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The Kennedy Center
American College
Theater Festival 46
Presents
The Forty–Sixth Annual Region VIII Festival 2014
Arizona, Central and Southern California, Hawaii, Southern Nevada, Utah
February 12 – 15, 2014
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Hosted by
Latino Theater Company
Presented by
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the
Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by
David and Alice Rubenstein.
Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, Dr. Gerald and
Paula McNichols Foundation, the National Committee for the Performing Arts, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg
Charitable Trust, and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation.
Gifts and grants to education at the Kennedy Center are provided by Adobe Foundation; Sandra K. & Clement C. Alpert; AnBryce Foundation; Bank of America; Bernstein Family Foundation; The
Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; Captial One Bank; Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust; Centene Charitable Foundation; Citibank; The Charles Engelhard Foundation;
Clark Charitable Foundation; Community Advisory Board; Mike and Julie Connors; CVS Caremark; DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation;
Fight for Children, Inc.; David Gregory and Beth Wilkinson; Harman Family Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Harris Corporation; Hilton Worldwide; The J. Willard and
Alice S. Marriott Foundation; The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation; Mr. James V. Kimsey; The Kiplinger Foundation; The Kirstein Family Foundation; Natalie and Herb Kohler and Kohler
Co.; Kenneth and Lucy Lehman; The Macy’s Foundation; Margaret A. Cargill Foundation; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; Jaylee M. Mead; Linda and Tobia Mercuro; The Meredith
Foundation; The Morningstar Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; The National Committee for the Performing Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; National Trustees
of the National Symphony Orchestra; Newman’s Own Foundation; Paul M. Angell Family Foundation; Park Foundation, Inc.; Mrs. Irene Pollin; President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts; Prince
Charitable Trusts; Rose Mary Kennedy Education Fund; Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk; Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; Share Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small; Target;
Thomas W. Haas Foundation; U.S. Department of Education; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.; Sherry and Eddie Wachs; Washington Gas; Wells Fargo; Beatrice and Anthony Welters; William
R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust; generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Information
Welcome5
Festival Information
8
Special Events
9
Invited Productions
13
Workshops 16
Program Areas
Acting and Directing
27
Design, Technology & Management
30
Playwriting, Dramaturgy, & Criticism
32
Devised Performance
36
Festival 46 Participants
Festival Guests and Respondents
38
KCACTF Festival 46 National Acknowledgements
57
KCACTF Festival 46 Regional Acknowledgements
58
Region VIII Production and Design Respondents
59
Productions entered in Festival 46
61
Service Recognition
Region VIII Faculty Recognition
76
Registration for the Region VIII festival grants permission to KCACTF Region VIII and ACTF
Management, Ltd., to use registrant’s image or likeness, if captured or recorded at the
festival, in print, website or other recorded media. This does not apply to “productions” or
other circumstances already subject to reproduction restrictions by contract or directive.
Matt Neves
Welcome to Festival XLVI
I am so excited to be back in Los Angeles at KCACTF surrounded by people that love
the art form I adore! I’m thrilled to have so many talented theater artists in the same
building over the course of this week. Over the last few months, I have spent many hours
in your auditoriums and theaters seeing moving, passionate and heart-felt performances
of great plays and I have been inspired by the mentorship of talented faculty and the
enthusiasm of committed students. This week, we welcome back a small sample of these
plays (and others that were seen by the regional board). I think you will be entertained
and uplifted by this eclectic mix of genres and styles. We have a hippie A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, a group of student written short plays in the Microburst Theater Festival
and three dynamic musicals Next to Normal, Pirates of Penzance (as you have never seen
it before) and the faculty written The Plain Princess. Add to that a moving drama in The
Old Lady Shows Her Medals and three unique, vibrant and moving devised pieces, the
highly personal relationship story in Sun and Room, the civil rights fight reenactment/
reimagining in pool ’63 and AutoPLAY, the production that literally puts you in the back
seat. I think you will agree that it is a terrific line up of shows. Of course, seeing shows
is only part of the KCACTF experience. Special guest workshops and seminars, the Next
Step Auditions, and student socials each night should certainly keep you busy. Every area
of theater is represented in the activities of the week and I hope you get a chance to see,
do and be a part of as much of it as possible. Thank you to my vice-chair, Gil Gonzalez,
to past chair, John Binkley, and the entire regional board that has worked so hard to make
this all happen. Thanks for being here and supporting the cause of KCACTF.
Have a wonderful week!
WELCOME FROM THE REGIONAL CHAIR
Regional Chair
WELCOME FROM OUR HOSTS
Paul Stuart Graham, General Manager
Los Angeles Theatre Center
WELCOME Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to the Los
Angeles Theatre Center. We are pleased to be your host for Festival 46 and hope you find
time to explore the many facets of our burgeoning and diverse downtown Los Angeles
community.
Back in my halcyon days as a theatre student at the University of Massachusetts we entered
the American College Theatre Festival with a production of Moonchildren by Michael Weller.
We were not selected to compete at festival; however, my friend Michael was selected to
participate in the Irene Ryan competition. I remember this vividly as this was my first
exposure to competition in the arts. I was happy for my fellow actor, albeit I thought
my performance was also worthy of recognition. Weeks later, after much deliberation, I
decided to rise above the festival judge’s oversight and applauded loudly for my friend at
the conference. He didn’t win the award but it was a wonderful experience to witness all
the talent on the stage. As we left the conference commiserating over “our” loss, I realized
that this life in the theatre was not going to be an easy choice—ACTF had truly opened
my eyes to the competition, and to what it would take to have a professional career in the
theatre. Twenty five years later I am still a part of our theatre community and I cherish
every moment.
During the past fourteen years I have served as a professor/ administrator at two CSU
universities, Cal State Long Beach and Cal State LA, where I am currently on the faculty
in the Department of Music, Theatre Arts and Dance. I have had the opportunity to work
with many talented, creative and insightful administrators, faculty and students. I know
that the late Roger Stevens, the Kennedy Center’s founding chairman who started the
nationwide festival back in 1969 to serve as a catalyst for improving the quality of college
and university theatre in the United States would be most proud of its accomplishment.
I had the pleasure of co-producing a new musical with Mr. Stevens, and we owe a great
deal to him for having the vision to have created this vital and compelling theatre festival.
Congratulations to all of those involved in celebrating Festival 46!
On behalf of the staff and crew of the LATC we hope you have an outstanding festival,
and that you will return to the center soon. We present our EAST OF BROADWAY Season
beginning in March, and we invite you to review the upcoming season by visiting our
website at
www.thelatc.org.
Paul Stuart Graham
General Manager
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Jose Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director
Latino Theater Company—Los Angeles Theatre Center
It is with great joy that we welcome the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the great city of Los Angeles. We
invite you to explore the cultural diversity, striking beauty, and artistic energy of this city
that the Latino Theater Company calls home.
This year marks our sixth year at the helm of the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC), a
world-class arts center with four unique stages and over 100 years of history in downtown
Los Angeles. As the managing entity of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Latino Theater
Company is committed to maintaining the Center as a space where diverse peoples,
cultures and ideas converge within and through performance.
As a professor of Theater and Directing at UCLA, I am personally committed to advancing
college/university theater programs to develop the next generation of socially conscious,
aesthetically diverse and boundary pushing artists that will continue to revitalize the field.
During economic hardships, such as the one we are experiencing now, the arts are often
overlooked or seen as a dispensable luxury. It is during these difficult times that supporting
the arts is most critical. Art can inspire, enlighten and feed the soul, it is what sets us
apart from the rest of nature - it is what makes us human.
The Los Angeles Theatre Center produces and presents theater, music, dance and spoken
word that represents various communities and we open our arms to all who want to take
part in a global vision of mutual respect and understanding. Latina/o, Black, White, Asian,
Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, LGBT… – we all have a home at the LATC.
Today we open our arms to KCACTF and say bienvenidos/welcome to the students, faculty
members, technicians, actors, directors, designers, stage managers, audiences, family and
friends associated with this festival. The Latino Theater Company is honored to open the
doors of the Los Angeles Theatre Center to such an inspiring commitment and dedication
to improving the quality and diversity of college/university theater across the nation.
Saludos,
Jose Luis Valenzuela
Artistic Director, Latino Theater Company
Artistic Director, Los Angeles Theatre Center
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FESTIVAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
The registration and information desk will be located in the HOTEL Emeral Room
Go Metro to the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the Millennium
on Tuesday evening from 5:00p - 10:00p and Wednesday from 8:00a - 6:30p.
Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles !
Thursday and Friday, the registration and information desk will be located at the
Los Angeles Theatre Center Lobby from 8:00a - 6:30p and from 8:00a - 5:00p
on Saturday.
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.
Venues
The festival features four different production venues at the Los Angeles Theatre
Center
Theatre 1 (492 Seats)
Theatre 2 (298 Seats)
Theatre 3 (318 Seats)
Theatre 4 (99 Seats)
PARKING
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Public parking facilities available on Main St. and 6th St. Several well-lit, security patrolled parking facilities are situated within one block of the Los Angeles
Theatre Center. Parking generally costs between $5-$6.
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
Overnight valet parking is currently available at the rate of $35.00 per day. Day
valet parking is currently available at the rate of $22.00 per day.
Pershing Square Garage (Overnight Parking)
Parking costs $16.
504 S Olive St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St)
465 W 6th St (bet. S Hill St-S Olive St)
Downtown Los Angeles Parking
To find parking in downtown Los Angeles by going to http://losangeles.bestparking.com. Click on Daily and then Neighborhood and Downtown.
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The Los Angeles Theatre Center is a five minute walk from the Pershing
Square Metro Red Line Station. Metro provides Metro Bus and Metro Rail
transportation steps away from the LATC. http://www.metro.net
EVENING OF INVITED SCENES
The Evening of Invited Scenes is our Festival’s energetic annual kick–off
performance. The selected scenes, chosen from more than 100 associate
and participating productions that were recommended, are representative
Wednesday, February 12th
7:30pm
Theatre 1
Los Angeles Theatre Center
of the diverse offerings seen across Region VIII in 2011. Included are
samples of outstanding acting skill, striking ensemble performance,
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Music and Lyrics by
notable interpretations of classics, and bold renditions of musicals
William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman,
and contemporary works.
Additional Material by Jay Reisswe
Central Arizona College
The Producers by Book by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan, Music & Lyrics
by Mel Brooks
Mesa Community College?Directed by Jere & Allyson Van Patten
?Hay Fever by Noel Coward
California State University, San Bernardino?Directed by Tom Provenzano
The Imaginators by Dwayne Hartford
California State University, Bakersfield
Directed by Kamala Kruszka
Gomena-Sorry: A Devised Improvisational Piece by Thomas Ireton
Loyola Marymout University
Directed by Thomas Ireton
The Tenement by Matthew Keuter
Arizona State University
Directed by Matthew Keuter
Directed by Dr. John C Owens
War of the Worlds
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Adapted by Howard Koch
Directed by Bernardo Solano
He Who Gets Slapped Created by Bill True, Chris Jensen, and Randy
Messersmith
Scottsdale Community College
Directed by Randy Messersmith
Thread Hell by Kishida Rio
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Directed by Colleen Lanki
The First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis, California State University, Fresno
STUDENT EVENTS
NEXT STEP AUDITIONS AND PRODUCTION/TECHNICAL 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. Actors and Singers audition on Friday, February 14th, Dancers and
Production/Technical Interviews on the 15th. All auditions will be at the Biltmore Hotel. There is a $10.00 registration fee. You can pay this
$10.00 at the time of registration or at the Festival.
STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
The KCACTF Region VIII Student Advisory Board represents the student-voice of the region to the Executive Board, gathers feedback from
students during the festival, and works alongside the Region VIII Executive Board to create opportunities for student involvement and socializing
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STUDENT SOCIAL EVENTS
Student Socials are scheduled Wednesday – Friday. Start the week of Wednesday, February 12th, with new and old friends as we welcome you
to Region VIII’s 2014 festival!
Wednesday, 12th
Friday, 14th
10:30pm - 12:30am
10:30pm - 12:30am
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Gold Room
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles
Improv Night and Annual Meeting Hosted by East Los Angeles College
The Biltmore Affair Hosted by the Student Advisory Board
Thursday, 13th
10:30pm - 12:30am
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles, Gold Room
Open Mic Night Hosted by East Los Angeles College
FACULTY EVENTS
RESPONDENT WORKSHOP
Wednesday, February 12th through Saturday, February 15th, 8:00 am – 10:00 am held in the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los
Angeles: Wednesday (Hotel Corinthian); Thursday through Saturday (Hotel Heinsbergen).
Respondents Workshop Coordinator:
Special Area Response Facilitators:
Judith Royer –Loyola Marymount University
Design/Technology/Management:
General Respondent Workshop Facilitators:
Andre Harrington – California State University, San Bernardino
Judith Royer – Loyola Marymount University
Rodger Sorensen – Brigham Young University
New Plays – National Playwriting Program:
Val Limar-Jansen – Freelance Artist
Wade Hollingshaus – Brigham Young University
Char Nelson – Freelance Playwright and Regional Respondent Coordinator
Invitational Scenes:
Bree valle – Cuesta College
The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for Region VIII
The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for Region VIII respondents, new and experienced alike, to share insights into, explore concerns about, and discuss
challenges most often encountered in the response process. It provides an opportunity to learn and/or update skills needed for on-site response to productions. The
workshop will include viewing of the Festival productions and four sessions dedicated to presentation/discussion of guidelines for response, practicum responses by
participants, and feedback on these from the workshop facilitators and participating colleagues. Sessions are scheduled to begin on Wednesday, February 12, and
continue daily through Saturday, February 15, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. each of these mornings.
FACULTY RECOGNITION EVENT
Join your colleagues throughout our region for desserts Friday, February 14th from 6:00pm to 7:00pm, at AQUA LOUNGE. Open to all faculty, staff, and special
guests attending festival. Information regarding the venue will be posted during the festival.
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Thursday, February 13th
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Chris Mangels
Directed by Chris Mangels
College of the Sequoias
Theatre 1, LATC
Thursday, February 13th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
The year is 1967 and the quiet college town of Athens-by-the-Bay is about to experience a Midsummer of Love! To escape the conservative
establishment that forbids their union, two star-crossed lovers flee into a nearby forest, pursued by a rejected suitor who is, himself, pursued
by a rejected lover. As darkness falls, the lovers are joined by a hopelessly inept troupe of amateur actors and a band of spaced-out fairies
that have clearly turned on, tuned in, and dropped out. Can this motley assortment of characters survive an evening filled with mistaken
identities, misplaced passions, and mismatched pairings?
Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic comedy gets a psychedelic face-lift in this magical mystery tour-de-force production!
Respondents: Alexis Jacknow and Georgia McGill
Response: Thursday, February 13th immediately following the 2 PM performance, Theatre 1
The Plain Princess book and lyrics by Jim Christian, music by Tom Edward Clark
Adapted from the children’s book by Phyllis McGinley
Directed by Jim Christian
Weber State University
Theatre 2, LATC
Thursday, February 13th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
A musical tale of enchantment, laughter, and the discovery of inner beauty. Based upon the children’s story of the same title by Phyllis
McGinley, this timeless fable tells of young Princess Esmeralda who seems to have everything a girl could ever want…except for the fact that
she is plain. When she is snubbed at her birthday party by Prince Charles Michael, Esmeralda’s parents, the King and Queen, take drastic
measures in an attempt to find the person who can transform their daughter into someone special. Their challenge is taken up by Dame
Goodwit, a clever widow with five stunning daughters of her own. What follows is a journey into finding the joy and light that come from trying,
caring, and giving of oneself. There is a “special kind of magic” at work here and the lessons learned speak to all ages and audiences of every
kind.
