Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2014 at West Chester University

FESTIVAL 46 January 14-18, 2014

KCACTF HAS GONE MOBILE!

WELCOME REMARKS Welcome from the Chair of Region II Welcome to Festival 46 at West Chester University, PA. We gather to celebrate this magical thing that we love: the theatre! Immerse yourselves in the celebration - sit in on the Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions. Partake of our newest event – the Musical Theatre Initiative. View your fellow students’ design and stage management work in the Design Expo. Challenge yourself and your friends with the Fringe Challenge. Join the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy and learn to write for and about theatre. Dare to try something new in a workshop or two. We’ve worked hard to make sure that there is something for everyone – so spread your wings, and celebrate theatre.

A special thanks to Department Chair Harvey Rovine for opening the doors of West Chester University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, to Juliet Wunsch for serving as our Festival Host, and Andy Truscott for working tirelessly as our Festival Coordinator. If you see them, thank them, and celebrate the fruits of their labors.

Finally, on a personal note, it’s been a pleasure serving as your Regional Chair for these past three years. It’s been great for me to see so many students and faculty passionate about their craft in our region, both in home institutions when I’ve been responding on the road, and at the Regional Festivals. So, for this week, I’d like to celebrate you!

Elizabeth van den Berg Chair, KCACTF Region 2

Welcome from the President of West Chester University Welcome to West Chester University! We are very pleased to host the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region 2.

Since its inception in 1969, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival has served as a catalyst for improving the quality of college theater throughout the United States. The Region 2 festival at WCU is one of eight regional events sponsored by the Kennedy Center this January and February.

During the next five days, I encourage you to attend as many theatrical productions as you can, and to take advantage of the full range of workshops, symposia, and exhibits. If you are participating in one of the many juried events taking place, I wish you the greatest success.

West Chester University has a long and proud history of cultivating and supporting the theatrical arts. Last year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our theatre and dance program. We are committed to our role as a cultural leader, providing unrivaled theatrical opportunities to the residents of Chester County and beyond. In 2007 the University attracted some 70,000 people to a variety of visual and performing arts events. Last year that figure rose to more than 80,000 attendees.

During your stay here, be sure to take advantage of the many amenities that our campus and the Borough of West Chester have to offer. There are a wide variety of restaurants in West Chester, from fine dining to casual, as well as numerous retail establishments.

You also will find dining options right on campus.

Since its inception, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival has given more than 400,000 college theater students the opportunity to have their work critiqued, improve their dramatic skills, and receive national recognition for excellence. By joining us here at West Chester University for the Region 2 festival, you are becoming part of a distinguished tradition.

Enjoy the festival!

Greg R. Weisenstein, Ed.D. President West Chester University of Pennsylvania

KCACTF 2014 3

West Chester University

WELCOME REMARKS Welcome from the Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts To all of the participants of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Region 2, welcome to West Chester University! We are so very pleased to have you here.

The performing and visual arts have a long and distinguished history at WCU, as evidenced by our Department of Theatre and Dance currently producing its 51st Season of musicals, plays and dance.

With NAST accreditation and the opening of the recently renovated E.O. Bull Center for the Arts, we are positioning ourselves to continue writing this history for years to come.

We at WCU are immensely proud of the Department of Theatre and Dance as our students situate themselves in all aspects of theatre and dance administration, design, education, and performance upon graduation. Whether its touring in an Equity show, designing for Broadway and regional theatre, teaching the artists of tomorrow, or founding their own companies, our WCU graduates collaborate with some of the best and brightest in their fields. This sense of collaboration is honed at WCU. And this week, we are honored to be able to collaborate with you!

Enjoy all that this festival has to offer from workshops to performances to the conversations in the hallways with fellow artists. All of these experiences can shape you as an artist and hopefully provide fond memories of your time at WCU after you depart.

Break a leg!

Dr. Timothy V. Balir Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts West Chester University

Welcome from the Department of Theatre and Dance All of us in the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University are excited and honored to welcome you to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 2 Festival 46! We have been preparing for your arrival for some time and are delighted that you are here to share your talents, productions, designs, scenes, workshops, and conversations in our “home.”

The word festival is often defined as a period of celebration and, no doubt, we are here to celebrate many things. Certainly, we are looking forward to our region’s productions from the past year that were selected for presentation. So, too, we anticipate appreciating the wide array of creative and imaginative design work that will be on display as well as the student written plays, dramaturgy, and criticism that reflect both the creative and critical potential that our departments and programs overflow with. And, of course, we look forward to the many fine acting scenes, monologues, and performance pieces that will be part of the Irene Ryan competition.

But what we celebrate most of all is you--your presence at this festival, your passion for theatre, your commitment to the artistic, creative impulse and to those insights into our human condition which only art can provide.

So, as you make your way through the myriad of opportunities that await you here, remember that this festival is yours—it is for you, about you, and because of you. This week, let your motto be: “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.”

(Henri Matisse) Enjoy!

Dr. Harvey Rovine, Chair Department of Theatre and Dance

KCACTF 2014 4

West Chester University

Charles WEldon, KEYNOTE SPEAKER Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 1:00pm Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Charles Weldon is the Artistic Director of The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. and is a veteran director and actor of stage, film and television. Directing credits include; the NEC productions Futurology, The Musical, Cabaret Émigré, and The Picture Box. He directed Colored People’s Time for the New York Public Schools, The Offering at Rip Rap Studio Theater in Los Angeles, Waiting to End Hell, at the Shadow Theatre in Denver. His career began as the lead singer with the group, The Pardons in 1968, writing and recording the number one smash hit, Diamonds and Pearls. He performed in the original San Francisco cast of Hair. Charles came to New York with the Broadway musical, Big Time Buck White, with Mohammed Ali and in 1970 he joined The Legendary Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC) as an actor. He was seen in NEC’s The Great MacDaddy, The Offering, The Brownsville Raid, A Soldier’s Play, and NEC’s Broadway production of The River Niger. Other productions include; Second Stage Theatre’s award-winning play, Birdie Blue, with S. Epatha Merkerson, Thunder Knocking at the Door, at the Guthrie Theatre, Fences and King Lear, at the Asolo Theatre; It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues at Kennedy Center, Piano Lesson, at Centre Stage, Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (original cast recording); Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, and Driving Miss Daisy, at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; The Madwoman, A Selfish Sacrifice, A Streetcar Named Desire, King Hedley, II, Jitney, Coming of the Hurricane and Two Trains Running, at the Denver Performing Arts. Film credits include; Stir Crazy, Serpico, A Woman Called Moses, The River Niger, and more recently, Malcolm X and, Showtime’s, The Wishing Tree with Alfre Woodard and Blair Underwood. Television credits include; Roots: The Next Generation, and appearances on Law and Order/Trial by Jury, Police Story, New York Undercover and Law and Order. He has won several awards including; the “HENRY” (Excellence in Regional Theater) for best supporting actor in Gem of the Ocean, by August Wilson, and has been awarded Best Supporting Actor

by Audelco for his role in Seven Guitars at Signature Theatre. In addition to his role as Artistic Director, Charles is proud to be the co-founder of The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. Alumni Organization.

Learn more about the Negro Ensemble Company at http://www.necinc.org/

KCACTF Region 2

KCACTF 2014 5

@KCACTFR2 #KCACTF2 West Chester University

West Chester University Of Pennsylvania West Chester University Mission Statement West Chester University, a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, is a public, regional, comprehensive institution committed to providing access and offering high-quality undergraduate education, select post-baccalaureate and graduate programs, and a variety of educational and cultural resources for its students, alumni, and citizens of southeastern Pennsylvania.

West Chester University’s Department of Theatre and Dance’s Mission Statement: The Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University prepares students for the professional and academic worlds of theatre and dance, while raising student awareness of civility, diversity, creativity, problem solving, and social responsibility. Students gain skills in communication, management, performance, design, technology, and research through classroom and production responsibilities. Through esteemed faculty and state of the art facilities, we promote a program that combines a challenging academic environment with academic integrity and a production schedule of artistic freedom that supports and strengthens the cultural, moral, and social fabric of our university and the society it serves.

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents. Since its inception, KCACTF has given more than 400,000 college theater students the opportunity to have their work critiqued, improve their dramatic skills and receive national recognition for excellence. More than 16 million theatergoers have attended approximately 10,000 festival productions nationwide.

Remember -- This program is viewable on your iPhone or Android by using the Guidebook App!

Download the App Here:

Download our guide here:

INVITED PRODUCTIONS WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD?

by Charlotte Delbo Produced by: Rowan University Director: Anthony Hostetter Wednesday, January 15, 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Response 3:00 p.m., Thursday, January 16, - SOMPAC 303 Based upon the biography of Charlotte Delbo, Who Will Carry The Word? depicts the lives of 20 women sharing a barracks in the WWII Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Their goal: to keep the strongest alive so that someone can share their experiences with the world. A sobering and very moving celebration of the human spirit, Who Will Carry The Word? is a portrait of the resilience of ordinary people placed in extraordinary—and in this case, horrifying—circumstances.

AVENUE Q

Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Book by Jeff Whitty Based on an Original Concept by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Produced by: College at Brockport Wednesday, January 15, 8:30 p.m.

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Response 4:00 p.m., Thursday, January 16, - SOMPAC 303 The mix of puppets and people, along with the setting of urban brownstones, may remind people of Sesame Street, but the lessons learned on Avenue Q are very different than the ones we learned as toddlers. They are not only much more mature, but these puppets talk like sailors and have urges, as well. Yes, we’re talking about puppet sex. What else can one expect from Avenue Q, besides puppet pornographers, post-college malaise and a pair of “Bad Idea Bears?” Well, the musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby Brooklyn apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate Monster (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie Monster (an internet sexpert, and no relation to Kate), Lucy the Slut (need we say more?), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life.

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE

by Sarah Ruhl Produced by: Slippery Rock University Director: Laura Smiley Thursday, January 16, 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Response 3:00 p.m., Friday, January 17 – SOMPAC 303 “There are only one or two sacred places left in the world today. Where there is no ringing. The theater, the church, and the toilet…” A wildly imaginative comedy…a hallucinatory poetic fantasy that explores the mundane and the metaphysical, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving through the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Written by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pultizer prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl.

KCACTF 2014 7

West Chester University

INVITED PRODUCTIONS OUR TOWN

by Thornton Wilder Produced by: Carroll Community College Director: John Moletress Thursday, January 16, 8:30 p.m.

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Response 3:00 p.m., Friday, January 17 – SOMPAC 303 Described by Edward Albee as “...the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children love and live. Carroll Community College offers this lovingly well-worn play with youthful imagination, which aims to offer greater support for Wilder’s themes and intentions.

LYSISTRATA

by Aristophanes, Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin Produced by: Bowie State University Director: Bob Bartlett Friday, January 17, 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Response 5:00 p.m., Saturday, January 18 – Asplundh Lower Conference Room Although “MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR” became the quintessential slogan of the counterculture of the late 1960s, it has long been the sentiment of many across the ages and around the world who believed that war is not the answer. Although Aristophanes’ anti-war comedy was antithetical to the lives of Greek women, the play strikes a universal chord on the power women hold when it comes to certain aspects of the male-female connection. BSU Theatre is proud to present this very modern adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin, which shows clearly that the theme of this Greek classic transcends time and culture.

VORTEX

by Jeffrey Lentz and Cocol Bernal Produced by Albright College Director: Jeffrey Lentz Friday, January 17, 8:30 p.m.

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Response 9:30am, Saturday, January 18 -SOMPAC Room 304 “Her lips trembled so that for a long while she could say nothing.” Leo Tolstoy There are some experiences in life that transcend the use of words. The same can be said of our stories. Vortex is a human story of love betrayed and forgiveness tested told through the theatrical elements of movement, light, and music.

8 KCACTF 2014

West Chester University

INVITED PRODUCTIONS MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

by William Shakespeare Produced by: Alfred University Director: Becky Prophet Saturday, January 18, 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Response 9:30am, Sunday, January 19, Wyndham Garden Hotel What is masked and what is revealed? What is truth and what is lies? What is a game and what is cruelty? What is gullibility or foolishness when compared to blindness to the better parts of human nature? What is the threat of one against the other, to rend the fabric of a society? William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a bright comedy with a decidedly dark center. The vortex and the dark side of these questions whirls around two pairs of lovers and threatens to destroy innocence, whether in Messina or London of 1590 or Florida in the 1920s-30s. In the context of youth, passions, victory in battle, and deep love, few can avoid being caught up in the howling, grinding spiral that is the desire of one person to destroy another, no matter who is hurt in the process. It is, then much ado and only about nothing when the innocent are absolved and the guilty caught.

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, Additional Material by Jay Reiss Produced by: The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Director: Natalie Jones – Student Director!

Saturday, January 18, 1:30 p.m.

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Response 6:00 p.m., Saturday, January 17, Asplundh Lower Conference Room

Ever dreamed of competing in a spelling bee? How about performing in a musical? Then this audience participation-based show is the one for you! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee tells the tale of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves! This Tony Award-winning musical is sure to tickle your funny bone and warm your heart as the participants learn that winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. Be sure to stop by our Speller Registration table before the show if you’d like to be on stage for this musical comedy adventure!

Showcase PRODUCTIOn ALIVE “A Devised Puppet Piece” developed by the Ensemble Produced by: Arcadia University Directors: Alisa Kleckner and Scott Cassidy Thursday January 16, 2014 9pm-10:30pm Mainstage Theatre

For a kooky circus family, living on the road is one delicious cake walk. But what happens when Pandora’s pickled predictions abruptly stop pointing the way? A tale of daring, divisive and diabolical dimensions threatens to derail a dubious shared destiny.

Grab your ticket, pop some circus peanuts and prepare yourself for three rings of the most wondrous puppet show on earth!

KCACTF 2014 9

West Chester University

FESTIVAL INFORMATION Registration and Information Desk

Event Entry

The Information Desk will be located in the lobby of the bottom floor of the E.O. Bull Center next to the Theatre Box Office. The Information Desk will be open from 9am-Noon and 1pm-6pm. If you still need to register on Wednesday, please contact Scott Mackenzie at 724-714-8613,

Admission to Invited Productions

The Registration Desk will be located in the Sykes Student Union on Tuesday from 12pm to 6pm. Registration will remain open in a limited capacity until 8pm in the lobby of the Emilie K. Asplundh Hall

Hospitality

Information regarding hospitality will be provided to individuals in their “Guest Folders”. If we have missed you, please visit the Information Desk in the E.O. Bull Center lobby.

Dining

The Rams Head Dining Area will be open from Tuesday-Saturday 11am-4pm in the Sykes Student Union. Purchases can be made with Cash or Credit Card. There are no other on-campus dining facilities during the Festival.

You can find a list of other off-campus dining locations at the rear of this program. For safety purposes we urge you to utlize Rams Head daily.Java City Coffee will be open from 7:30-3pm in Sykes Student Union.Starbucks Coffee will be open from 7:30am-4pm in the FHG Library.

Badges and Admission to Events

Festival badges will be required for all events and participants are required to have badges in their possession at all times during Festival activities. If you lose your badge or it is damaged, please report to the Information Desk in the lobby of the E.O. Bull Center. A $5.00 replacement fee will be charged (cash only).

Entry to all events is on a first-come first-served basis. All performance seating is general admission. It is highly encouraged to arrive 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start time, especially for Invited Productions.

Show programs will be distributed in the lobby of the Madeline Wing Adler Theatre or the Emilie K. Asplundh Theatre on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the scheduled start time for all productions. Any seats not filled ten minutes prior to the scheduled start time are subject to reassignment to attendees waiting to enter.

To receive a show program, or to be placed in an available seat, you must show your Festival badge.

Security

In case of extreme emergencies, medical or otherwise, ALWAYS dial 911 immediately. From a campus phone, dial 9-911. In case of urgent situations please dial 610-436-3311 to reach the WCU Public Safety Department West Chester University has installed blue light emergency phones around the campus should the need arise to contact the police.

All Festival participants are asked to wear their Festival badge while on campus.

In the event of non-emergency medical situations Chester County Hospital is located at 701 East Marshall Street, West Chester, PA 19380.

Workshop Cancellations

Should you need to cancel or change a workshop or it’s schedule, please contact Andy Truscott at 484-894-5925 or AGTruscott@gmail.com

KCACTF 2014 10

West Chester University

FESTIVAL INFORMATION Transportation

Transportation shuttle busses will be provided between hotels and the Bus Lane at the Madeline Wing Adler Theatre. Festival guests are expected to walk between events on campus, so please dress appripriately for the weather.

Shuttle Schedule

The Shuttle Schedule for the Festival is listed below:

Parking

There is free parking for Festival attendees located in the “M� lot and parking structure.

This is located parallell to the Madeline Wing Adler Theatre and the E.O. Bull Center.

All other parking on campus is prohibited and you will be ticketed. Any metered parking around campus is patrolled by the Borough, not the University. Please be sure to feed the meters as needed as you will be ticketed.

Tuesday (Registration Day) - Loop between all four Host Hotels and the Madeline Wing Adler Theatre Bus Lane from 1pm to midnight.

Computers and Internet Access

Wednesday-Saturday - Loop between all four Host Hotels and the Madeline Wing Adler Theatre Bus Lane from 7am to 12am. Loop between the Host Hotels from 12midnight through 1am.

You may need to re-access the computer network daily in order to remain on the wireless internet. Festival attendees should be sure to check their wireless devices when they arrive on campus in the morning and throughout the day.

Please Note: Shuttles will cease at 1am.

No excuses. Please plan accordingly. Changes to the bus schedule will be posted in the Hotel Lobbies and posted onlineon Twitter and Facebook.

On campus wireless access has been provided for all registered Festival attendees.

Attendees should access the wireless acount: RamNet-Guest.

Username is ACTF@wcupa.edu Password is 60361332

Time to campus: Depending on the time of day your are travelling, traffic could make the loop as long as 45 minutes. Please plan during rush hour to give yourself 60 minutes to get to campus.

Wired computer access is limited but will be available in the Library until 4pm. The login information is the same as above.

Hotel Shuttles: Some Host Hotels may have a shuttle that can be used for local trips. Please inquire with the Front Desk as to the availability of this option. Please, use this as a last resort and do not rely on it.

Copiers are located in the lobby of the Library at the Corner of High Street and Rosedale Avenue. These can be used for a cash fee. If you feel like your copy is pertinent to one of your programs, please find the program head to discuss the need.

Taxi cabs are availabe from Rainbow Cab & Limo at 610-696-6060.

Library Hours

Printing

The Francis Harvey Green Library at High and Rosedale is open from 8am-8pm Tues-Thurs and 8-4 on Friday and Saturday.

KCACTF 2014 11

West Chester University

FESTIVAL INFORMATION Lost and Found

All found items should be turned in to the Information Desk in the E.O. Bull Center lobby.

Lost and Found claim forms will be available there as well. If you are missing anything, please check in with the Information Desk first. If the item is not there, please complete the appropriate lost item form so you can be contacted if found. The Festival or University is not responsible for any lost personal materials.

Host Hotels

All found items should be turned in to the Information Desk in the E.O. Bull Center lobby.

Lost and Found claim forms will be available there as well. If you are missing anything, please check in with the Information Desk first. If the item is not there, please complete the appropriate lost item form so you can be contacted if found. The Festival or University is not responsible for any lost personal materials.

WCU Alcohol Policy

In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase, possess or consume alcohol. It is also illegal for any one to use or possess controlled drugs. At West Chester University, it is illegal for any student, regardless of age, to possess or consume alcohol on campus or to return to campus under the influence.

WCU Tobacco Policy

Smoking is restricted to designated areas outside of buildings only. You will find designated smoking zones. Please respect this policy and only use tobacco products at any of these pre-designated locations around campus. All host hotels are smoke-free indoors with designated outdoor smoking locations.

Festival Locations

Events and Workshops around Festival will be held at the following four campus buildings.

Below you’ll find their full names, abbreviations that are used throughout the Program, and their street addresses.

Emilie K Asplundh Concert Hall (ASPLUNDH)

700 S. High Street West Chester, PA Swope School of Music Building (SOMPAC)

17 S. High Street, West Chester, PA E.O. Bull Center for the Arts (EOB)

2 E. Rosedale Ave. West Chester, PA Sykes Student Union (SYK)

110 W. Rosedale Ave., West Chester, PA

Late Night Entertainment

There are a myriad of options available to Festival attendees for late night entertainment following the final performance of the evening.

