FEBRUARY 14-16, 2013

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KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN
COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL
REGION VIII
FEBRUARY 14-16, 2013
Festival XLV
LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER
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The Kennedy Center
American College
Theater Festival 45
Presents
The Forty–Fifth Annual Region VIII Festival 2013
Arizona, Central and Southern California, Hawaii, Southern Nevada, Utah
February 14 – 16, 2013
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Hosted by
Latino Theater Company
Presented by
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the
Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by
David and Alice Rubenstein.
Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, Dr. Gerald and
Paula McNichols Foundation, the National Committee for the Performing Arts, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg
Charitable Trust, and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation.
Gifts and grants to education at the Kennedy Center are provided by Adobe Foundation; Sandra K. & Clement C. Alpert; AnBryce Foundation; Bank of America; Bernstein Family Foundation; The
Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; Captial One Bank; Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust; Centene Charitable Foundation; Citibank; The Charles Engelhard Foundation;
Clark Charitable Foundation; Community Advisory Board; Mike and Julie Connors; CVS Caremark; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation;
Fight for Children, Inc.; David Gregory and Beth Wilkinson; Harman Family Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Harris Corporation; Hilton Worldwide; The J. Willard and
Alice S. Marriott Foundation; The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Kiplinger Foundation; The Kirstein Family Foundation; Natalie and Herb Kohler and Kohler
Co.; Kenneth and Lucy Lehman; The Macy’s Foundation; Margaret A. Cargill Foundation; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; Jaylee M. Mead; Linda and Tobia Mercuro; The Meredith
Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; The National Committee for the Performing Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; National Trustees
of the National Symphony Orchestra; Newman’s Own Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Mrs. Irene Pollin; President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts; Prince
Charitable Trusts; Rose Mary Kennedy Education Fund; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; Share Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small; Target;
Thomas W. Haas Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.; Sherry and Eddie Wachs; Washington Gas; Wells Fargo; Beatrice and Anthony Welters; William
R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Information
Welcome6
Festival Information
8
Special Events
9
Invited Productions
13
Workshops 16
Program Areas
Acting and Directing
38
Design, Technology & Management
41
Playwriting, Dramaturgy, & Criticism
43
Devised Performance
47
Festival 45 Participants
Festival Guests and Respondents
48
KCACTF Festival 45 National Acknowledgements
67
KCACTF Festival 45 Regional Acknowledgements
68
Region VIII Production and Design Respondents
70
Productions entered in Festival 45
72
Service Recognition
Region VIII Faculty Recognition
76
Registration for the Region VIII festival grants permission to KCACTF Region VIII and ACTF
Management, Ltd., to use registrant’s image or likeness, if captured or recorded at the
festival, in print, website or other recorded media. This does not apply to “productions” or
other circumstances already subject to reproduction restrictions by contract or directive.
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WELCOME
Paul Stuart Graham, General Manager
Welcome Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to the Los
Angeles Theatre Center. We are pleased to be your host for Festival 45 and hope you
find time to explore the many facets of our burgeoning and diverse downtown
Los Angeles community.
Back in my halcyon days as a theatre student at the University of Massachusetts we
entered the American College Theatre Festival with a production of Moonchildren
by Michael Weller. We were not selected to compete at festival; however, my friend
Michael was selected to participate in the Irene Ryan competition. I remember this
vividly, as this was my first exposure to competition in the arts. I was happy for my
fellow actor, albeit I thought my performance was also worthy of recognition. Weeks
later, after much deliberation, I decided to rise above the festival judges’ oversight and
applauded loudly for my friend at the conference. He didn’t win the award, but it was
a wonderful experience to witness all the talent on the stage. As we left the conference
commiserating over “our” loss, I realized that this life in the theatre was not going to be
an easy choice—ACTF truly had opened my eyes to the competition and to what it would
take to have a professional career in the theatre. Twenty five years later I am still a part of
our theatre community and I cherish every moment.
During the past fourteen years I have served as a professor/ administrator at two CSU
universities, Cal State Long Beach and Cal State LA, where currently I am on the faculty
in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. I have had the opportunity to work with
many talented, creative, and insightful administrators, faculty and students. I know
that the late Roger Stevens— the Kennedy Center’s founding chairman who started the
nationwide festival back in 1969 to serve as a catalyst for improving the quality of college
and university theatre in the United States—would be most proud of its accomplishment.
I had the pleasure of co-producing a new musical with Mr. Stevens, and we owe a great
deal to him for having the vision to have created this vital and compelling theatre festival.
Congratulations to all of those involved in celebrating Festival 45!
On behalf of the staff and crew of the LATC, we hope you have an outstanding festival
and that you will return to the Center soon. We present our EAST OF BROADWAY Season,
beginning in March, and we invite you to review the upcoming season by visiting our
website at www.thelatc.org.
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Jose Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director
Latino Theater Company—Los Angeles Theatre Center
It is with great joy that we welcome the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the great city of Los Angeles. We
invite you to explore the cultural diversity, striking beauty, and artistic energy of this city
that the Latino Theater Company calls home.
This year marks our eighth year at the helm of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), a
world-class arts center with four unique stages and over 100 years of history in downtown
Los Angeles. As the managing entity of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Latino Theater
Company is committed to maintaining the Center as a space where diverse peoples,
cultures and ideas converge within and through performance.
As a professor of Theater and Directing at UCLA, I am personally committed to advancing
college/university theater programs to develop the next generation of socially conscious,
aesthetically diverse and boundary pushing artists that will continue to revitalize the field.
During economic hardships, such as the one we are experiencing now, the arts are often
overlooked or seen as a dispensable luxury. It is during these difficult times that supporting
the arts is most critical. Art can inspire, enlighten and feed the soul, it is what sets us
apart from the rest of nature - it is what makes us human.
The Los Angeles Theatre Center produces and presents theater, music, dance and spoken
word that represents various communities and we open our arms to all who want to take
part in a global vision of mutual respect and understanding. Latina/o, Black, White, Asian,
Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, LGBT… – we all have a home at the LATC.
Today we open our arms to KCACTF and say bienvenidos/welcome to the students, faculty
members, technicians, actors, directors, designers, stage managers, audiences, family and
friends associated with this festival. The Latino Theater Company is honored to open the
doors of the Los Angeles Theatre Center to such an inspiring commitment and dedication
to improving the quality and diversity of college/university theater across the nation.
Saludos,
Jose Luis Valenzuela
Artistic Director, Latino Theater Company
Artistic Director, Los Angeles Theatre Center
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FESTIVAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
The registration and information desk will be located in the lobby of the Los
Go Metro to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the Millennium
Angeles Theatre Center. The hours will be Wednesday from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm,
Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles !
and Thursday - Saturday from 8:00 am to 7:30pm..
The Los Angeles Theatre Center is a five minute walk from the Pershing Square
ADMISSION TO PERFORMANCES
Only registered festival participants will be able to attend performances
with their current KCACTF Region VIII Festival badge. Seating is limited and
participants will be admitted on a first–come, first–serve basis.
Venues
The festival features four different production venues at the Los Angeles Theatre
Center
Theatre 1 (492 Seats)
PARKING
Public parking facilities available on Main St. and 6th St. Several well-lit, security patrolled parking facilities are situated within one block of the Los Angeles
Theatre Center. Parking generally costs between $5-$6.
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
Overnight valet parking is currently available at the rate of $35.00 per day. Day
valet parking is currently available at the rate of $22.00 per day.
Pershing Square Garage (Overnight Parking)
$10/day fee $7/evening & weekend $16/overnight
504 S Olive St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St)
465 W 6th St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St)
Downtown Los Angeles Parking
To find parking in downtown Los Angeles by going to http://losangeles.bestparking.com. Click on Daily and then Neighborhood and Downtown.
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Metro Red Line Station. Metro provides Metro Bus and Metro Rail transportation
steps away from the LATC. http://www.metro.net
THERESA REBECK New York productions: Dead Accounts, Seminar, The Understudy,
Mauritius, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Spike Heels,
Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, View of the Dome, and Omnium Gatherum (co-written,
Pulitzer finalist). Publications: Collected Plays Volumes I, II and III, Free Fire Zone, all
with Smith & Kraus, and two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With
a View, with Random House/Shaye Areheart Books. Film: Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the
independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker (adapted from her
play The Scene). Awards include the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama
and a Peabody Award for her work on “NYPD Blue,” the National Theatre Conference
Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation
Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award and in 2011 she was
named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She is the creator of the
NBC drama, “Smash.”
Sponsored by The Dramatist Guild
as part of The Mentoring Artists Tour
The Dramatists Guild is a member service organization of 6500 playwrights, lyricists,
librettists and composers.
The Mentoring Artists Tour serves three purposes:
1. To facilitate a much needed discussion of how all artists work together in the collaborative process
of creating theatre, and particularly how living dramatists function in that environment.
2. To educate all artists on the variety of paths to pursuing a professional career in the arts.
3. To educate all artists on the intricacies of working with the text of plays or musicals and how,
when and if it’s appropriate to alter content.
Thursday, February 14th
Conversation with Theresa Rebeck
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Theatre 1
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SPECIAL EVENTS
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES – Theresa Rebeck
EVENING OF INVITED SCENES
The Evening of Invited Scenes is our Festival’s energetic annual kick–off
performance. The selected scenes, chosen from more than 100 associate
Thursday, February 14th 7:30pm
Theatre 3
and participating productions that were recommended, are representative
of the diverse offerings seen across Region VIII in 2011. Included are
samples of outstanding acting skill, striking ensemble performance,
PROFESSIONAL EXPO
notable interpretations of classics, and bold renditions of musicals
Don’t miss the newest addition to our Region VIII Festival!
and contemporary works.
• Talk directly to professionals in a variety of specialties.
The 39 Steps
(The) Odyssey
by Patrick Barlow
by Michael A. Harding
• Get the latest information about joining a professional
Directed by Eric Bishop
Directed by Michael A. Harding
organization, or getting work in your area of interest.
MiraCosta College
Dixie State University
• Get your questions answered about the next step in your career.
• Pick up free brochures and magazines.
• Check out what’s happening in professional theatres in the area.
Aida
My Favorite Year
Music by Elton John & Tim Rice
By Stephen Flaherty & Lynn
Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert
Ahrens;
Falls and David Henry Hawng
Book by Joseph Dougherty
Directed by Dr. Michael Solomonson
Based on the Motion Picture, ‘My
Check the daily schedule posted in the lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre
Choreography by Debra Fisher
Favorite Year’, courtesy of Turner
Center for the times that representatives from various organizations
Music Direction by Julie Neish
Entertainment Co.,
will be available to answer your questions.
Northland Pioneer College
Screenplay by Norman Steinberg
and Dennis Palumbo
Almost Maine
Story by Dennis Palumbo
by John Cariani
Directed by Jere Van Patten
Directed by Janine Christl
Musical Direction by Cathey Hauan
Fresno City College
Choreography by Kyle C. Greene
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Mitchell Thomas
Westmont College
• Make suggestions about organizations you’d like to see r
epresented in the future.
Actors Equity
http://www.actorsequity.org
Artists Striving to End Poverty
http://www.asteponline.org
Mesa Community College
Black Theatre Network
http://www.blacktheatrenetwork.org
Too Much Light Makes
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids
http://www.broadwaycares.org
The Baby Go Blind
by Greg Allen & The Neo-Futurists
Directed by Ginny Davis
and Alyse Neubert
Dramatists Guild of America
http://www.dramatistsguild.com
Fort Lewis College
LA Stage Alliance
http://www.lastagealliance.com/
and Stephen Sondheim
Beau Jest
Directed by Monica Ganas
by James Sherman
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
http://www.lmda.org
Azusa Pacific University
Directed by Tony Verzner
Merrily We Roll Along
Written by George Furth
Concordia University
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Dale Wasserman
Directed by Rodney L. Scott
East Los Angeles College
National Theatre Conference
http://www.nationaltheatreconference.org
Society of American Fight Directors
http://www.safd.org
Stage Directors and Choreographers
http://www.sdcweb.org
United Scenic Artists Local USA-829
http://usa829.org
United States Institute for Theatre Technology
http://www.usitt.org
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STUDENT EVENTS
Next Step Auditions
and Production/
Technical Interviews
STUDENT SOCIAL EVENTS
Student Socials are scheduled Wednesday – Friday. Start the week off
Wednesday, February 14th, with new and old friends as we welcome
you to Region VIII’s 2013 festival!
KCACTF Region VIII offers Festival participants a wonderful
Wednesday, February 13th
opportunity to take the next step in their educational or professional
9:00pm – 11:00pm
goals with this chance to be seen and heard by major universities
and theatre companies. Actors and Singers audition on Friday,
Hosted by Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy
February 15th, Dancers and Production/Technical Interviews on
the 16th. All auditions will be at the Biltmore Hotel. There is a Thursday, February 14th
$10.00 registration fee. You can pay this $10.00 at the time of
10:00pm – 12:00pm
registration or at the Festival.
STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
The KCACTF Region VIII Student Advisory Board represents the
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Gold Room
Hosted by Weber State University
Friday, February 15th
10:00pm – 12:00pm
student-voice of the region to the Executive Board, gathers feedback
from students during the festival, and works alongside the Region VIII
Hosted by Santa Monica College
Executive Board to create opportunities for student involvement and
socialization at festival. A SAB meeting open to all students will be
held 12:00pm Saturday, February 16th in Rehearsal Room 4B of the
Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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FACULTY EVENTS
RESPONDENT WORKSHOP
Thursday, February 14th – Saturday, February 16th, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. held in the Heinsbergen Room, Millennium
Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
Respondents Workshop Coordinator:
Special Area Response Facilitators:
Judith Royer –Loyola Marymount University
Design/Technology/Management:
General Respondent Workshop Facilitators:
Andre Harrington – California State University, San Bernardino
Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount University
Rodger Sorensen – Brigham Young University
New Plays – National Playwriting Program:
Val Limar-Jansen – Freelance Artist
Wade Hollingshaus – Brigham Young University
Char Nelson – Freelance Playwright
Invitational Scenes:
bree valle – Cuesta College
The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for Region VIII respondents, new and experienced alike, to share insights into, explore concerns about, and
discuss challenges most often encountered in the response process. It provides an opportunity to learn and/or update skills needed for on-site response to
productions. The workshop will include viewing of the Festival productions and four sessions dedicated to presentation/discussion of guidelines for response,
practicum responses by participants, and feedback on these from the workshop facilitators and participating colleagues. Sessions are scheduled to begin on
Thursday, February 14, and continue daily through Saturday, February 16, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. each of these mornings.
SDC Faculty Reception
FACULTY RECOGNITION EVENT
Join your colleagues throughout our Region for an hors d’oeuvre reception
Join your colleagues throughout our region for desserts Friday, February 15th
Thursday, February 14th from 4:00 to 5:00 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
from 6:00 to 7:00 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (Gallery). Open to all
(Costume Shop). Open to all faculty, staff, and special guests attending festival.
faculty, staff, and special guests attending festival.
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Heart Mountain by G. Bruce Smith, Concept by Perviz Sawoski
Directed by Perviz Sawoski
Santa Monica College
Theatre 4, LATC
Thursday, February 14th, 9:30 am and 7:30 pm
In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President FDR authorized the relocation of over 100,000 persons of Japanese descent to
internment camps in remote areas of the country. Through text, music, dance and powerful imagery, Heart Mountain chronicles the life of a
family in one such camp as it struggles to maintain dignity.
Respondents: Jami Brandli & Mauricio Salgado
Response: 12:30 pm in Theatre 4, LATC
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright
Directed by Christopher Clark
Utah Valley University
Theatre 1, LATC
Thursday, February 14th, 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Brixton, London. 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the
first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality.
Respondents: Joy Pace & Maggie-Kate Coleman
Response: Wednesday, February 8th, 3:30 pm in Theatre 1, LATC
Trojan Women by John-Paul Sartre
Directed by Michael Arndt
California Lutheran University
Theatre 2, LATC
Thursday, February 14th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
What is left in the wake of war? In the ruins of Troy, we meet the “collateral damage” – the wives, mothers and innocents grieving for their lost
soldiers. Euripides gives us a powerful and poetic commentary on the nature of war and its aftermath. Though written 2,500 years ago, the
production could easily be set in modern-day Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan or any other country plagued by violent confrontations large and small.
Can we be civilized and still wage war?
Respondents: Georgia McGill & Timothey Sullivan
Response: Thursday, February 14th, 9:00 pm in Theatre 2, LATC
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INVITED PRODUCTIONS
PARTICIPATING PRODUCTIONS
Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
Directed and Choreographed by Jim Taulli and Craig Tyrl
in full collaboration with the company of Godspell.
Musical Direction by Diane King Vann
California State University, Fullerton
Theatre 4, LATC
Friday, February 15th, 11:30 am and 7:30 pm
Godspell is the timeless story of a community forged out of love. A clever, witty and sometime satirical retelling of the parables found in the
Gospel of Matthew, the Stephen Schwartz musical creates a magical world of color, imagination, and play. The journey which is Godspell, is one
of discovery and understanding as a band of merry disciples grapple with this controversial, fascinating, and unusual man named Jesus. Full of
comedy, heart, and tenderness, the show’s song and dance casts a powerful spell of love.
Respondents: Shelly Elman & Allison Mosier
Response: Friday, February 15th, 1:30 pm in Theatre 4, LATC
The Bronze Star by Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim
Directed by Neil H. Weiss
Citrus College
Theatre 2, LATC
Friday, February 15th, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Spanning the time period from the Vietnam War to today’s Global War on Terror, The Bronze Star follows an idealistic young soldier on his tour of
duty in Vietnam, 1967 as well as his life in post 9/11 Los Angeles. Based on one gay Vietnam Vet’s audio tapes and diaries, The Bronze Star raises
questions and issues – PTSD; gays in the military – ultimately revealing true patriotic heroism in the face of adversity as this soldier struggles to
lay the ghosts of his past to rest.