Respondents: Richard “Buzz” Herman and Chase Waites
Response: Thursday, February 13th immediately following the 7:30 PM performance, Theatre 2
SPECIAL INVITED DEVISED PERFORMANCE
pool ‘63 by Philip Valle
Directed by bree valle
Cuesta Community College
Theatre 2, LATC
Thursday, February 13th, 11:30 am and 5:00 pm
Alabama, 1963. The contested water of Birmingham public swimming pools is the jumping off point for this story of two girls, one black and one white,
caught in the maelstrom of the American civil rights movement. This new and groundbreaking production fuses the violent imagery of cinema with the
theatrical innovations of avant garde, dance and musical theatre. Part Baptist revival, part homage to the brave men and women who forged unlikely
alliances in pursuit of racial justice, pool ‘63 provides a bracing tonic of hope as well as a rousing call to action.
Respondents: Richard “Buzz” Herman and Alejandro Rodriguez
Response: Saturday, February 15th, HOTEL Heinsbergen
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INVITED PRODUCTIONS
PARTICIPATING PRODUCTIONS
Microburst Theatre: An evening of 10-minute plays that explore the joy and sorrow of finding and losing love
Directed by George D. Nelson
Brigham Young University
Theatre 4, LATC
Thursday, February 13th, 9:00 am, 3:00 pm, and 7:00 pm
Microburst Theatre is a collection of seven short student written plays that examine different points of view as they relate to our universal human desire to
be loved and accepted. A mixture of comedy, farce and drama, they explore the circumstances that bring us together through accidental collisions, set-ups,
break-ups, best-laid plans gone astray, and a deep desire to belong. A cast of 5 characters plays all the roles in this bare bones, pseudo-Brechtian based
production.
Respondents: Alexis Jacknow and Chase Waites
Response: Thursday, February 13th immediately following the 9:00 AM performance in Theatre 4
Friday, February 14th
AutoPLAY : Stop, Yield, Detour
Directed by Leslie Ferreira
Theatre Academy, Los Angeles City College
Theatrer-goers meet in the LATC Lobby 15 minutes prior to the performance time to be escorted to the performance venue.
Friday, February 14th, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 2:30 pm, and 4:30 pm
AutoPLAY, is a devised work—a series of original, intimate, site-specific ten-minute plays—each taking place in an automobile. Audiences of two move
from car to car to experience works by different student actor/playwrights. After being ushered to their seats by “car hops”, the car doors close and you
experience a drama, thriller, farce or comedy, performed just inches away. Ten minutes later, the doors open, a seat in a new car awaits, and a new story
begins. In the course of an hour, five evocative stories are experienced. VERY LIMITED SEATING. STUDENTS MUST LINE UP OUTSIDE OF THE LATC Gallery
15 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE PRODUCTION FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE SHOW
Respondents: Alejandro Rodriguez and Chase Waites
Response: Saturday, February 15th at 10:00 am in HOTEL Heinsbergen
Next to Normal book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt
Directed by David Tinney
Utah Valley University
Theatre 4, LATC
Friday, February 14th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
This Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical concerns a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder, specifically bipolar I disorder with psychotic
features, and the effect that her illness has on her family. With book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt.
Respondents: Alejandro Rodriguez and Rae Robinson
Response: Friday, February 14th immediately following the 2:00 PM performance pm in Theatre 1
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The Pirates of Penzance by W.S.Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
Directed by John Blondell
Westmont College
Theatre 2, LATC
Friday, February 14th, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
It’s not your Mother’s Pirates. In a kind of “house concert” of The Pirates of Penzance, a strange group of people (who are they?) arrive at
someone’s house to… well… we can’t be too sure. They are given something to drink, start to sing and act, and are overcome by something
intoxicating. Enjoy the trip!
Respondents: Alexis Jacknow and Rae Robinson
Response: Friday, February 14th immediately following the 7:30 PM performance in Theatre 2
Sun and Room
by Danny Mitarotondo
Directed by Dr. Ginny Davis
Written for, commissioned and produced by Fort Lewis College
Theatre 4, LATC
Friday, February 14th, 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm, and 7:00 pm
An intimate new play about college life; now. Set in a Durango basement, Sun and Room is about three friends – Leah, Matt and Zoe – hanging out
on a Friday night. The play was written for the actual voices of FLC actors Leah Brewer, Matthew Socci, and Zoe Pike. Author Danny Mitarotondo
composed this story in a new form of playwriting called the Score Technique™. Created by Mitarotondo and his Chicago based collaborator
Shannon Fillion, the Score uses the fundamental principles of sheet music to capture the acrobatic beauty of colloquial conversation, uniting the
entire creative team of a play in critically timing an imagined world. Sun and Room’s ensemble, form, inspiration and structure provide an unbiased
and uncensored portrait of a vulnerable time of life that comes and goes – but never goes away.
Respondent: Georgia McGill and Tom Miller
Response: Friday, February 14th immediately following the 3:00 PM performance Theatre 4
Saturday, February 15th
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals by TBD
Directed by Pat Gage
Santa Monica College
Theatre 4, LATC
Saturday, February 15th, 10:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 5:00 pm
The Old Woman Shows Her Medals is undoubtedly the most amusing and touching play inspired by the highly romanticized sentiments of WW1. An
old Scottish charwoman invents a son and finds to her great surprise that a fine upstanding soldier adopts her as a mother. Written by the same
playwright who wrote Peter Pan, one can detect a similar theme running through this play.
Respondents: Tom Miller and Chase Waits
Response: Saturday, February 15th immediately following the 1:00 PM performance in Theatre 4
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WORKSHOPS
Wednesday, February 12
11:30am-12:30 pm (Design/Technology)
LATC 5C Rehearsal Room
Is an MFA in Design/Technology in your Future? Should it be?
Scott Steele, University Resident Theatre Association
Faculty from URTA institutions discuss the Do´s, Don´ts and Whys of Grad school including preparing portfolios, working with advisers, interviews, and even what
to consider beyond Graduate School. Undergraduates considering the next step, as well as teachers, are encouraged to attend.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
3:10pm-4:20pm (Acting; Theatre and Dance)
Hotel Grecian
Who Am I Anyway? Determining your type
Eve Himmelheber, California State University, Fullerton
Even though actors train to be chameleons, our industry hires based on prejudiced first impressions. Determining your type is a highly personal journey, one
involving your personality essence and influenced by your physical appearance. In this workshop you will learn to capitalize on what makes you unique by
identifying (1) how you are perceived by others, )2) your “professional casting” age-range, and (3) qualities you possess that influence your casting potential.
Participants Prepare: Willingness to be scrutinied by complete strangers and to be honest with others about your impressions of them.
3:10pm-4:20pm (Technology, Playwriting, Musical Theatre, Dance)
Hotel Cordoban
Ensemble-Building and Devising from Disparate Sources
Maggie-Kate Colemen, The Eugene O’Neill Center/National Theatre Insitiute
Get ready to collaborate! Ensemble building exercises lead to the creation of short pieces of theatre devised in groups based on random assortment of source
material. Participants from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome (performers/directors/dramaturgs/writers/etc.) No experience required, just a
willingness to experiment and interest in collaboration.
Participants: Participants should wear clothes that they feel comfortable moving in. Avoid dresses and skirts if possible. No street shoes, but bare feet are fine.
Thursday, February 13
9:00am-10:50am (Acting; Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Two Minute Audition Success - Graduate School Audition Workshop
Scott Steele, University Resident Theatre Assosiation
How can you show ‘em what you got in just 2 minutes? Faculty from URTA institutions will work hands-on with actors; and discuss tips and techniques to provide
a new perspective on preparation. Bring memorized material. Teachers are invited to attend as well.
Participants Prepare: Memorized audition material
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3:10pm-5:00pm (Playwriting)
HOTEL Athenian
FINDING YOUR THEME: What do you have to say that no one else does?
Susan Merson, California State University Fullerton/NY Theatre Intensives
Whether creating a solo show or a base line for the work you do as an artist, defining your core beliefs and skills is essential in offering your authentic voice. Join
with other writers to find the landscape and language of your authentic voice in this two hour writing workshop with Susan Merson. Producing Artistic Director of
NY Theatre Intensives and on the faculty of Cal State Fullerton. www.nytheatreintensives.org
Participants Prepare: Computer or Paper and Pen.
Thursday, February 13
9:00am-10:50am (Acting; Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Two Minute Audition Success - Graduate School Audition Workshop
Scott Steele, University Resident Theatre Assosiation
How can you show ‘em what you got in just 2 minutes? Faculty from URTA institutions will work hands-on with actors; and discuss tips and techniques to provide a new
perspective on preparation. Bring memorized material. Teachers are invited to attend as well.
Participants Prepare: Memorized audition material
9:00am-10:50am (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Performing Shakespeare for Ryan Auditions
Virginia Ludders, Glendale Community College (AZ)
Working from Shakespeare’s First Folio to prepare and perform scenes and monologues for Ryan auditions. Learn to find the clues within the script for
interpreting and performing Shakespeare’s characters.
Participants Prepare:Nothing
11:00am-12:10pm (Acting)
Hotel Bernards
Rehearsing in The Zone, How to rehearse with your partner without a director.
Maria Cominis, California State University Fulleron
This workshop will focus on a specific rehearsal process where partners can deepen their scene work, apply acting technique and use their time efficiently without a
director or teacher present.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
11:00am-12:50pm (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
“Show Up, Not Off”: The First 15 Seconds
Marilyn McIntyre, Howard Fine Acting Studio-Los Angeles and Melbourne, Austrailia
15 seconds is all it takes for an adjudicator to determine if you’re “present” and prepared to play. Show up! Bring yourself to the party. You must know who you are to
work effectively. “Personalization” is key. Actors will do short exercises that focus on the entrance/introduction, and the first moment of an audition monologue.
Participants: Appropriate clothing and shoes for a professional general audition.
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11:30am-1:00pm(Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Broadway Audition/Bootcamp-Dance
Geoffrey Goldberg, Open Jar Institute
Work with Broadway’s Geoffrey Goldberg (Mary Poppins) in this fun dance master class. You’ll learn a dance combination from a Broadway show and learn tips
and techniquesto booking the gig on Broadway.
Participants: Wear comfortable clothing to dance in. Jazz sneakers or sneakers are fine. All are welcome.
12:30pm-1:40pm (Acting; Directing; Talking About Theatre)
Hotel Bernards
Form Will Set You Free
Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University, Neil Simon Theatre Festival
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.
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
1:00pm-1:50pm (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Book it! Audition techniques for the working actor.
Richie Call, Utah State University
This workshop is designed for actors looking to break into the industry and graduate acting programs. Be prepared to share and work a monologue.
Participants Prepare: Prepare one monologue
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
1:00pm-2:10pm (Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
KCACTF Circuit Coordinator Round Table
Char Nelson, Freelance Artist, Regional Respondent Coordinator
Come and discuss issues related to scheduling respondents in Region VIII. We’ll bring the latest information created to help you with your responsibilities. Please
bring your questions and ideas. All circuit coordinators are encouraged to attend; others welcome.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
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2:00pm-3:50pm (Acting, Directing, Technology, Talking About Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
The Score Technique: Personalized Playwriting and the Future of Storytelling
Danny Mitarotondo, Dr. Ginny Davis, and Shannon Fillion Fort Lewis College
Participants will explore Shannon Fillion and Danny Mitarotondo’s Score Technique of playwriting, which utilizes the fundamental principles of sheet music
composition to capture the nuance of an actor’s voice. Workshop participants will practice reading, rehearsing, and building personalized characters from
Mitarotondo’s SUN AND ROOM, directed by Ginny Davis.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
2:00pm-3:50pm (Technology)
HOTEL Bernards
Devising for Theater
David Bridel, University of Southern California
This practical workshop offers an integrated physical and textual approach to devising material for the stage, based on improvisation and ensemble work.
Participants Prepare: Simple black movement clothes preferred
2:20pm-4:10pm (Acting; Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
A Career in Theatre: The Role of Actors’ Equity and a Practical Guide to the Business
Tom Miller, Actors’ Equity Association
Participants Prepare: Nothing
4:00pm-5:10pm (Acting)
HOTEL Bernards
CSU Summer Arts Acting Programs and Improvisation
John Mayer, CSU Summer Arts
This fun and informative workshop will include some great games and improvisation, as well as provide scholarship opportunities for application to the amazing CSU
Summer Arts , held in Monterey, CA each summer.
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
4:00pm-5:10pm (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Living Truthfully in Imaginary Circumstances
Richie Call, Utah State University
Getting down to the basics of truthful acting by stepping into another person’s shoes.
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
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4:20pm-5:30pm (Acting; Stage Movement)
LATC 4B Rehearsal Room 4B
Follow the Leader: Exploring Your Comfort Zone
Chase Waites, Lone Star College-Mongomery
In this participatory workshop actors will practice giving and following direction through movement and examine the challenge and fun of nonverbal communication.
Participants: Clothing that allows for movement.
Friday, February 14
1:50pm-3:00pm (Musical Theatre, Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
“You’re Flaming!”: Costume Design in Filmspeak
Rae Robinson, Humboldt State University
Costume Design is a major avenue of employment for stage, television, film and theme parks - but there are major differences that may be new to stage designers. We’ll
explore the hazards, the lingo, and the business of design for those aspiring to work in film and television.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
9:00am-10:50am (Playwriting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
How to Make My Characters Real: Learning to explore the real consequences of human decisions and choices
George Nelson, Brigham Young University
In this workshop we will learn how to apply the law of the harvest (what you sow you eventually have to reap)to the decisions and choices of your characters. Come
prepared to write. Bring a draft of a play you’ve written if you have one or just come and start developing more real characters
Participants Prepare: Everyone will need something to write with, laptop, pad, or good old fashioned pen and paper
10:20am-11:30am (Dramaturgy)
LATC Gallery
Dramaturging Outside The Box
Janine Sobeck, Brigham Young University
Dramaturgy is a field that continuously redefines what it does and where. Join Janine Sobeck, current VP Communications of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the
Americas and former head dramaturg of Washington DC’s Arena Stage, in a discussion about innovative dramaturgy practices both within and outside the theatre.
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
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10:20am-11:30am (Acting, Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Musical Theatre Audition Technique
Alison Mosier, Director
Learn the proper way to present yourself and your material for a musical theatre audition.
Participants Prepare: A song that you know well (memorized) and bring sheet music for an accompanist.
11:00am-12:10pm (Acting)
Hotel Bernards
An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare
Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College
Drawing on the vocal principles of Hart, Rodenberg, and Linklater, the physical techniques of Laban, Meyerhold, Bogart, and text-in-action exercises, the workshop will
help actors unlock one of Shakespeare’s rhythmic, verse speeches. A highly physical and vocal warm-up will complement the actor’s ability to “physicalize” the potential of
Shakespeare’s language.
Participants: Comfortable fitting clothing to move around.
11:00am-1:00pm (Design)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Walking Tour to FIDM Costume Exhibit
Catherine Zublin, Weber State University
Participants will meet in the LCTC lobby and walk together to the FIDM Museum & Gallery (http://fidmmuseum.org/), 919 South Grand Avenue, Suite 250, Los Angeles,
California, 90015. The exhibit is the 22nd Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibit.
Participants Prepare: Walking shoes!
11:40am-12:50pm (Dramaturgy)
LATC Gallery
The Geekiest Guide To Dramaturging Adaptations of Classical Plays
Martine Green-Rogers, University of Utah
This workshop is aimed at exploring the “nuts and bolts” of how early career dramaturgs may prepare to dramaturg an adaptation of a classical work.
Participants Prepare: Bring a Shakespeare play and a concept for its adaptation to talk through.
