Region 8 - Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

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The Kennedy Center
American College
Theater Festival XLI
Presents
The Forty–First Annual Region VIII Festival 2009
Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah
February 10 – 14, 2009
California State University, Fullerton
Hosted by
Presented by
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Theater at the Kennedy Center is presented with the generous support of
Stephen and Christine Schwarzman. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is sponsored by
The U.S. Department of Education
Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation
The Kennedy Center Corporate Fund
and The National Committee for the Performing Arts
KCACTF 2009 – – KCACTF 2009
Table of Contents
Welcome.................................................... 4
Festival Information...................................10
Invited Plays...............................................11
Workshops.................................................16
Event Descriptions.....................................26
Social Events..............................................28
Schedule of Events................................... 29
Festival Guests......................................... 36
KCACTF XLI National Selection Team...... 45
KCACTF XLI Acknowledgements..............47
Region VIII Production &
Design Respondents.................................51
Festival Awards......................................... 54
Awards of Merit.........................................57
Productions.............................................. 64
Faculty Recognition...................................69
2008 Excellence in Education Awards.......71
In Memoriam.............................................76
Past Regional Chairs................................. 77
Past Regional Productions Finalists...........78
Excellence in Theatre Education Award....81
Maps......................................................... 82
KCACTF 2009 – Welcome
It is with great pride that I welcome you to my home; the
Department of Theatre and Dance at California State
University, Fullerton.
Each year we, students, faculty and professionals gather
together from all over the southwest in the second week of
February to make, watch and do theatre. We are blessed
to have this opportunity. This week we come together as
playwrights, actors, designers, technicians, critics, stage
managers, dramaturges and directors. We will learn
together. We will work together and we will play together.
We will talk together about what we have learned, seen,
heard and felt. We will take home with us new ideas, new
techniques and new inspirations. Again, I say we are blessed.
We are most blessed by you the students. You keep us young.
We are inspired by you. You make us laugh and you make
us crazy. If my colleagues feel as I do, and I know many do,
we feel about you often as we feel about our own kids. For
many of us you are our kids.
That said, last year as four of our own were traveling back from festival, a tragedy befell them and two were
lost to us forever. This festival is dedicated to the memory of them, to the memory of Andy Hoover and Jenna
Faeth. We will miss them this week.
Please have fun this week. Please take advantage of all there is to offer. Please be smart. Please be safe. Please
come back to us next year.
Jim Taulli
Chair, Region VIII
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
– KCACTF 2009
On behalf of the faculty, staff, 36,996 students, and more than 190,000 alumni of
California State University, Fullerton, I am pleased to welcome the 2009 Region VIII
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to our campus and to Orange County.
We are honored to serve as the venue for the 2009 Region VIII Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival because this Festival encourages, recognizes, and celebrates the
finest and most diverse work produced in university and college regional theatre programs.
The KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers students individual
recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing and design. At Cal
State Fullerton, distinguished professors create an exceptional learning environment for their students,
whether they are teaching an introductory class for freshmen or working one–on–one with a graduate student.
We are proud that our entire university community is committed to providing the support, encouragement
and challenging opportunities to help make our students’ dreams and goals a reality.
Cal State Fullerton has a long history of excellence in the arts. Our College of the Arts provides a climate
that encourages individual achievement for performers and artists. We are proud that our Department
of Theatre and Dance has established itself as one of the most effective and respected theatre training
programs on the West Coast. The Performing Arts Major’s College Guide lists Cal State Fullerton among its “Most Highly
Recommended Undergraduate Programs” for drama and musical theatre, and among “Noteworthy Programs” for dance. The
Department of Theatre and Dance undergraduate and graduate programs include the fields of acting, dance,
directing, musical theatre, playwriting, technical production and design. Our Department of Theatre and
Dance sponsor internships with such prestigious industry leaders as the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast
Repertory Theatre, NBC, CBS, Paramount Studios, A Noise Within, The Chatauqua Theatre Alliance and a
host of other companies.
Located in Orange County, thirty miles east of Los Angeles and Hollywood, Cal State Fullerton is in close
proximity to major regional theatres and borders Southern California’s mecca of major film and television
studios, over 100 producing theatres, and the nation’s premiere entertainment parks Disneyland, Knott’s
Berry Farm, Six Flags, Universal Studios, etc. Orange County is home to the Festival of the Arts/Pageant of the
Masters and Broadway–quality entertainment at the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts and
South Coast Repertory Theatre. Cal State Fullerton’s Joseph A.W. Clayes III Performing Arts Center in
which the 2009 Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival will be held features the
800–seat Meng Concert Hall, the 500–seat Little Theatre, 200–seat Recital Hall, the 250–seat James
D. Young Theatre, the 150–seat Millie and Dale Hallberg Theatre, the McGarvey Family Dance Studio,
a musical theatre rehearsal studio, a costume shop, a scene shop, lighting, audio and make–up teaching
studios, as well as a large, well–equipped camera studio.
I hope you enjoy your stay on campus and in Orange County and that the 2009 Region VIII Kennedy
Center American College Theatre Festival at Cal State Fullerton inspires you artistically and encourages you
to continue to excel in all your future endeavors. We are honored to have you on our campus.
Milton A. Gordon, President
KCACTF 2009 – A warm welcome to the students, faculty and staff participating in this regional
festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at California State
University, Fullerton. I know that in these next few days we will experience the intensity,
the joy, and the poignancy of live theatre. We will see student actors, directors and
designers reaching for the highest level of achievement.Throughout the festival we will
rejoice and applaud the personal commitment of these young performers and creative
designers. We applaud the students who push the boundaries of creative expression and
artistic performance, young artists who take great leaps, who express new ideas, who risk.
We applaud their imagination and their extraordinary courage. We thank the Kennedy
Center for their continuing support of the regional festivals and the culminating festival
at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Your dedication to the training of these
exceptionally gifted theatre arts students as they aspire to professional careers is truly
appreciated by all of us in the academic community.
Jerry Samuelson, Dean,
College of Arts
We are proud to host the 2009 Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival in the Joseph A.W. Clayes Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton. I am
pleased to welcome you to southern California and our glorious campus. The Department
of Theatre & Dance is committed to the rigorous training of students in professional
performance in all areas of theatre and dance. Comprehensive public performances and
rigorous academic work are at the heart of the program. The Department is accredited by
the National Association of Schools of Theatre and the National Association of Schools of
Dance and is a member of the University/Resident Theatre Association.I look forward to
our week together and the chance to see exciting theatre, fabulous acting, and inspiring
designs. WELCOME!
Susan Hallman, Chair
Department of Theatre & Dance
– KCACTF 2009
Welcome to Cal State Fullerton! Many people have been anticipating your arrival for the
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival XLI. We look forward to sharing
our beautiful campus facilities and hope that you will enjoy all the activities that await.
As the festival coordinator, I am amazed that this time is finally here and truly hope that
our plans for a fantastic festival are realized. All the planning, charts & lists that have
been made in anticipation of your being here with us this week will mean nothing without
your participation. I challenge you to find something during this festival that sparks your
creativity. This week we join together to become a large community of theatre artists.
Please enjoy what I hope is a special and memorable week. The stage has been set and the
plans are now in motion. We invite you to bring your creative energy and make this festival
jump off the pages of this program and come alive! It has been said “to be a successful
hostess, when guests arrive say, ‘At last!’ and when they leave they say, ‘So soon?’” Please
enjoy and take advantage of all the activities that this festival offers you, and when Saturday
comes I hope to hear you say, “So soon?”
Deb Lockwood
Festival XLI Coordinator
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About The Festival
Festival Information
Registration
The registration and information desk will be located in the Titan Student Union (TSU) Pavilions on
Monday from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Tuesday–Thursday from 8:00 am to 8:00pm, Friday from 9:00 am
to 5:00pm. Saturday the registration and information desk will be located in the old Performing Arts (PA)
building lobby.
Admission To Performances
Only registered festival participants will be able to get into performances with their current KCACTF
Region VIII badge. Seating is limited and participants will be admitted on a first–come, first–serve basis.
Parking
Festival guests must have a parking pass in order to park on CSU Fullerton Campus. Parking on this campus
is $8.00 a day. There will be an attendant stationed in the parking structure as students reach the top floor of
the Nutwood parking structure selling one day parking passes. Cash only will be accepted.
Transportation
Check with the registration and information desk about bus service that runs from the hotels to the CSU
Fullerton campus . Busses will run from all the hotels.Bus schedule is as follows (starting at the Crowne Plaza
Hotel):
7:00am 10th and 11th
8:00 am 12th, 13th and 14th
9:00am
11:00am
1:00pm
3:00pm
5:00pm
7:00pm
11:00pm
12:30 am (after socials)
Hospitality Suite
The Hospitality Suite is available for faculty members of participating schools and special guests Tuesday
– Saturday, from 10:00 pm to 1:00 am at the Crown Plaza Hotel Room 673.
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Invited Plays
Participating Productions
Jesus Hopped the A Train, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Marlon Deleon
Diablo Valley College, California
Hallberg Theatre
Tuesday February 10th 2:30 pm
Wednesday February 11th 11:00 am and 3:00 pm
Jesus Hopped the A Train is an exciting new play written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, and imagined by the
membership of The Labyrinth Theatre Company, called. This play uses the textual elements of television
shows like Law and Order and HBO’s Oz, while exploring the complexities of criminals and the crimes
they commit.We have selected this play because of the myriad of themes that it explores: reform, racism,
and redemption, just to name a few. One of the main characters of this relevant modern play is, Angel
Cruz. Everything about Angel is modernly authentic: his ideals, his disillusionments, his language, his
cultural and societal influences, and his style. We believe that this play serves as a mirror to the emerging
generation’s response to the world around them, and that our younger audiences will find themselves deeply
connected to Angel’s battle and personal struggles. This play is sure to move, provoke and inspire you
Respondents: : Maria Mayzenet and Daniel Patterson
Response: 1:00 pm Thursday in TSU Alvarado A
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, directed by Kevin Slay
California State University, Fullerton, California
Young Theatre
Wednesday February 11th 10:30 am, 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Cal State Fullerton is proud to share with you their 2008 production of As You Like It where comic disguise
and tangled love collide in the Forest of Arden as we follow such immortal characters as Rosalind, Orlando,
Touchstone the melancholy Jaques, Duke Senior and his usurping and tyrannical brother Duke Frederick.
It’s the story of Rosalind as she teaches the ways of love to Orlando disguised as a man, Silvius yearning
to convince Phoebe of his worthiness, Jaques discovering that all the world is a stage, the redemption and
reconciliation of brothers, and the ability to find the freedom to live out your life As You Like It. This is one
of Shakespeare’s best romantic comedies with a touch of treachery, laughter, and of course, what would a
production of As You Like It be without the music!
Respondents: Lura Dolas and Daniel Patterson
Response: 9:00 am Thursday in TSU Alvarado A
Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau and Henrik Galeen, directed by Christopher Clark
Utah Valley University, Utah
Little Theatre
Wednesday February 11th 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Nosferatu is a mixed–media recreation of the 1922 German Expressionist film by F.W. Murnau. An ensemble
of actors, lighting technicians, costumers, and camera operators re–shoot the film, frame by frame, shot by
shot, in an exact replica of the early film. There is no dialogue or sound, other than music from a soundtrack
and the sounds of film production. Clips from the film, projected on an overhead screen, seamlessly
integrate with live actors onstage, creating a postmodern look at a classic film and providing a theatrical
experience that is challenging, engaging, and chilling.
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Respondents: Kate Snodgrass and Maria Mayzenet
Response: 10:30 am Thursday in Change to TSU Alvarado A/B
Don Coyote, by Daniel Frey, directed by Richard Perez,
Arizona State University, Arizona
Little Theatre,
Thursday February 12th 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm
An American and a Mexican coyote run a successful human–smuggling business at the Arizona–Mexico
border. But one day, a car accident, a brutal killing and a beautiful young woman named Rosa threaten to
unravel the fabric of their partnership. Contains violence and strong language.
Respondents: Tom Mitchell and William Wolak
Response: 11:30 am Friday in TSU Alvarado B
Heartland, by Anita Simons & Lauren Simon, directed by Eric Bishop
MiraCosta College, California
Young Theatre,
Friday February 13th 1:00 pm, 4:30 pm and 8:00 pm
Based on true stories from World War II, Heartland is set on a small, family–run dairy farm in Wisconsin
where, in March 1945, a German–born widow and her children are struggling to make ends meet after
the family patriarch has died. When they receive notice from the War Manpower Commission offering
two Prisoners of War to work their farm, it seems like an answer to the family’s prayers, but the arrival of
these two strangers causes changes no one had anticipated. Not widely known or acknowledged is the fact
that from 1941 to 1945, the U.S. government imprisoned nearly 11,000 German–Americans and 3,500
Italian–Americans. Some of these so–called enemy alien immigrants were held in captivity after the war
had ended, and more than 1,000 German–Americans, including innocent American–born children, were
expatriated to Germany against their will. Heartland tells the story of what can happen when fear and prejudice
pit neighbor against neighbor in times of war.
Respondents: Lura Dolas and Tom Mitchell
Response: 9:00 am Saturday in TSU Alvarado B
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Tongues, by Sam Shepard, directed by Eric Kupers,
California State University, East Bay, California
Little Theatre
Friday February 13th 7:30 pm
Saturday February 14th 2:00 pm
Tongues seems to live somewhere between a play, a performance piece, an epic poem and a multi–layered
sound composition––a perfect challenge for dance/theater artists. It has invoked in all of us working on
it, a compelling invitation to immerse ourselves in mystery. Because of our cast’s radical diversity, and the
difficult subject matter we decided to wrestle with, we have all been forced to move outside our comfort
zones. We discussed the nature of death and what might happen on the other side of it, our connection
to ancestors, ghosts, the multiplicity of characters that live inside each of our minds and much more. We
improvised, trained together, and experimented.What we share with you is our interweaving of many
intuitive collisions that have arisen during the course of our work together, looking at life and death, ability
and disability, faith and uncertainty, loneliness and community, confusion and clarity. We offer it to you in
the spirit of multiple truths.
Respondents: Tom Mitchell and Daniel Patterson
Response: 5:30 pm Saturday in Little Theatre (PA 104)
Cauble’s Corner Plays (original student works)
Young Theatre
Thursday February 12th 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Ten Minutes, by Benjamin Caron, directed by Jon Kellam
California State University, Los, Angeles, California
Ten Minutes is a dark comedy about four people trapped in an elevator with what may only be ten minutes left
to live. The work explores the themes of religion, faith and humanity while examining what it means to live
in a world on the brink of destruction. Ten Minutes was originally staged in May of 2008 as part of the John
Lion New Plays Festival at California State University, Los Angeles and directed by the Actor’s Gang’s Jon
Kellam. Four of CSULA’s finest actors bring depth and intensity to the work, having trained extensively in
modified versions of the Viewpoints and Suzuki methods to prepare for their roles. Ten Minutes is an intense
rollercoaster ride of emotions that is sure to keep audiences engaged from the first moment to the very last.
Poet’s Corner, by the acting ensemble of the Rainbow Theater, directed by Jackie Martinez and Jeff Arnold,
produced by Donald G. Williams
University of California Santa Cruz, California
In life, we encounter hardships, barriers, and experiences that may produce silence. Poet’s Corner is a space
where one can openly and freely dialogue about struggles that are faced. In discussing very sensitive subjects,
we respond through creative outlets such as poetry, music, and movement and ultimately share it with an
audience on stage. Incorporating many artistic elements, Poet’s Corner is an original piece written by students
that have amazing talents. Poet’s Corner is what has become known as “The Engine” of Rainbow Theater, a
multi–cultural theater at the University of California Santa Cruz and with the support of the community it
has become a show that many come to see.
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Fire in the Bones, by Lucas Millhouse, directed by Lucas Millhouse
Weber State, Utah
Fire in the Bones is the story of William Tyndale, one of the first English martyrs. Inspired from on high,
William was driven by his passion to bring the words of the apostles and prophets of old to the common
man. Fire in the Bones, gives a brief glimpse of his life and struggles. Cauble’s Corner Respondents: Kate Snodgrass and David Lee–Painter
Cauble’s Corner Response: 9:00 am Friday in TSU Alvarado B
Other Invited Plays
Thursday February 12th
Life Without Parole, by Warren Doody, directed by Susan K. Berkompas and Rebekah Ehrich
Vanguard University of Southern California, California
Arena Theatre, 10:00pm
In 2001, Dr. Elizabeth Leonard approached Warren Doody about the possibility of turning her research on
battered women who kill into a stage play. It took him a year to do the requisite research and an additional
six months to write the play itself. In doing so, he changed the names of the women involved, created
characters who are composites, recontextualized the dialogue and research to fit the parameters of the stage,
but, ultimately, stayed true to his original three–fold goal: to give voice to the “Convicted Survivors” that
Dr. Leonard represents in her work; to give voice to those women who do not live through the last violent
assault; and to provide a red flag for those currently faced with the silent epidemic of domestic abuse.
Respondents: William J. Wolak
Response: 4:00pm Friday in TSU Alvarado B
NPDW Plays
Friday February 13th
Flooding the Grand, by Brigette Stevenson, California Lutheran University
Performance/Response
TSU Theatre, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Things That Fall From the Sky, by Brenda Varda, University of California Riverside
Performance/Response
TSU Theatre, 11:00am – 12:30pm
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Saturday February 14th
Aquino, by Asher Wyndham, Arizona State University
Different Creatures, by Daniel Frey, Arizona State University
Rummage, by Steven M. Salzman, San Francisco State University
Trainwhistles, by Brian “Briandaniel” Oglesby, University of California Riverside
Valedictorian, by Jeremiah Munsey, University of Nevada Las Vegas
The Ward, by Jessica Henderson, Occidental College
Performance
TSU Theatre, 10:00am – 1:00pm
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Invitational Scenes
Tuesday February 10th
Little Theatre (PA 104), 5:30pm and 8:00pm
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
directed by Christine Frezza
Southern Utah University
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
directed by Christine Menzies
California State University, Northridge
Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
directed by Tom Bradac
Chapman University
Fire–bringer
by Judy GeBauer
directed by Dan Stone
Humboldt State University
The Miser
by Moliere
directed by Kathleen McGeever
Northern Arizona University
Picnic
by William Inge
directed by Michelle Felten
California State University, Sacramento
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
directed by Paul T. Mitri
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
directed by Jennifer Holmes
Whittier College
Hamlet/ the Artist Formerly Known as / Prince of Denmark
Loosely based on the work of William
Shakespeare and The Artist
directed by Kathryn Ervin
California State University, San Bernardino
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Workshops
Tuesday, February 10
10am–11:30am (PA 212)
Fitzmaurice Voicework: Tremors, Breath, Vibrations: Evelyn Carol Case, CSU Fullerton
Fitzmaurice Voicework explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, imagination, language, and
presence. It encourages vibrant voices that communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.
Participants will explore these dynamics through a series of physical positions known as Tremwork. Come
prepared to explore and experience the physicality of your voice.
10am–11am (PA 117)
Headshots in the Actor’s Career: Dick Wieand, CSU Fullerton
Actor/Photographer Dick Wieand discusses the most important tool the actor has in starting his career,
examines what makes a good picture and how casting uses them to help directors build visual families. This
up–beat talk helps the actor understand a good headshot is step one in personal promotion and “being
yourself” is usually the best choice. There will be a Q&A.
1pm–3:30pm (VA 148)
Unarmed Stage Combat: Anthony Carreiro, Long Beach City College
Learn the basics of a good unarmed stage fight. Slaps, punches, kicks, chokes, grappling and many other
physical techniques to help make stage violence look dangerous while being perfectly safe.
1pm–3pm (PA 121)
The Art of Voice–Overs: Carole Wyand, CSU Fullerton
Step up to the microphone and find out what voice–overs are, how you get started and how acting skills
translate to the world of voice–overs.
3pm–4pm (PA 117)
The Actor in the Community: Susan Merson and Jim Holmes, CSU Fullerton
So now you have your acting training—what’s next if the series or Broadway show doesn’t come knocking?
How do your acting skills translate in the real world? In the panel we will invite members of the artistic
community to join us to discuss how their training as actors has influenced them in their current work
as community organizers, event producers, spokespeople, political figures and more. Guests to include
representatives from Virginia Ave. Project, Cornerstone Theatre, etc.
3pm–5pm (PA 121)
Michael Checkhov for Directors: Ragnar Freidank, Professional Director
This workshop explores the director’s role in a unique and collaborative manner. Inspired by the Michael
Chekhov technique, this workshop will examine how the director can follow the actor’s invisible currents
through sensation and imagination and ideally guide them into a unified expression: the play.
4pm–5:30pm (PA 217)
Strategic Survival Guide for Working in Professional or University Theatre: Jim Volz, California State University, Fullerton
Author, Jim Volz (How to Run a Theatre, The Backstage Guide to Working in Regional Theatre) presents a
fast–paced workshop, which offers invaluable insight into mapping out careers in both the professional, and
collegiate, theatre world.
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5pm–6:30pm (PA 149)
Clowning and Physical Comedy: Reed Martin, Santa Rosa Junior College
Taught by Reduced Shakespeare Company stalwart and former Ringling Circus Clown Reed Martin. The
workshop will focus on basic gag structure and learning bits of physical comedy – double takes, trips, hair
pulls, slaps, foot stomps, etc. Participants will then create a short gag using techniques they have learned.
Wednesday, February 11
10am–11:30am (PA 149)
Intro to the Alba Emoting Technique: A Psycho–physical Approach to Emotion: Evelyn Carol Case, CSU Fullerton
This exploratory workshop will introduce the Alba Emoting Technique, a non–psychological approach to
emotional connection. Particpants will experience the “effector patterns” of emotion through the use of
breath and muscle tension. Come prepared to move, breathe, laugh, and shout.