Respondents: Georgia McGill & Scott Mackenzie
Response: Thursday, February 15th, 4:15 pm in Theatre 2, LATC
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Charm by Kathleen Cahil
Directed by Tracy Callahan
Weber State University
Theatre 1, LATC
Friday, February 15th, 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
A magical, surreal and transcendentally goofy romantic comedy. Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists are not a rock group and Charm is
not your typical history play! Margaret Fuller is plain, Harvard- educated and published, but without a husband or child. It’s New England, 1840,
and it’s insufferable. Her friends are the great writers of the day, Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorne. In Charm we
slip behind the lives of these literary giants and their unexpected muse, Margaret. Their pursuit of intellectual and emotional intimacy becomes a
surreal comedy of manners, provoking the question: What do men and women really want? With wit and delightful theatricality, Margaret glides
among the landscapes of the past as she freely imagines a future. She pursues the right to love fully and be who ever she wants to be. Full of
luscious language and juicy imagery, Charm is a modern, hilarious and stimulating piece of new work that magically weaves in and out of history.
Respondents: Joy Pace & Marilyn McIntyre
Response: Friday, February 15th, 4:30 pm in Theatre 1, LATC
Saturday, February 16th
Untitled Warhol Project
Created by Leslie Ferreira & Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Tina Kronis + Richard Alger
Directed by Tina Kronis and Leslie Ferreira
Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy
Theatre 2, LATC
Saturday, February 16th, 1:30 pm & 5:00 pm
An explosive multi-disciplinary “docu-collage” that takes as its subject the biographical life of Andy Warhol. Using disparate genres such as
cabaret, documentary, fashion show, and movement, Untitled Warhol Project explores a narrative of America and its relationship to fame and
celebrity beginning in post-World War II idyll and stretching through 1960s and ‘70s gay disco culture to the celebrity-soaked world of the 1980s—
all scored with the music of the Velvet Underground, 1970s disco, and Polish-Czechoslovakian folk music.
Respondents: Brandt Reiter & Joy Pace
Response: Saturday, February 16th, 2:45 pm in Theatre 2, LATC
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WORKSHOPS
Thursday, Feb 14
9:00-9:50am (Acting/Directing/Design)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A
Actor’s Tech-tiquette, or “Okay, I’m here. Now What?”
Anne McMills, California State University, Los Angeles
Explore the strange world of tech and the unique actor-designer relationships that exist within this world. What is the lighting designer really doing up there? And
how can an actor help to move the process along smoothly?
Participants Prepare: None
9:00-9:50am (Talking About Theatre)
LATC Costume Shop
Educator and AEA Member Roundtable
Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association
Share your experiences and insights of being both educator and artist; discuss this challenges of preparing students for a career in theatre.
9:00-10:50am (Acting/Directing)
LATC Dance Studio
Impulsive Movement - Taking Physical Risks
Laurie Harrop-Purser, Utah Valley University
Motion is derived from E-motion. In life, we speak and move because of what we feel. This workshop will consist of exercises building upon themselves that lead
to movement coming from the emotional being rather than the head. This bypasses generic or created movement and brings out impulsive, risky movement that
speaks greater emotional truth.
Participants Prepare: Sweats or loose clothing that you can roll around comfortably in, and tennis shoes.
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9-10:50am (Directing)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Directing Culture, Conflict, and Compassion in 21st Century Theatre:
The Art of Conceptualized Context and Compromise
Theresa Larkin, California State University, Los Angeles
This workshop will explore and discuss vital themes of universal conflict that are found in all great plays. A special emphasis will center on how a director might
approach the artistic practice of analyzing, situating, and contextualizing real world conflicts whenever directing theatrical texts by conceptualizing key elements
of production and casting with a purposed goal of working towards relevant, inclusive, and healing world perspectives.
Participants Prepare: Writing pads, pencils, favorite play, current daily newspaper, or capacity to pull up current events on iPad or iPhone.
10-10:50am (Acting/Directing)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Louder, Faster, Funnier
Phil Ramuno
The rules of Situation Comedy. How to get the laugh and how to get the job. For Actors and Directors. This workshop is a lecture overview of situation comedy.
Participants Prepare: Writing pads, pencils, favorite play, current daily newspaper, or capacity to pull up current events on iPad or iPhone.
10-10:50am (TBD)
LATC Costume Shop
TBD
TBD
Check Information Desk for Updated Workshop Schedule Daily
Participants Prepare: TBD
11-12:20pm (Acting)
Form Will Set You Free!
Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University
A session of exercises and discussion that will show the importance of embracing the form of any art before the artist can be free to create something new and
unique. Mastering the form frees the artist toward new ideas and expressions. Geared toward actors but all will enjoy.
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11-12:50pm (Talking About Theatre)
LATC Costume Shop
A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors’ Equity
and a Practical Guide to the Business
Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association
Equity supports and protects the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop offers a candid discussion about how and when to join, pragmatic insight
into balancing artistic and business mindsets, and provides tips on negotiating, record keeping, networking, survival jobs and more. The session is Q & A driven
and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career.
11:30-12:50pm (Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Dance Studio
Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance
Eric Santagata, Open Jar Institute
Learn a Broadway dance combination.
Participants Prepare: Wear dance attire. All levels welcome.
12:30-2:20pm (Acting/Directing)
Sitcom Scene Study
Phil Ramuno
Staging and acting for sitcoms. How to stage comedy scenes from multiple cameras with a discussion of single camera differences. Participants MUST have the
Wednesday morning “Louder, Faster, Funnier” workshop. Each Actor and Director will be paired to rehearse and perform one of the provided scenes during the
workshop.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable rehearsal clothes.
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1-2:50pm (Management)
LATC Costume Shop
Stage Management Roundtable: Moving from Student to Professional
Meredith Greenburg, California State University, Los Angeles
Professional Stage Managers from the Los Angeles area meet with students to discuss generated topics, covering areas such as Graduate school, unions, working
with faculty and peers and new colleagues in the professional world.
LATC Dance Studio Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance
2:30-3:50pm (Talking About Theatre)
What is your Voice: Exploring Your Artistic Voice on Stage
Mauricio Salgado, Artists Striving To End Poverty
Do you believe in the power of Art to Transform communities? This interactive workshop will focus on how we can delve beyond our technical training to harness
our collective power and begin to build a space where everyone’s stories can be heard. Together, we will explore how we can use our craft as a means of ensuring
the strength of our communities, our culture, and the future of the American theatre. Come and reclaim ownership of your own artistic fulfillment.
2:30-3:50pm (Technology)
LATC Theatre 4
Intelligent Lighting for Dummies
Chris Eicher and Max Jacobs, California State University, Bakersfield
An introduction to moving lights with a brief lecture of different classes of instruments, control parameters, and basic functionality; followed by “hands-on”
application.
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3:30-4:50pm (Acting)
LATC Dance Studio
Sitcoms: Acting for the Laughs!
Mary Lou Belli, US Performing Arts
Use TV sitcoms as tool to recognize types of jokes. Do many short exercises for Emmy award-winning directors to hone your rhythm and timing.
4-4:50pm (Design/Talking About Theatre)
LATC Gallery Building a career within the Entertainment Industry
Don Guy, Chapman University
This workshop is intended to answer questions and provide insight into how a designer and/or technician can build a career within the Entertainment Industry.
4-4:50pm (TBD)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A TBD
TBD
Participants Prepare: (TBD)
Friday, Feb 15
9:00-9:50am (Design)
LATC Costume Shop
Microcosm of Theatre Experience
Kirk Stefferud, Freelance Costume Designer
Practical tips and creative ideas for costuming productions for high schools and small community theatres on a budget.
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9:00-10:20am (Devising)
HOTEL Emerald Rm
Devising Words: Creating and Fine-tuning the Devised Text
Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College
This workshop explores strategies for the creation and location of spoken word in devised performance. Students will collaboratively create text with an
ensemble, improvise the ways to sculpt the text, and then play with meanings and multiplicities of a performance script. Students will, at the conclusion have the
opportunity to perform a bit that they have created.
Participants Prepare: Please be prepared to write (paper and pen) and as well be prepared to move with loose fitting clothes and bare feet.
9:00-10:20am (Playwriting/Dramaturgy)
LATC Dance Studio
Myth and Ritual for the Modern Play
Georgia McGill, City University of New York QCC
This workshop will explore the elements of myth and ritual and their application in modern playwriting. Can we create characters and stories that are as immortal
as the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare?
9:00-10:20am (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B An Introduction to the Art of Puppetry
Mark Branner, University of Hawaii, Manoa
This workshop will lead us into the vast ocean of worldwide puppet practice. We push away from the dock, expecting a quick trip. However, the wee ‘rowboatworkshop’ leads us into a boundless sea of disciplines - each with a terrifying depth. We will be lost at sea.. and very happy.
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9:00am-10:20pm (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Focal Length of Performance
Maria Mayenzet, Saddleback College
Learn how to use the focal length of performance when auditioning for film and television. Learn how to make strong choices with nuance, specificity and moment
to moment truth when cold reading for casting directors, directors, producers and network executives. Participants will be filmed and will be able to screen their
work and receive a comprehensive diagnostic.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothing. No flip flops.
10:00am -12:50am (TBD)
LATC Costume Shop TBD
TBD
10:30-11:50am (Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Dance Studio Audition Technique for Musical Theatre Singing Auditions
Mitch Hanlon, California State University, Fullerton
Things you need to know about how to have a successful singing audition from someone who has cast hundreds of shows and worked with dozens of Broadway
legends. Lots of do’s (and a few dont’s) you won’t find elsewhere to give yourself a chance to nail that audition.
Participants Prepare: 6 students will be selected as participants at the beginning of the workshop. Participants should have a short audition selection (16-32
bars only) prepared with music ready for an accompanist). Participants and observers might bring their audition repertoire folder for reference.
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10:30am-11:50am (Playwriting)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Playwriting - How it relates to Film and Television writing
Bernardo Solano, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
A burst of playwriting exercises, leading to sharing of work, discussion and more writing designed to address the question: how does a playwright also work in
film and television?
Participants Prepare: Bring pens and/or pencils and paper. Laptops acceptable, but the paper route is preferable.
10:30-12:20pm (Devising)
HOTEL Emerald Rm Ensemble Devising Techniques
Katharine Noon & Mark Seldis, The Ghost Road Company
Members of The Ghost Road Company will lead an intensive workshop in our development process, exploring tools the company uses in developing devised
performance. Participants will engage in exercises involving the creation of language, imagery, character, and story. Physical in nature, the participants will be
guided through a condensed version of Ghost Road’s process of adaptation and storytelling.
Participants Prepare: Clothes you can move in. Bring an image in response to the prompt “Five Years From Now.”
11:00am-11:50am (Playwriting)
LATC Costume Shop
The Voice of the Playwright - finding it, hearing it, developing it
Kathleen Cahill, Playwright
A workshop for young writers which focuses on learning how to develop an individual voice: how to think about the sound of your work, how to hear it and hone it.
How does “voice” affect content? Is it a function of content? Is voice like “style.” What is “style” in playwrighting?
Participants Prepare: If possible, bring a sample of your work. We will be doing writing during the workshop.
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11:00am-12:50pm (Devising)
The Red Square: Devising Work for Actors and Directors,
through the Contemplative Dance Practice of Barbara Dilley
Barret Ogden, Utah Valley University
Explore strategies of devising work, building ensemble, and examining one’s personal visual expressive palette through the Red Square form, as developed by
Contemplative Dance Practice pioneer Barbara Diley, and adapted by one of her former students, Barrett Ogden. A noteworthy influence on development of The
Viewpoints, Barbara’s work has been drawn upon by actors, directors, and theatre makers to create a wide range of work, fine tune awareness, and open to the
present moment in performance. “Begin again and again. Use everything.” - Gertrude Stein
Participants Prepare: Yoga pants or sweats. optional yoga mats with sitting cushions
Noon -12:50pm (Taking about Theatre)
LATC Costume Shop What We Do Together Makes a Difference
Timothey Sullivan, Broadway Cares
Learn how Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has empowered college theatre students nationwide to raise money for a variety of causes. Simply by doing what
you love, you can help men, women and children across the country or across the street.
Noon - 1:20pm (Stage Movement)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B Wake up your body and Mind with Character Mask and Effort/Shape
Tracy Williams, MiraCosta College
A fresh way to wake up your right brain and increase your movement vocabulary with the exploration of Effort/Shape and Character Mask work.
Participants Prepare: Come dressed to move and willingness to create
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Noon -1:20pm(Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Dance Studio
Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance
12-1:50pm (Acting/Directing/Playwriting/Dramaturgy)
HOTEL Roman Rm “What’s This Play About, Anyway?”
Brandt Reiter, NPP Chair, Region I
A workshop for directors, actors, dramaturgs and playwrights. Learn tools and methodology for approaching a script, breaking it down, and answering that most
critical (and most often overlooked) question: What’s the play really about, anyway?
1-2:20pm (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Commedia and Physical Comedy
Rima Miller
How do you find your funny? This workshop will guide you to your won particular body humor and verbal timing. Exercises include improvisation, physical comedy,
vaudeville, commedia del’ arte. All levels welcome.
Participants Prepare: Easy, comfortable clothes for warm ups - if you have something extra large or extra small or uncomfortable or colorful or something unique
- lots of pockets? Bring it/them for workshop use.
1-2:50pm (Design/Technology)
LATC Costume Shop Hat Tricks: An Introduction to Hat Making
Becca Bailey Klepko, Utah Valley University
A hands on workshop that introduces patterning and constructing a miniature 3-piece hat from buckram. Helpful for costume technicians and craftspeople who
want to gain experience in working with 3-D forms.
Participants Prepare: Regular or leather thimble.
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LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B
Making Frankenstein’s Monster: Ensemble-Created Theatre using Disparate Source Material
Maggie-Kate Coleman, National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center
Get ready to collaborate! Ensemble building exercises lead to the creation of short pieces of theatre devised in groups based on a random assortment of
source material. Participants from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome (performers/directors/dramaturgs/writers, etc.) No experience required, just a
willingness to experiment and interest in collaboration.
Participants Prepare: Wear clothes that they feel comfortable moving in. Avoid jeans, dresses, skirts. No street shoes, but bare feet are fine.
HOTEL Emerald Rm
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Process
Theresa Chavez, About Productions
On the eve of About Productions’ 25th anniversary, Artistic Director Theresa Chavez will share some of the company’s history, values, collaboration strategies and
process in creating it’s acclaimed interdisciplinary theaterworks. Participants will explore text, movement and sound based techniques and exercises to create
short pieces built around the Devised Theatre Project’s prompt: Five Years from Today.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes
2:30-4:20pm (Acting/Directing)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Dance the Scene
Terry Glaser, University of San Diego
Based on the work of Michael Chekhov, Dance the Scene is a physical rehearsal technique that integrates the actor’s mind, body, and emotions into a unified
performing instrument that connects the actor to the character’s inner life, other actors, and the audience with visceral power.
Participants Prepare: Wear clothing that you can move in comfortably and without restriction
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3:00-4:20pm (Playwrighting)
LATC Costume Shop Women Playwrights Initiative
Alma Martinez, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, Risa Brainin, Steve Rothman, National Theatre Conference
The National Theatre Conference is a 75 year old organization that has an invited membership of 125 of the leading professional and academic theatre leaders
of the American Theatre. A number of these members not only live in Southern California but participate in ACTF. The purpose of our WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS
INITIATIVE is to advance the interest of women who seek to write plays for the American Theatre. The workshop will share the current under representative
situation of women playwrights in the American Theatre. Discussion will follow with audience participation to look at ways to improve and create more
opportunities for women playwrights in live theatre both professionally and academically.
3:00-4:50pm (Acting/Talking About Theatre)
LATC Costume Shop Marketing Basics for the Professional Actor
Allison Mosier, The Savvy Actor
The business of acting. Learn the basic tools needed to brand and market yourself as a professional actor to agents and casting directors. We’ll also cover how to
use Social Media to obtain auditions and industry connections.
Participants Prepare: Headshot and resume (If you have one, but not a requirement)
4:00pm - 5:20pm (Playwriting/Dramturgy)
HOTEL Roman Rm Feedback: What is Helpful and Harmful to the Creative Process
Nicholas Pappas
As artists, people always want to offer an opinion on your work. We also want to get opinions on our work. How does one push through all the muck and decide
which feedback is helpful to creating stronger work and what will only debilitate you? This session will offer up a way to both give and recieve feedback that will
make you better artists and, perhaps even more important, better spectators.
Participants Prepare: Participants should have read Romeo and Juliet
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4:30-5:50pm (Playwriting/Dramaturgy/Talking about Theatre)
LATC Costume Shop From Playwrights to Producers - A Discussion of Ten-Minute Play Festivals
Jeanette Farr, Glendale College (CA), National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program
Do you want to learn more about producing new plays? A brainstorm and discussion await for playwrights, actors, directors, and producers of new works. This
discussion and Q&A will help with self-producing of your new play, putting on a festival at your school, and tips for keeping up with professional standards. All
are welcome in the discussion of a true collaborative experience of putting on new works.
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4A Devising with ASTEP
Mauricio Salgado, Artists Striving To End Poverty
ASTEP artists live at the intersection of the Arts and Global Justice. In this workshop, we’ll be building original pieces of Devised Theater using ASTEP’s unique
process-oriented approach. Drawing from your own personal experiences and ideas, a few inspiring prompts and techniques for devising that an ASTEP facilitator
will guide you through, participants will create pieces around a common theme. Wear comfortable clothing and come prepared to jump into the creative process.