Attendees are welcome and urged to visit both Host Hotels where events are taking place.

However, please be sure to be on the last bus back to your hotel at 1am unless you plan on catching a cab or driving yourself back. Please do not walk between hotels. Use the shuttles.

Please note: Only REGISTERED Festival attendees are allowed into late night events.

Days Hotel: Wednesday-Friday Nights Fringe Challenge - 11:00pm-2am

Upstairs Ballroom DJ Dance Social - 11:00pm - 2am

Downstairs Ballroom Board Game Nights - 11pm-2am

Adjacent Room to Restaurant Wyndham Garden: Wednesday-Friday Nights Movie Night - 11:00pm - 2am Cinema/Theatre Board Game Nights - 11pm-2am

Longwood Ballroom

KCACTF 2014 12

West Chester University

FESTIVAL INFORMATION Guidebook/Digital Program

A digital copy of this program may be downloaded from our webiste at www.kcactf2.org.

This program can also be accessed via a Smartphone app called Guidebook. It can be accessed via the iTunes Store of Google Play Store. Once you have downloaded the app, follow these steps to download the Guide: 1) Click on Download Guide in the bottom

left-hand corner 2) In the Search Bar, search for West Chester

Our Guide will be the only guide that appears

It will automatically be downloaded

FACULTY

SUPPER Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:00-8:00pm The Days Hotel

3) Click on our Guide

943 S High St, West Chester, PA 19382

3) When it has finished downloaded, click on

the Guide and begin exploring!

Regional faculty are invited to join colleagues for a light supper and informative discussion about ways The Festival Schedule can be found under strengthen for our Regional to faculty are invitedsupport to “Festival Schedule”. When you read through supper and informal discussion about ways to students throughout KCACTF. the various events or workshops you can ADD Features of Guidebook

TO MY SCHEDULE to add it to your own personal schedule.

strengthen support of our students through KCACTF

Each workshop session has the ability for you to provide feedback for the workshop. Please do so! It allows us to learn from you, the attendee!

You can also upload your favorite pictures from the Festival’s Workshops, Events, and Late Night Entertainment for every user to see via the KCACTF Photo Album.

You can access the ITJA Festival Reviews via the Festival Blog.

General Feedback Surveys will be pushed out to attendees nightly via the Feedback portion of the app.

KCACTF 2014 13

SAMPLE TABLES:

2 Year Colleges & KCACTF

Boosting support of DTM students Teaching Intro to Theatre

New Play Production on College Campuses Coaching Ryan Nominees Successfully

Supporting Undergrad Student Directors Developing the Student Dramaturg

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS ACTING IN THE SPACE BETWEEN presented by Barbara Burgess-Lefebvre This workshop explores the idea that theatre happens in the “space between” actors; that the most dynamic acting is the art of reacting honestly to what onstage partners are doing while pursuing well-defined, obtainable wants using a variety of tactics. Participants are encouraged to bring scenes to work. Observers are welcome. (PERF) Friday 1/17 1-2pm, EOB 17 ACTION IN SONG: MAKING SOMETHING HAPPEN presented by Mark Hardy We will explore bringing the song to life by finding urgent action in the lyric, music, and vocal line.

Based on Stanislavski fundamentals - and with an ear to the marriage of word and melody - participants will workshop their own prepared songs as singing actors. Please bring sheet music in the proper key. Observers are welcome. (PERF) Saturday 1/18 1-3pm, EOB 17 ACTING SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP presented by Catherine Weidner Shakespeare’s plays present particular challenges to the contemporary actor. This workshop will help the actor meet those challenges and make his language come alive, and give actors the opportunity to explore and develop the tools needed to perform texts by Shakespeare and other playwrights of the classical repertory. No preparation or previous experience with Shakespeare is necessary. We will focus on basic verse text work, covering fundamental skills which will “demystify” the language and give actors a practical, common-sense approach to the text. All participants should bring a pencil or pen. Teachers are welcome. Thursday 1/16 1-3pm, SOMPAC 307 ACTIVE ANALYSIS FOR DIRECTORS presented by Nathan Thomas For Directors: A hands-on look at Active Analysis as used by Stanislavsky and Maria Knebel. (DIR) Wednesday 1/15 5-6pm, EOB 21 ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE APPRENTICESHIP INFO SESSION presented by Michael Legg The Apprenticeship at Actors is a full-immersion training program focused on practical, experiential training and designed to help young artists transition from an academic degree to a real-world career. It’s one of the oldest continuing pre-professional training companies and a practical alternative to graduate school. While learning the skills needed to create

and maintain a professional career, Apprentices perform in their own 5-show season. Special emphasis is placed on cultivating audition skills and learning methods for generating original work. (NEXT/ PERF) Thursday 1/16 10-11am, EOB 40 ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGUE WORKSHOP presented by Catherine Weidner Get a fresh perspective on your two-minute Shakespeare monologue. Participants must have a prepared piece to work on – and should bring a copy of it with them to the workshop (even if it’s handwritten on a piece of notebook paper), so we can look at the text. The focus of the work will be on physicalizing the work, clarifying beats and intentions, and getting specific. We will begin with a brief physical and vocal warm-up. Observers are welcome. Thursday 1/16 4-6pm, EOB 114 AMERICAN COMEDY REVOLUTION: LONGFORM IMPROV presented by Law Tarello Learn what lies beyond “Yes, And”; discover the principles of theatrical improvisation to create unique characters, initiate strong scenes, listen effectively, and heighten ideas as they happen. These advanced exercises will improve your awareness, build your confidence, and get you “out of your head” and into the moment. (PERF) Thursday 1/16 3-5pm, EOB 21 ARMOR – PART I presented by Victoria DePew Leather armor: from research to stage. This presentation will show you the process of building multiple sets of leather armor. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 1011am, EOB 132 ARMOR – PART II presented by Victoria DePew and Debra Otte Create armor prototypes in this hands-on workshop.

(DTM) Friday 1/17 1-3pm, EOB 132 BEATING “LOW BID” SYNDROME presented by Patrick McCreary The lowest bid, as we are too often reminded, is rarely the best value for the money. This workshop will explore two perfectly legal alternative methods to prevent getting less than we need or want, while still assuring a fair and equitable process for both vendor and buyer. (DTM) Saturday 1/18 2-3pm, EOB 40 BLOCKING FOR THE ACTOR presented by Lars Tatom Directors block, right? But what about the actor who has to prepare a scene? This short session will look at

KCACTF 2014 14

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS easy tools for the actor to use to self-block. (PERF) Friday 1/17 2:30-3:30pm, EOB 21 A BLOODY GOOD TIME presented by Alexis Gurst This workshop focuses upon stage blood-- how to make edible versions and washable versions, different viscosities and various techniques to load/use blood on stage. (DTM) Saturday 1/18 1-2pm, EOB 168 BROADWAY BOOTCAMP: DANCE presented by Geoffrey Goldberg Work with Broadway professional Geoffrey Goldberg (Mary Poppins, 42nd Street, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) in this Dance Master Class. Learn the choreography from a Broadway musical and learn the tips and techniques to booking the gig on Broadway. (PERF) Wednesday 1/15 2-4pm, Thursday 1/16 9-10am and 5-6pm, EOB 17 A CAREER IN THEATRE: THE ROLE OF ACTORS’ EQUITY AND A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE BUSINESS presented by Tom Miller Equity’s mission is to support and protect the rights of Actors and Stage Managers. The workshop explains how and when to join, outlines benefits of membership, provides tips for negotiating, record keeping and networking. It is designed to ease the transition from an academic environment to a professional career. (NEXT/DTM/PERF) Thursday 1/16 9-11am, SOMPAC 307 CONFIDENT AUDITIONS presented by Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissiona The participants in this highly participatory workshop will explore a variety of textual, physical, and psychological approaches to their work on audition monologues. The exercises will help performers build confidence in their acting choices and assist them in creating compelling, relaxed, and energized performances in audition situations. (PERF) Saturday 1/18 10-11am, EOB 114 CREATING DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE SPACES presented by David A. Miller How do you create a dynamic, effective performance space? Specifically for directors and designers, this workshop is a hands-on workshop applicable to any theatrical project, whether a scene, one act or fulllength play. Participants will learn what a dynamic performance space is and how to collaboratively create such a space. (DITR/DTM) Thursday 1/16 10am-1pm, EOB 22

CREATURES, CRITTERS AND KIDS: CREATING CHILDREN’S THEATRE! presented by Tiffany Towns Participants will collaborate to discover what it means to create children’s theatre. Based on a selection of children’s literature, actors will improvise human/non-human characters through physical and vocal exploration. Designers will use this work as inspiration for costume and scenic designs for the selected piece(s). Actors, wear movement clothes.

Designers, bring sketchbooks and pencils. (DTM/ PERF) Wednesday 1/15 4-6pm, EOB 17 DEATH AND DYING ON STAGE presented by John Bellomo A stage combat class utilizing the stages of death as described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the descriptions of death that are found in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and the physiological process the body goes through during death; students will explore how to die believably on stage. (PERF) Thursday 1/16 1-3pm, EOB 114 DECONSTRUCTING CLASSICS presented by Michael Durkin The Renegade Company will guide the students through a workshop dealing with deconstructing iconic works of art to create original pieces. Incorporation of other art forms as well as sensory objects will heighten this experience. (DEV) Saturday 1/18 1-3pm, EOB 22 DESIGN BEYOND THEATER presented by Kurt Wunsch There are many professional designing opportunity’s beyond traditional theater. One of these is cooperate and industrial theater, also known as Trade show and Conferences. This 17 billion dollar a year business hosts plenty of opportunity for designers, creative directors and production on all levels. This workshop is a conversational overview of the business which examines: What are cooperate events and trade shows? Concepts of designing and programming in the cooperate environment, Where to begin, and How to thrive in the business. Friday 1/17 1-2pm, EOB 111 DEVISING ORIGINAL THEATRE presented by Elizabeth Mozer Together we will explore and practice the bold art of theatre making! As soloists and ensemblists we will devise stage-worthy compositions and co-create a short original work. Our process will be informed by the current practices of well regarded theatre

KCACTF 2014 15

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS companies while simultaneously cultivating our individual creative approaches. We will articulate our group’s aesthetics and theatrical values and culminate with a sharing - the performance of our original piece! (please plan on attending each of the workshop sessions). (DEV/PERF) Wed/Thur/Fri 1/15-1/17 9-11a, EOB 114 DEVISING THEATRE THROUGH MOVEMENT presented by Justin Poole and Heidi Winters Vogel Using their bodies, found objects, and empty space, participants craft an original, ensemble performance.

The goal of this workshop is to challenge students to use their bodies in expressive ways in the service of their art and to expose them to a physical and collaborative method of creating live theatre. Students with little to no movement training are encouraged to participate! (DTM/PERF) Thursday 1/16 10-11am, EOB 17 DOING NOT STEWING presented by Rick Stoppleworth This workshop presents a series of exercises using improvised text and dialogue to help the actor find ease and release through choices of objective and tactic, moving away from general emotional display to acting that is vibrant and connected to both the actor and the play. (Perf) Thursday 1/16 2-3pm EOB 22 DRAMATURGY AS CURATION presented by Walter Bilderback, Guest Dramaturg Come share current thinking on the practice of dramaturgy with Guest Dramaturg Walter Bilderback, Resident Dramaturg at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. We’ll consider the paradigm of dramaturgy as it shifts from an authoritative presence in the theater and rehearsal hall ( “resident scholar”; “Institutional egghead”) to a collaborative member who shepherds, shares and shapes the process of background research, aesthetic choices, and audience interactions. Walter Bilderback will share his own experiences from the current season at the Wilma.

(DRAM) Friday 1/17 4-6pm, SOMPAC 304 DRAMATURGY PORTFOLIO REVIEW with Walter Bilderback Required for all dramaturgy applicants. (DRAM) Saturday 1/18 9-11am, EOB 132 EFFECTIVE FACE CHARTING FOR MAKEUP DESIGN presented by Debra Otte Learn to create effective makeup designs on charts specific to your actor’s face. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 5-6pm, EOB 132

FOLIO, FOLIO, WHEREFORE ART THOU, FOLIO? presented by Len Kelly A hands-on workshop that invites participants to learn about the difference between Folios and Quartos by building your own! Experience the history behind the early publication of some of Shakespeare’s great plays. (PERF) Wednesday 1/15 10-11am, EOB 132 FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE—MEANING AND FORM presented by Becky Prophet This Directing Institute workshop, open to all festival attendees, explores methods of handling language for the stage in terms of sound, rhythm, pitch, volume, and, of course, meaning. From good sense to nonsense to inflamed passionate speech to discovery of content, melded with mode of presentation moves audiences. (DIR/PERF) Wednesday 1/15 9-11am, EOB 21 GETTING MORE OUT OF YOUR ACTORS: REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES FOR DIRECTORS presented by Grechen Lynne Wingerter Tired of the same old routine in rehearsals? Are your actors tired of it, too? Want to try something new to shake things up a bit? Or, do you have some sure-fire techniques of your own to share? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this is the workshop for you. Come to this hands-on workshop where you will be able to test out some different methods to help you get more out of your actors and your rehearsal process. Friday 1/17 9-11am, EOB 22 GETTING TENURE presented by Thomas Haughey A frank discussion about tenure and promotion for faculty. Methods and means of support that can be found in your institutions and through a supporting network of faculty. (FAC) Wednesday 1/15 1-2pm, EOB 22 GRADUATE SCHOOL AUDITION WORKSHOP Presented by Scott L. Steele How can you show ‘em what you got in just two minutes? Faculty from URTA institutions will work hands on with actors; and discuss tips and techniques to provide a new perspective on preparation. Students are encouraged to bring memorized material.

Teachers are invited to attend as well. (PERF) Thursday 1/16 1-3pm, EOB 21

KCACTF 2014 16

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? HOW TO GET MORE FROM A KCACTF RESPONSE presented by Barb Blackledge & Maggie Lally If you want to really use the opportunity offered by KCACTF respondents, this workshop will explore options towards enlarging this experience for both a department’s faculty & students. if your department is new (or relatively new) to responses, this participatory workshop is for you! (FAC) Wednesday 1/15 1-2pm, SOMPAC 303 HEY DESIGN/TECHS! SHOULD GRADUATE SCHOOL BE IN YOUR FUTURE? Presented by Scott L. Steele Faculty from URTA institutions discuss the Do´s and 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 this session filled with lots of opinions and hopefully lots of answers. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 5-6pm, EOB 40 HANDS ON EXPLORTION OF SCENIC PAINTING: MARBLE presented by Jathan Innerarity A hands demonstration and exploration into the world of painting marble with insight into the fluid state found in marble and how to recreate it on stage. Demonstrations and experimentation with the common and uncommon tools used to create layers. Attendees will craft their own sheet of marble. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 9-11am, EOB 168 HEADSHOTS BY JATI PHOTOGRAPH presented by Jati Photography Get your headshots done for only $50 during our Next Steps day! Dress up with that one perfect look.

Please bring cash or check with you. Thursday 1/16 11am-4pm, EOB 168 HIDE AND SEEK: LEATHER MASK WORK presented by Alisa Sickora Kleckner This workshop takes the mystery out of working with vegetable tanned leathers. Learn techniques in belt and strap making, dying leather, leather hardware and leather masks. It’s more economical than you think! These techniques also translate well when repurposing found leather items. (DTM) Saturday 1/18 3-5pm, EOB 132 HOSTING A REGIONAL KCACTF FESTIVAL presented by Elizabeth van den Berg, Scott Mackenzie, Juliet Wunsch, and Andy Truscott Want to throw the best theater festival Region 2 has

ever seen? This meeting is for faculty, administrators, and staff who are interested in serving as a future festival host. Find out how, now! Friday 1/17 10-11am, SOMPAC 304 HOW TO STYLE GIBSON GIRL HAIR presented by Constance Case The first half (50 minutes) of the presentation will be a demonstration on how to execute a 1900s hairstyle. The second half (50 min.) will be a hands-on experience for up to 10 students, five stylists and five models. Pre- registration for the ten individuals will be necessary but all are encouraged to stay. (DTM) Friday 1/17 9-11am, EOB 15 I WANT TO BE A DIRECTOR...NOW WHAT? presented by John Moletress An informal Q&A with director and choreographer John Moletress, moderated by Becky Prophet, Alfred University. I want to be a director, so now what? Where are the resources? Where do I find the “right” play? How do I “devise” theatre? How do I self-produce? Where do I find actors and designers? Are there classes in directing? Students will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in a discussion for the budding, aspiring and curious director. (DIR) Saturday 1/18 9-10am, EOB 22 INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES presented by Carrie Cole This workshop is designed to explore the pedagogical and performance benefits of working across disciplines on your campus. Wednesday 1/15 2-3pm, EOB 22 AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE presented by John Bellomo An introduction of commedia dell’arte through the Zanni or servants. Students will learn the physicality and psychology that motivates these characters. Explorations of scenarios and improvisations will also be utilized to demonstrate how commedia plays where and are devised. A brief historical context will begin our adventure. (PERF) Wednesday 1/15 1-3pm, EOB 114 AN INTRODUCTION TO FITZMAURICE VOICE WORK presented by Len Kelly An introduction to basic Fitzmaurice Voicework Destructuring techniques. Learn how to rid your body of habitual tension that can interfere with good vocal production. Bring a short piece of text, mem-

KCACTF 2014 17

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS orized. Dress to move - and come out and Tremor!

(PERF) Thursday 1/16 9-11am, SOMPAC 320 IPAD DESIGN: DESIGNING DIGITALLY FOR THE THEATRE presented by Terry Dana Jachimiak II As technology moves forward, so does its application in theatre design. During this workshop you will learn the tools, tips and tricks of designing on the iPad, or any tablet computer, and how it might improve your workflow and enhance your creativity.

(DTM) Thursday 1/16 7-8pm, EOB 40 IS THERE A STUDENT DRAMATURG IN THE ROOM presented by Lisa Wilde Having a dramaturg for an Ibsen or Shakespeare seems obvious -- although it doesn’t always happen-but dramaturgy can be helpful in every process. We’ll look at how to involve students in dramaturgy in five easy steps -- for students who want to bring dramaturgy into productions and faculty who are willing but no sure where to start. (DRAM) Thursday 1/16 10-11am, EOB 111 LEATHER MASK MAKING FOR THE THEATRE presented by Fiona Mulligan This workshop will provide a brief history of leather mask making with an emphasis on how it relates to the theatre, as well as a demonstration of leather mask construction. Participants will be able to try out the demonstrated techniques on a small leather accessory to keep. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 3-5pm, EOB 12 LIVING OUTSIDE THE BOX presented by Mauricio Salgado Come meet a New York based Artist who is finding the balance between the pursuit of his artistic career and his desire to change the world. There is a movement happening, come meet one of its ambassadors!

(NEXT) Friday 1/17 9-11am, SOMPAC 225 LONG FORM IMPROVISATION presented by Michael Schwartz Introduction to improv scene-building, trusting instincts, using the concept of “yes-and,” big emotional responses, partner support, and generally shedding inhibitions. By the end of the workshop, we’ll try to, in late improv master Del Close’s words, build an airplane while we’re flying it. (PERF) Saturday 1/18 9-10am, EOB 17 MAKING A SIMPLE SCENIC MODEL HOUSE, presented by Sean Joseph Urbantke Keeping in mind the tools necessary for design for

the theatre, participants will be shown how to build a simple scale model house of a theatrical space out of black foamcore. Intended for the uninitiated but enthusiastic model builder in all of us. Participants must be comfortable with sharp knives. (DTM) Wednesday 1/15 4:30-6:30pm EOB 132 MONOLOGUE FEEDBACK presented by Gordon McConnell Monologue feedback workshop offered by director, teacher and long-time regional journeyman actor Gordon McConnell. 3 to 5 students will be selected for honest responses and coaching on auditions. Students should come prepared as if for a professional regional theatre audition, with 2 memorized, contrasting contemporary pieces (total audition maximum of three minutes) along with a picture and resume. Auditors welcome. Saturday 1/18 1-5pm.

SOMPAC 320 NAIL THE JOB presented by Janice L. Goldberg Cold Reading Workshop. Need to make choices quickly? Need to feel at ease? Need to get the role?

Get tips for all auditions, then put ‘em to use. A jam packed interactive hour that will give you a leg up on your next audition. (PERF) Tuesday 1/14 4-5pm/56pm, SOMPAC 141 THE NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK AND HIGHER EDUCATION presented by Gregg Henry A conversation about NNPN, its far-reaching programs, and its impact on twenty-three local communities across the country. Now celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, the Network is the country’s alliance of nonprofit theatres that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays.