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12:00pm – 1:30pm (Musical Theatre, Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Open Jar Dance
Geoffrey Goldberg, Open Jar Institute
Work with Broadway’s Geoffrey Goldberg (Mary Poppins) in this fun dance master class. You’ll learn a dance combination from a Broadway show and learn tips and
techniquesto booking the gig on Broadway.
Participants: Wear comfortable clothing to dance in. Jazz sneakers or sneakers are fine. All are welcome.
12:30pm-2:20pm (Acting)
Hotel Bernards
Introduction to the Eric Morris System of Acting.
Mark Majarian, Cypress College
His system, based on the Stanislavsky method, begins with an exploration of the instrumental needs of the actor and expands to “choice approaches” and a score of
other techniques which make it possible to fulfill all the obligations of written material. Eric’s system enables the actor to utilize the full range of her/his talent.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes that allow the actor to move in and to do floor work. It could work with scene partners chosen for the semi-final round but I
can also work with individuals using their audition monologues.
1:00pm-1:50pm (Design)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Persian Theater: A Survey of Dramatic Activities in Iran Before the Islamic Revolution.
Mary Farahnakian, Brigham Young University
Persian Theater: A Survey of Dramatic Activities in Iran Before the Islamic Revolution. The PowerPoint will describes the status of three native Persian theatre,
the Naghali, the Tazieh, and the Ro-Hozy or Siyah-Bazy.
Participants Prepare: No restrictions in number of the participants.
2:00pm-2:50pm (Design, Technology)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
The ‘Scenography’ of Lighting, Sound, and Projection Design in Modern Entertainment
Glen Dunzweiler, California State University San Bernardino
Description: This workshop explores how lighting, sound, and projections are being used more and more to create holistic stage environments.
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2:00pm-3:50pm (Acting; Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Business and Marketing for Actors
Allison Mosier, Professional Director
Learn the proper way to market yourself as an actor. We will go over properly “typing” yourself, setting up a resume and cover letter, submitting for auditions and using
social media to obtain acting work.
Participants Prepare: Bring a current headshot and resume if you have one. Pen and paper.
2:40pm-4:30pm (Acting)
Hotel Bernards
The Art of the Clown
David Bridel, University of Southern California
From its ritual beginnings and through its many manifestations - commedia dell’arte, circus, silent movies, modern comedy - the art of clowning has exerted a powerful
influence on performance and theater. Come and investigate an extraordinary world in which bad is good, failure is triumph, and normality is turned on its head.
Participants Prepare: Preferably black movement clothes (t-shirts/sweats etc) with as little color as possible.
3:40pm-5:30pm (Stage Movement)
LATC Gallery
Manipulate the BodyMind Connection Through Movement
Kaoru Yamamoto, Waseda University, Japan
Participants will use Chi Gong and other Asian forms of movement therapy to get alignment, breath and relaxation working together in moving the body in resonance with
oneself, others, and the environment.
Participants: Please wear comfortable clothing (moderate movement). Shoes and socks that can easily be put on and of to work on the toes and feet.
Saturday, February 15
9:00am-9:50pm (Playwriting)
LATC Gallery
Playwriting vs. Screenwriting
Robin Russin, University of California Riverside
What are the similarities and differences between the two essential forms of dramatic writing? Is your story a play or a movie? What are the challenges of adapting a play
into a screenplay?
Participants Prepare: Nothing
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9:00am-10:10am (Acting)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Commedia and Physical Comedy
Rima Miller, Freelance Artist
How do you find your funny? This workshop will guide you to your own particular body humor and verbal timing. Exercises include improvisation, physical comedy,
vaudeville, commedia del’ arte. All levels welcome.
Participants Prepare: Easy, comfortable clothes for warm ups - if you have something extra large or extra small or uncomfortable or colorful or something unique
- lots of pockets? Bring it/them for workshop use.
9:00am – 9:50am (Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Living Outside the Box
Alejandro Rodriguez, Artists Striving to End Poverty
Come meet a New York based Artist who is finding the balance between the pursuit of their artistic career and their desire to change the world. There is a movement
happening, come meet one of it’s ambassadors!
Participants Comfortable, movement attire.
10:20am-11:30pm (Technology)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Knots!
Alexander Keen, Scottsdale Community College
Come learn how to tie and apply the most important knots for theater professionals! Whether you are new to knots or a knot expert, there is always more to learn.
Some of the knots that will be presented: bowline, figure-8 follow through, clove hitch, square knot, alpine butterfly, water knot, stopper knot, prusik, and doublefisherman. Alex Keen, Scottsdale Community College Theatre Arts Technical Director, Professional Rigger, and SPRAT Rope Access Technician will teach this handson class. You will leave with more knowledge about the art of knots and your very own practice rope!
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
10:20M-12:10pm (Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Broadway audition workshop (teaching original choreography for Broadway shows)
Joe Abraham, The Thriving Artists
Broadway audition workshop - Learn original choreography from multiple Broadway shows. Taught in an audition style setting.
Participants Prepare: Dance clothes, Dance shoes, (flats, heels, jazz sneakers, taps)
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11:40am-1:30pm (Musical Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
Christine Negherbon, The Thriving Artists
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre - Inside information on how to present yourself in the most powerful way
Participants Prepare: Dance shoes (heels,flats, dance sneakers tap), dance clothes, audition clothes. Audition song (16-32 bar cut) on iphone, ipod or sheet music (if
pianist is provided)
12:10pm-1:20pm (Talking about Theatre)
LATC Gallery
Time to Make a Change
Alejandro Rodriguez, Artists Striving to End Poverty
Are you frustrated by the challenges facing your community? So are we! Take the first steps with ARtists Striving To End Poverty to create change in your community. We
will introduce you to the resources and support you will need to lead.
Participants Prepare: Nothing
12:20pm-1:40pm (Acting, Theatre and Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Singing the Subtext
Joanne Gordon, California State University Long Beach
By grounding the actor in the fundamental character needs, this workshop assists the performer in realizing the dramatic depths of their material. The workshop should be
both instructive for student participants and entertaining and enlightening for observers. The actors are encouraged to explore the dramatic context of the song in order to
discover how that particular set of circumstances deepens the character’s response and results in the expression of emotion in song.
Participants Prepare: Bring both sheet music (in correct key) and CD of accompaniment.
1:40pm-3:30pm (Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4B
The Thriving Artists Career Journey
Joe and Christine Abraham, The Thriving Artists
The Thriving Artists Career Journey - Everything the artist needs to know to empower their career with specific focus on financies. Taught by the authors of The Thriving
Artists
Participants Prepare: Pad and paper for notes.
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1:50pm - 3:00pm (Musical Theatre, Dance)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
Dance for Musical Theatre
William Lett, California State University Fullerton
This workshop is designed for actors with some dance experience. Basic steps and fundamentals in a variety of styles will be explored and integrated into short
combinations. Attention will also be directed toward developing a dance vocabulary, increased coordination and musicality.
Participants Prepare: Dance movement attire requested. Bring your jazz shoes – men: hard sole jazz shoe, women: character heel preferred. Bring tap shoes
3:10pm-5:00pm(Acting, Musical Theatre Writing)
LATC Rehearsal Room 5C
VIEWPOINTS: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
Alexandra Billings, California State University Long Beach
Conquer your fear and grab your your power. All performers and directors will discover their own unique voice and body in this thrilling intense workshop with one
of the foremost exponents of this liberating technique.
Participants Prepare: Comfortable clothes and ability to move freely.
3:40pm-4:50pm (Acting; Talking about Theatre)
LATC Rehearsal Room 4 B
Living, Acting and Working in LA.
James Knudsen, Fresno City College
Members of Neo Ensemble Theatre perform for students and answer questions about being a working actor in Los Angeles.
Participants Prepare: Nothing.
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ACTING & DIRECTING
IRENE RYAN FOUNDATION ACTING SCHOLARSHIP
Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation of Encino, California, has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student performers at each regional
festival. These scholarships are made possible by the generosity of the late Irene Ryan, who is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable and
feisty ‘Granny Clampett’ in The Beverly Hillbillies. All student actors in both Participating and Associate productions are eligible for consideration
for the $500 regional scholarships
The Irene Ryan Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further
education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards 16 regional awards and two national scholarships annually. There are two scholarships of $3,500
each for the winners at the national festival in Washington, D.C.
The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are, indeed, scholarships; so the Foundation disburses the award through a school designated by the winner, to
pay tuition and fees for further education, not necessarily limited to theatre arts.
Additional awards are made to Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship participants and their acting partners each year at the national level. The list of
participants continues to expand each year and the auditions are now undoubtedly one of the most exciting educational and artistic opportunities
for student actors in the country.
Wednesday, February 12th—
Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 15th—
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 1
8:00 am – 9:00am 7:30 am – 8:30 am
IRENE RYAN – Final Round Check-in
Bernards
Theatre 1
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
8:00 am- 2:00 pm
IRENE RYAN – Final Round Rehearsals
Bernards
Theatre 1
9:00 am - 10:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room A
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
IRENE RYAN – Final Round Rehearsals
Gold Room
Theatre 1
9:00 am - 10:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round 1 Room B
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm IRENE RYAN – Final Round Orientation
HOTEL Heinsbergen Room
Theatre 1
10:00 am -11:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Preliminary Round Responses
7:30p - 10:00p
IRENE RYAN – Final Round HOTEL Bowl
Theatre 1
IRENE RYAN – Mandatory Meeting
IRENE RYAN - Check In & Warm Up
Friday, February 14th—
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theatre 3
8:00 am - 7:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals Check-in
Theatre 3
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
IRENE RYAN - Semi-Finals, Round 1
Theater 3
10:00 an – 2:00 pm
IRENE RYAN – Semi-Finals, Round 1 Responses
Scene Shop
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
IRENE RYAN – Semi-Finals, Round 2
Theatre 3
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
IRENE RYAN – Semi-Finals, Round 2 Responses
Scene Shop
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IRENE SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION SELECTORS
Preliminary Room Round A:
Chase Waites
Gregg Henry
Preliminary Room Round B:
Alison Mosier
Marilyn McIntyre
Tom Miller
Semi – Final Round:
Alexis Jacknow
Richard “Buzz” Herman
Amy Biedel
Final Round:
Linda Park
Ben Hoppe
Don Williams
Kevin Rahm
Respondents for all Irene Ryan rounds:
Maria Mayanzet
David Morgan
Kathryn Ervin
Zoe Saba
Kevin Dressler
Dana Martin
John Mayer
Eric Bishop
Cherie Brown
Susan Merson
Royce Herron
Brad Myers
Lori Siekman
Barta Heiner
Joshua Stavros
Jennifer Holmes
Bill Lett
Laurie Harrop-Purser
Carol Damgen
Maria Cominis
Tracy Williams
FACULTY TIMERS FOR IRENE RYAN ROUNDS:
Virginia Ludders
Open Jar Institute Musical Theater Scholarship Auditions
Representatives of the program will be at Region VIII to audition students for a scholarship. The scholarship is valued at $600. This scholarship is
a regional award and will be awarded during the closing ceremony of the festival. Each of KCATCF regional scholarship recipients will then become
a finalist for the Pyramid Prize. The Pyramid Prize is a full tuition scholarship which includes all classes, meals, tickets to 4 Broadway shows, air
fare and hotel.
In addition, Open Jar Institute will be conducting workshops during the festival.
See festival schedule for times and locations for Open Jar Institute workshops.
Auditions will be (add time and location). Auditionees should come prepared to dance first and then sing.
Bring a short 16-bar audition song that shows you ‘at your best’. Bring sheet music clearly marked for an accompanist to play. No CDs allowed.
Bring a headshot/resume.
Thursday, February 13th
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop – Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance
LATC, Rehearsal Room 4B
Friday, February 14th
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Workshop – Broadway Audition
Bootcamp: Dance
LATC, Rehearsal Room 4B
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
AUDITIONS – Broadway Audition Bootcamp: Dance
LATC, Rehearsal Room 4B
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
AUDITIONS - Open Jar Musical Theatre
LATC, Rehearsal Room 4B
NPP AUDITIONS FOR 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
Want to help bring a new play to life? Want to perform live at the Festival? Join a creative team of artists from different schools to workshop and perform
a concert reading of a student–written 10-minute play. Faculty directors collaborate intensively with student playwrights, dramaturgs, actors, and stage
managers to develop scripts and perform a live concert reading during the Festival. Synopses, character descriptions, audition sides, and audition forms
are available at the festival website (www.kcactf-8festivalinfo.org/) and at the audition table at the Festival. Select your plays and go audition between
Irene Ryan rounds.
Wednesday, February 12th
10:00a - 2:30p 10 Minute Plays – Auditions & Callbacks
Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles – Mediterranean, Corinthian Cordoban,Grecian, Roman, Athenian Rooms.
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Devised Theatre Projects Interviews/Sign-ups
As part of the KCACTF initiative to educate and support devised work, Region VIII is proud to host professional devising artists to work hands-on
with students during the festival in the creation of an original theatre piece. The devised theatre piece will be showcased/performed on the last day
of the festival, Saturday, February 15th at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Theatre 3 between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm.
Students wanting to participate with Guest Artists will need to audition/interview and be placed with Guest Artists on Wednesday, February 12th, at
the Host Hotel, the Millennium Biltmore in the Moroccan Room between 11:00 am and 2:30 pm. After placement students will work with the Guest
Artist in creating the rehearsal schedule and process.
Wednesday, February 12th
Friday, February 14th
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Organizational Meeting All Devisers
10:00 am – 10:00 pm Rehearsals
HOTEL Roman
HOTEL Corinthian
11:00 am – 2:30 pm Group Auditions/Interviews for Devised
HOTEL Morrocan
Saturday, February 15th
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Casting (Collaboration with
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Technical-Devised Pieces
10 minute play people)
LATC Theatre 3
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Rehearsals
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Performances of Devised Pieces
HOTEL Morrocan
LATC Theatre 3
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Rehearsals
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Panel Response
HOTEL Roman
LATC Theatre 3
Thursday, February 13th
9:00 am – 2:00 pm Rehearsals
HOTEL Emerald
4:00 pm – 10:00 pm Rehearsals
HOTEL Emerald
SDC Directing Initiative
The future of American theatre rests in the hands of the next generation of directors. Working with actors, breaking down a script, and creating
stage pictures while bringing a play to life are only a few of the challenges. As directors develop their aesthetic, they need to be exposed to a variety
of styles and opinions on what makes great theatre. It is for these reasons that KCACTF, in partnership with the Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society, sponsors the SDC Student Directing Initiative. The directors will present scenes, observe critical responses by professionals in the field, and
participate in workshops Wednesday - Saturday.
Regional finalists will present scenes and interview with a panel of professional directors. One student director will be selected to represent Region
VIII at the KCACTF National Festival in April.
SDC Student Directing Respondents
Darin Anthony
Casey Stangl
Saturday, February 15th
2:00p - 3:00p PRESENTATION - SDC Student
Directing Scenes
LATC, Theatre 2
3:00p - 4:00p RESPONSE - SDC Student
Directing Scenes
LATC, Theatre 2
Student Directing Observership of New Plays
KCACTF, the Region VIII Student Directing program, and NPP are pleased to sponsor an opportunity for student directors (graduate or
undergraduate) to observe professional NPP directors during the new play development process. Although this opportunity is offered as a silent
observership, mentoring and assisting opportunities between NPP and student directors may arise at the discretion of the NPP director, depending
upon availability of the participants involved. Selected directors will be invited to observe the process of directing a reading of a new play from
the start of the process (prior to festival) through the completion of the staged reading at festival.
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The Design, Technology & Management Exhibition gives outstanding student designers regional recognition and the opportunity to exhibit their work at the
Regional Festival, as well as the chance to attend the KCACTF National Festival or the USITT conference. Throughout festival the designs will be critiqued by
theatre professionals on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and rendering techniques.
National KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence and Allied Design and Technology Award
The purpose of the KCACTF response and presentation of awards is to provide student designers and technicians with feedback from professionals working in
the field; to give outstanding student designers and technicians national recognition; and to provide the opportunity for outstanding student designers to exhibit
their work at the Kennedy Center and/or USITT. Designs and other allied crafts will be appraised on the basis of quality, effectiveness, originality, and visual
presentation techniques.
Any student may take part in the KCACTF Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence, KCACTF Allied Design and Technology Award and/or the KCACTF Stage
Management Fellowship Program, as long as their school has entered at least one associate or participating entry during the festival year. All entries must have
been realized and produced at their home institution. Participants must attend their regional festival, and display the materials and documentation of their
design process and execution.
One regional award recipient – a national finalist – in each area (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and allied crafts) will be announced at the regional festival.
National finalists in scenery, costumes, lighting and sound will be invited to exhibit their design display, and will attend, the national festival in Washington, D.C
in April. Each Allied Design and Technology regional award recipient will be invited to exhibit their design display and attend the annual USITT Conference.
Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Awards for Excellence in Technology and Design
The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas has partnered with KCACTF to award students from each region a one-week master class in the area of their choice. SILV
classes may include Computer Drafting, Computer Modeling, Rigging, Automation, Props & SFX, Sound, Makeup & Masks, Wigs, Lighting Technology, Patterning,
Projections & Video, and Moving Lights.
Each award includes a full tuition grant, housing, daily breakfast and lunch. Transportation is not included.
Regional Internships
At each regional festival, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of allied
theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient.
KCACTF Allied Design and Technology SILV Award
At each national USITT conference, a team of theatre design and technology respondents will select a student exhibiting outstanding achievement in their area of
allied theatre technology, crafts or design as the award recipient of an eight-week scholarship with SILV.
Focal Press Rafael Jaen Show Case Award
This recognition is dedicated to students presenting their work for the first time as a regional entry at the Design, Technology & Managements exhibit in each
KCACTF region. The award honors design substance and innovative ideas and is meant to inspire young DTM practitioners encouraging their learning in the
Design, Technologies and Management fields. Award recipients receive a FPRJ certificate, a Focal Press credit to purchase three (Focal Press) books of their
choice, and an opportunity to have their work represented in the digital display at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo. The award is for regional entries rather
than the national Barbizon and KCACTF entries.
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DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT
DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION
Regional Design Projects
Regional Design Projects are intended to serve Region VIII student designers with the opportunity to showcase their work for non-realized design projects, and
to receive response to their work that will help them improve their design skills and grow as designers. There will be two entry divisions: Undergraduate and
Graduate. All entrants must be currently enrolled students of colleges and universities in Region VIII at the time of the festival. Categories of entry include Scene
Design, Costume Design, Lighting Design, Makeup Design and Sound Design. (Wig/Hair Designs may be included as a Makeup Design entry, and Projection/Media
Designs may be included under either Scenic or Lighting Design)
National Stage Management Fellowship
Finalists are selected from throughout the region and informed prior to Festival. Each of the eight KCACTF regions will select on Stage Manager to be awarded a
fellowship to attend the national festival.
Selection will be based on the following: professionalism and completeness of the prompt script and other paperwork; effectiveness of coordinating and
managing a festival event, based on the respondent’s feedback from the regional event coordinator; personal demeanor and communication skills, based on
interviews and follow-up workshops; and written material, submitted prior to the Regional Festival.
FESTIVAL DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT RESPONDENTS
Jane Childs
Cricket Myers
Red Colegrove
Tom Ontiveros
Onida Dominguez
Rae Robinson
Christopher Gees
Anna Woo.
DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, February 12th
Friday, February 14th
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
LOAD IN - Design Exhibits
8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Design Exhibit open for public viewing
LATC Lobby
LATC Lobby
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Design Presentations: Costume & Make-up
LATC Gallery
Saturday, February 15th
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Design Presentations: Costume & Make-up
8:00a - 4:00p
Design Exhibits open for public viewing
LATC Theatre 2
LATC Lobby
6:00p – 9:30p
Design Presentations: Costume & Make-up
10:00a – 12:00p
Design/Tech General Response
LATC Gallery
LATC Gallery
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Design Responses: Costume & Make-up
12:00p – 1:30p
Stage Management Response
LATC Theatre 2
LATC Vault
10:00p – 12:00a
Design Responses: Costume & Make-up
12:30p - 3:30p Gallery Walk: Paper Projects
LATC Theatre 2
LATC Lobby
1:30p – 5:30p
Stage Management Interviews
LATC Vault
Thursday, February 13th
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Design Exhibit open for public viewing
4:00p – 6:30p
LOAD OUT Design Exhibits
LATC Lobby
LATC Lobby
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Design Presentations: Scenic & Properties 10:00p - 11:30p
Festival Awards
LATC Gallery
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Design Responses: Scenic & Properties
LATC Vault
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Design Presentations: Lighting & Sound
LATC Gallery
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Design Responses: Lighting & Sound LATC Vault
LATC Lobby
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Region VIII forwards two student-written one-act plays to the national office for consideration for invitation to the national festival and further competition for the
The John Cauble Short Play Award. It is named for Dr. John Cauble, Professor Emeritus of UCLA, who provided guidance and support for the establishment of the
Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program. The winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, an Active Dramatists Guild membership, and a professional
development opportunity designed specifically for the winning playwright.
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM ONE-ACTS READINGS
One-Act Plays
Friday, February 14th
7:30 pm LATC Theatre 3
The Little Match Girl by Elizabeth Suzanne, Vanguard University of Southern California
Director: Kelley Weeks
Description: The Little Match Girl, based on the short story by Hans Christian Andersen, tells the story of Annelise, a poor girl who struggles to do good, despite her
abusive father and the obstacles of poverty she faces on New Years Eve. Selflessness, kindness, and ultimately the Holiday spirit shine through as Annelise proves
to be a beacon of light to everyone she meets.
War Profits by Brian James Polak, University of Southern California
Director: Brian James Polak, University of Southern California
Description: Two soldiers have gone AWOL from the Army during the war in Iraq and struggle to flee the country. Their closest ally, still fighting the war, finds out
they might have inadvertently aided the enemy, and decides they need to be brought to justice so they are left to rely on the help of a possible terrorist. All they want
is to get out of the country and away from a war they cannot comprehend, but nothing is easy and loyalties are complicated in a time and place where there is no
clear right and wrong.
Bob’s Rules of Order by Karen Sarver, Arizona State University
Director: Kirt Shineman, Arizona State University
Description: Hopeville, a dinky town with a population of four, is threatened to be reduced to a population of zero after a tornado hits, trapping them in Town Hall
during their Association for the Beautification of Hopeville meeting. Will the townfolk vote in favor of a plan that will save their lives? And if they do, will they finally
chop down the town’s eyesore, the cankered hackberry tree? An even better question is: What is a hippopotamus doing on Main Street?
One-Act Play Respondents:
Julianne Homokay, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter
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PLAYWRITING, DRAMATURGY & CRITICISM
JOHN CAUBLE SHORT PLAY AWARD
The KCACTF National Ten–Minute Play Award
Region VIII will forward two student–written 10–minute scripts from our Ten–Minute Play Festival for consideration for an invitation to the national festival.
A panel will read the sixteen regional winners and pick a play and three finalists to invite to the national festival in April (four playwrights in total). Those four
plays will again be presented as staged readings in the Kennedy Center Theatre Lab with casts made up of the national Irene Ryan acting scholarship finalists
or professional actors. The outstanding Ten–Minute Plays for each region (eight regions, sixteen plays) may be published by Dramatic Publishing Company. The
winning playwright will receive a $1,000 cash award, and an Active Dramatists Guild membership.
Ten-Minute Plays
Saturday, February 15th
10:00 am LATC Theatre 3
After Her
by Elizabeth Suzanne, Vanguard University of Southern California
Director: George Nelson, Brigham Young
Description: A look into a day-in-the-life of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. Following Art and CJ, “After Her” explores the journey of loving
someone who forgets how to love you in return.
And Every Bird Their Song
by John Perovich, Arizona State University
Director: Carol Damgen
California State University-San Bernardino Description: Jane has arrived to visit her best friend Karen who is currently assisting her severely ill mother. The
two older women have just finished breakfast when Jane, fed-up that Karen is not being forthright in their conversation, threatens to leave. We quickly learn
that they are trying to make sense of a recent encounter that has left them with fresh wounds.
Anyone Else
by Harrison Givens, Chapman University
Director: James Arrington, Utah Valley
Description: After a night out, M lets W crash on his bed. She attempts to seduce him, but he deflects her advances, sparking a debate about the nature of
attraction. Unable to reach a resolution, the pair compromise and sleep side-by-side on the floor.
Bread
by Michael Yichao, California Institute of the Arts
Director: John Blondell
Westmont College Description: Emily hates poetry. Dan harbors secrets. Two best friends butt heads and break hearts.
Goodnight, Graham
by Amanda Nelson, Brigham Young University
Director: Jennifer Holmes , Whittier College
Description: Graham is an elderly man being held in a hospital. His doctors are trying to keep him healthy, but all Graham wants is to die. On this particular
night, Graham takes matters into his own hands, but is intercepted by his regular nurse, Jane. She stays in the room to prevent a second attempt, but as
they finally take time to talk to each other, they find links between them that eventually inspire Jane to grant Graham’s last wish.
Message Sent
by Joey Glyman, Loyola Marymount University
Director: Robin Russin
University of California-Riverside Description: After sending a text to his male crush, Josh, outing himself as bisexual, Marty begins talking to an imagined,
idealized form of Josh. As time wears on and Marty still awaits a response, him and “Josh” confront Marty’s real issues of friendship, acceptance, and self.
Ten-Minute Play Respondents:
Julianne Homokay, Georgia McGill, & Brandt Reiter
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THE NAPAT PLAYWRITING AWARD
Region VIII will forward one student-written play for consideration for the NAPAT Playwriting Award, an expense-paid trip to a NAPAT Workshop in Las Vegas.
REGIONAL NOMINATION FOR NATIONAL PARTNERS
OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE PLAYWRITING AWARD
The Black Art by Kirt Shineman, Arizona State University
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, February 12th –
Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Thursday, February 13th –
9:00 am – 10:00 am
10 Minute Plays – Creative Team Orientation
Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
HOTEL Roman
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
HOTEL Roman
HOTEL Mediterranean
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
HOTEL Corinthian
HOTEL Cordoban
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
Friday, February 14th –
Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
HOTEL Grecian
10:00 am – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
HOTEL Mediterranean
HOTEL Athenian
10:00 am – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
HOTEL Cordoban
HOTEL Roman
Saturday, February 15th
10:00 am – 2:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Auditions/Interviews
8:00 am – 10:00 am
10 Minute Plays: Tech Rehearsal
HOTEL Corinthian
LATC Theatre 3
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
10 Minute Plays: Casting Meeting
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Performances
HOTEL Roman
LATC Theatre 3
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Festival Awards Ceremony
HOTEL Mediterranean
LATC LOBBY
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
HOTEL Cordoban
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
HOTEL Grecian
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
10 Minute Plays: Rehearsal
HOTEL Athenian
DRAMATURGY & JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
LMDA/KCACTF STUDENT DRAMATURGY AWARD
The LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Award recognizes student dramaturgs’ contributions to theatre production and educational projects in dramaturgy at their
colleges and universities. It comes through collaboration between Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and the Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), with additional support from the Association for Theatre in Higher Eduction (ATHE).
The Regional Fellowship recipient will receive membership in LMDA, an all-expense-paid residency at the National Festival at the Kennedy Center in mid-April,
and multi-day workshops with leading artists in both production and new-play dramaturgy. Recipients of the National LMDA/KCACTF Fellowships receive
residencies with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, or the Kennedy Center/National New Play Network’s MFA Playwrights’
Workshop in the summer.
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Region VIII Festival response to the student dramaturgs’ projects will take place on Friday, February 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Lobby of the Los
Angeles Theatre Center. Each entrant will present and discuss his or her work and receive verbal feedback from the respondents. This session is open to the
public, and we encourage all to attend.
Wednesday, February 12th
Saturday, February 15th
1:00 pm–10:00 p.m.
Dramaturgy exhibits open for public viewing
8:00 am–4:00 pm
Dramaturgy exhibits open for public viewing
LATC Lobby
LATC Lobby
4:00–6:30 p.m.
LOAD OUT: Dramaturgy Exhibits
Dramaturgy exhibits open for public viewing
LATC Lobby
LATC Lobby
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Festival Awards Ceremony
LATC Lobby
Thursday, February 13th
8:00 am–10:00 p.m.
Friday, February 14th
8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Dramaturgy exhibits open for public viewing
LATC Lobby
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Interviews & Response: Dramaturgy
LATC Gallery
DRAMATURGY RESPONDENTS
Maggie-Katie Coleman, Don Shirley, and
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
PROGRAM NOTE AWARD
The Program Note Award recognizes the work of student dramaturgs who write engaging, informative program note for participating or associate KCACTF
entries during this festival year (January-December 2012). Entrants submit an application form, as well as a copy of the note as it appeared in the program of a
participating or associate status production. Please come and read the participants’ work in the Lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
THE INSTITUTE FOR THEATRE JOURNALISM & ADVOCACY
(Formerly the National Critic’s Institute Scholarship)
The Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy offers a scholarship for an outstanding student critic to work with professional theatre critics and arts writers
at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, each summer. At all eight KCACTF Regional Festivals, nominated student critics write critiques of
plays performed at the festival. One finalist is selected from each region to compete at the national level. The national winner attends the Eugene O’Neill Center
during the national writing conference in July, working with leading professional newspaper, magazine, and new-media critics from across the United States. All
expenses will be paid.
During our regional festival, student critics learn from peers and professional critics. They attend shows and write critiques in traditional and new media, and
critique their critiques together in a seminar setting.
Wednesday, February 12th
Friday, February 14th
9:00 am - 11:00 am Critics Institute Theatre Journalism Workshop 8:00 am - 10:00 am Critics Institute Theatre Journalism Workshop HOTEL Athenian
HOTEL Athenian
Thursday, February 13th
Saturday, February 15th
9:00 am - 11:00 am Critics Institute Theatre Journalism Workshop HOTEL Athenian
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Festival Awards Ceremony
LATC Lobby
9:00 am - 11:00 am Critics Institute Theatre Journalism Workshop HOTEL Athenian
CRITICS INSTITUTE CO-COORDINATORS
& RESPONDENTS
Martine Key Green-Rogers, Maggie Kate Coleman,
Don Shirley
This is our third year supporting the Devised Theatre initiative at KCACTF Region VIII. Last year over fifty students actively participated in creating innovative
devised works that changed their perspectives and skills in making astonishing theatre. Our focus on Devised Performance is intended to give space, voice,
recognition and credibility to processes and productions which are created outside the text-based traditions, and which utilize non-traditional, non-linear,
multi-disciplinary and collective artistic tools of creating performance. This year we are so pleased to showcase a devised work by renown performance artists
Tim Miller as one of our contributing devisers. He has devised a piece with Fort Lewis College Students. In addition to this we have devised works coming
from Thomas Ireton at Loyola Marymount, Carol Damgen at California State University San Bernardino, and Kathryn Moller at Fort Lewis College. In addition
to bringing devised work to the festival students have the opportunity to work on site with two Guest Devisers: Actress/Director Rima Miller and Alejandro
Rodriguez, Program Coordinator for ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty).T
Wednesday, February 12th
Thursday, February 13th
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Organizational Meeting All Devisers
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Rehearsals
HOTEL Roman
HOTEL Emerald
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Group Auditions/Interviews for Devised
4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Rehearsals
HOTEL Morrocan
HOTEL Emerald
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Group Auditions/Interviews for Devised HOTEL
Saturday, February 15th
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Casting (Collaboration with 10 minute 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Technical-Devised Pieces
play people)
LATC Theatre 3
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Rehearsals
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Performances of Devised Pieces
HOTEL Morrocan
LATC Theatre 3
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Rehearsals
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Panel Response
HOTEL Roman
LATC Theatre 3
Friday, February 14th
10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Rehearsals
HOTEL Corinthian
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DEVISED PERFORMANCE
DEVISED PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING
TITLE: I’m Like You; I’m Not Like You
Logistics/parameters:
• Ensemble will select their sources of inspiration as their creative container (examples: a photograph, a poem, a fictional or non-fictional short story,
a memory, interviews, questions, personal writing, dance, etc.).