Participants Prepare: Movement clothing
5:00-5:50pm (Talking About Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Rm 4B “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About KCACTF
On-site Responses ... And Now Get to Ask.”
Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University
ValLimar Jansen, Freelance Artist
Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright
Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University
KCACTF production responses are critical to the effective theatre experience. Region VIII leadership is committed to improving the quality and educational value of
responses. The purpose of this session is to gather feedback from institutions who have participated in the response process, thereby improving the Respondents
Workshop and the quality of the responses themselves.
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5:30-7:00pm
(Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Dance Studio
Expressive Singing for Musical Theatre Intensive
Mitch Hanlon, California State Unversity, Fullerton
Are you an actor afraid of singing? Are you a singer who doesn’t get the musical roles you think you’re right for? This workshop is for you. Unleash the actor in your
singing! Use these specific tips and techniques to improve your song performance now!
Participants Prepare: 3, possibly 4 individuals will be chosen as participants at the beginning of the workshop. Participants should wear performance (or
audition) attire, and bring their musical theatre repertoire book with them with two different songs ready to sing (and music prepared for an accompanist.)
No requirements for observers.
Saturday, Feb 16
9-10:20am (Acting/Stage Movement)
LATC Dance Studio Freeing the Actor through Mask Work
Ginny Davis, Fort Lewis College
The hands-on workshop will explore a series of techniques designed for freeing the actors body and imagination through masked play.
Participants Prepare: Clothing that is non-restrictive for movement.
9-10:20am (Design/Technology)
LATC Gallery
Design/Tech Portfolio Review
Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino
Student Designers bring your portfolios and share them with our national and regional design respondents. This will provide the student with an opportunity to
receive feedback about their work from other professional designers.
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9-10:20am (Acting/Directing)
An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare
Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College
Drawing on the vocal principles of Hart, Rodenberg, and Linklater, the physical techniques of Laban, Meyerhold, Bogart, and text-in-action exercises, the workshop will
help actors unlock one of Shakespeare’s rhythmic, verse speeches. A highly physical and vocal warm-up will complement the actor’s ability to “physicalize” the potential of
Shakespeare’s language.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable fitting clothing to move around.
9-10:50am (Design)
LATC Costume Shop
“Chopped” - The Design Process
Brian Healy, Utah Valley University
Inspired by the hit television cooking show, “Chopped,” students will have their conceptual design skills pushed to their innovative limits with two timed rounds of
prompted creation. Each group will be presented with a theme and a “box of items” from which they must create a unified, innovative visual representation of their design
concept. Will you win, or will you be chopped?
Participants Prepare: There is potential to get very messy. Dress accordingly.
9-10:50am (Acting)
Improv for Actors
Bill Applebaum, Actors Improv Studio
Improvisation is an essential tool helping actors make strong creative choices by trusting one’s instincts. Improv is not just about being clever or creating comedic
sketches. Trust your gut and speak the truth onstage.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes to move in
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10:30-11:20am (Acting/Design)
LATC Gallery
The Correlation Between Costume Design and Creating a Character as an
Actor: How Performance can be enhanced with appropriate rehearsal attire
Royce Herron, Glendale Community College (CA)
Both actors and costume designers use the same play analysis techniques to do their jobs. Because clothing is such an integral part of a character’s personality,
collaborating with the costumer to find appropriate rehearsal clothing can enhance an actor’s physical performance. It also helps the costumer to ensure that the
actor has everything he needs - pockets, easy fasteners, etc.
10:30-11:50am (Stage Movement)
LATC Dance Studio
Out of Your Head into Your Body
Jerry Prell, California State University, Long Beach
This fast paced, fun movement workshop will focus on energy flow, ensemble building, action/reaction, and following the intuitive physical self.
Participants Prepare: Clothing and footwear to move in
10:30-11:50am (Acting)
The Actor’s Voice...A Vocal Tune-up
Harriet Pehde, Elocution Solution
An actor’s voice is his instrument and it needs constant tuning. We will demonstrate and provide exercises for developing: good support for the voice, correct
placement, proper resonance, good projection and how to take care of your voice.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes
11:00-11:50am (Management/Technology)
LATC Costume Shop
Regional Theater Production Management
Christy Weikel, Center Theatre Group
What does a regional theater Production Manager do? Want to become a Production Manager? A bit of production management exposed in this round table
workshop.
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11:00-12:50am (Acting/Directing/Dramaturgy)
Greek to Me: Contemporary Acting and Directing
Techniques for Approaching Ancient Texts
Ian Belton, University of Hawaii, Manoa
The workshop is a hands-on, practical introduction to performing Classical Greek Drama. Through voice and movement techniques rooted in both primordial and postcolonial World Theater, participants will be given basic tools as potential starting points for their own exploration.
Participants Prepare: Required are monochromatic t-shirts (no logos or imprints) and track pants or sweatpants (no shorts, no jeans, no shoes, no socks). Recommended
to bring a bottle of water and a small towel. All participants should be prepared to move, speak, recite and partner with others. Please notify me in advance if any
participants have specific needs or physical challenges that would effect their involvement.
11:30-12:50pm (Talking about Theatre)
LATC Gallery
Everything about CSU Summer Arts
John Mayer, California State University, Stanislaus
An introduction to CSU Summer Arts presented by John Mayer. GOOD TIMES!!!! Scholarship opportunities!
12:00-12:50pm (Management)
LATC Costume Shop
Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Applying for Arts Management Jobs and Internships
Camille Schenkkan, Center Theatre Group
Whether you’re seeking a first internship or have your Masters, you need to submit a professional, competitive application. Learn tips & tricks to land your dream position
from Center Theatre Group’s intern coordinator.
Participants Prepare: If you have a resume, please bring it to reference during the session.
12:00-1:50pm (Acting/Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Dance Studio
Acting the Song
Kitty Balay, VASTA/PCPA Theaterfest
Find ease and connection to your song by focusing on your breath and intention.
Participants Prepare: Bring a recording of your accompaniment on an mp3 device.
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LATC Theatre 4
Auditioning for Musical Theatre
David Tinney, Utah Valley University
Principles of song preparation and performance for musical theater. Topics include: song choice, castability, cutting a song, breaking down a song as a scene/
monologue.
Participants Prepare: Participants should be prepared with their best 90 second musical theater selection to be coached in front of the group.
So What’s with all the shaking? An introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework
Scott Mackenzie, Westminster College
Fitzmaurice is a dynamic method of voicework rooted in the effective use of the breath to help the actor physically, psychologically, and emotionally understand
and make the best use of his or her vocal abilities.
Participants Prepare: Dress to move. Plan to work without shoes.
1:00-2:50pm (Playwriting/Musical Theatre & Dance)
Musicals from Scratch: An Introduction to Writing Musical Theatre
Maggie-Kate Coleman, National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
We will cover the basics of structure and song form, rhyme, scansion, and prosody, learn techniques for brainstorming and generating ideas for new musicals,
and get started on writing your first lyric! No experience necessary.
Participants Prepare: A notebook and something to write with.
2:00-2:50pm (Playwriting)
LATC Costume Shop
How to Pitch Your Play: Writing the Synopsis
Jami Brandli, Lesley University
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write several types of synopsis for your full-length plays. This will not only help you apply to development programs and query
theaters, it will help you verbally pitch your play on the spot. Choose one full-length play you want to pitch and come ready to write.
Participants Prepare: Bring something to write with and on: a laptop, tablet, or paper and pen
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LATC Dance Studio
Kicking Your Acting Technique Up a Notch
Jerry Prell, California State University, Long Beach
Participants will learn and practice Michael Chekhov/George Shdanoff acting technique focusing on the energies of Fire, and Lightness and Ease. Manifesting these
essential acting energies will fill auditions, rehearsals and performances with radiance, focus, control, and passion. Fire, Lightness and Ease releases the power to sustain
the actor through the physical and mental endurance necessary to work on stage and sound stage.
Participants Prepare: Clothing to move in.
2:00-3:50pm (Acting/Directing/Stage Movement)
LATC Theatre 4
Acted Aggression or Why Fight?
Steve Rankin, Professional Fight Director
Creating the illusion of reality combined with safety in execution equals a stage fight activity. But the very first thing we must understand is ‘’Why am I fighting?” In this
workshop we will explore how and why an actor in a scene might be motivated to resort to the physical activity needed to create the illusion of a violent activity.
Participants Prepare: Loose clothes, knee pads and sensible shoes. No bare feet.
3:00-4:20pm (Playwriting)
LATC Costume Shop
Playwriting for Children: Choose Your Own Adventure in History or Science
Eileen Nagle, Utah Valley University
Using the Choose Your Own Adventure book series format, participants will take a period in history and write an audience interactive play. Each major choice has 2
solutions, he audience makes the choices.
Participants Prepare: Pens, pencils and paper.
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3:00-4:20pm (Acting/Stage Movement)
Say It ... As if Your Life Depended on It!
Kitty Balay, VASTA/ PCPA Theaterfest
Do you feel self-conscious about vocal choices? Discover powerful and dynamic vocal activation. We’ll use a familiar text and lots of imagination. It’s already in
you. We’re going to let it out. Be prepared to move.
Participants Prepare: Wear comfortable clothes for movement. We will be on the floor
Michael Chekhov Acting Technique
John Hugo
An introduction and exploration of the principles and applications of Michael Chekhov Technique. Students will learn new tools they can begin using right away,
and have an overview of this inspiring and potent technique.
Participants Prepare: Participants should wear loose clothing and be prepared to move and sweat. No hard shoes please.
LATC Dance Studio
Voice for the Actor: Finding your Voice with Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Cynthia DeCure, California State University, Los Angeles
An introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework® technique with an emphasis on exploring the vibration and resonance of your authentic voice and the potential to
unlock its power.
Participants Prepare: Clothes you can move in, not too baggy. Please bring a towel or yoga mat. Participants should bring 4-6 lines of a Shakespeare text to use
in the vocal exploration.
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LATC Dance Studio
The Power of the Close-Up: Personalization On-Camera
Marilyn McIntyre, Howard Fine Acting Studio
The focus will be on the “Close-Up” ... letting the camera come to you. Actors often worry about the transition from acting on-stage to acting on-camera when, in fact,
personalization is the foundation for both. Thoughts and feelings are fleeting and the camera sees it all. The personalization, specificity and authenticity required will only
improve your work on-stage.
Participants Prepare: A small personal object that has a specific significance to you and/or a piece of music that also has some kind of impact personal significance to
you. This must be on an Ipod, mp3 player or a smartphone. If you have a portable speaker dock, feel free to bring it. A prepared short (60 sec.) monologue (or section of a
monologue) that is age and type appropriate. Bring an extra copy of the script.
4:00-5:20pm (Acting/Directing/Stage Movement)
LATC Theatre 4
An introduction to Ann Bogart’s Viewpoints
bree valle, Cuesta College
This workshop leads participants through the 6 viewpoints of time and space, as articulated by Bogart, and will explore the Viewpoints through grid-work, the flow, and
lane-work, culminating in Open Viewpoints. the workshop is physically intense but allows actors, directors, designers, musicians , and choreographers to create a common
language and practical methodologies for staging new work and engendering flexible and spontaneous ensemble playing.
Participants Prepare: Clothing that does not restrict movement
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4:30-5:50pm (TBD)
TBD
TBD
LATC Dance Studio
The Art of Acting Studio Scene Study Workshop
Don Williams, Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC
This workshop aims to give students a taste of the core principles and techniques taught at both the Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City and our sister
school the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles. The workshop is fully self-enclosed and requires that students bring only themselves and their imagination to
participate. The students will write and perform scripts created in class. Through these scripts concepts on imagination, action, creative flexibility, character
and relationship are explored. This is a full participation workshop for all participants.
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ACTING & DIRECTING
IRENE RYAN FOUNDATION ACTING SCHOLARSHIP
Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional
festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan, who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and
feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associate productions are eligible for consideration
for the $500 regional scholarships
The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further
education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional awards and two national scholarships annually. There are two scholarships of $3,500
each for the winners at the national festival in Washington, D.C.
The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to
pay tuition and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts.
Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level. The list of
participants continues to expand each year and the auditions are now undoubtedly one of the most exciting educational and artistic opportunities
for student actors in the country..
Thursday, February 14th—
Friday, February 15th—
7:00 am - 9:00 pm
8:00a - 8:45a
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 1 Check in
Bernard’s
Theatre 3
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room A
9:00a - 12:00p
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 1
Gold Room
Theater 3
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room B
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 2 Check in
Emerald Room
Theater 3
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Round 2
Gold Room
Theater 3
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Emerald Room
Saturday, February 16th—
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 1
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Gold Room
9:00a - 6:00p
IRENE RYAN - Finals Rehearsal
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Theatre 1
Emerald Room
6:30p - 7:30p
IRENE RYAN - Check In and Warm Up
Theatre 1
7:30p - 10:00p
IRENE RYAN - Finals
Theatre 1
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IRENE RYAN - Check In & Warm Up
IRENE SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION SELECTORS
Preliminary Room
Preliminary Room
Semi – Final Round:
Final Round:
Round A:
Round B:
Mary Lou Belli
Rebecca Hilliker
Scott Mackenzie
Shelly Elman
Bill Applebaum
David Razowsky
Marilyn McIntyre
Allison Mosier
Thomas Miller
Adam Shapiro
Jon Lawerance Rivera
Suanne Spoke
FACULTY TIMERS FOR IRENE RYAN ROUNDS:
Virginia Ludders
OPEN JAR INSTITUTE MUSICAL THEATRE AUDITIONS
New York City’s most Broadway-integrated actor training program, The Open Jar Institute provides select students intensive one-on-one training
with some of Broadway’s biggest stars, performers, directors, choreographers, agents and casting directors. Open Jar Productions will be
attending four regional festivals offering one KCACTF scholarship to their summer institute through these auditions.
11:30 am - 12:50 pm Friday, February 15th
Workshop – Broadway Audition Noon – 1:20pm
Workshop – Broadway Audition
Bootcamp: Dance
Bootcamp: Dance
LATC, Rehearsal Room 5C
2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Workshop – Broadway Audition 2:30pm - 5:20pm
AUDITIONS - Open Jar Musical Theatre
Bootcamp: Dance
NPP AUDITIONS FOR 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
Want to help bring a new play to life? Want to perform live at the Festival? Join a creative team of artists from different schools to workshop and
perform a concert reading of a student–written 10-minute play. Faculty directors collaborate intensively with student playwrights, dramaturgs,
actors, and stage managers to develop scripts and perform a live concert reading during the Festival. Synopses, character descriptions, audition
sides, and audition forms are available at the festival website (www.kcactf-8festivalinfo.org/) and at the audition table at the Festival. Select your
plays and go audition between Irene Ryan rounds.
10:00a - 2:30p
10 Minute Plays – Auditions & Callbacks
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles – Mezzanine Level Rooms
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Devised Theatre Projects Interviews/Sign-ups
As part of the KCACTF initiative to educate and support devised work, Region VIII is proud to host professional Devising Guest Artists to work
hands-on with students during the festival in the creation of an original theatre piece. The devised theatre piece will be showcased/performed on
the last day of the festival, Saturday, 16 February at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Theatre 3 from 2:00 to 4:30.
Students wanting to participate with Guest Artists will need to audition/interview and be placed with Guest Artists on Thursday, February 14, at the
Host Hotel, the Millennium Biltmore in the Mezzanine Level Rooms rooms between 10:00am and 1:00pm. After placement students will work with
the Guest Artist in creating the rehearsal schedule and process.
10:00a - 2:30pm
Devised Theatre Projects -- Interviews/Auditions
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles – Mezzanine Level Rooms
SDC Directing Initiative
The future of American theatre rests in the hands of the next generation of directors. Working with actors, breaking down a script, and creating
stage pictures while bringing a play to life are only a few of the challenges. As directors develop their aesthetic, they need to be exposed to a variety
of styles and opinions on what makes great theatre. It is for these reasons that KCACTF, in partnership with the Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society, sponsors the SDC Student Directing Initiative. The directors will present scenes, observe critical responses by professionals in the field, and
participate in workshops Thursday - Saturday.
Regional finalists will present scenes and interview with a panel of professional directors. One student director will be selected to represent Region
VIII at the KCACTF National Festival in April.
SDC Student Directing Respondents
Bart DeLorenzo
9:00a - 11:00a
Rebecca Hilliker
Directing Scenes
Jessica Kubzansky
LATC, Theatre 4
11:00p - 12:30p
PRESENTATION - SDC Student
RESPONSE - SDC Student
Directing Scenes
LATC, Theatre 4
Student Directing Observership of New Plays
KCACTF, the Region VIII Student Directing program, and NPP are pleased to sponsor an opportunity for student directors (graduate or
undergraduate) to observe professional NPP directors during the new play development process. Although this opportunity is offered as a silent
observership, mentoring and assisting opportunities between NPP and student directors may arise at the discretion of the NPP director, depending
upon availability of the participants involved. Selected directors will be invited to observe the process of directing a reading of a new play from
the start of the process (prior to festival) through the completion of the staged reading at festival.
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The Design, Technology & Management Exhibition gives outstanding student designers regional recognition and the opportunity to exhibit their work at the
Regional Festival, as well as the chance to attend the KCACTF National Festival or the USITT conference. Throughout festival the designs will be critiqued by
theatre professionals on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques.
National KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence and Allied Design and Technology Award
The purpose of the KCACTF response and presentation of awards is to provide student designers and technicians with feedback from professionals working in
the field; to give outstanding student designers and technicians national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for outstanding student designers to exhibit
their work at the Kennedy Center and/or USITT. Designs and other allied crafts will be appraised on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and visual
presentation techniques.