10am–11am (PA 121)
Is There Really No Business Like Show Business? A Conversation on Alternative Careers for Theatre Majors: Ellyn Gersh Lerner,
CSU Northridge
Should theatre departments offer courses in alternate careers for theatre majors? Should theatre instructors
emphasize the wide range of skills students acquire as theatre majors? Should students consider the wide
variety of career possibilities available if their dreams of success in professional theatre don’t work out? These
are some of the questions to be explored in this conversation and interactive workshop primarily envisioned
for theatre educators but open to students and all who might be interested in participating.
10am–11am (PA 212)
Collaboration: Directing a Performer Conceived Performance: Carrie Klewin, Professional Director
Empower performers to create authentic performances by using the appropriate tools. Explore standard
questions that come up during rehearsal, traps to avoid, and ways to empower the actor to make creative
character–based choices, relying less on the director to give all of the answers.
10am–11am (PA 117)
Writing Exposition and Subtext: Kate Snodgrass, Boston University
We will discuss the tenets of exposition and the techniques we can use to help our audiences understand
the world of our play without resorting to “expository” writing . Plus, we will discuss the use of subtext in
dialogue, why and how it can move the story forward and aid us in communicating exposition.
10am–12pm (PA 290)
Beyond Braids and Buns: Cathie McClellan, University of the Pacific
Learn how to create “up–dos” for long and medium hair female characters. This workshop will offer tips
on creating hairstyles for the 19th century, using the performer’s own hair (mostly), including Regency,
Romantic, and Victorian looks. From Austen to Dickens, you may get a chance to actually practice on your
own head, or on the head of a willing volunteer, as time permits.
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1pm–2:30pm (PA 294)
Suzuki Training Workshop: Finding Grounded Intensity In Your Work: Reid Davis, St. Mary’s College of California
This hands–on workshop will help performers find greater focus, intensity and grounded concentration.
We will begin with principles of energy, core strength, balance and focus, then work on monologues and
audition material. The physical theatre of Tadashi Suzuki has revolutionized actor training in the West, and
forms the foundation for the work of the SITI company, among others.
1pm–2:30pm (PA 121)
Stage Management Process for Pippin with Deaf West & Center Theatre Group: Brian J. L’Ecuyer, Professional Stage Manager
Brian is an equity stage manager and is currently working on CTG/Mark Taper Forum’s production of Pippin.
He was also the production stage manager for the national tour of The Drowsy Chaperone & Putnam County Spelling
Bee. He will discuss his experiences as a professional touring AEA stage manager.
1pm–3:30pm (PA 294)
Music Theatre Audition Technique: Marc Jacobs, CSU East Bay
A workshop exploring what gets you the job in a singing audition. Delivery, interpretation, body language,
choice of material, and emotional connection are covered. Participants must bring sheet music of a song they
have performance ready to sing. Show music preferred, up–tempo or ballad. Accompanist provided.
3pm–4:30pm (VA 148)
Devising Performance: Dr. J’aime Morrison, CSU Northridge
This movement–based workshop will offer students an opportunity to learn valuable skills for creating
unique performance compositions. We will focus on ensemble building, and sensory and kinesthetic
awareness to create exciting physical drama on stage. This group work will be followed by individual training
in developing actor driven, collaborative, interdisciplinary performance projects.
3pm–4:30pm (PA 149)
Introduction to Michael Checkhov Technique: Tom Provenzano, CSU San Bernardino
This introduction to the major tenets of the Michael Chekhov Technique is based in the concept that
character is best created through behavior. The psychology of character in created through physicality, not
intellectual planning; ie. psycho–physical exercises. These ideas will be stressed: “Feeling of ease, form,
beauty and whole”; “atmospheres”; “Imaginary body and centers.”
3pm–4pm (Alvarado A/B)
Cyber Writing: Taking a Playwriting Course Online: Char Nelson, Brigham Young University
Always wanted to write a play, but just couldn’t fit a class into your schedule? Maybe your school doesn’t offer
playwriting. Visit this workshop for a taste of a new Independent Study Playwriting Course that allows you to
easily transfer credit.
3pm–5pm (PA 295)
Patterning the Late Victorian Skirt: Cathie McClellan, University of the Pacific
Learn patterning techniques for three late 19th century skirts. Using both flat pattern and draping methods,
Ms. McClellan will illustrate how to create a 5–gore walking skirt, a 3–gore “bell” skirt, and a 12–gore tulip
skirt. The emphasis for this workshop will be how grain placement and fullness work together to create an
authentic period look.
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4–5:30pm (PA 116)
1,000 Jobs in American Theatre: Jim Volz, California State University, Fullerton
Focusing on The Backstage Guide to Working in Regional Theatre, author
Jim Volz provides numerous employment options, and insights, in today’s professional theatre industry for
actors, artists, and administrators.
5pm–6:30pm (PA149)
Restorative Theater: Nicholas Roesler, Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center
A workshop designed to enhance a performer’s awareness of his or her presence on stage. By using a
combination of exercises from professional development, it will work with the performer’s need to be ever
present on stage. The main purpose of this work is to excite the sense of theatrical experimentation and
movement in the young performer. Movement heavy.
Thursday, February 12
10am–11:30am (PA 117)
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 form
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.
10am–11:30am (Tuffree A/B)
The World of Graduate Training: A Discussion for Student Actors: Scott Steele, University/Resident Theatre Association
MFA Acting teachers from URTA schools talk about pursuing professional training at graduate school, and
discuss the challenges of surviving and thriving in those programs. Audition topics include selection of
material, callbacks and the neglected skills of interviewing. Training topics include what life is like in a grad
training program and how to prepare for it. No condescension allowed here.
10am–11:30am (PA 121)
Sketch Comedy Writing/Performing: Anne Johnston–Brown, CSU San Bernardino
Prospective sketch comedy writers will learn Cherie Kerr’s eight–point formula for writing sketches and will
have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow participants in writing a sketch and presenting it to the class
for critique. Actor–participants (non–writers) will be invited to perform the sketches.
10am–11:30am (Arena Theatre)
Is Theatre A Safe Place to Talk About Diversity? Student Perspectives.: Ed Trujillo, Diablo Valley College
This town hall like discussion is part of an on–going series by KCACTF Region VIII to examine the
complexities of diversity as it relates to theatre education. Students will voice their concerns on: race, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, economic equality and other areas. Please join our distinguished panel of
students in an exciting and stimulating conversation.
10am–12pm (PA 149)
Subverting Expectations: Physically Integrated Dance/Theater: Eric Kupers, CSU East Bay
Physically integrated dance/theater combines multiple approaches to full bodied performance for people with
and without disabilities, and with all body sizes and shapes. We will explore techniques for taking ourselves
beyond the familiar, into inclusive movement landscapes that collide narrative and abstraction, visual and
visceral, rawness and precision.
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11am–12:30am (Gilman A/B)
The Ideal Design–Tech Portfolio: Smart Tips for All: Rafael Jaen, Emerson College
This PowerPoint presentation will cover various tips for design–tech portfolio development and
maintenance. Includes information such as how to choose the proper portfolio case and prepare for different
venues; how to best layout pages and how to present the work; and how to build a Resume and archive design–
tech work. The content covers traditional and digital portfolios.
1pm–2:30pm (Tuffree A/B)
Acting: Graduate Training, Undergraduate Education. A Faculty Discussion: Scott Steele, University/R
esident Theatre Association
Aimed at the undergraduate teacher, faculty from URTA MFA programs discuss the competencies and
education sought in students pursuing places in professional graduate schools. Will include ideas about
preparing students for MFA auditions and interviews. Undergraduate faculty are encouraged to raise
concerns and questions about their related challenges. Problem solving among colleagues is a priority.
1pm–2:30pm (VA 148)
Chicago Style Comedy: A Preview: John Mayer, CSU Summer Arts
This workshop is an introduction to the CSU Summer Arts program with an emphasis on Improvisational
Comedy. This is a just good old fun! A great opportunity to position yourself for scholarship assistance for
this summer’s CSU Summer Arts program.
1pm–2pm (Gilman A/B)
Ten Points of Auditioning Workshop: Anne Johnston–Brown, CSU San Bernardino
Author Anne Johnston–Brown outlines ten points to ensure a successful audition experience. These points
include how to find professional auditions, as well as preparing headshots and resumes and what to expect
inside the audition space. This is a lecture/discussion–based workshop, in which participants are encouraged
to bring their questions and personal accounts.
1pm–3pm (PA 294)
Do’s and Don’ts for a Singing Audition: Mitch Hanlon, CSU Fullerton
Actors: Here’s how to nail that singing audition! A lecture on the common pitfalls most people make at a
singing audition. Geared to give students who are primarily actors the info and confidence they need to get
the job. Experienced musical theatre performers are very welcome and will also come away with valuable
information.
3pm–4:30pm (PA 121)
How to Get a Job in the Industry: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
Formatted as a question and answer session with industry professionals, this session is intended to give some
helpful advice to students seeking employment in the field of technical theatre. This workshop is a panel
discussion with a variety of presenters from the conference.
3pm–4:30pm (PA 212)
Using Laban to Create Characters: Paul T. Mitri, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Using Laban’s elements of time, weight and space, this workshop will examine actors’ habitual tendencies and
how to change these to develop more specific character choices.
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3pm–4pm (Alvarado A/B)
Directing New Plays: Ann–Giselle Spiegler and Che’Rae Adams, Professional Directors
How is directing a new play different than a classic? How do you start a conversation with a playwright?
What does a playwright want from a director? Two award–winning directors, Spiegler (co–founder of the Lit
Theatre), and Adams (Producting Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Playwrights’ Center) answer all your
questions about directing new plays.
3pm–4pm (Tuffree A/B)
Act in England! All the World’s Our Stage: Lynda Linford, Utah State University
Ever wanted to travel abroad and act there? This workshop explains the possibility and the process. Kelmarsh
Estate is the stage, the University of Northampton is the rehearsal space, a B&B is the lodging, and the
fabulous English Countryside, the research. From Austen to Wilde to Coward, the opportunity of a lifetime:
to perform in a fully–mounted British play in..England!
3pm–5pm (Gilman A/B)
Irene Ryan Auditions: Putting your Best Foot Forward: Eve Himmelheber, CSU Fullerton
Past Ryans Coordinator explains the event criteria, adjudication process, and rules, and shares tips on
a successful audition (including material choice, rights, timing, “contrast,” partners, presentation, and
preparation). Bring all your burning questions! Some audition tips will be of value to any actor, helping to
tackle the universal reality of the dreaded and inevitable “audition” environment.
3pm–5pm (PA 295)
A Window on the World of the Play: Using Image Tiles in the Design Conversation: Cathie McClellan, University of the Pacific
A shared vision is at the core of every successful theatrical design. Articulating that vision helps to focus
research and discussions. This workshop shows how the use of image tiles and the visual collage offer a
starting point for conversations with directors and fellow designers. The exercises covered spring from an
article by Crystal Tiala in the Winter 2003 TD&T.
5pm–6:30pm (PA 121)
Things To Do With A Lighting Degree: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
A small panel discussion with a few industry professionals exploring the wide variety of jobs and job fields
available for technical theatre students.
5pm–6:30pm (PA 212)
Layering Physical Elements to Characters: Ed Trujillo, Diablo Valley College
What happens when you impose physical elements, whether they are stated or not, to your characters? These
would include breathe, vocal qualities, physical tension, facial expressions, specific gestures, and physical
stances. The objective of the workshop is to help you develop “emotional colors” to your characters. The
workshop will cover techniques of commedia ‘dell arte, mask work and other techniques. Bring a monologue
if you have one. There will be short scenes available.
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Student Dramaturg y Forum: Susan Merson, CSU Fullerton
Attention All Dramaturgs and Playwrights! Please bring your work to Festival and join us for a student
roundtable where we share our work from this last year. Bring photos and programs and notes and questions
and concerns and let’s talk about what it is to work on plays as writers and advisors… this is for everyone who
might want to talk about their work. We want you! Let us know wassup.
Friday, February 13
10am–11:30am (PA 151/53)
Intro to Moving Lights: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
This workshop is intended to be an introduction to the use and programming of moving lights. Using ETC
ION consoles and Robe Moving lights, this workshop focuses on the theory and basic use of different kinds
of moving lights.
10am–11:30am (Bradford A/B)
Design/Technolog y and Graduate Training: A Discussion for Students: Scott Steele, University/Resident Theatre Association
Accomplished artist–teachers from URTA Member Schools discuss the pursuit of professional graduate
training, and once in, surviving and succeeding in demanding programs. Topics include portfolio
preparation, prepping for the interview and what to expect when classes begin in September. What is
graduate school really like? Ask questions. Get straightforward answers.
10am–11:30am (Tuffree A/B)
Stage Manager’s Roundtable: Meredith Greenburg, CSU Los Angeles
Discussion of relevant topics for student stage managers. Professional stage managers will be in attendance to
add insight and moderate.
10am–12pm (PA 149)
Long Form Improvising for Devising New Plays: David Catanzarite, College of the Desert
This workshop for actors, directors, writers, and designers explores a set of long–form improvisation
techniques for building new plays. Those not necessarily interested in devising will also reap benefits from
these unique, high–energy gestalt improvs. This system is completely different from Spolin, Comedysports,
or Keith Johnstone, but it builds on what you bring to the table.
1pm– 2:30pm (PA 149)
Liberation Theatre Experience: Corky Dominguez, Professional Director
Take a risk, explore your authentic voice, create an image and make a movement with this physical ensemble–
based session inspired by Bogart and Boal. Come ready to play!
1pm–2:30pm (PA 151/53)
Intro to Moving Lights: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
This workshop is intended to be an introduction to the use and programming of moving lights. Using ETC
ION consoles and Robe Moving lights, this workshop focuses on the theory and basic use of different kinds
of moving lights.
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1pm–2:30pm (Bradford A/B)
Design/Tech: Graduate Training, Undergraduate Education. A Faculty Discussion: Scott Steele, University/Resident Theatre
Association
Artist–Teachers from URTA MFA programs discuss the skills, competencies and education sought in
young designers/technicians pursuing professional training, including specifics on preparing students for
graduate school. Undergraduate faculty are encouraged to bring concerns and questions about their related
challenges. A dynamic dialogue among colleagues about a student’s path from education to training, and into
a career.
The Dramatists Bill of Rights: Gary Garrison, Dramatists Guild of America
This workshop details what every dramatist should know before entering into a creative collaboration with
any artist.
1pm–3pm (PA 294)
Musical Theater Master Class: Mitch Hanlon, CSU Fullerton
Master class follow–up to the Audition Do’s and Don’ts lecture. Using short excerpt audition materials, Mr.
Hanlon will coach student’s performance using the same techniques that he’s used for hundreds of Tony,
Emmy and Oscar–winning stars and his many students that are current Broadway performers. Geared to
share the concepts that create a professional musical theatre performance.
Creating New Work: Devised, Adapted, Documentary Pieces–Creation, Rights and Community Involvement: Susan Merson, CSU
Fullerton
We’ll take a look at how theatres and practiontioners approach adaptations, community based projects and
documentary works and the issues that surround them, including rights, stakeholders and audiences.
3pm–4:30pm (PA 151/53)
Advanced Moving Lights: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
Following up on basic moving lights, this workshop is intended to be a further exploration of the use and
programming of moving lights. Using ETC ION consoles and Robe Moving lights, this workshop focuses on
advanced programming of moving lights.
Ten Commandments of Theatre: Anne Johnston–Brown, CSU San Bernardino
Author Anne Johnston–Brown personally outlines the steps from her book, taking the actor from the
moment they are cast in a role to the final curtain and bow. This is a lecture/discussion–based workshop, in
which students are invited to participate with questions and personal accounts. (The character development
and acting techniques taught in this workshop are based in The Method.)
3pm–4pm (Gabrielino)
Lit Managers and Playwrights: Susan Merson, CSU Fullerton
Come meet Literary Managers from three major theatres to talk about submitting plays to companies large
and small. Bring your questions and curiosity and meet some great people!
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3pm–5pm (PA 290)
Glamour Make–Up: Caroline Mercier, CSU Los Angeles
Come and transform yourself into a movie star. You will learn all about the makeup and hair styling for the
40ies and look gorgeous too. Please bring a hair dryer, comb and brush as well as any makeup or hair product
you have from home.
5:30pm–7pm (Bradford A/B)
A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actor’s Equity and a Practical Approach to the Business: Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association
The workshop describes Equity’s mission: to support and protect the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. It explains how and when to join and outlines contracts and benefits. The workshop offers insights into
balancing artistic & business mindsets, covers personal negotiating skills, record keeping, networking, and
more. The session is Q & A driven, and is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a
professional career.
5pm–6:30pm (PA 151/53)
Advanced Moving Lights: David Empey, Barbizon Lighting
Following up on basic moving lights, this workshop is intended to be a further exploration of the use and
programming of moving lights. Using ETC ION consoles and Robe Moving lights, this workshop focuses on
advanced programming of moving lights.
Saturday, February 14
10am–11:30am (PA149)
San Francisco Mime Troupe at Summer Arts: Ruth Griffin, CSU Fresno
Physical Theatre Workshop: Including Commedia Dell’Arte, Lecoq based physical explorations, strategies
used by San Francisco Mime Troupe for script development.
10am–11:30am (VA 148)
Playing with Space: Physicalizing the Performer: Jennifer S Holmes, Whittier College
Participants will explore the dynamics of space via exercises, silent improvisations, and improvisations
with music. This workshop will benefit both actors and directors in experiencing exercises that expand the
physical, vocal, and emotional comfort–zone for both ensembles and individual actors. Participants should
have a memorized monologue prepared for this workshop, though they will not be performing it in its
entirety.
10am–12pm (PA 117)
Breaking into Commercials: Terry Berland, Terry Berland Casting
Workshop will take actors through the selection and booking process. Learn how to reveal your personality in
the small amount of time and expand the small space to look and feel like a larger space. Acting abilities will
be transformed to the commercial technique.
1pm–2:30pm (VA 148)
The Powerful Presence: Effort, Risk, Momentum, Joy: Joe Krienke, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre
A physically demanding workshop that will highlight some of the fundamental principles developed over 30
years of training actor–creators at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Content includes
work on the actor’s presence, physical efforts, rhythm and pace, volume and dimension, time and timing,
duration and weight, line of force, contrast, interruption, and discovery.
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1pm–2:30pm (PA 149)
Chicago Style Comedy: A Preview: John Mayer, CSU Summer Arts
This workshop is an introduction to the CSU Summer Arts program with an emphasis on Improvisational
Comedy. This is a just good old fun! A great opportunity to position yourself for scholarship assistance for
this summer’s CSU Summer Arts program.
1pm–3pm (Bradford A/B)
Casting Director Workshop: Erika Sellin, Center Theatre Group
To sharpen audition skills, find out how theatre auditions are handled, and learn the likes and dislikes of a
casting office and a better understanding of the tools needed to audition successfully and book the job. If you
present a monologue, receive adjustments and feedback. Q&A.
1:30pm–3pm (PA 121)
Beginning Stage Managers: from Prompt Script to Closing Night: Brad Buffum, University of Nebraska –Lincoln
Many student stage managers work without instructors, figuring it out as they go along. This workshop
will give you a needed jump start and some basics of how to get your show off the ground. VERY informal
with lots of Q&A. We’ll include basics of blocking notation, rehearsal/performance notes and how to stage
manage your fellow students and work with faculty designers and directors.
1:30pm – 4:30pm (HT – PA 180)
Master Class with Don Holder
Don Holder, Tony award winning lighting designer will discuss his career experiences and aesthetic
approach to his design process. Mr. Holder will also review selected student work and offer feedback. Student
will be able to ask questions during a Q & A session.
3pm–4pm (PA 212)
The Energ y of Sound: A Mind/Body Vocal Warm up for the Actor: Janine Christl, Fresno City College
A new kind of vocal warm up that is a relaxing and reflective experience. Using held sound and imagery along
with reflective questions, we will explore the feeling and placement of sound. This is not only a vocal warm
up, but a great emotional preparation for actors as the vocal sounding is connected to personal emotional
expression.
3pm–4:30pm (PA 121)
Advanced Stage Management––The Nitty Gritty: Brad Buffum, University of Nebraska –Lincoln
Having had several academic productions, student stage managers often need a boost up to the next level of
professionalism. We’ll take a look at prompt scripts you bring and improve your communication skills, you
communication with actors, directors and the production team.
3pm–5pm (PA 149)
Mastering Shakespeare’s Text Through Physicalization: Kathleen Normington, San Jose State University
Through a series of exercises that move from the purely physical to a rough performance of the text,
actors learn to understand and communicate the nuances and meaning of Shakespeare’s plays. A physical
connection to the text is essential to making interesting and theatrical choices with the material.
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Event Descriptions
Critics Workshop & Competition
Good theatre needs good criticism. As playwrights, directors, designers, and actors work to develop their
craft and create work that challenges them and their audiences, they need the informed eyes and ears of the
critic to celebrate their achievements, give honest evaluations of their work, and encourage them to continue
to work to create exciting theatre. It is for these reasons that KCACTF, in partnership with the Eugene
O’Neill Institute, sponsors the National Critics Institute (NCI). This workshop will be held Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday. See schedule for details.
Design & Technology Exhibition
The Design & Technology Exhibition gives outstanding student designers regional recognition and the
opportunity to exhibit their work at the Regional Festival. Throughout the week the designs will be critiqued
by theatre professionals on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques. The
Design & Technology Exhibition will be located in the Fine Arts Gallery till Friday at 5:00pm at which time
the finalists will be moved to the Young Theatre Lobby. The Design Exhibition will be open for general
viewing during the following days and times:
Tuesday 1:00pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Thursday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm
Finalist will be displayed in the Young Theatre Lobby Saturday from 10:00am –11:00pm.