Programs include the “Rolling World Premieres”, playwright residencies, commissioning programs, the producers-in-residence program, and a new associate membership program for institutions of higher education. (ALL) Friday 1/17 4-6pm, EOB 114 NETWORKING IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER presented by Michael Legg There are fewer and fewer acting jobs available in this economy. And most of those are offered out to actors that the director, playwright, and/or theatre have worked with before. So how do you become one of those actors? In this seminar, we’ll talk about ways to organize and mine a database of contacts, how to format your resume in ways that get you into an audi-

KCACTF 2014 18

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS tion, and how to make first contact with people who will one day hire you. (NEXT/PERF) Thursday 1/16 2-4pm, EOB 40 NEW PLAY DRAMATURGY presented by Lisa Wilde and Ally Currin NPP Chair Ally Currin and Dramaturgy Chair Lisa Wilde will demonstrate best practices of collaboration between playwrights and dramaturgs and how dramaturgs can enhance and support new work.

(NPP/DRAM) Wed. 1/15 10-11:30am, EOB 40 ON-SITE AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT presented by Andy Truscott Theatre is no longer about simply entertaining our patrons, it is more about engaging them. Theatres now must learn to engage our patrons from the minute they walk into the building through their exit. Examples from regional theatres will be highlighted throughout the presentation. (DTM) Friday 1/17 4-5pm, EOB 21 PHOTOSHOP FOR SET DESIGNERS presented by Yoshi Tanokura This workshop examines how Photoshop can help busy set designers speed up design process.Participants (students or faculty) are encouraged to share their methods. (DTM) Thursday 1/16 1-3pm, EOB 132 PLAYING THE LONG GAME: HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS A PROFESSIONAL ACTOR, presented by Michael Legg So you’ve decided to try to make a living as an actor.

What are the next steps? How do you define success in this industry? How competitive is the business, actually? Learn strategies for surviving the years it takes to establish yourself as a professional actor and ways to maintain your focus and mental health along the way. (NEXT/PERF) Friday 1/17 9-11am, EOB 111 THE POWERFUL PRESENCE presented by Joe Krienke Rooted in the principles of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater this highly physical workshop deals with the actor’s presence and availability. Come prepared to move and be moved.

(PERF) Thursday 1/16 3-5pm, EOB 17 PUTTING IT TOGETHER presented by Peggy Yates You want that great musical theatre role? A beautiful voice isn’t enough. There is a story to tell. Come work on “acting a song.” Bring sheet music - accompanist available. Work to bring your song to life

in a way that will help you get the job! Friday 1/16 10am-12pm, SYK 005 QUICK CHANGE TRAUMA presented by Alisa Sickora Kleckner Interested in FX makeup? It’s not just for the movies anymore! Learn how to create trauma appliances that go on in 45 seconds and stay on underwater.

Stage the ultimate fight and reduce the time in the makeup chair. This process can be used for wounds, old age and character makeups. (DTM) Wednesday 1/15 3-5pm, EOB 132 RIGGING INTENSIVE presented by Bill Sapsis Designed to provide training in current entertainment rigging industry practices and equipment and the proper use, inspection and maintenance of that equipment. Pre-registration required due to limited seating (DTM) Friday 1/17 9am-12, EOB 40 RYAN AUDITIONS ARE OVER – NOW WHAT? presented by Tom Miller Is your experience as a Ryan nominee or partner applicable to future theatre auditions? The answer is an unqualified YES! As a working actor you will do hundreds of auditions throughout your career.

Use your Ryan experience - learn how to get the most out of auditions. (NEXT/PERF) Friday 1/17 9-11am, SOMPAC 307 SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO: AN ACTOR’S RESOURCE presented by Rob Bullington In this part lecture, part hands-on presentation, you will learn how to use Shakespeare’s First Folio to unlock the “secret” acting hints that have been waiting 400 years for you to discover them. No prepared material necessary! (PERF) Thursday 1/16 4-6pm, EOB 22 SHAKESPEARE’S RHETORIC: AN ACTOR’S TOOL presented by John Bellomo A two part workshop designed to help the young actor identify the rhetorical patterns found in Shakespeare’s language and how they can be used to enhance performance. The first half is a lecture about the different rhetoric patterns; the second half students will work on a monologue from their rep.

(PERF) Friday 1/17, 4-6pm, EOB 17 THE SMARTS OF INTELLECUAL PROPERTY (COPYRIGHTS) presented by Victor Capecce “What is a ‘copyright’?” “Who owns my set design?” ”How do I publish a recording of my mu-

KCACTF 2014 19

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS sic?” ….These answers and more will be explored while navigating the labyrinth of “Intellectual Property Rights.” (A non-attorney’s view of who owns what, and how to protect it. (NEXT) Wednesday 1/15 5-6pm, SOMPAC 303 SO YOU’VE GRADUATED...WELL NOW WHAT? presented by Andy Truscott Often times graduates are left in the cold once they graduate with a Theatre Degree. Learn what you should be doing during your final semester of college to prepare yourself for the “real world”. Real life situations will be discussed in this class, as Andy shares how he moved from Corporate America to unpaid internships, part time employement and finally full time employment at a LORT Regional Theatre. (NEXT) Thursday 1/16 5-6pm SOMPAC 304 SPEAKING WITH YOUNG ARTISTS: RESPONDING IN REGION II presented by Barb Blackledge and Maggie Lally This response training session is open to all: from those new to the process to respondents who have been out on the road for many years. Learn new tips or share some of your favorite tricks of the trade.

Join Maggie Lally and Barb Blackledge, for this daily workshop full of engaging conversation about what makes a response more useful for all involved. Responses are thoughtful dialogues regarding process, NOT adjudications. Along with the nuts and bolts of the response process in Region II, we will discuss the idea of teachable moments in productions, how to respond to all areas of production, and how to navigate wariness on the part of a director or student. A good response is neither tearing a production apart nor generally singing its praises, but rather an effective dialogue about process as well as what was more and less successful in a production and why. Workshop participants will attend festival productions and responses, discuss their perceptions of both, and even practice a response or two within the group. Don’t let the four day schedule scare you. If you can only make one or two sessions, you are more than welcome. (FAC) Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat 1/15-1/18 9-11am, SOMPAC 303 STORYTELLING THROUGH STAGE VIOLENCE presented by Carrie Cole When words fail your character and you must resort to violence, be confident that you can safely smack (or get smacked) while remaining true to the story.

This workshop is designed to teach basic unarmed techniques within the context of theatrical storytelling. Be prepared to move. (PERF) Thursday 1/16 1-3pm, EOB 17 STRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PLAYWRITING presented by David Zarko Examining the elements of structure in writing a play, a helpful checklist and way of looking at your story, how you’re telling it, and what elements are most (or least) important in the telling. 1 hour, mostly discussion. Useful for both playwrights and directors.

(NPP) Wednesday 1/15 3-4pm, EOB 22 SUBTEXT AND THE PHYSICAL BODY presented by Heather Benton This workshop explores the physical body as a vehicle to connect with subtext. Utilizes multiple psychophysical tools for unlocking subtext and exploring a character’s inner life. Intensely physical. Come dressed to move with intimate knowledge of a particular role, the character’s super objective and memorized text. PERF) Wednesday 1/15 9-11am, EOB 17 TAKE IT PERSONALLY: EMOTION IN IMPROV presented by Heather Benton This workshop investigates what it means to have a strong emotional point of view, and how to take what happens in a scene personally (at least for your character)- rather than endlessly trying to create, take advantage and deal with what is already right in front of you on stage. (PERF) Wednesday 1/15 1-3pm, EOB 21 TECHNICAL DIRECTION 101 presented by John Paul Devlin This workshop will explore some strategies for technical directors who are starting out--prioritizing the construction schedule, estimating time, guiding principles and the magic of having three options for every situation. (DTM) Wednesday 1/15 1-3pm, EOB 168 TECHNICAL MISCELLANY presented by Patrick McCreary A series of odd discoveries and tricks learned by me over the past forty years as a T.D. - a couple of examples - Does a cable end have a gender before it has a connector? Can you put threads on the end of a conduit or tube with just a hammer? (DTM) Wednesday 1/15 1-2pm, EOB 132 THEATRICAL MAKEUP IN HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS presented by Shawn Sieger and Robert Sieger This workshop will go over the practical applica-

KCACTF 2014 20

West Chester University

WORKSHOPS tion of theatrical makeups not for the stage but for other actor driven entertainment venues. Specifically, Haunted Attractions. In this workshop we will demonstrate the use of cream makeup, aqua colors, airbrush, latex, and silicone build ups to create characters from evil clowns to zombies and old age makeups. (DTM) Saturday 1/18 9-11am, EOB 168 TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE presented by Mauricio Salgado 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. (NEXT) Thursday 1/16 4-6pm, SOMPAC 207 WHAT’s NEXT? presented by Tammy O’Donnell Wondering what to do once you graduate? Are you transferring to another Institution? Looking for a job? Still confused about what to do with a theatre degree? NEXT STEPS is an initiative spearheaded

by KACTF to help you make those decisions...or at lease explore your options. (NEXT) Thursday 1/16 9-10am, EOB 40 WHAT’S NEXT… IN THE CLASSROOM presented by Tammy O’Donnell What’s Next...in the classroom? How are faculty using technology to teach theatre? What challenges are you finding in General Education requirements?

How are you exposing students to live theatre that is not cost prohibitive to students? This is a roundtable discussion on best practices, problem solving and idea gathering. Join us! (NEXT) Thursday 1/16 11am-12pm, EOB 40 WHY DO COSTUMES AND SETS LOOK DIFFERENT UNDER LIGHTING? Presented by Juliet Wunsch Color in light is one of many magical elements in theatre. It can enhance or alter how things appear.

Come in for a brief workshop which explores the impact of primary colors, how they blend to form a more brilliant stage picture, and learn about what people mean when discussing warm and cool tones.

(Won’t you feel smart when you can intelligently discuss the impact of additive and subtractive mixing?)

(DTM) Thursday 1/16 11am-12pm EOB 25 WHY DOES ARKADINA PLAY CROQUET?: CHEKHOV’S WORLD presented by Nathan Thomas For Dramaturgs. A look at the world and culture of

Anton Chekhov. (DRAM) Wednesday 1/15 3-4pm, SOMPAC 307 WOMEN’S PLAYWRITING INITIATIVE presented by Michael Hood and Brian Jones The National Theatre Conference is extending its Women Playwrights Initiative which is designed to support contemporary American women playwrights. NTC member Michael Hood and IUP Theatre Department Chair Brian Jones will introduce the initiative and will speak to their experiences at IUP. (NPP) Thursday 1/16 9-10am, EOB 22 WORKING WITH NEW PLAYS: COLLABORATION BETWEEN DIRECTORS AND PLAYWRIGHTS presented by Richard Herman This workshop is designed for both student playwrights and directors who are interested in developing approaches to collaboration when working on a new play. (NPP/DIR) Thursday 1/16 3-4pm, EOB 22 YOU MAJORED IN THEATRE, REALLY? RECAREERING YOUR THEATRE CAREER presented by Bob Levy Have you ever received that look, you know the look in that interview when you tell your potential employer that you are majoring in Theatre? Learn to package the skills that you have learned in the theatre for work outside the theatre. (NEXT) Wednesday 1/15 10-11am, SOMPAC 307 YOUR VOICE AND VOICE-OVERS presented by Davida Bloom and Ruth Childs Interested in the field of voice-over? Not sure where to begin? In this workshop participants will learn vocal warm-ups designed to complement voice-over work, as well as techniques for developing a wider vocal range. Students will then perform (or observe) several different types of voice-over copy. (PERF) Wednesday 1/15 9-11am, SOMPAC 141 YOU’VE NEVER SEEN A FIRST FOLIO?! presented by Dick Swain and Len Kelly You’ve spent years of your educational career hearing about Shakespeare’s First Folios. Have you ever seen one? No? Well West Chester University owns one of them. Join us as we venture into the Restricted Access area of our Library to view an ACTUAL First Folio. Meet in the lobby of the Campus Library.

(PERF/FAC) Friday 1/17 1-2:30pm FHG Library

KCACTF 2014 21

West Chester University

DRAMATURGY KCACTF supports the development of dramaturgical skills for all students. This year’s festival will include workshops in research and script analysis that will be of interest to a wide variety of student actors, technicians, designers, directors, and playwrights. We also hope to inspire some students to pursue production dramaturgy as a way to exercise their artistic and intellectual talents. Students can gain firsthand dramaturgical experience at the festival by becoming “guerilla dramaturgs” on scripts that will be read as part of the region’s new playwrights’ program or participating as part of the brand new “Design Storm” initiative with designers and directors. They can also learn more about the art of production dramaturgy from our guest dramaturg, Walter Bilderback of the Wilma Theater, who will hold a public review session of the entries in the Student Dramaturgy Initiative.

The Student Dramaturgy Initiative

In recognition of the important role dramaturgy can play in college productions, The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, the Association for Theater in Higher Education, and the KCACTF have created a partnership to support dramaturgy by students. Together, these groups sponsor an award presented in each KCACTF region to recognize the work of student dramaturgs. The winner of the award in each region receives a year’s membership in both LMDA and ATHE. In addition, the student is invited to the Kennedy Center for the opportunity of working with professional dramaturgs at the national festival. In addition to competing for the award, student dramaturgs have the opportunity to meet with a professional dramaturg and have their work critiqued. This gives the student dramaturgs the opportunity to learn more about their craft and to leave the festival with insights they can apply to future dramaturgical projects.

Design Storm

This project running through the festival, invites young and/or developing directors to apply to be a part of a production team which will meet and deliberate during the festival and then present pre-production plans. The aim is to provide a collaborative experience for a range of students planning to enter any one of the theatre arts. Teams will be created from applicants to each of the areas of Directors, Dramaturgs, Scene Designers, Costume Designers, Lighting Designers, and Sound Designers. Through text analysis, hearty discussion, and production planning, each group will have the opportunity to create a virtual production and present it to the other groups as if in a pre-audition/pre-rehearsal state.

Guerrilla Dramaturgy

Initiated at the 2005 Festival, in cooperation with the National Playwriting Program, Guerrilla Dramaturgy creates an active collaboration among budding student dramaturgs, a student playwright, and a faculty director for a stage reading of a new play. Dramaturgs conduct research relating to a new work for Festival, and then share their findings with the playwright, director and cast during

the rehearsal period. The selected playwrights and directors have found that the research added considerably to the development of both the new play and the play reading. Past student dramaturgs have learned much about how they can contribute to a play’s production. Guerrilla dramaturgs will also be able to learn about the play development process through a series of workshops they can take with the rest of each play’s production team.

Guerrilla Dramaturgs do not need to bring anything to the festival, other than an interest to research and present information related to the play (if available, a laptop is always handy). No preparation is necessary. Students can sign up to be Guerrilla Dramaturgs when they arrive at the Regional Festival, where they will be placed in teams to work on particular assigned plays. The research will be done at the host school, using the resources of the library. Guerilla dramaturgs will also have ample time to participate in other workshops and festival activities.

The plays that Guerrilla Dramaturgs will work on will be determined shortly before the Festival with the approval of the playwrights and the directors.

KCACTF 2014 22

West Chester University

The Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy KCACTF, in partnership with the Eugene O’Neill Institute, sponsors the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy (ITJA). ITJA provides students with the opportunity to learn and practice different types of theatre journalism. While theatre criticism will still be central to the experience, students may also have the opportunity to create feature pieces, theater blogs, as well as other types of theatre journalism. We will be led by our Guest Critic who conducts a three-day seminar on different types of theatre journalism. The student critics will write on the plays and the festival, write reviews of some of the productions at the festival, discuss their writing with the guest critic and the other student critics, and by the end of the festival submit a piece that demonstrates what they see as their best work. One student critic from each region is selected to attend ITJA workshops at the Kennedy Center.

Throughout the festival, students meet with the guest critic in a seminar format, where they talk about theater in general and the plays they see at the festival and where they share their writing with each other.

Although the experience is intense and time-consuming, with five or six scheduled sessions, the atmosphere is open and collegial, and students generally leave the festival recognizing they have learned a lot and grown as student critics and writers. Indeed, the selection of a person to go to the Kennedy Center experience is usually viewed as far less important than the experience itself.

We have been very fortunate to have had some excellent professional critics serve as Guest Critics for ITJA. And we are very pleased to announce that Wendy Rosenfield will again be leading us this year. Wendy Rosenfield is a theater journalist/reviewer with a wide range of experiences in all facets of theatre journalism.

ITJA Schedule

(These times may changes after we all meet together.)

Jan. 14--Preliminary Meeting after the Opening Ceremonies Jan. 15—Session 1—3:00-5:30 PM - SOMPAC 311 Jan. 16—Session 2—9:30-12:00 AM - SOMPAC 311 Jan. 16—Session 3—1:00-2:30 PM - SOMPAC 311 Jan. 17—Session 4—9:30-12:00 AM - SOMPAC 311 Jan. 17—Session 5—1:00-2:30 PM - SOMPAC 311 Jan. 18—Session 6—9:30-12:00 AM - SOMPAC 311

View Their reviews in the Festival Blog On Guidebook and on Twitter @kcactf2!

KCACTF 2014 23

West Chester University

STUDENT DIRECTING INSTITUTE The Directing Institute, the flagship of directing programs for students in KCACTF Region 2, is designed to give students experience in directing at the festival. There are a total of four programs under this aegis.

The first and the largest is the Institute which is for all students with an interest in directing, but designed to accommodate those who may not have directing classes or opportunities on their home campuses. In addition, it is for students of any age or experience who wish to re-engage in the process of directing. The series of auditions, workshops, rehearsals, and presentations of the Directing Institute should be challenging and invigorating. Students who are accepted in the Directing Institute will, before the festival, choose a scene, do a good deal of script work, and prepare for auditions. At the Festival, students attend four workshops, hear auditions, cast their scenes, and continue the process of directing though rehearsals. The experience concludes with a staged reading of their work. With guidance from an experienced director as a mentor, the scenes are, at the end of the festival, presented for the public and for a response from directors in the region.

DESIGN STORM

AKA “Play Development Project” and in an earlier form as Collaboration Tank. Students at the festival who are interested in directing join a team of student designers to develop a production concept for Romeo and Juliet. Public presentations of the results will be in the afternoon of the last day of the festival. Students may sign up for the program at the beginning of the festival at registration.

DIRECTOR SHADOW PROGRAM

with the National Playwriting Program: Students sign up to follow a director of one of the new plays for National Playwriting Program. Shadows sit in on auditions, rehearsals, and listen to discussions for an introduction to directing. Sign up for this program at registration.

COLLABORATION in New Work!

This new venture is to bring new plays and playwrights together with new directors. Directors accepted for the Directing Institute will have the opportunity to choose from four or five new plays, chosen by the National Playwriting Project (NPP) readers in Region 2. The object will be to bring playwright and director together at the festival to work on bringing the script to a staged reading. These readings will be presented along with other scenes from the Directing Institute.

If you, as a director, are interested in this program, please apply to the Directing Institute and include a statement of your level of interest in new plays! This is an exciting project that has students collaborating in new work!

Share Photos via Guidebook’s KCACTF Photo Album!

KCACTF 2014 24

West Chester University

PROJECT FOR DEVISED THEATRE The Project for Devised Theatre is in its third year as an initiative in Region 2. We will again be offering a festival-long (Wed - Fri) workshop. This year’s workshop will be led by theatre artist and devisor, Elizabeth Mozer. It will culminate in a performance on Friday. If you are interested in taking this workshop, please come to the PFDT table during registration to sign up.

There will also be numerous shorter workshops that focus on different techniques in collaborative playmaking, another term for devising. Workshops related to devising will be identified as such in the program. In addition, we will have a showing of pieces devised by schools in our region using the “Devised Prompt” created by the KC/ACTF National Leadership Team. There are lots of ways to get involved in this fascinating method of creating theatre. If you have any questions, stop by our table during registration.

Performance of Devised Pieces Created Specifically for Festival Using a Prompt Created by Our National Leadership Team:

All festival participants are eligible to participate and create a devised performance to be produced at the festival. We invite participants to create their own 20 minute devised performance utilizing a specific prompt.

TITLE: I’m Like You; I’m Not Like You

- 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, a question, etc.).