Any student may take part in the KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence, KCACTF Allied Design and Technology Award and/or the KCACTF Stage
Management Fellowship Program, as long as their school has entered at least one associate or participating entry during the festival year. All entries must have
been realized and produced at their home institution. Participants must attend their regional festival, and display the materials and documentation of their
design process and execution.
One regional award recipient – a national finalist – in each area (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and allied crafts) will be announced at the regional festival.
National finalists in scenery, costumes, lighting and sound will be invited to exhibit their design display, and will attend, the national festival in Washington, D.C
in April. Each Allied Design and Technology regional award recipient will be invited to exhibit their design display and attend the annual USITT Conference.
Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Awards for Excellence in Technology and Design
The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas has partnered with KCACTF to award students from each region a one-week master class in the area of their choice. SILV
classes may include Computer Drafting, Computer Modeling, Rigging, Automation, Props & SFX, Sound, Makeup & Masks, Wigs, Lighting Technology, Patterning,
Projections & Video, and Moving Lights.
Each award includes a full tuition grant, housing, daily breakfast and lunch. Transportation is not included.
Regional Internships
At each regional festival, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of allied
theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient.
KCACTF Allied Design and Technology SILV Award
At each national USITT conference, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of
allied theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient of an eight-week scholarship with SILV.
Focal Press Rafael Jaen Show Case Award
This recognition is dedicated to students presenting their work for the first time as a regional entry at the Design, Technology & Managements exhibit in each
KCACTF region. The award honors design substance and innovative ideas and is meant to inspire young DTM practitioners encouraging their learning in the
Design, Technologies and Management fields. Award recipients receive a FPRJ certificate, a Focal Press credit to purchase three (Focal Press) books of their
choice, and an opportunity to have their work represented in the digital display at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo. The award is for regional entries rather
than the national Barbizon and KCACTF entries.
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DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT
DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION
Regional Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence in Scenery, Costume, Lighting, Sound, Makeup, Properties and Technical Direction.
Regional Design Projects
Regional Design Projects are intended to serve Region VIII student designers with the opportunity to showcase their work for non-realized design projects, and
to receive response to their work that will help them improve their design skills and grow as designers. There will be two entry divisions: Undergraduate and
Graduate. All entrants must be currently enrolled students of colleges and universities in Region VIII at the time of the festival. Categories of entry include Scene
Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Makeup Design and Sound Design. (Wig/Hair Designs may be included as a Makeup Design entry, and Projection/Media
Designs may be included under either Scenic or Lighting Design)
National Stage Management Fellowship
Finalists are selected from throughout the region and informed prior to Festival. Each of the eight KCACTF regions will select on Stage Manager to be awarded a
fellowship to attend the national festival.
Selection will be based on the following: professionalism and completeness of the prompt script and other paperwork; effectiveness of coordinating and
managing a festival event, based on the respondent’s feedback from the regional event coordinator; personal demeanor and communication skills, based on
interviews and follow-up workshops; and written material, submitted prior to the Regional Festival.
FESTIVAL DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT SELECTORS
Ann Closs-Farley, Red Colegrove, Chris Gees, MC Friedrich, Caitlin Lainoff, Cricket Myers, Tom Ontiveros
DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, February 13th
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lighting/Sound Designer Presentations
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
LOAD IN - Design Exhibits
LATC Gallery
LATC Lobby
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Stage Management Orientation
LATC Founders Room
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Design Exhibit open for public viewing
Shepherd Union Ballroom A
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Design Paper Projects Response
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
LATC Lobby
LATC Lobby
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Stage Management Response 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Costume/Makeup Designer Presentations
LATC Costume Shop
LATC Gallery
1:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Design/Tech General Response
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
LATC Gallery
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Stage Management Fellowship Interviews
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
LATC Vault
LATC Gallery
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
LOAD OUT Design Finals
LATC Lobby
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
LATC Lobby
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Scenery/Properties Designer Presentations
LATC Gallery
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Region VIII forwards two plays to the national office for consideration for The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, which promotes the writing and
production of new plays while honoring and perpetuating the memory of David Mark Cohen, Professor of Playwriting, University of Texas–Austin. KCACTF will
present this award to a student or a working playwright whose play is premiered and produced by a college or university theatre program. The selected playwright
will receive a $1,000 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, possible publication by Dramatic Publishing Company, and up to $500 to defray travel
and expenses to attend a script–in–hand reading at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s annual August conference..
DAVID MARK COHEN AWARD NOMINEES
Traces of Utopia by Bruce Goodrich, California State University-Fullerton
A Second Birth by Ariel Mitchell, Brigham Young University
JOHN CAUBLE SHORT PLAY AWARD
Region VIII forwards two student-written one-act plays to the national office for consideration for invitation to the national festival and further competition for the
The John Cauble Short Play Award. It is named for Dr. John Cauble, Professor Emeritus of UCLA, who provided guidance and support for the establishment of the
Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program. The winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, and a professional
development opportunity designed specifically for the winning playwright.
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM ONE-ACTS READINGS
(in alphabetical order)
Germs and Viruses by Kirt Shineman, Arizona State University
Top Billing by Cliff Clinton, Chapman University
Director: Lou Clark, Arizona State University
Director: Matthew Bokuniewicz, Chapman University
Description: An Arab country, similar to Syria, is ready for a new leader. Will
Description: The son of a famous stand-up comedian prepares to speak at his
the country return to its dictator, anti-American regime, or is it time for a
father’s funeral, and while struggling to find the words, he begins to see his father
democracy? Seban, a blogger, begins to rally her readers, and, like a virus, a
in a new light through the eyes of his father’s comic friends.
pro-democracy up-rising grows. Yet, Seban isn’t the cure her country thinks
she is.
ALTERNATE:
Death & Dying by LeShawn Holcomb, California State University-Fullerton
Three Little Piggies: Walter Gaines, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Three Little Piggies.
One-Act Play Respondents:
Director: Mark Branner, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jami Brandli, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter
Description: Storytime. An estranged father realizes it is his turn to put his
daughter to beddy-bie. She has chosen “the Three Little Pigs” for the 200th
time. A harried father attempts to get his daughter to sleep by racing through
the story, only to have her ask “why?” after “why?” The father becomes more
and more frustrated with his daughters’ delays, until he finally decides to
answer her by “scaring her to sleep”. It backfires as the wolf comes to life,
devours the pigs, and attempts to engulf his daughter. A cautionary tale about
fatherhood & the disintegration of innocence.
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PLAYWRITING, DRAMATURGY & CRITICISM
THE DAVID MARK COHEN NATIONAL PLAYWRITING AWARD
The KCACTF National Ten–Minute Play Award
Region VIII will forward two student–written 10–minute scripts from our Ten–Minute Play Festival for consideration for an invitation to the national festival.
A panel will read the sixteen regional winners and pick a play and three finalists to invite to the national festival in April (four playwrights in total). Those four
plays will again be presented as staged readings in the Kennedy Center Theatre Lab with casts made up of the national Irene Ryan acting scholarship finalists
or professional actors. The outstanding Ten–Minute Plays for each region (eight regions, sixteen plays) may be published by Dramatic Publishing Company. The
winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, and an Active Dramatists Guild membership.
Black Hair Diaries by Yasmin Madadi & Tonye Doukpolagha,
The Shoelace by Chelsea Hickman, Brigham Young University
University of California-Riverside
Director: Carol Damgen, California State University-San Bernardino
Director: Rachel Tracie, Azusa Pacific University
Description: In ten minutes, you can sort the laundry. You can pay the bills.
Description: A documentary play on the politics of good hair, bad hair, and
You can even take a moment to think or relax. Time has a way of slipping by,
hairiness. Based on over 30 interviews, this collection of monologues digs up
but we choose what to do with it what we may. For Emily and Mitch, the last
questions on race, hair, and femininity.
ten minutes of their relationship encapsulates questions of God’s reality, what
the word “faith” means, and ultimately, if they should remain together.
Christmas for June by Jillian Pagan, California State University-Los Angeles
Director: Matt Omasta, Utah State University
Tattoo You by Lisa Kenner Grissom, Lesley University
Description: June awakens to find her long-lost Mother in her apartment, waiting
Director: Jennifer S. Holmes, Whittier College
to give her mysterious gifts to make up for having missed the last few years’ worth
Description: When two women meet in the bathroom at their 20th high school
of Christmases.
reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some
scars don’t fade away.
Loving Icarus by Emma de Beus, Columbia University
Director: Shad Willingham, California State University Northridge
Description: Falling in love is scary. Wanting more, afraid to lose yourself even
when there’s so much to be gained.
Play Date by Sofya Weitz, Loyola Marymount University
Director: Chris Cannon, Santa Ana College
Description: Celia likes Logan. She likes him a lot. She may be a little
unconventional in how she displays her affections, but when she cooks up a plan
to trick Logan into dinner alone with her, things, as they often tend to, do not go as
planned. In the process, Celia desperately uses her strange yet endearing qualities
to win Logan, and us, over.
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Ten-Minute Play Respondents:
Jami Brandli, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter
THE NAPAT PLAYWRITING AWARD
Region VIII will forward one student-written play for consideration for the NAPAT Playwriting Award, an expense-paid trip to a NAPAT Workshop in Las Vegas.
REGIONAL NOMINATION FOR NATIONAL PARTNERS
OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE PLAYWRITING AWARD
Mirrors by LeShawn Holcomb, California State University-Fullerton
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, February 14th –
Friday, February 15th –
8:30 am - 10:00 am
10 Minute Plays –
7:30p - 9:30p
PERFORMANCE - NPP One-Acts
Creative Team Orientation
LATC Theatre 3
Corinthian/ Roman Rooms
10:00 pm - 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays – Auditions & Callbacks
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
PERFORMANCE & RESPONSE -
Mediterranean & Cordoban Rooms
10 Minute Play Festival
2:30 am - 4:30 pm
10 Minute Plays – Casting
LATC Theatre 3
Cordoban Room
DRAMATURGY & JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
LMDA/KCACTF STUDENT DRAMATURGY AWARD
The LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award recognizes student dramaturgs’ contributions to theatre production and educational projects in dramaturgy at their
colleges and universities. It comes through collaboration between Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and the Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), with additional support from the Association for Theatre in Higher Eduction (ATHE).
The Regional Fellowship recipient will receive membership in LMDA, an all-expense-paid residency at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in mid-April,
and multi-day workshops with leading artists in both production and new-play dramaturgy. Recipients of the National LMDA/KCACTF Fellowships receive
residencies with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, or the Kennedy Center/National New Play Network’s MFA Playwrights’
Workshop in the summer.
Region VIII Festival response to the student dramaturgs’ projects will take place on Friday, February 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Lobby of the Los
Angeles Theatre Center. Each entrant will present and discuss his or her work and receive verbal feedback from the respondents. This session is open to the
public, and we encourage all to attend.
Wednesday, February 13
Friday, February 15
5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
LOAD IN—DTM & Dramaturgy Exhibits
9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Interview/Response: LMDA/KCACTF LATC Lobby
Dramaturgy Fellowship
LATC Lobby
Saturday, February 16
DRAMATURGY RESPONDENTS
4:00–6:00 p.m.
LOAD OUT DTM & Dramaturgy Exhibits
LATC Lobby
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Maggie-Kate Coleman and Nicholas Pappas
PROGRAM NOTE AWARD
The Program Note Award recognizes the work of student dramaturgs who write engaging, informative program notes for participating or associate KCACTF
entries during this festival year (January-December 2012). Entrants submit an application form, as well as a copy of the note as it appeared in the program of a
participating or associate status production. Please come and read the participants’ work in the Lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
THE INSTITUTE FOR THEATRE JOURNALISM & ADVOCACY
(Formerly the National Critic’s Institute Scholarship)
The Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy offers a scholarship for an outstanding student critic to work with professional theatre critics and arts writers
at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, each summer. At all eight KCACTF Regional Festivals, nominated student critics write critiques of
plays performed at the festival. One finalist is selected from each region to compete at the national level. The national winner attends the Eugene O’Neill Center
during the national writing conference in July, working with leading professional newspaper, magazine, and new-media critics from across the United States. All
expenses will be paid.
During our regional festival, student critics learn from peers and professional critics. They attend shows and write critiques in traditional and new media, and
critique their critiques together in a seminar setting.
Thursday, February 14
10:00 a.m. - 11:50 pm
Journalism Workshop, Part 1
HOTEL Roman Room
Friday, February 15
12:00 pm –1:50 pm
Journalism Workshop, Part 2 HOTEL Roman Room
Saturday, February 16
10:00 a.m. - 11:50 pm
Journalism Workshop, Part 3 HOTEL Roman Room
CRITICS INSTITUTE CO-COORDINATORS
& RESPONDENTS
Tony Frankel and Colin Mitchell
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New to KCACTF, this focus on Devised Performance is intended to give space, voice, recognition and credibility to processes and productions which are created
outside the text-based traditions, and which utilize the non-traditional, non-linear, multi-disciplinary and collective tools of creating performance. As we develop
our craft, new perspectives and processes for creating exciting and original theatre emerge. The festival offers significant opportunities to explore devised
performance including working with professional Guest Artists, bringing your own work to the festival, and participating in workshops. In particular, the Devised
Theatre Project will be a great place to learn about the tools, and contribute to the disciplinary conversation.
Saturday, February 16th – Los Angeles Theatre Center
2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Devised Performance Project Theatre 3
Devised Performance Project
TITLE: Five Years from Today
SOME OF THESE PARAMETERS INCLUDE:
• Ensemble will select their sources of inspiration as their creative container (examples: a photograph, a poem, a fictional or non-fictional short story,
a memory, a question, etc.). Ensemble will be asked to clearly articulate how their sources informed process and product, form and content.
• Each ensemble will create a unique performance vocabulary informed by their source materials. This vocabulary should include movement, voice,
visual image, sonic landscape, text and scenic environment and communicate the piece’s style and aesthetic.
Ensemble should consider time restraints and travel considerations. These parameters are designed to form a creative container to spark your
imaginations and deepen your exploration.
Opportunity for Students to Work with Professional Theatre Artists in Creating a Devised Theatre Piece
As part of the KCACTF initiative to educate and support devised work, Region VIII is proud to host professional Devising Guest Artists Theresa Chavez, Rima
Miller, Mark Seldis, Katherine Noon and Rose Portillo. to work hands-on with students during the festival in the creation of an original theatre piece. (Please see
website for the list of Festival Guest Artists: http://www.kcactf-8.org/festival_info_guests.html.)
AUDITIONS/INTERVIEWS TO WORK WITH GUEST ARTISTS:
Students wanting to participate with Guest Artists will need to audition/interview and be placed with Guest Artists on Thursday, February 14, at the Host Hotel,
the Millennium Biltmore in the Mezzanine Level Rooms between 10:00am and 2:30pm. After placement students will work with the Guest Artist in creating the
rehearsal schedule and process.
Workshops and other opportunities in Devised Performance
In addition to the Devised Theatre Project there will be other opportunities to be a part of the Devised Performance programming at the festival. We are
offering workshops that focus on the creating of devised performance including: Making Frankenstein’s Monster, Devising Words, Ensemble Techniques, and
devising with Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP) to name a few.
For more information go to: http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_devised.html. If you have questions please contact Kathryn Moller,
[email protected].
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DEVISED PERFORMANCE
DEVISED PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING
FESTIVAL GUESTS & RESPONDENTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
Bill Applebaum
Bill Applebaum, has served on the SAG Conservatory Board for the last 3 years. He is the founder of Actors Improv
Studio and is a teacher, actor, writer and director. Bill trained and performed at the Chicago Second City Theatre for
5 years, and was a founding member of The Second City ETC Theatre. He studied improvisation with Del Close, Paul
Sills, Sheldon Patinkin, and Jo Forsberg. Bill has used improvisation skills in films, tv, commercials and theater work
including The Victory Gardens Theatre, The Wisdom Bridge Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Matrix Theater, the
Falcon Theatre, and The Saban Theater.
Bill’s approach to teaching improvisation builds on what he learned from the creators of modern improvisation.
Improvisation is more than just being clever or good at playing games. It helps actors activate their imaginations,
and gives them skills to think, write and edit while auditioning and performing. Improvisation makes actors better
performers by training them to trust their instincts and make stronger creative choices. Bill’s philosophy is “Improv is
not an end unto itself, but a means to being a better actor.”
Mary Lou Belli
Mary Lou Belli is an Emmy Award winner producer, writer, and director. On BET, she has just fished directing
“Second Generation Wayans”, “Reed Between the Lines,” and “The Game,” the spinoff to “Girlfriends” which she
directed for 7 consecutive seasons. With over 125 episodes to her credit, Mary Lou directed “Monk,” “Living with
Fran” starring Fran Drescher, “Misconceptions” starring Jane Leeves, and “Eve” starring hip hop artist Eve, as well
as “The Hughleys,” “Charles in Charge,” “Major Dad,” and “Sister, Sister.” Mary Lou received BET nominations
for directing “Girlfriends” and “One on One” as well as a Prism Award for “Girlfriends.” She lectures frequently
throughout the United States including many universities such as AFI, NYU, Northwestern, and UConn. She is the coauthor of three books: The Sitcom Career Book and Acting for Young Actors and Directors Tell the Story. She teaches
at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She has served as judge and/or guest speaker for four consecutive years for the
CSU Media Arts Fest, a judge for the Miss America Outstanding Teen Pageant, a jury member at the Sapporo Short
Festival, a lecturer at the Chautauqua Institute, and a panelist for Women In Film, the DGA, SAG, and AFTRA.. She has
been a guest artist at the International Thespian Festival for secondary school theatre where she gave workshops to
thousands of teens and high school theatre teachers. She just finished shooting a web series starring Jennifer Lewis
and Shangela as well as sizzle reel for Funny or Die.