Student Designer will be at their displays at 6:00pm prior to the Irene Ryan Finals for discussion of their work.
Farewell to Northern California
As you may or may not know our colleagues in Northern California and Northern Nevada have been moved
out of our region and into Region VII (the Pacific Northwest). This is all part of the national reorganization
of the regions. So on Friday evening (February 13th) of the festival, immediately following the evening
performances CSU Sacramento’s production of Tongues and Miracosta’s production of Heartland, Region
VIII is hosting a “Farewell to our Friends in the North” gathering in the TSU Pavilions A and B. All
registered participants are welcome and encouraged to attend. Live music and refreshments will be provided.
Next Step Auditions and Interviews
KCACTF Region VIII offers Festival participants a wonderful opportunity to take the next step in their
educational or professional goals with this chance to be seen and heard by major universities and theatre
companies. This year there will be no additional fee for participants. All Festival registrants are eligible to
participate. Please note: All Next Step participants must show their festival ID at check–in. Next Step Acting
Auditions will take place Friday in the Arena Theatre (PA 115). Next Step Tech Interviews will take place
Saturday in the Titan Student Union (TSU) Pavilions.
See schedule for details.
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National Playwriting Program
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 staged reading of a student–written play. Faculty directors
and dramaturgs collaborate intensively with student playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, scenographers and
stage managers to develop scripts and perform a live staged reading during the Festival. Audition forms and
information about each of the two one–acts and six ten–minute plays are available on the regional website
(kcactf–8.org) and at the audition table on site. Read a synopsis, character description, and audition side for
each play. Select your plays and sign up to audition between Irene Ryan rounds. Auditions run from 9:30 am
to noon on Tuesday, February 10, with callbacks from noon to 2:30 pm.
Respondent Workshop
Wednesday, February 11 – Saturday, February 14, 8:00 am to 10:00 am held in the Crown Plaza Hotel.
Respondents Workshop Coordinator: Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount University
General Respondents Workshop Facilitators: Val Limar–Jansen – Riverside Community
College, Bob Nelson – University of Utah, Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount University,
Rodger Sorensen–Brigham Young University
Design Respondents Workshop Coordinator: Geof Eroe – Phoenix College
New Plays Respondents Workshop Coordinator: Char Nelson – Brigham Young University
The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for Region VIII respondents, new and old 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 responses
to productions. The workshop will include viewing of Festival productions and four sessions dedicated to
presentation/discussion of guidelines for response, practicum responses by participants, and feedback on
these responses from the workshop directors and participating colleagues. Sessions are scheduled to begin
Wednesday, February 11, and continue daily through Saturday, February 14, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am each
of these mornings. Faculty participants need to be able to attend the first session and at least two of
the remaining three sessions.
Scenography for New plays
Creating new plays requires vision, collaboration and imagination. That is why the addition of scenographers
to this event will add a richness to both the development of the dramaturgic elements as well as the overall
concept of the play as it is built and rehearsed. Scenography, from the Greek “sceno” (stage) and “graph”
(spatial organization) include all visual elements that are part of a play such as set, light and costume designs.
See schedule for details.
SSDC Student Directing Presentations & Competition
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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 Society of Stage
Directors & Choreographers, sponsors the SSDC Student Directing Presentations & Competition. The
directors will present scenes, observe critical responses by professionals in the field, and participate in
workshops Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. See schedule for details.
Student Stage Manager Festival Participation
Stage Managers maintain the integrity of the production. Finalists for the Stage Management Fellowship
competition work on festival events and are judged on their festival assignment, their professionalism,
communication and organization skills, adherence to tasks and their additional materials: production
prompt script, resume, letter of intent, and the letter of support from their director/faculty or staff mentor.
Written documentation of the stage managers’ process can be viewed in the Fine Arts Gallery during the
hours of the Design and Technology Exhibition.
Social Events
Tuesday Feb. 2, 2009
Festival XLI – KICKOFF DANCE!
Start the week off with a bang rocking out with new and old friends as we welcome you to Region VIII’s
2009 festival!
Location – TSU Pavilion B
10:00 pm – Midnight
Wednesday Feb. 11, 2009
A NIGHT IN THE UNDERGROUND
Beneath the TSU we open the stage to poets, playwrights, comedians, and anyone else who wants to share
their work with their peers. Come enjoy free bowling, pool, and ping–pong all in the Underground.
Location – TSU Titan Underground
Thursday Feb. 12, 2009
Movie Night.
Come on out and chill by kicking back with new friends and watch HAIRSPRAY!
Location – TSU Pavilion B
Friday Feb. 13, 2009
FAREWELL TO OUR FRIENDS FROM THE NORTH
We bid a fond farewell to Northern California as they join Region VII. This is a semi–formal event to which
faculty, guests, and students are encouraged to attend. Come enjoy live music and good friends.
Location – TSU Pavilions B & C
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Schedule of Events
Monday, February 9
TSU Pavilion A:2:00p–10:00p
TSU Alva:7:00p–10:00p
Registration/Check In
NPDW/10 Minute Plays – Orientation meeting with
all creative teams
Tuesday, February 10
TSU Heteb:7:30a– 7:00p
TSU Pavilion A: 8:00a– 8:00p
TSU Theatre:7:00a–11:00p
TSU Gab:7:00a – 11:00p
TSU Stearns:7:00a – 11:00p
TSU Brad B:7:00a – 11:00p
LT:
8:00a – 10:00a GALLERY:
8:00a – NOON
TSU Alva A/B:
8:30a– 9:30a
HT
9:00a – 1:00p
TSU Gab Hall:
9:30a – 2:30p
LT:10:00a – 5:00p PA 117:10:00a – 11:00p PA 212:10:00a – 11:30p GALLERY:1:00p– 2:00p
GALLERY:1:00p – 6:00p
PA 121:1:00p – 3:00p
VA 148:1:00P – 3:30p
YT:1:00p – 5:00p
HT:2:30p – 5:00p
PA 117:3:00p – 4:00p
PA 121:3:00P – 5:00p
TSU Alva A/B:3:00p – 5:00p
PA 2174:00p – 5:30pm
PA 149:5:00p – 6:30p
PA 117:5:00p – 6:30p
LT:5:30p– 7:00p GALLERY:
6:00p – 7:00p
LT:
8:00p– 9:30p LT:
9:30p – 11:30p
TSU UG10:00p – 12:00a
CPH:11:00p – 1:00a
Wednesday, February 11
TSU Heteb:7:30a – 7:00p
Hospitality Room for Respondents and Adjudicators
Registration/Check in
Irene Ryan Preliminary Rounds
Ryan Warm up & Check–in
RESPONSE: Irene Ryan
Invitational Scenes Load IN
Design exhibits Load IN
NPDW/10 Minute Plays – Production Meeting
LOAD IN – Jesus Hopped the A Train
NPDW/10 Minute Plays – Auditions and Callbacks
Invitational Scenes Rehearsals
WORKSHOP: Headshots in the Actor’s Career
WORKSHOP: Fitzmaurice Voicework
Design Reception – Gallery Courtyard
Design Exhibit open for public viewing
WORKSHOP: The Art of Voice–Overs
WORKSHOP: Unarmed Stage Combat
LOAD IN – As You Like It
Costumes/Make Up Adjudication
Performance #1– Jesus Hopped the A Train
WORKSHOP: The Actor in the Community
WORKSHOP: Michael Chekhov for Directors
NPDW/10 Minute Plays – Casting
WORKSHOP: Strategic Survival Guide for Working in Professional or University Theatre
WORKSHOP: Clowning and Physical Comedy
WORKSHOP: How to Learn Dialects
PERFORMANCE #1 – Invitational Scenes
Design Respondents Dinner Break
Complete Costume and Makeup Presentations
PERFORMANCE #2 – Invitational Scenes
Invitational Scenes LOAD OUT
Student Social: Festival XLI – Kickoff Dance!
Faculty Hospitality Suite
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TSU Pavilion A: 8:00a – 8:00p
CPH:
8:00a – 10:00a
TSU Theatre:7:00a – 11:00p
TSU Gab:7:00a – 11:00p
TSU Stearns:7:00a – 11:00p
TSU Brad B:7:00a – 11:00p
GALLERY:
9:00a – 6:00p
GALLERY:
9:00a – 1:00p
TSU Ont A/B/C: 9:00a – 10:00p
LT:
9:00a – 1:00p
PA 121:10:00a – 11:00p
PA 212:10:00a – 11:00p
PA 117:10:00a – 11:00p
PA 149:10:00a – 11:30p
PA 290:10:00a – 12:00p YT:10:30a–1:00p
HT:11:00a – 1:00p
PA 294:1:00p – 2:30p
PA 121:1:00p – 2:30p
PA 2941:00p – 3:30p
LT:2:30p – 4:00p
HT:3:00p – 4:30p
RH (PA 110):3:00p – 10:00p
VA 148:3:00p – 4:30p
PA 149:3:00p – 4:30p
TSU Pres Rm:3:00p – 5:00p
PA 295:3:00p – 5:30p
YT:3:30p – 6:00p
PA 1164:00p – 5:30pm
TSU Pavillion B: 4:30p – 7:30p
HT:4:30a – 6:30p
PA 149:5:00p – 6:30p
LT:
6:00p – 7:30p
YT:7:30p – 10:00p
LT:
8:00p – 9:30p
LT:
9:30p – 11:30p
YT:10:00p – 12:00a
TSU UG10:00p – 12:00a
CPH:11:00p – 1:00a
Respondents Workshop
Irene Ryan Preliminary Rounds
Ryan Warm up & Check–in
Scenery/ Properties Adjudication
New Plays Rehearsals
LOAD IN – Nosferatu
WORKSHOP: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?
WORKSHOP: Directing a Performer Conceived Performance
WORKSHOP: Writing Exposition and Subtext
WORKSHOP: Intro to the Alba Emoting Technique
WORKSHOP: Beyond Braids and Buns
PERFORMANCE #1 – As You Like It
Performance #2– Jesus Hopped the A Train
WORKSHOP: Suzuki Training Workshop
WORKSHOP: Stage Management Process For Pippin
WORKSHOP: Music Theatre Audition Technique
Lighting / Sound Adjudication
PERFORMANCE #1 of Nosferatu
PERFORMANCE #3– Jesus Hopped the A Train
Preliminary Round Directing Scenes for SSDC
WORKSHOP: Cyber Writing
WORKSHOP: Devising Performance
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Michael Chekhov Technique
National Critics Institute Workshop (Part 1)
WORKSHOP: Patterning the Late Victorian Skirt
PERFORMANCE #2 of As You Like It
WORKSHOP: 1,000 Jobs in American Theatre
Excellence in Education Dinner
LOAD OUT – Jesus Hopped the A Train
WORKSHOP: Restorative Theater
PERFORMANCE #3 of As You Like It
LOAD OUT – Nosferatu
LOAD OUT – As You Like It
Student Social: A Night in the Underground
Thursday, February 12
YT:
8:00a – Noon
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Load IN – Cauble’s Corner
Poet’s Corner–UC Santa Cruz
Ten Minutes–CSULA
Fire in the Bones–Weber State
CPH:
8:00a – 10:00a
TSU Theatre:
8:00a – 3:00p
NPDW/10 Minute Plays Rehearsals
GALLERY:
9:00a – 11:00a
Design & Technology Exhibit MASTER RESPONSE
GALLERY: 11:00a – 11:30a
Stage Manager MASTER RESPONSE
GALLERY:
9:00a – 6:00p
TSU Alva A:
9:00a – 10:30a
RESPONSE As You Like It
LT:10:00a – 2:00p
Load IN – Don Coyote
TSU Brad A/B:10:00a – 1:00p
Interview/Response: Directing Scenes for SSDC
PA 117:10:00a – 11:30a
WORKSHOP: Form Will Set You Free
TSU Tuff A/B:10:00a – 11:30a
WORKSHOP: The World of Graduate Training
PA 121:10:00a – 11:30a
WORKSHOP: Sketch Comedy Writing/Performing
AT (PA 115):10:00a – 11:30p
WORKSHOP: Is Theatre A Safe Place to Talk About Diversity?
PA 149:10:00a – 12:00p WORKSHOP: Subverting Expectations
TSU Alva A:10:30a – Noon RESPONSE Nosferatu
TSU Gil A/B:11:00a – 12:30p
WORKSHOP: The Ideal Design–Tech Portfolio
TSU Gil A/B:1:00p – 2:00p
WORKSHOP: Ten Points of Auditioning Workshop
TSU Tuff A/B1:00p – 2:30p
WORKSHOP: Acting: Training & Education. A Faculty Discussion
VA 1481:00p – 2:30p
WORKSHOP: Chicago Style Comedy: A Preview
PA 249:1:00p – 3:00p
WORKSHOP: Do’s and Don’ts for a Singing Audition
YT:1:00p – 3:00p1st PERFORMANCE Cauble’s Corner
Ten Minutes–CSULA
TSU Alva A:1:00p – 2:30p
RESPONSE Jesus Hopped the A Train
TSU Brad A/B1:00p – 7:00p Stage Manager Fellowship Interviews
TSU Ont A/B/C:2:00p – 6:00p
New Plays Rehearsals
TSU Stearns:2:00p – 3:30p
National Critics Institute Workshop (Part 2)
WORKSHOP: Directing New Plays
TSU Tuff A/B:3:00p – 4:00p
WORKSHOP: Act in England! All the World’s Our Stage
PA 1213:00p – 4:30p
WORKSHOP: How to Get a Job in the Industry
PA 2123:00p – 4:30p
WORKSHOP: Using Laban to Create Characters
TSU Gil A/B:3:00p – 5:00p
WORKSHOP: Irene Ryan Auditions
PA 295:3:00p – 5:00p
WORKSHOP: Using Image Tiles in the Design Conversation
LT:3:00p – 5:30p
PERFORMANCE #1 – Don Coyote
TSU Brad B:3:00p – 6:00p
Stage Manager Fellowship Interviews
YT:4:00p – 6:00p2nd PERFORMANCE Cauble’s Corner
Ten Minutes–CSULA
Alumni House:4:30p – 7:30p
President’s Dinner
WORKSHOP: Student Dramaturgy Forum
PA 121:5:00p – 6:30p
WORKSHOP: Things To Do With A Lighting Degree
PA 212:5:00P – 6:30p
WORKSHOP: Layering Physical Elements to Characters
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LT:7:30p – 10:00p
PERFORMANCE #2 of Don Coyote
YT:
8:00p – 10:00p3rd PERFORMANCE – Cauble’s Corner
Ten Minutes–CSULA
AT:
8:00p – 9:30p
LOAD IN – Life Without Parole
LT:10:00p – 12:00a
LOAD OUT – Don Coyote
YT:10:00p – 12:00a
LOAD OUT Cauble’s Corner in Young Theatre
Ten Minutes–CSULA
TSU Pavilion B:10:00p – 12:00a
Student Social – Game Night
AT:10:00p – 11:30p
PERFORMANCE – Life Without Parole
CPH:11:00p – 1:00a
AT:11:30p – 12:30a
LOAD OUT – Life Without Parole
Friday, February 13
LT:7:30a – 8:45a
Irene Ryan Semi–Finals Check–in/Rehearsals
AT (PA 115):
8:00a – 9:00p
NEXT STEP Acting Auditions
YT:
8:00a – Noon
Load IN – Heartland
CPH:
8:00a – 10:00a
TSU Pavilion A: 9:00a –5:00p
TSU Theatre:
9:00a – 11:00a
NPDW I – Things that Fall From The Sky: Rehearsal
LT:
9:00a – 1:00p
PERFORMANCE Irene Ryan Semi–Finals
GALLERY:
9:00a – 5:00p
Design Exhibits Open
TSU Alva B:
9:00a – 11:00a
RESPONSE – Cauble’s Corner
Ten Minutes–CSULA
TSU Ont A/B/C: 9:00a – 10:00p10 Minute Play Rehearsals
PA 151/153:10:00a – 11:30p
WORKSHOP: Intro to Moving Lights
TSU Brad A/B:10:00a – 11:30p
WORKSHOP: Design/Technology and Graduate Training
TSU Tuff A/B:10:00a – 11:30p
WORKSHOP: Stage Manager’s Roundtable
PA 149:10:00a – Noon
WORKSHOP: Long Form Improvising for Devising New Plays
HT:10:00a – Noon
Prep for Don Holder
RH (PA 110):10:00a – Noon
Conversation with James Still
TSU Theatre:11:00a – 12:30p
Things that Fall From The Sky: Performance/Response
TSU Pres Rm:11:00a – 1:00p
National Critics Institute Workshop III
TSU Alva B:11:30a – 1:00p
RESPONSE – Don Coyote TSU Tuff A/B:1:00a – 2:00p
WORKSHOP: The Dramatists Bill of Rights
PA 149:1:00p – 2:30p
WORKSHOP: Liberation Theatre Experience
PA 151/153:1:00p – 2:30p
WORKSHOP: Intro to Moving Lights
TSU Brad A/B:1:00p – 2:30p WORKSHOP: Design/Tech Graduate Training (for Faculty)
PA 294:1:00p – 3:00p
WORKSHOP: Musical Theater Master Class
YT: 1:00p– 3:00p
PERFORMANCE #1 of Heartland
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HT:1:00p – 5:00p
TSU Theatre:1:00p – 3:00p
TSU Tuffree A/B: 2:00p – 3:00p LT:2:00p – 6:00p
TSU Gab: 3 :00p – 4:00p PA 151/153:3:00p – 4:30p
TSU Theatre:3:00p – 4:30p
PA 290:3:00p – 5:00p
TSU Alva B:4:00p – 5:30p
YT:4:30p – 7:00p
PA 151/153:5:00p – 6:30p
TSU Brad B:5:30p – 7:00p
LT:7:30p – 9:00p
YT:
8:00p – 9:30p
TSU Pavilion B/C:10:00p – 12:00a
YT:
9:30p – 11:30p
CPH:11:00p – 1:00a
Prep for Don Holder
Flooding the Grand – Rehearsal
WORKSHOP: Creating New Work:
Load IN – Tongues
WORKSHOP: Ten Commandments of Theatre
WORKSHOP: Lit Managers and Playwrights
WORKSHOP: Advanced Moving Lights
Flooding the Grand – Performance & Response
WORKSHOP: Glamour Make–Up
RESPONSE Life Without Parole
LOAD OUT Design Exhibits
WORKSHOP: Advanced Moving Lights
WORKSHOP: The Role of Actor’s Equity
PERFORMANCE #1 of Tongues
Farwell to our friends from the North
Reception/Student Social
LOAD OUT Heartland
Saturday, February 14
CPH:
8:00a – 10:00a
TSU Theatre:
8:00a – 10:00a
GALLERY:
8:30a – 10:00a
YT LOBBY:
8:30a – 10:00a
TSU Pavilion A: 9:00a –5:00p
MENG:
9:00a – 6:00p
TSU Alva A/B:
9:00a – 10:30a
TSU Pavilion A: 9:00a – Noon
MENG:
9:00a – 6:00p
YT LOBBY: 10:00a – 5:00p
TSU Theatre:10:00a –1:00p
PA 149:10:00a – 11:30a
VA 148:10:00a – 11:30a
PA 117:10:00a – Noon
HT:10:00a – Noon
RH (PA 110) 11:00a – 1:00p PA 294:
Noon – 1:00p
Garden Café or
TSU Gab
Noon – 1:30p
PA 294:1:00p – 2:00p
VA 148:1:00p – 2:30p
10 Minute Plays Rehearsal
LOAD OUT Design Exhibits from Gallery
Finalist move displays to Inner Lobby of Young Theatre
LOAD IN Design Finalist Exhibits
Ryan Finals Load in & Rehearsals
RESPONSE Heartland
NEXT STEP Tech Interviews
NEXT STEP Call Backs – *see list of rooms
Irene Ryan Finals Rehearsals
Design Finalist Exhibit open for public viewing
PERFORMANCE 10 Minute Plays
WORKSHOP: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Summer Arts
WORKSHOP: Playing with Space: Physicalizing the Performer
WORKSHOP: Breaking into Commercials
WORKSHOP: Don Holder Master Class
Final Round Directing Scenes for SSDC.
NEXT STEP Dance Warmups
Reception for Don Holder
NEXT STEP Dance Auditions
WORKSHOP: The Powerful Presence
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PA 149:1:00p – 2:30p
PA 121:1:30p – 3:30p
HT:1:30p – 4:30p
LT:2:00p – 3:30p
PA 121:3:00p – 4:30p
PA 212:3:00p – 4:00p
PA 149:3:00p – 5:00p LT:3:30p – 5:30p
TSU Pavilion B:4:30p – 6:30p
LT:5:30p – 7:00p
YT Lobby:
6:00p – 11:00p
MENG:
6:00p MENG:7:30p – 11:00p
YT Lobby:11:00p – 12:00a
MENG:11:00p – 12:30a
CPH:11:00p – 1:00a
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WORKSHOP: Chicago Style Comedy: A Preview
WORKSHOP: Casting Director Workshop
WORKSHOP: Beginning Stage Managers
WORKSHOP: Master Class with Don Holder
PERFORMANCE #2 of Tongues
WORKSHOP: Advanced Stage Management
WORKSHOP: A Mind/Body Vocal Warm up for the Actor
WORKSHOP: Shakespeare’s Text through Physicalization
LOAD OUT of Tongues in Little Theatre
VIP Dinner
RESPONSE – Tongues
Design Finalist Exhibits OPEN
Check–in & warm–up Irene Ryan Finalist
PERFORMANCE Irene Ryan Finals
Design Finalist Exhibits Load OUT
Festival Awards Ceremony
Who’s Who
Festival Guests
Michael Allen
(Design and Technology
Adjudicator)
Michael Allen is the Chair for
Design and Technology for Region
II and Deputy Chair of Production
and Asst. Professor at Montclair
State University. Michael has earned credits in a
variety of areas in theatre including Performance,
Administration and Production. A few of his credits
include working for organizations such as NJPAC
in the Arts Education Department and Production
Manager, for Crossroads Theatre Company. His
Stage Management, credits include AEA Stage
management for The Passage Theatre, African
Globe Theatre, TheatreFest and Premiere Stages
and Steal Magnolias, Proof, Trojan Women and
The Prince of Homburg at MSU. He has directed
at The Newark Community School of the Arts,
The Now Theatre, and the 2004 NASPA National
Convention in Denver Colorado. At MSU he has
directed The Twilight of the Golds by Jonathan Tolins, In
the Blood by Suzan Lori Parks, World goes Round, Kander
and Ebb Review for the University Players. As a
Designer he was the resident lighting designer for
Essex County College and has designed lights for
the MSU dance concert Works A foot. He has served
as scenic designer for the Theatre department’s
production of production of Working the Musical
and has designed for the African Globe Theatre.
