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presents:

The Forty-Third Annual Region 6 Festival 2011

Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas

February 22 to 26, 2011

The Globe News Center and

The Amarillo Civic Center

Hosted by Amarillo College

Presented and Produced by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing

Arts

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

is sponsored in part by:

U.S. Department of Education

Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein

The Kennedy Center Corporate Fund

The National Committee for the Performing Arts

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Welcome Back to Amarillo!

On behalf of Dr. Paul Matney, President of Amarillo College, Sherman Bass, Manager of the Amarillo Civic Center and Globe News Center, and Mindy Bradley, the Amarillo Convention and Visitors Council Director of Convention Services, I welcome you all, once again, to the great City of Amarillo and to the Forty-Third Annual Region 6 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival!

Much has gone into the development of hosting the Regional Festival once more in Amarillo. So many individuals contributed to making the possibility of Amarillo College hosting this event a reality. I hardly know where to start to thank them all. Nevertheless, they deserve tremendous accolades. First, and foremost, I would like to extend my appreciation and convey my immense pride for the small group of people here, at Amarillo College’s Theatre Arts Program, for the titanic undertaking they embraced. Sixteen hard-working and passionate majors, an incredible staff member—Keith Gamblin (get to know him), and Monty Downs, our super faculty member and TD, were invaluable in helping me and Region VI get this festival off the ground. Be looking for us all in our orange shirts should you have any questions or concerns. We are here to help! If you get the chance, also shake the hands of Michelle Ney, our fearless leader of Region 6, and Shannon Richey, our newest addition to the region as Festival Manager, for their tremendous efforts in improving your experience in Amarillo this year. Additional kudos go to Dr. Matney, Mr. Bass, and Ms. Bradley for their commitment to theatrical education in our community and throughout our region. Without their support, this week would simply not be possible. Finally, Amarillo College and Region 6 KCACTF wish to give a hearty thanks to the City of Amarillo for offering their facilities and support…we are so lucky that they would allow us to be here! I could gush for days, but this is a festival. It is time to start the festivities. Welcome and have a terrific time in Amarillo! A. Ray Newburg, Jr., Region 6 Festival Host and Out-Going Texas Chair Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Amarillo College Region VI Texas State Chair

Table of Contents

KCACTF National Selection Team, Region 6 Committee, and National Leadership Page 4

Invited Productions Performance Schedule Page 5

Bus/Shuttle Schedule Page 6

KCACTF Region 6 Schedule Pages 8-15

Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships Audition Schedule Pages 15-16

Acting Workshop Schedule Pages 16-18

Dramturgy, NCI, & Playwriting Schedule and Workshop Descriptions Pages 19-20

Design, Technologies, & Management Schedule and Workshop Descriptions Pages 21-24

Directing & SDC Schedule & Workshop Descriptions Pages 24-26

Bios of Festival Respondents and Presenter Pages 27-43

Participating Schools Page 44

Region 6 Festival History Page 45

Maps Pages 46-50

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KCACTF National Selection Team

Gregg Henry Tom Mitchell Debra Bergsma Otte Bryan Willis

KCACTF Region 6 and Amarillo College would like to welcome and thank the National Selection Team for their dedication to the art of theatre, their continuing commitment to education, and all of their hard work as they travel the eight regions of the KCACTF.

KCACTF Region 6 Committee Penny Hasekoester, Region 6 Co-Chair .................................................. Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

Michelle Ney, Region 6 Co-Chair ...................................................................... Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Joy Pace, Region 6 Vice-Chair ................................................................... McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA David Blakely, Chair of Playwriting ................................................................. Rogers State University, Claremore, OK Jim Anderson, Playwriting Vice-Chair ............................................................ Texas A&M- Commerce, Commerce, TX Michael Heil, Design/Technologies Chair .................................................... Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Jason Foreman, Design/Technologies Co-Vice Chair ............................................. Oklahoma City University, OKC, OK

Jon D. Young, Design/Technologies Co-Vice Chair ............................................. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Chad Winters, Irene Ryans Coordinator ......................................... Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA D. Lance Marsh, Irene Ryans Vice-Coordinator .................................... Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK Arthur Adair, SDC Coordinator .......................................................................... Austin Community College, Austin, TX Camille Bulliard, SDC Vice-Coordinator .............................................. University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA

Bruce Cohen, Arkansas Chair .................................................................................. Arkansas State University at Beebe Bob Stevenson, Arkansas Vice-Chair .................................................................... University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Raymond Vrazel, Louisiana Chair ........................................................................... Dillard University, New Orleans, LA Nyalls Hartman, Louisiana Vice-Chair ................................................ University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Harold Hynick, Missouri Chair ........................................................................... Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO Christopher Sousa-Wynn, New Mexico Chair ........................................ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Kimberly Weast, Oklahoma Chair ................................................ Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Alva, OK Laura Byland, Oklahoma Vice-Chair .......................................................... Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK A. Ray Newburg, Jr., Texas Chair .................................................................................... Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX Chase Waites, Texas Vice-Chair ............................................................ Lone Star College—Montgomery, Houston, TX James Winter ................................................................................. Southeastern Louisisana University, Hammond, LA

KCACTF National Leadership National Chair: Dr. Harry B. Parker, Texas Christian University National Vice-Chair: Rebecca Hilliker, University of Wyoming Member at Large: Steve Reynolds, Wittenburg University Member at Large: Maggie Lally, Adelphi University Member at Large: Debra Bergsma Otte, Long Island University Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison: Mark Kuntz, Western Washington University National Chair, Design and Technologies: Karen Anselm, Bloomsburg University National Vice-Chair, Design and Technologies: Gweneth West, University of Virginia National Chair, New Plays Program: Georgia McGill, City University of New York National Vice-Chair, New Plays Program: Jeanette Farr, Glendale Community College

Kennedy Center Staff: Artistic Director, KCACTF—Gregg Henry Producing Director, KCACTF—Susan Shaffer Vice President, Education—Darrell M. Ayers

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Invited Productions & Performance

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

11:00am Imogen by Bob Stevenson, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

8:00pm Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, McNeese State University Thursday, February 24, 2011

8:00pm 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo, University of Oklahoma Friday, February 25, 2011

10:00am Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle, University of Central Oklahoma

8:00pm The Night of The Iguana by Tennessee Williams, University of New Orleans Orleans Saturday, February 26, 2011

11:00am Aye, No! by Liz Coronado Castillo, Sul Ross State University

Alternate Productions: Region 6 would also like to recognize the following productions, which were chosen as alternates to the above productions:

1st Alternate: The Boxcar by Sylvia Gonzalez, Texas A & M University—Kingsville

2nd Alternate: Too Much Memory by Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson, Lone Star College—Montgomery

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THESE FINE REPRESENTATIVES

FROM KCACTF REGION 6!

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Festival Bus/Shuttle Schedule (Tuesday through Saturday)

PLEASE NOTE: One charter bus with a maximum capacity of seventy-four (74) passengers will be making rounds all week. As such, the shuttle may have to make a few circuits to accommodate all Festival guests. We appreciate your patience…

DATE DEPARTURE FROM TO INSTRUCTIONS

TUE, Feb 22nd *7:00am-9:00am Ambassador Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Amarillo College

Amarillo Globe News Center Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame

*11am-1:00am Amarillo Globe News Center Ambassador Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Amarillo College

Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame

*3:00pm-5:00pm Ambassador Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Amarillo College


*6:00pm-7:30pm Ambassador Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Amarillo College


*10:00pm-11:00pm Amarillo Globe News Center Ambassador Hotel, Holiday Inn, and Amarillo College


WED, Feb 23rd *7:00am-8:00am Ambassador and Holiday Inn Amarillo Globe News Center Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame

*9:45am-11:00am Ambassador and Holiday Inn Amarillo Globe News Center Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame





*10:00pm-11:00pm

Amarillo Globe News Center Ambassador and Holiday Inn Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame

THU, Feb 24th –SAT, Feb 26th



*1:00pm-3:30pm Amarillo Globe News Center Ambassador and Holiday Inn Continuous shuttle for this listed time frame


Saturday’s LAST RUN


Pick up and drop off will be in the parking lot on the south side of the Globe News Center *These times are continuous shuttles times. The bus will make runs from the hotels and Amarillo College (where stated) to the Globe News Center during that time-frame listed.

Bus provided by the Convention and Visitor Council

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KCACTF Region 6’s Gracious Sponsors

THE NATIONAL PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE IS AN ORGANIZATION OF THEATRE EDUCATORS AND OTHERS WHO ARE DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF THEATRE ARTISTS. MANY PARTNERS ARE PRESENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE KCACTF NATIONAL COMMITTEE. THE NAPAT CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD IS PRESENTED EACH YEAR AT THE KCACTF NATIONAL FESTIVAL AND IS FUNDED BY MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS. THE PARTNER’S ALSO PRESENT CLASSICAL ACTING AWARDS AT EACH OF THE KCACTF REGIONAL FESTIVALS, PLUS A DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL. NAPAT’S PLAYWRITING EXCELLENCE AWARD THE STUDENT RECIPIENT WILL RECEIVE AN EXPENSE-PAID TRIP TO A WEEK-LONG PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY U. NEVADA, LAS VEGAS.

Join us: Contact Membership Chair Joyce Cavarozzi

[email protected] OR

Andrew Gibbs, Region 6 Representative: [email protected]

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KCACTF Region 6 Master Schedule

The following is the schedule for the Region 6 Festival. In the following pages you will find a more detailed schedule underneath the appropriate headings.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Time Description Location 1:00pm Design/Technology/Management

Exhibit Set-up—STAFF ONLY 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies, GNC

5:00-9:00pm Festival Registration GNC Lobby 7:00-8:00pm Stage Manager Orientation GNC Education Room

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Time Description Location 8:30am-9:00pm Festival Registration GNC Lobby 8:30am-11:00pm Irene Ryan Preliminary Auditions

(See detailed schedule) Amarillo College

Concert Hall 12:00-4:30pm SDC Rehearsals GNC Education Room 1:00-1:50pm Design/Technologies/Management

Round Table With Teachers of Entries GNC 2nd Floor Dressing Room

2:00-5:00pm Exhibit Set-Up for Barbizon Entries ONLY GNC 2nd Floor Lobby 3:00-4:00pm 10-Minute Play Festival Meeting:

Directors, Playwrights, and Mentors GNC Theatre

4:30-6:00pm Workshop: Mining Given Circumstance: A

Workshop for Directors and Playwrights – Gregg Henry

GNC Education Room

5:00-8:00pm Exhibit Set-Up for Regional Design/Technology Exhibit—ALL

GNC 3rd Floor Lobby

7:30-8:50pm Workshop: Serving the Play: A Workshop for

Directors and Playwrights – Gregg Henry

GNC Education Room

8:00-10:00pm Design/Technologies/Management Exhibits closed for Respondent’s review

GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies

9:00-10:00pm 10-Minute Play Casting Meeting GNC Theatre


Time Description Location 7:00-11:00am Imogen Load-In GNC Theatre 8:30am-8:00pm Festival Registration GNC Lobby 8:00-10:50am 10-Minute Play Auditions and Casting Heritage Rooms #1-6 8:00-10:50am SDC Preliminary Event (closed session) GNC Education Room 9:00-9:30am Design/Technologies/Management

(D/T/M) Entries Orientation GNC 2nd Floor Lobby

9:30-10:50am Design/Technologies/Management Responses


11:00am-1:00pm Performance: Imogen by Bob Stevenson,

University of Arkansas – Fort Smith

GNC Theatre

1:00-2:00pm Imogen Load-out GNC Theatre

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Wednesday, the 23rd, continued… 1:00-2:30pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Rehearsals Amarillo College Experimental Theatre 2:00-3:20pm D/T/M Exhibit Responses GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies Workshops:

Acting: Command Performance: Ensemble Based Devised Work – Nadine Mozon

British Dialects: How They Do That- Elizabeth van den Berg

Directing: Confronting Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, or How to Turn Problems into Opportunity – Eric Parness

Education: In Other Words – Teaching the iY Generation – Kimberly Weast

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage Room #3

Heritage Room #1

GNC Education Room

Heritage Room #9

2:30-6:00pm Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Amarillo College Experimental Theatre 3:30-5:30pm Santa Fe Opera Summer Technical Position Interviews Heritage #7 4:00-5:50pm One Act Play Readings and Responses:

The Fattist Prelude to Morning

Heritage Room #4 Heritage Room #6

4:00-5:20pm Workshops: Acting:

The Actor’s Shakespeare – Irwin Appel

Directing: Directing the Impossible – Rubber Repertory

D/T/M: Featured Designers in Lighting Design: Sarah Maines, Michael Knight, Don Eller

Life-Lines: Quick Techniques for Adding Movement and Life to Your Costume Renderings – Ashley Bellet

Communication and the Stage Manager – Jeff Cochran

Scenic Rendering with Watercolor- Andrew Fitch

Other: The London Theatre Scene – Harold Hynick

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #3

GNC Education Room

Heritage #14

Heritage #13

Heritage #15

Heritage #12

Heritage# 9

4:00-8:00pm Waiting for Godot Load-In GNC Theatre 5:00-5:50pm Directors Forum: Host Kimberly Weast Heritage #11 6:00-7:50pm SDC Student Directors Response Session Heritage Rooms #1-6 6:00-7:50pm SDC Student Directors Forum GNC Education Room 8:00-10:00pm Performance: Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett, McNeese State University

GNC Theatre

10:00-11:00pm Waiting for Godot Load-Out GNC Theatre

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Wednesday, the 23rd, continued… 10:00pm-12:00am Hospitality Suite (for all faculty, staff, and

VIPs – no students, please) Marriott Courtyard – Downtown

Newburg Suite

Time Description Location 8:00-10:50am Irene Ryan Finals Rehearsal GNC Theatre 8:00-10:50am 10-Minute Play Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6 8:30-9:50am Workshops:

Directing: Directing Improv? – Harold Hynick

D/T/M: Designing Outside the Box: Opportunities for Design Outside of Theatre – Robert Kreps

A Swatchbook Guide to the Universe: Lighting Color Theory for Beginners – Ronn Campbell

Collage Rendering for the Costume Designer - Ashley Bellet

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #8

Heritage #15

Heritage #13

Heritage #14

9:00am-5:00pm Festival Registration GNC Lobby 9:00am-9:50am Imogen Response Heritage #9 9:00-10:20am New Play Reading:

Changed Forever – University of Central Oklahoma

Heritage #7

9:00-10:20am NCI Workshop: Guest Critic, Charlotte Stoudt

Heritage #12

9:00-10:50am SDC Interviews GNC Education Room 10:00-10:50am Waiting for Godot Response Heritage #9 10:00am-1:00pm D/T/M Exhibit Responses GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies 10:00am-12:30pm Portfolio Reviews Heritage #10 11:00am-1:00pm Irene Ryan Finals GNC Theatre 2:00-3:20pm Workshops:

Acting: What We Forget About Acting – Leigh Selting

A Career in Theatre: A Practical Guide to the Business and the Role of Actors – Tom Miller

Improv as an Actor’s Tool for Making Discoveries – Sara Birk

Directing: Director as Adaptor: Directing “Classical” Plays in Translation – Eric Parness

D/T/M: Stage Management in a world populated with actors, directors and designers—Brad Buffum

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #3

Heritage #6

Heritage #2

GNC Education Room

Heritage #12

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Thursday, the 24th, continued… No Bad Blood II – Randy Lutz

From Broadway to National Tour – Transforming A Lighting Design – Sarah EC Maines