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Jami Brandli
JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include Technicolor Life, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!), The Sinker, M-Theory as well as shorter
works. Her work has been produced and developed at HotCity Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, WordBRIDGE,
Ashland New Plays Festival, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Moving Arts,
Milwaukee Rep, Rogue Machine Theatre, among other venues. She received the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting
Award and Holland New Voices Award and was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and O’Neill National Playwrights
Conference. She is also an ongoing contributing writer for Loyola Marymount University’s productions of “Hidden
Heroes: Service to the World.” In addition, she was a contributing writer for the Elliot Norton Award-Winning
production of PS: Page Me Lager, a finalist for the Disney ABC TV Writing Fellowship and a Visiting Playwright for the
2009 ATHE Conference. Her short plays are published with Smith & Kraus. Jami lives in Pasadena, CA where she’s
at work on scripts for both stage and screen and a novel. For her day job, she teaches dramatic writing at Lesley
University’s low-residency MFA program in Boston. Jami is represented by The Gersh Agency. www.jamibrandli.com.
Kathleen Cahill
Kathleen Cahill’s awards include the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the
Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment
for the Arts New American Works Grant, two Edgerton Foundation Awards and a Drama League Award. Her play
Charm was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award.
Her produced musicals include for The Navigator, Friendship of the Sea, Dakota Sky; an opera, Clara, two opera/
cabarets, Fatal Song, and A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties. She is listed as one of the top
twenty-five songwriters in the new Directory of Musical Theatre Writers. Her plays include the comedy, Course 86B
in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) the comedy,
Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Henri Louise and Henry (Cleveland Public,
Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere,
Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare) and The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack
Rep.) She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express, which opened the Cinema Arts
Festival in Houston and played at the Quad Theatre this spring in New York. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the
Salt Lake Acting Company. For the past decade she has written the introductions presented by Laura Linney and Alan
Cummings on Masterpiece/Mystery on PBS.
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Theresa Chavez
Theresa Chavez is an interdisciplinary theater artist whose work, as writer/director, producer and playwright,
has been seen extensively in Southern California and throughout the U.S., in Canada, and on national television.
She is co-founder and Artistic Director of About Productions, a Los Angeles-based company that creates original
interdisciplinary theaterworks and educational programs that provoke new perspectives on history, humanity, and
culture. The company is dedicated to collaboration in generating new work in order to create artistic and community
dialogue. Over the past twenty-four years this artistic and educational work has focused on uncovering buried cultural
histories, exploring notions of cultural identity and authenticity, voicing new historical points of view, exploring the
human spiritual and creative condition, and defining the relationship between memory, history, and cultural artistic
practice. Chavez’ artistic practice is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature. She has worked with many
different artists from architects to singer/songwriters, and with historians and cultural critics in the realization
of numerous theaterworks. These include the recently premiered, “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe,” a
collaboration with Louie Pérez of Los Lobos and her long-time collaborator writer/actress/director Rose Portillo. Other
recent and notable theaterworks include “By the Hand of the Father,” “On earth as it is in heaven,” “They Shoot
Mexicans, Don’t They?” and “L.A. Real.” She has also collaborated with historian and writer Norman Klein, singer/
songwriters Alejandro Escovedo and Quetzal Flores, new music composer Anne LeBaron, jazz composer/musician
Vinny Golia, choreographer Francisco Martinez, filmmakers Isaac & Jude Artenstein, cinematographer Claudio Rocha,
video artist Janice Tanaka, architect Gustavo Rincon, and experimental lighting designer Noah Riskin. A published
playwright, Chavez is included in “Women Playwrights of Diversity,” a book which describes the work of ninety
women identified by professional theaters or scholars as significant theatre voices. From 1991 to 2007, she directed
and taught in the California Institute of the Arts Interdisciplinary Studies program. In addition to her training as a
dancer and musician, she earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in photography from California Institute of the Arts and an
interdisciplinary B.A. in the social sciences from UCLA.
Ann Closs-Farley
Ann Closs-Farley (Costume Designer) recent credits include Coney Island Christmas, Eric Idle’s What About Dick?,
The Pee-wee Herman Show: Broadway, Disney’s Toy Story: The Musical, An Evening Without Monty Python, Gronholm
Method, Beat Goes On, Cabaret of Souls, Around The World in 80 Days, Margo Veil, Pinocchio,Girls Talk, Having It
All, The Fool and The Red Queen, Naked Before God, and Land of the Tigers. She has received multiple Ovation
Awards but most recently for Ken Roht’s 99-Cent Only Calendar Girl Competition and Center Theatre Group’s Richard
E. Sherwood Award. Ann has received L.A. Weekly and Garland Awards for her work on Bat Boy: The Musical, When
Tigers Smoked Long Pipes, and Echo’s Hammer, among many others. Closs-Farley is a long time member of the Los
Angeles Actors’ Gang and evidEnce room companies. She currently styles the World Poker Tour on television, is an Art
Director for Big Machine Productions and teaches costume design for the La Opera, CTG, The HeArt Project, Turning
Pages and local Los Angeles Elementary and High Schools. Her favorite title is Designer and stylist for Pee Wee
Herman. She is currently designing two shows for over seas and is excited about the challenges and adventures this
new year has in store for her.
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Red Colegrove
RED COLEGROVE has been working with Los Angeles theatres to achieve their technical goals since 2000, providing
his experience and expertise in a community that feels more like family to him than employment. After graduating
from the Los Angeles Theatre Academy, he spent 2 summers at the Santa Fe Opera. Following SFO he served as
Technical Director for The Colony Theatre, and later The Rubicon Theatre. He has worked for dozens of theatres
in multiple capacities from design and construction to financial planning and touring. Red was the senior project
manager for G&G Design Associates until 2008 when he decided to open his own set construction company, Grove
Scenery. Since branching out on his own, he has built scenery for A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre, The Colony,
Celebration Theatre, International City Theatre, Circle X, Playwright’s Arena, Cabrillo Music Theatre, The Rubicon,
The Odyssey, NoHo Art Center, The El Portal, The Falcon, UCLA Medical Center, The Odyssey, The Groundlings and
many more. Along with moving Grove Scenery forward, Red runs the Design Shop for the Art Institute of California Hollywood, instructing students in set construction, furniture design and fabrication.
Maggie-Kate Coleman
Maggie-Kate Coleman (Senior Program Representative, National Theatre Institute) A Brooklyn-based theatre artist,
she has written and collaborated on plays, musicals, operas, songs, dance pieces, and multidisciplinary-hard-todefine theatre events. Maggie-Kate’s recent work includes book & lyrics for POP!, last seen at Pittsburgh City Theatre
starring Anthony Rapp as Andy Warhol (music by Anna. K. Jacobs). POP! Is a winner of three Connecticut Critics Circle
Awards, recipient of seven Helen Hayes Award nominations, and a Pittsburgh Tribune Top Ten choice of 2012. Other
recent work includes From a Childhood (music by Erato Kremmyda), and lyrics for Field Trip: A Climate Cabaret, a
devised piece about female climatologists (with Superhero Clubhouse at the Lamont-Dorothy Earth Observatory). Her
work has also been seen at Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, York
Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, New York Theatre Barn, Lincoln Center, and NAMT. Current projects include:
libretto for Lightning Man (music by Jeffrey Dennis Smith, lyrics by Shoshana Greenberg); Lost Things, an original
opera originally developed through New York City Operas Word’s First? Librettist project (with Jeffrey Dennis Smith);
and untitled RAIOACTIVE project, a multidisciplinary work created in collaboration with Erato Kremmyda and Sam
Pinkleton. She is a founder and co-curator of BASTARD PLAYGROUND, a monthly gathering for genre-flexible artists of
live performance soon to be in partnership with The new Drama League Center in TriBeCa. She is a graduate of Ithaca
College, received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s
National Theater Institute.
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Bart DeLorenzo
Bart DeLorenzo is the founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles where he has directed
many local and world premieres over the past 17 years including plays by Charles Mee, David Greenspan, Adam Bock,
Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Martin Crimp, David Edgar, Naomi Wallace, and Edward Bond, among others. His
recent work with the company includes Chekhov’s Ivanov, Len Jenkin’s Margo Veil and Adam Bock’s The Receptionist,
co-productions with the Odyssey. Recent freelance work includes the world premiere of Donald Margulies’s Coney
Island Christmas at the Geffen Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at A Noise Within, Bertolt Brecht’s In The Jungle
Of Cities at Calarts, the world premiere of Justin Tanner’s Day Drinkers at the Odyssey, Karen Zacarias’s Legacy of
Light and Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse, King Lear for the Antaeus Company, Michael
Sargent’s The Projectionist at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and the premieres at South Coast Repertory of Roberto
Aguirre-Sacasa’s Doctor Cerberus and Donald Margulies’s Shipwrecked (later revived at the Geffen Playhouse),
Charles Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica for TheSpyAnts at Inside the Ford, Jean Racine’s Britannicus at Cal Rep, and
Center Theatre Group’s kick-off premiere event of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays all over the Music Center
plaza and on the steps of Disney Hall. He is on the faculty at Calarts. For his work, he has received six LA Weekly
awards, three Backstage Garlands, three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, and is the 2012 recipient of TCG’s Alan
Schneider Director Award.
Shelly Elman
SHELLY ELMAN is a Professor of Theatre at the University of West Georgia, where she’s taught since 1996. She is
currently serving as the Immediate Past Regional Chair for KCACTF Region 4 (the Southeast). Elman has directed over
25 productions while at UWG. She has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1987.
Elocution Solution
Elocution Solution, Ann Geller and Harriet Phede, are certified and licensed speech pathologists with theater
backgrounds. They have worked for over 25 years with voice, diction and accent reduction clients. Harriet and Ann see
students individually at their studio, Elocution Solution, and have presented voice workshops for various groups such
as SAG Conservatory, and museum gallery teachers. They are published authors of an accent reduction program, and
an oral aerobic program for articulation. You can learn more by visiting their website at www.elocutionsolution.com.
Tony Frankel
TONY FRANKEL A graduate of the CSUN Theater Department, Tony Frankel has since worked in the theater as a
producer, director and casting director. He sight-reads piano and has worked as a music director and accompanist,
helping performers to develop cabaret acts. As an actor, he has appeared in over 70 productions. After writing for
Back Stage, he turned to theater criticism in 2008, becoming critic-at-large at Stage and Cinema, for which he is now
Editor-in-Chief. Stage and Cinema critiques theater, film, music, concerts, etc., around the country and currently has
over 35 writers contributing to the site – www.StageandCinema.com. Aside from the arts, Tony has been a community
activist and – being a National Parks fanatic – has experienced 307 of 394 U.S. National Parks.
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M.C. Friedrich
M.C. Friedrich is an associate professor of Design and Technical Theatre at Michigan Tech where she is the
scenographer teaching lighting design, costume design & construction, and scenic design. She has worked for the
Spoleto Festival USA, in Charleston, South Carolina, The Boston Lyric Opera, Massachusetts, and in Philadelphia for
The Philadelphia Company, The Freedom Theatre, and The Drama Guild. She was a scenic artist for the Broadway
bound production, Monday After the Miracle. M.C. is the 2005 Faculty Fellow in lighting for the Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival and is the immediate past Co-Chair of Design, Technologies, & Management for
Region III of the KCACTF. She is active in the Education Commission and Costume Design & Technology Commission
of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. M.C. is the senior editor/chair of the USITT Costume Poster
Session. She is currently on the Board of Directors of USITT Midwest. She has attended industrial short courses in
color technology at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute for Technology, and has adapted color
science theory for theatre design.
chris gees
CHRIS GEES is a veteran in the beauty industry, creating beautiful looks for men and women for over
10 years. With his recent career turn as a personal stylist for dozens of celebrity clients, he is now
blazing a path of success in Hollywood. After honing his skills as a hair and make-up artist in various
salons across northern Florida, he re-located to Los Angeles where he has worked with such talents
as Omarosa, Brandon T. Jackson, Danity Kane, Kim Burrell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Trina McGee, Claudia Jordan,
Olivia Jones, Brittany Russell-Perry, Doug E. Fresh, Yo Yo, Clifton Powell, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams,
Lalah Hathaway and Tiffany Hines just to name a few.
While lending his talents on numerous film and television sets, he has also styled for photo shoots with
The Mecca Girls, Candy Girls, Absolute Vodka, Urban Ink Magazine, DADA Clothing, Wealthy Minds Clothing
and many more. Chris has also been recruited as a stylist for many red carpet events, including the
Academy Awards, the VMAs, the Grammy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the
BET Awards and several film premieres. When The Gees is not busy on location, he enjoys serving his local
clientele at M Studio, 9006 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, California., 850-445-5153.
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Gregg Henry
Gregg Henry (Artistic Director – KCACTF) Recent productions: Theatre Alliance (2012) and Hub Theatre (2011)
Helen Pafumi and Jason Lott’s Wonderful Life, the Kennedy Center- Tom Isbell’s The Mostly True Adventures of
Homer P. Figg (from the Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick), Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major,
Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe (in partnership with the White House Historical Association, with songs
by Mark Russell), Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of
Excalibur, Round House Theatre- Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country, WSC Avant Bard- Julie Jensen’s Two-Headed
and Barbara Field’s adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris
Panych for Metro Stage and You Are Here by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance. Centerstage First Look series: The
North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan
and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Catholic University: Whales by Bob Bartlett, Miranda is Morning by Stephen
Spotswood. He is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences
and is director of the Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. For eleven years, he has
curated and co-produced the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free event at the Kennedy Center,
featuring concert readings and open rehearsals of new work by the theatres in the DC and Baltimore Metro area. For
these Festivals he produced special readings of Marco Ramirez’ A Million Billion Thunders or Where Two Trees Make an
X, Lee Blessing’s The Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The
Three Musketeers, and Treasure Island. He produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in
association with NNPN and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Gregg has acted, directed, and/
or staged the fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received
his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor
at Iowa State University. He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, on the National Advisory
Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA], and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Don Hill
Don Hill has worked in the professional theatre as a stage manager, production manager, director, producer and
union negotiator in a 35 year career spanning both coasts. At the Los Angeles Theatre Center he stage managed
the world premier of Nanawati by William Mastrosimone, starring Bill Pullman. For the Mark Taper Forum, he was
production stage manager for Street of the Sun. Off-Broadway he stage managed Secret Honor produced by Robert
Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall. During his five years as production manager for the Los Angeles Theatre Center
he supervised 66 main stage productions 54 of which were new works. As production manager for inaugural season
of the Geffen Playhouse he worked with such prominent directors as Joe Mantelo on Love, Valor, Compassion and
Adrin Hall on Quills. As Associate Producer for the Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Hill worked with such personalities
as Carol Burnett, Bebe Neuwirth and Elaine Stritch. The higlight of Don’s experience at the LBCLO was creating
with (Tony Award wining producer Barry Brown), the legendary presentation of Company in Concert, with the original
Broadway Cast at Lincoln Center. For 12 years Hill served on the board of LA STAGE ALLIANCE (formerly THEATRE
LA). This organization created the Ovation Awards. Under his guidance, the Ovation Awards show has honored such
theatre greats as Stephen Sonhdiem and August Wilson. Don is currently the Head of the Graduate stage Management
at UCI has been award the Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2009 and 2012.
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Rebecca Hilliker
Dr. Rebecca Hilliker is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance where she teaches directing and
dramatic literature. She has published numerous articles and reviews for such journals as Theatre Journal, Theatre
History Studies, Within the Dramatic Spectrum, New England Theatre Journal, Nineteenth Century Theatre, and the
Journal of Popular Culture. She has directed over 50 productions during her career and including a co-directed
production of Susan Glaspel’s Trifles for the symposium “Susan Glaspel’s Trifles: Culture, Society and the Law” that
took place in Tel Aviv. Rebecca is former chair for the KCACTF Region VII, has served on the national selection team
and is currently National Chair of KCACTF. She is a strong advocate of supporting new student work and developed
the one-act festivals of original student plays that takes place each year in Region VII. Her production of Acetylene
written by student Erik Ramsey was selected in regional competition as a new student play national winner and
presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rebecca assisted Moises Kaufman in the development of
the play The Laramie Project and appears in the HBO movie of the production both as an actor and character. She is
the recipient of the prestigious Horace Robinson Award from the Northwest Drama Conference for her contributions to
the region as director, educator and leader. She has also received two Kennedy Center Medallions for her service—
one regional and one national and 10 Certificates of Merit for her directing.
John Hugo
John Hugo was the protégé of Jack Colvin, who was the protégé of Michael Chekhov. Colvin’s keen insights, deep
experience with, and applications of Chekhov Technique were unrivalled. Hugo’s training began with private sessions
with Colvin in 1981, and he came to work with Colvin in countless classes, plays, scenes, presentations, workshops,
and taught side-by-side with him at his acting studio until his untimely death in 2005. Since then Hugo has
conducted classes and workshops in Chekhov Technique throughout Los Angeles, and also teaches privately.
Jessica Kubzansky
Jessica Kubzansky is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, CA, and an
award-winning director working nationally in venues such as South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen
Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Silk Road, The Aurora, The Publick, and many
others. At The Theatre @ Boston Court, a great many world premieres: Michael Elyanow’s The Children, Jordan
Harrison’s Futura, Laura Schellhardt’s Courting Vampires, Salamone/McIntyre’s Gulls (a musical adaptation of The
Seagull), Mickey Birnbaum’s Bleed Rail, Carlos Murillo’s Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & 32, Jean-Claude
Van Itallie’s Light, Cody Henderson’s Cold/Tender, plus Williams’ Camino Real and Hare/Brecht’s Mother Courage.
