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CUELINES
Newsletter of the Ohio Community Theatre Association
www.ohiocommunitytheatre.org
July 2016
V olum e LXIV —Iss ue 4
September 2-5
Annual Conference
Greeting OCTA Members!
Friday night:
OCTA, Jr. excerpts
NorthEast welcome
party
Saturday night:
Tech rodeo
Sunday night:
Banquet
Costume contest—wear
your favorite Westernthemed outfit
Workshops, workshops,
and more workshops:
Responder training
Finding Foundation
support
Vocal workshops
Scenic design
Sound design
Monday morning
roundtables
Wow...what a whirlwind. It seems like summer just got started and
then we had five weekends of regional festivals and now it’s time for
OCTA, Jr. Talented kids from all over Ohio will perform in ten
excerpts during the 11th annual festival on August 6 at the O.J.
Work Auditorium, 151 Main Street, Wadsworth, Ohio. Festivities start
at 8:00 and continue all day. $10 will get you a wonderful day of
theater.
And then just when summer starts winding down
and school bells are ringing, it’ll be time for Wild,
Wild OCTA September 2-5 at the Holiday Inn
Independence. Check out www.ohiocommunity
theatre.org for registration information and call the
hotel at 216-524-8050 to make your reservations.
As this OCTA year heads to a Wild, Wild weekend,
we’re already looking forward to the new year
starting in September. Delegates will be meeting on Sunday morning
for their annual meeting and to elect new Board members who will
then vote on new officers on Monday morning. The 2017 and 2018
Conference Chairs are putting on their thinking caps and coming up
with even more fun ways to celebrate community theater in Ohio and
new ideas for workshops to help our over 110 member theaters.
Congratulations to all the theaters who participated in the festivals
and to all those who will be showcasing at Conference. It’s always fun
to excerpt in front of your peers and this year, being an AACTfest
year, is even more special with the possibility of going to Illinois in
the spring for Region III and maybe on to Minnesota next June.
Inside this issue:
Dawna’s Dispatch
Dawna’s Dispatch
1
Shout Out, Welcome! 2
Wild Playbill Roundup,
and Congrats to
Wayne Kirsch
Be sure to thank all the Board members and Regional Reps and those
volunteering at Conference as they are the ones that help make
community theater the GREATEST in Ohio.
Regional Reports
4
Division Reports
5
And I’d like to thank all the Board members and Regional Reps and
theater volunteers who helped make this another great theater
season.
Conference Excerpt
Schedule
5
Here’s to a Wild, Wild weekend in Independence!
CallBoard
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Dawna Kornick
2015-16 OCTA President
CUELINES EDITOR
Christi Thomas
439 Apollo Street, Sidney, OH 45365
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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
Aara Wise
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dawna Kornick
President
Wayne Kirsch
1st Vice-President
Jesse Bernal
2nd Vice-President
Harley Antesky
3rd Vice-President
Susan Barzda
Secretary
John Falkenbach
Imm Past President
Michelle Dolciato
Conference Chair
AT-LARGE BOARD MEMBERS
Millie Butts
Sheila Cochran
CJ Jamison
Michelle Johnson
Peggy Kenney
Dan Maloney
Tahrea Maynard
Dianne Pytel
Leigh Sandmann
Amy Waldfogle
Jerry Zimmerman
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
CENTRAL
Kate Charlesworth-Miller
NORTHEAST
Sue Cohen
Johnetta Harris
Gary Maher
Stayce Nabors
Autumn Ridler
Sue Snyder
NORTHWEST
Mitch Antesky
Joe Barton
Inge Klopping
Linda McClure
JR Smith
SOUTHEAST
Joe Balding
Billie Harmon
Jane Mancini
Sally Holmes
SOUTHWEST
Kathie Brennan
Ray Lebowski
John Masterson
Kevin Noll
Robert Weidle
WEST
Christi Thomas
HISTORIAN—Fred Wise
[email protected]
www.ohiocommunitytheatre.org
Shout Out!
To the new theater in the West Region who
decided to excerpt for their first season and will
be showcasing at State Conference Labor Day
weekend. Welcome again to The Perennial
Theatre Company and congrats!
Welcome!
OCTA welcomes new member theatre Children’s Theatre
Workshop from Toledo.
