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Tuesday, July 22
 

1:30pm MST

2014 ATHE Leadership Institute (All Participants)
2014 ATHE Leadership Institute (All Participants)
Moderators
BO

Tuesday July 22, 2014 1:30pm - 5:00pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

5:00pm MST

Interactive Theatre Program (ITP) Subcommittee and Theatre as Social Change (TASC) Focus Group Joint Pre-Conference 1 -- Creating and Sustaining Interactive and Socially Engaged Theatre
Speakers
MW

Michael Wilson

Assistant Director, CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre
I use the beauty and magic of theatre for learning, activism, and community development. I focus on re-defining masculinity and developing the field of Applied Theatre. Assistant Director of CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre Director, www.manquestion.org

Tuesday July 22, 2014 5:00pm - 10:00pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

5:30pm MST

2014 ATHE Leadership Institute® Buffet Reception
2014 ATHE Leadership Institute Buffet Reception
Moderators
BO

Tuesday July 22, 2014 5:30pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Reception
 
Wednesday, July 23
 

8:00am MST

2014 ATHE Leadership Institute® Workshop
2014 ATHE Leadership Institute Workshop
Moderators
BO

Wednesday July 23, 2014 8:00am - 5:30pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

8:00am MST

Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Focus Group Pre-Conference 1 -- Dream and Action, Theory and Practice
Moderators
LH

Lisa Hall Hagen

Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy, Utah Valley University

Wednesday July 23, 2014 8:00am - 6:00pm MST
Moor 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:00am MST

Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Focus Group Pre-Conference 1
Moderators
DJ

Wednesday July 23, 2014 8:00am - 8:00pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:30am MST

Search Committee Breakfast with ATHE President
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Wednesday July 23, 2014 8:30am - 9:30am MST
President's Suite, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Focus Group Pre-Conference 1 -- Geography and the Human Lifespan: The Collocation of Environment, Conflict, and Resilience in the Transformative Kinesthetic Landscape
Moderators
KH

Kurt Heinlein

Missouri State University
Kurt is a working member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. He is VP of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and an active member of SAFD, FDC, and USA. He has performed extensively since completing his MFA in Acting from CCM, with credits that include New York, natl tours, regional... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2014 8:30am - 10:00pm MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

Directing Program (DP) and Acting Program (AP) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 1-- Best Techniques in Teaching Beginning Directing
Moderators
LM
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago
ST

Shona Tucker

Director of Theater, Vassar College
Texts they use in their acting classes.
avatar for Lionel Walsh

Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2014 9:00am - 6:00pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

Latina/o (LFG) Focus Group Pre-Conference 1
Moderators
GG
NM

Noe Montez

Assistant Professor of Drama, Tufts University
Noe Montez joined the Department of Drama and Dance after serving as the Dramaturg at the Cleveland Play House and as a freelance director and actor. His interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of performance, developmental psychology, memory and trauma. His manuscript... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2014 9:00am - 9:00pm MST
Arizona State University 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

Interactive Theatre (IT) Subcommittee Pre-Conference 2 -- Creating and Sustaining Interactive and Socially Engaged Theatre
Moderators
MW

Michael Wilson

Assistant Director, CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre
I use the beauty and magic of theatre for learning, activism, and community development. I focus on re-defining masculinity and developing the field of Applied Theatre. Assistant Director of CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre Director, www.manquestion.org

Wednesday July 23, 2014 9:00am - 10:00pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

10:00am MST

Operations Committee Meeting
Operations Committee Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Wednesday July 23, 2014 10:00am - 12:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

10:00am MST

Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Focus Group Pre-Conference -- The Mysteries of Devised Theatre Debunked: From Possibilities to Production
Moderators
avatar for Mark Charney

Mark Charney

Mark J. Charney is Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, and is also Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, having worked there for 27 years as Chair of English and Director of Theatre. He is author of the David Mark Cohen prize winning play, The... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2014 10:00am - 4:00pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

12:00pm MST

New Governing Council Members Orientation
New Governing Council Members Orientation
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Wednesday July 23, 2014 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Performance Studies (PSFG) and Religion and Theatre (RT) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 1 -- Spirituality as Critique
Moderators
BH

