleen Sills (Respondents Chair; Ten-Minute Play Director; Regional Selection Team) is an Associate Professor at Merrimack College where she runs the theatre program. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from Tufts University. Kathleen is a founding member of the Lifeline Theatre Company in Chicago, IL. This past year she served as Respondents Chair for Region I.

Matthew Wilson Smith (Dramaturgy Respondent/Judge) is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2008), and his articles on theatre and film have appeared in Theater, Modern Drama, Modernism/Modernity, and other journals and anthologies. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of the works of Georg Büchner, and is writing a book on melodrama.

Dona Sommers (Workshop Leader) is the Executive Director of the Boston office for American Federation of Television Artists (AFTRA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Dona served for five years as the Executive Director of StageSource, the Alliance of Theatre Artists and Producers. She has an extensive background in theatre and film production working as an Equity stage manager and company manager throughout New England

and as a production manager for Boston-based film companies producing educational, documentary, and dramatic programs for distribution and broadcast on PBS.

Robin Stone (Region I Hospitality Co-Host) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island and works professionally as an actor, director, and lighting designer in his spare time. Robin has degrees from Willamette University, Minnesota State University, and the University of Missouri. Robin began his involvement with KC/ACTF as a student and has participated in several regional festivals around the country before moving to New England. He is currently a respondent and co-chair for festival hospitality.

Sheryl Stoodley (Workshop Leader), Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble, is on faculty at Holyoke Community College with an MA in Theatre from Smith. She has performed, taught and directed with regional and academic theatres throughout New England as well as with women in prison. She leads the ensemble’s unique physical acting training and has directed over 18 productions with Serious Play! The ensemble has toured to New York City, Boston, Athens, and London and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Presently she is developing a new script Milosevic at the Hague for a February opening.

Kelly Stowell (House Manager; Festival Dir. Assistant) is a 2008 graduate of Fitchburg State College, was in college productions of The Laramie Project (which also went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Purple Breast, helped mount a student production of Eleemosynary, and is active in community theater. In 2008, Kelly assisted on the Quinnipiac University production of Medea at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and also Another Vermeer at the Abingdon Theatre in NYC.

Linda Murphy Sutherland (Region I Co-Vice Chair; Regional Selection Team) is Associate Director of Academic Programs at Emerson College, a free-lance Director and Teaching Artist. She is a Talkback Leader at Trinity Repertory Company and teaches at Boston University's College of Arts Administration and at Emerson College. Linda was Associate Director of Education at the Huntington Theatre Company, Past President of the New England Theatre Conference (NETC), is a member of NETC's College of Fellows and recipient of the 2008 Marie Philips Volunteer Award.

Luke Sutherland (Region I Co-Vice Chair Design & Technology; Technical Director Weston) is Technical Director/Scenic Designer at the Community College of Rhode Island. Luke works professionally in Film, Television, Opera and Theatre credits which include: Spoleto Festival USA, Virginia Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Trinity Repertory Company. Luke is Guest Faculty/Scenic Designer at Quinnipiac University and teaches Stagecraft at Rhode Island College. He’s a member of USITT and a Set Dresser for IATSE Local 52 in NYC.

Crystal Tiala (Workshop Leader; Tech Olympics Coordinator) is an Associate Professor at Boston College and a professional scenic designer who has designed over 90 productions for regional theaters throughout the east coast and as far away as Rybinsk, Russia. Crystal serves as Chair of the United States Institute of Theater Technology/New England Section and is the Director of a new initiative at Boston College to create the Center for the Arts and Social Responsibility. She is a member of the United Scenic Artists local 829 union with an MFA from the University of Connecticut.

Molly Trainer (Workshop Leader) has designed and fabricated costumes for over 25 years for theaters, museums, and advertising. She has received two IRNE nominations, and designed three Elliot Norton award-winning productions. She earned a BS in

Management from Northeastern University, trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The School of Fashion Design in Boston, and studied art and photography at the University of the South.

Claudia Traub (Workshop Leader) has been teaching acting, voice and movement at the University of Rhode Island for the past eight years. She most recently was the Managing Director for Perishable Theatre in Providence and Director of Social and Cultural Arts programming for John Hope Settlement House. She has created, implemented and supervised three different minds, body therapeutic arts programs for populations to include, but not limited to: gang kids, mentally ill, people living with dementia, formerly homeless, corporate execs and persons in drug rehab.

Mary C. Vreeland (Region I Diversity Chair; Irene Ryan Preliminaries Judge) is an award-winning actor and has performed such roles as: Lydia -Children of A Lesser God (Broadway); Katrin- Mother Courage and Her Children/Helen Hays Award (Folger Shakespeare Theatre); Frances-The Debutante Ball (Manhattan Theatre Club); Medea- Medea (Quinnipiac Theater for Community). Ms. Vreeland is the recipient of the Los Angeles Media Access Award and the Loreen Arbus Award from the Los Angeles Women in Film Foundation for Outstanding Performance. She has taught at Rochester Institute of Technology and Virginia Commonwealth University where she received her MFA.

Dana Yeaton (Workshop Leader) His play Redshirts was nominated for a 2008 Charles MacArthur Outstanding New Play or Musical Award. He is the recipient of the “New Voice in American Theatre” award from the William Inge Theatre Festival and the Heideman Award from the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Midwives, his adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel, has been produced professionally and at colleges around the country. Dana’s newest play is My Ohio, a musical for two performers.