Klopping Wins Wild Playbill Roundup!
(submitted by Michelle Johnson, MM/PR)
The MM/PR Division challenged Regional Reps and Board
Members to kick off a great festival season this year by jumping
into their boots and hitting the road to see as many shows
produced by our OCTA member theatres as they could between
January and July this year. Participants posted photos of
themselves with a show playbill on a group Facebook page.
Fourteen Reps and Board Members reported their visits. Inge
Klopping, NW Regional Rep, wrangled her way into nine theatres
to watch productions earning a registration package for our State
Conference in Independence over Labor Day Weekend. Right
behind her were Peggy Kenney (SW) and Michelle Johnson (NW)
with six each, and Tahrea Maynard-Johnson (C) and Christi
Thomas (W) with four each.
Congrats to Wayne Kirsch...
Every year, ACT of Greater Cincinnati presents the Art Rouse
Award to an ACT theater member who has shown exceptional
commitments and dedication to community theater. This year’s
honoree was OCTA 1st Vice-President Wayne Kirsch, our favorite
tri-state thespian. In a nutshell, Wayne has served on our Board
for many years as well as numerous other theater boards and
theater-related organizations’ boards. He is also currently a
member of the Kentucky Theatre Association state board.
His nomination noted that “no” is not part of his vocabulary. He
travels hundreds of miles each year to meetings and meetings
and shows and more shows. Not to mention the shows he
performs in or works on and the plethora of awards he has
received on the local and state levels. He also received the OCTA
President’s Award in 2012 along with the Spirit of Community
Theatre Award; and Special Recognition as the OCTAFest Chair
in 2014.
Wayne has said “I’m devoted to community theatre because the
people involved are my chosen family.”
Congrats to the best big brother ever!!
Cuelines is published online five times per year as the official newsletter of the Ohio Community Theatre
Association. Material for publication should be submitted by the third Monday of January, March, May, and
October, and by December 10, and will be printed as space permits. Send Callboard listings to both the Newsletter Editor and Webmaster. Submissions without names will not be published.
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July 2016
Regional Reports
(from the July meeting)
Central Region: The Central Region OCTAFest took place on June 4 at Kenyon College in Gambier,
Ohio, hosted by MTVarts. Seven excerpts were presented, and a workshop entitled “Integrating
Individuals With Disabilities Into Your Theatre Community” was also presented. The two shows
invited to the state conference were LTOB’s Escanaba in da Moonlight and Alcove’s Saving Up For
Saturday Night. The alternate was MTVarts The Miracle Worker. There was a brief delegates meeting,
but the official election of next year’s regional reps was put off to an email vote later in the summer,
as there was not a majority of the delegates present. —Kate Charlesworth-Miller
NorthEast Region: The regional festival was held on June 18 with six theaters excerpting, 78
participants, and 20 walk-ins. A workshop on “Deaf Theatre ins and outs” was lead by Bill Morgan.
The two invitees are: Hudson Players’ 1776 and Chagrin Valley Little Theatre’s End Days. Sue
Snyder, Sue Cohen, Autumn Ridler, and John Haller will be the 2016-17 regional reps. Our theater
of the year awards went to Hudson Players (1st), Western Reserve Playhouse (2nd) and Aurora
Community Theatre (3rd). —Sue Snyder
Northwest Region: The Northwest region held their annual OCTAfest on June 11-12, 2016 at Amil
Tellers/Lima Encore, Lima, Ohio. There were eleven theatres excerpting with over 230 attendees.
The invitees to OCTA state conference were 3B Production's Jesus Christ Superstar, Amil Tellers'
Making God Laugh, and Black Swamp Players' The Black Bonspiel of Wullie Maccrimmon, the
alternate was Playmakers Civic Theatre's Tuesdays With Morrie. At the Saturday delegate lunch, new
regional reps were elected. Returning lead rep Mitch Antesky, Linda McClure and Inge Klopping are
joined by Crystal Bowers, Denver Henderson, Matt Richardson, Sara Ledzianowski and Zac Gilley.