Ensemble will be asked to clearly articulate how their sources informed process and product, form and content.

- Each ensemble will create a unique performance vocabulary informed by their source materials.

This vocabulary should include movement, voice, visual image, sonic landscape, text and scenic environment and communicate the piece’s style and aesthetic.

- Ensemble should consider time restraints and travel considerations. These parameters are designed to form a creative container to spark your imaginations and deepen your exploration.

Logistics/parameters:

Approximately 16’X16’ playing space, ensemble determines audience placement & interaction Work lights up/down provided, any additional lighting will be ensemble-generated Regions provide electrical power, ensemble must provide all technical sources (boom box, extension cords, projector, clip lights, etc) 20 minute time limit which must include set-up, performance and strike •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 the majority should Faculty advisors may provide outside-eye feedback, but students should drive the work No live flame No smoking No functional weapons Additional Information: • Each showing will be given a short response from regional faculty and/or devising guest artists. Each deviser will be expected to speak articulately about their work, displaying rigor of process and responsibility for form and content.

• Devising isn’t an aesthetic; it’s a process. This approach to creating new work includes multiple aesthetics, production value spectrums, and performance styles.

• Regions will only provide the space; ensembles must bring everything else. Be careful about making assumptions (availability of chairs, acting blocks, etc)

KCACTF 2014 25

West Chester University

STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society/Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Fellowship is an exciting opportunity for more advanced students of directing to further their skills Participants will interact with professional directors and educators from within and without Region II, as well as their peers from other institutions within the region.

The SDC/KCACTF Region 2 experience includes workshops and roundtables designed specifically for participants in the fellowship. Workshops include the actor/director relationship, collaborating with designers, staging and use of space, new play development, and others. If you accept an invitation into the SDC Fellowship program, be prepared to be busy throughout the Festival. Our intent is to give you as much to feed your passion for directing as the schedule allows.

All participating students will receive constructive critique of their work intended to enhance their education from a carefully chosen panel of professionals. Students advancing beyond the preliminary round will be expected to actively integrate feedback and then present their scene a second time for addition feedback.

SDC Festival Schedule – 2014 Tuesday 1/14 Informational Meeting 9:30 PM Green Room

Wednesday 1/15 Workshop #1: 9:00 – 11:00 AM EOB 21 For the Love of Language SDC Meeting 11:00 AM EOB 25

Scene Rehearsals 11:30 AM – 11:00 PM EOB 25 Thursday 1/16 SDC Meeting 9:30 AM EOB 25

Workshop #2: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EOB 22 Creating Dynamic Performance Spaces

First Round Presentations/Responses 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EOB 25

Friday 1/17 Workshop #3: 9:00 – 11:00 AM EOB 22 Getting More Out of Your Actors SDC Meeting 11:00 AM EOB 25

Scene Rehearsals 11:30 AM – 11:00 PM EOB 25

Director Interviews 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EOB Offices

Saturday 1/18 Workshop #4: 9:00 – 10:00 AM EOB 22 I Want to Be a Director, Now What?

SDC Meeting 12:00 PM EOB 25

Final Presentations/Responses 1:00 – 4:00 PM EOB 25 SDC Coordinator: Grechen Lynne Wingerter, BGSU Firelands SDC Respondents: Alan Cook David Lee-Painter Joy Pace Charles Weldon

26 KCACTF 2014

West Chester University

IRENE RYAN ACTING SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION The Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships provide recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding student performers wishing to pursue further education. The Irene Ryan Foundation awards sixteen regional and two national scholarships annually. Sixteen of the awards consist of a $500 scholarship for each regional representative. The Irene Ryan 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.

Coordinators Matthew Mazuroski, Lead Coordinator

Youngstown State University Naomi Baker, Respondent Coordinator

Wilkes University Tammy O’Donnell, Selector Coordinator

Prince George’s Community College Accompanists Tom Fosnocht Gina Giachero Irene Ryan Student Assistants Justine Cerruto Jennifer Goodwin Preliminary Round Selectors: David Lee Painter Michael Legg Tom Miller Mauricio Salgado Semifinal Round Selectors: Sarah Mitchell Maggie Surovel Charles Weldon Final Round Selectors: Eliza Beckwith Joy Pace Kathryn D. Robinson Brad Watkins The Master Schedule for the Irene Ryan Scholarship Audition is located on the next page.

Overall Schedule of Auditions Preliminary Round: Wednesday, January 15, 9am – 8pm Sompac 208, 210, 220, 225, 320: Respondents check-in at Sompac 204 Semifinal Round: Friday, January 17, 8:30am – 12:30pm, Mainstage Theatre, E O Bull Center for the Arts Final Round: Saturday, January 18, 10am – 12pm, Mainstage Theatre, E O Bull Center for the Arts Preliminary Round Respondents: Matt Ames, Nazareth College Michael Aulick, West Liberty College Margaret Ball, East Stroudsbrg University Bryce Britton, PSU Altoona Tony Elliot, Millersville University Ben Fisler, Harford Community College Bill Gillett, Carroll Community College Gregg Henry, Kennedy Center Victor Jones, Ohio University Lancaster Maggie Lally, Adelphi University Barbara Lefebvre, Robert Morris University Jeff Lentz, Albright University Nathan Magee, Mt. Aloysius College Christopher Matsos, University of Findlay Nicole Mattis, Frostburg State University Becky Prophet, Alfred University Trish Ralph, SUNY Brockport Rick Stoppleworth, University of the Arts Mark Wenderlich, Keuka College Peggy Yates, Prince George’s Community College

KCACTF 2014 27

West Chester University

Irene Ryan Scholarship Audition IRENE RYAN MASTER SCHEDULE Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Who: All Ryan Prelim Round Singers & Partners What: Rehearsal w/accompanist for

performers singing during preliminary

round. Sign-up for a time at the Ryan

Registration table (if you plan to sing the

semis or finals, you will have a separate rehearsal) When: 3pm – 6pm Where: SOMPAC 307 & 310 Who: All Ryan Prelim Nominees and Partners What: Ryan Orientation When: Immediately Following Opening Ceremonies Where: Asplundh Concert Hall

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Who: All Ryan Prelim Nominees and Partners What: Preliminary Round and Responses When: 8am-8pm Where: SOMPAC 320 : Check-in

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Who: Any/All What: Announcement of Semifinalists When: Immediately Following Keynote Address Where: Asplundh Concert Hall Who: Semi-finalists and Partners What: Semifinal Orientation When: 1:00 — 3:00pm Where: Mainstage Theatre : Check-in

Friday, January 17, 2014

Who: Any/All What: Semifinal Round Performance When: 8:30am — 12:30pm Where: Mainstage Theatre What: Semifinalist Response w/Selectors When: 3:00 — 6:00pm Where: SOMPAC 320 What: Announcement of Finalists When: 6:15pm Where: SOMPAC 141 What: Finals Orientation and Rehearsal When: 7 — 9pm Where: Mainstage Theatre

Saturday, January 18, 2014 What: Final Round Performance When: 10am — 12pm Where: Mainstage Theatre

What: Finalist Response w/Selectors When: 2:30 — 4:30pm Where: Mainstage Theatre What: Closing Ceremony - Recipient Announced When: 8pm Where: Asplundh Concert Hall

Who: Semi-finalists and Partners What: Rehearsal for Semifinal & Final Round Singers When: 3:00 — 5:00pm Where: Mainstage Theatre

KCACTF 2014 28

West Chester University

DESIGN, TECHNOLOGIES, AND MANAGEMENT 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 presenation techniques. Students who have designed any aspect -- scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and allied crafts -- of a production from a school who has entered that production as an Associate or Participating entry are elibile to participate in the awards process.

At the time of registration with the Kennedy Center and Regional Chair, entering schools will inform the Regional Chair of any student designers in one or more of the categories. Please be sure to provide contact information, including email, for all student designers. At the Regional Festival, guest designers from outside of the Region will respond to the projects of Regional nominees who are present. They will select one winner in each area (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and allied crafts) from the Regional design entries. Such Regional winners are therefore National Finalists.

Designs of National Finalists (scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound) will be on display during the KCACTF National Festival in Washington, D.C., and will be returned to the designers immediately following it. A single National Winner in scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound will be selected from the National Finalists by the National Design Respondents during the National Festival. Designs of the National Finalist for Allied Crafts will be exhibited at the annual USITT Conference, and will be returned to the designers immediately following the conference.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

4pm-6pm - EOB 132 - Design Portfolio Reviews

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

9am-12noon - EOB 170 - SM Port. Interviews 1pm-4pm -EOB Art Gallery - Costume Res. 1pm-4pm - EOB Art Gallery - Scenic Design Res. 4pm-6pm - SOMPAC Art Gallery - SM Response

Thursday, January 16, 2014

9am-12noon - SOMPAC Art Gallery-Lighting Res. 1-4pm - SOMPAC Art Gallery - Allied Response 1-2pm - EOB Art Gallery - Sound Response 4-6pm - EOB 168 - Design Bash

DTM Open Expo Schedule: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

8:30pm-10pm - EOB Art Gallery - Expo Opening

Thursday, January 16, 2014

EOB Art Gallery - 2pm-6pm, 7:30pm-9pm SOMPAC Art Gallery - 4pm-6pm, 7:30pm-9pm

Friday, January 17, 2014

Both Galleries - 8am-11am, 1pm-6pm, 7:30-9pm

Saturday, January 18, 2014 Both Galleries - 8am-10am

Friday, January 17, 2014

4:30pm-6:30pm - EOB40 - Costume Parade 7:30pm-10:30pm - EOB168 - Tech Olympics

Saturday, January 18, 2014

DTM REGIONAL AWARDS Saturday, January 18th at 10am E.O. Bull Art Gallery

9am-10am - EOB40 - Design Storm KCACTF 2014 29

West Chester University

FRINGE@Festival Fringe@Festival is the home for the bits and pieces that might get lost in the larger sweep of the Festival. We celebrate the fabulous but flawed, the unapologetically skewed, and the just plain weird. This may take the form of invited scenes – chips of brilliance from larger productions; promising student work which needs a showcase; the amazing show that somehow missed the deadline; the quirky piece that is still seeking its cult following. Along the way we create too – there is the ever popular NoyReadyForPrimetime Fringe Challenge and new this year FlashFringe! Listen for details during the opening celebration.

Fringe@Festival is always a work in progress with a schedule that is often in flux. Here is what we we’ve got – so far:

Tuesday, January 14

12 noon-6:00pm, Sykes Student Union Stop by our registration table for information!

Thursday, January 16

9:00pm-10:30pm, EOB Mainstage Theatre Check out ALIVE, our Sponsored Showcase Production!

FlashFringe - Anywhere! Anytime!

Hold on to your hats as Fringe invades the rest of KCACTF! No one is safe from Fringe - wherever there are large groups of people, Fringe just may pop up! It’s almost like your favorite cupcake truck - no one knows where it is, but when it arrives it changes your day completely!

11:30pm - Days Hotel, Brandywine Room The Fringe Challenge begins! Bring your favorite team of crazy people to join us as Fringe takes over the Days Hotel!

Find Fringe by following us!

Friday, January 17

3:00pm - SOMPAC 141 The Fringe Invited Scenes Showcase 9:00pm-10:30pm -EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) The Beckett Shorts (and maybe more...)

@FringeAtFestival #Fringe2

11:30pm - Days Hotel, Brandywine Room The Fringe Challenge (part 2!)

Fringe Showcase PRODUCTIOn ALIVE “A Devised Puppet Piece” developed by the Ensemble Produced by: Arcadia University Directors: Alisa Kleckner and Scott Cassidy Thursday January 16, 2014 9pm-10:30pm Mainstage Theatre For a kooky circus family, living on the road is one delicious cake walk. But what happens when Pandora’s pickled predictions abruptly stop pointing the way? A tale of daring, divisive and diabolical dimensions threatens to derail a dubious shared destiny. Grab your ticket, pop some circus peanuts and prepare yourself for three rings of the most wondrous puppet show on earth!

KCACTF 2014 30

West Chester University

Musical Theatre Initiative This new program offers musical theatre students an opportunity to develop their material, receive a small scholarship, and showcase their talents at the closing ceremonies. The initial audition, consisting of 32 bars of a musical theatre song, will be conducted by the coordinator, Peggy Yates, and accompanist Gina Giachero. 16 finalists will have the opportunity to work on their material on Thursday, and audition for a panel of selectors on Friday. Two finalists will be chosen, one man and one woman, who will receive a $250 scholarship, and will perform their song at the closing ceremony on Saturday evening.

Tuesday, January 14

Friday, January 17

Wednesday, January 15

6:00 pm, SOMPAC 141 Scholarship Recipients Announcement

12 noon-5:30pm, Sykes Student Union Stop by our registration table for information!

9:00 am – 12:30 pm, EOB Info Desk Sign up for one of only 35 audition slots at the MTI desk in E.O. Bull.

Thursday, January 16

8:00 – 11:00 am, EOB Mainstage Theatre 32 bars of a musical theatre song, bring sheet music, cut to the correct length in the correct key. Accompanist will be provided.

1:00pm-5:00pm, Sykes Student Union 005 Finalist Auditions

Saturday, January 18 A mutually agreed upon time to rehearse the songs of the Scholarship Recipients will be made prior to closing ceremonies.

8:00pm, Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall Performance at closing ceremonies

1:30pm - Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall 16 finalists announced at the end of the Keynote speech. Finalists meet with Peggy Yates for workshop time assignment.

2:00pm-4:30pm, SOMPAC 320 Workshop your song with the accompanist and MTI Coordinator Peggy Yates

Selectors: Tom Miller, Actor’s Equity Association Michael Legg, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Brad Watkins, Theatre Washington Geoffrey Goldberg, Open Jar Institute

Share Feedback on Workshops and Daily Activities during Festival using Guidebook’s Feedback App! KCACTF 2014 31

West Chester University

National Playwrighting Program NPP’s central mission is to develop young playwrights and their work at Festival 46. Our goals are these: 1) For the student playwright to see the potential in his/her own work, presented before an informed and supportive audience; 2) For the student to develop his/her creative vision with the guidance of talented professionals in the field, and receive sensitive and thought-provoking feedback that will help the writer further sculpt the work; 3) For the student to learn and practice the process and etiquette of new play development.

NPP exists primarily for the playwright’s development as a dramatist. However, other theatre artists should take advantage of the many opportunities NPP offers at Festival this week. We offer concert readings of ten new plays, following Actors’ Equity Staged Reading Guidelines. Actors: Casting is done of the second day of Festival, when the writers and directors see about 150 of you in cold reading auditions. Stage Managers: Each play needs a talented and focused stage manager. Dramaturgs: Some of the plays will need the assistance of a Guerilla Dramaturg. NPP is about new plays, where the real excitement happens! Come play with us! This week NPP offers awards in playwriting, auditioning, acting, and stage management.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

10-Minute Plays

Thursday, January 16, 2014

A'NAT DITTNI by Tearrance A. Chisholm,

directed by Julia Matthews ART UNFINISHED by Ryan J. Haddad,

directed by John Moletress ANGEL HAIR by Bill Rebeck,

directed by David Zarko SUPERNOVA by Bianca Sams,

directed by Moses Goldberg LOOKS LIKE RAIN by Laci Corridor,

directed by Michael Swanson YARD SALE by Morgan Patton,

directed by John Gresh

1pm-6:30pm - Auditions - SOMPAC Gates Hall 11pm-12mid - Cast Meeting - SOMPAC Gates Hall

8am-Midnight - Open Rehearsals in SOMPAC 204, 208, 210, 220, 225, Gates Hall

Friday, January 17, 2014

8am-Midnight - Open Rehearsals in

SOMPAC 204, 208, 210, 220, 225, 2:30pm-5:30pm - 10 Minute Performances and

Responses - SOMPAC Gates Hall

Saturday, January 18, 2014

9am-12noon - One Act Performances - SOMPAC

Gates Hall 1pm-4pm - One Act Performances - SOMPAC

Gates Hall

Performed Friday 1/17 from 2:30-5:30pm SOMPAC Gates Recital Hall

One Act Plays

One Act Plays

TARRANT COUNTY by Neal Adelman,

directed by Mark Wade THAT GOOD NIGHT by Paul Goraczko,

directed by T. Scott Frank

THE COST OF LIVING by Jay Koepke,

directed by David Miller THE RIDICULOUSLY SWEET DREAM APARTMENT by Gregory Aldrich,

directed by Janice Goldberg

Performed Saturday 1/18 from 9am-12noon SOMPAC Gates Recital Hall

Performed Saturday 1/18 from 1pm-4pm SOMPAC Gates Recital Hall

KCACTF 2014 32

West Chester University

MASTER SCHEDULE Tuesday, January 14, 2014

12:00pm-6:00pm – Registration – Sykes

Student Union 12:00pm-6:00pm – Load In DTM Exhibits –

EOB Art Gallery 12:00pm-6:00pm – Load In DTM Exhibits –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 4:00pm-5:00pm – Nail The Job Workshop –

SOMPAC 141 5:00pm-6:00pm – Nail The Job Workshop –

SOMPAC 141 6:00pm-10:00pm – Late Registration – Emilie

K. Asplundh Concert Hall Lobby 8:00pm-9:00pm – Festival Kickoff and

Orientation – Emilie K. Asplundh

Concert Hall 9:00pm-11:00pm – Irene Ryan Breakout -

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall 9:00pm-11:00pm – NPP Breakout –

Basement Green Room 9:00pm-11:00pm – Dramaturgy Breakout –

Basement Green Room 9:00pm-11:00pm – SDC/DI Breakout –

Basement Green Room 9:00pm-11:00pm – ITJA Breakout – Upstairs

Board Room 9:00pm-11:00pm – Fringe Breakout - Emilie

K. Asplundh Concert Hall Lobby 9:00pm-11:00pm – DTM Breakout –

Downstairs Conference Room

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

8:00am-12:00pm – Costumes, SM, Allied

Design Respondent Only Time – EOB

Art Gallery 8:00am-12:00pm – Costumes, SM, Allied

Design Respondent Only Time –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 9:00am-8:00pm – Ryans Preliminary

Auditions #1 – SOMPAC 220 9:00am-8:00pm – Ryans Preliminary

Auditions #2 - SOMPAC 225 9:00am-8:00pm – Ryans Preliminary

Response #1 - SOMPAC 208 9:00am-8:00pm – Ryans Preliminary

Response #2 - SOMPAC 210 9:00am-11:00am – For the Love of Language

Workshop – EOB 21 9:00am-11:00am – Your Voice and Voice

Overs Workshop – SOMPAC 141 9:00am-11:00am – Subtext and the Physical

Body Workshop – EOB 17 9:00am-11:00am – Speaking with Young

Artists: Responding in Region II –

SOMPAC 303 9:00am-11:00am - Devising Original Theatre

Workshop - EOB 114 9:00am-12:00pm - SM Portfolio Interviews -

EOB 170 9:00am-12:30pm – Musical Theatre Initiative

Sign Up – EOB Lobby Info Desk 9:30am-11:00am – Invited Production –

Who Will Carry the Word –

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 10:00am-11:00am – Folio, Folio, Wherefore

Art Thou Folio? Workshop – EOB 132 10:00am-11:00am – You Majored in Theatre,

Really? Workshop – SOMPAC 307 10:00am-11:30am – New Play Dramaturgy

Workshop – EOB 40 11:30am-11:00pm - SDC Scene Rehearsals -

EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 12:00pm-6:00pm – NPP Auditions –

SOMPAC Gates Recital Hall 1:00pm-2:00pm – Technical Miscellany

Workshop – EOB 132 1:00pm-2:00pm – Getting Tenure Workshop

– EOB 22 1:00pm-2:00pm – Guess Who’s Coming to

Dinner Workshop - SOMPAC 303 1:00pm-3:00pm – An Intro to Commedia

Dell’Arte Workshop – EOB 114 1:00pm-3:00pm – Take It Personally:

Emotion in Improv Workshop –

EOB 21 1:00pm-3:00pm - Tech Direction 101

Workshop- EOB 168 1:00pm-3:00pm – Directing Roundtable –

SOMPAC 304 1:00pm-4:00pm – Costume Responses –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 1:00pm-4:00pm – Scenic Design Responses –

EOB Art Gallery 2:00pm-3:00pm – Interdisciplinary

KCACTF 2014 33

West Chester University

MASTER SCHEDULE

Performance Strategies Workshop –

EOB 22 2:00pm-4:00pm - Broadway Bootcamp:

Dance, EOB 17 2:30pm-4:00pm – Invited Production –

Who Will Carry the Word –

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 2:30pm-4:30pm – Quick Change Trauma

Workshop – EOB 132 3:00pm-4:00pm – Chekhov’s World Worshop

– SOMPAC 307 3:00pm-4:00pm - Structural Considerations in

Playwriting Workshop - EOB 22 3:00pm-5:30pm - ITJA Session #1 - SOMPAC 311 4:00pm-6:00pm – Creatures, Critters, and Kids

Workshop – EOB 17 4:00pm-6:00pm – Stage Manager Response –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 4:30pm-6:30pm – Making a Simple Scenic

Model House Workshop – EOB 132 5:00pm-6:00pm – Active Analysis for

Directors Workshop – EOB 21 5:00pm-6:00pm – The Smarts of Intellectual

Property Workshop – SOMPAC 303 7:30pm-11:00pm – Fringe Invited Scenes –

SOMPAC 141 8:30pm-10:00pm – DTM Expo Grand

Opening – EOB Art Gallery 8:30pm-11:00pm – Invited Production –

Avenue Q – Emilie K. Asplundh

Concert Hall 11:00pm-12:00am – NPP Cast Meeting –

SOMPAC Gates Recital Hall 11:00pm-12:00am – Directing Institute Cast

Meeting – EOB Mainstage Theatre 11:00pm-1:00am - Fringe Challenge - Days

Hotel Upstairs Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - DJ Dance Party - Days

Hotel Lower Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - Movie Night - Wyndham

Hotel Movie Theatre

Thursday, January 16, 2014

8:00am-10:00pm – Directing Institute

Rehearsals – EOB 105 8:00am-11:00am – Musical Theatre Initiative

Auditions Round 1 – EOB Mainstage

Theatre 8:00am-12:00am – NPP Rehearsals - Various

Rooms in SOMPAC 9:00am-10:00am – What’s Next Workshop –

EOB 40 9:00am-10:00am - Broadway Bootcamp:

Dance, EOB 17 9:00am-10:00am – Women’s Playwriting

Initiative – EOB 132 9:00am-10:00am – Broadway Bootcamp:

Dance Workshop – EOB 17 9:00am-11:00am – Irene Ryans Roundtable –

SOMPAC 304 9:00am-11:00am – Speaking with Young

Artists: Responding in Region II –

SOMPAC 303 9:00am-11:00am – A Career in Theatre

Workshop (Equity) – SOMPAC 307 9:00am-11:00am – An Intro to Fitzmaurice

Voice Work Workshop – SOMPAC 320 9:00am-11:00am – Hands On Exploration of

Marble Scenic Painting – EOB 168 9:00am-11:00am - Devising Original Theatre

Workshop - EOB 114 9:00am-12:00pm – Lighting Responses –

EOB Art Gallery 9:30am-12:00pm – Invited Production –

Dead Man’s Cell Phone –

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 3:00pm-5:30pm - ITJA Session #2 - SOMPAC 311 9:30am-11:30am – Rehearsal Tech Workshop

– EOB 21 10:00am-11:00am – Actor’s Theatre of

Louisville Info Session – EOB 40 10:00am-11:00am – Armor Part 1 Workshop –

EOB 132 10:00am-11:00am – Is There a Student Dramaturg in the Room? Workshop -

EOB 111 10:00am-11:00am – Devising Theatre

Through Movement Workshop – EOB 17 10:00am-1:00pm - Creating Dynamic

Performance Spaces - EOB 22 10:30pm-12:30pm – Fringe Invited Scenes –

SOMPAC 141 11:00am-12:00pm - Why Do Costumes and Sets

Look Different Under Lighting?

KCACTF 2014 34

West Chester University

MASTER SCHEDULE

Workshop - EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 1:00pm-2:00pm – Keynote Address -

Charles Weldon – Emilie K. Asplundh

Concert Hall 1:00pm-2:00pm – Sound Responses –

EOB Art Gallery 1:00pm-2:00pm – What’s Next Classroom

Workshop – EOB 40 1:00pm-2:30pm- ITJA Session #3 - SOMPAC 311 1:00pm-3:00pm – Photoshop for Set

Designers Workshop – EOB 132 1:00pm-3:00pm – Death and Dying On Stage

Workshop– EOB 114 1:00pm-3:00pm – Storytelling through Stage

Violence Workshop – EOB 17 1:00pm-3:00pm - Graduate School Audition

Workshop - EOB 21 1:00pm-3:00pm - Acting Shakespeare Workshop

SOMPAC 307 1:00pm-4:00pm – Allied Design Responses –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 1:00pm-4:00pm – NPP Rehearsals - Various

Rooms in SOMPAC 2:00pm – Musical Theatre Initiative

Announcement following Keynote 2:00pm-3:00pm – Doing Not Stewing

Workshop – EOB 22 2:00pm-4:00pm – Networking in Your

Professional Career Workshop – EOB 40 2:00pm-4:30pm – Musical Theatre Initiative

Workshop – SOMPAC 320 2:00pm-5:00pm – SDC Preliminary Round –

EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 2:00pm-6:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

EOB Art Gallery 2:30pm-5:00pm – Invited Production –

Dead Man’s Cell Phone –

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 3:00pm-4:00pm – Working with New Plays

Workshop – EOB 22 3:00pm-5:00pm – Fringe Invited Production -

SOMPAC 141 3:00pm-5:00pm – The Powerful Presence

Workshop – EOB 17 3:00pm-5:00pm – Leather Mask Making for

Theatre Workshop – EOB 12 3:00pm-5:00pm – American Comedy

Revolution Workshop – EOB 21 4:00pm-6:00pm – Shakespeare’s First Folio

Workshop – EOB 22 4:00pm-6:00pm – Design Bash - EOB 168 4:00pm-6:00pm – Time to Make a Change

Workshop – SOMPAC 307 4:00pm-6:00pm – Advanced Shakespeare

Monologue Workshop - EOB 114 4:00pm-6:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 5:00pm-6:00pm – Effective Face Charting for

Makeup Design – EOB 132 5:00pm-6:00pm - Broadway Bootcamp:

Dance, EOB 17 5:00pm-6:00pm - So You’ve Graduated...Well

Now What? Workshop - SOMPAC 304 5:00pm-6:00pm - Design/Techs - Grad School

in your Future Workshop - EOB 40 6:00pm-8:00pm - Faculty Round Table - Days Hotel 7:00pm-8:00pm – iPad Design: Designing

Digitally Workshop – EOB 40 7:30pm-9:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 7:30pm-9:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

EOB Art Gallery 8:30pm-10:30pm – Invited Production – Our Town –

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall 9:00pm-10:30pm – Showcase Production –

Alive – EOB Mainstage Theatre 11:00pm-1:00am - Fringe Challenge - Days

Hotel Upstairs Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - DJ Dance Party - Days

Hotel Lower Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - Movie Night - Wyndham

Hotel Movie Theatre

Friday, January 17, 2014

8:00am-11:00am – Tech Exhibits Open Expo

SOMPAC Art Gallery 8:00am-11:00am – Tech Exhibits Open Expo

EOB Art Gallery 8:00am-12:00am – NPP Rehearsals - Various

Rooms in SOMPAC 8:30am-12:30pm – Irene Ryans Semifinals –

EOB Mainstage

KCACTF 2014 35

West Chester University

MASTER SCHEDULE 9:00am-11:00am - Devising Original Theatre

Workshop - EOB 114 9:00am-11:00am - Getting More Out of Your

Actors Workshop - EOB 22 9:00am-11:00am – Run Sheets, Reports, and

Resumes Workshop – EOB 132 9:00am-11:00am – Speaking with Young

Artists: Responding in Region II –

SOMPAC 303 9:00am-11:00am – Living Ouside the Box

Workshop – SOMPAC 225 9:00am-11:00am – How to Style Gibson Girl

Hair Workshop – EOB 15 9:00am-11:00am – Getting the Most Out of Your

Actors Workshop - EOB 22 9:00am-11:00am – Open Jar Institute Dance

Callback – EOB 17 9:00am-11:00am – Playing the Long Game:

Successful Actor Workshop – EOB 111 9:00am-11:00am – Ryans Auditions are Over,

Now What? Workshop – SOMPAC 307 9:00am-11:00am – Musical Theatre Initiative

Workshop – SYK 005 9:00am-12:00pm - Rigging Intensive

Workshop Part 1 - EOB 40 9:30am-10:30am – Invited Production –

Lysistrata – Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 9:30am-12:00pm-ITJA Session #4 -SOMPAC 311 10:00am-11:00am – Hosting KCACTF

Workshop – SOMPAC 304 10:00am-12:00pm - Putting it Together

Workshop - SYK005 11:30am-1:30pm – Fringe Invited Production

SOMPAC 141 11:30am-11:00pm - SDC Scene Rehearsals -

EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 1:00pm-2:00pm - Design Beyond Theatre

Workshop - EOB 111 1:00pm-2:00pm – Devised Workshop

Performance – EOB 114 1:00pm-2:00pm – Directing Institute

Performance – EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 1:00pm-2:00pm – Acting in the Space

Between Workshop – EOB 17 1:00pm-2:30pm-ITJA Session #5 -SOMPAC 311 1:00pm-2:30pm - You’ve Never Seen a First

Folio?! Workshop - FHG Library 1:00pm-3:00pm – Armor Part 2 Workshop –

EOB 132 1:00pm-3:00pm – DTM Roundtable –

SOMPAC 304 1:00pm-3:00pm - Monolague Feedback

Workshop - EOB 17 1:00pm-4:00pm – SDC Interviews – EOB

Theatre and Dance Conference Room 1:00pm-4:00pm – NPP Rehearsals - Various

Rooms in SOMPAC 1:00pm-5:00pm – Musical Theatre Initiative

Finals – SYK 005 1:00pm-6:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 1:00pm-6:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

EOB Art Gallery 2:30pm-3:30pm – Invited Production –

Lysistrata – Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 2:30pm-3:30pm – Blocking for the Actor

Workshop – EOB 21 2:30pm-4:30pm – Devised Performance –

EOB Mainstage 2:30pm-5:30pm – NPP 10-Minute

Performances – SOMPAC Gates Hall 3:00pm-5:00pm – Fringe Invited Scenes –

SOMPAC 141 3:00pm-5:00pm – SM: Expect the Unexpected

Workshop – EOB 132 3:00pm-6:00pm – Irene Ryans Semifinals

Response – SOMPAC 320 4:00pm-5:00pm – On Site Audience

Engagement Workshop – EOB 21 4:00pm-5:00pm - NNPN Workshop - EOB 114 4:00pm-6:00pm – Dramaturgy as Curation

Workshop – SOMPAC 304 4:00pm-6:00pm – Shakespeare’s Rhetoric

Workshop – EOB 17 4:00pm-6:00pm – The National New Play

Network and Higher

Education Workshop, EOB 114 4:30pm-6:30pm – Costume Parade – EOB 40 6:00pm-7:00pm – Irene Ryan Finals

Announcement/Musical Theatre

Initiative Announcement –

SOMPAC 141

KCACTF 2014 36

West Chester University

MASTER SCHEDULE 7:30pm-9:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

SOMPAC Art Gallery 7:30pm-9:00pm – Tech Exhibits Open Expo –

EOB Art Gallery 7:30pm-10:00pm – Irene Ryans Finals

Orientation and Rehearsal –

EOB Mainstage Theatre 7:30pm-10:30pm – Tech Olympics – EOB 168 7:30pm-11:00pm – Fringe Beckett Shorts –

EOB 25 (Studio Theatre) 8:30pm-10:30pm – Invited Production –

Vortex – Emilie K. Asplundh

Concert Hall 11:00pm-1:00am - Fringe Challenge - Days

Hotel Upstairs Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - DJ Dance Party - Days

Hotel Lower Ballroom 11:00pm-2:00am - Movie Night - Wyndham

Hotel Movie Theatre

Saturday, January 18, 2014

8:00am-10:00am – Tech Exhibits Open Expo

SOMPAC Art Gallery 8:00am-10:00am – Tech Exhibits Open Expo

EOB Art Gallery 9:00am-10:00am – Design Storm – EOB 40 9:00am-10:00am – Long Form Improvisation

Workshop – EOB 17 9:00am-10:00am – I Want to be a Director…

Now What? Workshop – EOB 22 9:00am-11:00am – Speaking with Young

Artists: Responding in Region II –

SOMPAC 303 9:00am-11:00am – Dramaturgy Portfolio

Review - EOB 132 9:00am-11:00am – Theatrical Makeup in

Haunted Attractions – EOB 168 9:00am-12:00pm – NPP One Act

Performances – SOMPAC Gates Hall 9:30am-12:00pm – Invited Production –

Much Ado About Nothing –

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 9:30am-12:00pm–ITJA Session #6-SOMPAC 311 10:00am-11:00am – Confident Auditions

Workshop – EOB 114 10:00am-12:00pm – DTM Regional Awards –

EOB Art Gallery

10:00am-12:30pm – Irene Ryans Finals – EOB

Mainstage Theatre 1:00pm-2:00pm – A Bloody Good Time

Workshop – EOB 168 1:00pm-3:00pm – Deconstructing Classics

Workshop – EOB 22 1:00pm-3:00pm – Action in Song, Making

Something Happen Workshop –

EOB 17 1:00pm-4:00pm – NPP One Act

Performances – SOMPAC Gates Hall 1:00pm-4:00pm - SDC Final Scene

Presentation - EOB 25

(Studio Theatre) 1:00pm-6:00pm – Open Jar Dance Callbacks

– EOB 114 1:30pm-4:00pm – Invited Production – The

25th Annual Putnam County

Spelling Bee – Emilie K. Asplundh

Concert Hall 2:00pm-3:00pm – Beating “Low Bid”

Syndrome Workshop – EOB 40 2:00pm-5:00pm – Irene Ryans Finals

Responses – SOMPAC 320 3:00pm-5:00pm – Hide and Seek: Leather

Mask Work Workshop – EOB 132 4:00pm-6:30pm – Invited Production –

Much Ado About Nothing -–

Madeline Wing Adler Theatre 8:30pm – Closing Ceremonies – Emilie K.

Asplundh Concert Hall

KCACTF 2014 37

West Chester University

Festival Leadership, Staff, and Volunteers Region 2 Leadership Elizabeth van den Berg, Chair Scott Mackenzie, Vice Chair Juliet Wunch, Immediate Past Chair Allyson Currin, Chair, National Playwrighting Program John Gresh & Laura Smiley, Vice Chairs, National

Playwrighting Program Keith Hight, Chair, Design, Technology, Management Greg Griffin, Vice Chair, Design, Technology, Management Becky Prophet, Directing Institute (DI) Grechen Lynne Wingerter, Stage Directors and

Choreographers (SDC) Ralph Leary, Chair, Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy Lisa Wilde, Dramaturgy Len Kelly, Fringe Co-coordinator Lars Tatom, Fringe Co-coordinator & Workshop Coordinator Matthew Mazuroski, Irene Ryan Coordinator Tammy O’Donnell, Next Steps Program Naomi Baker, Project for Devised Theatre Peggy Yates, Musical Theatre Initiative Coordinator Daniel Valentin Morales, Emily Wendler, Sarah Sackett, Assistants to the Regional Chair

Regional Associate Response Circuit Coordinators

Joseph Fahey, Ohio and West Virginia Trish Ralph, Western/Central Pennsylvania and

Western New York Scott Mackenzie, New Jersey, Delaware, Eastern PA,

Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia

2013-2014 Region Two Respondents

Allyson Currin, Barb Blackledge, Barbara Burgess-Lefebvre, Becky Misenheimer, Becky Prophet, Ben Fisler, Betsy Craig, Bev Redman, Bill Gillett, Brian Jones, Bryce Britton, Caleen Jennings, David Zarko, Debra Otte, Dustin Shaffer, Elizabeth van den Berg, Eve Muson, Gary Sloan, Grechen Lynne Wingerter, Gregg Henry, Gregory Griffin, Holly Holsinger, Howard Kurtz, Janice Goldberg, Jeff Lentz, Jen Whiting, Jennifer Toohey, Jessica Culligan, Joe Fahey, John Gresh, John Moletress, Jon Klein, Joseph Fahey, Judith McCabe, Julie Wunsch, Keith Hight, Larry Loebell, Lars Tatom, Laura Smiley, Leonard Kelly, Lindsay Reading Korth, Lisa Wilde, Maggie Lally, Margaret Ball, Marilouise Michel, Mark Wenderlich, Michael Allen, Michael Aulick, Michael Mauldin, Michael Schwartz, Michael Swanson, Moses Goldberg, Naomi Baker, Nathan Magee, P . Gibson Ralph, Patrick Reynolds, Paul Bernstein, Peggy Yates, Peter Rydberg, Ralph Leary, Rebecca Baker, Rick Stoppleworth, Robert Bartlett, Ruth Childs, Scott A. Mackenzie, Scott Frank, Seth Bauer, Shawn Clerkin, Shirley Huston-Findley, Tammy O’Donnell, Teresa Durbin-Ames. Terra Vandergaw, Thomas Burch, Tiffany Towns, Valerie Smith, Victor Capecce, Wayne Vettleson, William Gillett, Wolf Sherrill

Festival Host Staff West Chester University of Pennsylvania Dr. Greg Weisenstein, President Dr. Linda Lamwers, Provost Dr. Timothy V. Blair, Dean, College of Visual and

Performing Arts Dr. John Villella, Associate Dean, College of Visual and

Performing Arts Dr. Harvey Rovine, Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance Juliet Wunsch, Festival Host/Department of Theatre

and Dance Professor Andrew Truscott, Festival Manager Mary Beth Kurimay, Director of Conference Services Mary Ellen Josephs, Executive Director, Student

Services, Inc. Thomas Haughey, Department of Theatre and Dance

Technical Director John Rhein, Director, Department of Cultural and

Community Affairs Scott Davis, Director, Office of Venue Management Todd Williams, Technical Director, Office of Venue Management Carolyn Chalmers, Staff, Department of Theatre and Dance

Special Thanks West Chester University 399 Class, West Chester University Department of Theatre and Dance, West Chester University Department of Music, West Chester University Department of Art, Kelly’s Sports, Mary Beth Kurimay, Ms. Mell Josephs, Madeline Wing Adler Theatre Staff, Emilie K. Asplundh Theatre Staff, The Francis Harvey Green Library Staff, Dick Swain, Patricia Newland, ARAMARK, Diane Miller, Klein Transportation, Connie Salaneck, Jon Beretsky, Jessica Gehman, Shirley Coleman, Scott Goldberg, Guidebook, Evan Rodriquez, Program Designed by Andrew Truscott

KCACTF 2014 38

West Chester University

Festival Leadership, Staff, and Volunteers National Acknowledgement KCACTF Festival 46 The Kennedy Center David M. Rubenstein, Chairman Michael M. Kaiser, President Darrell M. Ayers, Vice President, Education Susan Shaffer, Producing Director, KCACTF Gregg Henry, Artistic Director, KCACTF KCACTF National Officers Rebecca Hilliker, National Chair -

University of Wyoming David Lee Painter, National Vice Chair -

University of Idaho Georgia McGill, National Chair, National Playwriting

Program - CUNY Queensborough Gweneth West, National Chair, Design, Technology &

Management - University of Virginia Leigh Selting, Member at Large -

University of Wyoming David Shawger Jr., Member at Large -

Ball State University Richard Herman, Member at Large -

University of Central Missouri Harry Parker, Immediate Past National Chair -

Texas Christian University Rafael Jaen, National Vice - Chair, Design, Technology

& Management- Emerson College Jeanette Farr, National Vice-Chair, National Playwriting

Program – Glendale Community College Martha Marking, USITT Representative –

Appalachian State University Jere Wade. National Partners of American

Theatre Representative

KCACTF Design, Technology & Management Chairs Charlie Wittreich, Region I-Co-Chair - SUNY Suffolk Luke J. Sutherland, Region I-Co-Chair -

Community College of Rhode Island Keith Hight, Region II - College of Southern Maryland Kathleen Donnelly, Region III -

University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Jesse Dreikosen, Region IV -

Florida International University Sheila Tabaka, Region V -

Southwest Minnesota State University Jason Foreman, Region VI Co-Chair -

Oklahoma City University Jon Young, Region VI Co-Chair -

University of Oklahoma Rae Robison, Region VII - Humboldt State University Andre Harrington, Region VIII -