Model Building: Overview – Jon Young

Playwriting: Getting Your New Play Produced-Beth Blickers

Heritage #15

Heritage #13

Heritage #14

Heritage #7


Musical Theatre Audition & Performance – Kaitlin Hopkins

Staying in the Moment – Judith Pender

A Career in Theatre: A Practical Guide to the Business and the Role of Actors – Tom Miller

Directing: Brave New Work – Rubber Repertory

D/T/M: All Access Backstage Pass – The Santa Fe Opera – Tracy Armagost

The Integrity of Flow and Mapping the Human Body – Gary Burton

Model Building: Session – Jon Young

Designing a Sound Effect – Jason Romney

Introduction to Moving Lights – Leonard Miller

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #3

Heritage #1

Heritage # 2

GNC Education Room

Heritage #9

Heritage #15

Heritage #14

Heritage #7

Heritage #8

4:00-5:20pm One Act Play Readings and Responses: Eight

Hamlet Oscar Goes To…

Heritage #4 Heritage #5 Heritage #6

4:00-8:00pm 9 Parts of Desire Load-In GNC Theatre 6:00-7:50pm SDC and 10-Minute Play Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6 8:00-10:00pm Performance: 9 Parts of Desire by

Heather Raffo, University of Oklahoma

Awards/Announcements following performance: Classical Acting Award,

Semi Partner Award, Final Partner Award, D/T/M Regional Awards

GNC Theatre

10:00-11:00pm 9 Parts of Desire Load-Out GNC Theatre

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Time Description Location 6:00-10:00am Mr. Marmalade Load-In GNC Theatre 8:00-9:50am 10-Minute Play Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6 8:30-9:50am Town Hall Meeting GNC Education Room 8:30-9:50am D/T/M Exhibit Responses GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies 8:30-9:50am Santa Fe Opera Summer Technical Position Interviews Heritage #7 9:00am-6:00pm Registration GNC Lobby 9:00-9:50am Portfolio Reviews Heritage #10 9:00-9:50am NCI Workshop: Guest Critic,

Charlotte Stoudt Heritage #12

10:00-11:30am Performance: Mr. Marmalade, by Noah Haidle, University of Central Oklahoma

GNC Theatre

11:30am-2:00pm Santa Fe Opera Summer Technical Position Interviews Heritage #7 11:30am-12:30pm Mr. Marmalade Load-Out GNC Theatre 11:30am-1:00pm D/T/M Exhibit Responses GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies 12:00-2:00pm SDC Rehearsals GNC Education Room 12:30-2:00pm 10-Minute Play Load-In and Rehearsals GNC Theatre 2:00-4:00pm 10-Minute Play Performances GNC Theatre 2:00-3:20pm Workshops:

Acting: How To Succeed in “The Business” – Kaitlin Hopkins

The Actor, The Play, The Game – Physical Theatre and the Real World – Sarah Peters

Sound & Fury Signifying…Everything: Punctuation, Rhetoric and Verse Clues for Shakespeare – D. Lance Marsh

Directing: I Graduated, Now What? Getting and Making Work in NYC – Eric Parness

D/T/M: LED’S and You: Adding LED Fixtures to Your Current System and How to Use Them – Ronn Campbell

Featured Designers in Set Design: Christopher Sousa-Wynn, Jon Young, Jason Foreman

Digital Costume Rendering – Colleen Muscha

The Stage Manager’s Toolbox I – Shannon Richey

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #1

Heritage #3

Heritage #6

GNC Education Room

Heritage #15

Heritage #11

Heritage #14

Heritage #13

Thursday, the 24th, continued… 10:00pm-12:00am Hospitality Suite (for all faculty, staff, and

VIPs – no students, please) Marriott Courtyard – Downtown

Newburg Suite

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Friday, the 25th, continued… Advanced QLab and SFX Playback – Jason Romney

Heritage #7

4:00-4:30pm 10-Minute Play Load-Out GNC Theatre 4:00-5:20pm 10-Minute Play Responses Heritage #4 4:00-5:20pm Workshops:

Acting: Cracking Open a Monologue – Lauren Lane

Partnered Adagio and Acrobalance for Actors – Bob Stevenson

Before You Get There, You Gotta Know Where You’re Going – Camille Bulliard

Directing/Design: Creating the World of the Play: Effective Communications Between Directors & Designers – Chuck & Michelle Ney

D/T/M: The Stage Manager’s Toolbox II – Shannon Richey

Practical Technician’s Portfolio – Randy Lutz

Blood & Gore – Rosa Lazaro Dramaturgy:

The Dramaturg’s Protocol: Session I – Cynthia SoRelle

Heritage #1

Heritage #3

Heritage #2

GNC Education Room

Heritage #13

Heritage #14

Heritage #15

Heritage #9

4:00-8:00pm Night of the Iguana Load-In GNC Theatre 6:00-7:50pm SDC Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6 8:00-10:30pm Performance: The Night of The Iguana

by Tennessee Williams, University of New Orleans

GNC Theatre

10:30pm-12:30am Hospitality Suite (for all faculty, staff, and VIPs – no students, please)

Marriott Courtyard – Downtown Newburg Suite

10:30-11:30pm Night of the Iguana Load-Out GNC Theatre

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Time Description Location 7:00-11:00am Aye, No! Load-In GNC Theatre 8:00-8:50am Mr. Marmalade Response Heritage #9 9:00-9:50am Night of the Iguana Response Heritage #9 9:00-10:00am SDC Load-In GNC Education Room 9:00-10:50am NCI Workshop – Guest Critic,

Charlotte Stoudt Heritage #12

9:00-10:45am D/T/M Exhibit CLOSED for Respondents’ Review


9:00-11:00am Meet & Greet Graduate Schools and 4-year University Programs

Heritage #6

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Saturday, the 26th, continued… 10:00-11:00am Santa Fe Opera Summer Technical Position Interviews Heritage #7 11:00am-1:00pm Performance: Aye, No! by Liz Coronado

Castillo, Sul Ross University GNC Theatre

1:00-2:00pm Aye, No! Load-Out GNC Theatre 1:00-2:00pm New Play Reading: Las Cartas, by

Christian Acevedo, Betsy Wallek, Michelle Flores, and the

Hispanic Playwriting Initiative, Texas A & M - Kingsville

Heritage #1


Everything You Wanted to Know About Monologue Auditions (But Were Afraid to Ask) – D. Lance Marsh

Actor/Singer Vocal Survival Guide – Kaitlin Hopkins

The Basics of Long Form Improvisation (double session) – Harold Hynick

Directing: So You Wanna Start Your Own Theatre Company, Eh? – Rubber Repertory

D/T/M: Advanced QLab and SFX playback – Jason Romney

Featured Designers in Costume Design: LaLonnie Lehman, Ashley Bellet, Claremarie Verheyen

Projection Design: “This is my Responsibility?” – Robert Kreps

Dramaturgy: The Dramaturg’s Protocol: Sesssion II – Cynthia SoRelle

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #6

Heritage #3

Heritage #5

GNC Education Room

Heritage #7

Heritage #14

Heritage #15

Heritage #9

2:30-3:20pm Aye, No! Response Heritage #9 2:30-4:50pm SDC Finals Performance & Responses

GNC Education Room


The Basics of Long Form Improvisation II – Harold Hynick

Q & A: Balancing a Career Between TV and Film – Lauren Lane

Workshop: Respondents Training Workshop – Harry Parker

D/T/M:

GNC/Civic Center

Heritage #5

Heritage #1

Heritage #8

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Saturday, the 26th, continued… Old Age Makeup 1,2,3 Go! – Claremarie Verheyen

Digital Rendering for the Scenic Designer – Christopher Sousa-Wynn

Lighting Shakespeare, Creating the Moment – Michael Skinner

Playwriting: What I am Looking for; a Director Talks About What he Wants to Find in a New Play – Joseph Gilg

Heritage #15

Heritage #14

Heritage #13

Heritage #7

4:30-5:30pm D/T/M Exhibit Strike GNC 2nd and 3rd Floor Lobbies 5:30-7:30pm Awards Ceremony

Irene Ryan Awards SDC Awards

10-Minute Play/Playwriting Awards David Mark Cohen Awards

Barbizon Awards National Stage Management Fellowship

National Sound Design Award

GNC Theatre

Irene Ryan Scholarship Schedule

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Irene Ryan Preliminary Orientations, Rehearsals, and Rounds:

*Irene Ryan Preliminary Responses will follow immediately after each round in the AC Experimental Theatre…

Time Description Location

8:30am-9:00am Irene Ryan Orientation Rounds 1-4 Amarillo College Concert Hall 9:00am-9:30am Irene Ryan Registration Rounds 1-4 Amarillo Concert Hall Lobby 9:30am-10:30am Irene Ryan Round 1* Amarillo College Concert Hall 10:30am-11:30am Irene Ryan Round 2* Amarillo College Concert Hall 11:30am-12:30pm Irene Ryan Round 3* Amarillo College Concert Hall 12:30pm-1:30pm Irene Ryan Round 4* Amarillo College Concert Hall 1:00pm-1:30pm Irene Ryan Orientation Rounds 5-7 Amarillo Concert Hall Lobby 1:30pm-2:00pm Irene Ryan Registration Rounds 5-7 Amarillo College Concert Hall 2:00pm-3:00pm Irene Ryan Round 5* Amarillo College Concert Hall 3:00pm-4:00pm Irene Ryan Round 6* Amarillo College Concert Hall 4:00pm-5:00pm Irene Ryan Round 7* Amarillo College Concert Hall 5:00pm-5:30pm Irene Ryan Orientation Rounds 8-12 Amarillo Concert Hall Lobby 5:30pm-6:00pm Irene Ryan Registration Rounds 8-12 Amarillo Concert Hall Lobby 6:00pm-7:00pm Irene Ryan Music Rehearsal Amarillo College Exp Theatre 6:00pm-7:00pm Irene Ryan Round 8* Amarillo College Concert Hall 7:00pm-8:00pm Irene Ryan Round 9* Amarillo College Concert Hall 8:00pm-9:00pm Irene Ryan Round 10* Amarillo College Concert Hall 9:00pm-10:00pm Irene Ryan Round 11* Amarillo College Concert Hall 10:00pm-11:00p Irene Ryan Round 12* Amarillo College Concert Hall

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Irene Ryan Semi-Final Round Rehearsal, 1:00-2:30pm Amarillo College Experimental Theatre

Irene Ryan Semi-Final Round Performance, 2:30-6:00pm Amarillo College Experimental Theatre. Responses in Durrett Hall following…

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Irene Ryan Final Round Rehearsal, 8:00-10:50am GNC Theatre

Irene Ryan Final Round Performance, 11:00am-1:00pm GNC Theatre

About the Irene Ryan Foundation Scholarships… Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associate productions are eligible for consideration for these $500 regional scholarships. The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional and two national scholarships annually. There are two

scholarships of $3500 each for the winners at the national festival in Washington, D.C. In addition, the student judged the Best Partner in the national auditions is awarded a cash prize of $250. The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to pay tuition and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts. Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level.

Acting Workshop Schedule and Descriptions


2:00-3:20pm Civic Center Location

Command Performance: Ensemble Based Devised Work—Nadine Mozon Heritage #3 Participants need full body commitment in motion and stillness, while embracing a facility for verbal language and story. The actors who participate will have an opportunity to engage imaginatively and collaboratively, sampling approaches to developing original work. We will target key elements for transforming first thoughts and root notions into cohesive action, confirmed relationships and organically “devised” performance. Viewpoints elements at work here.

British Dialects: How They Do That—Elizabeth van den Berg Heritage #1 Ever seen a play with American actors speaking in a perfect British dialect and wondered how they learned to speak that way? This workshop will show you a step by step approach to learning 3 different British dialects, and give you some tools to learn more on your own. Professional dialect coach Elizabeth van den Berg (whose credits include Sweeney Todd for the Sondheim Festival at the Kennedy Center and Secret Garden for the Olney Theatre Center) will guide you through scenes from Secret Garden and Hay Fever with placement, rhythm and sound transformations. Bring a pencil and a willingness to “play”.


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The Actor’s Shakespeare—Irwin Appel Heritage #3 An approach to Shakespearean text from the actor’s perspective. Whether one has performed Shakespeare extensively or never spoken a word of his before, this workshop is designed to discover the depth, power and immediacy of Shakespeare’s language and imagery. The goal is to discover character through textual clues and to explode the language from within.



What We Forget About Acting—Leigh Selting Heritage #3 Wrapped up in your “head” too much in rehearsal? Consumed with “characterization”? Have you forgotten how to rehearse?! A workshop for any level to reinforce basic prinicples rearding scoring, action, obstacle, listening, adaptation, and truth.

A Career in Theatre: A Practical Guide to the Business and the Role of Actors—Tom Miller Heritage #6 This workshop offers a candid discussion into how and when to join Equity. Additionally, it offers pragmatic insight into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating record-keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.

Improv as an Actor’s Tool for Making Discoveries in Scripted Work—Sara Birk Heritage #2 Students will have the opportunity to work with partners in short, unscripted scenes in order to delve into character preoccupations and how those impact character responses.


Musical Theatre Audition and Performance—Kaitlin Hopkins Heritage #3 The workshop focuses on your prepared song and how to get it to the next level, exploring ways to break down a song and making strong specific choices. Main focus is one on one work sessions, do’s and don’ts, working in Musical Theatre today and the different contracts. Please prepare 16 bars. Make sure your music is in the right key, properly marked, and is in a three ring binder. No loose pages or vocal selection books, please.

Staying In the Moment—Judith Pender Heritage #1 This workshop will introduce techniques for staying active, other-focused and in the moment. It is an acting class and requires participation by those attending.

A Career in Theatre: A Practical Guide to the Business and the Role of Actors—Tom Miller Heritage #2 The workshop offers a candid discussion into how and when to join Equity. Additionally, it offers pragmatic insight4 into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.



How to Succeed in The Business—Kaitlin Hopkins Heritage #1 We will focus on making the transition into show business-how to arm yourself with the tools you need in training and mental preparation. This forum discusses the artists’ struggle, how to meet those challenges in a healthy way, approach your career as a business, avoid self-sabotage and harness your innate talent by trusting what is unique about you and how to bring that into the audition room.

The Actor, The Play, The Game-Physical Theatre and the Real World—Sarah Peters Heritage #3 This workshop examines the peculiar relationship between play and player. What is the twinkle that is present in an action or a word that gives it life and vigor? Using games and exercises from Dell'Arte International we probe the play in the everyday to keep the twinkle shining. Wear loose clothing for movement.

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Sound and Fury Signifying…Everything: Punctuation, Rhetoric and Verse Clues Heritage #6 for Shakespeare—D. Lance Marsh The complete toolkit that every actor and director needs to start playing with a Shakespearean text. Perfect for novice verse speakers and a great tune-up for the more verse literate!


Cracking Open A Monologue—Lauren Lane Heritage #1 Students will bring a one-minute contemporary monologue. Participants will be chosen by lottery. We will work together to uncover deeper more personal layers to existing monologue work.

Partnered Adagio and Acrobalance for Actors—Bob Stevenson Heritage #3 Expand your physical storytelling with a little help from acrobatics. Adagio is a circus skill that combines partnered dance with weight-sharing and trust, and is a perfect addition to any acting process. One person, the base, helps propel their partner, the flyer, through a series of static and dynamic positions in the air. Participants should come with a partner and be prepared for strenuous physical movement. Open to the first 10 pairs, spectators welcome.

Before You Get There, You Gotta Know Where You’re Going—Camille Bulliard Heritage #2 In order to create your own success and live the life you desire as an actor, you must first understand what success means to you and what that picture looks like. You’ve got to know where you’re going before you get there. No one can define success for you – you must do it for yourself and live according to that definition each and every day. In this workshop, receive concrete steps to accelerate your acting career and transform your approach to the business while also learning how to manage your time effectively and truly enjoy every aspect of your acting career. Learn how to be the “CEO of YOU” and set yourself up best to limit the cycle of the struggling artist as much as possible.