The voting delegates approved a long term plan that has been in the making for some time, a
permanent home for the festival. The Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts
is going to be the Home of Northwest OCTA for the years 2017-2019. A rotating committee of
members from various theatres will coordinate the shared duties of hosting the festival. This state-of
the-art facility is conveniently located just minutes from the popular state conference site, the
Holiday Inn French Quarter. As corporate sponsors, they are very excited to be in partnership with
OCTA and look forward to a long term relationship. —Mitchell Antesky
Southeast Region: The Southeast Region met on Sunday, July 10 during its Regional Festival.
Regional Reps for 2016-17 are Sally Holmes, Jane Mancine, and Joe Balding. The delegates voted to
make a $200 donation to Ohio Valley University Department of Theatre for their help with the
regional festival. It was also voted to give a $100 scholarship to The Riverby Theatre Guild to help
with their expenses as they move on to represent the SE Region at State Conference with their
excerpt from Steel Magnolias. Congratulations to the cast and crew of Charlottes Web from The Little
Theatre of Tuscawarus County for being chosen as the alternate. Thanks also to The Mid Ohio
Valley Players and The Athenian Berean Community Players for bringing their excerpts to the
regional as well. —Joe Balding
Southwest Region: The Southwest Regional festival was held on June 23-24-25. Congratulations to
The Drama Workshop’s Unnecessary Farce, CenterStage Players’ Acapulco, and Sunset Players’
Clybourne Park who were invited to showcase at State Conference. —Ray Lebowski
West Region: The 2016 West Regional was held on July 9 in Bellefontaine at The Holland Theatre
with five theaters excerpting and 82 attendees. Excerpts were from Dayton Theatre Guild, Windmill
Productions, Troy Civic Theatre, The Perennial Theatre Company, and Xenia Area Community
Theatre. DTG’s excerpt of The Columnist and Perennial’s excerpt of Veronica’s Room will represent
the West at the Annual Conference in Independence Labor Day weekend with Windmill Productions’
Young Frankenstein as the alternate. —Christi Thomas
Before you head to Conference...check out www.ohiocommunitytheatre.org for the schedule.
We are also looking for a few more Board Members. Get more information on the website.
AND, don’t forget to bring your baskets for the Silent Auction room.
Delegates: You do not have to come and register for the Conference to attend the annual
meeting/delegates’ breakfast at 7:30 on Sunday morning at the Holiday Inn Independence.
Cuelines
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Division Reports
(from the July meeting)
•Administrative Division is still looking for some additional Board candidates. If you have
any interest, check out the website. The Executive Committee has also contracted for
conference hotels for the next two years. The 2017 and 2018 Conferences will be in
Columbus and the 2018 Conference will be co-hosted by the West and Southeast Regions.
The Regional Reps met and discussed their regional festivals. Highlights included discussing online registration forms for each festival that could be filled out electronically; the
necessity of submitting three scripts; little more housekeeping for the host theaters (clear
backstage, dressing rooms, and load-in area); utilizing a Responder round table; and communicate, communicate, communicate!
•The Finance Division talked about the logo table at Conference. Paypal will be available
and they will no longer be writing down credit card numbers. Lots of new things to choose
from. All theaters and regions are encouraged to bring a basket for the silent auction.
•The Programming Division discussed the Guide/Respondent Program which they would
like everyone to promote. For the next year, Programming would like to see several costume
entries as there are none for this year. The OCTA Script Library is accepting donations and
is putting together a “wish list” of plays that are requested and not currently in the library
and maybe someone could donate them. Conference is coming up quickly. OCTA, Jr. is
scheduled for August 6 from 8 am and running all day. More than 300 young actors will be
participating.
•The Membership/Marketing/Public Relations Division discussed an activity to be held
at Conference with members of the committee spreading the good word of OCTA for the
next gens and announced the winner of the “Wild Playbill Roundup.” They are also working
on an idea to continue this with next year’s theme.
2016 Conference Excerpt Schedule
Saturday, September 3:
9:00 Almost, Maine, Aurora Community Theatre
10:00 Escanaba in Da Moonlight, LTOB
11:00 End Days, Chagrin Valley Little Theatre
2:30 Making God Laugh, Amil Tellers
3:30 The Columnist, Dayton Theatre Guild
4:30 Jesus Christ Superstar, 3B Productions
7:30 Unnecessary Farce, Drama Workshop
8:30 Savin’ Up for Saturday Night,
Alcove Theatre
9:30 Acapulco, Center Stage Players
Sunday, September 4:
9:00 Clybourne Park, Sunset Players
10:00 Veronica’s Room, The Perennial Theatre Co.