California State University, San Bernardino KCACTF National Playwriting Program (NPP) The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Committee Brandt Reiter, Region I Chair-University of New Haven Allyson Currin, Region II Chair-

George Washington University Ansley Valentine, Region III Chair-

Northern Michigan University David Moberg, Region IV Chair-

Indian River State College Patrick Carriere, Region V Chair-

Minnesota State University, Moorhead Jim Anderson, Region VI Chair-

Texas A&M University-Commerce Nancy Lee-Painter, Region VII Chair-

Lewis-Clark State College Wade Hollinghaus, Region VIII Chair-

Brigham Young University

KCACTF Regional Chairs Raina Ames, Region I Co-Chair -

University of New Hampshire Catherine Hurst, Region I Co-Chair -

St. Michael’s College Elizabeth van den Berg, Region II - McDaniel College Michelle Bombe, Region III- Hope College Jeffrey Green, Region IV-

Georgia Southwestern State University Rick Anderson, Region V -

Kirkwood Community College Joy Pace, Region VI- Itinerant Theatre Kelly Eviston Quinnett, Region VII - University of Idaho Jim Taulli, Region VIII- Co-Chair -

California State University Matthew Neves, Region VIII- Co-Chair -

KCACTF 2014 39

West Chester University

Festival Leadership, Staff, and Volunteers Volunteers Adelphi University Jade Coles, Curtis Dunn, Jonathan Kilom, Katherine Lazarus, Morgan Moffitt BGSU Firelands Rick Amezquita, Bryanna Bauman, Lynze Daugherty, Jarod Mariani, Branden Fox, Paul Maier, Rachel McLaughlin, Lacey Miller College of Southern Maryland Aimee Bonnet, Simone Hannah, Jeremy Hunter, Danielle LeDoux, Russell Russell, Kheni Wells East Stroudsburg University Bri’ana Schell, Destiny Washington George Washington University Hilary Kelly Indiana University of Pennsylvania Zachary Bord, Morgan Chase, Sarah Fabiani, Kaitlyn McGilvray, Allison Wait Marywood University Catherine Carter, Nick Grevera McDaniel College Najee Banks, Elizabeth Maxman, Sarah Sackett, Chesney Jamieson Shippensburg Brittany Torrez-Alvarez West Chester University Megan Alburger, Chelsea Barnett, David Baumann, Patricia Beam, Elana Benitez, Lindsay Brahl, Sam Briefer, Becca Calabrese, Justine Cerruto, Justina Claggett, Becca Clair, Grace Cowley, Olivia Damore, Brian Danner, Benjamin Deane, Sarah Evans, McKenna Farquharson, Collin Fioriglio, Megan Fitzwater, Erika Flanick, Chelsey Gaskins, Valerie Glerum, Jennifer Goodwin, Juliet Hartman, Sapphire Johnson, Darius Johnson, Benjamin Lasner, Ryan Lauer, Erica Maholmes, Michaela Martz, Marita Massaquoi, William Morris, Killian Nelson, Valerie Ortiz, Staci Quinlan, Janice Rabian, Terence Rafferty, Ryan McLaughlin, Vasken Sarkahian, Edward Segal, Krysta Stefanosky, Christin Thomas, Chris Trombetta, Katie Uleau, John Williams, Chelsea’ Wyllie, Courtney Young Westminster College Maggie Hess

40 KCACTF 2014

West Chester University

NATIONAL PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE AN ORGANIZATION OF THEATRE EDUCATORS AND OTHERS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF THEATRE ARTISTS. MANY PARTNERS ARE CURRENT OR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE KCACTF NATIONAL COMMITTEE NAPAT PRESENTS

A CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD

AT EACH KCACTF REGIONAL FESTIVAL

A NATIONAL CLASSICAL ACTING AWARD CO-SPONSORED BY CANADA’S

SHAW FESTVIAL

INCLUDING A SUMMER INTERNSHIP AT THE FESTIVAL

A NATIONAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD

CO-SPONSORED BY KOREAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS A WEEK LONG VISIT TO KNUA IN SEOUL, KOREA

PLAYWRITING EXCELLENCE AWARD CO-SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS

INCLUSING A WEEK-LONG PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP AT UNLV

ALL AWARDS FUNDED BY TAX-DEDUCTABLE MEMBER DUES AND CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE GENEROSITY OF OUR CO-SPONSORS JOIN US: CONTACT MEMBERSHIP CHAIR JOYCE CAVAROZZI

joyce.cavarozzi@cox.net

Participating Productions 2013 Albright College Albright College and Alvernia University Alfred University Alvernia University Arcadia University BGSU Firelands Bloomsburg University Bowie State University Carroll Community College Clarion University of Pennsylvania College at Brockport

Community College of Baltimore County Coppin State University Eleanor H. Feeley Indiana University of Pennsylvania Marywood University Messiah College Millersville University Ohio University Lancaster Campus Penn State Altoona Penn State Berks Rowan University Slippery Rock University State University of New York at Oswego The College at Brockport The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Towson University University at Buffalo University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown West Chester University

West Virginia State University

Short & Sweet God of Carnage Vortex King Lear Much Ado About Nothing Unknown A Midsummer NIghts Dream The Glass Menagerie The Underpants Avenue Q Lysistrata Wonder of the World Our Town The Women of Lockerbie Festival of Ten - Ten New Ten- Minute Plays Fox on the Fairway Almost, Maine Avenue Q Dead Man’s Cell Phone bobrauschenbergamerica A Doll’s House TRUTH STANDS A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Optimist The Brothers Karamazov Crimes of the Heart J.B. Despite These Marks To Kill A Mockingbird Spring Awakening Treasure Island Who Will Carry the Word?

Gint Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet Dead Man’s Cell Phone Richard III Wait Until Dark California Suite The Profession The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Spring Awakening The Collection & The Lover The Dream Play A Year with Frog and Toad A Midsummer Night’s Dream Evening of One Acts Endgame & Come and Go Godspell Dog Sees God Clybourne Park

KCACTF 2014 42

West Chester University

Associate Productions 2013 Adelphi University Albright College American University Anne Arundel Community College Arcadia University

Ashland University

BGSU Firelands Bridgewater College Carnegie Mellon University Carroll Community College Catholic University of America Cedarville University Clarion University of Pennsylvania Cleveland State University College of Southern Maryland East Stroudsburg University Eastern Mennonite University Elizabethtown College Elmira College Fairmont State University Franklin & Marshall College Frostburg State University Gettysburg College Grove City College Harford Community College

Living Newspaper These Shining Lives Noises Off Ordinary Days Cabaret The Underpants Proof The House of Bernarda Alba Alive “a devised puppet piece” Rabbit Hole A Life in the Theatre Little Shop of Horrors Night Train to Bolina The Servant of Two Masters Little Women: The Broadway Musical A Winter’s Tale Spring 2013 New Works Series Stick Figures Spring Awakening Spooky Action at a Distance A Dream Play (new adaptation) Tartuffe The Taming of the Shrew Josephs and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Seascape Little Women In the Red and Brown Water Miss Julie Cabaret Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder M Working Top Girls by Caryl Churchill The Unforscene--Stage II One-Act Ploays Lord of the Flies Arms and the Man On the Verge Distracted The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee A Comedy of Terrors Noises Off Poof! Plus: An Evening of One-Act Plays A Lie of the Mind Orlando Barefoot in the Park Getting Out A Chorus Line Measure for Measure Les Miserables The Pillowman Much ado about Nothing The Princess Bride Live, an Homage

KCACTF 2014 43

West Chester University

Associate Productions 2013 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Keuka College Lafayette College Lycoming College

McDaniel College Mercyhurst University Millersville University

Montclair State University

Mount Aloysius College Muhlenberg College National Technical Institue for the Deaf/

Rocheseter Institute of Technology Nazareth College

Penn State Altoona Prince George’s Community College Queensborough Community College Ramapo College of New Jersey Rider University Robert Morris University Rowan University Rutgers University, Camden Shippensburg University

Anton in Show Business These Shining Lives You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Lysistrata A Christmas Carol Almost, Maine Oscar and Felix The 25th Annual Putname County Spelling Bee The Penelopiad The Vagina Monologues Arsenic and Old Lace An Absurd Pair: Fire in the Basement & Out at Sea The Importance of Being Earnest Intimate Portraits: An Original Ensemble Devised Play Pygmalion Eurydice Legally Blonde: the Musical Proof The Venetian Twins, Translated by Ranjit Bolt Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA Wild Party Take Flight A Streetcar Named Desire Falsettos Falsettos You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Odd Couple (Female Version) Bartholomew Fair New Visions The Marriage of Figaro Taming of the Shrew Plaza Suite The Threepenny Opera Urinetown An Evening of David Ives Dog Sees God Circle Mirror Transformation Spring Awakening Columbinus Tempest Shape of Things Pullman, WA/Church The Misanthrope Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Grapes of Wrath Picasso at the Lapin Agile Guys and Dolls The Glass Menagerie The Actor’s Nightmare and Other Comedies You Can’t Take It With You Act A Lady

44 KCACTF 2014

West Chester University

Associate Productions 2013 The Walls The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Hello Herman The Mystery of Edwin Drood Almost Maine Leveling Up King Lear The Beaux’ Stratagem Twelfth Night Machinal Forgiving John Lennon The Rocky Horror Show Blood wedding A Flea In Her Ear Two Gentlemen of Verona Zanna, Don’t God’s Ear You Can’t Take It With You Crazy for You Enemy of the People Everyman Trifles and Woman’s Honor The Spring Harvest Spring Awakening Book of Days Italian American Reconciliation The Curious Savage Seussical The Musical New Voices

St. Bonaventure University The College at Brockport The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey The University of Findlay

Thiel College Towson University University at Buffalo University of Akron University of Maryland Baltimore County University of Pittsburgh University of Virginia

Villanova University Washington and Jefferson College West Liberty University Westminster College Wilkes University

THeaTre and Performance it’s all about creativity…

Get creative with your acting, directing and stagecraft with these titles from focal Press and routledge:

Want more?

a Practical Guide to StaGe liGhtinG

Scenic art for the theatre

the ProP BuildinG GuideBook

Pb: 978-0-415-81200-9 $54.95

Pb: 978-0-240-81290-8

Hb: 978-0-240-82138-2

ScriPt analySiS for actorS, directorS, and deSiGnerS

$49.95

$39.95

Pb: 978-0-415-66325-0 $34.95

check out our website for titles on: Directing: www.routledge.com/u/directors Stage anD theatre DeSign: www.routledge.com/u/theatre/design acting: www.routledge.com/u/acting

actinG Power www.focalpress.com/theatre

www.routledge.com/performance

Pb: 978-0-415-65847-8

a director PrePareS

actinG: the firSt Six leSSonS

Pb: 978-0-415-60924-1

BeinG a director

$41.95

Pb: 978-0-415-23832-8

Pb: 978-0-415-56386-4

$29.95

$43.95

$30.95

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 sean.clark@unlv.edu or at 702-895-2442. For reservations and additional information contact Lori Slinn at lori.slinn@unlv.edu 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.

Festival Presenters and Guests NAOMI HATSFELT BAKER is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Wilkes University. She teaches voice, acting, movement, audition techniques, make-up, and devising classes as well as directs. Naomi travels a lot during the semester as a respondent to productions in the region.

She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and is a Certified Lessac Voice Trainer. She is the coordinator of the Project for Devised Theatre for Region 2, as well as a co-coordinator of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions. In addition, she was the winner of the 2011 KC/ACTF Region 2 Road Warrior Award for Extraordinary Respondent work.

NAN BARNETT (NPP Respondent) is a new play advocate, a developer of theatre artists, and a producer of the work they create. She is currently the Executive Director of National New Play Network, an alliance of more than 50 theatres that support the development, production and continued life of new plays. During her previous tenures on NNPN’s Executive Committee and as its President she helped create several of the organization’s revolutionary programs, including its Continued Life of New Plays Fund, which supports Rolling World Premieres, and Playwright and Producer Residencies. She was a founding company member and the long-time Managing Director of Florida Stage, which produced exclusively new and developing work. During her twenty-four seasons there she oversaw the creation of plays and musicals that have subsequently been seen around the world including works by Nilo Cruz, Tammy Ryan, William Mastrosimone, Israel Horovitz, Lee Blessing, Deborah Zoe Laufer, and many, many more. She has served as a consultant on the creation of new works, organizational growth, strategic and succession planning and board development for theatres across the country, and is especially pleased to be considered a mentor of theatre-makers, including actors, directors, playwrights, administrators, producers, technicians and volunteers. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts Professional Actor Training Program, Nan is the winner of the Theatre League of South Florida’s Remy Award for service to the theatrical community, the 2012 Fallon Award for excellence in the professional theatre, and a two-time winner of South Florida’s Carbonell Award as an actress.

ELIZA BECKWITH is a New York City based director.

She is a member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and has directed four plays in their Annual Marathon of One-Act Plays (The Once Attractive Woman by Christine Farrell, Little Airplanes of the Heart by Steve Feffer, Ukimwi by Tom Coash, The Moon Bath Girl by Graeme Gillis) and was E.S.T.’s Managing Director from 1999 to 2001. Most recently, Eliza directed the world premiere of Tiny Bubbles by Richard Willett for New Directions Theater, and

Dance Me to the End of Love, Evangelia Kingsley’s cabaret at The Metropolitan Room. She is a proud member of S.D.C. JOHN BELLOMO is the former Artistic Director of The Maryland Shakespeare Festival and Co-Artistic Director of Ombelico Mask Ensemble. He is a 6 time Barrymore nominee for his fight choreography and received a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Movement/Chorography for his work on The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Interact Theatre Co. John received an M.F.A. in Directing from Temple University, a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of the Arts, and is also a graduate of The International School for the Comic Actor in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has performed commedia dell’arte in Poland, Switzerland, Italy and the U.S. HEATHER BENTON is Acting Coordinator of the BFA Program at Montclair State University where she teaches acting, movement and directs. She served five years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York on core faculty, as head of the movement department, acting/ movement instructor and director. Professor Benton has extensive performance credits in regional theatre, is a company member of the international theatre company East River Commedia. MFA in acting from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre/ Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard. She specializes in a psychophysical approach to actor training.

WALTER BILDERBACK has been working in the professional theater for more than 30 years. He began his career with the American Ibsen Theater in Pittsburgh. His work has since included La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Broadway, the Alliance (Atlanta), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Dallas Theatre Center, and the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, where he is currently in his 10th season. He has worked on world premieres by Lee Blessing, Dael Orlandersmith, Lisa d’Amour, and Paula Vogel (among other), and new translations of Schiller, Wedekind, and Ibsen. He has also studied physical theater for many years and continues to work on incorporating this into his dramaturgical practice.

DAVIDA BLOOM is an Associate Professor Department of Theatre and Music Studies. Davida worked as a voiceover casting director in Los Angeles for many years prior to completing her PhD and joining the faculty at Brockport. She continues to do voice-over work and perform on stage regularly in the Rochester NY area.

ROBERT BULLINGTON teaches acting and voice at Clarion University. He earned his M.F.A. in acting at The University of Alabama and a B.F.A. in acting at Ohio University. He has also studied voice and acting at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, and is a junior member of their teaching faculty. His production of The Cripple of Inishmaan has been seen at festival.

KCACTF 2014 47

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests BARBARA BURGESS-LEFEBVRE is an associate professor of Communication and Theatre at Robert Morris University where she teaches acting, directing, theatre literature, and stage combat. Barbara earned her MFA in Directing from Illinois State University, her BA in English Writing and Drama from SUNY Potsdam and has worked professionally as a director, a costume designer, and a fight director. She serves as the faculty advisor for RMU’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega and the newly formed Freedom Players.

RONN CAMPBELL is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at Columbia Basin College. He holds a M.F.A. in scenic and lighting design from Humboldt State University. Ronn has designed scenery, lighting and sound for many companies in the Northwest including Washington East Opera, CBC Summer Theatre, Columbia Basin Jazz Orchestra, Mid-Columbia Regional Ballet and Idaho Repertory Theatre. Ronn has served as the Chair of DTM for KCACTF Region VII and the past Chair of the Northwest Section of USITT. He has received several awards for his design work and was awarded the Kennedy Center Medallion in 2012. Ronn was recently elected KCACTF national executive board Member-at-Large.

VICTOR CAPECCE is currently an Assistant Professor, teaching stage design and technical courses, and theatre management at Millersville University after many years of working as a scenic artist, designer in NYC in theatre, television and in films (USA, LU #829). He obtained MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama. His credits range from designing scenery and costumes for NYC Opera to painting the graffiti and toasted marshmallow for “Ghostbusters.” Among his range of positions was Producing Director of American Music Theatre in Lancaster, Pa., creating original musical revues and presenting star attractions. He is also an exhibiting artist CONSTANCE CASE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University. She has designed costumes and makeup for more than 50 theatrical productions and over 100 dance pieces. Her designs have been seen at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Archives, the Washington Opera, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Harmonie Park Playhouse, Muhlenberg College, East Stroudsburg University, the Hilberry Theatre, the Michigan Opera, and Wolf Trap.

RUTH CHILDS is an Associate Professor of Theatre at The College at Brockport. She teaches acting, voice, improv, politics of theatre, and movement, and is certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework. Ruth has directed and acted in multiple productions at Brockport and beyond. She works in voiceover and industrial film, as well as a voice and dialect coach. Ruth served as regional chair of the National Playwriting Program for KCACTF, and contin-

ues to be a respondent and reader for national and regional playwriting awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion.

CARRIE J. COLE returns to KCACTF Region 2 after a seven year exile to the desert southwest, where she directed, fight directed, and dramaturged at Invisible Theatre, Rogue Theatre, and Arizona Theatre Company. Her assistants for this workshop are IUP students and founding members of the IUP Stage Combat Club.

ALAN COOK recently retired as Head of the MFA directing program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His directing experience of 117 plays includes directing at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Magic Theatre (San Francisco), Madison Repertory Theatre, the Western Stage (Salinas, CA), Montana Rep Company, Jos Repertory Theatre (Nigeria), He has taught directing at the Universities of California (Santa Cruz), Montana, Jos and North Carolina (Greensboro).

ALLYSON CURRIN (Chair, NPP, Region 2) Playwright: THE REDNECK HOLY GRAIL (March-April, 2014, The Welders), CAESAR AND DADA (WSC Avant Bard), HERCULES IN RUSSIA (Doorway Arts Ensemble), TREADWELL (American Century Theatre), UNLEASHED (The Kennedy Center), THE DANCING PRINCESSES (Imagination Stage), BENCHED (Pinky Swear) LOVE AND WHISKEY, CHURCH OF THE OPEN MIND* and THE SUBJECT (Charter Theatre), LEARNING CURVES (WSC), AMSTEL IN TEL AVIV* and DANCING WITH OURSELVES (Source). *She has twice been nominated for the Helen Hayes’ MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play. She is currently working on a new musical (with Matt Conner) for Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre and a new commission for Cincinnati Playhouse. She is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and Actors Equity, and a founding member of the playwrights’ collective, The Welders. She teaches at George Washington University.

VICTORIA DEPEW is a Visiting Specialist in Costume Technology at Montclair State University and a free-lance costume designer. Recent design credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost and Cymbeline (American Shakespeare Company); Once on this Island (New Jersey Institute of Technology); The Magic Flute (Rutgers Opera); In God’s Hat (Apothecary Theatre Company, Shrewsbury, NJ); Christmas My Way (Sierra Repertory Theatre, Sonora, CA); Why Torture is Wrong and The Ruby Sunrise (The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD); Romeo and Juliet (Virginia Stage Company) ; The Merry Wives of Windsor (Rutgers Theatre Company), and Around the World in 80 Days and Hercules (Berkshire Theatre Festival). She received her MFA in Costume and Set Design from Rut-

48 KCACTF 2014

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests gers University.

JOHN PAUL DEVLIN is the Co-Vice-Chair for KCACTF Regtion One, and former DTM co-chair. He is the resident designer and technical director at Saint Michael’s College and resident designer and production manager for the Saint Michael’s Playhouse. He is a freelance scenic and lighting designer with over 30 years in the business.

MICHEAL DURKIN and the Renegade Company explores the familiar in unfamiliar ways by distilling iconic works. To enhance these works, The Renegade Company infuses Unconventional Community Collaborations that foster deeper, resonating productions in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond. Previous works include Bathtub Moby-Dick, Glass: Shattered, The Amish Project, and Hamletmachine/Medeaplays.

