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ATHE Summit of Theatre-Related
Organizations Pre-Conference
On Thursday, August 3, from 9 am – 11 am, ATHE has organized a summit of theatre-related organizations to discuss collaboration and coordination of advocacy work on behalf of the arts and arts in education.
A partial list of Representatives from the following associations/
groups will participate:
Chair: Karen Berman, ATHE President, Georgetown University
Summit Planning: Deborah Martin, ATHE VP for Advocacy, Berea College,
Jim Hatfield, University of Texas at Tyler
Suzanne Burgoyne, ATHE President-Elect, University of Missouri-Columbia
Stacy Ballis, The Goodman Theatre
Steve Barberio, President, American Alliance for Theatre Education (AATE)
Carole Brandt, National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST)
Gail Burns, Educational Theatre Association (EdTA)
Charlotte Canning, President, American Society for
Theatre Research (ASTR)
Amy Dolan, Actors’ Equity
Liz Engelman, President, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of
America (LMDA)
Dan Haughey, Illinois Theatre Association
Gregg Henry, Director, Kennedy Center/American College Theater
Festival, Washington, DC
Barbara Mujica, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater,
Sylvia Hilliyard Pannell, President, United States Institute of Theatre
Technology (USITT)
Michael Peitz, EdTA
Gail Schaeffer, Advocacy Subcommittee on Theatre Education
and Reform Certification
Sandra Shannon, Black Theatre Network (BTN)
Jerry Smith, EdTA
Representative, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Keynote Address
Thursday, August 3, 2006
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Grand Ballroom 4th Floor
Palmer House Hilton
ATHE warmly welcomes Moisés Kaufman, famous
playwright, as Keynote speaker for the 2006 Chicago
Anniversary Conference. On Thursday, August 3, immediately following the ATHE Awards Ceremony, in the Grand
Ballroom, Mr. Kaufman will welcome attendees to the 20th
annual conference.
Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy nominated director and award-winning playwright.  His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie
Project have been among the most performed plays in
America over the last decade. 
Most recently Mr. Kaufman directed the Pulitzer and Tony
award winning play I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright.
The play garnered Mr. Kaufman an Obie award for his
direction as well as a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s
Circle and Lucille Lortell nominations.
The Laramie Project, opened at The Denver Theater Center
in March 2000 and moved to New York on May 18th,
2000. Time magazine called The Laramie Project, “One
of the 10 best plays of 2000,” and it was nominated for
the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.
The book of The Laramie Project won the American Library
Association’s GLBT Literature Award. On November 2000,
Mr. Kaufman took his company to Laramie, Wyoming, to
perform the play there. 
He also directed the film adaptation of the The Laramie
Project which aired on HBO.  The film’s cast included Peter
Fonda, Laura Linney, Christina Ricci, and Steve Buscemi. 
It was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance
Film Festival and won the Humanitas Award and a Special
Mention for Best First Film at the Berlin Film Festival.   Mr.
Kaufman received two Emmy Award nominations for Best
Director and Best Writer for Gross Indecency, Mr. Kaufman
won the Lucille Lortell Award for Best Play, the Outer
Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, the
Garland Award (Los Angeles) for Best Play, the Carbonell
Award (Florida) for Best Play, the Bay Area Theater Critics
Circle Award for Direction, the GLAAD Media Award for
New York Theater, and the prestigious Joe A. Callaway
Award for Direction given by his peers in the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers.  Tectonic Theater
Project also won an Outer Critics Circle Award as original
producers of the play, and the published version of Gross
Indecency won the Lambda Book Award. 
Other directing credits include an episode of The L Word
(HBO), Lady Windamere’s Fan (Williamstown Theater
Festival), This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse),
Master Class with Rita Moreno, Women in Becket,
Machinal, In the Winter of Cities and The Nest.  Mr.
Kaufman’s next project is 33 Variations on a Theme, about the
creation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. In June of 1999
Moisés was named Artist of the Year by Venezuela’s Casa del
Artista, a national award voted on by artists from a wide
variety of fields. Mr. Kaufman is a Guggenheim Fellow. Mr.
Kaufman will meet with conference attendees on Friday,
August 4, from 9:00 am – 10:30 am in the Grand Ballroom for a session, “Talking with Moises Kaufman.” He’ll
sign his book from 11am – 12 pm in the Exhibit Hall.
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REGENERATIONS THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
AS A REGENERATIVE FORCE, WITH
NEW ORLEANS AS THE REFERENCE POINT
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A LEXICON OF RELATED CONCEPTS:
Rebuilding - histories of rebirth: post-Katrina,post-Civil War, post-Louisiana Purchase
Regrowth - ecological realities, recycling,renewing (the crawfish can grow a new limb)
Repetition/Revision - jazz riffs, seasons andcycles, carnival, the second line
Reimagining - the next New Orleans--the first 21stCentury American city?
Referencing - differences and similarities: race,gender, culture, generation, vision
Theatre is ephemeral.  Nothing is permanent. Post-Katrina New Orleans is a
powerful reminder of these truths.  The 2007 Conference Committee invites
submission of panels and workshops that react to and reflect the theme of Regenerations. 
In a city where the street itself is performance, the 2007 Conference offers a multitude of
possibilities for celebration,exploration, and revitalization through creative approaches
to the theme and concepts.
ATHE 2007 Conference
July 26-29, 2007
Sheraton New Orleans
ATHE 2007 Conference Committee:
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Vice President, Michael Wright, University of Tulsa
Vice President-Elect, 2008,
Karen Berman, Georgetown University
Melanie Blood, SUNY Geneseo
Jen Danby, Parson’s New School of Design
Kurt Daw, SUNY New Paltz
John Fletcher, Louisiana State University
Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Roehampton University
Les Wade, Louisiana State University
Harvey Young, Northwestern University