He has written two children’s plays and adaptation
of snow white entitled An African Tale and an original
script Cindy and the Battle of Aspru.
Karen Anselm
(Design and Technology Adjudicator)
Karen Anselm is a Professor of Theatre, Costume
Designer and Director at Bloomsburg University.
She directed Trojan Women and Lysistrata, which toured
to the International Theatre Institute Festival
of Ancient Greek Drama in Cyprus. A graduate
of CMU, some of her favorite costume designs
include: Romeo & Juliet at BU, You Can’t Take It With You at
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Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, The Three Sisters at La
MaMa, NYC and Wolf Sonata Bacchae at Dell Arte in
Blue Lake, CA. Karen is presently the National Vice
Chair of Design for the Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival, and has served as Chair of
Region II, Chair of Chairs and Member at Large.
Brad Buffum (Design &
Technology Adjudicator)
Brad Buffum teaches at University
of Nebraska – Lincoln’s Johnny
Carson School of Theatre and
Film. This is also Brad’s 10th
year as Production Stage Manger
for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Nebraska’s
only Actors’ Equity Association theatre. While at
UNL, he has been PSM for such blockbusters as
A Christmas Carol (several versions), Fiddler on
the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! And nearly
forty productions for NRT, including Carnival.
As instructor for Introduction to Theatre, he has
widened the horizons of nearly 3,000 non–theatre
majors. He has stage managed productions for
UNL in Russia, Poland and around the Midwest.
An active participant in KCACTF, he serves on
the selection team for Region V and is the stage
management coordinator at the national festival. He
is web master for kcactf.org and works to promote
recognition for student stage managers across the
US.
Amick Byram (Irene Ryan
Finals Adjudicator)
Amick Byram has directed five
world premieres of new musicals
including One to One, an original
rock/multimedia musical with a
Christian message and theme. He
is also the original director of the world premiere
of the play, David, which has toured internationally.
He recently completed the world premiere staging of
the brand new musical, Aesop based on the life of the
ancient Greek writer. Amick is a two–time Grammy
Award nominee and Broadway star (The Phantom of
the Opera, Les Miserables and co–star with Glenn Close
in Sunset Blvd.). He sang the role of Moses in the
animated feature film The Prince of Eg ypt and has just
recorded his first solo CD, Encounter.
Marc Cherry (Irene Ryan
Finals Adjudicator)
Marc Cherry spent the early
years of his childhood in Buena
Park, California, a suburb of
Orange County. The family
moved to Oklahoma and lived on
his Grandmother’s farm while his father went to
school to earn a Masters Degree, and his mother
stayed home and raised three young children. After
his father graduated and began a new career as a
corporate accountant the family relocated several
times to and from Orange County, and exotic
countries around the world. From Oklahoma the
family moved to Huntington Beach, California,
for a couple of years, then to Hong Kong for
a brief period, back to Huntington Beach,
followed by 9 months in Iran, and then back to
Fullerton, California where they stayed. In high
school, Marc excelled in drama and majored in
theatre at Cal State Fullerton. In the late 1980’s
Marc won $15,000 on the Dick Clark game show
$100,000 Pyramid, took his winnings and moved
to Hollywood to pursue a career in writing. Marc
began as a personal assistant to Dixie Carter on
the set of Designing Women, and early success
as a writer soon followed. Marc Cherry’s writer/
producer credits include the beloved television
classic The Golden Girls, and the sequel to the
series, The Golden Palace.
He also served as writer and executive producer on
the television comedies, Some of My Best Friends,
The Crew and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. Following
a difficult three year hiatus of unemployment,
during which Marc’s long–time agent was
arrested and charged with embezzlement, Marc
got his second big break in 2004 when ABC and
Touchstone Television picked up his original
Desperate Housewives script for production. In its
first year the series proved to be a ground–breaking
success, a ratings powerhouse and quickly developed
a devoted worldwide fan base. Marc Cherry is
creator and executive producer of ABC’s hit series
Desperate Housewives, now in its fourth season.
In the first season Desperate Housewives won two
Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series
(Musical or Comedy), and Best Performance by
an Actress (Musical or Comedy) by Teri Hatcher.
The People’s Choice Awards fans voted the show
as Favorite New Television Drama in 2005. The
Screen Actors Guild honored the series with an
award for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actress in a Comedy Series to Teri Hatcher in 2005
and to Felicity Huffman in 2006, and Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
in both 2005 and 2006. In September 2005 the
show was nominated for 15 Emmy’s with wins in six
categories, including Outstanding Lead Actress
in a Comedy Series for Felicity Huffman. And in
January 2006, the show won its second Golden
Globe Award for Best Television Series (Musical
or Comedy). Cherry has signed a development deal
with Touchstone Television producing under the
banner Cherry Productions.
Lura Dolas
(Festival Production
Respondent)
Lura Dolas is on the faculty of the
Department of Theater, Dance
and Performance Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley
where she has directed and taught the advanced
acting studio for many, many years. She was the
founding director of the California Shakespeare
Festival Conservatory and also taught at the Boston
University Theater Institute, Cal Arts in Los
Angeles, the Berkeley Repertory School of Theater
and ACT in San Francisco. Her professional credits
include leading roles with the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, the California Shakespeare Festival, the
Aurora Theater in Berkeley as well as at theaters in
Sacramento, Atlanta, Seattle and Santa Fe.
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Mireille Enos
(Irene Ryan Finals
Adjudicator)
Mireille Enos has been seen on
Broadway in Lincoln Center’s The
Invention of Love, the revival of
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
for which she earned a Tony nomination for the
role of Honey, Absurd Person Singular and most
recently in the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the
Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Regional credits include Mourning Becomes Electra,
A Winter’s Tale, You Never Can Tell, Hamlet, and
The Miracle Worker. She’s now living in Los Angeles
and working on the HBO series Big Love.
Ragnar Freidank
Ragnar Freidank is from
Germany. He was trained as
a mime and holds an MFA in
Acting from the Conservatory of
Music and Theatre in Hamburg.
He received a scholarship from
Villigst (Germany) to study the Michael Chekhov
Technique in New York City; his long–time teachers
were Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan, who were both
certified by Beatrice Straight, one of the few actors
to receive certification by Michael Chekhov to
teach his method. Ragnar has worked as an actor
and director in Germany, and has performed in
Budapest, London, Stockholm and in New York.
He is facilitating The Open Class in New York City
and is teaching in the Graduate Acting Programs of
Columbia University and The New School. Recently
he directed the film “Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn”,
starring Joanna Merlin, which is opening at the
Big Apple Film Festival at the Tribeca Cinemas.
As a master teacher for MICHA (Michael Chekhov
Association) he continues to teach at International
Conferences in Europe and the United States.
He taught for and co–directed MICHA’s DVD
series: “Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov
Technique”, published by Routledge in 2007.
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Gary Garrison
(National Playwriting
Program Respondent)
Gary Garrison is the Executive
Director of the Dramatist Guild
of America – the national
organization of playwrights,
lyricists and composers guided by our country’s
leading dramatists: Tony Kushner, Edward Albee,
Marsha Norman, John Patrick Shanley, Doug
Wright and Lynn Nottage among others. Prior to
the Guild, he was the Artistic Director, Producer
and full‑time faculty member in the Department of
Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
for twenty–two years. At NYU he produced eighteen
Festivals of New Works, countless ten–minute
play festivals and the annual Marathon Festival of
New Work, working with hundreds of playwrights,
directors and actors. Garrison’s plays include Storm
on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old
Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk,
Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth,
Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does
Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? and When A Diva Dreams.
This work has been featured at Primary Stages, The
Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source,
StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre,
African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble
Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. He is
the author of the critically acclaimed, The Playwright’s
Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your
Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten‑Minute Play, two
volumes of Monologues for Men by Men (all Heinemann
Press), and A More Perfect Ten (Focus Publishing). He
is the director of the Summer Playwriting Intensive
for the Kennedy Center, the former National
Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center’s
American College Theater Festival and recipient of
the Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the
Association of Theatre in Higher Education.
Tony Hale (Irene Ryan
Finals Adjudicator)
Tony Hale is perhaps best known
for playing the neurotic mama’s
boy “Buster” on the Emmy
award winning Fox series Arrested
Development. He has also co–starred
with Andy Richter in the NBC series Andy Barker P.I.
and is currently playing recurring characters on
the shows Chuck and ER. He has appeared in several
movies including Unaccompanied Minors, Because I Said
So, RV, alongside Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction,
as the voice of “Furlough” in Universal’s The Tale
of Despereaux and the Sundance premiered The Year
of Getting to Know Us with Jimmy Fallon and Sharon
Stone. Coming up you can catch Tony in The Goods
with Jeremy Piven, Arlen Faber with Jeff Daniels, and
Steven Soderbergh’s next project The Informant with
Matt Damon.
Don Holder
Broadway projects include:
Movin’ Out (Tony, Drama Desk
nominations), The Lion King (Tony,
Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
Awards, Lion King Paris–Moliere
Award), Cyrano de Bergerac (Henry
Hewes Award), South Pacific (2008 Tony Award,
Henry Hewes Award, Drama Desk nomination),
Les Liasons Dangereuses (Tony, Outer Critics Circle
nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Radio Golf, The
Times They Are A Changin’, The Little Dog Laughed, Prelude to
a Kiss , The Apple Tree, After The Fall, All Shook Up, Gem of
The Ocean (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), A
Streetcar Named Desire (Tony nomination), La Cage Au
Folles, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II, Little Shop of
Horrors , The Boy From Oz, The Green Bird, Bells Are Ringing,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom , Juan Darien (Tony, Drama
Desk nominations), Hughie, Eastern Standard, Holiday,
many others. Off Broadway: Yellowface, Romeo and
Juliet (Delacorte–Central Park), Oroonoko, The Pain and
The Itch, Almost an Evening, A Man of No Importance, Birdie
Blue, Observe The Sons of Ulster …(Lortel Award), Jitney,
Saturday Night, Three Days of Rain, The Last Letter , All My
Sons, Communicating Doors, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama Desk nomination),
Spunk, Jeffrey, Pterodactyls, many others. Resident
Theatre: Goodman, Guthrie, Huntington, Center
Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, South Coast
Repertory, Intiman, Dallas Theatre Center, Seattle
Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage,
Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, ACT San Francisco,
American Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre
Company, Papermill Playhouse, many others.
Opera: Grendel (LA Opera and Lincoln Center
Festival, NY), The Magic Flute (NYC Metropolitan
Opera), Salome (Kirov Opera), The End of The Affair,
Houston Grand Opera.
Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of
Drama and Head of the Lighting Design Program at
the California Institute of the Arts
Dawn Holiski
Adjudicator)
Dawn Holiski began her career
at Clown College creating props
for clowns and teaching prop
techniques. She juggled her way
to the Ringling Bros. and Barunum & Bailey prop
shop making exploding cakes and giant running
noses. Dawn debated a life on the circus train,
ultimately deciding to try her hand in LA theatre.
Currently, Dawn is the Prop Director for Center
Theatre Group. She continues her passion for
spectacle on such shows as Bloody Bloody Andrew
Jackson and Pippin. In her spare time, she has
freelanced for Reprise, Hollywood Bowl, Walt
Disney Center, and independent films. Dawn is a
proud member of the Society of Properties Artisan
Managers (S*P*A*M).
Rafael Jean
Adjudicator)
Rafael Jean is the Design and
Technology 2nd Co–Vice–Chair
for Region I. As a costume
designer his most recent credits
include Speakeasy’s The Seafarer, Lyric Stage’s Follies,
and Publick Theatre’s The Seagull and Hay Fever. He is
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a USA 829 Member, KCACTF Respondent, and
USITT Portfolio Review Chair for the Costume
Commission. He is a USITT ‘08 Grant Recipient.
He is also the author of the book: Developing
& Maintaining a Design–Tech Portfolio. He is
Design–Tech Faculty at Emerson College, Boston,
MA. www.rafaeljaen.biz
David Lee–Painter
(Irene Ryan Preliminary
Adjudicator, National
Playwriting Program
Respondent)
David Lee–Painter is Professor
of Theatre, former chair of
the Department of Theatre and Film at UI. For
the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival David is the outgoing Chair of Region VII,
past national Chair of Chairs, national Member
at Large, proud member of the 2008 National
Selection team, and the National Directing
Coordinator. This past year he directed A Midsummer
Night’s Dream for the University of Idaho, and The
Nerd for Idaho Repertory Theatre. David is likely
the most fortunate person in the world – getting
to work with such fabulous friends, colleagues and
the hardest working students ever. David earned an
MFA in directing from Illinois State University,
and has worked professionally at both the Idaho and
Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, Idaho Theatre for
Youth, and The American Stage Company in St.
Petersburg Florida, among others. His production
of Moby Dick represented North America at the
1996 ASSITEJ World Congress in Rostov on Don
Russia. He shares his wonderful life with his darlin’
wife Nancy, four furry critters and two magical
daughters – Allix & Molli, who have “stepped
into the night in pursuit of that flighty temptress,
adventure” both studying English & Education, at
UI and The College of Idaho.
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Mindi L. Logan
(KCACTF Region VII Chair)
Mindi L. Logan is in her 9th year
at the University of Portland in
Portland, Oregon. Her artistic
work at the University includes
acting, choreography and dialect
coaching for the year’s productions where she was
honored by the Kennedy Center for her dialect
work on Cloud Nine. Mindi was also honored with
the National Teaching of Acting Award through
the Kennedy Center and was able to study with
nationally and world–renowned master teachers in
New York. Mindi received her M.F.A. from the
Professional Actors Training Program at Rutgers
University under William Esper and Maggie
Flannigan, and then worked professionally as an
actor in New York and Los Angeles, appearing
off–Broadway, in soap operas, sit–coms, and film.
Continuing her professional acting career, Mindi
also appeared this summer in the Snowy Range
Summer Theatre in Laramie, W Y. She has also
recently worked in Portland with Quintessence:
Language & Imagination Theatre’s production
of Treatment, Stark Raving Theatre’s production of
Weeping Woman, as well as working in commercials,
industrials and voice–overs. Mindi is currently the
KCACTF Chair of Region VII, which covers the
Pacific Northwest.
Maria Mayenzet
Respondent)
Maria Mayenzet’s career has
spanned over twenty–five years
working in regional theatre, film
and television. She has worked
at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Globe in
San Diego, The Grove Shakespeare Festival, The
Edinburgh International Festival, Los Angeles
Theatre Center, California Repertory Theatre and
Process Studio Theatre in New York. Her favorite
theatre roles include Frida in Cal Rep’s Dreams of a
Sunday Afternoon and Nurse Edna in Cider House
Rules, Calista in The Fair Penitent at L.A.T.C
and the title role in Tamara. Her film credits
include Jagged Edge, Proud Men, Dead Sexy,
Macbeth and Messenger of Death. Her television
credits include, Tour of Duty, Forever, Journey
to Mars, Mancuso FBI and Murder She Wrote.
She is an Associate Faculty member of Saddleback
College, teaching Working in Film and Television
and Acting for Television and Film. She has also
directed The Wasserstein Project, Seascape and To
Kill a Mockingbird. Her original work Women of
the World premiered at Saddleback College, Spring
2008. This Spring 2009, she is directing The
Federal Theatre Project: The Living Newspaper at
Saddleback College.
David McFadzean (Irene
Ryan Finals Adjudicator)
As a partner at Wind Dancer
Productions, David created and
executive produced ABC’s Home
Improvement and other television
shows that have been nominated
for multiple Emmys and have won several People’s
Choice Awards. In film, McFadzean produced or
executive produced What Women Want, starring Mel
Gibson and Helen Hunt; Where the Heart Is, starring
Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd, and Firelight,
written and directed by Shadowlands author Bill
Nicholson. His dramatic works have been produced
off–Broadway, at Washington’s Kennedy Center,
and at various colleges and universities around the
country. McFadzean has a B.A. in Theatre from the
University of Evansville and an M.A. in Theatre
from Illinois State University.
Tom Miller (Irene Ryan
Semi–Finals Adjudicator)
Prior to joining the staff of
Actors’ Equity Association, Tom
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. He can be
seen in the documentary “Show Business – The
Road To Broadway” hosting a Broadway opening
night Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade
Tom was honored to serve as a voter for the annual
Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of Indiana
University with a degree in Education.
Tom Mitchell (Irene Ryan
Preliminary Adjudicator,
Festival Production
Respondent)
Tom Mitchell is Associate Head
of the Department of Theatre
at the University of Illinois,
Urbana–Champaign. He is co–chair of Region
III of KCACTF. An acting teacher and director,
he has staged “lost” plays at the Festival Theatre
in Wisconsin and new work at Indiana Rep’s
Bonderman New Play Festival. He premiered James
Still’s Meet Me Incognito for the Metro Theatre
Company of St. Louis national tour. Mitchell has
directed four of Tennessee Williams’ earliest full–
length plays including the 21st century premieres
of Candles to the Sun and Stairs to the Roof.
He authored the recent essay “Warriors Against
the Kitchen Sink: John Guare and Tennessee
Williams” forthcoming in The Influence of
Tennessee Williams from McFarland Publishing.
Mitchell chaired the Summer Theatre Program
at Interlochen Center for the Arts where he also
directed productions in Musical Theatre and
in Shakespeare. He is former chair of the Mid–
America Theatre Conference Directing Symposium
and received the 2007 Award of Honor by the
Illinois Theatre Association.
Daniel L. Patterson
Respondent)
Daniel L. Patterson is Chair
of the Theatre and Dance
department at Keene State
College in New Hampshire.
In addition to being past chair of the Region I
festival, Professor Patterson chairs the Critics
Institute, is a respondent, serves on the selection
team, is a member of the executive board, and is a
reader for the new play program of KCACTF. His
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productions of Terra Nova, The Servant of Two Masters
and Next Time by Fire were performed at the Regional
Festival. Professor Patterson received his BFA and
MFA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin
where he studied directing under the tutelage of
Dr. Francis Hodge. In 1975 Professor Patterson
was a co–founder of the THEATREWORKS
company at the University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs which is recognized for its “Playwright’s
Forum” and the THEATREWORKS Shakespeare
Festival. Professor Patterson has acted in numerous
Shakespeare companies around the country and is
proud of the fact that he has performed in fourteen
of the Bard’s works. Professor Patterson is also
proud of the Kennedy Center Medallion that he
was awarded for his work as Chair/Host of Region I
from 200 to 2003.
Jeff Perry
(Irene Ryan Semi – Finals Adjudicator)
Jeff Perry is one of the original co–founders of
the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago,
Illinois. After spending nearly two decades with
Steppenwolf, Perry made the move to Los Angeles
in 1987 to pursue film and television work. Perry
is perhaps best known as the diehard Grateful
Dead fan and police inspector Harvey Leek on the
Don Johnson police show Nash Bridges. He was a
prickly superior to Kevin Bacon’s detective in the
thriller Wild Things (1998). Many of his television
and film credits include The Human Stain (2003)
and The Grifters (1990) as well as appearances on
My So–Called Life (1994), The West Wing (1999),
The Practice (2003), Lost (2005), Cold Case
(2006), Raines (2007), and several episodes of
Grey’s Anatomy (2006) as Meredith Grey’s father.
Recently, he replaced John Billingsley in the role of
Terrence Steadman in the critically–acclaimed TV
show Prison Break. Jeff has also been in multiple
stage productions. These include Time of your
Life (in San Francisco and Seattle), Grapes of
Wrath (Broadway and London), and The Caretaker
(Broadway). He was in the original cast of August:
Osage County on Broadway, which originated at
Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
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Dave Razowsky
(Irene Ryan Semi–Finals
Adjudicator)
David Razowsky is the respected
teacher and artistic director of
the Second City Los Angeles,
and, as an actor, has written and
performed in ten Second City Chicago revues.
During his tenure as a performer at Second City
he worked with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Jeff
Garlin, and Amy Sedaris, among others. David
directed Second City Chicago Mainstage’s No,
Seriously, We’re All Gonna Die, Second City LA’s,
Encino Evil, The Second City Untitled Project,
The Second City Detroit’s acclaimed 19th Nervous
Breakdown, and The Second City National Touring
Company. He directed two of Amsterdam’s Boom
Chicago theatre’s productions–– RockStars, and
their critically acclaimed Live at the Leidseplein
– Your Privacy is Our Business. David is credited
with creating Boom’s signature live on–stage video
production. Both Boom shows were remounted
for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is a member
of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and
performed in their sold–out run The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He is a
co–founder of The Annoyance Theatre, and has
written for The Simpsons Comic, The Simpsons
nationally syndicated Sunday comic strip, and was
commissioned to write a film treatment for The
Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening. David is the
voice of Dixon, the world’s coolest adult, in ABC’s
animated series, The Weekenders, and has appeared
on Spin City, Roseanne, and Late Night with David
Letterman as the voice of Albert Brook’s parrot.