Beth Hoffmann

Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Contemporary British performance; live art; textuality and narrativity; British cultural studies; aesthetic theory and philosophy of art; social practice; matrixed/non-matrixed performance; immersive performance; narrative structures of alternate-reality games and "gaming for goo... Read More →

Wednesday July 23, 2014 12:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

1:00pm MST

Governing Council Meeting
Governing Council Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Wednesday July 23, 2014 1:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

3:00pm MST

Professional Development (PDC) Committee Pre-Conference -- Assessment Strategies and Pedagogical Applications: A Working Pre-Conference
Moderators
TM
MS

Monica Stufft

Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of San Diego

Wednesday July 23, 2014 3:00pm - 9:00pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

3:30pm MST

Focus Group Representatives' Meeting
Focus Group Representatives' Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Wednesday July 23, 2014 3:30pm - 5:30pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

4:00pm MST

Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) and Theatre History (TH) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 1 -- Dreaming of Theatre History: Pedagogy in the Trenches
Moderators
JB
JW

Jeanne Willcoxon

Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College

Wednesday July 23, 2014 4:00pm - 10:00pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

4:30pm MST

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Focus Group Pre-Conference -- Queer Mirages: An LGBTQ Pre-Conference Event
Moderators
JB

Joy Brooke Fairfield

Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University

Wednesday July 23, 2014 4:30pm - 11:30pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

5:30pm MST

Leadership Institute®, Governing Council, Focus Group Representatives' and Focus Group Conference Planners' Reception
Governing Council and Focus Group Representatives' Reception
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Wednesday July 23, 2014 5:30pm - 7:00pm MST
Plaza Bar, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Reception

7:00pm MST

Refuge: Hidden Stories -- Transit Performance
“Refuge: Hidden Stories”: A performance of refuge in transit through the Arizona desert. Board the bus to encounter buried narratives and hidden histories unearthed by roving bands of artists. Seating is limited to 35 passengers; the performance is free, but advance reservations are required.  
Moderators
CP

Wednesday July 23, 2014 7:00pm - 9:00pm MST
Bus: Participants should plan to meet in the hotel lobby at 6:45 PM 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Performance

7:00pm MST

New Play Development Workshop and Getchell Award Reading - Meet the Teams
PACT New Plays first team meetings for those selected for participation in the New Play Development Workshop and the SETC/PACT Getchell Award Development Workshop/Staged Reading events.
Moderators
avatar for Ingrid DeSanctis

Ingrid DeSanctis

Associate Professor, Playwriting, James Madison University
Ingrid De Sanctis works as Associate Professor of Playwriting at James Madison University where she also teaches acting and directing. Since receiving her MFA in Acting from UNCG, she has taught full time at Eastern Mennonite University, Clemson University and Bloomsburg University... Read More →
JF
CK
DL
JR
RS

Wednesday July 23, 2014 7:00pm - 10:00pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop
 
Thursday, July 24
 

8:00am MST

Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Focus Group Pre-Conference 2
Moderators
DJ

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:00am - 12:00pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:00am MST

Association for Theatre Movement Education (ATME) Focus Group Pre-Conference 2 - Geography and the Human Landspan: The Collocation of Environment, Conflict, and Resilience in the Transformative Kinesthetic Landscape
Moderators
KH

Kurt Heinlein

Missouri State University
Kurt is a working member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. He is VP of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and an active member of SAFD, FDC, and USA. He has performed extensively since completing his MFA in Acting from CCM, with credits that include New York, natl tours, regional... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:00am - 12:00pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:00am MST

Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) and Theatre History (TH) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 2 - Dreaming of Theatre History: Pedagogy in the Trenches
Moderators
JB
JW

Jeanne Willcoxon

Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:00am - 12:00pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:00am MST

Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Focus Group Pre-Conference 2 - Dream and Action, Theory and Practice
Moderators
LH

Lisa Hall Hagen

Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy, Utah Valley University

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:00am - 12:00pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

8:30am MST

Graduate Student Symposium: Opening Meet and Greet and Get Your Bearings
A great opportunity for graduate students and early professionals to gather and socialize, this session aims to introduce attendees to ATHE and each other.
Moderators
HS
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:30am - 9:30am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