• Each ensemble will create a unique performance vocabulary informed by their source materials. This vocabulary include from the following:
movement, voice, visual image, sonic landscape, text and scenic environment.
• Ensembles will determine the piece’s style and aesthetic.
• Ensemble should consider time restraints and travel considerations. These parameters are designed to form a creative container to spark your
imaginations and deepen your exploration.
• Region VIII will provide a suitable performance space of ample size.
• Work lights up/down provided, however, any additional lighting will need to be ensemble-generated. In addition to general lighting, Region VIII will
provide electrical power, the ensemble, however, must provide all technical sources (sounds extension cords, projector, clip lights, etc.)
• The time limit for each piece is flexible. While the National prompt recommends a 20-minute time limit, Region VIII does not want to exclude potential powerful devised works. As such we ask you to be mindful of the length of the work, and we will include a many works as our time allows.
• Set up and strike can be part of the performance.
• Contributions of the ensemble are to be balanced and evenly distributed: not every member of the ensemble must perform, but all should contribute significant content.
• No live flame, No smoking, No functional weapons.
Workshops and other opportunities in Devised Performance
In addition to the Devised Theatre Project there will be other opportunities to be a part of the Devised Performance programming at the festival. We are offering workshops that focus on the creating of devised performance including: “Improvisations Toward Performance”, “Moment Work” and “Creating Text” to name a few.
WORKSHOPS IN DEVISED PERFORMANCE
In addition to the Devised Theatre Project there will be other opportunities to be a part of the Devised Performance programming at the festival. We are offering workshops that focus on the creating of devised performance including: “Devising as Part of the Theatre Curriculum”, “Improvisations Toward Performance”, “Moment Work” and “Creating Text” to name a few.
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DEVISED PERFORMANCE
DEVISED PERFORMANCE PROJECT
FESTIVAL GUESTS & RESPONDENTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
DARIN ANTHONY
Darin Anthony, who specializes in the development of new plays and emotionally resonate performances, is the
Artistic Director of Moving Arts Theatre Company as well as being a resident director for both Furious Theatre
Company. Additional directing credits include work with The Abingdon Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Furious
Theater, Syzygy Theatre Group, The Theatre @ Boston Court, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse,The Odyssey
Theater, The Bootleg, Antaeus Theatre Company, Moving Arts, The Blank Theater, The Elephant Theater and The Road
Theater.
His most recent effort was a critically acclaimed production of Johnna Adams Gidion’s Knot at Furious Theatre. Other
recent productions include The New York premiere’s of Michael Bonnabel’s The Good Boy at the Abingdon and EM
Lewis’ The Incident Report at The Lion Theatre. World premieres include Jami Brandli‘s S.O.E. for Bootleg Theatre,
Beatrice Basso’s adaptation of Goldoni’s The Antiquarian’s Family for Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Mary Lou Newmark’s
Street Angel Diaries at The Theatre @ Boston Court, Richard Hirsch’s Before we go Home for Radar LA & La Jolla
Playhouse as well as his The Closeness of the Horizon and London’s Scars at the Odyssey Theatre, Ann Noble’s Sidhe
for The Road Theatre, Jeff Goode’s Seven Santas at The Open Fist Theatre, EM Lewis’ Leonard’s Voice for Moving Arts
Car Plays and HEADS for The Blank Theatre, Jeremy Gable’s American Way for the Blank Theatre. West Coast and Los
Angeles premiere’s include Gina Gionfreddo’s US Drag for Furious Theatre, Rachel Axler’s Smudge for Syzygy Theatre,
Hilly Hicks’ A Hole in the Dark and Amy and David Sedarias’ The Book of Liz for The Blank Theatre, Ann Nobles’ The
Boarding House for InterACT Theatre, and Itamar Moses’ Bach at Leipzig for the Odyssey. Other notable productions
include Lanford Wilson’s Burn This (staring Josh Stamburg) and Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour (staring Travis
Schuldt & John Billingsly) at the Elephant Theatre and Tape (staring Jonathan McClain) at the Lounge Theatre among
many others.
Darin’s film directing debut, the baseball feature Hitting the Cycle, was awarded Best Feature Film by The Manhattan
Film Festival. He also directed and developed the web series Before we go to Sleep with screenwriter Steve Serpas.
His productions have received many awards and nominations including The Ovation Award, The Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle Awards, The LA Weekly Awards, Stage Scene LA and The Backstage Garland Awards. He is a proud
member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
AMY BIEDEL
Amy Biedel, BA, Brigham Young University (Theatre/Acting Emphasis). Credits include: Mamma Mia (Broadway
National Tour), North Coast Rep, Old Globe, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego Musical
Theatre, Mt. Hood Rep, Actor’s Rep, Sundance, Disney/MGM Studios, Provo Theatre. Amy is a proud member of
Actor’s Equity Association.
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JANE CHILDS
Jane Childs, Director of Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. Assisted her husband Don on his hundreds of projects, translation
for Ladislav Vychodil, and den mother to years of theatre students. Jane is VP - Development with the SW-USITT. Studies at
Indiana University and la Sorbonne. Jane lives by Don’s passion for theatre and teaching and his demand for integrity from
those you work with.
MAGGIE-KATE COLEMAN
Maggie-Kate Coleman, (Senior Program Representative, National Theatre Institute) A Brooklyn-based theatre artist,
she has written and collaborated on plays, musicals, operas, songs, dance pieces, and multidisciplinary-hard-todefine
theatre events. Maggie-Kate’s recent work includes book & lyrics for POP!, last seen at Pittsburgh City Theatre
starring Anthony Rapp as Andy Warhol (music by Anna. K. Jacobs). POP! Is a winner of three Connecticut Critics Circle
Awards, recipient of seven Helen Hayes Award nominations, and a Pittsburgh Tribune Top Ten choice of 2012. Other
recent work includes From a Childhood (music by Erato Kremmyda), and lyrics for Field Trip: A Climate Cabaret, a
devised piece about female climatologists (with Superhero Clubhouse at the Lamont-Dorothy Earth Observatory). Her
work has also been seen at Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, York
Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, New York Theatre Barn, Lincoln Center, and NAMT. Current projects include:
libretto for Lightning Man (music by Jeffrey Dennis Smith, lyrics by Shoshana Greenberg); Lost Things, an original
opera originally developed through New York City Operas Word’s First? Librettist project (with Jeffrey Dennis Smith);
and untitled RAIOACTIVE project, a multidisciplinary work created in collaboration with Erato Kremmyda and Sam
Pinkleton. She is a founder and co-curator of BASTARD PLAYGROUND, a monthly gathering for genre-flexible artists of
live performance soon to be in partnership with The new Drama League Center in TriBeCa. She is a graduate of Ithaca
College, received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s
National Theater Institute.
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RED COLEGROVE
Red Colgrove has been working with Los Angeles theatres to achieve their technical goals since 2000, providing his
experience and expertise in a community that feels more like family to him than employment. After graduating from
the Los Angeles Theatre Academy, he spent 2 summers at the Santa Fe Opera. Following SFO he served as Technical
Director for The Colony Theatre, and later The Rubicon Theatre. He has worked for dozens of theaters in multiple
capacities from design and construction to financial planning and touring. Red was the senior project manager for
G&G Design Associates until 2008 when he decided to open his own set construction company, Grove Scenery. Since
branching out on his own, he has built scenery for A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre, The Colony, Celebration Theatre,
International City Theatre, Circle X, Playwright’s Arena, Cabrillo Music Theatre, The Rubicon, The Odyssey, NoHo Art
Center, The El Portal, The Falcon, UCLA Medical Center, The Odyssey, The Groundlings and many more. Along with
moving Grove Scenery forward, Red runs the Design Shop for the Art Institute of California - Hollywood, instructing
students in set construction, furniture design and fabrication.Ondina V. Dominguez is a Visual and Performing Arts
Technician at Glendale Community College. An AEA member since 2007, Dina has acted as one of East West Players
“go-to” Stage Mangers since 2008. Past experience also include working at the Santa Fe Opera properties department
for three seasons. Her academic training began at Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy Program which led her
to California State University – Fullerton where she went on to receive her B.A in Theatre Arts in 2006.
ONDINA V. DOMINGUEZ
Ondina V. Dominguez is a Visual and Performing Arts Technician at Glendale Community College. An AEA member since
2007, Dina has acted as one of East West Players “go-to” Stage Mangers since 2008. Past experience also include working
at the Santa Fe Opera properties department for three seasons. Her academic training began at Los Angeles City College
Theatre Academy Program which led her to California State University – Fullerton where she went on to receive her B.A in
Theatre Arts in 2006.
CHRIS GEES
Chris Gees is a veteran in the beauty industry, creating beautiful looks for men and women for over 10 years. With
his recent career turn as a personal stylist for dozens of celebrity clients, he is now blazing a path of success in
Hollywood. After honing his skills as a hair and make-up artist in various salons across northern Florida, he relocated to Los Angeles where he has worked with such talents as Omarosa, Brandon T. Jackson, Danity Kane, Kim
Burrell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Trina McGee, Claudia Jordan, Olivia Jones, Brittany Russell-Perry, Doug E. Fresh, Yo Yo,
Clifton Powell, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams, Lalah Hathaway and Tiffany Hines just to name a few.
While lending his talents on numerous film and television sets, he has also styled for photo shoots with The Mecca
Girls, Candy Girls, Absolute Vodka, Urban Ink Magazine, DADA Clothing, Wealthy Minds Clothing and many more. Chris
has also been recruited as a stylist for many red carpet events, including the Academy Awards, the VMAs, the Grammy
Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the BET Awards and several film premieres. When The
Gees is not busy on location, he enjoys serving his local clientele in Los Angeles, California., 850-445-5153.
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GREGG HENRY
Gregg Henry (Artistic Director – KCACTF) Recent productions: Theatre Alliance (2012) and Hub Theatre (2011) Helen
Pafumi and Jason Lott’s Wonderful Life, the Kennedy Center- Tom Isbell’s The Mostly True Adventures ofHomer P. Figg
(from the Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick), Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major,Teddy Roosevelt
and the Ghostly Mistletoe (in partnership with the White House Historical Association, with songs by Mark Russell),
Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of Excalibur, Round House
Theatre- Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country, WSC Avant Bard- Julie Jensen’s Two-Headedand Barbara Field’s
adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych for Metro
Stage and You Are Here by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance. Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv
Joseph. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by
Alex Lewin. For Catholic University: Whales by Bob Bartlett, Miranda is Morning by Stephen Spotswood. He is artistic
associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences and is director of the
Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. For eleven years, he has curated and co-produced
the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free event at the Kennedy Center, featuring concert readings
and open rehearsals of new work by the theatres in the DC and Baltimore Metro area. For these Festivals he produced
special readings of Marco Ramirez’ A Million Billion Thunders or Where Two Trees Make an X, Lee Blessing’s The
Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Three Musketeers, and
Treasure Island. He produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with NNPN
and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Gregg has acted, directed, and/or staged the fights with
the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from
the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University.
He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, on the National Advisory Board of the Literary
Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA], and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
DR. RICHARD HERMAN
Dr. Richard “Buzz” Herman is Chair and Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Central Missouri. At
UCM, Buzz teaches courses in directing, acting, playwriting, and theatre history and has served as director and actor
for over 150 academic and professional productions. Buzz currently serves on the KCACTF National Executive Team
as National Playwriting Program Member at Large. He is Past KCACTF Region V Chair of NPP, has served as a director
for the 10-Minute Playwriting Program, served as Assistant Irene Ryan Acting Coordinator, and been a member of the
Region V Selection Team. He has received three KCACTF Meritorious Achievement Awards for Directing and served as
director for Blue Window which was a Region V Invited Festival Production in 2013. Buzz’s teaching honors include
the Marymount College Alpha Chi Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri
Outstanding Teacher Award, Central Missouri State University’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Missouri Governor’s
Award for Teaching Excellence, the Meridith Harmon Sauer Distinguished Endowed Professor of Theatre and the
University of Central Missouri’s highest teaching honor, The Byler Distinguished Faculty Award.
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JULIANNE HOMOKAY
Julianne Homokay, a graduate of the former MFA playwriting program at UNLV, has a long and varied background
in the theater. As a dramatist, she has had over 80 staged readings and productions at colleges, universities and
theaters such as Playwrights 6 (Los Angeles), Venus Theatre (MD), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, Bloomington Playwrights’ Project (IN), Ensemble Studio Theatre (NewYork), The Blank (Los Angeles), Fulton
Theatre (Lancaster, PA), Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, VA), American Theatre of Actors (New York), Cockroach
Theatre (Las Vegas) and PlayWright’s Theatre (Phoenix, AZ). She has been in residence at Gray’s Harbor College,
Franklin & Marshall College, the William Inge Center for the Arts, and, as a poet, Devils Tower National Park, WY. She
has also served as a literary manager and dramaturg, and has directed and/or produced several new plays and
musicals. Publications include Judy Gray (Original Works), “Favors” and “’soir, Maman” in Quick & Painless, Vol. II
(Original Works), “Hard To Be Happy” in New One-Act Plays for Acting Students (Meriwether), “The Wedding Story”
alongside Edward Albee and Susan Glaspell in Literature: Craft and Voice (McGraw-Hill), and three short plays in
Canyon Voices Arizona State University). Julianne lives in Los Angeles where she works on The Late Late Show with
Craig Ferguson. She is an Active Member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America.
BEN HOPPE
Ben Hoppe Creative Director, Disney Character Voices (DCV)
Ben Hoppe has been with DCV since 2001, helping to oversee character voice production for the Walt Disney Company
for all projects ancillary to the original films/TV series. In this role, he does creative-consultation, brand management,
scripting, editing, casting and voice directing for all established and newly created animated Disney Characters.
Regularly directing upwards of 500 recording sessions a year, Mr. Hoppe has had the opportunity to work with a wide
variety of actors including Tim Allen, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Owen Wilson, Sam Rockwell, Bonnie Hunt, Don
Rickles, Idina Menzel, Dane Cook, Jodi Benson, Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett, Jess Harnell, Corey Burton, and Russi
Taylor. Projects of which he’s been a part can literally be heard all around the world, from toy store shelves to theme
park parades to TV and movie screens.
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ALEXIS JACKNOW
Alexis Jacknow is a Los Angeles based actress and theatrical director who has worked on productions in cities all over
the country ranging from new work to the classics.
Recent projects include: Theatre Union’s inaugural production of In The Next Room or the vibrator play (The Lounge
Theater); Reasons to be Happy (Associate Director to Neil Labute for L.A. Theatre Works); As Bees In Honey Drown
(The Washington Street Theater); and four National Tours for Theatreworks USA, among others.
Upcoming: The Diary of Anne Frank at La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts.
Alexis recently optioned the rights to the non-fiction book “The Lady in Gold” by Anne-Marie O’Connor, which she is
adapting into a full-length play with playwright Lily Blau. The play received its first developmental workshop this Fall
at the Stella Adler Studio in New York City.