Erika Sellin
(Irene Ryan Finals Adjudicator)
Erika Sellin is in her fifth year in the Center
Theatre Group Casting Department (Ahmanson,
Mark Taper Forum & Kirk Douglas Theatres).
CTG Credits include: 13, The Black Rider, Dead End,
Distant Shore, Flight, The History Boys, The House of Blue Leaves,
Nighthawks, Pippin, Pyrenees, The School of Night, The Stones, A
Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, The Very Persistent Gappers
of Frip, Water & Power, Without Walls, and New Theatre for
Now 2005. Other Theatre: Goodman Theatre, The
Actors’ Gang, USC, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
TheatreWorks, Children’s Theatre Company, Mixed
Blood. Film: Crash (directed by Paul Haggis), A
Cinderella Story (directed by Mark Rosman) and My
Lunch with Larry (directed by Barry Edelstein). She is
a proud member of the Casting Society of America,
Actors’ Equity Association, and the Stage Managers’
Association. Education: MFA/University of
California, San Diego.
Christopher Sousa– Wynn
(Design and Technology Adjudicator)
Christopher Sousa–Wynn is an Assistant Professor
of Scenic of Scenic Design at the University of New
Mexico. Prior to his move to UNM he was a Visiting
Artist at Central Washington University and
Resident Scenic Designer for PCPA Theaterfest.
Sousa–Wynn has designed numerous productions
for Theatre, Opera, and Corporate Events
including: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Anna in the Tropics,
and Dido and Aeneas. Examples of his work can be
found at www.sousa–wynn.net.
Kate Snodgrass
Program Respondent)
Kate Snodgrass is the Artistic
Director of Boston Playwrights’
Theatre and co–founder of the
award–winning Boston Theater
Marathon. She runs the MFA Playwriting Program
at Boston University in the renowned Graduate
Creative Writing Department. Kate is a former
National Playwriting Chair of the Kennedy
Center American College Theater Festival and
StageSource’s 2001 “Theatre Hero.” A Playwriting
Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company,
Kate has won two IRNE Awards for “Best New Play
(Observatory; The Glider), and her most recent play The
Glider was nominated for the National American
Critics Association’s “Steinberg New Play Award.” Kate is the author of the Actors’ Theatre of
Louisville’s Heideman Award–winning and much–
anthologized play Haiku. Her numerous teaching
credits include Harvard University, MIT, Wellesley,
Suffolk University, and Lesley University, among
others.
James Still
James Still’s award–winning plays
have been produced throughout
the U.S., Canada, Europe, and
Australia. He is the playwright in
residence at the Indiana Repertory
Theatre, a recipient of the William
Inge Festival’s “Otis Guernsey New Voices in
American Theatre” award, and a Pulitzer Prize
nominee. His new plays have been workshopped at
the O’Neill, Sundance, The New Harmony Project
and the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices.
Premiers of his new plays in 2009 include
The Heavens Are Hung in Black at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C., The Velvet Rut at The Unicorn in
Kansas City, Missouri; and Interpreting William at the
Indiana Repertory Theatre. Other recent premiers
include Iron Kisses (Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY);
A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters (Cornerstone Theatre
Company in Los Angeles); and Searching for Eden
(American Heartland in Kansas City). The widely–
produced Looking Over the President’s Shoulder premiered
at Indiana Rep and has been produced across the
country from Portland Stage to Pasadena Playhouse.
Other plays include He Held Me Grand (People’s Light
& Theatre Company, Philadelphia); and Amber Waves
(The Kennedy Center and the Children’s Theatre
Company in Minneapolis). And Then They Came for
Me has been translated into several languages and
produced around the world including a tour of
Latvia and recent performances at the House of
Commons in London and a U.S. Army base in
Stuttgart, Germany. The Velocity of Gary (not His Real
Name) had its New York premier at EST and was later
produced off–Broadway and in theaters, bathrooms,
classrooms, and hotels across the country. As a
director, Mr. Still recently directed The Lady of
Larkspur Lotion at the 2008 Tennessee Williams
Festival in New Orleans and Doubt at Indiana Rep.
Later this spring he will direct Rabbit Hole.
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Mr. Still also works in television and film as a writer
and producer and has been nominated for five
Emmy’s, a Television Critics Award, and twice a
finalist for The Humanitas Prize. He grew up in a
tiny town in Kansas and lives in Seattle.
Elizabeth van de Berg
(Irene Ryan Preliminary
Adjudicator)
Elizabeth van de Berg is thrilled to
be working as an actor with Synetic
Theatre in DC as “Ugolino”
in Dante– and flying out to her
home state of California for 3 days to help out with
Region 8!!! As an actor she has toured the US with
Oliver!, and been seen on many DC stages, including
Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, the Kennedy
Center, and the Warner Theatre. KCACTF named
her a top teaching Artist in 2005, and she received
a Gold Medallion for her service to KCACTF in
2006. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of
the Theatre Arts Department at McDaniel College
in Westminster, MD. A proud member of Actors’
Equity Association, AFTRA and SAG, as well as
VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association)
she is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
Grad Acting program. Currently serving as Vice
Chair for Region II, KCACTF.
William J. Wolak
Program Respondent)
William J. Wolak plunged into
theatre as an undergraduate
at Central Connecticut State
University in 1957. He earned his
MA from St. Louis University, and his Ph.D. from
Tulane University. Dr. Wolak taught theatre arts in
colleges for 43 years at 6 Colleges or Universities.
He retired from the faculty of UOP in 2007, where
he was Chair of the Theatre Arts Department for
8 years. Dr. Wolak has directed 91 productions of
dramas, comedies, musicals, and operas. In the
past, Region VIII has selected his UOP productions
of Mark Medoff’s drama When You Comin’ Back, Red
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He is an actor with 51 years of experience and more
than 150 at various theatres from Massachusetts
to California, and Michigan to Louisiana. For
several years Dr. Wolak worked as a scenic designer.
He has served as a resident dramaturge for the Bay
Area Playwright’s Festival and the Upstart Stage,
a developmental theatre in Berkeley, California.
Dr. Wolak has served as Regional Chair of the
former Region VIII North. He was the past the past
Vice–Chair and Chair of the KCACTF Region
VIII, National Playwriting Committee. He has also
served as a dramaturge at Regional Festivals. Dr.
Wolak serves as an adjudicator–reader for ATHE’s (American Theatre in Higher Education) national
Ten–minute Play Contest. For his service to theatre
at American colleges through his association with
the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre
Festival, he has received the prestigious Kennedy
Center Medallion three times, and the Excellence
in Teaching Award. Dr. Wolak was selected as a
KCACTF Region VIII Fellow in 1997.
Leah Zhang
(Irene Ryan Semi–Finals
Adjudicator)
Leah Zhang is an actress in Los
Angeles. She received her MFA
in acting from The Old Globe
Professional Actor Training
Program. Leah has worked regionally for The
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players
Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists. She has
spent time coaching actors at Loyola Marymount
University and is currently studying to be a teacher
of the Alexander Technique.
KCACTF XLI National Selection Team
Kaleta Brown
Kaleta Brown is a retired fine arts dean and professor emeritus of theater from Cypress
College. She is a past president of the California Educational Theater Association (CETA)
and the Legislative Action Committee for Arts in Education. Her awards include the
Region VIII Lifetime Achievement Award, two Kennedy Center Medallions for Theater
Excellence, the CETA Medallion for dedication to theatre, and CETA’s Outstanding
Theater Educator Award. She has been a festival and/or Irene Ryan respondent in
several of the nation’s regions and has directed the Irene Ryan Festival of Scenes at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C.
Cathy Norgren
Cathy Norgren has served KCACTF in a number of administrative capacities for over
20 years; she is happy to end her official service to KCACTF by being on the National
Selection Team. In civilian life Cathy teaches design at the University at Buffalo, where
she is Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre & Dance. She teaches at the KC Summer
Intensives in Playwriting each July. Cathy is also a member of United Scenic Artists, local
829. As a freelance designer she has designed costumes for: Theatre for Young Audiences
at the Kennedy Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays; the
Cleveland Playhouse; the former Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; North
Carolina Shakespeare Festival; the National Shakespeare Company; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Virginia
Stage; Vermont Stage; Pennsylvania Center Stage; and Arden Theatre of Philadelphia. Cathy has upcoming
designs at the Roundhouse Theatre, Bethesda MD; and GEVA Theatre in Rochester NY. Cathy holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from
Carnegie Mellon University.
Steve Reynolds
Steve Reynolds, professor of theatre at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, has been
directing and teaching acting, playwriting, and contemporary American drama since 1981.
Recent Wittenberg directing credits include Urinetown, a gender bent Taming of the Shrew, The
Seagull, The Learned Ladies, and My Fair Lady. Favorites over the years at Wittenberg include Dancing
at Lughnasa, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Boys Next Door, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gogol’s Inspector General set
in the American Wild West, All My Sons, and Picnic. In 2000 he directed Dan Stroeh’s it is no
desert, which received the 2001 National Student Playwriting Award from KCACTF. While completing his M.
A. and Ph.D. at The University of Michigan he directed In Celebration, Ah, Wilderness!, Of Thee I Sing and the rock
musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona. His other productions include Pirates of Penzance, Man of La Mancha and
She Loves Me (Springfield, OH Summer Arts Festival), Camelot, Bye Bye Birdie, Man of La Mancha, The Sound of Music, Gigi
and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Croswell Opera House, Adrian, Michigan), Brigadoon (Ann Arbor Civic Theatre),
a Wittenberg alumni showcase of Lloyd’s Prayer (Hollywood), Reckless (Mira Costa Community College) and The
Chairs (Wilton, CT Playshop). Reynolds fell in love with theatre as an undergraduate at Tufts–in–London. He
has published reviews in Theatre Journal and received a N.E.H. Summer Seminar Grant to study American
playwrights at Columbia University. From 2004–2008 Reynolds served as Region III National Playwriting
Program Chair. He has received the O.D.K. Teaching Award at Wittenberg and a Kennedy Center Gold
Medallion Award for Excellence in College Teaching from Region III of KCACTF. This past November
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he directed a Julie Harris tribute production of The Member of the Wedding for Cape Rep Theatre on Cape Cod,
Massachusetts while on sabbatical from Wittenberg.
Gregg Henry
Gregg Henry Artistic Director KCACTF. Upcoming productions: A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich
for Round House Theatre and Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe by Tom Isbell and Mark Russell for The
Kennedy Center. Recent productions include the U.S. Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl for MetroStage and
You Are Here for Theatre Alliance; An Experiment with an Air Pump for Journeymen Theater Ensemble; Two–Headed
and Scaramouche for Washington Shakespeare Company. Productions for Kennedy Center Theater for Young
Audiences: Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple by Marco Ramirez, Mark Russell & Tom Isbell’s Teddy
Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Barbara Field’s Dreams in the Golden Country and Norman Allen’s The Light of
Excalibur. He has directed development workshops for Arena Stage’s Downstairs and Centerstage’s First Look.
He hosts the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in partnership with NNPN. He is artistic
associate for Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences for New Works & Commissions, developing
projects by Marsha Norman, Jason Robert Brown, Naomi Iizuka, Quiara Hudes and others. Gregg is the
Curator of the Kennedy Center Page–to–Stage New Play Festival. He holds an MFA from the University of
Michigan, and has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Iowa
State University and Catholic University of America. Gregg is a proud member of LMDA, The Dramatists
Guild and SSDC.
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KCACTF XLI
Acknowledgements
This festival was outstanding because of the
combined efforts of many individuals that
worked beyond expectation to make this festival a
success. Special thanks are given to our dedicated
production staff, faculty, festival committees
and students. Additional thanks also must be
acknowledged for the staff of the Cal State Fullerton
Titan Student Union, and the students of the
‘Theatre Professionals of Tomorrow’ club.
Festival XLI Planning Committee
Debra Lockwood, Chair
Evelyn Case
Carole Cotter
Maria Cominis
John Fisher
Bruce Goodrich
Susan Hallman
Mitch Hanlon
Eve Himmelheber
Joe Holbrook
Anne James
Susan Merson
William Meyer
Matt Schleicher
Ann Sheffield
John Short
Kevin Slay
La Tasha Tobias
Jim Volz
Bob West
Festival XLI Student Organizers
Alyssa McNulty
Graham Forden
Amy Puntar
Emi Miller
Michael Vitale
Logo Design
La Tasha Tobias
Webmaster
Richard Bugg
Program Design & Coordination
DeeAnna Phelps
Welcome Hospitality Baskets
Maria Cominis
Special Acknowledgements:
Dean, College of Arts
Jerry Samuelson
Performing Arts Box Office Manager
Sandra Clark
National Selection Team
Kaleta Brown
Cathy Norgren
Steve Reynolds
KCACTF National Committee
Dr. Harry Parker, National Chair
Rebecca Hilliker, National Vice Chair
Daniel Larocque, Member at Large
David Lee–Painter, Member at Large
Debra Bergsma Otte, Member at Large
Mark Kuntz, Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison
David C. (“Kip”) Shawger, National Chair,
Design and Technology
Karen Anselm, National Vice Chair,
Design and Technology
Holly Monsos, USITT Representative
Jeff Koep, National Partners of American Theatre
Michael Kanin New Plays Program (NPP)
Roger Hall – National Chair
Joel Murray – National Vice Chair
KCACTF National Office Staff
Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President–Education
Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF
Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF
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Regional VIII Governing Board
Regional Chair
James Taulli
Regional Vice Chair
John H. Binkley
California State University, Northridge
Past Regional Chair
Richard Bugg
National Playwriting Program Chair
Char Nelson
Brigham Young University
Immediate Past National Playwriting
Program Chair
Douglas Hill
University of Neveda, Los Vegas
Past New Playwriting Program Chair
Jeanette Farr
Glendale College, Ca
Chair, Design and Technology
Geoffrey Eroe
Pheonix College
Vice Chair, Design and Technology
Caroline Mercier
California State University, Los Angeles
Past Chair, Design and Technology
John H. Binkley
California State University Northridge
Irene Ryan Coordinator (Incoming)
Sue Berkompas
Irene Ryan Coordinator (outgoing)
Eve Himmelheber
Invitational Scenes Coordinator
William F. Lett
California State University, Fullertion
Ellyn Gersh Lerner
California State University Northridge
Workshop Coordinator
Matt Neves
Next Step Auditions Coordinator
Meredith Greenburg
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Judith Royer
Loyola Marymount University
Dramaturgy Coordinator
Susan Merson
National Critics Institute Coordinator
Sandra Ross
University of Southern California
SSDC Student Directing Coordinator
Carrie Klewin
University of San Diego
Technical Production Coordinator
Brent Innes
Dixie State College
Student Stage Management Coordinator
Shiz Herrera
California State University. Los Angeles
Historian
Virginia Ludders
Glendale Community College, AZ
Region VIII Secretary
Meredith Hinkley
Circuit 1 Coordinator
Lori C. Siekmann
Concordia University Irvine
Circuit 1 Design Coordinator
J.D. Sargent
Pepperdine University
Dr. Terry Smith
Andre Harrington
Gilberto Gonzales
Whittier College
Shiz Herrera
California State University. Los Angeles
Julie Holston
South Mountain Community College
Virginia Ludders
Glendale Community College
Kara Thomson
Mesa Community College
Chuck Ervin
Fresno City College
Caroline Mercier
Pamela Downs
American River College
At Large Member
William J. Wolak
University of the Pacific (Emeritus) Circuit 6
Rae Robison
California State University, Humboldt
Varlo Davenport
Dixie State College
Brent Innes
Dixie State College
Eric Bishop
Mira Costa College
Second Eyes Team
John Binkley
Richard Bugg
Varlo Davenport
Pamela Downs
Jeanette Farr
Doug Hill
Eve Himmelheber
Harlene Marley
Brad Myers
Matt Neves
Jim Taulli
Bob Yowell
Festival Production Respondents
Lura Dolas
Tom Mitchell
Daniel L. Patterson
Festival National Playwriting
Program Respondents
Gary Garrison
David Lee–Painter
Kate Snodgrass
William J. Wolak
Festival Design and
Technology Adjudicators
Michael Allen
Karen Ansel
Dawn Holiski
Rafael Jean
Chris Sousa–Wynn
Festival Design and
Technology Respondents
Andre Harrington
Shiz Herrera
Brent Innes
Rae Robison
J.D. Sargent
Maryanne Scozzari
Kara Thomson
Catherine Zublin
SSDC Student Directing Respondent
Leslie Ferriera
Gil Gonzalez
Irene Scholarship Audition Adjudicators
Preliminary Round Guests
David Lee–Painter
Tom Mitchel
Elizabeth van de Berg
Semi – Final Round Guests
Tom Miller
Jeff Perry
Dave Razowsky
Leah Zhang
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Final Round Guests:
Amick Byram
Marc Cherry
Tony Hale
David McFadzean
Mireille Enos
Erika Sellin
William F. Lett
Virginia Ludders
John Mayer
David Morgan
Lori Siekman
Ed Trujillo
Tracy Williams
Respondents for all Irene Ryan rounds:
Faculty Timers for Irene Ryan rounds:
Eric Bishop
Cherie Brown
Bernadette Cheyne
Maria Cominis
Barta Heiner
Evelyn Carol Case
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Region VIII Production & Design
Respondents
Region VIII could not function without the service of the production respondents. These fine educators
take time out of their busy schedules to go out and share with students across the region their insights on
Performance and Design.
Andre Harrington
Anita DuPratt
Ann Fajilan
Annie Cleveland
Anthony Carriero
Barry Cleveland
Ben Bradley
Bernadette Cheyne
Bob Nelson
Brad Myers
Cathy Crane
Cathy McClellan
Caroline Mercier
Carrie Klewin
Char Nelson
Chris Clark
Chuck Ervin
Claude Pensis
Crae Wilson
Darby Lofstrand
David Seitz
Dean Hess
Denise Wilcox
Debbi Shapazian
Desean Terry
Douglas Hill
Douglas N. Bishop
Ed Heaberlin
Ed Trujillo
Edward EmanuEl
Ellyn Gersh Lerner
Eric Bishop
Eric Samuelson
Eve Himmelheber
Evelyn Case
Frank Pickard
G. Shizuko Herrera
Gail Holbrook
Gail Russell
Garry Lennon
Gary Krinke
Geof Eroe
Gil Gonzalez
Guillermo Reyes
Harlene Marley
Heatherly Stephens
J.D. Sargent
J. Daniel Herring
James Arrington
Janine Chryst
Jeanette Farr
Jeff Thomson
Jim Christian
Jim Holmes
Jim Taulli
Jodi Jullian
John Graham
John H. Binkley
John Mayer
John Short
John Wilk
Josh Machamer
Judith Royer
Julian White
Julie Holston
Julienne Hasting
Kaleta Brown
Kara Thomson
Kathryn Ervin
Keith Heffner
Ken Gray
Kevin Dressler
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Larry Dooley
Leslie McCauley
Lori Siekmann
Lyn Dutson
Lynda Linford
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Marc Valera
Maria Cominis
Maria Mayenzet
Mark Majarian
Matt Hill
Matt Neves
Megan Sanborn
Michael Harding
Michelle Felton
Nancy Silva
Pamela Downs
Paul Dedoes
Paul Wickline
Paula Alm
Penny Pendleton
Peter Senkbeil
Peter Sham
Phillip R. Lowe
Rachel LePell
Rae Robison
Rebecca Engle
Reid Davis
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Rick Bugg
Robin Russin
Roger Sorensen
Stephanie Bradshaw
Stephen Purdy
Susan Merson
T. Anthony Marotta
Tamiko Washington
Tannis Hanson
Terry Petrie
Terry Smith
Theresa Larkin
Tom Provenzano
Toni Vezner
Tracy Davis
Troy Bucky
Virginia Ludders
Vallimar Jansen
Varlo Davenport
William F. Lett
William J. Wolak
Zoe Saba
Festival Awards
Festival Awards
All awards will be announced at a ceremony Saturday evening following the Irene Ryan Final Round Audition.
CSU Summer Arts Scholarships
The California State University system presents the 24th year of CSU Summer Arts. Located at California
State University, Fresno, Summer Arts is recognized as the largest and most dynamic interdisciplinary arts
program in the western United States. Summer Arts students are visual and performing artists who team
with selected CSU faculty and internationally acclaimed guest artists to create, challenge, and collaborate.
CSU Summer Arts offers six full tuition scholarships to talented students selected through the KCACTF
Festival. In addition for the upcoming 2009 workshops: CHICAGO STYLE COMEDY, OREGON
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: THE REAL DEAL, and SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE, CSU
Summer Arts will offer all Irene Ryan finalists and their partners a minimum of a $200 scholarship to
attend any CSU Summer Arts class of their choice. To be eligible for this scholarship, applications must be
submitted prior to Monday, March 16th, 2009. Go to www.csusummerarts.org for more information.
Festival Acting Awards
Each year several actors who exemplify excellence in performance during the festival week, are presented with
a special award.
Irene Ryan Scholarship
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 fellowships annually. Sixteen of the awards consist of a $500 scholarship for each regional
representative of KCACTF. There are two scholarships of $3,000 each for the winners at the national
festival in Washington, D.C. In addition, the student judged the Best Partner in the national auditions
is awarded a cash prize of $250. The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the
Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to pay tuition and fees for
further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts. Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting
Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level. 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.
LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award
The LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award is designed to recognize contributions by student
dramaturges to the conception, development and production of theater within their colleges and
universities, or to educational projects in dramaturgy. This award is the result of a unique collaboration
between Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), the professional association of
dramaturges and literary managers working in North America, and the Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival (KCACTF).