8:30am MST

ATHE Leadership Institute® Workshop (ASU)
ATHE Leadership Institute Workshop
Moderators
BO

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Arizona State University 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

8:30am MST

Governing Council and Focus Group Representatives' Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:30am - 12:00pm MST
Arabian Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Dramaturgy (DR) Focus Group Pre-Conference - Dreamscapes in the Desert: Architecture and Dramaturgy
Moderators
BM

Thursday July 24, 2014 8:30am - 1:00pm MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

Design / Technology / Management (DTM) Focus Group Pre-Conference - Taking Media Beyond Playback: Interactive/Experiential Media Systems (ASU/Taliesin West)
Moderators
DM

Denise Massman

Siena College
Denise R. Massman, MFA (Costume Designer) has been specializing in all aspects of theatrical design for over 40 years. Her latest work has been for a 10-episode, 10 hour telenovela style “soap opera” in Norway. This project has been gathering steam since 2019. The challenge has... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
Arizona State University 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

Directing Program (DP) and Acting Program (AP) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 2-- Best Techniques in Teaching Beginning Directing
Moderators
LM
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago
ST

Shona Tucker

Director of Theater, Vassar College
Texts they use in their acting classes.
avatar for Lionel Walsh

Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

9:00am MST

New Play Development Workshop and The SETC/PACT Getchell Award Development Workshop/Staged Reading: Orientation and First Read-through
New Play Development Workshop and SETC/PACT Getchell Award Development WorkshopStaged Reading
Moderators
avatar for Ingrid DeSanctis

Ingrid DeSanctis

Associate Professor, Playwriting, James Madison University
Ingrid De Sanctis works as Associate Professor of Playwriting at James Madison University where she also teaches acting and directing. Since receiving her MFA in Acting from UNCG, she has taught full time at Eastern Mennonite University, Clemson University and Bloomsburg University... Read More →
JF
CK
DL
JR
RS

Thursday July 24, 2014 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
Palomino Ballroom 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

9:30am MST

Graduate Student Symposium: Tips and Tricks for Successfully Navigating the Job Market
A how-to guide to the types of jobs currently available (in and out of the academy), evaluating job listings, and application and interview strategies.
Moderators
HS
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Thursday July 24, 2014 9:30am - 11:15am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

10:00am MST

Performance Studies (PSFG) and Religion and Theatre (RT) Joint Focus Group Pre-Conference 2- Spirituality as Critique
Moderators
BH

Beth Hoffmann

Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Contemporary British performance; live art; textuality and narrativity; British cultural studies; aesthetic theory and philosophy of art; social practice; matrixed/non-matrixed performance; immersive performance; narrative structures of alternate-reality games and "gaming for goo... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 10:00am - 12:00pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

10:00am MST

Arizona State University Experience: Tour of Innovative Programs Arizona State University
This interactive tour will include multiple stops, with opportunities at each for demonstrations and question/answer sessions with representatives of each program.
Moderators
avatar for Jake Pinholster

Jake Pinholster

Director of the ASU School of Film, Dance and Theatre, Arizona State University
Jake Pinholster is the Director of the Herberger Institute School of Film, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University and head of graduate programs in interdisciplinary digital media and performance design. As a designer, Jake’s efforts have centered on projection and media design... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 10:00am - 3:00pm MST
Arizona State University 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Tour

11:00am MST

Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) Pre-Conference 2
Moderators
GG
NM

Noe Montez

Assistant Professor of Drama, Tufts University
Noe Montez joined the Department of Drama and Dance after serving as the Dramaturg at the Cleveland Play House and as a freelance director and actor. His interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of performance, developmental psychology, memory and trauma. His manuscript... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 11:00am - 1:00pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Pre-Conference

11:15am MST

Graduate Student Symposium: Assessment 101 for Graduate Students and Early Career Professionals
Assessment is dominating conversations at the institutional and departmental levels. Join us for strategies to translate these big picture questions into improved graduate teaching.
Moderators
HS
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Thursday July 24, 2014 11:15am - 1:00pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

11:30am MST

American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Focus Group (Board) Membership Meeting
Business Meeting for Board Members of The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
Moderators
MC