11:00 Steel Magnolias, Riverby Theatre Company
2:30 The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon,
Black Swamp Players
3:30 1776, Hudson Players
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Round up that Western gear and
plan on spending Labor Day
weekend at the Holiday Inn
Independence. You won’t be bored
or disappointed. NorthEast
conferences are always a GREAT
time.
Even if you are not involved with
an excerpt, there will be plenty of
networking, workshops, networking, social time, and networking
to keep you busy
all weekend.
Hope to see ya’ll
there!
July 2016
Callboard
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The July issue has postings through October.
Central Region
09/02-09/25
09/16-09/25
09/23-10/09
10/07-10/15
10/01-10/09
10/14-10/16
10/21-10/30
Alice in Wonderland, Jr
Little Shop of Horrors
The Bat
Death by Chocolate
Barefoot in the Park
The Odd Couple
Shrek, the musical
MTV Arts
Mansfield Playhouse
Little Theatre Off Broadway
Roundtown Players
Bucyrus Little Theatre
Chillicothe Civic Theatre
Mansfield Playhouse
NorthEast Region
09/08-09/25
09/30-10/09
09/23-10/08
10/21-11/05
Dearly Beloved
Workshop Players
440-988-5613
Fox on the Fairway
Carnation City Players
330-821-7812
Camping w/Henry & Tom
Olde Towne Hall Theatre
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Chagrin Valley Little Theatre 440-247-8955
Northwest Region
09/09-09/30
09/15-09/24
09/16-09/25
09/16-09/25
09/16-09/25
09/22-10/02
09/28-10/02
09/30-10/09
10/07-10/16
10/07-10/16
10/06-10/16
100 Stories
Toledo Repertoire Theatre
The Mousetrap
Fort Findlay Playhouse
Sylvia
Black Swamp Players
Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike Village Players
Night Must Fall
Amil Tellers of Dramatics
The Addams Family Van Wert Civic Theatre
Let’s Murder Marsha Williams County Comm Theatre
Complete works of Wm Shakespeare Toledo Repertoire Theatre
Young Frankenstein Fremont Community Theatre
Elvis People
Ritz Players
The Minister’s Wife
Fort Findlay Playhouse
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Southeast Region
08/09-08/28
09/16-09-25
10/21-10/30
Shrek, the musical
Mousetrap
The Uninvited
Cambridge Performing Arts Centre
Actors Guild of Parkersburg
Zane Trace Players
304-485-1300
740-453-8481
Southwest Region
08/05
08/12
09/08
09/09
09/23
09/23
09/28
10/06
10/07
10/07
10/14
10/14
10/21
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10/15
10/23
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10/29
10/29
11/06
The Wizard of OZ
Beechmont Players
Noises Off
Drama Workshop
Hair
Footlighters, Inc.
Beau Jest
Mariemont Players
The Addams Family Acting Up
The Rainmaker
Fairfield Footlighters
The Wedding Singer Sunset Players
The Addams Family Greater Hamilton
The Faculty Lounge Village Players
The Lion in Winter
Drama Workshop
Murder’s Bad, but Monday… Mason Comm. Players
Story Theatre
Tri-County Players
And Then There Were None Beechmont Players
Death of a Salesman CenterStage Players
Murder by Natural Causes
Milford Theatre Guilde
Catch Me if You Can Stagecrafters
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West Region
08/19-09/04
08/20-08/21
08/26-09/04
09/09-09/18
09/16-09/24
09/16-10/02
10/07-10/23
10/28-11-06
The Last Lifeboat
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nine
The Great Gatsby
Almost, Maine
Camelot
The Outgoing Tide
Eating Raoul
Dayton Theatre Guild
Windmill Productions
Beavercreek CT
Xenia Area CT
Troy Civic Theatre
Dayton Playhouse
Dayton Theatre Guild
Beavercreek CT
937-278-5993
937-592-9002
937-429-4737
937-372-0516
937-339-7700
937-424-8477
937-278-5993
937-429-4737
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