Recently elsewhere: Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Antaeus Co.), The 39 Steps (La Mirada), Julia Cho’s The Language
Archive (East/West); Jen Haley’s Breadcrumbs, Hamlet with Leo Marks, Winter’s Tale (Theater150); Mauritius
(Pasadena Playhouse), The Glass Menagerie, Toys in the Attic, Heartbreak House (The Colony Theatre); Two Gentlemen
of Verona (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Sheila Callaghan’s Kate Crackernuts (24th Street Theatre), world premieres
of Julie Hébert’s Tree (EST/[Inside the Ford]), Bryan Davidson’s War Music (Geffen Playhouse), plus so many more.
Kubzansky, who teaches at UCLA and has her MFA from CalArts, is the recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle’s
Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.
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Caitlin Lainoff
Caitlin Lainoff is an LA based scene designer and puppetry artist who received her MFA from CalArts. She designs
for theater and film in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, among other places. She also teaches a variety of art
classes and special programs at LACMA. She ran an after-school puppetry program at Plaza de la Raza for five years.
Caitli has designed three seasons with the Independent Shakespeare Company in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. At the
Chance Theatre, she designed Jerry Springer: the Opera, which won an Ovation award for best musical in an intimate
space. In Philadelphia, she has designed for the Nice People Theatre Company, InterAct, and Flashpoint Theatre
Company whose production of Slip/Shot was named Top 10 Productions of the Year. This past spring she designed the
Riot Group’s show Sophie Gets the Horns, which premiered in New York and was described as “highbrow and brilliant”
by New York Magazine. Over the fall, she toured two shows to the east coast: Star was part of the Soulographie
project, which took place at La Mama, and Little Zoo, an original toy theater puppet opera, premiered at the University
of Connecticut and went on to perform at Machine Project, Los Angeles.
Scott MacKenzie
Scott A. MacKenzie is an Associate Professor and Director of Theatre at Pennsylvania’s Westminster College and
Vice Chair of KCACTF Region II. Scott earned his MFA in Acting at Michigan State University, Ph.D. from Wayne State
University in Detroit, and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. His acting credits include film, television,
and theatre. Favorite roles include Joe Keller in All My Sons and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Among his
directing credits are: All My Sons, The Subject Was Roses, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, Born
Yesterday and Kiss Me, Kate and the English language premier of The Baker From Madrigal, an adaptation of Spanish
playwright Jose Zorilla’s Traidor, inconfeso y martir. Research and production interests revolve around devising,
adaptation, and theatre of social engagement, and all their possible permutations. While on active duty with the
U.S. Army Reserve, he directed Ron Carlson’s Bigfoot Stole My Wife, the first play produced by personnel working in
Baghdad’s International Zone.
JOHN MAYER
JOHN MAYER is chair of the theatre Department at CSU Stanislaus and coordinates workshops for CSU Summer Arts
with Steppenwolf Classes West and ’Chicago Style Comedy.’ John is a native of Chicago and received his PhD at the
university of Missouri and his MFA in Acting at Western Illinois University. He studied improvisation with Del Close
at Second City, as well as Alan Arkin, Sheldon Patinkin, and Paul Sills. He has worked professionally with the Illinois
Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Snowy Range Summer Theatre.
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Georgia McGill
Georgia McGill is the National Chair for KCACTF’s National Playwriting Program and Chair of the Dept. of Speech
Communication and Theatre Arts at the City University of New York Queensborough Community College. She was a
member of the KCACTF National Selection Team in 2007 and is a former Region II NPP chair. As a writer and director
her interests lie in new plays drawn from ancient mythology. Her latest play, Antigone’s City, premiered in 2011 with
the support of a grant from PSC. Georgia has directed extensively both nationally and internationally.
Marilyn McIntyre
Marilyn McIntyre is an award-winning actor whose extensive stage credits include leading roles on and off
Broadway, regionally and in LA. Among her film credits: Heaven’s Rain (opp. Mike Vogel – Blue Valentine, Miami
Medical), On Holiday (opp. Harry Dean Stanton), Statistics, The Divided, First Daughter (Forest Whitaker, director),
The Ring 2, Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, and the hit shorts George Lucas in Love (Joe Nussbaum, director), and Into
the Unknown. TV credits: GH: Night Shift (recurring guest star), Watch Over Me (series regular), Cold Case, Judging
Amy, X-Files, Profiler, et al, and contract roles on five daytime dramas including. Ms. McIntyre teaches at the Howard
Fine Acting Studio, Ted Brunetti Studio, SAG Conservatory at AFI, and “Elon in LA” (Elon University, NC). She has
taught at the Old Globe/USD MFA Program, USC, UT-Austin, et al. She holds a BFA (UNC School of the Arts) and an
MFA (Penn State). Marilyn studied with Uta Hagen in her LA Master Classes, and is featured on her teaching video
doing Object Exercise #10, “Historical Imagination”. www.MarilynMcIntyre.com
Rima Miller
Rima Miller received her MFA in Theatre from the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) at Harvard University in
Cambridge. She has performed professionally with the A.R.T., and has served as Artist in Residence for the states
of Massachusetts, Ohio and New Mexico. Ms. Miller has also served as the Artistic Director of the Riolama Theatre/
Dance Ensemble, a company dedicated to original devised work including Sketches to my Father, Design for Death,
Dance Salad: a Beauty Pageant for the Attractively Challenged, Fallen Angel, A Call to Prayer, The Hanging Cure, and
Lullaby. Rima has also choreographed and/or directed The Love of Three Oranges for the Santa Fe Theatre Festival,
the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Santa Fe Pro Musica. Rima’s is especially skilled in the style of Commedia dell’
Arte and the creation of comic characters. Ms. Miller’s Guest Director work includes Jonah, an original devised
work at Grinnell College, an adaptation of Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid at Fort Lewis College, and Blood Wedding at
Coe College. Ms. Miller is presently the owner and director of YogaMoves a studio dedicated to healing and arts.
At YogaMoves, Ms. Miller teaches teen comedy theatre where participants create and perform original devised
productions. Aside from her professional work, Rima dedicates a portion of her artistry to under served public school
programming in rural New Mexico.
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Tom Miller
Tom Miller was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway and
Europe. Additionally, he performed with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at
Opryland USA. For over a decade he served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of Indiana
University with a degree in Education. Proud Equity Member since 1983.
Colin Mitchell
Colin Mitchell (actor/writer/director/producer/editor-in-chief) Currently Editor-in-Chief of the popular Los Angeles
Theatre site Bitter Lemons (www.bitter-lemons.com), he has worked professionally in the entertainment industry for
that last 22 years. As an actor he was in the Broadway (Lincoln Center) and National Tour productions of the play
Six Degrees of Separation. Film: Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, LA Confidential, Combination Platter and The
Chocolate War, TV: Star Trek: The Next Generation, and dozens of Off-Broadway and Regional Productions across the
country, including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington D.C. As a writer, Mitchell is a 2003
Paramount Pictures Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellow, Finalist for the 2006 Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman
Award, Finalist for the 2005 Alleyway Theatre Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, Winner of a 2009 Maddy Award for
Outstanding Writing, Nominated for the 1998 ADAA Best Solo Performance Award and Winner of the 1996 Dramalogue
Awards for Acting and Writing. Mitchell has also written comics for Marvel Comics, written, directed and produced
two shorts, Memphis Calling starring Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine), winner of the San Joaquin
International Film Festival Best Short Film and Labor Intensive starring Rich Sommer (Mad Men), as well as having
his first feature, Welcome to September, produced and released through Scarpaci/Kelly Productions. He has written
screenplays for such notable companies as Alcon Entertainment, Automatic Pictures, Keylight Entertainment,
Scarpaci/Kelly Productions, Bee Holder Productions and Wil-Horn Enterprises, and such notable producers as Steve
Wegner (Insomnia, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary, Wicked), Rainn
Wilson (The Office, Juno), Nellie Bellflower (Neverland, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and Steven Lee Jones (You
Don’t Know Jack). As a playwright: NYC productions include, Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Ensemble Studio
Theatre and God’s Butt, At the Break of Day, Stolidly Opposed, New Jersey, Double Take and Too Many Sugars in the
Tea at the Nat Horne Theatre. In Seattle: Like a Beast and Musing at the New City Theatre and Stolidly Opposed
with the AHA! Theatre Company. In San Francisco: The Edinburgh Castle Theatre produced Linden Arden Stole
the Highlights and Flurrious. In Los Angeles: Mission to Mate at the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Breaking and
Entering at Theatre 40, Musing at The Production Company, Bitten by a Fly at the Actor’s Lab, Yolanda and the Black
Muslim Bakery at the Falcon Theatre, Turnips & Passion at the Sierra Stage. Mitchell is a member of Ensemble Studio
Theatre/LA.
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Allison Mosier
Allison Mosier is a Los Angeles-based actor and director, however she is most commonly known as, “that girl
from the Cami Secret commercial.” Allison has been on the production teams of nine Broadway shows and consults
as a career and marketing coach for The Savvy Actor. She is currently appearing in a regional tour of The Vagina
Monologues and has starred in numerous theatrical productions across the country. Recently stage appearances
include the award-winning production of Pulp Shakespeare at Theater Asylum in Los Angeles, Radio Broadway: The
Hits of 1958 at Town Hall in Manhattan, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Lincoln Center. Film credits include
starring in the multi-award winning WTFU, co-starring on ABC’s One Life to Live and CBS’s As the World Turns, and
numerous commercials. Directing projects include Squiggy and the Goldfish (Workshop Theatre-NYC), The Who’s
Tommy (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Staten Island Philharmonic), The New Kid (Regional Tour) and
Freefall (Theatre Studio Inc.)
Cricket S Myers
Cricket S. Myers (Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Regional Theater:
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation Nomination), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject was Roses, School of
Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation Nomination), The Little Dog
Laughed (Ovation Nomination), Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theater); In The Wake,
(Berkeley Rep); Wrecks, Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation Nomination, NAACP Nomination) (Geffen Playhouse);
Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Life Could be a Dream, Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes
(Laguna Playhouse); Dinner with Friends (La Mirada Theater). Selected LA designs include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile
(Ovation Nomination), Tuesdays with Morrie (Rubicon Theater); Cousin Bette (Ovation Nomination) (Antaeus Theater
Company); Life Could be a Dream (Hudson Theater); dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation Nomination)
(Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ovation Nomination) (Ford Amphitheater); Battle Hymn (Ovation Nomination) (Circle X);
Grace and Glorie (Ovation Nomination), Free Man of Color, Better Angels, Mary’s Wedding (Ovation Nomination), Master
Harold and the boys (NAACP Nomination), Trying (Ovation Nomination) (Colony Theater); Hunter Gatherers, Impending
Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater). www.cricketsmyers.com
Katherine Noon
Katherine Noon is the artistic director of the Ghost Road Company. Partial list of GRC Projects include Elektra-La-La
– Spanish Kitchen and Edinburgh Fringe, Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk in collaboration with Burglars of Hamm - Theatre of
NOTE, NY Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, The Clytemnestra Project in collaboration with Theatre of NOTE, Orestes Remembered:
The Fury Project - Powerhouse Theatre, Fury Factory Festival, San Francisco. In 2009, the company reworked the Oresteia
trilogy, presenting part 2 at NaCl in NY and the Arcata Playhouse in N. California, part 3 premiered at the Getty Villa, and
the entire trilogy, Home Siege Home, premiered at [Inside] the Ford in spring 2009. She most recently collaborated on the
development of Stranger Things with Ghost Road and performed in the piece at the Ko Festival in Amherst and AVT in LA.
She also directed the premiere of Laurel Ollstein’s The Dark Ages for Playwrights Arena. In Warsaw with Ghost Road she
worked with Studium Teatralne on GRC’s newest piece, The Bargain and the Butterfly. GRC is a member of The Network of
Ensemble Theatres and Katharine has served on the board. She is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for contribution to
Los Angeles Theater and is a professor at Loyola Marymount University.
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Tom Ontiveros
Tom Ontiveros designs with light and projection for theatre, dance, and live music. Credits include: The Exonerated (NYC
premiere), The Tune In Festival at the Park Avenue Armory, Schick Machine (Hong Kong Cultural Centre), The Tyrant
(Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art), Garden of Deadly Sound (Hungarian National Theatre Festival; Cluj, Romania),
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Cond. Marin Alsop), Full Circle, Nada Que Declarar with Allyson Green Dance
(Danspace), Slide Dir. by Rinde Eckert (Ojai Music Festival), Enemy Slayer (Cond. Michael Christie, Phoenix Symphony),
Garden of Lila (Japan America Theatre), Motherfucker with the Hat, Sideways Stories from Wayside School (South Coast
Rep), Candida, Indiscretions, My Old Lady, and Visions of Kerouac (The Marin Theatre Co.), Contagion, Funnyhouse of a
Negro, The Language of Angels, and Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights (Intersection for the Arts), Summertime, Wintertime, and
First Love (The Magic Theatre), Most Wanted (The La Jolla Playhouse), Placas Dir. by Michael John Garces (SF International
Arts Festival), Seed, Café Vida, Making Paradise, and On Caring for the Beast (Cornerstone Theater Co.). Additional
venues include the San Diego Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondavi Center, Joyce SoHo,
Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Zellerbach Studio Theatre, The Culture Project, and the Japan America Theatre. Tom is an
Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at USC.
Joy Pace
Joy Pace (Chair, Region 6 KCACTF) is the Coordinator of Theatre at McNeese State University and co-founder of
Itinerant Theatre, Inc. Joy earned her B.A. from Centenary College of Louisiana, and her M.F.A. in Directing from Virginia
Commonwealth University. Though a native Texan, Ms. Pace has lived in various areas of the country. Joy taught at
Kentucky Wesleyan College where she was head of theatre and advisor to the Wesleyan Players, Virginia Commonwealth
University, and McMurry University. Joy has worked professionally as an actor, director, vocal coach, instructor, and stage
manager. Some of those credits include Itinerant, Theatre, Inc., La Petit Little Theatre/Tennessee Williams Festival in
New Orleans; The Blue Ridge Theatre Festival, Barksdale Theatre, Theatre Gym, and The Neighborhood School of The Arts
in Richmond, VA; The Independent Theatre, Region 14 ESC, and Buffalo Gap Historic Village in Abilene, TX; and Theatre
Workshop and Riverpark Center in Owensboro, KY. She has worked in Educational Theatre for 15 years and enjoyed
teaching every aspect of theatre while directing and finding avenues to continue acting. Her most recent directing credits
include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, All My Sons, Pygmalion, Othello, Waiting for Godot, Working: a musical, and The
Long Christmas Ride Home. Her favorite recent acting credits include “Maggie” and “Rosa” in Itinerant, Theatre Inc.’s
production of The Writers, “Josie” in A Moon for the Misbegotten, “Sister Aloysius” in Doubt , and “Cornelia Scott” in
Something Unspoken. Joy is greatly looking forward to a life filled with theatre, her great passion.
Nicholas Pappas
NICHOLAS C. PAPPAS’ play, The Ballad of 423 and 424 was the recipient of the 2012 Heideman Award as well a finalist
for the NAPAT award in playwriting and The KCACTF Ten Minute Play Award. His plays have been performed in London,
Edinburgh, D.C. (The Kennedy Center), Kentucky (The Humanna Festival, The Actors Theatre of Louisville), San Francisco,
Humboldt, Los Angeles, Michigan, Boston, and Vermont. Plays that have received production include The Dreams In Which
I’m Dying (reading, dir. Jon Tracy), The Greatest American Porno, Go Or Go Ahead, The Sonnet Plays, and Know Thy Enemy.
He has BAs in Theatre Arts: Performance and English: Creative Writing (SFSU) and an MFA in playwriting (SFSU). He is
currently working on a graphic novel called Phinnaeus’ Wake. More information and samples of all his work can be found
at nicholascpappas.com.
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Phil Ramuno
Phil Ramuno is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, who recently executive
produced a prime-time police action series in Romania for MediaPro Pictures. His international credits include four
other series in Romania and two hit comedy series in Moscow. He co-authored the best-selling ‘Sitcom Career Book.”
For the stage, Phil has directed the Ovation-nominated “Flirting with Morty” the world premiere of “Sundays in L.A.”
and “Sugar Happens” which just finished a 9 week run at Burbank California’s Sidewalk Theater. He has directed seven
pilots and hundreds of episodes of American network and syndicated situation comedies, variety and reality/talk shows.
This includes “Grace Under Fire,” “Charles in Charge,” “9 to 5” and “The Ted Knight Show.” His short film “Bringing Up
BayBay” was a feted at the Mill Valley Film Festival. He is an adjunct professor at The University of Southern California
prestigious graduate film school and has also taught at both Emerson College and Endicott College in Boston. He recently
taught directing for the Los Angeles Inner City Filmmakers youth program and comedy at the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory.
Steve Rankin
STEVE RANKIN has been an actor, director and fight director for 35 years. He has worked extensively on Broadway, OffBroadway and Regional Theaters. His work is currently in Australia, London and Singapore and at the prestigious Stratford
Festival in Canada. He has also staged for opera, film and television. His credits on Broadway include: Memphis, Jersey
Boys, The Farnsworth Invention, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls, The Real Inspector Hound, Anna Christie and The
Who’s Tommy. Metropolitan Opera Company: Rodelinda, Faust, Iphegenie at Tauride and Boris Godonov. At the Stratford
Festival: Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Caesar and Cleopatra. Regional Theaters include: The La Jolla Playhouse,
The Old Globe, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Pennsylvania Center Stage, The Ahmansen, Center
Stage (Baltimore), Virginia Stage Company, GEVA and The Asolo Theatre. He is an Associate Artist at the Globe Theater in
San Diego and is an adjunct professor at the California Institute of the Arts.