NAPAT Classical Acting Award
The national Partners American Theatre believe that the best acting stems from a classical base, so it makes
this award to an Irene Ryan finalist who gives the best performance of a classical selection, i.e., dramatic
material written prior to the 20th century. The regional winner receives a cash prize of $250.
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National Critic’s Institute Scholarship
The National Critics Institute offers a scholarship for an outstanding student critic to work along
with professional theatre critics and arts writers at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford,
Connecticut, each summer. At each KCACTF Regional Festival, nominated students from participating
schools will be asked to write critiques of a selected number of plays. One finalist will be selected from each
of the eight regions to compete at the national level. The national winner will attend the Eugene O’Neill
Center during the national writing conference in July, and work with leading professional newspaper and
magazine critics from across the United States. All expenses will be paid.
Regional Festival Set–up Award
An award will be given to the college or university at the Regional Festival that displays the highest standards
of theatre professionalism in set–up and strike of their production.
KCACTF SSDC Student Directing Showcase–Fellowship
Each regional finalist will be interviewed at the festival by a panel of regional judges, and one student
director will be selected to represent Region VIII at the KCACTF National Festival in April. One national
finalist will participate as an Asst. director in the National 10–Minute Play Festival.
National Stage Management Fellowship
Finalists are selected from throughout the region and informed prior to Festival. Finalists for the Stage
Management Fellowship competition work on festival events and are judged on their festival assignment,
their professionalism, communication and organization skills, adherence to tasks and their additional
materials: production prompt script, resume, letter of intent, and the letter of support from their director/
faculty or staff mentor. One student will be selected as Region VIII’s national nominee. A regional nominee
will be awarded a fellowship to attend the National Festival.
Design & Technology Awards
Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence in Scenery, Costumes, and Lighting
The Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence are sponsored by Barbizon Inc., a premier theatrical
supply house specializing in advanced lighting for professionals. Students who have designed any aspect
(scenery, costumes, or lighting) of a KCACTF associate or participating entry are eligible for the Barbizon
Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence.
KCACTF Award for Sound Design Excellence
The KCACTF Sound Design award is focused on the ideas behind, and approach to, a design that supports
a production, and not on the equipment in the original venue. Students who have designed sound of a
KCACTF associate or participating entry are eligible for the KCACTF Award for Sound Design Excellence
The Alcone Company Makeup Design Award
The Alcone Company Makeup Design Award is sponsored by Alcone Company, a makeup supplier for
professional makeup artists. Studend who have design makeup of a KCACTF associate or participating entry
are eleigible for the Alcone Company Makeup Design Award.
The purpose of the above–mentioned design & technology awards are to provide student designers with feedback from professionals working
in the field; to give outstanding student designers national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for student designers to exhibit their
work at the Kennedy Center. Designs will be appraised on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques.
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Regional Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence in Scenery, Costume, Lighting,
Sound, Make–up, Properties and
Technical Direction.
National Playwriting Program Awards
The David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award
Region VIII forwards one play 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 and entered as a KCACTF associate or participating
entry. The winning 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.
John Cauble Short Play Award
The John Cauble Short Play Award 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. KCACTF will present this award to a student playwright whose play was produced at least as a
staged reading and entered as an associate or participating production and was then invited to the regional
festival. Region VIII forwards one play from Cauble’s Corner or the New Play Development Workshop to the
national office for consideration for this award. 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.
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 judging panel will read the sixteen regional
winners and pick a winning 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.
National Student Playwriting Award
The National Student Playwriting Award, initiated in 1974, is part of the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards
Program. Any full–length student–written play entered as a participating entry and brought to the regional
festival is eligible for the National Student Playwriting Award. The winning playwright will receive a play
production at the Kennedy Center as part of the KCACTF national festival, with all expenses paid for the
production and the playwright, and a $2,500 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, a possible
Samuel French Award and fellowship at the Sundance Theatre Lab.
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Awards of Merit
American River College
Before Amelia
Amelia Holt – Scenic Artist
Audrey Kerster – Assistant Stage Manager/
Property Master
Devin Ritchie – Stage Manager
Kimchee & Chitlins
Scarlette Bustos – Acting
Bethany Deal – Visual & Media Displays
The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune
Holly McNeill – Stage Manager
Arizona State University
Don Coyote
Michelle Adkisson – Stage Manager
Ashley Elliott – Sound Designer
Brigham Young University
Berlin
Laura Bares – Dramaturg
Danniey Wright – Stage Manager
Bread of Affliction
Dave Mortensen – Producer
Dancing at Lughnasa
Heidi Rebarchik – Lighting Designer
Justine Trotter – Properties Designer
Esperanza Rising
Marti Hansen – Production Stage Manager
Heather Veit – Acting
The Jungle Book
Mary Haddock – Costume Designer
Roofsliding
Emily Burnworth – Dialect Coach
Mitchell Glass – Stage Manager
Jennifer Mortensen – Scenic Designer
Eric Perkins – Dramaturg
Without Fear
Landon Wheeler – Producer
California Baptist University
Fiddler on the Roof
Jinnee Barret – Choreography
Hannah Barrett – Properties
Jeremy Blunt – Assistant to Director
Brian Buxton – Assistant Choreographer/
Dance Captain
Marian Ctoringer – Costume Designer
Alicia Fletcher – Assistant Stage Manager
Christa Katona – Stage Manager
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Tristan Clark – Assistant Stage Manager
Christa Katona – Stage Manager
Bethany Smith – Assistant Stage Manager
California Lutheran University
Flooding the Grand and Bright Ideas
Brigette Stevenson – Playwright
Emily Westfall – Stage Manager
California Polytechnic State University–
San Luis Obispo
The Bald Soprano
Jill Voss – Assistant Stage Manager
California State University – Bakersfield
Theatre of New Voices
Mary Blair – Playwright “The Hard of Things”
Christina J. Martinez – Playwright
“Truth in Time”
Michael Mejia – Playwright “Enchiladas Bob and
Labor Day”
Evita
Mandy Rees – Director
Krista Whipple – Stage Manager
California State University – East Bay
Around the World with Mulan and Aladdin
Roberta Inscho Cox – Stage Manager
Cyndy Hardwick – Playwright
Lindley Ross – Playwright
Nalini Singh – Playwright
Godspell
Andrea Warren – Stage Manager
Performance Fusion 2008 Part A
Oluwamitola Afolayan – Choreographer
“Delta Cries”
Jermaine Alexander – Director “Fight Dreams”
Roberta E. Inscho–Cox – Director “Colorado”
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Hiroki Saito – Director “The Cat that Lived
A Million Times”
Performance Fusion 2008 Part B
Erica Bretall – Director “Oedi”
Brittany Coleman – Choregrapher
“Una Herida Que No Sana”
Denise Hampel – Choreographer
“Support System Chapters 1–2–3”
Felicia Lilienthal – Costume Designer
“Support System Chapters 1–2–3”
California State University – Fresno
Measure for Measure
Briana Kersten – Stage Manager
Jordon Roberts – Poster Design
The Persians
Matthew Schiltz – Costume Craft (Masks)
Single Black Female, Looking...
Joel Barber – Sound Designer
Laura Fay – Stage Manager
Urinetown The Musical
Royce Matthews – Choreographer
Michael Oldman – Assistant Director
Samantha M. Watson – Stage Manager
California State University – Fullerton
As It Is in Heaven
Cast – Ensemble
As You Like It
Chelsea Camp – Assistant Stage Manager
Andrea Harms – Assistant Stage Manager
Alyssa McNulty – Stage Manager
Marissa Massey – Acting
Brian Prugalidad – Acting
City of Angels
The Angel City 4 – Ensemble
Alyssa Marie Webb – Acting
Grand Central One Acts
Tiffany Cole – Crew
Marlene Coto – Crew
Josie Gerk – Assistant Director
“The Most Massive Woman Wins”
A Midsummer Night’s dream
Morgan Carroll – Stage Manager
On Your Feet!
Sam Stoliker – Director
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Our Town
Karen Bombardier – Assistant Stage Manager
Jessica Calderon – Scenery/Property/
Audio Crew
Hannah Dellinger – Makeup/Hair/Audio Crew
Amy Anne Duncan – Assistant Stage Manager
Theresa Elliott – Assistant Stage Manager
Sarah Fujiwara – Stage Manager
Luis Orellana – Scenery/Props/Audio Crew
Dani Collison – Assistant Stage Manager
Alicia Haneiwich – Assistant Stage Manager
Emi Miller – Stage Manager
Jenna Stuart – Assistant Stage Manager
Bob West – Properties Master
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Cast – Ensemble
Robyn Manion – Accompanist
Marc Martinez – Stage Manager
California State University – Northridge
Even Steven Goes to War
Kasey Murphey – Stage Manager
Shauna Nevens – Scenic Designer
Hinemi
John D. Swain – Translator
California State University – Sacramento
Good Woman of Setzuan
Patrick Beech – On Stage Band Member
Dexter Galang – On Stage Band Member
Sarah Henshaw – Choreographer
Jessica Reilly – Stage Manager
42nd Street
Jessica White – Stage Manager
California State University –
San Bernardino
Hamlet formerly known as Prince of Denmark
Shane Churchill – Vocal Coach
Brian Rosenblum – Assistant Stage Manager
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Leslie Najarro – Assistant Stage Manager
The Last Five Years
Nate Brown – Accompanist
California State University – Stanislaus
Citrus College
The Glass Menagerie
Jessica Anderson – Dramaturg
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Chris Zumaran – Acting
Anon(ymous)
Cast – Ensemble
Kelly Egan – Production Stage Manager
Erin Jacob – Assistant Stage Manager
Love, Sex, and the I.R.S
Kelly Egan – Property Designer
Crystal Haines – Director
Roschanda Harrison & Daniella Lafkas –
Costume Designer
Heidi Hunt – Sound Designer
Erin Jacob – Scenic Designer
Kara A. Johnson – Production Stage Manager
Will McConnell – Assistant Lighting Designer
Jennifer McCullough – Lighting Designer
Raul Mirada Jr. – Assistant Lighting Designer
Robert Villareal – Assistant Scenic Designer
James Worman – Assistant Stage Manager
When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder
Yi–Hsin (Tom) Chou – Production Assistant
Shawn Jesus Davis – Assistant Stage Manager
Jeremy Lewis – Production Stage Manager
Cerritos College
Cast – Ensemble
Chabot College
Emerging Work
Marysia Angela Carey – Playwright
“Stone Fields”
Benji Carver – Playwright “Interrogation”
Sean Gallagher – Lighting Technician
Ragini Momi – Playwright
“Unknown Genocide”
Robert Strom – Playwright
“Sleeping with Capote”
Johnny Wolfe – Sound Technician
Chapman University
The Deep End
Erica Bannon – Rehearsal Stage Manager/ASM “Life Under Water”
Annelih G. Holganza – Properties
Kai de Mello–Folsom – Rehearsal
Stage Manager/Lighting Board Operator
“The Author’s Voice”
Sarak K. Palmer – Stage Manager
Aerielle Simon – Assistant Director/
Set Designer “Life Under Water”
New Beulah
Daniel Tobin– coordinator of
devised production
The Problem, Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage, Strangers
Kayla Hansen – Assistant Director/
Stage Manager
The School for Scandal
Cast – Ensemble
Courtney Robinson – Assistant Stage Manager
The Taming of the Shrew
Yvonne Cone – Tango Choreographer
Kayla Hansen – Production Stage Manager
Peter Greathouse – Fight Choreographer
Claremont Colleges – Pomona College
Bunbury
Peter Austin – Stage Manager
The Dragon
Cast – Ensemble
Mallory Scarritt – Stage Manager
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide . . .
Cast – Ensemble
Zoot Suit
The Pachuca Trio – Ensemble
College of the Canyons
South Pacific
Rebecca Coombs – Assistant Choreographer/
Dance Captain
Concordia University
Into the Woods
Tabitha Wildhirt – Acting
Paper Wings
Melissa Dean – Assistant Stage Manager
Hannah Welter – Sound Technician
Karen Smith – Stage Manager
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Much Ado About Nothing
Kelsie Blackwell – Choreographer
Cast – Ensemble
Karen Smith – Stage Manager
Matthew Miranda – Playwright “The Prolonged
Suicide of John Echum”
Sarah Ringer – Playwright “Facing Love”
Diablo Valley College
Pippin
Cast – Ensemble
Batboy, the musical
Marlon DeLeon – Acting
Megan Howe – Acting
Mario Rizzo – Acting
Christina Stevenson – Assistant Stage Manager
Jesus Hopped the A train
Megan Adele Howe – Stage Manager
Martina Jeans – Costume Designer
Ricky Kerckhove – Lighting Designer
Tim Nottage – Scenic Designer/Property Master
Daniel Rubio – Acting
Dixie State College
Dancing at Lughnasa
Travis Cox – Sound Designer
Josh Scott – Lighting Designer
East Los Angeles College
Drink to Remember
Ivan Noel Acosta – Assistant Stage Manager/
Lighting Designer
Heather McLane – Stage Manager
Daniel Munoz – Director
Michael F. Venegas – Playwright
Eastern Arizona College
Tartuffe
Van Hollenbeck – Acting
Fresno City College
The Importance of Being Earnest
Katie Simonsen – Stage Manager
Teasers: An Evening of Short Plays
Suzanne Alford – Playwright “The Ring”
Jessica Erven – Playwright “Wait with Me”
Audrey Hardy – Playwright “Crashing”
Ricci Mazzuca – Playwright “O.D.V.D. –
Obsessive Dusting and Vacuuming Disorder”
Lauren Michaels – Playwright “Episodes of Life
– Necessary Precautions”
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Fullerton College
Glendale Community College, AZ
Crow and Weasel
Rebecca Doughty – Properties Design
Shakespeare: Fools and Leading Ladies
Fernando Worker – Makeup Design
Glendale Community College, CA
All My Sons
Cast – Ensemble
Emily Gardina – Stage Manager
Fiddler on the Roof
Jessica Young – Assistant Choreographer/
Dance Captain
Macbeth
Ed Douglas – Fight Choreographer
Savage in Limbo
Cast – Ensemble
Jim Niedzialkowski – Stage Manager
Rob Whitt – Light Board Operator
This Is Not A Tree
Cast – Ensembel
Meagon Ligons – Stage Manager
Jack Pimentel – Assistant Stage Manager
Kim Turnbull – Video Editing and
Still Photography
Humboldt State College
Insectia...The Ant War
Rachel Brink – Assistant Director/
Story Concept Adaptor/Fight Choreographer
Long Beach City College
The Playboy of the Western World
Phillip Gonzalez – Stage Manager
Alberto Mendoza – Assistant Stage Manager
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Advanced Makeup Class – Makeup Designer
Collin Bressie – Fight Choreography
Oberon’s Male Fairy Entouage – Ensemble
Los Angeles City College
The Shape of Things
Genevieve Lancaster – Stage Manager
Dave Rosales – Costume Designer
Marymount College
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Phil Futuyma & Sean Lane – Scenic Designer
Anastasia Irina Schwartz – Sound
Ashley Willingham – Stage Manager
Mesa Community College
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Trey Johnson – Stage Manager
Shannon Stoneham – Lighting Designer
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Band – Ensemble
The Miser
Cast – Ensemble
Rebecca Marks – Stage Manager
Pick–Up Artist: The Musical
Michi Abrahamzon – Costume Designer
Andrew Cupo – Lighting Designer
Notre Dame De Namur University
Death in a Landslide
Stefan Jorgensen – Stage Manager
Hotel Paradiso
Dancers – Ensemble
Rebecca Fasio – Dance Captain
Mira Costa College
Phoenix College
Heartland
Chrissy Coobatis – Music Composition
RJ Givens – Sound Designer
Running Crew – Ensemble
Proposals
Cast – Ensemble
Once Upon a Mattress
Cast & Crew – Ensemble
Roslyn Lehman & Renetta Lloyd –
Costume Designer
Our Town
Cast – Ensemble
RJ Givens – Sound Designer and Foley Artistry
Mount San Antonio College
Camino Real
Paula Elena Gomez – Stage Manager
Musicians – Ensemble
Spoon River Antholog y
Deanna Ferrara – Stage Crew
Matt Mason – Sound board Operator
SubUrbia
Paula Elena Gomez – Stage Management
Tom Jenkins – Stage Management
Adam Nasla – Stage Management
Lend Me A Tenor
Valarie Frias – Property Designer
Rio Honda College
Only the Shadow Knows
Oscar Rios – Live Sound Effects
The President
Cynthia M. Perez – Assistant Director
Oscar Rios – Prop Master
Rio Hondo 10–minute play festival
Irann Arias – Directing “Dora’s Boy”
Kassandra Ballesteros – Directing “With Friends
Like These”
Andrew Chavez – Playwriting “The Dark”
David Ingle – Directing “Where’s Your Wife”
Zachary Johnson – Playwriting “With Friends
Like These”
Ernest Moreno – Playwriting “Dora’s Boy”
Juan Villasenor – Directing “C’mon & Take a
Free Ride”