Her awards and fellowships include an SDC Observership on the American Premiere of Patrick Marber’s After Miss
Julie at the American Airlines Theater for Roundabout Theatre Company; a Storer Boone Award for Best Children’s
Show for her production of The Wind in the Willows at Southern Rep; and participating in the Director’s Lab West at
Pasadena Playhouse as an attendee in 2011 and a Guest Artist in 2013.
Alexis sits as the Chair of the Creative Committee on the board of Riverside Rep. She holds a B.F.A. from New York
University and is a proud member of SDC. For further details please visit www.alexisjacknow.com.
MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS
Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Guest Critic and Dramaturg. Ph.D., Department of Theatre and Drama, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., Theatre History and Criticism, Catholic University of America, B.A., Theatre, Virginia
Wesleyan College.
GEORGIA MCGILL
Georgia McGill is the National Chair for KCACTF’s National Playwriting Program and Chair of the Dept. of Speech
Communication and Theatre Arts at the City University of New York Queensborough Community College. She was a
member of the KCACTF National Selection Team in 2007 and is a former Region II NPP chair. As a writer and director
her interests lie in new plays drawn from ancient mythology. Her latest play, Antigone’s City, premiered in 2011 with
the support of a grant from PSC. Georgia has directed extensively both nationally and internationally.
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MARILYN MCINTYRE
Marilyn McIntyre is an award-winning actor whose extensive stage credits include leading roles on and off Broadway,
regionally and in LA. Among her film credits: Heaven’s Rain (opp. Mike Vogel – Blue Valentine, Miami Medical),
On Holiday (opp. Harry Dean Stanton), Statistics, The Divided, First Daughter (Forest Whitaker, director), The Ring
2, Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, and the hit shorts George Lucas in Love (Joe Nussbaum, director), and Into the
Unknown. TV credits: GH: Night Shift (recurring guest star), Watch Over Me (series regular), Cold Case, Judging Amy,
X-Files, Profiler, et al, and contract roles on five daytime dramas including. Ms. McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine
Acting Studio, Ted Brunetti Studio, SAG Conservatory at AFI, and “Elon in LA” (Elon University, NC). She has taught at
the Old Globe/USD MFA Program, USC, UT-Austin, et al. She holds a BFA (UNC School of the Arts) and an MFA (Penn
State). Marilyn studied with Uta Hagen in her LA Master Classes, and is featured on her teaching video doing Object
Exercise #10, “Historical Imagination”. www.MarilynMcIntyre.com
RIMA MILLER
Rima Miller received her MFA in Theatre from the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) at Harvard University in
Cambridge. She has performed professionally with the A.R.T., and has served as Artist in Residence for the states
of Massachusetts, Ohio and New Mexico. Ms. Miller has also served as the Artistic Director of the Riolama Theatre/
Dance Ensemble, a company dedicated to original devised work including Sketches to my Father, Design for Death,
Dance Salad: a Beauty Pageant for the Attractively Challenged, Fallen Angel, A Call to Prayer, The Hanging Cure, and
Lullaby. Rima has also choreographed and/or directed The Love of Three Oranges for the Santa Fe Theatre Festival,
the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Santa Fe Pro Musica. Rima’s is especially skilled in the style of Commedia dell’
Arte and the creation of comic characters. Ms. Miller’s Guest Director work includes Jonah, an original devised work
at Grinnell College, an adaptation of Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid at Fort Lewis College, and Blood Wedding at Coe
College. Ms. Miller is presently the owner and director of YogaMoves a studio dedicated to healing and arts.
At YogaMoves, Ms. Miller teaches teen comedy theatre where participants create and perform original devised
productions. Aside from her professional work, Rima dedicates a portion of her artistry to under served public school
programming in rural New Mexico.
TIM MILLER
Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller’s performance works have
delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London
Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next
Wave Festival. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances
and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Miller has taught performance at
UCLA, NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the
United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica,
CA. He can be reached at his website www.TimMillerPerformer.com
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TOM MILLER
Tom Miller was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway and Europe.
Additionally, he performed with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at Opryland
USA. For over a decade he served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of Indiana University with
a degree in Education. Proud Equity Member since 1983.
JACK MITCHELL
Jack Mitchell, (actor/writer/director/producer/editor-in-chief) Currently Editor-in-Chief of the popular Los Angeles
Theatre site Bitter Lemons (www.bitter-lemons.com), he has worked professionally in the entertainment industry for
that last 22 years. As an actor he was in the Broadway (Lincoln Center) and National Tour productions of the play
Six Degrees of Separation. Film: Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, LA Confidential, Combination Platter and The
Chocolate War, TV: Star Trek: The Next Generation, and dozens of Off-Broadway and Regional Productions across the
country, including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington D.C. As a writer, Mitchell is a 2003
Paramount Pictures Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellow, Finalist for the 2006 Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman
Award, Finalist for the 2005 Alleyway Theatre Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, Winner of a 2009 Maddy Award for
Outstanding Writing, Nominated for the 1998 ADAA Best Solo Performance Award and Winner of the 1996 Dramalogue
Awards for Acting and Writing. Mitchell has also written comics for Marvel Comics, written, directed and produced
two shorts, Memphis Calling starring Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine), winner of the San Joaquin
International Film Festival Best Short Film and Labor Intensive starring Rich Sommer (Mad Men), as well as having
his first feature, Welcome to September, produced and released through Scarpaci/Kelly Productions. He has written
screenplays for such notable companies as Alcon Entertainment, Automatic Pictures, Keylight Entertainment,
Scarpaci/Kelly Productions, Bee Holder Productions and Wil-Horn Enterprises, and such notable producers as Steve
Wegner (Insomnia, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary, Wicked), Rainn
Wilson (The Office, Juno), Nellie Bellflower (Neverland, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and Steven Lee Jones (You
Don’t Know Jack). As a playwright: NYC productions include, Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Ensemble Studio
Theatre and God’s Butt, At the Break of Day, Stolidly Opposed, New Jersey, Double Take and Too Many Sugars in the
Tea at the Nat Horne Theatre. In Seattle: Like a Beast and Musing at the New City Theatre and Stolidly Opposed
with the AHA! Theatre Company. In San Francisco: The Edinburgh Castle Theatre produced Linden Arden Stole
the Highlights and Flurrious. In Los Angeles: Mission to Mate at the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Breaking and
Entering at Theatre 40, Musing at The Production Company, Bitten by a Fly at the Actor’s Lab, Yolanda and the Black
Muslim Bakery at the Falcon Theatre, Turnips & Passion at the Sierra Stage. Mitchell is a member of Ensemble Studio
Theatre/LA.
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ALLISON MOSIER
Allison Mosier is a Los Angeles-based actor and director, however she is most commonly known as, “that girl from
the Cami Secret commercial.” Allison has been on the production teams of nine Broadway shows and consults
as a career and marketing coach for The Savvy Actor. She is currently appearing in a regional tour of The Vagina
Monologues and has starred in numerous theatrical productions across the country. Recently stage appearances
include the award-winning production of Pulp Shakespeare at Theater Asylum in Los Angeles, Radio Broadway: The
Hits of 1958 at Town Hall in Manhattan, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Lincoln Center. Film credits include
starring in the multi-award winning WTFU, co-starring on ABC’s One Life to Live and CBS’s As the World Turns, and
numerous commercials. Directing projects include Squiggy and the Goldfish (Workshop Theatre-NYC), The Who’s
Tommy (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Staten Island Philharmonic), The New Kid (Regional Tour)
and Freefall (Theatre Studio Inc.)
CRICKET MYERS
CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer). Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Regional Theater:
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation Nomination), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject was Roses, School of
Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation Nomination), The Little Dog
Laughed (Ovation Nomination), Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theater); In The Wake,
(Berkeley Rep); Wrecks, Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation Nomination, NAACP Nomination) (Geffen Playhouse);
Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Life Could be a Dream, Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes
(Laguna Playhouse); Dinner with Friends (La Mirada Theater). Selected LA designs include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile
(Ovation Nomination), Tuesdays with Morrie (Rubicon Theater); Cousin Bette (Ovation Nomination) (Antaeus Theater
Company); Life Could be a Dream (Hudson Theater); dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation Nomination)
(Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ovation Nomination) (Ford Amphitheater); Battle Hymn (Ovation Nomination) (Circle X);
Grace and Glorie (Ovation Nomination), Free Man of Color, Better Angels, Mary’s Wedding (Ovation Nomination), Master
Harold and the boys (NAACP Nomination), Trying (Ovation Nomination) (Colony Theater); Hunter Gatherers, Impending
Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater). www.cricketsmyers.com
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TOM ONTIVEROS
Tom Ontiveros designs with light and projection for theatre, dance, and live music. He is a three-time recipient of the
Dean Goodman Award for Lighting Design and was featured in San Francisco’s Callboard magazine. Design credits
include The Tune In Festival at the Park Avenue Armory Curated by the Eighth Blackbird Ensemble with artists Bora
Yoon, Steve Schick, John Luther Adams, The Argento Chamber Ensemble, Red Fish Blue Fish, and Newspeak. He has
designed scenic and environmental lighting for new music performances at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music since 2002. Other designs for music theatre or opera include The Tyrant for Paul Dresher and Schick Machine
performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Slide, with Rinde Eckert and the Eighth Blackbird Ensemble at The
Ojai Music Festival, and Enemy Slayer, composed by Mark Grey for the Phoenix Symphony.Tom’s lighting and video
design has been presented at the Hungarian National Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania with Garden of Deadly
Sound for Imago Moves Dance Co. as well as the International Festival of Arts and Ideas with Nada Que Declarar
and Heart Beats Light for Allyson Green Dance. Other collaborations include work with K.J. Holmes, Bora Yoon, Ruth
Pongstaphone, Red Fish Blue Fish, John Luther Adams, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Cornerstone Theatre, Circle
X, Bob Balaban, and Naomi Iizuka. Tom’s designs have also been presented at the Joyce SOHO, Marin Theatre Co.,
Intersection for the Arts, The Magic Theatre, ODC, San Diego Museum of Art, Chicago Museum of Contemporary
Art, Cleveland Playhouse, The Japan America Theatre, Mondavi Center, Zellerbach Studio Theatre, South Coast Rep,
La Jolla Playhouse, The Chocolate Factory (NY), St. Marks Church, The Culture Project and 3LD in NYC. Tom is an
Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at the University of Southern California.
LINDA PARK
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KEVIN RAHM
Kevin Rahm, can currently be seen on the critically acclaimed AMC series “Mad Men” playing Ted Chaough. Kevin
recently finished filming on the Jake Gyllenhaal film “Nightcrawler,” directed by Dan Gilroy, which is scheduled for
release in 2014. Prior to “Mad Men,” Kevin was a series regular on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” and previously
on “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” for FOX. His other notable TV credits include playing Kyle McCarty, Amy Gray’s
cousin, for three seasons on “Judging Amy” and Dr. Danny Kozak on “Jesse.” His guest starring roles include
“The Mentalist,” “Three Rivers,” “CSI: Miami,” “Without a Trace.” “CSI:NY,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Friends,” “Ally
McBeal” and “Everything’s Relative.” His film credits include “Valerie Flake,” “Route 30,” “Alfie,” “Nurse Betty”
and several other independents. His theater credits include “Three Days of Rain,” “Wild Boy,” “Everyday Life,” “A
Question of Mercy,” “All My Sons,” “Prisoner,” “Blind Dates,” “Waiting for Godot,” “Mcbeth,” “Of Mice and Men,”
“Inherit the Winde” and “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
Kevin currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Amy.
BRANDT REITER
Brandt Reiter is a New York based director, actor, playwright, educator & journalist. He is currently Chair of
Playwriting for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region I, and teaches Theatre at CUNY
Queens College and Film at SUNY Westchester. Brandt was jazz critic at the LA WEEKLY from 2000-2004, and has
also written about music for the Village Voice and New York Jazz Record. MFA, Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College;
Certificate, Film Theory and Criticism, Sorbonne, Paris; BA, American Studies, Temple University.
RAE ROBINSON
Rae Robison serves as the Chair of Design, Technology & Management for Region VII and is a professor at Humboldt State
University. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Rae received an MFA in Costume Design and holds two Bachelors
Degrees in Acting/Directing and in Dramatic Literature. Over the past thirty years Rae has worked on over 200 productions
including feature films and international stage productions, as well as working for Walt Disney Imagineering, Shakespeare
Orange County, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and the Los Angeles Playhouse.
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ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ
Alejandro Rodriguez is a theater artist, flaneur, and Program Coordinator for Artists Striving to End Poverty
(A.S.T.E.P.), a nonprofit that provides arts education and empowerment programs for underserved youth around the
world. As an actor, he’s performed off-Broadway, regionally and on television. As a writer, his latest poem Now is the
Time was featured in a choreagraphic work of the same name by Cindy Salgado, and had its premiere at the Joyce in
2013. It later toured Canada, which was a treat. He’s a graduate of Juilliard.
MARK SELDIS
Mark Seldis is Producing Director of The Ghost Road Company with whom he co-created and directed the
workshopproductions of Excavate the Monster at 24th Street Theatre and Duck[t] Tape Soup at Shakespeare Festival/
LA and the Diavolo space. Mark also produced the tour of Clyt at Home to Amherst, MA, the various incarnations of
Ghost Road’s Four Dervishes, the ensemble’s Oresteia adaptation (including Orestes Remembered, Elektra, and Home
Siege Home) and Stranger Things (with Kim Glann ) in Los Angeles and on tour. In 2007, on behalf of Ghost Road he
helped coordinate the Los Angeles productions of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days and co-directed Ghost Road’s
week of the play. He has directed world premieres of two of Ken Urban’s plays (Absence of Weather for Moving Arts
at LATC in 2005 and Nibbler for Theatre of NOTE in 2009) and he directed one of The Car Plays for Moving Arts. From
1990 to 2000 he was the Managing Director and Producer for The Actors’ Gang. Recently, Mark directed two of the
FLASH Theatre plays (written by Tom Jacobson and Oliver Mayer, respectively) for Playwright’s Arena. In 1999 Seldis
co-founded The Edge of the World Theatre Festival and in 2000 co-created the L.A. History Project for Edgefest. He is
a recipient of the Lee Melville Award for Excellence in Los Angeles Theater and Production Manager for Education at
The Music Center. —Photo by Patti McGuire.
DON SHIRLEY
Don Shirley is the LA STAGE Watch columnist and copy editor of LA STAGE Times, a website published by the LA STAGE
Alliance. He was the primary theater reporter for the Los Angeles Times for two decades, writing many reviews as
well as news, feature articles, and larger commentaries. He also has been the theater critic of LA CityBeat, a (now
defunct) alternative newspaper, and KCRW, a public radio station. Early in his career, he was on the staff of The
Washington Post and wrote extensively about DC theater. He is a graduate of USC and also studied at NYU and at the
National Critics Institute of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.
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CASEY STANGL
Casey Stangl is an award-winning director of theater, opera and film whose work has been seen throughout the
country. Recent projects include: The Liar for Antaeus Company; First Person: Seeing America, a multi-media piece
for Ensemble Galilei touring nationally; Citizen Twain starring Val Kilmer at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles;
Lombardi, a co-production with Cleveland Playhouse and Arizona Theater Company; Mrs. Packard for USC School
of Dramatic Art; The Car Plays for Moving Arts at La Jolla Playhouse and the Segerstrom Off Center Festival; and
many projects for South Coast Repertory including the award-winning production of In the Next Room (or the vibrator
play). Casey’s production of Peace in our Time at Antaeus won the 2012 Ovation Award and LA Weekly Award for Best
Production. Nationally Casey’s work has been seen at Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Guthrie Theater,
Denver Center, Woolly Mammoth, Portland Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many others. Casey was the
artistic director of Eye of the Storm Theatre in Minneapolis for which she was named Minnesota Artist of the Year. As
a Fellow at AFI’s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women Casey directed the short film C U @ ED’S, which screened
at film festivals across the country and won numerous awards.