9:00-11:00am Civic Center Location

Meet & Greet Graduate Schools and 4-Year Universities/Colleges Heritage #6


Everything You Wanted to Know About Monologue Auditions Heritage #6 (But Were Afraid to Ask)—D. Lance Marsh From strategies to finding a good monologue, to entrance and slate right through to your final "thank you", Equity actor and professional director D. Lance Marsh covers all the down-and-dirty facts and fictions about the dreaded monologue audition.

Actor/Singer Vocal Survival Guide—Kaitlin Hopkins Heritage #3 This workshop focuses on the vocal health for the actor and singer. What do you do if you lose your voice or experience vocal problems during a run or day before an audition? How does what you eat affect the voice? What medications dry your vocal chords? What is expected of you when you book a tour, regional or Broadway show? This provides practical information to help deal with the unique vocal and physical demands of your profession.

The Basics of Long Form Improvisation—Harold Hynick Heritage #5 This workshop will teach students how to turn short form improvisation games into long form performances by mastering the basics of the “Harold”, the long form structure developed by Del Close. Students should commit to both sessions.


The Basics of Long Form Improvisation II—Harold Hynick Heritage #5 This workshop will teach how students turn short form improvisation games into long form performances by mastering the basics of the “Harold”, the long form structure developed by Del Close. Students should commit to both sessions.

Q&A: Balancing a Career between TV and Film—Lauren Lane Heritage #1 Television, Film, and Theatre actress Lauren Lane hosts this Q and A about balancing a career that involves work in theatre and television.

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Dramaturgy, NCI and Playwriting Schedule & Workshop Descriptions


3:00-4:00pm Location

10-Minute Play Festival Meeting: Directors, Playwrights, Mentors GNC Theatre


Mining Given Circumstance: A Workshop for Playwrights and Directors—Gregg Henry GNC Education Room Exercises to provide tools to take full advantage of the factual and contextual forces at work in a play.


Serving the Play: A Workshop for Directors and Playwrights—Gregg Henry GNC Education Room A workshop focusing on the Director’s responsibilities to the new play and playwright. The Dramatists bill of rights, adopted by the Dramatists Guild of America in 2007, will serve as the starting point of the discussion. This session will be an active conversation, using the participants’ own experiences of both successful and less-than-successful working partnerships as open “case studies”. This workshop intends to challenge those directors who believe it is their right to do whatever they like with [or to] a new play. Likewise, it intends to challenge those playwrights who believe that just because it has been written, the play deserves un-questioned devotion and carte blanche.


10-Minute Play Casting Meeting GNC Theatre


8:00-10:50am Location

10-Minute Play Auditions & Casting Heritage Rooms #1-6


One-Act Play Readings and Responses: The Fattist by Scott Matthew Harris Heritage #4 Prelude to Morning by Roy Giles Heritage #6


10-Minute Play Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6





NCI Workshop: Guest Critic, Charlotte Stoudt Heritage #12

2:00pm-3:20pm Location

Getting Your New Play Produced—Beth Blickers Heritage #7 Guest Agent Beth Blickers of Abrams Artists Agency discusses the ins and outs of how to get your new play produced.


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10-Minute Play Load-In and Rehearsals GNC Theatre


10-Minute Play Performances GNC Theatre


10-Minute Play Responses GNC Theatre

The Dramaturg’s Protocol: Session I—Cynthia SoRelle Heritage #9 KCACTF supports the notion that "the dramaturg should participate fully and uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around the theatrical event." This workshop covers how dramaturgs execute the mandate. Topics: developing resources, rehearsal protocols, the dramaturg's voice, crafting program notes, and "digiturgy."





Meet & Greet Graduate Schools and 4-Year Universities/Colleges Heritage #6


New Play Reading: Las Cartas, by Christian Acevedo, Betsy Wallek, Michelle Heritage #1 Flores, & The Hispanic Playwriting Initiative, Texas A & M – Kingsville


The Dramaturg’s Protocol: Session II—Cynthia SoRelle Heritage #9 KCACTF supports the notion that "the dramaturg should participate fully and uniquely in the collaborative act of making theater and in promoting social discourse around the theatrical event." This workshop covers how dramaturgs execute the mandate. Topics: developing resources, rehearsal protocols, the dramaturg's voice, crafting program notes, and "digiturgy."


What I am looking for; A director talk about what he wants to find in a new play—Joseph Gilg Heritage #7 If theatre is a collaborative art then what is each person’s job in that collaboration? If a production starts with a script what does the playwright need to provide so that directors, actors and designers can build that production? This will be an interactive discussion focused on new plays and young playwrights.

One Act Play Readings & Responses: Eight by Kaitlin Crotty Heritage #4 Hamlet by Adam E. Douglas Heritage #5 Oscar Goes To…by Adam E. Douglas Heritage #6

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Design/Technologies Schedule & Workshop Descriptions\



D/T/M Round Table with Teachers of Student Entries GNC 2nd Floor Dressing Room


Exhibit Check-In and Set-up for Barbizon Entries only GNC 2nd Floor Lobby


Exhibit Check-In Set-up for Regional D/T/M Exhibits GNC 3rd Floor Lobby


Exhibit Closed for Respondents’ Review GNC 2nd & 3rd Floor Lobbies



D/T/M Entries Orientation GNC 2nd Floor Lobby


D/T/M Exhibit Responses GNC 2nd & 3rd Floor Lobbies




Featured Designers in Lighting Design: Sarah EC Maines, Michael Knight, and Don Eller Heritage #14 Steve Carmichael (University of New Mexico), Sarah EC Maines (Texas State University), and Michael McKnight (Texas A&M-Commerce) will present and discuss their approach to lighting design for professional and academic theatre.

Communication and the Stage Manager—Jeff Cochran Heritage #15 In today’s world, our means of communication are constantly evolving. As more and more technology becomes available to our theatres, how we communicate to members of our production teams has become more complex. During our time together, we will discuss and see examples of both traditional and innovative methods of communication and their effects on our process.

Scenic Renderings with Watercolor—Andy Fitch Heritage #12

Life-Lines: Quick Techniques for Adding Movement and Life to Your Costume Renderings—Ashley Bellet Heritage #13 This workshop will cover several methods of capturing attitude and movement in character rendering for costume designers. Sketches will be quick- the overall focus is silhouette and line. Participants should being a sketchbook and several pencils, perhaps a separate eraser.



Designing Outside The Box: Opportunities for Design Outside of Theatre—Robert Kreps Heritage #15 Where to look for and find design opportunities outside of traditional theatre and dance. Also the different challenges that event and corporate design present.

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A Swatchbook Guide to the Universe: Lighting Color Theory for Beginners—Ronn Campbell Heritage #13

Collage Rendering for the Costume Designer—Ashley Bellet Heritage #14 This workshop will discuss some basic methods of organizing and assembling a collaged character rendering for costume designers. We will discuss texture, shapes, manipulation of materials, adhesives, and touch on mixed media additions. Participants should bring 2-5 character sketches, black and white, on a heavy-duty paper or matte board. If you have magazines you may bring those as well.

10:00am-1:00pm Location


10:00am-12:30pm Civic Center Location

Portfolio Reviews Heritage #10


Stage Management in a world populated with actors, directors and designers—Brad Buffum Heritage #12 Stage Managers need skills to corral the disparate personalities and egos in theatre while keeping his/her own out of the mix. In this workshop, we’ll explore techniques of assertive, tactful zoo keeping.

No Bad Blood II—Randy Lutz Heritage #15 A practical workshop on stage blood, process, production and special techniques. The workshop will highlight safety procedures for using, handling and storage of stage blood. Inexpensive stage blood recipes will be provided along with some hands on “Blood Mixology”. The workshop will also address procedures for testing and removing various “stage bloods” from fabrics and costumes with new products and techniques for 2011.

From Broadway to National Tour-Transforming a Lighting Design—Sarah EC Maines Heritage #13 Using the lighting design for Jersey Boys, I will show how an original large scale Broadway design is adapted to be an efficient touring production. Time and materials permitting, "In the Heights" may become a secondary example.

Model Building: Overview—Jon Young Heritage #14 This will be a working session in which participants will explore the process of model building. During the work session each student will create a portion of a scale model.


All Access Backstage Pass-The Santa Fe Opera—Tracy Armagost Heritage #9 All access backstage pass to the Santa Fe Opera. Images presented will include the facilities and production designs, past, present, and future. Summer employment opportunities will also be discussed.

The Integrity of Flow and Mapping the Human Body—Gary Burton Heritage #15 A new approach to unlocking the mysteries of costume pattern design.

Model Building Session—Jon Young Heritage #14 This will be a working session in which participants will explore the process of model building. During the work session each student will create a portion of a scale model.

Designing A Sound Effect—Jason Romney Heritage #7 In most cases, what you find in a sound effect library is not exactly the sound you need. This is particularly true for a sound that does not exist in the real world. This workshop will demonstrate techniques for creating your own sound effects and how to get closer to the sound you can hear in your head. Come with suggestions for effects you've struggled to create in the past.

Introduction to Moving Lights—Leonard Miller, Phillips Vari*Lite Heritage #8 A brief history of the concept and technology leading up to the invention of the first modern moving light, content on the basic concepts of lighting technology including lamp types, color temperature and color mixing theory including LED technology, and then basic types of modern moving lights, their parts, pieces and functions.

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Portfolio Reviews Heritage #10

11:30am-1:00pm Location



LED’s and You: Adding LED Fixtures To Your Current System and How to Use Them—Ronn Campbell Heritage #15 LED fixtures are neat! But the salesman isn't there when you are trying to incorporate them into your system and use them on your production of The Cherry Orchard. What equipment do you need? What are the pros and cons? How do I apply them to the stage? We will explore these questions and more.

Featured Designers in Set Design: Christopher Sousa-Wynn, Jon Young, Jason Foreman Heritage #11 Three scenic designers from Region 6 will present and talk about their set designs. The three designers are Jon Young (University of Oklahoma), Chris Sousa-Wynn (University of New Mexico) and Michael Heil (TCU, Fort Worth).

Digital Costume Rendering—Colleen Muscha Heritage #14

The Stage Manager’s Toolbox I (double session)—Shannon Richey Heritage #13 For beginning Stage Managers- This workshop will focus on an organizational part of the Stage Manager's toolbox and how to assemble the "puzzle pieces" of a show; props, scenery, transitions, quick changes, and light cues to name a few. Participants will examine and discuss paperwork, forms, styles, and observation tools along with mapping quick changes and scene shifts. Participants will also discuss delegation and job sharing among the stage management team.

Advanced QLab and SFX playback—Jason Romney Heritage #7 Become a QLab and SFX power user. This workshop will demonstrate advanced techniques for these popular playback tools that will streamline your workflow in tech and make your cues more aware and responsive to what's happening in the show.


The Stage Manager’s Toolbox II—Shannon Richey Heritage #13

Practical Technicians Portfolio—Randy Lutz Heritage #14 This workshop will focus on portfolios for the technician; including costumes, carpenters, scenic artists, crafts wigs and make-up. This will be a relaxed workshop addressing basic elements of portfolios for presentation to potential employers. We will discuss types of projects to included, labeling, layout, and presentation techniques. Feel free to bring photographs of your work, portfolios (in any state of completion) and your resume. Starting a portfolio? Just bring your questions and interest.

Creating the World of the Play: Effective Communications Between GNC Education Room Directors and Designers—Chuck & Michelle Ney This workshop explores communications between directors and designers, from early discussions through final design and performance. We will examine various communication tools and how to better understand the language of directors and designers.

Blood and Gore—Rosa Lozaro Heritage #15 This session will focus on several blood recipes (edible, washable, traditional, and premade). The application of bruises, scares, cuts, etc. We will be applying these methods to those attending, if time allows, they may have the opportunity to also work hands on with several methods. These makeup and blood methods are those that have

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been used at the professional level theatre for years and are both available and affordable for school and personal use.



D/T/M Exhibit closed for respondents’ review GNC 2nd & 3rd Floor Lobbies


Meet & Greet Graduate Schools and 4-year Universities/Colleges Heritage #6


Featured Designers in Costume Design: LaLonnie Lehman, Claremarie Verheyen and Ashley Bellet Heritage #14 Host: Michael Heil

Projection Design, This Is My Responsibility?—Robert Kreps Heritage #15 A round table discussion dealing with the issues of projection design as the emerging “hot” design area of the 21st Century. Who is responsible for content, surfaces, and implementation? Different software and hardware available for projection.

Advanced QLab and SFX playback—Jason Romney Heritage #7 Become a QLab and SFX power user. This workshop will demonstrate advanced techniques for these popular playback tools that will streamline your workflow in tech and make your cues more aware and responsive to what's happening in the show.


Old Age Makeup 1, 2, 3, Go!—Claremarie Verheyen Heritage #15 Basic skills and techniques of aging for the stage; small, medium, and large!

Digital Rendering for the Scenic Designer—Christopher Sousa-Wynn Heritage #14

Lighting Shakespeare, Creating the Moment—Michael Skinner Heritage #13

Directing & SDC Schedule & Workshop Descriptions



SDC Rehearsals GNC Education Room


10-Minute Play Festival Meeting: Directors, Playwrights, Mentors GNC Education Room


Mining Given Circumstance: A Workshop for Playwrights and Directors—Gregg Henry GNC Education Room Exercises to provide tools to take full advantage of the factual and contextual forces at work in a play.


Serving the Play: A Workshop for Directors and Playwrights—Gregg Henry GNC Education Room A workshop focusing on the Director’s responsibilities to the new play and playwright. The Dramatists bill of rights, adopted by the Dramatists Guild of America in 2007, will serve as the starting point of the discussion. This session will be an active conversation, using the participants’ own experiences of both successful and less-than-successful working partnerships as open “case studies”. This workshop intends to challenge those directors who believe it is

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their right to do whatever they like with [or to] a new play. Likewise, it intends to challenge those playwrights who believe that just because it has been written, the play deserves un-questioned devotion and carte blanche.


10-Minute Play Casting Meeting GNC Theatre



10-Minute Play Auditions & Casting Heritage Rooms #1-6


SDC Preliminary Event (CLOSED session) GNC Education Room


Confronting Shakespeare's "Problem Plays," or how to turn problems into opportunity— GNC Education Room Eric Parness, SDC Respondent & Guest Director Confronting the central "problem" of the play as a means to develop an artistic vision. Instead of focusing on the historical/cultural context of the issues, we concentrate on how they will be interpreted by contemporary audiences. How can we, as directors, make these stories relevant and timely, not despite the controversial "issues," but because of them? Examples: The Duke and Piety in MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Shylock and Bigotry in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Leontes and Magic in THE WINTER'S TALE, Kate and Sexism in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Familiarity with the plays will be helpful.


Directing the Impossible—Rubber Repertory GNC Education Room It’s just a little kitchen sink drama... until stage directions indicate that the sink wrestles two performers to the ground before exploding into bits. HELP! Participants in this workshop will collaborate to find trial-by-fire solutions to problems presented by “impossible” texts.


SDC Student Directors Forum GNC Education Room





Directing Improv—Harold Hynick Heritage #8 This workshop will explore the delicate art of directing and coaching improv. If you are interested in founding a company, or if you’ve founded a company and are looking for new ideas this workshop is for you. Participants are welcome to share techniques and experiences.