David Razowsky
DAVID RAZOWSKY is one of the top teachers of theatrical improvisation and acting. He has been called “the guru
of improvisation, an improviser’s improviser,” who connects the mindfulness of Buddhism with improvisation’s core
principals of being in the moment, taking care of your partner, and groundedness. As a cast member of the world famous
Second City David has worked with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Rachel Dratch, Nia Vardalo, George Wendt,
Martin Short, and others. David was the Artistic Director of The Second City Los Angeles, a master teacher at iO West, a
guest teacher for The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, a consultant to Dreamworks, BBC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway, and
Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago Theatre. He is adjunct faculty in the California State University system, and has been a
featured performer and lecturer at the Chicago Improv Festival, The San Francisco Improv Festival, the Vancouver Improv
Festival, and The Kennedy Center. David continues to act and direct professionally in Los Angeles. His podcast “A.D.D.
Comedy with Dave Razowsky and Ian Foley” is known for being informative, insightful and inspiring, and is available for
streaming and downloading at iTunes.
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Brandt Reiter
Brandt Reiter (KCACTF Region I National Playwriting Program Chair) is a New York-based director, actor, playwright,
and educator. He teaches Theatre at CUNY Queens College and the University of New Haven, and film at SUNY
Westchester. Also a journalist, Brandt was jazz critic at the LA Weekly from 2000-2004 and has written for the Village
Voice and All About Jazz New York. MFA, Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College; BA, American Studies, Temple University;
Certificate, Film Theory and Criticism, Sorbonne, Paris.
Jon Lawrence Rivera
Jon Lawrence Rivera (Director) most recently directed the following world premieres: a new adaptation of Euripides’
Helen by Nick Salamone at the Getty Villa, Tea, With Music, by Velina Hasu Houston and Nathan Wang, The Girl Most
Likely To by Michael Premsrirat, Cages by Leonard Manzella, bonded by Donald Jolly (2012 GLAAD Award nomination), The
Sonneteer by Nick Salamone (LA Times Best Play of 2011), Calligraphy by Velina Hasu Houston, Road To Saigon at East
West Players and Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at the Theatre @ Boston Court. Other recent works include: The Last
Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, Miss Saigon by Schönberg/Boublil, Ruby, Tragically Rotund by Boni B. Alvarez, Laws
of Sympathy by Oliver Mayer, The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim, Sea Change by Nick Salamone (2009 LA Weekly Award
for Directing), The Third From the Left by Jean Colonomos (2008 NY Fringe Festival), Hillary Agonistes by Nick Salamone
(2007 NY Fringe Festival Award for Directing), Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn. A five-time Ovation Award nominee, he is
the founding artistic director of Playwrights’ Arena and his productions have garnered over 100 local and international awards.
Mauricio Salgado
Mauricio Salgado is the Director of Domestic Programming for ASTEP. Mauricio handles recruitment and curriculum
development for ASTEP’s domestic programs. Originally from Miami, Florida, Mauricio graduated with a BFA from The
Juilliard School and has been invited by organizations around the world (the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Peru and
India) to teach the ASTEP methodology. In March of 2009, he was presented with the prestigious Martin E Segal Award in
recognition of his outstanding work with ASTEP.
Eric Santagata
Eric Santagata comes directly from the Broadway production of Chaplin, which opened at the Barrymore Theater on
September 10th, 2012. Some of his Broadway and New York credits include The Apple Tree, Face the Music (Encores!),
Stairway to Paradise (Encores!), Happiness (Lincoln Center) and The Scottsboro Boys for which he served as assistant
director/choreographer to Susan Stroman. Mr. Santagata has worked at some of the premiere theatres across the country
including, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, The MUNY, and PCLO.
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Camille Schenkkan
Camille Schenkkan, Educational Programs Manager, Center Theatre Group: A graduate of Claremont Graduate
University’s Arts Management program, Camille serves as the Educational Programs Manager for Center Theatre Group
and the volunteer Development Director of Circle X Theatre Co. in Los Angeles, CA. Camille Co-Chairs the national
Emerging Leader Council for Americans for the Arts and serves on the Advisory Board for Emerging Arts Leaders/LA. In
recent years, she has coordinated volunteer management for the national Theatre Communication Group conference,
the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and ARTmageddon LA, the citywide art party held during the latest I-405
shutdown. She loves animals, running, and cooking.
Mark Seldis
Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company with whom he co-created and directed the workshop
productions of Excavate the Monster at 24th Street Theatre and Duck[t] Tape Soup at Shakespeare Festival/LA and the
Diavolo space. Mark also produced the tour of Clyt at Home to Amherst, MA, the various incarnations of Ghost Road’s
Four Dervishes, the ensemble’s Oresteia adaptation (including Orestes Remembered, Elektra, and Home Siege Home) and
Stranger Things (with Kim Glann ) in Los Angeles and on tour. In 2007, on behalf of Ghost Road he helped coordinate the
Los Angeles productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days and co-directed Ghost Road’s week of the play. He has
directed world premieres of two of Ken Urban’s plays (Absence of Weather for Moving Arts at LATC in 2005 and Nibbler for
Theatre of NOTE in 2009) and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From 1990 to 2000 he was the Managing
Director and Producer for The Actors’ Gang. Recently, Mark directed two of the FLASH Theatre plays (written by Tom
Jacobson and Oliver Mayer, respectively) for Playwright’s Arena. In 1999 Seldis co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre
Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest. He is a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for
Excellence in Los Angeles Theater and Production Manager for Education at The Music Center. —Photo by Patti McGuire.
ADAM SHAPIRO
adam shapiro currently plays White House reporter Evan on NBC’s new comedy 1600 Penn. He was most recently seen in
the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Destin Cretton’s feature I Am Not A Hipster. His next projects include David Chase’s
Not Fade Away and Louis Letterier’s Now You See Me, Indie thrillers The Den and The Answer, and the upcoming comedy
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant. Other film credits include: A Single Man, The House Bunny, Café, Disney’s
Prep & Landing, Short Term 12. TV: Scandal, Mistresses, Grey’s Anatomy, Better With You, The Closer, Medium, Moonlight,
Gilmore Girls, Sweet Life of Zack and Cody, Jake in Progress. Adam has appeared on stage as “Mark” in RENT (Los
Angeles), the world premiere musical Hey, Morgan! At the Black Dahlia, You are Here, The Accidental Blonde, the World
Premieres of Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette and Assistance with IAMA Theatre Company, and in the West Coast Premiere
of Manuscript at The Elephant. Adam is the chairman of the founders board of IAMA Theatre Company. For more info check
out www.shappy.net
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Suanne Spoke
SUANNE SPOKE is a multi-award winning actor/producer/coach. She has made over 150 appearances on stage and in
film & television, most recently on “Private Practice” and recurring on “Switched at Birth”. In 2013, she will be seen in the
upcoming films “Mom”, “Dumped”, and “Our Sweet Little Life”. On stage, Suanne has twice won the Ovation Award, the
Garland Award and the LA Weekly award for Best Performance in numerous productions, and has also been awarded the
Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and the Garland Award for Best Production/Producer. During her lengthy stage career,
she has served on the Board of Directors for both the Company of Angels and Deaf West Theatre. Suanne currently serves
on the faculty in the Graduate Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches acting and
she is producing the upcoming documentary “Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life” about jazz great Warne Marsh. Suanne
has also taught at Deaf West’s Summer School and does specialized audition technique seminars. She has coached on
the set of “That 70’s Show” and served as an acting consultant for the UCLA Extension for screenwriters and UCLA/US
Performing Camps. She has had the honor of participating as an actress at the Sundance Lab, participated on panels for
ActorFest (both in Los Angeles & New York) and been a juror for the Newport Beach Film Festival. She is a member of Film
Independent, SAG, AFTRA and AEA.
Timothey Sullivan
TIMOTHEY SULLIVAN is currently a producer for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Previous to his time at BC/EFA, Tim
was the Production Director for the Tony Award winning Intiman Theatre. He is also the Associate Director for Charles
Busch’s annual off – Broadway production of Times Square Angel. As an educator, he was Production Director for Brown
University/Trinity Rep MFA Program. He spent several seasons as the Production Stage Manager for Harvard University’s
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. He has taught courses and seminars at various high schools and colleges
throughout the United States.
Christy Weikel
Christy Weikel is the Production Manager at the Kirk Douglas Theatre part of Center Theatre Group. She was a founding
member of Triad Stage, an Equity Theater, in Greensboro, NC. During her time at Triad Stage, she held the positions of
Resident Stage Manager, Company Manager, General Manager, and Production Manager. Throughout her career, she
worked at the Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Festival/LA, PCPA, and Yale Repertory Theater. She was an Assistant
Professor at Ball State University where she developed the Stage Management program. She was an Adjunct Professor
at Greensboro College and High Point University where she has taught Stage Management, Arts Management, Production
Management and Theater Appreciation. Christy has her MFA in Stage Management from Yale University.
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Don Williams
DON WILLIAMS (Associate Artistic Director for the Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
New York City) As director: Off- Broadway: Lebensraum, Turn of the Screw, Look Back in Anger, Libidoff, Waiting For
Lefty. Other New York: The Tempest, Macbeth, Miss Julie, On the Verge, Three Against Thebes, Blue State, American
Drama Pocket Edition, Betrayal and American Theatre Pocket Edition. Los Angeles: Waiting For Lefty, Marisol, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre. Carrying with IAMA Theatre Company. Regional: Waiting
For Lefty, Arsenic and Old Lace, Macbeth, Speed The Plow, Midsummer Night’s Dream, LibidOff, The Lady of Larkspur
Lotion, the Laramie Project, All in the Timing, Prelude to a Kiss, the Dining Room. At Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC/New
York University: The Shape of Things, Dancing at Lughnasa, North Shore Fish, Angels in America, Death of a Salesman,
That Championship Season, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, the Rimers of Eldritch, Necessary
Targets, Suddenly Last Summer, Museum, the Blue Room. As actor: Don has worked at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 78th
Street Theatre Lab, the Harold Clurman Lab Theater, New York University, The Producers Club, the Denver Center Theater
Company, the Marin Theatre Company, the San Jose Stage Company, the California Shakespeare Festival, Theatre 1050
and the Hot Ink Play Series to name a few. Film/commercial/ television: “Nash Bridges,” “Never Wear a Dead Man’s
Shoes,” “Midnight Caller” and numerous regional and national commercials and industrials. Don has also served as
executive producer for the Gotham Opera in New York City. Since 2002 Don has served as a senior Faculty member for the
Stella Adler Studio Wing of New York University and for the last three years as Head of Acting. Currently, Don serves as the
Associate Artistic Director for both the Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles and the Stella Adler Studio, NYC. Don also serves
as coordinator for AoA’s Professional Actor’s Workshop. Don holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and a
BA from California State University, Fresno.
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-- As You Like It, William Shakespeare
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The Kennedy Center
KCACTF Design, Technology & Management Chairs
David M. Rubenstein, Chairman
Region I-Co-Chairs
Michael M. Kaiser, President
Charlie Wittreich, SUNY Suffolk
Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President, Education
Luke J. Sutherland, Community College of Rhode Island
Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF
Region II-Keith Hight, College of Southern Maryland
Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF
Region III-Kathleen Donnelly, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Region IV-Ron Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University
KCACTF National Officers
Region V-Sheila Tabaka, Southwest Minnesota State University
• National Chair-Rebecca Hilliker, University of Wyoming
Region VI Co-Chairs-
• National Vice Chair-David Lee Painter, University of Idaho
Jason Foreman, Oklahoma City University
• National Chair, National Playwriting Program-Georgia McGill, CUNY
Jon Young, University of Oklahoma
Queensborough
Region VII-John Hill, Front Range Community College
• National Chair, Design, Technology & Management -Gweneth West, University
Region VIII-Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino
of Virginia
• Member at Large-Maggie Lally, Adelphi University
KCACTF National Playwriting Program (NPP)
• Member at Large-David Shawger Jr., Ball State University
The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Committee
• Member at Large-Richard Herman, University of Central Missouri
Region I Chair-Brandt Reiter, University of New Haven
• Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison-Harry Parker, Texas Christian
Region II Chair-Scott Frank, Washington and Jefferson College
University
Region III Chair-Ansley Valentine, Northern Michigan University
• National Vice-Chair, Design, Technology & Management-Rafael Jaen, Emerson
Region IV Chair-David Moberg, Indian River State College
College
Region V Chair-Patrick Carriere, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
• National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program – Jeanette Farr, Glendale
Region VI Chair-David Blakely, Rogers State University
Community College (California)
Region VII Chair-Joseph Gilg, University of Oregon
• USITT Representative – Martha Marking, Appalachian State University
Region VIII Chair-Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University
• National Partners of American Theatre Representative- Jere Wade
KCACTF Regional Chairs
Region I Co-ChairsRaina Ames, University of New Hampshire
Catherine Hurst, St. Michael’s College
Region II-Elizabeth van den Berg, McDaniel College
Region III-Michelle Bombe, Hope College
Region IV-Jeffrey Green, Georgia Southwestern State University
Region V-Rick Anderson, Kirkwood Community College
Region VI-Joy Pace, McNeese State University (Louisiana)
Region VII-Leigh Selting, University of Wyoming
Region VIII-John H. Binkley, California State University Northridge
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KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
KCACTF FESTIVAL 45 REGIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REGION VIII
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Region VIII Advisory Board/
Festival Selection Committee
Regional Chair
Program Coordination
John H. Binkley
Devised Program Coordinator
California State University Northridge
Kathryn Moller
Fort Lewis College
Regional Vice Chair
Matthew A. Neves
Directing Program Coordinator
Performance Riverside
Leslie Ferreira
Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy
Immediate Past Regional Chair
James R. Taulli
Diversity Consultant/Excellence in Education
California State University, Fullerton
Val Limar-Jansen
Freelance Artist
National Playwriting Program Chair
Wade Hollingshaus
Festival Registrar
Brigham Young University
Richard Bugg
Southern Utah University
National Playwriting Program Vice Chair
Jim Holmes
Invitational Scenes Coordinator
Loyola Marymount University
bree valle
Cuesta College
Immediate Past National Playwriting Program Chair
Char Nelson
Irene Ryan Coordinator
Brigham Young University
Christopher Clark
Chair, Design, Technology & Management
Andre Harrington
Next Step Auditions Coordinator
California State University, San Bernardino
Meredith Greenburg
California State University, Los Angeles
Vice Chair, Design, Technology & Management
Catherine Zublin
Past Regional Chair
Weber State University
Brad Myers
California State University, Fresno
Past Chair, Design and Technology
Geof Eroe
Professional Expo Coordinator
Phoenix College
Char Nelson
Freelance Playwright
Region VIII Secretary
Virginia Ludders
Glendale Community College, AZ
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Respondents Workshop
Circuit 3 Design Coordinator
Judith Royer
Shiz Herrera
Loyola Marymount University
California State University, Los Angeles
Student Stage Management Coordinator
Circuit 4 Coordinator
Shiz Herrera
Julie Holston
California State University. Los Angeles
South Mountain Community College
Technical Production Coordinator
JD Sargent
Kara Thomson
Freelance Designer
Mesa Community College
Theatre Criticism Program Coordinator
(Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy & Dramaturgy)
Chuck Erven
Bob Nelson
Fresno City College
University of Utah
Workshop Coordinator
Vacant
Rodney Scott
East Los Angeles College
Eric Bishop
Circuit Coordination
MiraCosta College
Lori C. Siekmann
Vacant
Concordia University Irvine
Lisa Hall Hagen
Vacant
Carol Damgen
Brent Innes
California State University, San Bernardino
Dixie State College
Region VIII Student Advisory Board
Vacant
SAB Chair
Jacob Porter
Shad Willingham (current)
California State University, Northridge
Gil Gonzalez (through May 2012)
Whittier College
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REGION VIII PRODUCTION AND DESIGN RESPONDENTS
REGION VIII PRODUCTION & DESIGN RESPONDENTS
Region VIII could not function without the service of the production and design respondents. These fine educators take time out of their busy
schedules to go out and share with students across the region their insights on theatrical performance.