Adam Zahler (Region I Directing Committee). International: Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival 2008; Volkov Theatre (Yaroslavl, Russia). Boston area: New Repertory Theatre; Lyric Stage; Speakeasy Stage; Stoneham Theatre; Boston Playwrights; The Nora Theatre. New York: Wonderland Festival; Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. Elliot Norton Awards: Outstanding Production (Stonewall Jackson’s House); Outstanding Director (Permanent Collection). He is Professor of Theatre at Worcester State College and a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Larry Zoll (Workshop Leader) has been with Barbizon’s Systems division for over a year and a half where he has worked on dimming and control projects including Patriots Place at Foxboro, and Control Systems at Symphony Hall in Boston. Larry is also a freelance Lighting Designer working mainly on the east coast from Washington, DC to Boston. He holds an MFA in Lighting Design from The University of Maryland, and is a contributor to Live Design Magazine.

RESPONDENTS

This festival could not happen without our volunteer respondents who go to the productions in our regions and provide feedback. You are invited to become a respondent. Attend the How To Become a Respondent workshop on Wednesday-Saturday, January 28-January 31, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in SkyClass on the 7th Floor of Four Points by Sheraton, lead by PeggyRae Johnson and Wil Kilroy. Participants should attend all four sessions.

Thank you to these 2008 respondents.

Tatsuya AoyagiAynne AmesRaina AmesCelena Sky AprilJim BeauregardSharon BernardKathryn BlumeBob BolesLaura Chakravarty BoxCrystal BrianTed ClementBill CunninghamJim FallonScott GagnonDavid Allen GeorgeCraig HandelArthur HillTony HowarthCathy HurstPeggyRae JohnsonRebekah JonesGina KaufmanWil KilroyJustin McCoubry

Harry McEnernyKaia MonroeKelly MorganJim MurphyMatt NesmithJames NicolaJennifer OuelletteDan PattersonJosh PerlsteinCathy PlourdeCarrie Ann QuinnBrandt ReiterPatricia RigginSusan SandersMyron SchmidtAnn Marie SheaKathleen SillsNancy StoneRobin StoneLinda Murphy SutherlandLuke SutherlandLaurence TocciDana Yeaton

These are the shows responded to in Spring and Fall, 2008.

Bates CollegeA Lie of the Mind

Boston CollegeHotel ParadisoAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Part I

Boston UniversityFishbowl, Backroom, Margaret LaRue, Baptism of St. GenesiusPope Joan

Bridgewater State CollegeAndrogynes’ SexStop/KissHow I Learned to Drive

The Magic FluteAn Ideal Husband

Castleton State CollegeOnce on this IslandPhiladelphia, Here I ComeYou Can’t Take it With You

Central Connecticut State UniversityThe TempestThe BirdsBetty’s Summer VacationWater

Community College of Rhode IslandRomantic FoolsMary Brigit Poppleton Is Writing a Memoir

Dean CollegePublic Speech/Private ThoughtSweet CharityLaughing Stock

Eastern Connecticut State UniversityOklahoma!The WomenThe Pot of Gold

Emerson CollegeLady Windermere’s FanThe Hundred Dresses

Emmanuel CollegeOklahoma!The Frogs

Fitchburg State CollegeThe Baltimore WaltzOthelloRunner StumblesThe Rimers of Eldritch

Franklin Pierce College451

Holyoke Community CollegeAnna in the TropicsFuddy Meers

Johnson State CollegeNoises Off

Keene State CollegeThe Rolling Collections

The Hot HouseFat Men in SkirtsThe Matchmaker

Lesley UniversityReturneesThe Sinker

Merrimack CollegeDracula

Middlebury CollegeSt. Crispin’s DayLysistradaJumpersUncommon Women & OthersTwelfth NightTiny Geniuses

North Essex Community CollegeThe Diary of Anne FrankStudent Directed One Act PlaysThe Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

Quinnipiac UniversityMedeaWhite Washed: A Community Diversity ProjectThe Girls Next Door (adapted from The Boys Next Door)

Rhode Island CollegeAntigoneTrue WestNo, no NanetteLost in YonkersAnna in the Tropics

Roger Williams UniversityThe FantasticksDead Man WalkingThe Women of Lockerbie

Saint Michael’s CollegeCloser Than EverThe Heiress

Salem State CollegeLady of the LarkspurNight SkyMother Courage and Her ChildrenProofPink Panther Strikes AgainThe Tempest

Salve Regina University

MousetrapHay FeverThe Laramie Project

Southern Connecticut State UniversityAnything GoesA Midsummer Night’s DreamChicagoStudent Directed One Acts Evening 1Student Directed One Acts Evening 2

Stonehill CollegePicnic

University of Maine at MachiasEvening of Theresa Rebeck Short Plays

University of Maine, OronoThe Marriage of FigaroCloud 9Scapin

University of Massachusetts, BostonHouse of Blue Leaves

University of New HampshireUbu RoiNight of ComedyLittle Women, The MusicalThe Last Five YearsI C No Arrlechino

University of New HavenZombies from the BeyondTwo RoomsElm City Theater Company Presents: American Gangbang

University of Rhode IslandAmadeusTrue WestThe Prime of Miss Jean BrodieSmall TragedyOklahoma!

University of Southern Maine, GorhamTo Gillian on her 37th BirthdayCity of AngelsLast EasterFool for LoveThe FantastiksThe Man Who Came to Dinner

University of VermontEurydice

Cabaret

Wellesley CollegeVietnam 101: The War on Campus

Western Connecticut State UniversityThe Who’s TommyCabaret

Westfield State CollegeInterviewA Midsummer Night’s DreamVoyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I

Wheaton CollegeAn Inspector Calls

Worcester State CollegeAll in the TimingLysistrata

Documents

The English and Industrial Arts Departments of Fitchburg ... · Web viewPresentation and discussion: one professional free-lance costume designer's experience of real-world costume