CHASE WAITES
Chase Waites is chair of Drama and Live Entertainment Technology at Lone Star College-Montgomery where his
directing and design credits include Dod Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Peter Pan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde (Respondent’s Choice-KCACTF) Private Eyes (Respondent’s and Directors’ Choice, Texas State KCACTF-2011),
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lend Me a Tenor, Too Much Memory (Committee’s Choice, Texas State
KCACTF-2010), Rent, The Miss Firecracker Contest, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Little Shop of Horrors,
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, A Trio of Ones, Mind’s Prison, Goodnight Desdemona (Good morning Juliet),
The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Noises Off, The Actor’s Nightmare, Home Front, You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown, The Foreigner, The Shape of Things, The Sleeper, 96 Minutes, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and The Problem.
Chase teaches acting, introduction to theatre, and theatre history. A Ft. Worth native, he spent ten years in New
Orleans where he served as the artistic director of theatre and fine arts department chair at Jesuit of New Orleans.
Production credits in New Orleans include award-winning productions of Tracers, The Boys Next Door, The Compleat
Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and regional premieres of Dead Man Walking, The Who’s Tommy, Footloose, and
Copacabana. He received his B.A. in theatre from Centenary College of Louisiana and his M.F.A. in directing from the
University of New Orleans. Chase also serves as KCACTF Region 6 Vice Chair, Member-at-large for Outreach in the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, is a member of Texas Educational Theatre Association and is Treasurer on
the board of directors for the Crighton
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DON WILLIAMS
As director: off Broadway credits include: Lebensraum, Turn of the Screw, Look Back in Anger, Libidoff. Off Off
Broadway credits include: The Tempest, Macbeth, Miss Julie, On the Verge, Three Against Thebes, Blue State,
American Drama Pocket Edition, Betrayal, Strawberry One Act Festival. Regional credits include:Arsenic and Old Lace,
Macbeth, Speed The Plow, Midsummer Nights Dream, LibidOff, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, the Laramie Project, All
in the Timing, Prelude to a Kiss, the Dining Room. At Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC: The Shape of Things, Dancing
at Lughnasa, North Shore Fish, Angels in America, Death of a Salesman, That Championship Season, Twelve Angry
Jurors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, the Rhimers of Eldritch, Necessary Targets, Suddenly Last Summer, Museum,
the Blue Room. As actor stage: Don has worked at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 78th Street Theatre Lab, the Harold
Clurman Lab Theater, the Denver Center Theater Company, the Marin Theatre Company, the San Jose Stage Company,
the California Shakespeare Festival, Theatre 1050, Hot Ink to name a few. Film/commercial/ television: “Nash
Bridges,” “Never Wear a Dead Man’s Shoes,” “Midnight Caller” and numerous regional and national commercials. Don
has also served as executive producer for the Gotham Opera and for the last three years as associate head of acting
for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting NYC. Don holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.
ANNA WOO
Anna Woo is a Los Angeles based producer and stage manager. Credits include EQUUS (with George Takei) at East West
Players, BATTLE FOR THE TIARA, an Aid for AIDS benefit, and PROMETHEUS BOUND at the Getty Villa. Ms. Woo is a proud
member of Actors’ Equity.
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The National Theater Conference invites all KCACTF participating programs to join in our
ongoing Women Playwrights Initiative.
We at the NTC believe there are currently an extraordinary number of playwrights
working in America. We recognize however, that production opportunities are becoming
difficult to find for all playwrights, and that Women Writers especially face even greater
challenges in getting produced. Accordingly, for the past three years we have mounted an
initiative to increase the number of plays by women that receive full productions and we
urge KCACTF participating schools to join together and pledge the following
For the next three years, we will dedicate at least one production slot per year to a
Contemporary Female American Playwright.
1. This will be a full production, in line with what you normally do. Not a reading.
Not a workshop.
2. Even though current financial conditions are daunting, we encourage all schools to
make a residency available to their writer during the production.
3. This need not be a World Premiere. It can be, if you so choose, but most writers will
tell you that what they really need is that critical second or third production that
allows them to finish their play
4. This need not be a “New Emerging Writer.” Again, it can be, if you so choose, but
it can also be the work of a mid-career dramatist, or a mature artist. There are lots of
writers out there who were once (and ever so briefly) the “new” writer. They
haven’t gone away. They’ve just gotten better. They need productions, too.
5. The only other stipulation is that it cannot be a play that has had a Broadway
production in the last five years. Those plays are already being done. Let’s spread
the wealth around! We ask that those of you who are participating insert the
following statement in your playbill for each play produced as part of this initiative.
This production is being produced as part of the NTC National Initiative to
Celebrate American Women Playwrights. The National Theatre Conference (NTC)
founded in 1925, encourages and supports the American Theatre through its
initiatives, awards, and colloquy. For more information go to
www.nationaltheatreconference.org
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SCRIPT
A Practical Workshop
June 9 – 13, 2014
Announcing a week-long intensive creative environment in which writers meet to generate original work as plays, screenplays,
and any other dramatic media. We work on ideas or scripts in any stage of development from “pitching” a germinal idea to helping
execute the final rewrite on a polished draft. We specialize in helping writers adapt their work from one medium to another (stage to
screen; fiction to stage; etc...). The three key instructors, Sean Clark, Randy Feldman, and Julie Jensen, are working, professional writers
with strong experience in creative writing for performance, including theatre, motion pictures, and television.
Participants in SCRIPT get a thorough workshop of whatever work they want to explore. In the 2013 session alone, we gave
full workshops to six scripts and developed eight pitches into viable full length screenplays or stage plays. Upon completion of the
week, participants are conversant in the differences between one dramatic medium and another at a different level. For some writers,
it is a great
environment in which to embrace a new medium and for others it is a chance to hone the art and craft with which they are familiar.
It is a high-energy week of creative interaction and hard work that takes place on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
We meet two sessions every day, from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 13, leaving the nights to work or play.
The conference costs $850 for the workshops, on-campus accommodation, and two meals a day (breakfast and lunch). For the
conference only, the price is $500.
For questions about content of the workshop, contact Sean Clark at [email protected] or at 702-895-2442. For reservations and
additional information contact Lori Slinn at [email protected] or at 702-895-2455.
SCRIPT is sponsored by the
College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the
National Partners of American Theatre.
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The Kennedy Center
KCACTF Design, Technology & Management Chairs
David M. Rubenstein, Chairman
Region I-Co-Chairs
Michael M. Kaiser, President
Charlie Wittreich, SUNY Suffolk
Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President, Education
Luke J. Sutherland, Community College of Rhode Island
Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF
Region II-Keith Hight, College of Southern Maryland
Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF
Region III-Kathleen Donnelly, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Region IV-Jesse Dreikosen, Florida International University
KCACTF National Officers
Region V-Sheila Tabaka, Southwest Minnesota State University
• National Chair-Rebecca Hilliker, University of Wyoming
Region VI Co-Chairs-
• National Vice Chair-David Lee Painter, University of Idaho
Jason Foreman, Oklahoma City University
• National Chair, National Playwriting Program-Georgia McGill, CUNY
Jon Young, University of Oklahoma
Queensborough
Region VII-Rae Robison, Humboldt State University
• National Chair, Design, Technology & Management -Gweneth West, University
Region VIII-Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino
of Virginia
• Member at Large-Leigh Selting, University of Wyoming
KCACTF National Playwriting Program (NPP)
• Member at Large-David Shawger Jr., Ball State University
The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Committee
• Member at Large-Richard Herman, University of Central Missouri
Region I Chair-Brandt Reiter, University of New Haven
• Immediate Past National Chair and ATHE Liaison-Harry Parker, Texas Christian
Region II Chair-Allyson Currin, George Washington University
University
Region III Chair-Ansley Valentine, Northern Michigan University
• National Vice-Chair, Design, Technology & Management-Rafael Jaen, Emerson
Region IV Chair-David Moberg, Indian River State College
College
Region V Chair-Patrick Carriere, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
• National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting Program – Jeanette Farr, Glendale
Region VI Chair-Jim Anderson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Community College (California)
Region VII Chair-Nancy Lee-Painter, Lewis-Clark State College
• USITT Representative – Martha Marking, Appalachian State University
Region VIII Chair-Wade Hollinghaus, Brigham Young University
• National Partners of American Theatre Representative- Jere Wade
SPONSORSHIP
KCACTF Regional Chairs
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the
Region I Co-Chairs-
Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by
Raina Ames, University of New Hampshire
David and Alice Rubenstein.
Catherine Hurst, St. Michael’s College
Region II-Elizabeth van den Berg, McDaniel College
Region III-Michelle Bombe, Hope College
Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma
Region IV-Jeffrey Green, Georgia Southwestern State University
E. Bernstein; the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Harold
Region V-Rick Anderson, Kirkwood Community College
and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and
Region VI-Joy Pace, Itinerant Theatre
the AnBryce Foundation.
Region VII-Kelly Eviston Quinnett, University of Idaho
Region VIII-Co-Chairs
Education and related artistic programs are made possible through the
Jim Taulli- California State University- Fullerton
generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the
Matthew Neves
President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
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KCACTF FESTIVAL 46 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
KCACTF FESTIVAL 46 NATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
KCACTF FESTIVAL 46 REGIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REGION VIII
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Region VIII Advisory Board/
Festival Selection Committee
Regional Co-Chair
Program Coordination
Matt Neves
Devised Program Coordinator
Kathryn Moller
Regional Co-Chair
Fort Lewis College
James Taulli
California State University, Fullerton
Directing Program Coordinator
Leslie Ferreira
Regional Vice Chair
Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy
Gil Gonzalez
Whittier College
Diversity Consultant/Excellence in Education
Val Limar-Jansen
Immediate Past Regional Chair
Freelance Artist
John Binkley
California State University, Northridge
Festival Critics Workshop Coordinator
Laurie Harrop Purser
National Playwriting Program Chair
Utah Valley University
Wade Hollingshaus
Brigham Young University
Festival Registrar
Richard Bugg
National Playwriting Program Vice Chair
Southern Utah University
Jim Holmes
Loyola Marymount University
Invitational Scenes Coordinator
bree valle
Immediate Past National Playwriting
Cuesta College
Program Chair
Char Nelson
Irene Ryan Co-Coordinator
Brigham Young University
Christopher Clark
Utah Valley University
Chair, Design, Technology & Management
Andre Harrington
Irene Ryan Co-Coordinator
California State University, San Bernardino
Stephanie Breinholt
Brigham Young University
Vice Chair, Design, Technology & Management
Catherine Zublin
Next Step Auditions Coordinator
Weber State University
Ian Belton
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Past Chair, Design and Technology
Geof Ereo
Past Regional Chair
Phoenix College
Brad Myers
California State University, Fresno
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Regional Respondent Coordinator
Circuit 3 Design Coordinator
Char Nelson
Shiz Herrera
Freelance Playwright
California State University, Los Angeles
Region VIII Secretary
Circuit 4 Coordinator
Virginia Ludders
Julie Holston
Glendale Community College, AZ
South Mountain Community College
Respondents Workshop
Circuit 4 Design Coordinator
Judith Royer
Kara Thomson
Loyola Marymount University
Mesa Community College
Student Stage Management Coordinator
Circuit 5 Coordinator
Shiz Herrera
Janine Christl
California State University. Los Angeles
Fresno City College
Technical Production Coordinator
Circuit 6 Coordinator
Debra Ann Fisher
Eric Bishop
Northland Pioneer College,
MiraCosta College
Matt Taylor
Circuit 7 Coordinator
University of California, Riverside
Lisa Hall Hagen
Utah Valley University
Theatre Criticism Program Coordinator
(Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy & Dramaturgy)
Circuit 7 Design Coordinator
Bob Nelson
Brent Innes
University of Utah
Dixie State College
Student Advisory Board Sponsor
Region VIII Student Advisory Board
Rodney Scott
SAB Chair
East Los Angeles College
Charles Lin
MiraCosta College
Circuit Coordination
Circuit 1 Coordinator
Lori C. Siekmann
Concordia University Irvine
Circuit 2 Coordinator
Carol Damgen
California State University, San Bernardino
Circuit 3 Coordinator
James Hatfield
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REGION VIII PRODUCTION AND RESPONDENTS
REGION VIII PRODUCTION 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 their insights on theatrical performance with students across the region.