SDC Interviews GNC Education Room


Director as Adapter: Directing "Classical" Plays in Translation—Eric Parness GNC Education Room When directing a classic work of English translation we have three choices: work with an established translation, work with a playwright to create a new one, or adapt one to suit the needs of your production. Discussion - the pros and cons of existing translations, from both a technical and artistic point of view. Examples: Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Gorky, Lorca.

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Brave New Work—Rubber Repertory GNC Education Room No playwright? No problem. This workshop will explore alternative and unconventional techniques for creating theatrical performances. Through brainstorming, exercises, and small group collaboration, participants will discover ways to overturn the expectations of theatre.



SDC & 10-Minute Play Rehearsals Heritage Rooms #1-6


SDC Rehearsals GNC Education Room


10-Minute Play Load-In and Rehearsals GNC Theatre


10-Minute Play Performances GNC Theatre


I Graduated, Now What? Getting and Making work in New York City—Eric Parness GNC Education Room Presentation/Q&A about the realities of directing Off-, off-off-, and WAY-off-Broadway. Discussing personal experiences living in New York, finding artistic collaborators, the pros and cons of a "day job" in the theatre industry, the technical details of self-producing and/or creating and running a non-profit theatre company, working under Equity guidelines versus non-Equity work, leaving town for regional work, and generally surviving as an artist in the city that never sleeps.


Creating the World of the Play: Effective Communication between GNC Education Room Directors and Designers—Michelle and Chuck Ney This workshop explores communications between directors and designers, from early discussions through final design and performance. We will examine various communication tools and how to better understand the language of directors and designers.



SDC Load-In GNC Education Room


Meet & Greet Graduate Schools and 4-year Universities/Colleges Heritage #6


So You Wanna Start Your Own Theatre Company, eh?—Rubber Repertory GNC Education Room The co-artistic directors of Austin’s Rubber Repertory Theatre share twenty-one tips for managing a small theatre company. Expect eyebrow-raising anecdotes, minor insights, and plenty of time for your questions.


SDC Finals Performance and Responses GNC Education Room

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Education and Other Workshop Schedule/Descriptions\



The London Theatre Scene Heritage # Harold Hynick This program will teach students how they can participate in a 3-week study abroad program in London with MOSAIC. Students will be able to take the London Theatre Scene course and choose between two Shakespeare courses.


In Other Words – Teaching the iY Generation Heritage # Kimberly Weast How to better teach and communicate with the generation of students in college today. The iY Generation desires to learn differently than those before them. Yet, often, educators are teaching in "an old style" format. Ideas on why and how to change your lecture courses to better communicate with the present students on our college campus.



Respondent’s Training Workshop GNC Education Room Harry Parker Are you a faculty member interested in being a regional respondent? Or are you a veteran wishing to brush up on your responding skills? Either way, this workshop is for you. KCACTF National Chair Harry Parker will discuss effective production response techniques.

Who’s Who at the Festival

Arthur Adair (SDC Coordinator, Region 6) as a critically acclaimed SDC director, AEA actor, internationally produced playwright, and award-winning designer, is known for faithful/illuminating "classically-contemporized" staged adaptations of challenging works such as Sophocles' Oedipus, Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, and George Buchner's Woyzeck, as well as, musically-charged, original "theatrical-installations" including Self Discovery in Face of Tragedy, Sound of the Sun, and S-s-s-t-o-n-e-d-d-D: An American Oration. In 2009, his guest artist production Euripides' Bacchae received Austin Live Theatre critical recognition including - Outstanding Production by a University or School, Outstanding Classical Production, Outstanding Stage Direction, and was "Held for Consideration". In 2008 he was awarded a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Set Design (nominated-Outstanding Light Design) The Red Balloon, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Director David Yeakle and a 2007 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Light Design (nominated-Outstanding Sound Design) for his production of The Emperor Jones at the LaMaMa E.T.C. where he served as an artist-in-residence from 1997-2007. Mr. Adair received an M.F.A. in Theatre Directing from City University of New York, Brooklyn College and currently serves as an adjunct at CUNY and Austin Community College teaching courses in Play Reading and Analysis, Acting, Script Analysis and Design, among others.

Jim Tyler Anderson (KCACTF Region VI Vice-Chair for Playwriting) teaches playwriting and other Theatre courses at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has also taught at The University of North Texas and Navarro College. His regionally produced plays include Idol Hill, Motherland, Dump Monkeys and Ruby Rose Rides Again. His one-act, Sanitary Landfill, was a co-winner in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and his full-length

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play, Written in Dust was a KCACTF regional selection. Jim is also co-founder and Director of the Texas A&M System Advanced Collaborative Theatre Project, which, in its twelve year history, has produced 200 student-written plays.

Irwin Appel (Festival Respondent and Workshop Presenter) is Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a professional director, Equity actor and composer/sound designer, and has performed with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival/LA, the New York, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, The Acting Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and other prominent regional theatres. Acting roles include: Prospero in The Tempest, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth in Kabuki Macbeth. He has directed throughout the United States, including two seasons at the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He has also served as composer/sound designer for the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals, PCPA, Ensemble Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Indiana Rep, and other regional and local theatres. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School.

Tracy Armagost (Guest Stage Management Respondent and Workshop Presenter) is the Assistant to the Production Director with The Santa Fe Opera. She began 23 seasons ago as a Properties Carpenter Apprentice, then moved on to the Props Running Crew as an Assistant and then ran the Props Running Crew for 10 years. Her current responsibilities at SFO include overseeing the program for the Technical Apprentices (including recruiting and programming), production scheduling and supervising the onstage rehearsals. Tracy will be conducting a workshop entitled “Behind the Scenes at The Santa Fe Opera”. The workshop will include visuals of the facilities, production designs past, present, and future and discussion about seasonal employment opportunities. Tracy will also be interviewing students for the 2010 Santa Fe Opera season and participating as a Stage Management Fellowship Respondent.

Ashley Bellet (featured Costume Designer and Workshop Presenter) is the Resident Costume Design Professor at OKCU. She received BAs in English and Theatre Design from the University of the South at Sewanee, and her MFA in Theatre Design from The University of Memphis. She designed and taught previously at The University of Memphis and at The University of Tulsa, and attended Cobalt Studios for a session in Scenic Artistry. She has studied both scenic and costume design, and has painted and designed props for several professional theatres. Her greatest interests lie in studying visual history and cultural aesthetics, as well as the philosophy behind contemporary theatre aesthetics. She has designed professionally for Playhouse on the Square, Circuit Playhouse, Germantown Theatre, and TheatreWorks in Memphis, where she received attention from the Memphis Ostrander Awards for her work. She has also designed for Theatre Tulsa and Light Opera Oklahoma in Tulsa, and The Kentucky Repertory Theatre, among others. She is a member of Fictional Characters, a creative writers’ group in Tulsa, and her work has been performed at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. She is a Vice-Commissioner for the Education Commission of USITT and an active member of the USITT Southwest Section.

Sara Birk (Workshop Presenter) teaches acting, voice and play text analysis at University of Louisiana Lafayette. She holds an MFA in Acting and an MA in Drama from the University of Montana.

David Blakely (Chair of Playwriting, Region 6) His plays have been produced in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Texas. His play, Tales of Shoogilly, the 2003 winner of the Charles M. Getchell Award, was performed at Alvernia University in March, 2009; Laying Felt, was voted "Best of the Nest" in Mockingbird Theatre's 2003 New Southern Theatre Festival; and his adaptation of Frankenstein, was performed at Temple Theatre in Sanford, NC, in 2004, and at Rogers State University in October, 2008 (where it was a finalist for the KCACTF David Mark Cohen Award). He is Vice-Chair of New Plays and Playwriting, Region VI, Assistant Professor at Rogers State University, and Director of the RSU Theatre Program. He received his BFA from the University of Oklahoma and his MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. He has attended the Summer Playwright Intensive at the Kennedy Center, and is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.

Beth Blickers (Workshop Presenter) is currently an agent at Abrams Artists Agency where she represents writers, composers, directors and choreographers for theatre, television and film. Prior to that she was an agent at Helen Merrill Ltd. and the William Morris Agency where she began work after graduating from New York University. She has been on the jury panel for the Weissberger and Kleban Awards and has been a part of panels for organizations

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such as the Society of Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the Dramatists Guild, Musical Theatre Works, the Lark, New York University, the Non-Traditional Casting Project, the Texas Educational Theater Association and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She serves as a board member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc., the Executive Committee of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and is proud to be the Board President of Theater Breaking Through Barriers, a New York company that works with artists with disabilities.

Gary Burton (Workshop Presenter) Mr. Burton holds an MFA degree from UT Austin and has 35 years of college teaching experience and professional costume and pattern design.

Brad Buffum (Guest Stage Management Respondent and Workshop Presenter) teaches at University Of Nebraska--Lincoln’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. This is also Brad’s 13th year as Production Stage Manager for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Nebraska’s only Actors’ Equity Association theatre. While at UNL, he has been PSM for such blockbusters as A Christmas Carol (several), Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, and nearly forty productions for NRT, including Carnival. As instructor for Introduction to Theatre, he has widened the horizons of nearly 2,000 non-theatre majors. An active participant in KCACTF, he serves on the selection team for Region V. Nationally, he is web master and works to promote recognition for student stage managers.

Camille Bulliard (SDC Vice-Coordinator, Region 6 and Workshop Presenter) serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at UL Lafayette. Camille received her B. F. A. in Choreographic Design from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and completed her graduate studies in Theatre –Acting at Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining ULL, Camille worked professionally in NYC, Dallas and Los Angeles and encompasses a wide range of media and stage acting credits. Camille also holds the designation of CPCC, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, from the Coaches Training Institute, and maintains a private bi-coastal coaching practice for creative professionals. She is also a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. At ULL, Camille serves as the Coordinator of Theatre as well as leads the Acting and Movement training program for the curriculum, and also teaches Auditioning. This spring she is directing Tape by Stephen Belber at UL Lafayette. Camille was the 2010 KCACTF Faculty Fellowship recipient in the area of Performance, where she attended and trained at the 2010 KCACTF National Festival in Washington, D.C. As a Certified Life Coach, Camille has recently co-authored a book with celebrity authors Jack Canfield and Deepak Chopra, titled Stepping Stones to Success: Experts Share Strategies for Mastering Business, Life and Relationships. To learn more about her work, please visit camillebulliard.com.

Laura Byland (Oklahoma Vice-Chair) began teaching at OBU in 1992 and has served as Director of Theatre since 2001. Not only has Laura created outstanding scenic and lighting designs for numerous collegiate, community and commercial theatres, she has also designed make-up and costumes as well as directed productions. She developed and is the director of OBU's Theatre for Young Audiences which presents a children's production each spring semester that is performed for nearly 3000 area students. She is currently the faculty co-sponsor for OBU's chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, the National Theatre Honor Society and College Players, a campus-wide social organization open to theatre and non-theatre majors. Awards include a 2009 KCACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival) award for Excellence in Set Design, a commendation from the National Selection Team from Region VI of the KCACTF for directing, The University of Oklahoma's School of Drama award for Outstanding Lighting Design and the Outstanding Young College Educator by the Oklahoma Speech Theatre Communication Association. Laura and her husband, Dr. David Byland, have three daughters.

Ronn Campbell (Guest Design Respondent and Workshop Presenter) Ronn is the scenic and lighting designer as well as technical director for the department, and sometimes, they even talk him into directing. He holds a B.F.A. in design from the University of Idaho and a M.F.A. in scenic design from Humboldt State University. His past teaching experience includes Western Washington University and the University of Idaho before coming to CBC. Currently Ronn teaches Introduction to Theatre, Survey of Theatre History (online) and a variety of design classes. Ronn has also designed for many companies in the Northwest including Washington East Opera, Idaho Repertory Theatre, WWU Summer Stock, CBC Summer Showcase, and Central Washington University. Ronn is also active in the United States Institute of Theatre Technology and is the current Chair for the Inland Northwest Section. Ronn is also active in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in which he is the current Vice Chair of Design for Region VII. Ronn has won many awards for his designs but some of his favorites include Les Liaisons Dangeruses (lighting), Sweeney Todd (scenery), and The Rivals (scenery).

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Jeff Cochran (Workshop Presenter) is the Professor of Stage and Production Management at Oklahoma City University. As an active member in the D/FW arts community he has staged managed for such companies as WaterTower Theatre, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, the Greater Tuna Corporation, and Dallas Black Dance. His most recent post was serving as the Director of the Murchison Performing Arts Center at the University of North Texas. In 1996 he served as a lighting designer during the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta Georgia. Currently, he serves as the Vice-Chair for the Performing Arts Committee with the International Association of Assembly Managers. Jeff is member of Actors Equity Association.

Bruce Cohen (Arkansas Chair) Bruce Cohen is the Arkansas State Chair for the KCACTF and the chair of the new Region 6 Professional Auditions and Interviews initiative. He is Director of the Theater Department and an Associate Professor at Arkansas State University—Beebe. He is a professional director and actor with associations in both the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors Equity Association. As a playwright, his scripts have been produced by Resonance Ensemble and Oberon Theater in NYC, Madlab and Glad Fools Theater Company in the regions. Most recently he served as Artistic and Managing Director of the Utah Musical Theatre (AEA), and as a producer had the pleasure of contracting and working with the likes of Robert Anthony Jones (performer, 101 Dalmatians, National Tour), Jen Caprio (costume design, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Broadway production), and Jules Aaron (director, Drama-logue and Backstage award winner). Monty is a graduate of Theatre AC. He received his A.A. in theatre in 1981 and then moved on to Southern Utah University. After earning his B.A. in theatre in 1983, he worked in various fields for the next several years. He lived and worked in New York City, where he performed in an Equity showcase off-off Broadway.

Monty Downs (Festival Technical Director) is a graduate of Amarillo College and began working for the AC Theatre Arts in November 1985. Over the next two and a half years, Monty designed scenery and lighting for the AC Theatre. He also performed in many of its productions. Monty helped Dr. Terral Lewis begin the Summer Arts Festival in 1987. That same year, Monty married a talented Amarillo actress, Robin Hooten. The wedding had to be scheduled around the numerous productions of the Theatre Department and the Summer Arts Festival, of course. In 1988, Monty and Robin moved again to the New York City area for Robin to work on her degree in theatre. Monty worked as a waiter (the true sign of an out of work actor) and lighting designer to pay the bills. Robin received her B.F.A. in theatre in 1990 and the couple returned to Amarillo in March of 1991. Since that time, Monty has been working as the Technical Director for the AC Theatre Arts. He and Robin have two great sons who keep the parents busy in all available spare time. Monty and Robin also have helped start a group of local performers, Merely Players. Monty was the Artistic Director of the Summer Arts Festival for several years. In December of 2004, Monty earned his MA from West Texas A & M University which culminated in a one-man show about John Adams. Monty is now the Faculty Technical Director for Theatre AC.

Andy Fitch (Workshop Presenter) Andy is associate professor of scenic design at The University of Alabama, and a regional theatre designer working throughout the Southeast. Some recent designs include: The Sound of Music, A Lesson Before Dying, and Amadeus for Theatre Tuscaloosa; The Producers and Damn Yankees for The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; The Three Sisters, The Grapes of Wrath, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Forever Plaid for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Joseph, The Wizard of Oz, Damn Yankees, Cats and Gypsy for Red Mountain Theatre; The Drawer Boy and Betrayal for the Warehouse Theatre of South Carolina. At The University of Alabama, he has designed dozens of productions and leads an M.F.A. program in Scenic Design. Andy is a Founding Member of the acclaimed Kitchen Dog Theatre in Dallas. Andy’s training includes an M.F.A. degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he studied with noted stage designers William and Jean Eckart.