MATT FOTIS is the author of the forthcoming book “Long Form Improv & American Comedy: The Harold.”

He teaches improv, writing for performance, and acting at Albright College. He studied at iO Chicago and The Brave New Workshop, and has been performing and teaching improvisation for over fifteen years.

SCOTT FRANK is a playwright and storyteller. His play “Butter’s Goat” has been performed in New York, London, and Pittsburgh, and he has also directed for the stage in those cities as well. The fourth in his cycle of McKinley College Plays, The Spring Harvest, premiered at Washington & Jefferson College this fall. His other plays in the cycle, The Pledge, The Book, and The Lamp and the Beam are available for production. T. Scott is the past regional chair of NPP and an inveterate collector of…fill in the blank.

GREG GRIFFIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at The University of Findlay. He enjoys teaching and implementing designs in the areas of Lighting, Sound, Projections, and Scenery. He is very active as a free-lance professional designer across the Midwest and is also active with KCACTF both as a respondent for Regions 2 and 3, and as the Vice Chair of Design, Technology, & Management. He is a current member of USITT, MATC, and TCG. GEOFFREY GOLDBERG is a NYC-based actor, dancer, singer, director, choreographer, writer and teaching artist. He has performed on Broadway (MARY POPPINS), on National Tours across the country and internationally (MARY POPPINS, CHITTY….BANG, 42ND STREET), and regionally around the nation. As a director and choreographer, he has worked in NYC (BRADLEY COLE, NYFringe), Washington DC (A YEAR ON THE ROAD), and as an Associate on Broadway (MARY POPPINS, Associate Kids Director), internationally (MARY POPPINS in Spanish – Asst Director), and with numerous other workshops and readings in NYC. As a composer/lyricist, Geoffrey has had his music performed in cabarets

and performances across the country including: Kennedy Center Millenium Stage (A YEAR ON THE ROAD) and on the Broadway New Amsterdam Stage (GYPSY OF THE YEAR). He is also a current member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater writing workshop here in NYC. Geoffrey has taught master classes around the country and here in NYC, and has been teaching since High School. Education: BFA with Honors from NYU/Tisch. AEA, AFTRA SDC Associate. www.Geoffrey-Goldberg.com JANICE L. GOLDBERG. Over 50 new plays directed, many genres, uptown and down in NYC, and regionally from Alaska to Florida. Recent: These Shining Lives – AdelphiUniversity. 10 Minute Play Slam- – Last Frontier Theatre Conference. After Anne Frank – FringeNYC, Fringe Encores, Soho Playhouse, United Solo. Autumn Run – (co-author with Susan Bigelow), SUNY Suffolk.

The Rubber Room by Gary Garrison and Roland Tec, as part of Artistic New Directions “Without A Net” series. 25 performances. 25 actors. Never the same cast twice. Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever -Theatre 3 at the Mint. Jeffrey Sweet’s Flyovers, co-director, (w/Richard Kind and Tony Award Winner Michele Pawk). That Dorothy Parker – SohoPlayhouse. Off Broadway: Rose Colored Glass (co-author with Susan Bigelow), published

by Samuel French. Artistic Co-Director of Artistic New Directions in NYC. Member: SDC, Dramatists Guild.

Janice leads audition workshops for students all over the country, is a licensed New York City Tour Guide, can be seen as Barb, the wardrobe lady in Ghost Light, the Webseries. www.JaniceLGoldberg.com www.artisticnewdirections.org MOSES GOLDBERG spent twenty-five years as Producing Director of Stage One: The Louisville Children’s Theatre. He now works as a freelance director, teacher, and playwright. He has directed professionally at theatres from Washington to Florida, including - in 1988 - one of the first US/Soviet exchanges at Moscow’s famed Taganka Theatre. Sixteen of his plays for young audiences have been published, as well as his most recent book TYA: Essays on Theatre for Young Audiences. He has taught at Florida State University and Southwest Texas State University and now serves as an adjunct faculty member at McDaniel College.

LEX GURST is a 2003 alumna of Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Her costume credits include Big Love, The Possibilities, Polaroid Stories, On the Town, Stop Kiss, and Dance Emerge (2012, 2013) for Muhlenberg College, Psycho Beach Party and Belle Reprieve for The Theatre Outlet, and Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Nunsense, Seussical, Schoolhouse Rock and A Year with Frog and Toad. Previously, she has

KCACTF 2014 49

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests worked at the Creede Repertory Theatre in Creede, Colo.

THOMAS HAUGHEY is the assistant professor of technical direction and sound design at West Chester University of PA. He has worked as a designer, technical director and mentor to students at West Chester. Some of the shows that have been part of his career at WCU include: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Mousetrap, Godspell, Assassins, and Noises Off. He would like to thank Amy, Maura and Claire for all their loving support.

MARK HARDY is an Associate Professor in the Musical Theatre BFA program at Montclair State University in NJ. A proud member of Actors’ Equity for many years, Mark has appeared on and off Broadway, in national tours and leading regional theatres, and on symphony stages across the US and Canada. His award-winning directing credits include a varied mix of plays and musicals, including the recent university premiere of the unpublished Maltby/ Shire/Weidman musical Take Flight.

GREGG HENRY (Artistic Director – KCACTF) Recent productions: Theatre Alliance (2012) and Hub Theatre (2011) Helen Pafumi and Jason Lott’s Wonderful Life, Round House Theatre- Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country, WSC Avant Bard- Julie Jensen’s Two-Headed and Barbara Field’s adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

by Morris Panych for Metro Stage and You Are Here

by Daniel MacIvor for Theatre Alliance. For Catholic University: Swimming with Whales by Bob Bartlett, Morning, Miranda by Stephen Spotswood. For the Kennedy Center- Tom Isbell’s The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (from the Newbery Honor book by Rodman Philbrick, Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Production Theatre for Young Audiences), Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe (with songs by Mark Russell), Six Stories Tall by Marco Ramirez, Dreams in the Golden Country by Barbara Field, The Light of Excalibur by Norman Allen. 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 twelve years, he has curated and co-produced the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival. 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 National New Play Network Ambassador Council, on the Board of Taffety Punk The-

atre Company, on the Welders’ Advisory Council, 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 “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 100 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.

KEITH HIGHT, Coordinator of Theatre and Dance, Keith is also a professional Jack of all trades. Keith brings with his love of theatre arts, a dedication to quality performances. Keith is the DMT Region 2 Chair and the Program Coordinator for the American College Theatre Festival. He is also a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

MICHAEL HOOD is Dean of Fine Arts at IUP and is secretary and member of the National Theatre Conference.

Dean Hood was a faculty member and chair of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alaska Anchorage where his productions, colleagues, and students were actively involved with the KC/ACTF. His stage direction has received KC/ACTF regional and national honors. Dean Hood has served as President of the Northwest Drama Conference, Trustee for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, and as Vice-Chair to KC/ACTF Region 6.

JATHAN INNERARITY is a theater designer, artist, and educator, best known as “Jay” to his colleagues and students. Jay has designed and worked for Lycoming College, the Hattiloo Theatre, the University of Memphis, Stephen F. Austin State University, as well as the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in California.

Favorite designs include Batboy: The Musical, The Gas Heart, Threepenny Opera and serving as the Charge Artist and Charge Sculptor for the University of Memphis’s centennial production of The Phantom of the Opera. Jay is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Visit his website at jathaninnerarity.com TERRY DANA JACHIMIAK II graduated with a BFA in Technical Theatre from Longwood College in Farmville, VA and an MFA in Scene Design from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He has designed at Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA), The Academy of Fine

KCACTF 2014 50

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests Arts (Lynchburg, VA), Lynchburg College, Saint Mary’s College (South Bend, IN), Brevard College (Brevard, NC), Wayne State University, Omaha Children’s Theatre (Omaha, NE) and assistant designed at Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Normal, IL). Terry has also worked in various roles at the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival (Amherst, VA), Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Normal, IL), Notre Dame Shakespeare LEONARD KELLY (Fringe Coordinator) – is a member of the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University teaching voice and speech, acting at all levels, and dialects. Len also regularly directs departmental productions, most recently Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Come and Go, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Len has long been active with KCACTF, serving as coordinator for The Fringe at Festival program for the past nine years. Additionally Len continues to work professionally in the Philadelphia area most recently appearing in the Commonwealth Classic Theatre Co.’s production of Macbeth. He is also a Certified Instructor of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

JOE KRIENKE is the Associate School Director at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, CA where he teaches Alexander Technique, Acrobatics, Movement Analysis, Daily Practice, Archery, and Clown. From 2001-2006 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mask Acting and Clown in the MFA acting program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He trained at Dell’Arte International, San Francisco School of Circus Arts, and is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

RALPH LEARY (Chair of ITJA) is a professor in the English Department of Clarion University, where he teaches modern and contemporary dramatic literature as well as Shakespeare. He is currently on sabbatical examining different ways in which Shakespeare is taught in English programs, Theatre programs and in secondary schools.

On occasion, he is allowed to take small roles in campus productions, especially when they need an old guy. He responds to regional productions, and in 2009 he was invited to the Kennedy Center as the Faculty Fellow in Criticism.

DAVID LEE-PAINTER is honored to have had the opportunity to wear many hats in KCACTF over the years – and now serves as incoming National Chair. David has been a professor of Theatre at the University of Idaho since 1995. His absolute favorite role is sharing life with his darlin’ wife and very best friend Nancy, four furry critters, two very brave, compassionate and inspiring daughters, and their amazing fellas, and teaching passionate and curious students. What a wonderful life!

NANCY LEE-PAINTER is the KCACTF NPP chair in

region VII. She teaches and directs at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where she is a devoted advocate of new plays and student playwrights. As a professional actor she has worked with the Idaho Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Nancy makes her home in Moscow, Idaho with her really great husband David, animal menagerie and inspiring athletic offspring.

MICHAEL LEGG is the Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he’s directed world-premieres of plays by A. Rey Pamatmat, Laura Jacqmin, Dan Dietz, Kyle John Schmidt, Marco Ramirez, Alison Moore, and many others. He also works as an educator and guest artist at several universities around the country. Before coming to Actors, he spent three years as a theatrical agent in New York and his former clients can still be seen on Broadway, in television/film, and in regional theatres across the country. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a proud member of Actors Equity.

BOB LEVY is a designer, writer and director who has taught for the last twenty-seven years at Clarion University where he is currently chair of the Department of Theatre. Many of his former students are working in the business, in allied businesses, or areas totally outside of the theatre where their theatrical training comes into play every day.

LARRY LOEBELL’s plays include WHAM BAM, The Shanghai Kaddish, Pride of the Lion (published by Playscripts,) The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, House Divided, Memorial Day, and La Tempestad and Girl Science (both published by IndieTheaterNow.) Short plays/monologues published by Applause Books, Playscripts, or Smith & Krause include Angie and Arnie Sanguine, But Who’s Counting, Just Before the War Between the Plates, and Emma Goldman Imagines the Millennium. His feature film, Dostoyevsky Man, premiered at the 2012 Philly Fringe. Larry teaches film and creative writing at University of the Arts and playwriting and theater at Arcadia University. More at www.loebell.com.

SCOTT A. MACKENZIE: An Associate Professor of Theatre and chair of the department of Communication Studies Theatre and Art at Pennsylvania’s Westminster College, Dr. Mackenzie earned his MFA in Acting at Michigan State University and Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit. He is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. His acting credits include film, television, and theatre. Directing credits include All My Sons, The Subject Was Roses, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, The Baker From Madrigal and Kiss Me, Kate. While on active duty with the U.S. Army Reserve, Scott directed Bigfoot Stole My Wife, the

KCACTF 2014 51

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests first play produced by personnel working in Baghdad’s International Zone.

JULIA MATTHEWS is associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre at Albright College in Reading, PA. A director and performer as well as a scholar and dramaturg, she has taught on the theatre faculties of Wesleyan College and Kennesaw State University, GA, and worked as a dramaturg, director, and teacher with several Atlanta theatre companies. Julia has served on the executive board of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is delighted to direct again for the NPP and meet the new generation of theatre artists.

MATTHEW MAZUROSKI is an assistant professor of theatre in the Department of Theater and Dance Youngstown State University and teaches Acting, Directing, Improvisation, Theatre for Young Audiences, Stage Combat and Mask. For YSU he has directed A Streetcar Named Desire, Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grille, and The Cherry Orchard and Broke-ology. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from Emporia State University and an M.F.A. in Directing from Northwestern University. Over the past twenty years, Matthew has worked across the country as an actor, director, fight-choreographer and theatre educator. His professional acting credits include: Nick in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe with Phoenix Theatre, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol with Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Hysterium in Forum with Whitehall Theatre, Malvolio in Twelfth Night with The National Players, and the title role in Hamlet with the UK/AZ Festival. He served as the founding artistic and marketing director of The Actors Group, located in Phoenix Arizona, from 1993 until 1997. During his career, Matthew has directed award-winning productions of Bent, The Grapes of Wrath, Buried Child, Before it Hits Home, David’s Mother, The Crucible, Buried Child and The Laramie Project. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the Actors’ Equity Association, the Screen Actor’s Guild, the Society of American Fight Directors, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

GORDON McCONNELL’s work as an actor, teacher, director and producer has taken him from Los Angeles to London to Amsterdam, to New York, where he was a member of Geraldine Page’s famed Mirror Rep, and into regional theatres across the county. Recent appearances include work at Caldwell Theatre Company, Florida Stage, Mosaic Theatre, Actor’s Playhouse, Florida Repertory Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Maltz Jupiter Theater, Gable Stage and Riverside Theatre in Florida, and Blowing Rock and Flat Rock Playhouses in NC, Curious Theatre (Denver), Greenbrier Valley Theatre (WV) and Alpine Theatre Project (MT). Called “one of the region’s finest actors” by Variety and the Miami Herald, Gordon

is a three-time nominee (The Guys at Gable Stage, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf at Palm Beach DramaWorks, and the world premiere of Dirty Business at Florida Stage) and Carbonell winner (Frozen at Gables Stage), and the recipient of the New Times Best Actor nod for his work in Wrecks at Mosaic. Gordon was recently named Palm Beach County’s Outstanding Performing Artist, and awarded the 2012 Frank Prize for his nearly thirty years of work in the area.

PATRICK MCCREARY was lucky enough to be one of the first half-dozen Design/Tech MFA candidates at Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University.

Meaning that he and his classmates got away with lots of things they probably wouldn’t get away with today, but that they had the chance to do a lot of experimenting with artistic concepts, scenic techniques, and a general disregard for tradition. Patrick has (hopefully successfully) carried on with that experimentation in his 42 years as a Technical Director, the last 30 of which have been at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has recently decided to start sharing the results of those experiments, for better or worse, to an audience that extends beyond his students.

DAVID A. MILLER, Director, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA (and Sean Urbantke, Scenic Designer, Anne Arundel Community College. Arnold, MD) last collaborated on the award winning professional production of “Wittenberg” by David Davalos for Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth, TX. The production featured an alley style staging in a play during which the audience witnessed a tennis match-like competition between Doctor Faustus and Martin Luther to win Hamlet, a senior in college, to their way of thinking. They will collaborate again this summer on “Nosemaker’s Apprentice”, again for Amphibian Stage Productions. www.mrdavidamiller.com TOM MILLER: Prior to joining the staff of Actors’ Equity, Tom was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway, with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre, at Opryland USA, and in Europe. He can be seen in the documentary “Show Business – The Road To Broadway” hosting a Broadway Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade Tom served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Equity Member since 1983 JOHN MOLETRESS is an interdisciplinary performance artist and director. He is the Founding Director of force/ collision (force-collision.org). Directing highlights: Trust me at Arena Stage, Shape by Erik Ehn at La MaMa ETC (NYC), The Nautical Yards (site-specific), What A Stranger May Know (Kennedy Center), Mistakes Were Made (Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston), Pippin (Steel River Playhouse), The Crucible (SRP),Separate Rooms

KCACTF 2014 52

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests (Kennedy Center), 4.48 Psychosis (Warehouse Theatre), Magnificent Waste (Flashpoint), Shakespeare’s r+j (Asst Director at Signature Theatre), The Saint Plays (Church Street Theatre). John is George Washington University’s 2014 Guest Choreographer and in development for Jarman (all this maddening beauty) inspired by Derek Jarman. JohnMoletress.com ELIZABETH MOZER is the Artistic Director and Founder of Theatre in the Flesh - a collaborative company making visceral image-driven theatre. Original works include The Crow - a girl’s moonless dream, A Place at The Table, The August 9th Project and Blood & Honey.

Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at Binghamton University where she recently directed Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Preemptive Strike - an adaptation. This spring she will be theatricalizing and directing two Twilight Zone teleplays for BU. As an actress she has been a member of three original Broadway casts.

Recent performances include roles in Doubt, Ashes to Ashes and Afterplay. Elizabeth teaches at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and at The Ted Bardy Studio in NYC. FIONA MULLIGAN is the costume shop supervisor at West Chester University, and specializes in costume crafts and mask making. For the past four years she has maintained ToTheMask’s Masks for the Discerning Wearer, an online store selling handcrafted leather masks which ship globally. She has recently worked with Whole Hog Theatre Company in London as a puppetry construction assistant for the world premiere of Princess Mononoke, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival as a costume craftsperson.

TAMMY O’DONNELL is the Chair of the Communication and Theatre Department at Prince George’s Community College. She has a BA in English Secondary Education with emphasis on Theatre from the State University of New York at Fredonia. She has an MS in Student Personnel Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She currently serves as the Coordinator for the KCACTF initiative, Next Steps. In another life, she was a publicist on Long Island and worked with Neil Simon, Marsha Mason, Mary Tyler Moore, President Carter, President Clinton, and Shirley MacLaine to name a few. She is a writer, director, producer and most importantly, a teacher of theatre to the next generation.

DEBRA BERGSMA OTTE is a professor of design and Coordinator for the Production and Design Program at Montclair State University. Her credits include design for regional, Off-Broadway and university productions, television, dance, puppet design for Henson Associates and industrial work. She has served as Regional Chair and Design Chair for KCACTF Region II, as the Member-atlarge for Design on the KCACTF National Committee and on the National Selection Team. She is the recipient

of two Kennedy Center Gold Medallions for her work in arts education. Her MFA is in Design for Stage and Screen from Tisch School of the Arts (NYU).

JUSTIN POOLE is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Eastern Mennonite University. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Maryland and an MA in Theatre from Villanova University. Poole spent time studying experimental/devised performance in Europe thanks to the Ernst Mach Grant through the Austrian Academic Exchange Program.

BECKY PROPHET heads the Directing Institute, directed Alfred’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and teaches at Alfred University. She has acted, directed, and taught in numerous places in the U.S. She has often worked, exuberantly, with new plays and/or developing directors. Becky enjoys working in a wide range of genres and styles, with edgy or politically motivated theater her preference. Nine years ago, she created the Student Directing Institute, offering directing to students at the festival. She also serves Region 2 as a regular workshop instructor, a frequent production respondent, and occasional director for NPP. Becky also creates quirky festivals for her local community of Alfred, NY., including a Traffic Light Festival and a beach party for a longdrained glacial lake.

P. GIBSON (TRISH) RALPH is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre and Music Studies at The College at Brockport, State University of New York where she serves as producer and scenic designer. As former regional section chair, she is on the executive committee of the Upstate New York Regional Section of USITT. The former Focus Group Representative of Design and Technology, she now serves on the Governing Council of ATHE as Member at Large for Finance. She is the New York and Western Pennsylvania Curcuit Coordinator for Region II. WENDY ROSENFIELD (Guest Critic) has been a freelance theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 2006. For several years, she wrote the “Drama Queen” blog for ArtsJournal.com, and was chief theatre critic for Philadelphia Weekly from 1995 until 2001. She was the 2009 and 2010 KCACTF Region II Guest Critic, received her M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Critics Association. She was a 2008 NEA Fellow in Theatre and Musical Theatre, a participant in the Bennington Writer’s Workshop, and a 1991 graduate of Bennington College. She is also the mother of two passionate young theatregoers, is a wife, fiction writer, was proofreader to a swami, publications editor for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and still can’t believe she gets paid to see plays and talk about them.

KCACTF 2014 53

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests ANTHONY ROSAS is the full time Technical Director and an Adjunct Faculty member for Towson University’s Department of Theatre Arts. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication with a minor in Theatre Arts from McDaniel College and completed his M.F.A. in Technical Theatre at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed his M.B.A. at The University of Baltimore/Towson University. He has worked at PlayMaker’s Repertory Company, American Dance Festival at Duke University, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Mobtown Theatre, and Theatre on the Hill.