Riverside Community College
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cast – Ensemble
Crew – Ensemble
Orchestra – Ensemble
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Six Degrees of Separation
Cast – Ensemble
Carlos Bronsai – House Manager
Dominque Sandoval – Stage Manager
Saddleback College
Charley’s Aunt
Melissa Klimowicz – Stage Manager
Charley Wykeham – Acting
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Cast – Ensemble
San Fransisco State University
Don Juan
Miho Tanaka – Acting
Santa Monica City College
Butterfly Wings
Vesna Mocenar – Assistant Director
The Father
Jess Sparks – Acting
Alyssa Tyson – Stage Manager
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mercedes Aponte – Wardrobe
Megumi Yuhara – Musical Direction
Miss Saigon
Rene Vega – Stage Manager
Talk Radio
Michelle Casillas – Stage Manager
Alex Glaser – Assistant Sound Coordinator
Scottsdale Community College
Jillian Rae Jackson – Stage Manager
Jillian Rae Pagan – Director
Lysistrata
Kyle Cook – Sound Designer
Laura Kirk – Stage Manager
Meggan Steffensen – Assistant Director
The Robbers Bridegroom
Rebecca Cain – Stage Manager
Facing East
Rachel Mann – Production Manager
MacKenzie Pedersen – Cellist
Dominic Yeager – Technical Director
St. Mary’s College
Abundance
Danae Cubit – Set Crew and Rehearsal Assistant
Shannon Gaughf – Stage Manager
Stephanie Miller – Stage Manager
17 Reasons (Why?)
Curtis Borman – Sound
Christina Hogan – Stage Management
Stanford University
Original Winter One–Acts
Emily Bachelder – Producer
Michael Rooney – Lighting Designer
Kevin Shan – Technical Director
Brandon Silberstein – Playwright “Dinner Party
Lyndsay Vogel – Playwright “How They Might
Have Loved and Flown”
William Von Hoene – Playwright “The Corner”
Metamorphoses
Cast – Ensemble
Sara Martin–Bunting – Properties
Pasha Yamotahari – Dramaturgy/Image Design
Our Town
Dan Good – Director
University of Arizona
University of California – Riverside
The Elephant Man
Amanda Bullock – Properties Master
Jared Hawthorne: Marriage Counselor to the Stars
Casey Carlson – Assistant Stage Manager
Derrick Duncan – Playwright
Playworks
Ching–In Chen – Playwright
Majd Murad – Directing
Brian Ogelsby – Playwright
LaShe Rodriguez – Directing
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Crossing Elliot
Mary–Ann Blackwell – Business Manager/
Stage Manager
Grayson Coleman–Selby – Business Manager
Michelle Sciarrone – Playwright
Joseph Schwab – Acting
Brenda Varda – Playwright
University of California – Santa Cruz
La Sonadora/Poet’s Corner
Christi Suchi – Stage Manager
University of Hawaii Monoa
Macbeth
Cast – Ensemble
Ali Crighton – Assistant Director/Dramaturgy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Take Me to Monaco
Laura V. Turner – Playwright
Ashlee R. Wiseman – Stage Manager
University of the Pacific
The Briefing
Kristen Bloom – Assistant Stage Manager
Stanson Chung – Stage Manager
Brundibar and I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Clare Ingolia – Dramaturgy/
Educational Outreach
University of Utah
Blood Wedding
Danny Dunn – Lights
Medea
Chorus – Ensemble
Much Ado About Nothing
Joshua D. Cutler – Stage Manager
Notes on a Sunday
Jessie Harris – Stage Manager
Top Girls
Brittany J. Bergener – Lighting Designer
Jessie Harris – Scenic Designer
Shannon McCullock – Costume Designer
Treasure
Sam Mollner – Lighting Designer
Tristan & Yseult
Jose Garza – Sound Design
Utah State University
The Cherry Orchard
Nathan Kluthe & Paul Yeates –
Lighting Designer
Peter “Chewie” Mayhew – Sound Designer
A Christmas Carol
Shaina Runolfson – Assistant Stage Manager
King Lear
Kay Townsend – Sound Design
Utah Valley University
Flies in the Snuff Box
Dustin Congren – Translator
Sarah Mann – Assistant Stage Manager
Sara Preston – Assistant Stage Manager
Stephen Purdy – Scenic Designer
Isaac Walters – Director
Nosferatu
Jared Lewis – Scenic Designer
Mandy Lyons – Makeup Director
Anna–Marie Johnson – Costume Designer
Summer and Smoke
Anne–Marie Johnson – Costume Designer
Vanguard University
The Crucible
Richelle Buchmiller – Stage Manager
Kristin Coen – Assistant Stage Manager
Victor Valley College
Guys and Dolls
Christian Carter – Deck Crew
Katie Chavez – Light and Sound
Board Operator
Keri Fisher – Choreographer Assistant
Karem Garcia – Choreographer Assistant
Cole Garrison – Deck Crew
Gregory Harbor II – Production Assistant
Ginger Olsen – Musical Assistant
Rhonert Pascual – Musical Assistant
Quentin Rogers – Deck Crew
David Smith – Deck Crew
Mike Wolf – Buttons/Advertising
Weber State University
The Blower
Zach Dupaix – Sound Design and Production
Clayton Gerrard – Playwright
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Voices: Echo
Austin Archer – Playwright
Tyson Baker – Playwright
Carleton Bluford – Playwright
Lucas Millhouse – Playwright
Whittier College
The Crucible
Nathaniel Kamiya – Stage Manager
Aundria Miller – Assistant Lighting Designer
Lorca in a Green Dress
Nathaniel Kamiya – Assitant Student Director
Jennifer Spiegelman – Stage Manager
Pride and Pride Predjudice
Megan Gerber – Properties Assistant/
Dance Captain
Julie Henderson – Stage Management
Katie Liddicoat – Dialect Coach
Mallory Lopez – Assistant Director
Productions
Associate Productions (A)
Participating Productions (P)
American River College Before Amelia Jekyll & Hyde Kimchee and Chitlins The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and
the King Neptune (P) (A) (A) Don Coyote (P) (A) Arizona State University Brigham Young University A Midsummer Night’s Dream Berlin Dancing at Lughnasa Dial M for Murder Don Giovanni Esperanza Rising Houseboat Honeymoon Man to Man Pericles Roofsliding 64
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(A) (A) (P) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) The Jungle Book Without Fear and Bread of Affliction (A) (P) All My Sons Fiddler on the Roof Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (A) (A) (A) California Baptist University California Lutheran University Anatomy of Gray (P) Ohio (Original Musical about Kent State) (A) Student Black Box One–acts:
Flooding the Grand/Bright Ideas (P) California Polytechnic State University,
Pomona Agnes of God (P) The Bald Soprano (P) Evita Picasso at the Lapin Agile Theatre of New Voices (A) (A) (P) Godspell Pan and Wendy Performance Fusion, Part 1 Performance Fusion, Part 2 The Hobbit Tongues Urinetown, the Musical (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (P) (A) Measure for Measure Shiloh Rules Single Black Female, Looking . . . Slaughter of the Innocents The Adventures of Dash Riprock The Persians Urinetown (P) (P) (P) (P) (A) (A) (P) California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo California State University, Bakersfield California State University, East Bay California State University, Fresno California State University, Fullerton California State University, Stanislaus A Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) An Evening of 2 Graduate One–Acts (A) An Evening of Three One–Acts (A) As It Is In Heaven (A) As You Like It (P) Blue Surge (A) City of Angels (A) Evening of One–Acts (aka On Your Feet) (A) Night Of The Iguana (P) Noises Off (A) Our Town (A) Safat (A) Urinetown the Musical (A) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (A) Christmas Carol Crimes of the Heart Glass Menagerie Picasso at the Lapin Agile (A) (A) (A) (A) “De Donde” The Rivals Urinetown, the musical! (A) (A) (A) All in the Timing Emerging Work Fiddler on the Roof La Posada (A) (A) (A) (A) All My Sons (P) The Cave Dwellers (P) The Imaginary Invalid (A) The John Lion New Plays Festival 2008 (P) Chapman University California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Northridge El Estudio del Maestro Even Steven Goes to War Hinemi Intimate Apparel The Imaginary Invalid The Importance of Being Earnest The Who’s Tommy (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) 42nd Street Lorca in a Green Dress Picnic The Good Woman of Setzuan (A) (A) (A) (A) California State University, Sacramento California State University,
San Bernardino Hamlet Hamlet/ the Artist Formerly Known as /
Prince of Denmark Polaroid Stories The Last Five Years The Miser The Odyssey (A) (A) (A) (A) (P) (P) Cerritos College Chabot College A Bench at the Edge, Life Under Water,
The Author’s Voice How I Learned To Drive New Beulah School for Scandal The Problem, The Mystery at
Twickham Vicarage, Strangers The Taming of the Shrew (P) (A) (P) (A) (P) (A) Citrus College Anon(ymous) Love, Sex and the I.R.S. When You Comin’Back, Red Ryder? (P) (P) (P) Some Girls South Pacific (P) (P) Dancing at Lughnasa Into the Woods Much Ado about Nothing Paper Wings (P) (P) (P) (A) The Real Inspector Hound (P) College of the Canyons Concordia University Cuesta College 65
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Diablo Valley College Bat Boy Frankenstein Jesus Hopped the A Train The Clash and Celebration of
American Culture Humboldt State University (A) (A) (P) (A) Dixie State College of Utah A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum As You Like It Dancing at Lughnasa Pirates of Penzance (A) (A) (A) (A) East Los Angeles College Drink to Remember (P) Tartuffe The Diary of Anne Frank (P) (P) Eastern Arizona College Fresno City College Jack Goes Boating (P) Living Out (P) Teasers – An Evening of 10–Minute Plays (P) The Importance Of Being Earnest (P) Fullerton College Pippin (A) Glendale Community College (Arizona) Crow and Weasel Godspell Shakespeare: Fools and Leading Ladies The Laramie Project (P) (A) (A) (P) Glendale Community College (California) All My Sons Fiddler on the Roof Macbeth Savaage in Limbo This is Not a Tree (P) (A) (A) (P) (P) Golden West College 66
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(A) Fire–bringer Helen The Winter’s Tale Insectia...the ant war (A) (A) (P) (A) The Crucible (P) A Midsummer Night’s Dream Crimes of the Heart Dracula Flaming Idiots Playboy of the Western World (P) (A) (A) (A) (A) Rabbit Hole The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Shape of Things (P) (P) (P) Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (A) Death in a Landslide Dracula (A) (A) Heartland Once Upon a Mattress Our Town Proposals (P) (P) (A) (P) Camino Real Marat/Sade Spoon River Antholog y Suburbia (A) (A) (A) (A) Pick–Up Artist: The Musical You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Miser (P) (A) (A) (A) La Sierra University Long Beach City College Los Angeles City College
Theatre Academy Marymount College, Palos Verdes Mesa Community College MiraCosta College Mt. San Antonio College Northern Arizona University Notre Dame de Namur University Saint Mary’s College of California Children Of Eden Hotel Paradiso (A) (A) 17 Reasons (Why?) Abundance (A) (P) Blues For An Alabama Sky Saint Joan (A) (A) Chess City of Angels Don Juan (A) (A) (A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream Aida Butterfly Wings Camila Miss Saigon Talk Radio The Father (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) Our Lady of 121 Street The Sound of Music (A) (A) Metamorphoses Our Town (A) (P) Romeo and Juliet West Side Story (A) (A) Facing East Jared Hawthorne:
Marriage Counselor to the Stars Lysistrata Musical of Musicals: The Musical Philadelphia Story The Elephant Man Shh! It’s A Secret (P) Occidental College San Francisco State University Orange Coast College Complete History of America (abridged) (A) Pepperdine University Goodness Thoroughly Modern Millie (P) (A) Lend Me a Tenor Loot The Car The Face On The Barroom Floor (A) (A) (A) (A) Bunbury For Colored Girls who have
Considered Suicide/When......... The Dragon Zoot Suit (A) President Student 10–Minute Play Festival The Shadow Knows (P) (P) (P) Phoenix College Pomona College (A) (A) (P) Rio Hondo College Riverside Community College Triangle Factory Fire Projects How To Succeed In Business
Without Really Trying Six Degrees of Separation The Laramie Project (A) A Contemporary Christmas Carol Charley’s Aunt To Kill a Mockingbird (A) (A) (A) (P) (P) (P) Saddleback College Santa Monica College Santa Rosa Junior College Scottsdale Community College Sonoma State University Southern Utah University (A) (A) (A) (A) (P) (A) Stanford University The Original Winter One Acts 2008 (P) Crossing Elliot (P) University of Arizona 67
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University of California, Los Angeles Notes on a Sunday Top Girls Treasure Tristan and Yseult (A) (A) (A) (A) Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol Doubt King Lear Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead The Cherry Orchard (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) Flies in the Snuffbox Nosferatu Short Attention Span Theatre Summer and Smoke The Robber Bridegroom Twelfth Night (P) (P) (A) (A) (A) (A) (P) (P) University of Nevada, Las Vegas Life Without Parole The Crucible Freedom Deck
(AKA The Ghost of You and I) Take Me To Monaco Fall One–Act Festival Bus Stop Guys and Dolls The King’s New Clothes (A) (A) (A) Beaux Strategem The Blower Urinetown, the Musical! Voices: Echo Waiting for the Parade West Side Story (A) (P) (A) (P) (A) (A) Lorca In A Green Dress Pride and Prejudice The Crucible (A) (A) (A) The Persians (P) Dictionary Love (P) Life Outside the Body, Budweiser Girls,
One Last Ball (aka Random Acts) (A) House of Dinah or
The Black Queens: a mirror play (A)
University of California, Riverside In the Heart of America Playworks I Playworks II (Festival of original plays) Playworks III (Night Three) Playworks IV (Final night) (A) (A) (A) (A) (A) Winter Fruit (A) University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz La Sonadora/
Poets Corner (Collective work) (A) University of Hawaii, Manoa Macbeth (A) (A) (A) (A) Angels in America: Millennium Approaches(A) University of the Pacific Children of the West I Never Saw Another Butterfly:
Stockton Holocaust Project The Briefing (A) First Lady Suite (in concert) (P) Blood Wedding Medea Much Ado About Nothing (A) (A) (A) (P) (P) University of San Diego University of Utah 68 – KCACTF 2009
Utah Valley University Vanguard University of
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Utah State University Whittier College Yuba College Faculty Recognition
Eric Bishop (Gold Medallion Recipient)
Eric Bishop has had an ongoing love affair with KC/ACTF for the past twenty years as a
student, Irene Ryan finalist, partner, faculty member, Regional Governing Board member,
production respondent, Ryans adjudicator and semi–finals respondent.
A Governing Board member since 1997, Eric served as Circuit 3 Coordinator (five years),
Invitational Scenes Coordinator (three years) Workshop Coordinator (two years) and Circuit
8 Coordinator (one year). As a director at MiraCosta College, he had two productions invited to festival:
“Fuente Ovejuna” in 2006 and “Heartland” in 2009, coached 10 students into the Irene Ryan Semi–Finals
and 4 students into Finals. Eric first attended KC/ACTF as a Fresno City College student in 1988 at UC
Davis. He has since participated in 19 consecutive festivals from 1990 to the present. While attending Cal
State Fullerton for his MFA, he was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center as a scene partner to Irene Ryan
Regional Award winner, Jim Gray. Two years later, Eric would also be an Irene Ryan finalist.
Eric is now the Chair of the Performing Arts Department at MiraCosta College in Oceanside. He founded
summer conservatory program, “The Actor’s Academy;” was recognized last year with a Patte’ Award for
Outstanding Direction for “Electra;” and remains active as a director in the San Diego professional theatre
community (Moonlight Stage Productions, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Carlsbad Play Readers, and LaJolla
Stage Company). Eric would like to thank his mentors, Dean Hess, Jim Volz, Fred Fate, Roger DeLaurier,
Kirk Ellis and Gene Wahlstrom for their collective wisdom; Jim Taulli, John Binkley, Judith Royer, Richard
Bugg, past and current KC/ACTF Governing Board members for their fellowship; Tracy Williams and his
MiraCosta colleagues for their generosity, his students past and present for their daily inspiration, and to
Caroline for bringing “joie de vivre” to his life!
Eve Himmelheber (Regional Fellows Inductee)
Eve Himmelheber has performed in diverse professional settings, ranging from regional
theatre to civic light opera, the Kennedy Center, the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles) and the
Hollywood Bowl. She has been honored with Los Angeles Times and OC Weekly Critic’s
Picks, and was a two–time national finalist in the KCACTF Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship
auditions (only the second time in history this double–distinction had been achieved).
Additionally, she works professionally as a director, choreographer, and voice/text/dialect
coach in genres encompassing Musical Theatre, Shakespeare, Historical Pageants, Realism, Farce, and
many Industrials. Eve has served on the faculty at the University of Arizona, Iowa State University, Cypress
College, and Rio Hondo College, and currently serves as the Coordinator of the Musical Theatre BFA at
California State University, Fullerton. KCACTF service includes the Executive Board for Region VIII
(American Southwest) of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival starting in 1995, regional
respondent (1995 through 2009), Circuit Coordinator (1995 to 1999) and Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship
Audition Coordinator (2004 to 2008). She has twice served as Festival Respondent and Irene Ryan
adjudicator for Region VI (Southern); and also has responded to productions in Region V (Midwest) and VII
(Northwest).
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Pamela Downs (Regional Fellows Inductee)
Pamela Downs was seduced by the theatre at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, where
she was arguably the first Drama major. She transferred to Southwest Missouri State (now
Missouri State) where she received her BFA in Performance. Pamela directed and acted
in Southern California before returning to graduate school and receiving her MFA in
Acting from U.C. Davis. Following graduate studies she worked for a time in Chicago,
most often with the Prop Theatre Corps before returning to California and beginning
her teaching career at American River College in Sacramento. She has been with ARC for 18 years, teaching
Directing, Modern & Classic Styles of Acting and Improvisation, among other classes, and she has directed
over 20 shows at ARC, including a production of EQUUS that was seen at Festival XXXI at CSU Humboldt,
and for which she was acknowledged for “Directorial Excellence” by the National Selection Team. Pam has
also won numerous acting and directing awards in the Sacramento Area where she sits on the board of the
League of Sacramento Theatres. Additionally, Pamela has been active in KC/ACTF Region 8 for many years,
functioning as “eyes”, interim Directing Track Coordinator and most recently as Circuit 6 Coordinator.
Leslie Ferreira – Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy
(Region VIII Faculty National KCACTF Festival Fellowship – Directing)
Leslie Ferreira is a Professor in the Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College. He
received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.F.A. in Directing
from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied with the late Lawrence Carra. Two of
his original physical theatre productions, Unto You (1997) and Within Us (2008) were performed
at KC/ACTF Region VIII festivals. For ATHE he has taught Viewpoints/Tanztheatre
workshops in Chicago, New York, San Diego and Toronto. He has also directed for ATHE/PlayWorks. He
received three CreateLA grants through Dreamworks to work on the Mark Taper Forum’s production of Lisa
Loomer’s Expecting Isabel , on Warner Bros. The West Wing, and to direct Patrick Marber’s Closer at The Evidence
Room. A member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Mr. Ferreira was for many years
the Society’s Regional Coordinator on the West Coast. Recently he directed the stage version of the Disney/
Walden film Holes for Walden Entertainment in Denver, Colorado. He currently serves as an Ovation Voter
for the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance and has sat on the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Grant Panel for Dance.
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2008 Excellence in Education Awards
Richard Bugg – Southern Utah University
(Excellence in Education Award)
Richard Bugg is an Associate Professor at Southern Utah where he teaches Acting and
Speech. He received a B.A. degree in theatre arts from Brigham Young University and his
M.F.A. degree in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory. Richard has served on
the Board of Governors for the KCACTF, Region VIII for ten years. He acted as host of
the festival in 1997. He served as chair of that organization from 2004 to 2007. Richard is
the founding producer and artistic director of the Neil Simon Festival, a professional summer theatre—now
in its seventh year. He has performed with the Denver Center Theatre Company, the Utah Shakespearean
Festival, the Sundance Summer Theatre, the Tuachan Center, the Pink Garter Theatre, the Neil Simon
Festival, and has lent his acting talents to many University productions. He has also performed in numerous
feature films, television movies, television series, commercials, and industrial films. Richard loves to
write. He has acted as both a theatre and film critic for local and regional newspapers. One of his works of
poetry was recently featured on a national radio program. He is currently working on the libretto for a new
musical comedy. He shares his life with a wife, five children, and two grandchildren.
Bernadettte Cheyne – California State University, Humboldt
Bernadette Cheyne has been engaged in this fine madness for over 50 years, beginning
in her living room with impromptu show tunes rendered for her less than enthusiastic
siblings. She is now professor and chair of the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance at
Humboldt State University (HSU), where she also heads the acting program, regularly
directs department productions and indulges the acting muse to the extent that her busy
schedule allows. Her greatest pleasure as an actor is finally to be old enough to play the mature character
roles that she’s been cast in since her 20s. As a teacher she brings enormous enthusiasm and energy to
classroom and project work, emphasizing the excitement of creation, the joy and challenge of collaboration,
and the discipline and craft essential to the art. Bernadette has especially appreciated the rich rewards gained
by theatre students through her mentorship activities with KCACTF where she served as a site coordinator
for its 1999 regional festival at HSU, and then spent three years coordinating the Irene Ryan Acting
Scholarship Auditions. Bernadette cherishes the opportunities she has had – and eagerly anticipates those yet
to come – in working with committed and talented students, and enjoying wonderful collegial relationships
with so many gifted teachers and artists.
Maria Cominis – California State University, Fullerton
Maria Cominis has been teaching acting fulltime at California State University, Fullerton,
since 2005. Currently, she is recurring as Mona Clark on ABC’s DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES,
where she has returned nearly every season. In 2008, she directed Theatre Neo’s critically
acclaimed, Fortinbras by Lee Blessing at The Secret Rose Theatre in Noho, which won
the 2008 Noho’s Artistic Director’s Award for Best Revival and Best Ensemble. With
Theatre Neo she has performed in Best of the Best Monologue festival at The Odyssey Theatre and monthly
monologue festivals. Maria mentored as a key student with Uta Hagen and taught at HB Studio during
her ten years in New York City. She holds an MFA from UC Irvine and a BA from CSULB. In 2008, she
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received a Certificate of Completion from MICHA (The Michael Chekhov Association) and is certified in
Fitzmaurice Voicework. She has appeared in plays and musicals nationally, more recently playing Polina
Andreevna in CSUF’s guest artist production of Anton Chekhov’s The Sea Gull. Other directing credits
include: Baby (KCACTF Meritorious achievement: Ensemble), Guys and Dolls, Mystery of Edwin Drood and Starting Here, Starting Now.
Other television credits include: ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN. Maria is currently adapting a collection of
short stories for the stage. In spring, 2009 she will direct a bare bones production of Hamlet and Fall 2009
she will direct a guest artist production of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov.
Lenna DeMarco – Glendale Community College, AZ
Lenna DeMarco holds an MA in Choreography from UCLA. She has danced professionally
since the age of 13 and her credits include performances and choreography for ballet,
modern dance, musical theatre and opera companies as well as film and television
throughout the United States. She has studied and worked with major figures of dance
including Pearl Lang, Jack Cole, Ferdinand Nault, Mary Athony, Eugene Loring, Jillana
and Benjamin Harkavey. In NYC she was a member of Jean Erdman’s Theatre of the Open Eye and in Los
Angeles directed her own company. She has taught extensively in college and university theatre and dance
departments throughout the Southwest including UC Irvine, U. Redlands, Cal State San Bernardino,
Chapman University, AZ State University and U. of Louisville. Her musical theatre choreography credits
include such works as Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum, Oliver, Quilters, The Boyfriend, Calamity Jane, and Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat. Prior to coming to Arizona she was summer artist in resident at the U. of Alaska,
Fairbanks. Since settling in Phoenix she has performed with various local companies, including Center
Dance Ensemble and A Ludwig Dance Theatre.. In 1989 she joined the faculty of Glendale Community
College in Glendale, AZ. Over the past 20 years she has worked to bring the program to national
prominence and recognition as one of the strongest dance programs in the state. While at GCC she has
worked closely with the theatre and dance departments teaching and choreographing many productions. A
recipient of numerous grants and awards, she is past president of Arizona Dance Arts Alliance and has served
on several state arts committees. In 2002 she was recognized by the ADA A for her contributions to the field
of dance. This school year marks Lenna’s last year as director of dance. She will be retiring in June, 2009
after 20 years at Glendale Community College.
Kenneth Gardner – California Lutheran University
Kenneth Gardner is Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at California Lutheran
University, where he teaches acting and directing. He has written fourteen plays that have
been produced including Ohio, a musical based on Kent State, Hamlet Disco Dane of Denmark and
Mark Twain and the Ghost at the Stagecoach Inn, a semi–finalist in a national children’s playwriting
contest. He works with CLU’s Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival and is extremely active
in the development of original student plays. Ken is a member of the Academy for New Musical Theatre,
an organization devoted to the development of new works. He has directed Equity Waiver Theatre in Los
Angeles and been an Ovation voter. In addition, he was a script analyst for Meyer–Shyer Productions
at Disney Studios and produced a local Los Angeles TV show. After living adjacent to Warner Brothers,
Universal and Disney Studios, Ken gave up his long commute in favor of a home in Thousand Oaks which he
shares with his wife Debra.
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G. Shizuko Herrera – California State University, Los Angeles
G. Shizuko Herrera has been involved in Technical Theatre for over 30 years. She is a
member of the USITT and serves as the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre
Festival Circuit Three Design Coordinator and has been with California State University,
Los Angeles’ Theatre Arts & Dance Department as a Design/Technical Faculty member
since 1989. She has worked at number of Equity Waiver and Professional houses most
notably with the East West Players at the David Henry Hwang Theatre. Her affiliation with EWP has spanned
over twenty years and she is the recipient of the Rae Creevey Community Service Award and an L.A. Ovation
Award in Lighting for their production of Sweeney Todd and a Backstage Garland Award in Lighting for their
production of Pacific Overtures. She has also received a Lester Horton nomination for Excellence in Dance
Lighting for the Hae Kyung Lee & Dancers concert at the Japan America Theatre. She currently teaches Stagecraft,
Makeup, and Lighting Design.