Al Foote III (Irene Ryan Preliminaries Auditor) is a freelance director, fight director, actor and educator based in New York City. He is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy and has a BFA in Musical Theatre from New School University. Directing projects include Stormy Weather: Tornado/Avalanche, Interart Theatre, NYC; Doctor Faustus (1604), Shakespeare NYC, NYC; Is the Price Right?, JBK Theatre, Saratoga, NY; Walk in Darkness, TSI/Playtime Series, NYC; and True West, The Sackett Group, Brooklyn. As fight director, he has created violence for over 40 productions ranging from battles for the Bard to a brawl in an elevator. He is the resident fight director for Shakespeare NYC, a company dedicated to the production of Shakespeare's entire canon. He is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and has been a guest instructor in stage combat at Harlem School of the Arts, HB Studios, North Carolina School of the Arts and Stella Adler Conservatory to name a few.

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Jason Foreman (Design/Technologies Co-Vice Chair, Region 6) is the Associate Professor of Scenic Design and the Head of Design and Production at Oklahoma City University. He has taught at OCU since 2005 and he holds a BFA in Drama—Design & Technical Production from the University of Oklahoma and a MFA in Scenic Design from California State University at Long Beach. Recent design credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Love’s Labours Lost, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Romeo & Juliet, and Three Sisters. Jason is an active member with the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and serves on the national conference committee. He is the Vice President for Communications with USITT-SW and a Vice-Chair for Design, Technologies, and Management with KCACTF Region VI.

Keith Gamblin (Festival Coordinator) is an Amarillo College alumni who recently received his B.A. in theatre from West Texas A&M University. Over the past few years, he has been very active in theatre and has appeared in several shows at both AC and WTAMU including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Robber Bridegroom, Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof, and TEXAS. He is presently the shop foreman for the Experimental theatre and events supervisor for the Concert Hall and Ordway Hall theaters on the AC Washington Street Campus.

Joseph Gilg (NPP Chair, Region 7) Joseph is on the faculty at the University of Oregon where he teaches acting and directing. In another life he was a lighting designer and worked with Southern Utah University and the Utah Shakespeare Festival as well as Rockford College, the Rockford Dance Company and the New American Theatre in Rockford, IL. He also served as Artistic Director of the Oregon Repertory Theatre in Eugene, OR for a time and spent one year as a lecturer at Regent’s College in London and fulfilled a Fulbright appointment at the National Institute of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan teaching acting and directing.

Nyalls Hartman (Louisiana Vice-Chair, Region 6) received his Associate of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York; his Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre Arts with a concentration in directing from The State University of New York at Oneonta; and his Master of fine Arts degree in Directing at Illinois State University. Prior to coming to UL Lafayette, Nyalls served as Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities and Director of Fine Arts & Cultural Programming at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. As producer of Newman’s De Mattias Fine Arts Series, Nyalls worked with an extensive number of international artists to bring globally diverse cultural events to the university community so as to broaden international understanding and develop a deeper, globally-informed, critical consciousness. Having taught extensively with the Theatre curriculum at several academic and pre-professional training programs, Nyalls was responsible for teaching the Graduate and Undergraduate Directing Curriculum at the University of Kentucky. A compassionate, honest, and disciplined teacher, Nyalls focuses on connecting students to the dramatic action (understanding of purpose) and to an honest revealing of that action, once discovered. In addition to his academic and administrative responsibilities at UL Lafayette and as part of his continued professional development, Nyalls maintains a national presence as a Certified Consultant-Evaluator for The Higher Learning Commission serving the North Central Associations in multiple capacities within their Program to Evaluate and Advance Quality (PEAQ) and Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) Peer-Evaluator Corps. Now at UL Lafayette, Nyalls teaches directing, Theatre History, Acting, and Movement, and Directs as part of the Department’s Main Stage Series. Additionally, Nyalls serves as Chair of the Department of Performing Arts.

Penelope Hasekoester (Region 6 Co-Chair) is the Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance at Sam Houston State University. She is in her third year as the KCACTF Region 6 Chair. Penny holds an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. from Western Kentucky University, and a B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University. She is a produced playwright with professional acting and directing credits and has been a creative drama specialist. In 2001, Penny was invited to be one of the fourteen participants from the U.S. to take part in the Actors Center Teacher Development Workshop. In 2003, the SHSU production of The Laramie Project was one of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Finalists. Penny has also served as the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 6 Texas State Chair and Vice Chair. www.shsu.edu/~drm_www/index.html

Michael Heil (Design/Technologies Chair, Region 6) Scenic Designer Michael Heil has designed scenery and/or costumes for dance, opera and theatre throughout the United States and abroad. Recent design credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, (Trinity Shakespeare), Oedipus King, Outlying Islands, Woyzeck, (Upstream Theatre), The Crucible, Lonesome Highway, You Can’t Take It With You (Capital Repertory Theatre), Proof (PlayMakers Repertory Theatre), Buried Child, Art, The Brecht Project, The Illusion, (The Clarence Brown

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Theatre), A Delicate Balance (7 Stages), O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music (Vermont Stage Company), and Buried Child (Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza, Lodz, Poland). He has designed for such distinguished directors as the late Joe Chaikin, Blake Robison, Veronika-Nowag Jones and Philip Boehm. His designs have been published in TD&T, World Stage Design and Design USA. His design for Oedipus King was cited by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as the best set design for the 2010 season and Theatre Jones listed his designs for Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing as “best of” for Dallas/Fort Worth theatre in both 2009 and 2010. He has twice exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial, an international theatre expo held every four years in the Czech Republic. From 2000-2004 he was the resident designer for the Clarence Brown Theatre, a LORT theatre located in Knoxville, TN and for the last three years has served as resident designer for Upstream Theatre in St. Louis, MO. Michael holds MFAs in theatre design (University of Texas at Austin), and studio art (Schiller International University, Strasbourg, France). He is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the Southeastern Theatre Conference, (SETC), the Organisation Internationale des Scénographes, Techniciens, et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT), Design Co-chair for region 6 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Michael is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 (USA). He is on the theatre faculty at TCU in Fort Worth, TX

Gregg Henry (KCACTF Artistic Director, National Selection Team & SDC Respondent) Recent productions—The Kennedy Center: Teddy Roosevelt and The Treasure of Ursa Major, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe, Mermaids, Monsters and The World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of Excalibur. Round House Theatre: Melanie Marnichs’ A Sleeping Country. Washington Shakespeare Company: Julie Jensen’s Two-Headed and Barbara Field’s adaptation of Scaramouche. The US Premieres of Morris Panych’s Girls in the Goldfish Bowl for Metro Stage and Daniel Maclvor’s You Are Here for Theatre Alliance, Shelagh Stephenson’s An Experiment with an Air Pump for Journeymen Theater. Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph and The 13 Hallucinations of Julio Rivera by Stephen R. Culp. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Catholic University of America: Whales, Miranda is Morning, Listen, The Stronger, The Tiger’s Heart Project.

Gregg is Artistic Director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He oversees all of the program’s playwriting, performance, design and dramatic criticism programs and works with professional theatres to develop educational partnerships for student and faculty participants. He directs the Summer Intensives program at the Kennedy Center in design and playwriting. In addition to his KCACTF responsibilities he is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences. He also coordinates the Kennedy Center/Kenan Fund for the Arts Performing Arts Apprenticeship Program. He is the curator and co-producer of the annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival at the Kennedy Center, featuring readings of new work by the theatres in the DC Metro area with a mission to nurture new voices in the American Theatre. Gregg also produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with NNPN and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Gregg has acted, directed, and/or staged fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University. He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company and on the National Advisory Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

Kaitlin Hopkins (Workshop Presenter) is Head of the Musical Theatre program at Texas State University and brings with her over 25 years of experience working on and off Broadway, regional theatre, film, television, opera and radio. Kaitlin has a half dozen cast album credits to her name, originating the roles of Meredith Parker in the critically acclaimed Bat Boy—The Musical, for which she received Drama Desk and Ovation award nominations, Claire in the cult-hit Bare, A Pop Opera, Jeannie in The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Diane in Disney’s On The Record. She has toured the country, not only as an award-winning actress and director, but also as an educator, teaching master classes at colleges and universities from coast to coast. She is a past panel member for NFAA Young Arts week and has served as a frequent regional judge for the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan awards, including the national finals held at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Kaitlin has spent her whole life in the entertainment industry and comes from a long line of working professionals. Broadway credits include Noises Off, Anything Goes (2002/Lincoln Center) and originating the role of Mama Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Other favorite theater credits include originating the role of Tiffany in the international tour of John Adams’ opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky directed by Peter Sellars; starring in She

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Loves Me with Rebecca Luker for the Reprise Series for which she received an Ovation nomination; originating roles in Nicky Silver's Beautiful Child and originating the role of Margorie in the national tour of Dirty Dancing. Kaitlin has appeared in over 50 television shows including three years on Another World as Dr. Kelsey Harrison, 11 feature films and recorded over 20 radio plays. She has also produced for the theater, television and radio. Kaitlin currently serves on the board for The William Inge Foundation and helped found The Pasadena Playhouse Outreach Program. She also served as Co-Artistic Director for The Ojai Playwright's Conference. For more of her credits, visit www.KaitlinHopkins.com.

Matt Hislope (Guest Artist and Workshop Presenter) Matt is Co-Artistic Director of The Rubber Repertory Theatre. He studied theatre at The University of Kansas, where he received extensive instruction in Biomechanics, performed at the Ancient Theater of Oeniades in Greece, and the World College Theatre Festival in Liege, Belgium. He has trained with the Gate Theatre Dublin, Aquila Theatre Company, and postmodern dance legend Deborah Hay, and was a participant at the La MaMa E.T.C. International Symposium for Directors in Umbria, Italy. In addition to his work with Rubber Repertory, Matt has performed with Rude Mechanicals, Salvage Vanguard, Esther’s Follies, and Physical Plant Theater, and toured the country as a performer and fight captain for El Teatro Campesino’s 25th anniversary production of ZOOT SUIT.

Harold Hynick (Missouri Chair, Region 6 and Workshop Presenter) Harold Hynick holds a B.A. in Theatre from Central College, and an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of South Dakota. He founded improvisation troupes at Dakota Wesleyan University and Midland Lutheran College. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Missouri Valley College. Hynick has been involved in KCACTF since he attended his first festival as a student in 1987. He served Region V as a member Regional Selection Committee, and as Coordinator and Host for The Showcase of Invited Scenes. Currently he serves Region VI as the Missouri State Chair. Hynick’s professional credits include involvement in over 100 productions.

Michael G. Knight, Jr. (Featured Lighting Designer) received his Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from the University of Mississippi, and his Bachelor of Science in Theatre from Texas A&M University- Commerce. He has worked at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN for several years. While there he designed lights for numerous theatrical productions for their repertory theatre, dinner theatre, and community theatre programs, as well also lighting concert DVD’s for artists such as Vince Gill, Eddie Money, and Pam Tillis. Michael has also worked with local Texas museums such as The Northeast Texas Children’s Museum and The Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, designing and assembling permanent dioramas/exhibits. He currently is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Design at Texas A&M University—Commerce where he recently designed the scenic and lighting elements for the world premiere production of Don Nigro’s Iphigenia.

Rob Kreps (Design Workshop Presenter) teaches live production at Lone Star College Montgomery where he is also the designer and technical director. He has a MFA in Lighting Design from the University of Idaho and a BA in Theatre from the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Rosa M. Lazaro (Design Workshop Presenter) serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. Rosa recently finished her 14th season with the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespearean Festival this past summer. Prior to returning to education theatre, Rosa received her Masters of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and served as Assistant Shop Manager at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Rosa also designed costumes for several productions including the World Premier of Gee’s Band. In 2008 the American College Theatre Association, recognized her costume design for Big love.

Lauren Lane (Acting Workshop Presenter) Lauren has made her career both on stage and in film and television. For six seasons she played C.C. Babcock on the television show, The Nanny. She also played the female lead, Chris Novak, on the detective show, Hunter as well as a recurring role on L.A. Law. She has worked regionally at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, The American Conservatory Theatre and The Dallas Theatre Center among others. She worked for five years as a company member in Tim Robbins’ award winning Los Angeles based theatre company, The Actors Gang, where she won a Drama-Logue award for her work in Electra directed by Oskar Eustis. Lauren makes her home in Austin Texas where she works extensively at Zach Scott Theatre, most recently as Becky in Becky’s New Car, written and directed by Steven Dietz. In 2009 she won the B. Iden Payne award for Best Actress in a comedy for her work as Sue, in House of Several Stories. Lauren graduated from the MFA program at The American Conservatory Theatre. She has taught on the Graduate and

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Undergraduate level at The University of Texas, The American Conservatory Theatre and is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. She is represented by Collier Talent.

LaLonnie Lehman (Featured Costume Designer) is a professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University and has been teaching and designing costumes for theatre, opera, dance as well as theatre for children for 37 years. She is costume coordinator for the Fort Worth Opera Festival Season, costume designer for Fort Worth Opera Children’s Opera Tour season, and costume designer for the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival at University Christian Church. Her credits include Upstream Theatre in St Louis, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (Professional Training Program), Marquette University, Togliatti Russia, University of Nevada Reno, Casa Manana (Fort Worth), and Circle Theatre (Fort Worth). She is a member of the regional and national United States Institute for Theatre Technology and Costume Society of America.

Randy Lutz (SPAM Properties Respondent and Workshop Presenter) Randy Lutz has been with The Santa Fe Opera for 29 years and is currently the Properties Director, liaising with national and international designers and directors. Annually, he attends professional conferences to interview applicants in all technical departments for The Santa Fe Opera, including costumes, stage properties, scenic art, stage operations and electrics. He reviews portfolios of aspiring technicians for the opera’s Apprentice Technician Program, which is one of the most respected programs of its kind in the country. Most recently, Randy was engaged as the art director, through his design and display company, Art & Soul, for the Fashion in Film exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Sarah EC Maines (Featured Lighting Designer and Workshop Presenter) is a Lighting Designer and teacher at Texas State University, who has valuable experience, knowledge and passion for theatre. She has worked primarily in commercial theatre, enjoying the high paced atmosphere of Broadway and First National Tours. As Assistant Lighting Designer, Sarah worked with Howell Binkley on all seven national productions of Jersey Boys directed by Des McAnuff, which won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and Best Musical in 2006. She also worked as Associate or Assistant Lighting Designer on projects including the Broadway runs of Sarah Jones’s Bridge and Tunnel and The Pirate Queen. At New York City Center and Broadway’s St. James Theatre, she served as ALD again with Binkley on Gypsy with Patti Lupone, directed by Arthur Laurents. The team paired up again for the First National Tour of Broadway’s 2008 Best Musical, In the Heights. Sarah has also assisted Tony Award winning Lighting Designers Chris Parry and Ken Posner. Her Regional Theatre credits include La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory. Recently, Sarah designed lighting for Mikado, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Florida State Opera and All Shook Up for Texas State University, San Marcos. Her favorite lighting designs include her work on As You Like It, A Dream Play and any opportunity she has had to help develop new work. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas State University, Sarah spent four years as Head of Graduate Lighting Design at Florida State University. She earned her MFA in Theatrical Design with a concentration in Lighting from the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Chris Parry. Her BA in Theatre and BS in Telecommunications Production were earned from the University of Florida. UF recognized her achievements with the College of Fine Arts’ “Outstanding Young Alumnus” Award in 2006. She is a member of United Scenic Artists – Local 829.

D. Lance Marsh (Irene Ryan Vice-Coordinator, Region 6 and Workshop Presenter) D. Lance Marsh serves as Artistic Director and Head of Performance at Oklahoma City University, as well as an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre. He is also the Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. As a professional actor he has appeared at the Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Wisconsin Shakes, Milwaukee Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, and American Players Theatre, to name a few. A proud member of Actors Equity, his latest projects include playing Bill Fordham in Oklahoma City Rep’s August: Osage County, and directing The Merchant of Venice for OSP.