2012
James Arrington, Utah Valley University
J. Daniel Herring, California State University, Fresno
Judy Bauerlein, California State University, San Marcos
Shiz Herrera, California State University, Los Angeles
Lisa Berger, University of San Diego
Royce Herron, Glendale Community College - CA
John Binkley, California State University, Northridge
Eve Himmelheber, California State University, Fullerton
Eric Bishop, MiraCosta College
Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University
Christopher Boltz, Fresno City College
Jim Holmes, Loyola Marymount University
Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University
Julie Holston, South Mountain Community College
Janine Christl, Fresno City College
David Huber, Freelance Artist
Anthony Carreiro, Long Beach City College
Val Limar Jansen, Freelance Artist
Christopher Clark, Utah Valley University
Megan Sanborn Jones, Brigham Young University
Maria Cominis, California State University, Fullerton
Jodi Julian, Riverside City College
Lou Clark, Arizona State University
James Knudsen, Fresno City College
Cathy Crane, Long Beach City College
Jenny Kokai, Weber State University
Carol Damgen, California State University, San Bernardino
Nina LeNoir, Chapman University
Harry Demas, East Los Angeles College
Ellyn Gersh-Lerner, California State University, Northridge
Kevin Dressler, Mesa Community College
Susanna Levitt, Rio Hondo College
Edward Emanuel, California State University, Fresno
Lynda Linford, Utah State University
Chuck Erven, Fresno City College
Darby Lofstrand, Northern Arizona University
Kathryn Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino
Marilynn Loveless, La Sierra University
Jennette Farr, Glendale Community College
Virginia Ludders, Glendale Community College - AZ
Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College
Jim Lunsford, California State University Northridge
Ken Gray-Scolari, Glendale Community College
Josh Machamer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Jim Greer, NAPAT
Chris Mangels, College of the Sequoias
Lisa Hall Hagen, Utah Valley University
Maria Mayenzet, Saddleback College
Lia Hanson, Vanguard University
John Mayer, California State University, Stanislaus
Michael Harding, Dixie State College
Kathryn Moller, Fort Lewis College
Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino
Brad Myers, California State University, Fresno
Brian Healy, Utah Valley University
Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright
Carin Heidelbach, Merced College
Bob Nelson, University of Utah
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Matt Neves, Performance Riverside
Jere O’Donnell, California State University, Stanislaus
John Owens, Central Arizona College
Tom Provenzano, California State University, San Bernardino
C. Tim Quinn, Fresno City College
Mark Ramont, California State University, Fullerton
Katie Rodda, San Diego City College
Robin Russin, University of California, Riverside
JD Sargent, Pepperdine University
Peter Senkbeil, Concordia University
Debra Shapazian, Fresno City College
Jan Shelton Hunsaker, Dixie State College of Utah
Lori Siekmann, Concordia University
Diane Sisko, Los Angeles City College
Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University
Aaron Spjute, Fresno City College
Craig Tyri, California State University, Fullerton
Kara Thomson, Mesa Community College
Bree Valle, Cuesta College
Tamiko Washington, Chapman University
Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University
C. Julian White, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Shad Willingham, California State University, Northridge
Bob Yowell, Northern Arizona University
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PRODUCTIONS THAT ENTERED FESTIVAL 45
FESTIVAL 45 PRODUCTIONS
(A) Associate Productions
(P) Participating Productions
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Dracula (A)
American Victory (P)
Hotel Paradiso (A)
Bocon (A)
The Talking Stick (A)
The House of the Spirits Theatre of New Voices (A)
(A)
POV (A)
Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes (A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Assassans (P)
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Merrily We Roll Along Bronte (P)
(P)
The Elephant man (P)
The Seagull (A)
Our Lady of 121st Street (A)
The Sty of the Blind Pig (P)
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
undergrad (A)
Arabian Nights (A)
Wonder of the World (P)
Holiday (P)
Little Eyolf (A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
Loves Labours Lost (A)
A Bright New Boise (A)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (A)
Baby with the Bathwater (A) Merchant of Venice (A)
Carousel (A)
A Second Birth (P)
The Diary of Anne Frank (A)
The Drunken City (A)
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Androcles and The Lion Godspell (P)
(A)
Hansel & Gretel (A)
Forever Plaid (A)
Little Women - The Musical (A)
Our Town (A)
Measure for Measure (A)
The Will Rogers Follies Metamorphoses (A)
(A)
Moonchildren (A)
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
Ordinary Days (A)
Knocked Under (P)
The Spoon River Project (A)
Trojan Women Traces of Utopia (A)
Twisted Wine (A)
(P)
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, POMONA
Curse of the Starving Class (A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Dracula (A)
12-1-A (P)
Tartuffe The American Pilot (P)
(P)
E (A)
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBIPSO
The John Lion New Plays Festival (P)
God’s Ear (P)
A Lie of the Mind (P)
A Streetcar Named Desire Oleanna (P)
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(A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE
CUESTA COLLEGE
Avenue Q (A)
The Three Musketeers Life is A Dream (P)
(A)
Satellites (A) DIXIE STATE COLLEGE
Spring Awakening, The Musical (The) Odyssey (P)
(A)
Ubu Roi (A)
Guys and Dolls (A)
Yellow Face Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe (P)
(A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO
EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE
Cabaret (A)
Hamlet (A)
No Child (A)
The Importance of Being Earnest (P)
The Trojan Women: A Love Story (A)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (P)
The Twists and Turns of Edgar Allan Poe (P)
EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE
The Ark (A)
CENTRAL ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Oklahoma (P)
Love Rides the Rail or (A)
Will the Mail Train Run Tonight
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Company! (A)
EL CAMINO COLLEGE COMPTON CENTER
An Evening of Student Directed One-Acts (A)
The Good Woman of Setzuan If All The Sky Were Paper (A)
Rimers of Eldritch (A)
FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
Summertime (A)
30 Neo-Futurist Plays (P)
(A)
from Too Much Light
Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 plays
CITRUS COLLEGE
The Bronze Star (P)
The Imaginary Invalid Kill Me Deadly (A)
Radium Girls (A)
Pippin (A)
Why Torture is Wrong, (A)
(P)
and the People Who Love Them
COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS
Boeing-Boeing (P)
FRESNO CITY COLLEGE
Urinetown: The Musical Almost, Maine (P)
(P)
Mauritius (P)
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, IRVINE
Tape (P)
Beau Jest (A)
Teasers: An Evening of Short Plays (P)
The Fantasticks (P)
The Princess and the Pea (A)
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (ARIZONA)
Till We Have Faces (P)
No Exit (P)
Rashomon (P)
Working (P)
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GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (CALIFORNIA)
A Doll’s House NORTHLAND PIONEER COLLEGE
(A)
Aida (A)
Godspell (A)
PHOENIX COLLEGE
GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE
Twelve Angry Men Blood Wedding (P)
(A)
Cabaret (A)
Some Girl(s) (P)
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY
The Imaginary Invalid (P)
RIO HONDO COLLEGE
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (P)
10 Minute Play Festival (A)
Anna and the Tropics (A)
LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE - THEATRE ACADEMY
A Late-Autumn Night’s Audition (P)
The House of Blue Leaves One Act Play Festival (A)
(P)
Salt (P)
Untitled Warhol Project (P)
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Crucible (P)
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
Thoroughly Modern Millie Pinter X Three (P)
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (P)
(P)
SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
Almost, Maine (A)
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE PALOS VERDES
The Spider’s Web (A)
Spring Festival of One Act Plays (A)
A Christmas Carol (A)
Spring Awakening (A)
SANTA ANA COLLEGE
MERCED COLLEGE
Endgame & Red Cross American Soldiers (P)
(A)
Tartuffe (A)
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
The Skin of Our Teeth Arsenic and Old Lace (A)
The Front Page (P)
(A)
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Heart Mountain (P)
The Dining Room (A)
James and the Giant Peach Zorro (Z) or The Curse of Capistrano (P)
Tartuffe (P)
(P)
Yonadab (P)
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)
My Favorite Year (P)
MIRACOSTA COLLEGE
SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Master Harold and the Boys (A)
The Miracle Worker (A)
The Servant of Two Masters (A)
The 39 Steps (Psycho Cast) (A)
The 39 Steps (Birds Cast) (A)
Henry IV, Part I (A)
SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Oedipus the King (A)
In Conflict (P)
Real Women Have Curves (A)
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SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
WESTMONT COLLEGE
Almost, Maine (A)
Much Ado About Nothing (P)
As You Like It (A)
A Christmas Carol on the Air (A)
WHITTIER COLLEGE
Edgar Allan Poe’s: Nevermore (P)
She Stoops to Conquer (A)
Little Women - The Musical (A)
The Taming of the Shrew (A)
The Mousetrap (A)
Rabbit Hole (A)
When (P)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Intention in Time (A)
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Anatomy of Grey (A)
The Beaux’ Stratagem (A)
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
The Miracle Worker (A)
Pirates of Penzance (A)
Two Headed (A)
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Androcles and the Lion (A)
Cato (A)
How to Succeed in Business (A)
The Secret Garden (A)
Short Attention Span Theatre - (A)
10 Minute Play Festival
Vincent in Brixton (P)
VANGUARD UNIVERSITY
The Comedy of Errors (P)
The Servant of Two Masters (P)
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
Charm (P)
Cradle Will Rock (A)
Lucky Stiff (P)
Tartuffe (A)
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FACULTY RECOGNITION
KENNEDY CENTER MEDALLION
Each year, the eight KCACTF regions honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre
and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm to the development of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Most
importantly, recipients have demonstrated a strong commitment to the values and goals of KCACTF and to excellence in educational theatre. It is the most
prestigious regional award given by KCACTF and is considered one of the great honors in theatre education.
2012 Kennedy Center Medallion Recipient
Virginia Ludders – Glendale Community College, Arizona
Virginia has been an enthusiastic supporter of KCACTF from the time of her introduction to the festival when she participated in the Circuit 4 - Arizona Theatre
Festival and her first regional festival at Sonoma State University. She was and is still amazed at all that KCACTF has to offer college students.
A graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Virginia attended Grand Canyon University, earned an MA from Arizona State University and a certificate in
Shakespearian performance from LAMDA. After relocating from Illinois to Arizona, she accepted employment as a high school theatre teacher, developed a
theatre program, helped found a chapter of the International Thespian Society, became the Arizona State Thespian Director and served on the international board.
In addition to teaching high school theatre, she has taught at Arizona State University, ASU-West and, for the past twenty-five years, at Glendale Community
College, directing the theatre arts program. Over forty-five years, she has directed well over a hundred plays and musicals, including a KCACTF regional
invitational scene and an invited production (Quilters) 2003. Although retired in 2009, she can still be found on campus three days a week teaching various
theatre and film courses. In her spare time she volunteers at a local community theatre where she builds costumes.
As a region board member, Virginia serves as secretary, has participated in the Irene Ryan acting competition in various capacities, has served as circuit four
coordinator, hosted several state theatre festivals and in 2005 cohosted the regional. Additionally, she continues to respond to a dozen or more college and
university productions each year.
ATHE/KCACTF Innovative Teaching Award
Founded in 1986, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is a non-profit professional organization representing college and university theatre
departments and administrators, faculty, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. ATHE’s mission is to support and advance the study and practice of
theatre and performance in higher education. Toward that mission, we are pleased to grant the annual ATHE Prize for Teaching Innovation to an individual in each
KCACTF region who has demonstrated their ability to discover new pathways for student success in the field of theatre. It is our pleasure to recognize Terry Glaser
as the 2013 Region VIII winner of the ATHE Prize for Innovative Teaching.
2012 ATHE/KCACTF Innovative Teaching Award Recipient
Terry Glaser - University of San Diego
Terry has worked in academia and the professional theatre for over 25 years, as a stage director, playwright, translator, acting teacher, and actor. She has taught at UCSD,
USC, CalArts, Earlham College, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio-USA West, and the Old Globe Theatre, and has directed at professional
theatres and opera companies across the country. Currently, she is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of San Diego’s Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Department, where she has been teaching since 2005. Her recent directing assignments at USD were The Government Inspector and The Beaux’ Stratagem.
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In February 2012, a scene from The Government Inspector opened the Evening of Invitational Scenes at the KCACTF Region 8 Festival. Terry has twice won
Outstanding Director awards at San Diego theatre festivals. Terry’s translations of classic plays, including A Flea in Her Ear and The Frogs, and operas, including
Orfeo and Croquefer, have received professional and university productions. In 2011, she premiered her original one-person show The Mysterious Dwarf, in which
she performs as the writer Nikolai Gogol.
Terry has developed a comprehensive training method for acting in opera and is finishing a text book on that subject. Her other teaching specialties include the
Michael Chekhov Technique and neutral mask. Terry also develops and conducts courses and seminars in the application of acting techniques to the worlds of
teacher-training, business, and law. Terry holds a B.A. in Playwriting from Brown University and an M.A. in Theatre (Directing) from Syracuse University.
Excellence in Theatre Education Award
This honor, given for the first time in 1997, recognizes faculty and staff in various universities and colleges throughout the region who go “beyond
the call of duty” in devoting their time, efforts, talent, and energies on behalf of the students and in support of the other faculty and staff of their
institution. The following recipients of the “Excellence in Theatre Education Award” are individuals recognized by the Board of Governors of the
Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival, Region VIII for their unique commitment to their students, their colleagues, their institution,
and their profession. We wish to honor their vision, knowledge, high intention, and sincere effort in fostering, supporting and developing a greater
respect and appreciation for theatre, theatre education, and all who participate in it.
2012 Excellence in Theatre Education Recipient
Kevin Dressler – Mesa Community College
Kevin Dressler hails from Tacoma, Washington, and has a long history as an educator. His first experience was teaching English to a combined class of Southeast
Asian and Spanish-speaking students in 1980. Kevin loved was hooked to teaching. Besides working professionally as an actor and director throughout Western
America, Kevin always worked teaching acting classes and directing student productions, most often through the theatre for youth programs at the theatres
wherever he was employed.
His beginning as full time educator came at Mountain View HS in Mesa, Arizona, where he inherited 3 speech team members. He quickly built the team to 55
students that won the state speech title. A position opened in the theatre department at the school and Kevin promptly built that program and won numerous
state one-act play competitions.
Besides working at the secondary level, Kevin also taught as an adjunct for various colleges in the Maricopa College system in 1987. In 1991, he co-founded what
became Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC), a professional, classical theatre company that is in residence in Mesa. Since its inception, SSC has performed
matinee productions for over 120,000 school students throughout Arizona. Kevin avidly maintains contact with area high school theatre teachers and strives to
build connections with them and their students.
In addition to an M.F.A. from Utah State University, Kevin has an M.A. in Counseling and a M.Ed. in College Administration. He is currently the Executive Director
of the Theatre Arts and Film Department at Mesa Community College and is the head of the performance program.
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Marilynn Loveless – La Sierra University
Marilynn Loveless is the artistic director of the theater program at La Sierra University in Riverside, where she teaches acting, directing, and writing classes. Involved as a respondent with the KCACTF since 1999 (in Region VII and Region VIII), she has directed/produced more than 70 shows earning meritorious
achievement awards from the KCACTF, for her direction of Othello (2005), The Taming of the Shrew (2006), The Accidental Death of An Anarchist (2007) and A
Midsummer’s Night Dream (2011). Her previous career as a writer/producer in television involved the production of more than 135 half-hour television shows
in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. The recipient of several writing grants, one of Marilynn’s screenplays made the short-list for the Sundance feature film
project in 2001.
In 2006 and 2007 Marilynn co-wrote two award-winning Christmas shows that were aired on the Hallmark Channel.
Marilynn was awarded a Ph.D. from the School of Arts at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia in 2004 for her renegade ficto-critical dissertation, Mrs.
Shakespeare: Muse, Mother, Matriarch, Madonna, Whore, Writer, Woman, Wife--Recovering a Lost Life, that tells the plausible story—including historical and
theoretical support—of how Mrs. Shakespeare acquired the necessary skills, education and experience to write the works appropriated by her husband, William. Her work was cited for academic excellence by earning perfect scores from the external examiners.
Peter Sham – Southern Utah University
Peter currently serves as associate chair/director of theatre for Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. He is most recently known for
his work as bookwriter/lyricist on Lend Me A Tenor The Musical (Brad Carroll, composer), which celebrated a successful run at the Gielgud Theatre on London’s
West End and has plans to open on Broadway in 2014. He is the author of three other musicals Toyland, It’s a Dog’s Life: Man’s Best Musical and Waxworks,
and the plays Shakespeare’s Moby Dick, a classical adaptation of Herman Melville’s American masterpiece, Twinkle, Twinkle, ‘Killer’ Kane (written with William
Peter Blatty – The Exorcist), and A Christmas Carol On The Air (also written with Brad Carroll). A veteran regional actor for over 30 years, he was a principal
member of the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival for eleven seasons, and has performed at such places as the Asolo Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory
Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Eastside Playhouse, Perry Street Theatre, Artpark and Yale Summer Cabaret. Notable roles include, Salieri in Amadeus, Benjamin
Franklin in 1776, Henry Brock in Born Yesterday, King Henry in Henry IV Part One, Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De
Lune and Sancho in Man of LaMancha, starring Robert Peterson. As an educator, he has served as visiting assistant professor of theatre at University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, and adjunct professor of acting/guest director at Elon University in North Carolina. Peter has directed numerous productions throughout the Eastern
United States and Utah and has served as artistic director of the Eichelberger Performing Arts Center in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and Bristol Valley Playhouse in
Naples, New York. He holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Delaware’s nationally acclaimed Professional Theatre Training Program. Peter is married to
director/choreographer/ actress, Kirsten Sham, and blessed with two remarkable children, Olivia and Orlando.
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Arthur Wagner – University of California, San Diego
Arthur Wagner is one of the original pioneers of the American College Theatre Festival. In 1969, he brought a play, HAIL SCRAWDYKE by David Halliwell to the
festival hosted by Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1969, where he met (and later befriended) the production’s adjudicator, famed critic John Lahr. Arthur served
as the Vice President of the American College Theatre Association, an original parent company of ACTF from 1974-1976 and was put in charge of ACTF during that
period. In 1977, he served as President of ACTA and worked with the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Arthur was born in New York City on May 11, 1923. Having graduated from Stuyvesant High School in NYC, he earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Earlham
College in Richmond, Indiana in 1946 and a M.A. degree in Theatre Arts two years later from Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts. Wagner served
as supervisor of dramatic activities at the Jewish Community Center in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1948-49 and as artistic director at the Springfield Civic
Theatre in 1949-50. He went on to study with Paul Mann at the Actors Workshop in New York City from 1953-1955. Wagner was named head of the Theatre Arts
Department and director of the Annie Russell Theatre at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida in 1956 and held the position for nine years while earning his Ph.D. in
Drama from Stanford University in 1962.
From 1965 to 1967 he served as professor of drama at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana where he established the Graduate Actor Training Program.
He spent two years as a professor and director of Graduate and Undergraduate Actor Training Programs at Ohio University before moving to Temple University in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1971, after serving for three years as professor of drama and founder/director of the Graduate Actor Training Program at Temple
University, Dr. Wagner joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1972. He served as the founding Chair of the UC San Diego Department of Drama from 1972 to 1977 and
from 1977 until his retirement in 1991, he was head of the Graduate Professional Actor Training Program. Professor Wagner also serves on the Board of Trustees
of the La Jolla Playhouse. A gifted professional actor and director, he has numerous directing and acting credits and is a member of Actors Equity.
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