2013
James Arrington, Utah Valley University
Judy Bauerlein, California State University, San Marcos
Susan Berkompas, Vanguard University of Southern California
John Binkley, California State University, Northridge
Eric Bishop, MiraCosta College
Richard Bugg, Southern Utah University
David Cantanzarite, CSUSB, Palm Desert Campus
Anthony Cantrell, Valley Performing Arts Center
Catharine Christof, Loyola Marymount University
Christopher Clark, Utah Valley University
Lou Clark, Arizona State University
Maria Cominis, California State University, Fullerton
Carol Damgen, California State University, Fullerton
Guinevere PH Dethlefson, Tonicism Productions
Kevin Dressler, Mesa Community College
Edward EmanuEl, California State University, Fresno
Kathryn Ervin, California State University, San Bernardino
Mary Faranakian, Brigham Young University
Katherine Farmer, Utah Valley University
Jeanette Farr-Harkins, Glendale Community College
Jeff Fazakerley, Concordia University
Leslie Ferreira, Los Angeles City College, Theatre Academy
Gil Gonzalez, Whittier College
Ken Gray-Scolari, Glendale Community College
William Gunn, University of Southern California
Lisa Hall Hagen, Utah Valley University
Hugh Hanson, University of Utah
Lia Hanson, Vanguard University
Andre Harrington, California State University, San Bernardino
James Hatfield, California State University, Los Angeles
Barta Heiner, Brigham Young University
J. Daniel Herring, California State University, Fresno
Shiz Herrera, California State University, Los Angeles
Royce Herron, Glendale Community College - CA
Eve Himmelheber, California State University, Fullerton
Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young University
Jim Holmes, Loyola Marymount University
Julie Holston, South Mountain Community College
James Hormel, Cypress College
David Huber, Grossmont Community College
Brent Innes, Dixie State College
William Lett, California State University, Fullerton
Val Limar Jansen, Freelance Artist
Jodi Julian, Riverside City College
James Knudsen, Fresno City College
Nina LeNoir, Chapman University
Ellyn Gersh-Lerner, California State University, Northridge
Susanna Levitt, Rio Hondo College
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Darby Lofstrand, Northern Arizona University
Virginia Ludders, Glendale Community College - AZ
Josh Machamer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Chris Mangels, College of the Sequoias
Dana Martin, California State University, San Bernardino
Maren Mascarelli, Scottsdale Community College
Maria Mayenzet, Saddleback College
John Mayer, California State University, Stanislaus
Mendy McMasters, California State University, Bakersfield
Randy Messersmith, Scottsdale Community College
Shawnda Moss, Brigham Young University
Michael Mufson, Palomar College
Brad Myers, California State University, Fresno
Bob Nelson, University of Utah
Char Nelson, Freelance Playwright
George Nelson, Brigham Young University
Matt Neves, Performance Riverside
John Newman, Utah Valley University
Jere O’Donnell, California State University, Stanislaus
Lurana O’Malley, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kimberly Overton, Azusa Pacific University
John Owens, Central Arizona College
C. Tim Quinn, Fresno City College
Mark Ramont, California State University, Fullerton
Judith Royer, Loyola Marymount University
Robin Russin, University of California, Riverside
David Seitz, Glendale Community College, Arizona
Peter Senkbeil, Concordia University
Peter Sham, Southern Utah University
Lori Siekmann, Concordia University
Terry D. Smith, California State University, San Bernardino
Rodger Sorensen, Brigham Young University
Joshua Stavros, Southern Utah University
James Taulli, California State University, Fullerton
Craig Tyrl, California State University, Fullerton
Bree Valle, Cuesta College
Tony Vezner, Concordia University
John Walcutt, Orange County Shakespeare Festival
Isaac Walters, Utah Valley University
Tamiko Washington, Chapman University
Markus Wessendorf, University of Hawaii at Manoa
C. Julian White, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Shad Willingham, California State University, Northridge
Shane Wood, La Sierra University
Catherine Zublin, Weber State University
PRODUCTIONS THAT ENTERED FESTIVAL 46
FESTIVAL 46 PRODUCTIONS
(A) Associate Productions
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBIPSO
(P) Participating Productions
CrossRoads(P)
A Year with Frog and Toad (A)
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Fat Boy
(P)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD
Dog Act(A)
Living Out(A)
soot and spit
(A)
Taming of the Shrew
(A)
The Fall of the House of Escher (A)
The Cherry Orchard
(A)
(A)
The Imaginators(A)
Much Ado About Nothing (P)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
An Ideal Husband (A)
Clybourne Park(P)
Pippin (A)
Frozen(P)
The Tenement
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Our Town (P)
The Arabian Nights (A)
Microburst Theatre Festival (P)
The First Breeze of Summer (P)
A Wrinkle in Time (A)
Flowers for Algernon (A)
Henry V (A)
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (A)
The Cleverest Thief and Selections from
Gone Missing
(A)
(A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
The Phantom of the Opera
(A)
All Shook Up
The Servant of Two Masters (A)
Almost Maine
The Light in the Piazza
(A)
(A)
Blithe Spirit(A)
Five Flights(A)
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Twelfth Night
The Drunken City (A)
(P)
Illyria
(A)
Little Women, The Broadway Musical (A)
Inspecting Carol (A)
Songs for a New World (A)
Lobby Hero
(A)
You Can’t Take it With You (A)
Much Ado About Nothing (A)
Rough Magic
(A)
Spain (A)
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
As You Like It (A)
Title of Show
(A)
Twelve Angry Jurors
(A)
Xanadu
(A)
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, POMONA
Welcome Home Jenny Sutter
(P)
War of the Worlds (A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Hair
(P)
Phaedra
(P)
The Winter’s Tale
(P)
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, IRVINE
Arcadia (A)
Falling(P)
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (A)
Footloose(P)
Elemeno Pea (A) The Brothers Menaechmus
(P)
Ragtime, The Musical (A)
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
(A)
Romeo & Juliet (A)
The Book of Liz (A)
The Seagull
(A)
CUESTA COLLEGE
pool ‘63(A)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO
CYPRESS COLLEGE
As You Like It Lost In Yonkers(A)
(A)
Hairspray(A)
Hay Fever
(A)
DIXIE STATE COLLEGE
Henry V, (Text Study)
CENTRAL ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
(P)
The Gondoliers(A)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
(P)
James and the Giant Peach
(P)
Camelot(A)
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
Almost, Maine(P)
EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress A Macbeth(P)
(P)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
(P)
Dream On (P)
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Dream On (P)
Present Laughter (A)
They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!(P)
Spring Awakening
Student Directed One-Acts (A)
(A)
Twelfth Night (A)
EASTERN ARIZONA COLLEGE
The Hypochondiac(P)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
CITRUS COLLEGE
(A)
Almost, Maine(A)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (A)
EL CAMINO COLLEGE COMPTON CENTER
Playwriting 101 The Rooftop Lesson,
COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (P)
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (A)
H.R., and Ring of Men (three one acts)
(P)
Six Characters In Search of An Author
(P)
The Exeperimental Theatre Ensemble’s
(A)
FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(A)
Sun and Room
Julius Caesar
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(P)
You Can’t Take it With You (P)
FRESNO CITY COLLEGE
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
From Up Here(P)
Boeing Boeing(P)
Teasers: An Evening of Short Plays
The Producers
(P)
Why Marry?(P)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
(P)
(A)
Year Zero(P)
Fantastic Mr. Fox(A)
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)
My Favorite Year (P)
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (ARIZONA)
Hiding in the Open
(P)
MIRACOSTA COLLEGE
The Dyskolos(P)
Guys and Dolls(A)
Hello Herman The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (P)
(A)
Splitting Issues (and Several Other
Blood Wedding (A)
Noteworthy Concerns)(A)
The Matchmaker (A)
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (CALIFORNIA)
NORTHLAND PIONEER COLLEGE
A Flea in Her Ear (A)
Almost, Maine(A)
The Anniversary Plays: A New Play Fesival
Coeur d’Alene (P)
The Drowsy Chaperone
(P)
(A)
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY
PHOENIX COLLEGE
Twelve Angry Jurors (A)
Fuddy Meers(P)
The Fantastiks (P)
LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE - THEATRE ACADEMY
Reefer Madness(A)
Death of a Salesman
(A)
Rumors(A)
The Comedy of Errors
(A)
AutoPLAY: STOP, YIELD and DETOUR
(P)
The Shadow Box(A)
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
The Arbitration by Menander
RIO HONDO COLLEGE
Our Town (P)
Out of the Frying Pan (P)
An Evening of 1-Acts
(A)
TStudent Short Play Festival (A)
(P)
Tears of Rage(A)
New Works Festival Bill I
(A)
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
New Works Festival Bill II (A)
The Wild Party (A)
SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE PALOS VERDES
Festival of One Acts & Short Plays
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (A)
(A)
Metamorphoses (A)
Next to Normal (A)
MERCED COLLEGE
Eurydice (A)
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Winter’s Tale(A)
Curious Savage(A)
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SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
A Child’s Version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(P)
TBD (P)
A Piece of My Heart (P)
The Spitfire Grill(P)
Plaid Tidings
(P)
Kid Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh
(A)
Salome (P)
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (P)
The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
Emma(A)
(P)
Twelfth Night(P)
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Next to Normal
(P)
Dialogues (A)
SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Short Attention Span Theatre (A)
He Who Gets Slapped
(P)
The Crucible(A)
Real Women Have Curves
(P)
The Imaginary Invalid Hay Fever (A)
(A)
The Mikado(A)
The Story Stone(A)
SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VANGUARD UNIVERSITY
Our Town (A)
Dancing at Lughnasa
(P)
Development(P)
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
title of show
(P)
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
boom (A)
Of Myth and Mud
Chicago(A)
The Plain Princess(P)
Romeo & Juliet(A)
The Comedy of Oedipus
Women of Lockerbie Will Rogers Follies(A)
(A)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
WESTMONT COLLEGE
The Hystericals(A)
Pirates of Penzance
(P)
(A)
(P)
We Was Here(A)
WHITTIER COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
DREAMers(P)
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
Big Love(A)
Thread Hell(A)
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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(P)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
(A)
The Glass Menagerie(A)
The Comedy of Errors (A)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
(A)
FACULTY RECOGNITION
KENNEDY CENTER MEDALLION
Each year, the eight KCACTF regions honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre
and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm to the development of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Most
importantly, recipients have demonstrated a strong commitment to the values and goals of KCACTF and to excellence in educational theatre. It is the most
prestigious regional award given by KCACTF and is considered one of the great honors in theatre education.
2013 Kennedy Center Medallion Recipient
G. Shizuko Herrera – California State University, Los Angeles
G. Shizuko Herrera, or “Shiz” has been involved in technical theatre for 40 years. She has taught stagecraft and
design at East Los Angeles College and Los Angeles City College. Shiz is now a full professor at California State
University, Los Angeles and serves as Associate Chair, and Principal Undergraduate Advisor for the Department of
Music, Theatre, and Dance. She has designed scenery, lighting, costumes, makeup, props and has also dabbled in
directing. Shiz has been associated with the East West Players, the Nation’s Premier Asian American theatre company
designing and working with their founding director, Mako. In addition to theatre, she has costumed a few feature
films, a TV pilot, and been nominated for a Lester Horton Award for excellence in Dance Lighting for the Hae Kyung Lee
Dancers at the Japan America Theatre. With the East West Players, she received a Back Stage West Garland award for
Lighting on PACIFIC OVERTURES at the David Henry Hwang Theatre and an Ovation and LA Weekly award for Lighting
on SWEENEY TODD at their Silverlake theatre. Most recently she received a Fellowship award for the Japan Studies
Institute from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Her involvement with the KCACTF goes back to 1990 when she began as a Design Respondent for the then Circuit
2. She became the Design Coordinator in 2000 and later took on the Stage Management Fellowship Coordinator for
Region 8 in 2009. CSULA hosted Festival 40 in 2008 with Shiz as lead faculty host. In 2009, she was honored with an
Excellence in Education award from the Design, Technology, & Management area.
This Golden Medallion of Excellence is the highlight at the end of her long affiliation with the KCACTF as she enters
retirement, but hopes to volunteer in Region 3 as she plans to relocate to Madison, Wisconsin.
ATHE/KCACTF INNOVATIVE TEACHING AWARD
Founded in 1986, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is a non-profit professional organization representing college and university theatre
departments and administrators, faculty, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. ATHE’s mission is to support and advance the study and practice of
theatre and performance in higher education. Toward that mission, we are pleased to grant the annual ATHE Prize for Teaching Innovation to an individual in each
KCACTF region who has demonstrated their ability to discover new pathways for student success in the field of theatre. It is our pleasure to recognize Tanya KaneParry as the 2014 Region VIII winner of the ATHE Prize for Innovative Teaching.
2013 ATHE /KCACTF Innovative Teaching Award Recipient
Tanya Kane-Parry
In February 2012, a scene from The Government Inspector opened the Evening of Invitational Scenes at the KCACTF Region
8 Festival. Terry has twice won Outstanding Director awards at San Diego theatre festivals. Terry’s translations of classic
plays, including A Flea in Her Ear and The Frogs, and operas, including Orfeo and Croquefer, have received professional and
university productions. In 2011, she premiered her original one-person show The Mysterious Dwarf, in which she performs as
the writer Nikolai Gogol.
Terry has developed a comprehensive training method for acting in opera and is finishing a text book on that subject. Her
other teaching specialties include the Michael Chekhov Technique and neutral mask. Terry also develops and conducts
courses and seminars in the application of acting techniques to the worlds of teacher-training, business, and law. Terry holds
a B.A. in Playwriting from Brown University and an M.A. in Theatre (Directing) from Syracuse University.
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EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE EDUCATION AWARD
This honor, given for the first time in 1997, recognizes faculty and staff in various universities and colleges throughout the region who go “beyond the call of
duty” in devoting their time, efforts, talent, and energies on behalf of the students and in support of the other faculty and staff of their institution. The following
recipients of the “Excellence in Theatre Education Award” are individuals recognized by the Board of Governors of the Kennedy Center/American College
Theater Festival, Region VIII for their unique commitment to their students, their colleagues, their institution, and their profession. We wish to honor their vision,
knowledge, high intention, and sincere effort in fostering, supporting and developing a greater respect and appreciation for theatre, theatre education, and all
who participate in it.
2013 Excellence in Theatre Education Recipient
Leslie Ferreira, Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College
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
Lawrence Carra. Two of his original physical theatre productions, Unto You and Within Us, (co-directed with Tina
Kronis), and Sam Shepard’s The Unseen Hand and A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, were performed at Kennedy Center/
American College Theatre Festivals. His most recent collaboration, with Theatre Movement Bazzar, The Untitled Warhol
Project, performed at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and The Los Angeles Theatre Center as part of KCACTF Festival
45 where it won six national awards including Outstanding Direction, Distinguished Devised Work and Distinguished
Ensemble. 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 and has coordinated the SDC Event at three Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festivals. He served for many years as an Ovation Voter for the Los Angeles Stage Alliance and has sat
on the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Grant Panel for Dance. In 2009 the Kennedy Center/American
College Theater Festival honored him with the Faculty Fellowship in Directing for Outstanding Achievement as a
Teaching Artist.
Wade Hollingshaus
Wade Hollingshaus is an assistant professor in Brigham Young University’s department of Theatre and Media
Arts, where he teaches courses in theatre history, theory, and criticism and is head of dramaturgy studies. He
holds an M.A. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Theatre Historiography
and Performance Studies from the University of Minnesota. His research is located primarily in the new field of
Performance Philosophy, where he explores politico-materialist critiques of various performance sites as they function
in neoliberal environments. He also researches and teaches Finnish literature and theatre. He has been published in
Theatre Topics, Scandinavian Studies, Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, The Journal of Religion and Theatre, The
Journal of Finnish Studies, TDR, Theatre Journal, and Ecumenica. In 2013, he published his first book: Philosophizing
Rock Performance: Dylan, Hendrix, Bowie. He occasionally works as a professional dramaturg for Pioneer Theatre
Company, in Salt Lake City, and since 2011, he has been the NPP chair for Region VIII of the Kennedy Center American
College Theater Festival. He is happily married to Jennine Hollingshaus and has five children.
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Chris Mangels
Holding an MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, Chris is a full-time professor in the College of Sequoias
Theatre Arts Department in Visalia, CA, where he serves as a director, fight choreographer, scenic designer, and founder of the
Experimental Theatre Ensemble, a production company that he developed to give students the opportunity to conceptualize
and develop productions from the ground up. At COS, he has directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Urinetown:
The Musical, The Hobbit, The Grapes of Wrath, As You Like It, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Rashomon, A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dracula, Our Country’s Good, and Richard III as well as designed the sets for such ambitious
productions as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and The Secret Garden. In addition to his work at COS, Chris has
also designed and built puppets for Avenue Q and Shrek: The Musical, and has directed such challenging fare as Avenue Q,
Assassins, and Art. As an actor, Chris has worked across the nation in such venues as Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Court
Theatre: Chicago, and Lamb’s Players, and even adapted his own production of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol which he has been
repeatedly performed as a one-man show to great acclaim. Chris currently resides in Visalia with his wife and best friend, Diane,
and their beautiful daughter, Sage.
Mark Ramont
Mark Ramont is an Associate Professor and Head of Directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at California State
University, Fullerton. He has also taught at Rice University (Head of Theatre) and Sam Houston State University, and has
guest directed at Southwestern University, the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and Sarah Lawrence College, among others. In
addition to directing at such professional theatres as Circle Rep (NYC), the Alley Theatre (Houston), Ford’s Theatre (Washington,
DC), Round House Theatre (Bethesda, MD) and Vermont Stage Company (Burlington), he served as Director of Theatre
Programming at Ford’s Theatre and Associate Artistic Director at Circle Rep. He served as Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre
(Ithaca, NY) and Capitol City Playhouse (Austin). He holds a BA in Theatre from CSU Fullerton and an MFA in Directing from the
University of Texas. He is the recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation (USA) Statuette Award for Sustained Excellence.
Jeff Thomson, USA 829: BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Thomson has been a Designer and Professor of Design for the theatre since 1968. He was Design Faculty at the
University of Wyoming, Macalister College in St Paul Minnesota, The University of Michigan, and for the past 33 years, the
Professor of Scenic and Production Design at The School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University in Tempe.
During his 46 years in the profession Jeff has designed scenery, lighting, and special projects in 13 states for many regional
theatre companies including, The Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, The Fulton Opera in Lancaster PA,
Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, USIU in San Diego, The Arkansas Repertory, Shakespeare Sedona, Childsplay, Music
Theatre of Wichita, American Stage in St. Petersburg, The Laguna Playhouse, and Dream Street Films in Los Angeles. He
was a Set Designer for two feature films: Dinner at Eight for TNT, Mother Goose Rock ‘N Rhyme for Disney and has designed
Business Theatre Sets for HBO, MTV, General Motors, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Airbus International. Jeff has been an
All-Category member of The United Scenic Artists 829 since 1974.
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