Josh Meyer (Guest Artist and Workshop Presenter) Josh is Co-Artistic Director of Rubber Repertory, "A brave soldier in surreal and symbolic theatre”—Austin Chronicle. Recipient of multiple Best Director Awards from the Austin Critics Table and a Rockefeller MAP Fund grant, Josh has worked with Richard Schechner (NYU), Veniamin Smekhov (Moscow Taganka Theatre), and Phil Soltonoff (Mad Dog Experimental Theatre Company) and is currently in a multi-year collaboration project with New Dramatists. He's an award-winning actor who has performed with Rude Mechanicals and Salvage Vanguard in Austin, and Off-Broadway at Soho Rep. SAG member

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credits include No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, and The 2 Bobs. Josh graduated with honors from the University of Kansas, where he was a Loren Kennedy Trainee in Arts Administration.

Leonard Miller (Workshop Presenter) has been active in the live entertainment industry for more than 25 years, starting when he received his Technical Theatre degree from Concordia University in Montreal, where, although he participated in the early creative years of the world famous Cirque du Soleil, he elected not to follow the circus but rather headed off into the world of touring shows, cruise ships, and theme parks. In addition to the opportunity to travel much of North and South America as well as Europe working freelance technical production and management positions on land and at sea, he also fit in a year at Walt Disney World in Orlando as a technician for the live shows and special events departments. He, then, settled into a 5 year run as Entertainment Construction Manager for Paramount/Viacom where he was responsible for all technical aspects of live show production for many projects, among them the Star Trek the Experience attraction in Las Vegas, The Titanic Movie on Tour as well as many other shows for the Viacom branded properties including Nickelodeon Network and the Paramount theme parks. In 2000, he moved to Dallas to begin a new adventure with his family and worked for several companies including Barbizon Lighting and Kohler Rental Power and on many shows including two years as technical producer for the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game halftime show. Leonard has worked for Philips Vari-Lite, since 2005, as a regional sales manager representing the industry leading world-class manufacturer of automated lighting.

Tom Miller (Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Auditor and Workshop Presenter) Prior to joining the staff of Actors' Equity, Tom was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway, with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre, at Opryland USA, and in Europe. He can be seen in the documentary Show Business—The Road To Broadway hosting a Broadway Gypsy Robe presentation. Tom is a graduate of Indiana University. For over a decade Tom served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. He has been an Equity Member since 1983.

Tom Mitchell (National Selection Team) is Interim Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign where he also teaches Acting and Directing. Following a trip to China’s leading theatre programs, he is establishing exchange programs for the University of Illinois. Mitchell chaired the Summer Theatre Program at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and directed productions in Musical Theatre and in Shakespeare. He was co-chair of Region III (Great Lakes) of KCACTF and is co-chairing the selection of the new Undergraduate Theatre Scholar Program. Mitchell has written frequently about Tennessee Williams’ early career and has directed premieres of two of the early unproduced works. He is former chair of the Mid-America Theatre Conference Directing Symposium and received the 2007 Award of Honor by the Illinois Theatre Association. With colleague Burnet Hobgood, Mitchell authored A Framework for Directing in the Theatre and has made numerous presentations on the practice of directing in the contemporary theatre. Tom is representing the Regional Chairs.

Nadine Mozon (Workshop Presenter) is an actor, poet, dramatist and teacher whose original work has been produced for the stage. Such productions include her one-woman show Confirming the Search: That Girl’s Still Here Somewhere, which received an AUDELCO nomination in New York and a Drama-Logue award in Los Angeles, followed by I.D. Please, a commissioned ensemble theatre piece. She is a contributing writer for RedWall productions. Ms. Mozon’s acting credits include regional theatre, television, and film. Among them: Intimate Apparel, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, For Colored Girls…, Fences, Boogie Woogie Landscapes, Third Watch, One Life to Live, Law and Order, Shaft, Sam the Man, and Two Weeks Notice. Her poems have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies, including Essence, Ms., Clarity, Lungfull, and A Gathering of the Tribes. She has been a featured writer/performer and collaborative partner developing new work with dancers, choreographers, and musicians in New York venues ranging from Nuyorican, Poets Café, to Lincoln Center; throughout the U.S. and Bermuda at festivals, and guest artist at colleges and universities. She teaches acting and movement for actors at Texas State University. nadinedotmozon.com.

Colleen Muscha (Guest Design Respondent and Workshop Presenter) holds a named professorship as the Don Stowell, Jr. Professor of Costume Design and heads the MFA Costume Design program at FSU. She has designed costumes professionally at numerous regional theatres including the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Penn Centre Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Asolo Theatre Company. Her New York City design credits include work at the Ensemble

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Studio Theatre, Equity Library Theatre and Longacre Theatre. Among the shows she has designed, include King Lear, Tempest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Werther, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, The Pirates of Penzance, The Physicists, Man of La Mancha, and Sweeney Todd. She has designed costumes for the original productions of David Mamet's Lakeboat, Larry Shue's The Nerd, Amlin Gray’s Kingdom Come and Deborah Pryer’s The Love Talker. Noted actors she has designed for include Morgan Freeman, Harold Gould, Lili Taylor, Joe Morton, CCH Pounder, Michael Rooker, Valerie Mahaffey, James Naughton, Andre De Shields and Phyllis Frelich. Costume design renderings for The Love Talker, which was produced for the Actor's Theatre of Louisville—Humana Festival were included in the USITT Design Exposition 1988. Her work for A Doll’s House, produced at Florida State University, was also cited during the 1998 USITT Design Expo. Her costume designs, renderings and photos are published in both the Costume Designer's Handbook and Costumer Technician's Handbook by Rosemary Ingham and Elizabeth Covey. Her research work in fabric modification—photo silkscreening, ombre and devore techniques—have been presented a regional and national conferences. In 1994 and 1997, she received the Teaching Incentive Award from Florida State for outstanding teaching. She is member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, United States Institute of Theatre Technology and the Costume Society of America.

A. Ray Newburg, Jr. (Festival Host and Texas Chair, Region 6) is a graduate of Amarillo College’s Theatre Arts program and, now, an AC Theatre faculty member. Prior to coming home to Amarillo, he spent 10 years in Dallas/Fort Worth and New Orleans. After completing his B.A. at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and his M.F.A. at Tulane University in New Orleans, Ray taught theatre for the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Wesleyan University, and Tarrant County College in Arlington. In addition, he freelanced as a scenic designer and/or scenic artist for the Fort Worth Theatre, Hip Pocket Theatre, Granbury Opera House, WaterTower Theatre, and as a cutter/draper for Dallas Theatre Center. Ray has also had the pleasure of working with the New Orleans Opera Association as a scenic artist, and Irene Corey Design Associates (makers of the infamous Barney™ character). Now a ‘theatre generalist’ for Amarillo College, he has directed over twenty productions while designing scenery, costumes, and/or lights for nearly thirty shows. In 2004, Texas Educational Theatre Association awarded Ray the Educator of the Year Award for Community Colleges. He married his college sweetheart, Georgianna, on the stage of Texas Wesleyan University, and she is a playwright who has been published by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Chuck Ney (Workshop Presenter) is a professor and Head of Directing in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Texas State University. He has directed at New York City’s Working Man’s Clothes Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, and Manhattan Clearing House. Recent directing credits include Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Going after Cacciato (world premiere of Romulus Linney’s adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s novel), Cymbeline, A Little Night Music, Transposing Shakespeare, and Tongue of a Bird. His production of Top Girls performed at the Kennedy Center as part of KCACTF’s National Festival. Chuck served as Artistic Director of Idaho Repertory Theatre, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, and Manhattan Clearing House. He has written articles for American Theatre, and since 2004 he has traveled to numerous Shakespeare theaters, interviewing prominent artistic directors and directors about their working methods. This research culminated in his recently completed book, Directing Shakespeare in America. http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/faculty/cney.html

Michelle Ney (Region 6 Co-Chair) Michelle Ney has designed scenery and costumes for numerous theatre and opera companies, including The Colony Theatre and The Theatre at Boston Court (Los Angeles), Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Austin Shakespeare Festival, The Search Party, and Austin Lyric Opera. Recent projects include the world premiere of Romulus Linney's Going After Cacciato; Macbeth; Gulls; Bat Boy: The Musical; Valparaiso; An Ideal Husband; The Glass Menagerie; The Comedy of Errors; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Cymbeline; Henry IV, Part I; and Tongue of A Bird. In 1999, Michelle’s work was featured in the Prague Quadrennial International Design Exposition, and her scenic and costume designs have been published several times in Theatre Design & Technology. Michelle is Head of Design & Technology at Texas State University and Co-Chair for KCACTF Region 6. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas State, she was on the design faculties at University of Idaho, University of Texas at Austin, and St. Edward’s University. http://www.theatreanddance.txstate.edu/department/faculty/mney.html

Debra Bergsma Otte (National Selection Team) is a faculty member at Montclair State University. She previously served as Director of both the Theatre and Arts Management programs at Long Island University. Most recent

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credits include costume designs for Against the Rising Sea (Queens in the Park), Rosa Loses Her Face (The Electric Theatre Company and Queens Theatre in the Park), Land O'Fire (Jersey City Theatre), and Four Short and Eurydice (Montclair State University). Prior design credits include costume designs for CBS, the Joffrey Ballet, Linda Tarnay, Merce Cunningham, many regional, Off-Broadway and university productions; puppet design for Henson Associates; and industrial design work for Parker Davis, Chrysler and Burger King. She produced and designed The Bakkhai, which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was one of seven professional companies to perform, through the invitation of the Cyprus Centre of International Theatre Institute, at the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in 2002. In the past ten years, she has produced and costumed six productions that performed at the KCACTF Region II Festival including Skriker, which performed at the National Festival in 1998. She is currently a Member-at-Large on the National Committee and has served as Chair of Chairs, Festival Production Respondent in Region 5 and Regional Design Respondent in Regions 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. She served as Chair of Region 2 from 2002-2005 and Regional Vice-Chair as well as Design Co-Chair prior to that. In 1999 and 2005, she was honored to receive the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for her work with KCACTF. She holds an MFA in Design from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and BA from Calvin College.

Joy Pace (Region 6 Vice-Chair) is the Coordinator of Theatre at McNeese State University. She earned her B.A. from Centenary College of Louisiana, and her M.F.A. in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Though a native Texan, Ms. Pace has lived in various areas of the country. Joy taught as Associate Professor of Theatre at Kentucky Wesleyan College where she was head of theatre and advisor to the Wesleyan Players for five years. She has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, and McMurry University. Joy has worked professionally as an actor, director, vocal coach, instructor, and stage manager. Some of those credits include La Petit Little Theatre/Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans; The Blue Ridge Theatre Festival, Barksdale Theatre, Theatre Gym, and The Neighborhood School of The Arts in Richmond, VA; The Independent Theatre, Region 14 ESC, and Buffalo Gap Historic Village in Abilene, TX; and Theatre Workshop and Riverpark Center in Owensboro, KY. One of the highlights of her professional acting career was with the Blue Ridge Theatre Festival performing as Mrs. X in Strindberg’s The Stronger in Sibiu, Romania as part of the International Theatre Festival held there annually. In Educational Theatre she has directed over 30 productions and acted in many. While at McNeese, her recent directorial contributions include Waiting for Godot, WORKING: A Musical, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Fuddy Meers, Wait Until Dark, The Vagina Monologues, No Exit, Twelfth Night, and the staged readings of Southern Discomfort—original works by a McNeese Theatre student & alumni. She was thrilled to join the cast as “Sister Aloyisius” in the MSU Summer Bayou Players Production of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley. She is also Vice-President of the Lake Charles Little Theatre Board of Directors where she has acted and directed. Joy is happy to head the McNeese Theatre faculty and is looking forward to a life filled with theatre, her great passion.

Eric Parness (Artistic Director—Resonance Ensemble, SDC Respondent and Guest Director) is the Artistic Director and a founder of Resonance Ensemble, where he has directed 10 mainstage shows since 2001, including Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths ("Pick of the Week" - NYTheatre.com and OffOffOnline), the world premiere of Larry Loebell's La Tempestad, (hailed by Variety as "a gripping drama of ideas," adding "director Eric Parness guides everyone to physical perfs that crackle with life."), the world premiere of Charles L. Mee's The Mail Order Bride, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the world premiere of Christopher Boal’s 23 Knives, and Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder. He has also directed extensively for Oberon Theatre Ensemble, including their productions of The Winter's Tale, Of Mice and Men (named "One of the Top Ten Shows in New York in 2003" by Theatermania.com), Ghost on Fire, and The Starship Astrov (nominated for 11 MITF Awards including Outstanding Direction). Other directing credits include Jean Cocteau Rep's Crazy for the Dog, Hypothetical Theatre Company's Kryptonite City, Rachel Reiner Productions' Embraceable Me (and at the Blumenthal Center in Charlotte, NC), and other new work with Adobe Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Vital Theater Company. He has served as assistant director to Curt Dempster of Ensemble Studio Theatre, as Associate to the Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience, has directed and served as a guest artist at Stern College and Marist College, and is an alumnus of Brandeis University and the Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab.

Judith Midyett Pender (Workshop Presenter) earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing and a Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism from the University of Georgia. A professional actor and director, she enjoys affiliations with Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio

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Actors, and Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She is an associate professor, Graduate Liaison, and Coordinator of the Performance Area in the School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma where she was named the Irene and Julian J. Rothbaum Presidential Professor of Excellence in the Arts. She is the author of ACTING: What to Do.

Sarah Peters (Guest Artist, Workshop Presenter) is a graduate of the MFA program at Dell'Arte International. Her favorite experiences in theater have included: traveling with Bond Street Theater (New York) to India as part of their International Theater Exchange program, which brought together 3 theater companies – Bond Street Theatre from the US, Purvabhyas Theatre from India, and Exile Theatre from Afghanistan – to perform a street theater show and to teach social theater techniques; traveling across the US with the One Second Film Road-to-Oprah tour; performing with The Buddha Prince, an outdoor play that used music and masks to tell the story of the life of the Dalai Lama during his teaching visit to Pasadena, CA; and touring The Hello Show, a multi-character improvisational comedy that visited small towns in Northern California. She currently lives in Portland, OR, where she recently performed in an ensemble-created show at the Miracle Theatre Group.