MAURICIO SALGADO is the Director of Programs at Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), a nonprofit that provides arts education and empowerment programs for underserved youth. At ASTEP, Mauricio recruits and trains volunteers who will serve with the organization and manages and evaluates current partnerships while researching and developing new programs. Mauricio has taught through the US, the Dominican Republic, Peru, South Africa, Germany, India, and Mexico. He is a graduate from the Juilliard School and has performed professionally in NYC, Washington DC, Belgium, Germany, a warehouse in Red Hook, and Dylan’s backyard.

MICHAEL SCHWARTZ is an assistant professor in the department of theater and dance at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches history, dramaturgy, playwriting, and, from time to time, improv workshops. Mike studied and taught at Philly Improv Theatre (PHIT) in Philadelphia, and his workshop at IUP inspired the formation of the long-form campus group “The Factors.”

ALISA SICKORA KLECKNER is an adjunct prof and resident designer at Arcadia University where she teaches a range of courses in addition to running the university’s costume shop. She designs costumes, puppets, masks and makeup regionally and is an alum of the O’Neill National Puppetry Conference and Puppets in Prague. She has been honored with the KC/ACTF Faculty Design Fellowship, a nomination for the F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist award and the most amazing costume sweatshop ever. No really, the MOST amazing.

BILL “UNCLE BILL” SAPSIS: welder, rigger, company president, author and one of the founding members of the Long Reach Long Riders, has been involved in the entertainment industry for 40 years. In 1981 he started Sapsis Rigging, Inc. and developed the company into an internationally recognized leader in the design and installation of stage equipment. Bill’s seminar program has also garnered worldwide recognition. Bill is a USITT Fellow and a past member of the USITT Board of Directors.

He is a current member of the ETCP Council and Chair of the Rigging Working Group for PLASA NA. He is the recipient of the 2102 EVA Swan Award, ESTA’s highest honor. He is a board member of The ESTA Foundation

and he’s on the advisory board of the New York City Technical College. Bill also co-produces the highly acclaimed North American Theatre and Engineering Conference in New York City. In his civilian life he has 3 kids, one cat and a rabbit.

SHAWN SIEGER is the Art Director at The Bates Motel And Haunted Hayride. My brother, Robert Sieger, and I co-manage the makeup department at the Bates. We also work as artists for the Pennhurst Asylum Haunted Attraction and Arasapha Farm’s Holiday Hayride. We have also worked on a handful of low budget movies doing various makeups and effects.

LAURA SMILEY is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Slippery Rock University Laura’s teaching focuses on acting and directing. She is the Artistic and Executive Director, as well as a founding member of Unseam’d Shakespeare Company which just completed its 20th year of productions. In addition to many roles with Unseam’d Shakespeare, Laura has performed for PPT, Starlight Productions, City Theatre, and her one-woman show, Building. She has guest directed for Bloomsburg University and Indiana University of PA, as well as collaborations with the City Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Living Images Arts in NYC and others…She has been involved as a respondent with KCACTF since 1999 and has enjoyed every minute of it! She received an MFA in Acting from the University of Pittsburgh and a BFA in Acting from the Catholic University of America.

SCOTT L. STEELE: since 1994, Executive Director, University/Resident Theatre Association (URTA). Prior to 1994: General Manager, The Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Acting Company. Deputy Director, The Lincoln Center Theatre Company. General Manager, American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), for original Off-Broadway productions, including THE ELEPHANT MAN and TINTYPES. Producer: MEDUSA, POOR LITTLE LAMBS and Stephen King’s GHOST STORIES. Associate Producer/Production Manager, various television projects. He has served as a consultant to numerous organizations and is a member of the National Theatre Conference.

RICK STOPPLEWORTH is an Assistant Professor of Acting and Musical Theater at The University of the Arts in Philadlephia where he is also the interim Head of Acting and Head of the Musical Theater Minor program offered through the College of Performing Arts’ Theater, Music and Dance departments. Rick has directed for both the Theater and Music departments. His productions of Brecht on Brecht, The Seven Deadly Sins and The Bald Soprano were awarded honors in the Kennedy Center’s A.C.T.F. competition. Rick’s long list of productions for the Brind School includes 9 Parts Of Desire, Anton In Show Business, Bat Boy; The Musical, Winterset, Chicago and most recently Spring Awakening.

KCACTF 2014 54

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests BILIANA STOYTCHEVA-HORISSIAN, MFA, Ph.D. was an Associate Professor of Theatre at Emory & Henry College in VA where she served as the chair of the Theatre department. She recently moved to PA and joined Lycoming College where she teaches various acting classes and directs productions. An accomplished professional actor who has performed and conducted master classes nationally and internationally, she has presented numerous acting workshops at regional and national venues. Her research and artistic interests include Comedy, Molière, Acting Pedagogy, and Eastern European Absurdism. She is currently working on a book on Comic Acting.

MICHAEL SWANSON is director of theatre and dance and associate professor of theatre at Elizabethtown. Favorite productions as a director at the College include Urinetown, Gint, Cabaret, The Memorandum, Lysistrata, and A Dream Play. Michael has been involved in KCACTF for more than twenty years. He was regional chair and festival host of KCACTF Region III -- the Great Lakes states -- where was awarded the KCACTF Gold Medallion for his longtime service. He has also been a regional officer in Region VIII and in Region II, where he has co-coordinated the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions. Michael has directed new plays for the NPP at KCACTF festivals in regions II, III, and VIII. Michael earned a Ph. D. at The Ohio State University, an MFA in directing at Wayne State University, and a BA from Hamline University. He is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

YOSHI TANOKURA is a Scenic & Costume Designer, East Stroudsburg University of PA. His recent credits include Joe DiPietro’s new play “Clever Little Lies” at George Street Playhouse starring Marlo, “Exonerated” at Delaware Theatre Company, “Pride and Prejudice” at People’s Light & Theatre, and “Lucia de Lammermoor” at Anchorage Opera. He is a member of U.S.A. Local 829.

LAW TARELLO is an Adjunct Lecturer of Improvisational Theater at State University of New York, College at Brockport. His improv training includes advanced work with The Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City, NY. Law made his Broadway debut fall 2005 as William Barfeé in the TONY Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. A principal performer in over 30 national television promos and commercials and TV pilots for Comedy Central, Food TV and NBC/Warner Bros. he credits his improv work for much of his success. Law is the founder of the Search Engine Improv Comedy Training Center. For more visit FallBackComedy.com.

LARS TATOM is in his fifth year as the head of Theatre at Anne Arundel Community College, located just outside of Annapolis MD; he teaches all levels of Acting there as

an Associate Professor. He holds an MFA degree in Directing from UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from the University of Colorado. This is his fourth year serving Region 2 as Workshop Coordinator/Master Scheduler.

NATHAN THOMAS serves as Director of Theatre at Alvernia University. A specialty area is Russian theatre. He studied in Moscow with the Vakhtangov Theatre. He has translated “The Seagull” and “The Inspector General.”

Thomas is also a company member of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

TIFFANY TOWNS is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. In spring 2013, Tiffany was the playwright/director for the touring children’s theatre production of A World of Many Tales in Lycoming County (PA). Tiffany received her M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and has experience designing costumes, makeup, and hair for theatre,dance, and opera.

Previous design credits include Hair, Candide, Equus, and The Threepenny Opera. Tiffany has worked with companies such as The Center for Puppetry Arts, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Texas Shakespeare Festival.

ANDY TRUSCOTT is this year’s Festival Manager, a role he also undertook in 2009 at the KCACTF at The University of the Arts. Andy is the Marketing and Development Manager at Delaware Theatre Company, Delaware’s only LORT Equity House. A 2009 West Chester University Theatre Arts graduate, Andy has worked for other Philadelphia based theatre companies such as Pig Iron Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, and The Renegade Company. Andy has a BA in Theatre Arts from West Chester University, an A.A. in Business Administration, and an A.A.S. in Marketing. Andy is the 2009 co-recipient of the J.P. Adler Prize for Excellence in Theatre, awarded by the Department Faculty to a graduating senior.

SEAN JOSEPH URBANTKE is the Instructor of Theatre Design and Technology at Anne Arundel Community College and a freelance scenic designer. Recent design work includes iStrategy Lab’s limited-run online interactive Redd’s Apple Ale marketing campaign set based in Washington, D.C., Every Tongue Confess at the August Wilson Center for African American Studies in Pittsburgh, PA and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch with Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth, TX. He has also worked with Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Co., the African Continuum Theatre Company, the Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Texas Christian University, 1st Stage, No Rules Theatre Company, and the Capital Fringe Festival.

MARK WADE Artistic Director, Assistant Professor and Head of the Theater Arts Program at Arcadia University.

Mark is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama in Acting, and The Neighborhood Playhouse (where he studied with Sanford Meisner). Acting and directing credits include work for The Westport Country Playhouse, The

KCACTF 2014 55

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests Long Wharf Theater, and Trinity Repertory Theater. He spent five years as a creative consultant for Joanne Woodward, and produced with her two television movies for the “Hallmark Hall of Fame.” Mark assisted director Lloyd Richards on the Hallmark Hall of Fame’s television adaptation of The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. He directed the New York premiere of The Sirens by Darrah Cloud. At Arcadia, Mark has directed The Laramie Project, Keely and Du, Hearsay (a world premiere written

by Kathryn Petersen), The Love of the Nightingale, The Wind in the Willows, Home (a regional finalist and recipient of multiple awards including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Ensemble Acting by the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival), an all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, The Swing of the Sea (a world premiere written by Molly Hagan, an invited production to the KCACTF’s regional festival and winner of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Playwriting Award soon to be published by Samuel French).

BRAD WATKINS is Director of Theatre Services for TheatreWashington. He began as Associate Producer for Harlequin Dinner Theatre. His original Dear Mr. Ziegfield toured the U.S. Brad partnered creating Troika Entertainment. He freelanced as a marketing/production consultant and helped launch Phoenix Entertainment.

Brad was Producing Director for Olney Theatre Center for nine years, expanding the campus and creating an extensive intern program. He has directed many productions including Caris’ Peace, a collaboration exploring an actress’ journey following brain injury, the subject of a current documentary. Brad is a University of Maryland graduate, a former National Player, and a member of SDC. CATHERINE WEIDNER is a teacher, professional director and actor. She is the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College. She recently directed an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma for Nebraska Repertory Theatre; Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, and Merry Wives of Windsor for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Two Gentlemen of Verona for Theatre at Monmouth in Maine; Or, at Caffeine Theatre in Chicago, and a one-man version of Henry V in Austin, Texas for Rude Mechanicals/Red Then Productions. She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota, and has also trained at Complicite in London, The Second City in Chicago and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.

LISA A. WILDE, Chair of Dramaturgy for KCACTF Region 2, is the Resident Dramaturg at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland and the Director of Theatre at Howard Community College. She is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of The Americas and she holds a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from

the Yale School of Drama where she wrote her dissertation on female characters in Euripides. She has worked at Center Stage in Baltimore and Young Playwrights Inc in New York; taught at Towson University, Goucher College, and in the Johns Hopkins Odyssey program and been published in Ibsen News and Comment; Theater, and Shaw.

GRECHEN LYNNE WINGERTER is Instructor of Theatre at Bowling Green State University Firelands College in Huron, OH. Prior to arriving at BGSU Firelands, she was an adjunct instructor/guest director at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. Grechen has directed and stage managed for such theatres as Moscow Art Theatre (Too), Idaho Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, First Stage Milwaukee, Lifeline Theatre, Circle X Theatre Company, and Critical Mass Performance Group.

Grechen was a recipient of the 2009 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Teaching Artist Grant, a 2008 KCACTF National Faculty Director Mentor, and a 2007 SDC Student Director Fellowship.

Grechen received her MFA in Directing from the University of Idaho.

JULIET WUNSCH (Immediate Past Chair of Region 2) is the Associate Professor of Set Design, Lighting Design and Stage Management at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. She has stayed an active supporter of the KCACTF Mission since 2000, acting as DTM Chair, Vice Chair and Region 2 Chair. Her own design work has received national recognition, and has been seen at The Walnut Street Theatre, Freedom Theatre, The Philadelphia Arts Bank, Society Hill Playhouse, Irongate Theatre, the Merriam Theatre, Mount Gretna Playhouse, Bryn Athen Playhouse and Drexel’s Mandell Theatre. In the academic arena, Julie has designed for the University of Delaware Professional Theatre Training Program, The University of the Arts, Widener University and Evansville University. She has also worked extravaganzas in Atlantic City and designed in New York, Pittsburgh and DC. Julie holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

KURT WUNSCH is a lighting designer living in the Philadelphia area.Working in lighting industry for nearly 30 years, he began his career as a designer, electrician and programmer for special events, small theaters and concert tours. He served as the in house lighting designer for the Electric Factory Concert Club in Philly for several years. This path led him into cooperate design which he has been doing for the last 17-18 years. He has created event lighting for many companies including Google, IBM, SAS, and Exxon. He has designed trade shows like CES, CTIA, and NCTA. One of several favorite designs include the Boy Scouts’ 100th anniversary Jamboree, a 3 day event for 75,000 attendees. Kurt is currently a staff

KCACTF 2014 56

West Chester University

Festival Presenters and Guests lighting designer working for Alford Media Services, one of the premier cooperate staging companies in the country.

ELIZABETH VAN DEN BERG, Chair, Region 2 - As an actor she has toured the US with Oliver!, and been seen on many Washington DC stages, including Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Synetic Theater. She works as a freelance dialect coach in the DC metro area, where she has coached over 50 productions. KCACTF named her a top teaching Artist in 2005, and she received a Gold Medallion for her service to KCACTF in 2006. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, AFTRA and SAG, as well as VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association) she is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Grad Acting program.

HEIDI WINTERS VOGEL teaches acting, directing & social justice theater at EMU. She received her MFA from Penn State and has worked with such devised and applied practitioners as Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Lisa Jo Epstein, Mshai Mwangola, and Armand Volkas. Heidi co-founded CrashHouse Theater Project bringing high

school students, devising techniques and Shakespeare together.

PEGGY YATES is a Performer, Director and an Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre. She most recently appeared in Signature Theatre’s world premiere musical, Crossing. She is a two time Helen Hayes nominated actor and has performed on television and stage internationally and at regional theatres such as Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre Center, among others. She is a member of Screen Actors Guild and Actor’s Equity Association and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Catholic University.

DAVID ZARKO was founding artistic director of The Metropolitan Playhouse of New York, 1991 through 2000 and producing artistic director of Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Electric Theatre Company until 2011. He has over 90 professional directing credits plus more than 50 in academic theatre. He has taught (and directed) at C.W. Post L.I.U., American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marywood University, and others. He is also a produced playwright and sometimes actor. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

KCACTF 2014 57

West Chester University

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

Support for KCACTF

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; the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation.

Education and related artistic programs are made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

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; Capital 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.

KCACTF 2014 59

West Chester University

recommended restaurants Barnaby’s West Chester 15 S. High St., West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 696-1400

Limoncello Ristorante 9 N. Walnut Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 436-6230

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop 607 E. Market St., West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 719-0270

Market Street Grill 6 W. Market Street, West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 429-5328

Carrabba’s Italian Grill 102 Painters Crossing, West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 358-0156

New Haven Style Pizza 18 N. Church St., West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 696-9893

Chris’s Pizza 633 S Walnut St, West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 696-2734

Nonna’s 116 E. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 430-0203

Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House 117 East Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 429-4046

Penn’s Table Restaurant 100 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 696-0677

High Street Caffe 322 S. High St., West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 696-7435

Hog Island Hoagies 230 W. Market St., West Chester, PA 19382 (484) 947-5135

Pietro’s Prime 125 W. Market Street, West Chester, PA 19382 (484) 760-6100

Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant 3 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 738-9600

Riggtown Pizza Oven 551 S Matlack St, West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 431-3900

Judy’s Healthy Kitchen 237 E. Gay St., West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 696-4814

Ryan’s Pub 124 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 344-3934

Kildare’s 18-22 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 431-0770

SaladWorks 106 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 918-8500

King’s Garden Chinese Food 308 South High Street, West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 918-9000

Side Bar & Restaurant 10 E. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 429-8297

Kooma Asian and Sushi 123 N Church St, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 430-8980

Teca Restaurant 38 E. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 738-8244

Landmark Americana 158 W. Gay St., West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 701-9900

Timothy’s West Chester 929 S. High Street, West Chester, PA 19382 (484) 887-8771

The Pita Pit 139 W. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 (610) 918-7482

KCACTF 2014 60

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS

5

6 4

3 2

1

Free Parking for Festival Attendees

2

Swope School Of Music Building (SOMPAC)

3

E.O. Bull Center for the Arts (EOB)

4

Sykes Student Union (SYKES) - Cafeteria

KEY5

202 South to all Host Hotels

Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall (ASPLUNDH)

PARKING

Student*

6

1

* University decal required. Lot restrictions designated by posted signs, which take precedence over published materials.

Parking decals and enforcement subject to change as posted.

Francis Harvey Green Library (FHG Library)

Faculty/Staff*

Faculty/Staff/Student*

Borough of West Chester Garage, Meter, or Permit

A separate, detailed map for people with disabilities is available at Public Safety in the Peoples Building, the Information Desk in Philips Memorial, and Sykes Student Union.

Shuttle Bus Stop

KCACTF 2014 61 Visitor

ADA Accessible Only

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS

Main Entrance from Parking Lot and Buss Loop EOB 25 STUDIO THEATRE

EOB 40 EOB 22

EOB 21

EOB Mainstage Theatre

Info Desk

EOB 12 EOB 15 EOB 17

E.O. Bull Center (EOB) Lower Level Room Map KCACTF 2014 62

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS

EOB 132

EOB 170

EOB 105

EOB 154 DRAMATURGY

EOB 168

FESTIVAL ADMIN OFFICE

EOB 111

Main Entrance from ROSEDALE AVENUE

EOB ART GALLERY DTM EXHIBITS

EOB 114

Main Entrance from HIGH STREET

E.O. Bull Center (EOB) Upper Level Room Map KCACTF 2014 63

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS

Main Entrance from Rosedale Avenue FESTIVAL REGISTRATION

Sitting Area

RAMS HEAD CAFE Sitting Area Sitting Area

Sykes Student Union Main Floor Room Plan KCACTF 2014 64

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS Side Entrance from Rosedale Avenue

To Parking Lot and Bus Loop SOMPAC ART GALLERY DTM Exhibits

SOMPAC Gates Hall

SOMPAC 141

Main Entrance From Parking Lot and Bus Loop

SOMPAC Madeline Wing Adler Theatre

BUS LOOP DROP OFF

To E.O. Bull Center and Asplundh

Swope (SOMPAC) SwopeSchool Schoolof of Music Music (SOMPAC) Ground RoomPlan Plan SecondFloor Floor Room KCACTF 2014 65

West Chester University

CAMPUS MAPS

To E.O. Bull Center and Asplundh

SOMPAC 210

SOMPAC 208

To Parking Lot and Bus Loop

SOMPAC 204

SOMPAC 220

SOMPAC 225

Swope School of Music (SOMPAC) Second Floor Room Plan Swope School of Music (SOMPAC) West Chester University Second Floor Room Plan

KCACTF 2014 66

CAMPUS MAPS To E.O. Bull Center and Asplundh

SOMPAC 311 SOMPAC 310

To Parking Lot and Bus Loop

SOMPAC 307 SOMPAC 304 SOMPAC 303

SOMPAC 320

Swope School of Music (SOMPAC) Third Floor Room Plan KCACTF 2014 67

West Chester University

VillanoVa UniVersity Master of arts in theatre

are you an aspiring actor, director, scholar or playwright? then consider Villanova’s Master of arts in theatre.

Villanova’s program places equal emphasis on scholarly and creative work. Students undergo a rigorous course of study that is a combination of scholarly, artistic and practical approaches to theatre.

• Learn from award-winning faculty who work in the theatre industry • Deepen your understanding of the scope and content of theatre and drama, from classic to contemporary and from East to West

Villanova theatre: 6 Barrymore awards and 52 nominations for excellence in theatre

• Study on a full- or part-time basis • Competitive tuition rates, with assistantships available • Now offering a Certificate in Nonprofit Management to help prepare you for a career in the nonprofit sector of arts

For more information, visit theatre.villanova.edu or call 610.519.4760.