Larry Jorgensen – Miracosta College
Larry Jorgensen has been a larger–than–life presence for the Theatre Department at
MiraCosta College since he became a faculty member in 1971. He served as the Academic
Senate President, Theatre Department Chair and was instrumental in designing the
current theatre facility. During a career that spanned 29 years, Larry directed over 60
plays, wrote 5 children’s plays, taught Acting, Voice, Makeup and Stage Craft. He instituted
puppetry classes and a children’s theatre program that became a mainstay in summer at Palomar Mountain.
After he retired in 2000, Larry continued to run the makeup program where he designed/mentored student
makeup designs for all productions annually. The quality of his makeup program is one of the finest in the
state utilizing advanced methods, prosthetics, latex and featuring professional guest artists. Larry continues
to serve on the Theatre’s Foundation Board and dedicates a tremendous amount of time and energy to the
MiraCosta’s Theatre program.
Theresa Larkin – California State University, Los Angeles
Theresa Larkin has worked as an artistic director, producer, director, documentarian,
writer, arts management consultant, conference planner, and professor for over 30
years. Professor Larkin currently is a tenured full professor (acting / directing) in the
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles. As a
university professor, Theresa is entering her twenty–ninth year teaching, which includes
25 years at National University, 23 years in the CSU (20 years at Cal State LA and 3 years at San Jose State
University), 7 years at Springfield College, 8 years at American InterContinential University (Outstanding
Professor: Business, 2002 & Outstanding Professor: General Education, 2005), 2 years at Southern Illinois
University, and 3 years at UC Irvine. Discipline areas consistently taught in include Art, Communications,
Business, Global Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Performance Training (classical
and modern acting, voice & production, professional entry) Sociology, and Theatre Arts. Theresa
received her BA in Dance and Drama from Loyola–Marymount University, Los Angeles; MFA in Drama
(Shakespearean Performance) from UC Irvine; and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies
from Claremont Graduate University.
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John Mayer – California State University, Stanislaus
John Mayer is presently chair of the theatre department at CSU Stanislaus. He received
his PhD in Theatre History from the University of Missouri in 1993 and his MFA in
Acting from Western Illinois University in 1985. His work with CSU Summer Arts and
coordination of workshops with Steppenwolf Theatre Company is the one thing of which
he is most proud. As a performer, he has worked with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the
Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and others. He has been a member of the
board of directors for Playhouse Merced for the past five years. Over the years, John has directed, produced,
or performed in over 200 productions. His favorite performance experience remains GREASE directed by
high school classmate Gary Sinise in 1974. His written history “From Basement to Broadway: The Early Days
of Steppenwolf Theatre Company,” is hopefully, soon–to–be–published.
Johanna Smith – California State University, San Bernardio
Johanna Smith is an Associate Professor of Theatre Education at California State
University – San Bernardino (CSUSB). She received her M.F.A. in Theatre for Youth
from Arizona State University. In 1997 she co–founded 5foot2 Productions in Washington,
D.C., where her original children’s shows, puppets, and workshops were featured at the
Smithsonian Institution and other museums. She served as a drama specialist and educator
for the Studio Theatre, the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the
Nashville Children’s Theatre, and the Bread and Puppet Theatre, among others. At CSUSB, she has directed
Children’s Theatre productions including Crow and Weasel, The Crane Wife, The Inland Emperor’s New
Clothes, and The Odyssey. She teaches Puppetry at the Coyote Conservatory in downtown San Bernardino
and works professionally as a puppeteer in the Los Angeles area. Her work in puppetry and video has been
featured at CSU Summer Arts, the O’Neill Puppetry
Conference in Waterford, CT, and most recently Puppet Fair, an International festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
She has provided workshops and presentations for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the West Coast Puppet Festival, the International Visual
Literacy Association, the California Educational Theatre Association, the Educational Theatre Association,
and many schools and community groups throughout the country.
Region VIII Nominations for the Kennedy Center Artists
Teaching Grant
Ann Sheffield, California State University, Fullerton (Design)
Rebecca Engle, St. Mary’s College of California (Directing)
Barta Heiner, Bringham Young University – Proto, Utah (Acting)
Charles Erven, Fresno city College, California (Playwriting)
Matt Neves, Southern Utah University (Arts Administration)
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Festival History
In Memoriam
Dr. Clifford E. White (1925–2008) Northern Arizona
University Theatre professor and staunch supporter of
the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival,
Region VIII died December 26, 2008. Cliff was born and
raised in Michigan. Upon graduation from high school he
entered the U.S. Navy in 1943 and honorably defended his
country in World War II. He served again in the Korean
Conflict. He taught speech and theatre in Detroit area
high schools where he also created innovative educational
television programs. His PhD was from Wayne State
University.
Cliff was hired by Northern Arizona University in 1968
and charged with starting and chairing the Department
of Speech (including Broadcasting, Speech, Theatre
and Speech Pathology). Because of his diligence all these
programs have flourished at NAU.
Dr. White was a dedicated theatre professional. He
directed and acted in many theatre productions. He was a
talented theatre artist who demanded excellence from his
students, his colleagues and especially from himself. Cliff was very student centered and was especially fond
of KC/ACTF. The University named the Clifford White Theatre for him on his retirement in 1992. Even
after retirement Cliff worked with faculty, students, administrators, and the Theatrikos Community Theatre
to ensure that the arts at the university, and in the Flagstaff community would grow and prosper.
He leaves behind a loving family, thousands of students and friends throughout the United States. Many will
remember Cliff White for his sense of humor, his determination to be the best and his dedication to KC/
ACTF as one of the founding father’s our region.
Good Show, Dr. Clifford White!
Dr. Bob Yowell
Professor
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Past Regional Chairs
1960’s
Jean Korf
Kenneth Dorst
Pat Madsen
Norman Mennes
1970’s
Doyne Mraz
John Cauble
Al Muller (Twice)
Cliff White
Robert Smart
Jean Korf
Jere Wade (Twice)
Cliff White (Twice)
William Wolak
1980’s
Charles Redmon
George Forrester
Harold Dixon
Kaleta Brown
1990’s
Rex Heuschkel
Ivan Hess
Fred Fate
Bradley Myers
2000’s
Ken Gray
Richard Bugg
James Taulli
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Past Regional Productions Finalists
If you wish to offer any corrections or additions to this history, please send them to [email protected].
In the Beginning there was:
Region VIII N (Hawaii, Northern California, Northern Nevada)
Region VIII S (Arizona, Southern California, Southern Nevada)
Utah (which was part of Region VII along with Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming)
(W) denotes a production invited to Washington, DC
(MTA) denotes a KCACTF National Musical Theater Award Winner
(SPA) denotes a KCACTF National Student Playwriting Award
FESTIVAL XL – 2007–2008
Regional Chair: James Taulli –
NPP Chair: Douglass Hill – University of Nevada,
Las Vegas
D&T Chair: Geoffrey Eroe – Pheonix College
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
The Cloud Gatherer by Jose Cruz Gonzalez
Directed by Susan Mason
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Robert Yowell
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Goliath by Takeo Rivera
Directed by Alex Mallory
UNIVERSIT Y OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
House Full of Letters by Katherine Steinkellner
Directed by Amanda Glaze
CALIFORNIA LUTHER AN UNIVERSITY
The Kitchen by Brigette Stevenson
Directed by Jamie Andrikopoulos
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
Musical of Musicals by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart
Directed by James Christian
FULLERTON COLLEGE
Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Gary Krinke
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Directed by Tom Bradac
RIVERSIDE COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE
Urinetown, Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Directed by Jodi Julian
LOS ANGELES CIT Y COLLEGE
THEATRE ACADEMY
Within Us, by Leslie Ferreira
Directed by Leslie Ferreira
Choreographed by Tina Kronisby,
FESTIVAL X X XIX – 2006–2007
Regional Chair: Richard Bugg – Southern Utah
University
NPP Chair: Jeanette D. Farr – PCPA Theaterfest
D&T Chair: John H. Binkley – CSU Northridge
UTAH STATE UNIVERSIT Y
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
Directed by Lynda Linford
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Matt Neves,
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,
STANISL AUS
Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan
Menken
Directed by Andrew Sutherland
SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA
Lorca in a Green Dress by Nilo Cruz
Directed by Rebecca Engle
VICTOR VALLEY COLLEGE
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Ed Heaberlin
FULLERTON
The Diviners by James Leonard, Jr.
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Directed by Patrick Pearson,
UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Directed by Chris Clark
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,RIVERSIDE
Left Luggage by Abbie Bosworth
Directed by Rachel Mink,
LOS ANGELES
Where Do We Go From Here? by Kimberly Huff
Directed by José Cruz Gonzales
LOSANGELES
La Ofrenda by José Casas
Directed by José Cruz Gonzales
FESTIVAL X X X VIII – 2005–2006
Regional Chair: Richard Bugg –
Southern UtahUniversity
NPP Chair: Jeanette D. Farr –
PCPA Theaterfest
D&T Chair: John H. Binkley –
CSU Northridge
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSIT Y,
LOSANGELES
In Baptists Gone Bad and the Passing of a Peace Pipe by a
Shoshone Princess by Jill Brennan
CHABOT COLLEGE
It Falls . . . by Rachel LePell
CITRUS COLLEGE
La Lista Negra by Tatiana Leiva
FRESNO CIT Y COLLEGE
Canyon Suite, A Play in Three Scenes
by Charles Erven
MIR A COSTA COLLEGE
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSIT Y
He Who Gets Slapped adapted by Judith Guthrie
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSIT Y
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
UNIVERSIT Y OF CALIFORNIA, LOS
ANGELES
Lost Boys by Kit Steinkellner
UNIVERSIT Y OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
As It Is In Heaven by Arlene Hutton
UNIVERSIT Y OF THE PACIFIC
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH
Pussycat by Troy Deutsch
YUBA COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE
Autobahn by Neil LaBute
FESTIVAL X X X VII – 2004–2005
Regional Chair: Richard Bugg –
NPP Chair: Jeanette D. Farr –
PCPA Theaterfest
CSU Northridge
FULLERTON
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
FULLERTON
Train to Ouroboros by Ian Arthur Swanson
LOS ANGELES
White by Ken Kalwitter
Stuck in Traffic by Carlo Gucchi
SAN BERNARDINO
¡Bocón! by Lisa Loomer
DIXIE STATE COLLEGE OF UTAH
Jekyll and Hyde (The Musical) by Leslie Bricusse,
Frank Wildhorn
EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE
A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
PHOENIX COLLEGE
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman & The
Tectonic Theater Project
VANGUARD UNIVERSIT Y OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
WEBER STATE UNIVERSIT Y
The Miser by Moliére
FESTIVAL X X X VI – 2003–2004
Regional Chair: Kenneth R. Gray – Glendale
Community College (CA)
NPP Chair: William J. Wolak – University
of the Pacific
CSU Northridge
FULLERTON
Stealing Pens by Ian Arthur Swanson
CONCORDIA UNIVERSIT Y
Medea by Euripides
GLENDALE COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE (AZ)
Kyogen 3 traditional Japanese
LOYOL A MARYMOUNT UNIVERSIT Y
Colin Grey by Cassie Pappas
PHOENIX COLLEGE
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE
Language of Angels by Naomi Iizuka
UNIVERSIT Y OF NEVADA, L AS VEGAS
(W) Margolis Brown Company’s The Human Show by Kari
Margolis
Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, by Kurt Veill,
Maxwell Anderson, Mark Blitzstein, Bertolt
Brecht
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin
Farewell to Eden by Mahonri Stewart
FESTIVAL X X X V – 2002–2003
NPP Chair: William J. Wolak – University of the
Pacific
Design & Technology Chair: Debra Shapazian
–Fresno City College
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSIT Y
Ladyhouse Blues by Kevin O’Morrison
CALIFORNIA LUTHER AN UNIVERSIT Y
Hay Fever by Noel Coward
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSIT Y, SAN
BERNARDINO
Keep Hedz Ringin by Rickerby Hinds
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Hunchback: A Portrait by Crae Wilson
The Boy Who Drew Cats
VICTOR VALLEY COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE
See How They Run by Phillip King
Floyd Collins by Tina Landau
FESTIVAL X X XIV – 2001–2002
PAC Chair: William J. Wolak – University of the
Pacific
Regional Design Coordinator: Debra Shapazian
–Fresno City College
BAKERSFIELD
Tossed by Jeff Lepine
FULLERTON
(W) Grasmere by Kristina Leach
HAY WARD
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSIT Y, SAN
BERNARDINO
Resa Fantastiskt Mystiskt by The Burglars of Hamm
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Tartuffe by Moliére
GLENDALE COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE (AZ)
Quilters by Molly Newman
SAN FR ANCISCO STATE UNIVERSIT Y
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? By Mark Medoff
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
(W) Slavery – adapted, by Jonathan Payne
STANFORD UNIVERSIT Y
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society
The Game by Ilyss Silverman
UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH
Butoh Macbeth by S. Glenn Brown
God’s Country by Steven Dietz
FESTIVAL X X XIII – 2000–2001
Regional Chair: Brad Myers – CSU Fresno
PAC Chair: William J. Wolak – University of the
Pacific
FULLERTON
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSIT Y, LOS
ANGELES
Dahil Sa Iyo by Lorely Trinidad
STANISL AUS
Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
GLENDALE COMMUNIT Y
COLLEGE (CA)
Bakcswing by Samuel Hayne Dyches
PIERCE COLLEGE
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Disgraceful Veils of Afghanistan’s Taliban
UNIVERSIT Y OF NEVADA,
L AS VEGAS
To Insure Perfection by Kim Moore
(W) La Cenerentola by Rossini & Ferretti
UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
FESTIVAL X X XII – 1999–2000
Regional Chair: Brad Myers –
CSU Fresno
PAC Chair: William J. Wolak –
University of the Pacific
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSIT Y
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
FULLERTON
(W) Super Nova in Hamlet
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Atsumori & Ikuta
CIT Y COLLEGE OF SAN FR ANCISCO
Love’s Fire
RIO HONDO COLLEGE
The Other Door
SCOTTSDALE COMMUNIT Y COLLEGE
Blood Relations
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
Mariachi Quixote
Roscoe’s Little Theatre
UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH
The Libation Bearers
The 1940’s Radio Hour
(W) The Serpent
FESTIVAL X X XI – 1998–1999
Regional Chair: Brad Myers – CSU Fresno
PAC Chair: Judith Royer –
Loyola Marymount University
AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGE
Equus by Peter Shaffer
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
Cat Got Your Tongue?
(W) (SPA) Onionheads by Jesse Miller
FULLERTON
My Married Friends
Neapolitan
HAY WARD
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
CIT Y COLLEGE OF SAN FR ANCISCO
Bad Indian
Freak
Hypnotista
Indecent Exposure
Trojan Women
FRESNO CIT Y COLLEGE
Veronica’s Room
GLENDALE COMMUNIT Y
COLLEGE (AZ)AND ARIZONA STATE
UNIVERSIT Y WEST
Fences
What I Don’t Understand
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSIT Y
Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Altered States (One–Acts)
UNIVERSIT Y OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Ain’t Nothin’ But a Thang
FESTIVAL X X X – 1997–1998
Regional Chair: Fred Fate – Theatre Academy/
PAC Chairs Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount
University
Theatre Academy
Unto You
PHOENIX COLLEGE
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
SAN FR ANCISCO STATE UNIVERSIT Y
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSIT Y
The Box
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSIT Y
Another Part of the House by Midgalia Cruz
(W) Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine
UNIVERSIT Y OF UTAH
Ouroboros by Tom Jacobson
People Become Real
FESTIVAL X XIX – 1996–1997
Regional Chair: Fred Fate – Theatre Academy/
PAC Chairs Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount
University
THEATRE ACADEMY
Short Play Festival II
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
The Spider Play by Holly Lash (SO)
(W) Vortex by Wade Sheeler (SO)
FULLERTON
Easter
CHAPMAN UNIVERSIT Y
Terminal
HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSIT Y
Clogged Chakras and Broken Hearts
PHOENIX COLLEGE
Simpatico
Del Rey Players
Raps by Robert C. Romanus
(W) Once on This Island
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSIT Y
A Man for All Seasons
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
Tommy
Heart in the Ground by Douglas Hill (SO)
Ceremonies of Prayer
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Medallion Recipients
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Medallion is awarded for outstanding contributions
to the Festival by interested faculty, staff, administrators, or organizations. It is the most coveted award
given by KCACTF and is considered one of the great honors in theatre education. Since 1981, each region
may choose toaward only two of these greatly prized and highly coveted honors each year.The composition
of Region VIII changed in 1990 when VIII North (N), South (S), and Utah (UT) became one KCACTF
region. Medallion recipients listed before 1990 are distingushed by their previous region.
2009
Eric Bishop
2008
Kevin Wetmore
2007
Eve Himmelheber
2006
John H. Binkley
2005
Anita DuPratt
2004
Bernadette Cheyne
2003
Debra Shapazian
2002
Richard Bugg
Tom Provenzano
2001
Bruce Duerden
Pamela Dyer
James Tauli
2000
Paula Alm
Utah State
University Theater
1999
Debra Shapazian
Robert Yowell
1998
Jill Benone
Crae Wilson
1997
Diana Polsky
Judith Royer
1996
Kaleta Brown
Ivan Hess
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1995
Jill Benone
Charles Metten
1994
Amanda Sue Rudisill
1993
Ken Gray
Bill Wolak
1992
Ivan Hess
1991
Dean Hess
1990
Harold Dixon–S
Owen Smith–S
Robert Ware–N
1989
Jim McCloskey–S
Alan Stambusky–N
1988
Bill James–N
1986
Pamela Fields–S
1985
Bill Wolak–N
1984
George Forester–N
Kip Niven–S
1983
Emmett Jacobs–S
1982
Jerry Crawford–S
Jere Wade–N
1981
Jerry Crawford–N
Pamela Fields–S
Al Keller–S
Richard Levering–N
Howard Malpas–N
Jim McCloskey–S
Sid Perkes– (UT)
Jack Vaughn–S
1980
Barbara Carver–S
Ed Emanuel–S
Rex Heuschkel–N
Charles Redman–S
Southern California
Educational Theatre
Association–S
Anta West–S
1979
Kaleta Brown–S
Bonnie Burns Busick–N
Harold Oaks–(UT)
Franklin Wilbur–N
1978
Jack Byers–N
Jerry Crawford–S
Fleda Evans–N
Ron Feinberg–S
Charlotte K. Motter–S
Maris Ubans–S
1977
Dolores Abrans–N
James A. Butler–S
Dr. Harold Crain–N
Sylvia Drake–S
Jack Morrison–S
Alfred Muller–N
Clifford E. White–S
William C. White–S
1976
Jerry Blunt–S
Virginia Christine–S
James Costy–N
Cecile Enright–S
Fritz Field–S
Ronald Johnson–N
Robert Smart–N
Dan Sullivan–S
1975
Howard Banks–S
Muriel Roy Bolton–S
Kingsley Colton–S
Bert and Margaret
Holland–S
Doyne Mraz–N
Omar Paxson–S
Robert Smykle–S
Richard Wilson–S
1974
John Cauble–S
Jenane Hall–N
Robert Hays–N
Lee Korf–S
Candy Maue–N
Harry Murray–S
Sara Seegar–S
1973
Jean Korf–S
Kate Lawson–S
Patricia Madsen–S
Norman Mennes–S
Chalotte K. Motter–N
Ezra Stone–S
1972
Fay Kanin–S
Michael Kanin–S
Excellence in Theatre Education Award
This award, 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.
1997
Jerry Carlson
Eddie Coe
Barclay Goldsmith
Adrianne Harrop
Roger Held
Bob Jensen
Davey Marlin–Jones
Jerome O’Donnell
Sid Perkes
David Wheeler
Louise Williams
Crae Wilson
1998
Pamela Fields
John R. Fisher
Julie Jensen
Harvey T. Jordan
G. Randall King
Ed Trujillo
Peter J. Van Niel
Cornelia Wilson
1999
Jerry Crawford
Monica Ehlke–Cole
Thomas Hird
Bill Korf
Diana Polsky
Timothy W. Slover
Ethel Pitts Walker
2000
Chris Beach
Timothy P. Bryson
Roger DeLaurier
George T. Forrester
Dean Hess
Charles Metten
Judith Royer
Jere Wade
2001
Thomas F. Bradac
Fred Fate
José Cruz González
Jodi Julian
David Kahn
Charles Myers
Oscar Lee Walker
Kimb Williamson
2002
Kaleta Brown
Don Cate
Valorie Greer
Barta Heiner
Gary Krinke
Val Limar
Virgina Zike Ludders
Rev. Fred Tollini
2003
Michael J. Arndt
W. Vosco Call
Bradley Myers
James Taulli
Larry Soller
Randy Wonzong
2004
Anthony Carreiro
Jim Christian
Roy Conboy
Kathryn Ervin
Anne Fajillan
Gary Imel
Peter Senkbeil
2005
Susan K. Berkompas
Rebecca Engle
Colin Johnson
Trisch Jordhal
John Rude
Debra Shapazian
Tamiko Washington
2006
Bruce Duerden
Geoffrey Eroe
Eve Himmelheber
Rickerby Hinds
Gail Holbrook
John F. Lane
Jerome O’Donnell
Robert Nelson
William Wolak
2007
Paul DeDoes
Pamela Downs
Chris Eicher
Charles Erven
RoZsa Horvath
Megan Sanborn Jones
Mic Shackelford
Robert Yowell
2008
Cherie Brown
Tom Provenzano
Dr. J’aime Morrison
Lyn Dutson
Mandy Rees
Paula Alm
James Arrington
Rachel LePell
2009
Richard Bugg
Bernadettte Cheyne
Maria Cominis
Lenna DeMarco
Kenneth Gardner
G. Shizuko Herrera
Larry Jorgensen
Theresa Larkin
John Mayer
Johanna Smith
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