Ryan Quinn (Irene Ryan Preliminaries Auditor) Ryan began working as a teaching artist in his hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, where he helped start a theater company for young adults. For this company, he taught acting and directed several productions. He continued at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he received his BA, double-majoring in English and Theater (as an acting specialist), taking a focused interest in children’s theater. This interest, combined with his involvement with the Children’s Theater of Madison, allowed him the opportunity to bring outreach programs to the Madison School District. Once moving to New York, he worked with the National Shakespeare Company, traveling the United States performing as an actor/teaching artist, teaching workshops in stage combat, text analysis, and movement for college students. He has taught text analysis, combat, and theater games for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival college apprentice program, and works with HVSF throughout the year, going into high schools in the New York area as a teaching artist. He received his MFA from The Yale School of Drama working with Broadway fight director Rick Sordelet, first as his assistant, then running his supplemental combat class for the second year MFA students. The past few years, he has worked with Chris Edwards, of the Point of Entry Theater Company, helping design and perform a Combat in Shakespeare workshop for Lincoln Center. He has choreographed stage violence for countless shows, and has served as fight captain for numerous Equity productions. As an actor Ryan has worked Off Broadway with Theater for a New Audience in their productions of Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra. Some of Ryan’s Regional credits include: Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Old Globe; The King Stag, Yale Repertory Theatre; King Lear, Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival. In New York City Ryan appeared in Binibon, at The Kitchen; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, with The National Shakespeare Company; Frag, at HERE Arts Center; and The Woman of Manhattan, at The Gloria Maddox Theatre. Ryan is very proud to have spent five season as a member of the acclaimed Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, where favorite shows include; Pericles, Much Ado, Two Gents, The Tempest, Midsummer, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Kelly Eviston Quinnett (Irene Ryan Finals Auditor, Vice-Chair KCACTF Region 7) is an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho, teaching acting since 1998. She attended Northern Kentucky University where she received a BFA in Musical Theatre, then went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Idaho. She performed regionally at Flat Rock Playhouse, New York Theatre Lab, Coeur D’Alene Summer Theatre and Mill Mountain Theatre. In 1990 she won the National Irene Ryan Acting Competition presented by The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, which led to her being placed under a development contract with ABC. Kelly also won the regional Irene Ryan in 1995 as well as the nationally recognized production of Top Girls at the Kennedy Center in 1997 as Marlene. She appeared on All My Children as Maria Monterey (1990, 1991) and on One Life to Live as Blaine Adams (1991). Most recently, Kelly shot the pilot The Snakes of Justice (2009). Films include: Mozart and the Whale (with Josh Hartnett, 2005), The Basket (with Peter Coyote, 1998), Mr.Write (with Paul Reiser and Martin Mull, 1994), Brothers and Sisters (with Franco Nero, 1991.) Home of the Brave, directed by Irwin Winkler (with Samuel L. Jackson 2006), and Frank (with John Gries 2006), and The Absent (2007). Most recently, Kelly has performed professionally in Bus Stop (with Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon), directed by Scott Allen Smith at Interplayers Theatre, The King and I with Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, Grace and Glorie for Idaho Repertory Theatre, The Full Monty at Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre and The Rainmaker at Interplayers Theatre & Lake City

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Playhouse. She is Vice Chair of Region 7 and the Irene Ryan Coordinator for Region 7. Kelly is currently the Co-Artistic Director of Idaho Repertory Theatre.

Steven Rahe (Irene Ryans Semi-Finals Auditor) Steven Rahe joined Actors Theatre of Louisville as Director of Education in the Fall of 2008, having spent four years working in artistic and education programming with the Louisville Theatrical Association (Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, Music Theatre Louisville, and Broadway Across America). Prior to LTA, Steven spent ten years in New York City working as director, producer, and educator, earning his MFA in directing from City University of New York in 2003. He trained as a Teaching Artist with Roundabout Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience, and conducted classroom residencies with NYC Public Schools through the Brooklyn College Theatre Education Initiative. Directing projects include world premieres for Soho Rep, the Cherry Lane Alternative, and The Flea. In Louisville, Steven has directed for Squallis Puppeteers, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Stage One and Music Theatre Louisville. Steven is a member of the Theatre Alliance of Louisville and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Shannon Richey (Festival Coordinator and Workshop Presenter) is a freelance Production and AEA Stage Manager. She is also a Stage Management Instructor at Texas State University. Recent credits include: Soul to Sole Festival and Voices of Rhythm with Tapestry Dance Company and Festival Management with Third Coast Rhythm Project. With Austin Shakespeare: The Tempest, THE DREAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, and Measure for Measure. Additional recent credits include: Let Me Down Easy at American Repertory Theatre & ZACH Theatre, The Arizona Project with Anna Deavere Smith at The Herberger Theatre, Jennifer Holliday in Concert at the Paramount Theatre, Cabaret, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Hair, The Laramie Project, Jelly’s Last Jam, Jouét, Tapestry, Pride’s Crossing, The Santaland Diaries, The Rocky Horror Show, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Exonerated, Carousel, Music Man, Big River and Master Class. She served as HUB Co-Coordinator for 365 Days/365 Plays and as Production Manager for the Fuse Festival at H.E.R.E in Manhattan. Ms. Richey has also been a Wardrobe Supervisor on Angels in America, Dreamgirls, Love Janis, Ruthless! The Musical, Sylvia and Das Barbecü and toured as Company Manager with the Greater Tuna Corporation on Greater Tuna and The Foreigner.

Katie Robinson (Irene Ryan Finals Auditor) B.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., currently serves as the Director of the School of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University’s Capital College, the institution’s experimental interdisciplinary campus, which is strategically located in the State’s capital, Harrisburg. She participated in the first ACTF as a freshman student performer and has been involved consistently since that time. She has served the organization in many capacities on the state, regional and national levels including hosting the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships nine times for Region VI and three times at the Kennedy Center, as well as serving as Louisiana and Region VI Chair. As National Chair of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, she traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe in support of excellence in theatre arts in higher education. She was delighted to serve as a member of the National Selection Team in 1990. For the Southwest Theatre Association she served as Treasurer, Executive Board member, Louisiana Board Representative, and Auditions Coordinator. In 1991, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the Southwest Theatre Association. She has also served as an active board member of the American Theatre Association, founding member of ATHE, board member of International Theatre Institute/US, and President of Theatres of Louisiana. In 1996 she co-founded the National Partners of the American Theatre, an organization that serves the educational theatre process through endowed scholarship, consultant support, and diversity activities. She was named Distinguished Partner and Board Member for Life in 2003. An active advocate for the arts, she serves on several boards and committees that foster accessibility in the arts to culturally deprived areas and constituencies. She holds a position on the Board of “Transformation Through Forgiveness” a national traveling monument that fosters rededication to global peace. She earned the BA in Speech and Theatre from Louisiana Tech University, the MFA in Acting and Directing from Southern Illinois University and the PhD in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University. She has received certification in Lessac Voice Training, studied with actress Uta Hagen, and earned Certification in Acting from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Prior to her present post, she served as Director of the School of Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University and the Dean of Arts and Letters at both Southern Oregon University and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. She loves all things theatre, but holds special places in her heart for theatre students and faculty, Shakespeare, American theatre of the 1930s-1950s, and all theatre forms that address social issues of equality, accessibility and justice.

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Jason Romney (Design/Tech Respondent, Workshop Presenter) Jason Romney received his B.F.A. in theatre design and technology from Utah State University and his M.F.A. in sound design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has designed sound professionally at Triad Stage, Playmakers Rep, Alliance Theatre Company, Piedmont Opera, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, Elon University, No Rules Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Utah Festival Opera, and others. Recent non-theatre sound design work includes a surgical skills training video game for the Piedmont Triad Partnership and an online radio drama: The Saynt. He is on the sound design faculty in the School of Design and Production at UNCSA and has taught workshops and master classes for the North Carolina Thespian Festival, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and others. Mr. Romney is also a computer programmer developing software solutions for sound designers and engineers. His programs are used by professionals in the theatre, film and music industries and in educational institutions across the country. Mr. Romney is an associate of the Center for Design Innovation, an inter-institutional center of UNCSA, Winston-Salem State University, and Forsyth Technical Community College. He also serves as vice commissioner for the computing industry on the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Sound Commission. He is currently the Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation curriculum development research grant: “Linking Science, Art, and Practice Through Digital Sound.”

Rubber Repertory (Guest Artists, Workshop Presenters)"What's wonderful about Rubber Repertory is that they take the concepts, the tenets, the expectations of theatre, and blow them out of the water." -Austin Chronicle. Founded in Austin, TX, in 2002 by Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope, their first original work was a deeply bizarre mime show called Mister Z Loves Company that led the chairman of the American Theatre Critics Association to call RR "a company with a limitless future." 11 productions later, RR has established itself as an influential presence in American theatre. Their newest show, Biography of Physical Sensation, invites audiences to experience another’s life through tastes, touches, sounds, and smells. Their U.S. premiere of Wallace Shawn's A Thought in Three Parts has been featured in numerous international publications; the playwright praised the production as “unbelievably beautiful.” In addition, they've led workshops and served as guest artists at a variety of festivals and schools, including the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, the Fusebox Festival, the Xingolati Festival-at-Sea, the University of Texas MFA Playwriting Program, and Austin Community College. RR is dedicated to developing audacious theatrical “experiences” and attaining the impossible.

Leigh Selting (Irene Ryan Semi-Finals Auditor, Workshop Presenter, and Chair KCACTF Region 7) is currently a Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at the University of Wyoming, where he teaches acting, directing, stage combat, and acting for the camera. Also an Equity actor, free-lance director, and Equity stage manager, his Broadway credits include work as production assistant on the Tony-nominated Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass, directed by Julie Taymor (Lion King, Spider Man), and as a production assistant/stage manager for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes, directed by Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, The Full Monty). He is also the Regional Chair of KCACTF Region 7, and was a two-time regional Irene Ryan Scholarship recipient as a student…long ago.

Michael Skinner (Workshop Presenter) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and the Resident Lighting Designer at Texas Christian University. He received his B.A. in technical theatre from West Texas State University (now WTAMU) and his M.F.A. in Lighting Design and Production from the University of Oklahoma. Michael has designed the lighting and/or scenery for over 100 productions of theatre, opera, and dance over his 20 year career. Michael has had the pleasure of designing in Italy, Germany, and Russia, including the Russian premiere of the American musical The Fantasticks at Theatre Koleso in Togliatti, Russia. Michael has designed lighting for Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Jubilee Theater, the William Inge Theatre Festival, as well as Amphibian Productions. He has also designed scenery for A Lesson Before Dying, and scenery and lighting for Permanent Collection, The Bluest Eye, and most recently From The Mississippi Delta at Jubilee Theater. He also created the lighting design for the DFW Critics Forum Award winning show Romeo and Juliet at the inaugural season of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival. Michael’s work outside the theatre also includes corporate event design, production, and consultation with companies such as Senor Frogs of Cancun, Ignition! Creative Group, and ZOOM.7, Inc., working on such projects as the Kawasaki Motors New Product Showcase and Mary Kay Inc, Seminar. Michael is a member of The United States Institute for Theatre Technology and has served as a member of the Southwest region Board of Directors. Michael was honored in 2005 by the Texas Educational Theatre Association as the Featured Designer for Design Southwest and an

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exhibit of his theatrical design work was on display during TheatreFest. Also in 2005, Michael was inducted into the Branding Iron Theater Hall of Fame by his alma mater WTAMU. To View some of Michael’s work go to http://www.michaelskinnerld.com

Cynthia M. SoRelle (Dramaturgy & NCI Coordinator, Workshop Presenter) has served as a play reader for The Playwrights Center (Minneapolis) and has written for the playwrights’ volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. A member of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas since 1997, she currently serves as Chair, LMDA Board of Directors (2009-12). For the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, she has served as Dramaturgy Conference Planner, Focus Group Rep and Nominations Chair. She chaired the DFG ad hoc committee responsible for the ATHE white paper on “Promotion and Tenure of Dramaturgs” and currently chairs ATHE’s annual Dramaturgy Debut Panel Competition, which she has coordinated for the past 10 years. She spent seven years serving as an opera dramaturg. She has adjudicated more than 100 play festivals and has served on numerous Texas Educational Theatre Association committees, including four years on the TETA Board of Directors; she is a recipient of the 2000 TETA Founder’s Award for “outstanding contributions to theatre in Texas.” She holds a doctorate in theatre history and criticism from the University of Texas at Austin, where she dissertated under the mentorship of beloved Distinguished Professor Oscar G. Brockett. Dr. SoRelle previously served two terms as the KCACTF Region VI Coordinator for dramaturgy competition (2005, 2006), and her McLennan College dramaturgy intern Amanda Lassetter was selected as the 2008 Region VI student award winner.

Christopher Sousa-Wynn (New Mexico Chair, Workshop Presenter) is a Freelance Designer, Assistant Professor of Scenic Design and Co-head of Design for the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico. He is the Artistic Director and Resident Scenic Designer for Framework Theater Project in Los Angeles and on the Board of Directors for Dog Town Theater in Ellensburg, WA. Previously he was the Resident Scenic Designer for PCPA Theaterfest, a professional repertory theatre company, in Santa Maria, California. Christopher earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine and his Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Fresno. He has designed scenery for numerous theatrical productions and has recently started designing corporate events.

Bob Stevenson (Arkansas Vice-Chair, Workshop Presenter) Director of Theatre/Asst. Professor, Bob has an MFA in Acting from the University of Montana with a specialty in physical performance and a BA in Theatre performance from Ouachita Baptist University. He has been the director of theatre at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith since 2004. Bob has worked in professional theatre in Montana, Wyoming, California, and Arkansas and has also appeared on television in the hit show Friends. He has also received national recognition from the Kennedy Center for his original production Corrigenda which he created with Kurt Smith and Michelle Green. He has directed three Regional Kennedy Center invited productions over the past five years.

Charlotte Stoudt (Guest Critic, NCI) is a journalist, dramaturg, and writer. Her arts writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Theatre Forum, Variety, and the L.A. Times. Her anthology on theatrical collaboration, Stages of Transformation, was published by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) in 2005. Play development includes work by Lisa Kron, Danny Hoch, Lynn Nottage, and Warren Leight at Baltimore’s Center Stage, as well as new work at the Ojai Playwrights Festival. She story consulted on Saved (TNT), New Amsterdam (Fox), and a number of films and television pilots. Her production company, Contagionfilm, is developing a variety of projects, including the documentary Open Secret, now in post-production. She holds a doctorate in English and German from Oxford University and is currently working on a commission for a cabaret about European émigrés in wartime Los Angeles.

Elizabeth van den Berg, (Irene Ryan Preliminary Auditor and Vice Chair, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 2) As an actor she has toured the US with Oliver!, and been seen on many DC stages, including Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Synetic Theater. KCACTF named her a top teaching Artist in 2005, and she received a Gold Medallion for her service to KCACTF in 2006. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. A proud member of AEA, AFTRA and SAG, as well as VASTA, she is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Grad Acting program.

Claremarie Verheyen (Featured Costume Designer, Workshop Presenter) Claremarie is currently an associate professor at the University of Houston where she is their principal costume and make-up designer, instructor, technician and director. During her forty years as a theatre artist, she has designed over 400 productions including drama, opera, dance, high-fashion, film, video, television, circus and commercials. In addition to her academic and

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commercial work in Houston, she has served as an executive member and president of the Houston’ Theatre Network, an active member and portfolio commissioner of the National United States Institute for Theatre and Technology and as a second vice-president for the USITT, Southwest Region. She regularly offers Commedia Mask workshops and symposiums in museums, colleges and regional theatres. She is a consultant for the University of Houston’s costume rental operation. Claremarie has advanced fashion millinery training and went to Italy to research the original techniques for the creation of Commedia-dell-arte-Masks. She is on the advisory board of the Houston Community College Fashion and Marketing Program and regularly offers a class there in Theatrical Costume Design and Technology. During the summers she teaches a graduate make up course and is a costume designer for the Houston Children’s Theatre Festival, The Notre Dame Shakespeare Initiative and Shakespeare by the Book. She also designs for The Alley Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Main Street Theatre, The Lab Theatre, HCC Central and Stages Children’s Theatre. Claremarie has been the featured costume designer at the Texas Education Theatre Associations’ convention and is the recipient of their “University Educator of the Year Award.” She continues to work on the development of a web delivered Costume History class offered through the University and offers seminars in resume and portfolio preparation. She was the featured designer at the regional convention of the United States Institute of Technology in Hot Springs Arkansas and is the co-chairman of the annual Design Fest Competition. Recently she gave a series of workshops on mask technology at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her latest interest is in providing makeup design and technology consultation for disaster training in municipal triage exercises. Her makeup expertise has been utilized by HISD, Houston Ballet/Academy, Rice Opera Workshop and the University of Houston Downtown.

Raymond Vrazel (Louisiana Chair, Region 6) is an assistant professor of Theatre at Dillard University in New Orleans, and teaches an array of theatre courses to include Acting, Movement, Theatre History, Script Analysis, Children’s Theatre, and Directing. His directing credits at Dillard include Euripides’ Medea, TopDog/Underdog, Gem of the Ocean, Macbeth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fences and the new play, Homegirls. Ray was the mime, movement and improvisation instructor at NOCCA Riverfront from 1988 to 2007. He was Chair of the NOCCA Theatre Department for 15 years. He also served as Dean of Performing Arts, 2001-2002, Dean of Instruction and Curriculum, 2002-4 and was a member of the NOCCA Riverfront Board of Directors, 2001-2006. Ray was honored as the 1995 Senior High Teacher of the Year for Orleans Parish. He directed many plays and ensembles for NOCCA Riverfront including: the Movement Theatre Troupe, The NOCCA Mime Troupe, FYI! Listen Up!, Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cyrano, Twelfth Night, A Mystery Play, his original full length story theatre play concerning the Greek Myths: Theogony, The Origins of the Gods, and the original student monologue play about the students Hurricane Katrina experiences called, Katrina’s Tongue. A professional actor with membership in both Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actor’s Guild, Ray’s work encompasses a wide range of media and stage acting credits and performances. In New Orleans, Ray produced and directed the critically acclaimed play, My Children! My Africa! at the Contemporary Arts Center, directed Hamlet for Merely Players at Southern Repertory Theatre and Pink Collar Crime, for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society. For the Cripple Creek Players, Ray directed Dario Fo’s We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, which won a Best Comedy Ambie Award and a Big Easy Award nomination for Best Director of a Comedy.

Chase Waites (Texas Vice-Chair) is a professor of theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery in the Houston area where his directing and design credits include Rent, The Miss Firecracker Contest, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Little Shop of Horrors, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, A Trio of Ones, Mind’s Prison, Goodnight Desdemona (Good morning Juliet), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Noises Off, The Actor’s Nightmare, Home Front, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Foreigner, The Shape of Things, The Sleeper, 96 Minutes, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and The Problem. Chase teaches acting, introduction to theatre, and theatre history, is lead faculty for the theatre department, and administrates the audio visual systems specialist program. A Ft. Worth native, he spent ten years in New Orleans where he served as the artistic director of theatre and fine arts department chair at Jesuit of New Orleans. Production credits in New Orleans include award-winning productions of Tracers, The Boys Next Door, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and regional premieres of Dead Man Walking, The Who’s Tommy, Footloose, and Copacabana. He received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the University of New Orleans. Chase is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Association for Theatre in Higher Education for which he serves on the governing council and as the Two-Year College Program focus group representative, US Institute for Theatre Technology, Texas

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Educational Theatre Association, and has been inducted into Biltmore’s Who’s Who among Montgomery County Professionals and Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.

Kimberly Weast (Oklahoma Chair, Workshop Presenter, Directors Forum host) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Managing/Technical Director of Herod Hall Auditorium at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Weast earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Masters in Communication Arts in Theatrical Performance and Television Production from Southwestern Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatrical Directing from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. Weast has over 21 years of experience as a professor in communication and theatre-related courses. She presently serves as the Oklahoma Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Bryan Willis (National Selection Team) serves as playwright-in-residence for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance at Seattle Repertory Theater. He is currently working on full-length commissions from Book-It Theater, the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, and a full-length play scheduled for an extended workshop at Seattle Rep. His plays have appeared throughout the U.K., Israel, Japan and in theaters across the U.S. and Canada, including A Contemporary Theater (two commissions), New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. and Riverside Studios in London. His work has also been featured on NPR and BBC Radio (commission for Sophie). Bryan is the proud recipient of a Theater Fellowship from Artist Trust and has worked in the literary departments of many theaters, including Lincoln Center (NYU’s Playwright-in-Residence) and Playwrights Horizons.

James Winter (Region 6 Committee Member) is a professional actor, director, playwright, and producer. Four of his plays have been published and he has written four theatre textbooks for Kendall/Hunt Publishing. His plays have been produced in New York, Cleveland, Texas, and Louisiana. As an actor, Jim has performed at Madison Square Garden, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, The Hudson Guild, The Kennedy Center, Cleveland Public Theatre, and in China. Jim is a founding member and the production director of the award-winning InSideOut production company in New Orleans. He is currently an assistant professor of acting and directing at Southeastern Louisiana University. In addition to his full-time duties at Southeastern, Jim teaches graduate playwriting for the University of New Orleans’ distance learning program. He also works as a screenwriter and actor for LA Studios and Ghost Rider Pictures, two award-winning, Louisiana-based film companies. Jim holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of New Orleans and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Baldwin-Wallace College.

Chad Winters (Irene Ryans Coordinator) is an Instructor of Theatre at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he teaches Introduction to Theatre, Acting, Directing, and Children’s Theatre. Among his professional credits, he has worked for The New Globe Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cain Park, The Dobama Theatre, and Theatre Studio. He studied Theatre at Baldwin-Wallace College, where he received his B.A. in Theatre. Chad holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from The Actors Studio Drama School. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Theatre Communications Group (TCG). He is currently serving as the Region VI Ryan’s Coordinator for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Chad has also been recognized by the American College Theatre Festival for Excellence in Directing and Hosting. He is a strong advocate of developing new plays for the theatre. In New York City he has helped develop new works such as Soup & Quackers, Crying for Masha, The Godling, and Dead Flowers. Dead Flowers was work shopped in New York City and brought to the Southeastern University for a full production in the fall of 2007. He also directed Tent City an original play written by an SLU student. Chad has directed God, Rodgers & Hart: A Celebration, The Servant of Two Masters, and Fences for Southeastern Louisiana University. He also works as an actor for the award winning Louisiana-based film company Ryco Productions.

Jon Young (Design/Technologies Co-Vice Chair Region 6 and Workshop Presenter) Jon Young is an Assistant Professor of Scenic Design for the School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma. His Scenic design for After Juliet was exhibited at World Stage Design 2009 in Seoul Korea. In 2008 Young was recipient of a 2007 National Teaching Artist Grant from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His work can be viewed at Dscenicstudio.com. Young is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, and has an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

http://dscenicstudio.com/

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KCACTF Region 6 Participating Schools 2010-2011

ARKANSAS Arkansas State University—Beebe Lyon College Ouachita Baptist University Pulaski Technical College Southern Arkansas University University of Arkansas at Fort Smith University of Arkansas University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff University of Central Arkansas

LOUISIANA Bossier Parish Community College Centenary College of Louisiana Delgado Community College Dillard University Louisiana College Louisiana State University at Alexandria McNeese State University Southeastern Louisiana University University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of New Orleans

WELCOME! We are so pleased to have had the following schools participating in Region 6 from outside our borders…Thank you, and welcome!

Central College Coffeyville Community College

MISSOURI Fontbonne University Hendrix College Metropolitan Community College— Blue River Missouri Southern State University Missouri University of Science & Technology Missouri Valley College Park University

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University of New Mexico

OKLAHOMA Cameron University East Central University Northwestern Oklahoma State University Oklahoma Baptist University Oklahoma City University Rogers State University Rose State College Southwestern Oklahoma State University Tulsa Community College The University of Oklahoma The University of Tulsa University of Central Oklahoma University of Oklahoma

TEXAS Abilene Christian University Amarillo College Angelo State University Austin Community College Blinn College Central Texas College Grayson County College Lon Morris College Lone Star College—Cy Fair Lone Star College—Montgomery McLennan College Midwestern State University Prairie View A&M University Sam Houston State University San Jacinto College Central San Jacinto College South Southern Methodist University St. Mary's University Sul Ross State University Tarrant County College—Northwest Campus Tarrant County College—Southeast Campus Texas A&M University—Kingsville Texas A&M University—Commerce Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi Texas Christian University Texas State University Texas Tech University Trinity Valley Community College University of Texas at El Paso West Texas A&M Univeristy Wharton County Junior College

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Claudia Beach 2005-2008 David Hoover 2002-2005 Bob Willenbrink 2000-2002 Charles Harrill 1999-2000 Adonia Placette 1996-1999 Robert Buseick 1993-1996 D. Andrew Gibbs 1990-1993 Kathryn Robinson 1987-1990 Lee Hicks 1984-1987 Richard Weaver 1981-1984 Nancy Vunovich 1978-1981 James Barton 1975-1978 Gresdna Doty 1972-1975 Jack Wright 1969-1972

Region 6 Festival History

Past Chairs

Past National Finalists Festival I 1969 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Lysistrata University of Texas—Austin (TX) An Enemy of the People Festival II 1970 Grambling College (LA) A Raisin in the Sun Festival III 1971 East Texas State University (TX) The Time of Your Life Southern Methodist University (TX) Oedipus the King Festival IV 1972 Southeastern Oklahoma State University (OK) Of Mice and Men Southern Methodist University (TX) Liberty Ranch Central State University (OK) A Moon of Misbegotten Festival VII 1975 Louisiana State University (LA) Juno and the Paycock Festival IX 1977 Texas A&M University (TX) Stories to be Told Midwestern State University (TX) Who’s Happy Now Festival X 1978 Angelo State University (TX) Sideshow Festival XII 1980 Trinity University—Dallas (TX) Ladybug, Fly Away Home Festival XIV 1982 Prairie View A&M University (TX) Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope Festival XV 1983 Centenary College (LA) My Sister in This House Festival XVII 1985 University of Tulsa (OK) What I Did Last Summer Festival XXI 1989 Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (LA) Fool for Love Festival XXII 1990 Texas Women’s University (TX) Six Women with Brain Death University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Chess Festival XXIV 1992 Louisiana State University (LA) Balcony Scene Festival XXVI 1994 Amarillo College (TX) Breaking the Code Festival XXVII 1995 University of New Orleans (LA) Father’s Prize Poland China Festival XXVIII 1996 Collin County Community College—Plano (TX) Stand Up Tragedy Festival XXIX 1997 Prairie View A&M University (TX) Fences West Texas A&M University (TX) The Homage That Follows Festival XXX 1998 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Guarding the Bridge (ALT) University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Call of the Serpent God to Me Festival XXXII 2000 University of New Orleans (LA) Lot’s Daughters Festival XXXIII 2001 University of Oklahoma—Norman (OK) Drive-In America Festival XXXV 2003 Sam Houston State University (TX) The Laramie Project Festival XXXVI 2004 University of Texas—El Paso (TX) Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Festival XXXVII 2005 University of Arkansas—Pine Bluff (AR) The Hip Hop Project Festival XL 2008 University of Oklahoma (OK) Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout Festival XLI 2009 Texas State University – San Marcos (TX) House of Several Stories

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Ambassador Hotel

Home Depot

Office Depot

Maps: The Ambassador Hotel

Coming from I-40 East and the GNC/Civic Center (also from originations such as Oklahoma, Dallas, and Lubbock), EXIT GEORGIA STREET. Stay on access road and go straight through the traffic light. The hotel will be on your right approximately one-eighth of a mile.

Coming from I-40 West (from New Mexico), EXIT GEORGIA STREET. Loop around and under the freeway at Georgia Street. Stay on access road, and the hotel will be on your right approximately one-eighth of a mile.

NOTE: When travelling towards the GNC/Civic Center from the hotel, there is no “loop-around” at Paramount Street. Make a left at the light at Paramount Street, and make another left after you go under the overpass. Once you go through the next light you will find an entrance ramp for the freeway. BE CAREFUL! This on-ramp is treacherous…

Concentra Urgent Care

Clinic, 1619 S. Kentucky,

806.373.2200

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Holiday Inn

Maps: The Holiday Inn East

Coming from I-40 East (also from originations such as Oklahoma, Dallas, and Lubbock), EXIT ROSS STREET. Stay on access road but DO NOT go through the traffic light. The hotel will be on your right just shy of the Ross Street traffic signal.

Coming from I-40 West and the GNC/Civic Center (from New Mexico), EXIT NELSON STREET. Loop around and under the freeway at Nelson Street. Stay on access road, and the hotel will be on your right approximately three-quarters of a mile.

NOTE: Ross Street is extremely busy most of the time. Exiting Ross Street coming from downtown often takes longer than continuing onto Nelson Street and “looping around”. Also, when eating at the restaurants south of the interstate on Ross Street, making a left-hand turn from a restaurant to go north back towards the Holiday Inn can take some time. Try continuing south on Ross Street instead, and double-back from the Sam’s Club or the Credit Union parking lots there.

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Maps: The Globe News Center and Civic Center

Coming from I-40 East or West: Take the DOWNTOWN (Buchanan Street) Exit to head north towards the venues. Buchanan will run between the Globe News Center (the wavy-roofed building) and the Civic Center. Get into the left lane to pull into the GNC Parking Lot (south of the structure). Get into the right lane to turn right at 3rd Avenue to enter the Civic Center’s northeast parking lot for an easy walk to the workshop venues.

Returning to the Holiday Inn: Use Pierce Street (one street west of Buchanan Street) to head south and take I-40 East (towards Oklahoma City) and follow signs to the Ross or Nelson Street exits. (See Holiday Inn Map for details on which exit to take.)

Returning to the Ambassador Hotel: Use Taylor Street (two streets west of Pierce Street) to head south and take I-40 West (towards Albuquerque) and follow signs to the Georgia Street exit. (See Ambassador Hotel map for details.)

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Restaurants Downtown: 1. Furrby’s—Burger’s 2. Subway’s - Deli 3. Zen 721—Asian 4. OHMS—Fine Dining 5. Crush—Wine/Dining 6. Napoli’s—Italian 7. Acapulco—Mexican 8. Young Sushi – Sushi 9. Marizons—Sandwiches

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Concert Hall Theatre

Maps: Amarillo College’s Concert Hall Theatre

Getting to Amarillo College’s Concert Hall Theatre for the Irene Ryan Prelims and Semi-Finals on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively: Amarillo College is equidistant from the Ambassador Hotel, the Holiday Inn, and the Globe News Center. Essentially, the campus is located just southwest of the I-40 and I-27 interchange that everyone will be passing through throughout the week.

From I-40 just West of the Interchange: Exit WASHINGTON STREET, and head south. Go through one traffic light (Wolflin Street) and make a left at the next signal, 22nd AVENUE. Go three blocks, and make a right at Jackson Street; this will lead into the Fine Arts Parking Lot just on the north side of the Concert Hall Theatre.

From the Fine Arts Parking Lot: The Concert Hall Theatre is located in the Fine Arts complex (next to the Amarillo Museum of Art and the AC Music Building) at the corner of 22nd Avenue and South Van Buren. The lobby (where Irene Ryan registration will occur) is on the first floor (below ground). Shuttle service will drop off and pick up passengers on Van Buren right beside the Museum of Art on the northeast side. Follow the ramp or stairs down to a sculpture courtyard to gain entrance to the lobby (on the southwest side of the courtyard).

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Maps: Amarillo Civic Center

Workshops, New Play Readings, 10-Minute Play Auditions/Rehearsals, and Show Responses in the HERITAGE room on the north end of the Civic Center.

Globe News Center

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Special Thanks

Amarillo College – Business Office Amarillo College – College Relations Amarillo College – Information Technology Services Amarillo Convention and Visitors Council Amarillo Civic Center The Downtown Courtyard Marriott The Ambassador Hotel The Holiday Inn KACV-FM Oscar’s Panhandle Tickets Parie Designs United Supermarkets – Market Street

Just as the show must go on, so, too, must the program go to press.

Our apologies for any omissions, misspellings, or typos.

Thank you for joining us at the 2011 KCACTF Region 6 Festival.

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