Thursday July 24, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

11:30am MST

Membership Research Group #1
Moderators
DK

David Kaye

Chair, University of New Hampshire
Actor, Director, Designer, Deviser with a specialty in Interactive theatre and theatre for social justice. I invest a good deal of my artistic life focused on utilizing theatre is a springboard to engage in difficult dialogues and the goal of building a more just, inclusive and empathetic... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Finance (FC) Committee Meeting
Moderators
NL

Nina LeNoir

Chair, Chapman University
ATHE Immediate Past President for Conference 2010

Thursday July 24, 2014 12:00pm - 1:00pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

1:30pm MST

Acting (AP) Focus Group Debut Panel - Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session 1
Acting teachers will introduce new or adapted acting exercises that have been selected for presentation. Attendees may observe and/or participate in these exercises.
Speakers
avatar for Jane Brody

Jane Brody

Jane Drake Brody: Master Teacher
There can be no more exciting activity than teaching talented young actors to release the joy in them. I am a former actress, singer, agent, director, casting director, and long time teacher. Currently I write books that I hope are helpful to actors, teachers and directors. These... Read More →
MC

Maria Cominis

Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton
Let's talk about students independent rehearsal. We all deal with students who don't know how to rehearse when left on their own to work with their scene partner. In Rehearsing In The Zone, A Practical Guide To Rehearsing Without A Director (Kendall Hunt 2013), students learn how... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Covey

Rebecca Covey

Associate Professor, Florida International University
Rebecca Covey is an Equity actor, designated Linklater Voice teacher and Associate Professor in Acting, Voice and Movement at Florida International University in Miami.   At FIU she serves as Head of Performance and as the resident Voice & Dialect Director. She also works as a professional... Read More →
JK
CJ
BS

Bradley Stephenson

University of Missouri
Teacher, artist, scholar, husband, father, gentleman.
LA

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

1:30pm MST

Dramaturgy (DR) Focus Group Debut Panel
This session presents outstanding work by emerging dramaturgs and literary managers in professional and educational theatre venues.
Moderators
CS

Cynthia SoRelle

Board Chair, LMDA
Please as me about applying for the ATHE Dramaturgy Debut Panel. I'm happy to tell you about the LMDA BLY Creative Capacity Grants (deadline to apply this year is September 15th) and the range is $5,000 to $20,000. I serve as Board Chair for LMDA and on the BLY Committee; I chair... Read More →

Speakers
LH

Lexi Hamill

Front of House Manager, The Cornish Playhouse
Three parts: 1. Footwork 2. Timing 3. Turns Crazy stubborn redhead. Dramaturg. Director. Playwright. Actor. Ballroom Dancer. Workaholic. Those are the basics.
CH
LM

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

1:30pm MST

Asian Theatre Journal* Lecture with Claudia Orenstein
Renowned modern Japanese theatre scholar Cody Poulton reviews his two major projects: *A Beggar's Art* and *The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama.*
Moderators
SL

Speakers
CO

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Lecture

1:30pm MST

Membership Research Group #2
Speakers
DK

David Kaye

Chair, University of New Hampshire
Actor, Director, Designer, Deviser with a specialty in Interactive theatre and theatre for social justice. I invest a good deal of my artistic life focused on utilizing theatre is a springboard to engage in difficult dialogues and the goal of building a more just, inclusive and empathetic... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

1:30pm MST

National Partners - American Theatre (NAPAT) Meeting for New and Returning Members
National Partners - American Theatre Meeting An open membership meeting for new and returning members. All interested ATHE members with an interest in supporting student theatre are encouraged to attend and network with NAPAT members.
Speakers
JH
JK

Jeffrey Koep

Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
JW

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

1:30pm MST

A Dream for Catholicism in American Theatre Part 1: Renewing Catholicism in Performance and Spectatorship
This panel analyzes the role of Catholicism in contemporary American theatre, examining and imagining how theatre can renew and offer refuge in/for the Catholic faith.
Speakers
RB
AI
KW

Kevin Wetmore

Loyola Marymount University

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Build Your Best Case: Preparing Files for Tenure and Promotion
For tenure or promotion begin early then continue. Panelists representing different types of institutions and programs, outline best practices for success in critical career junctures.
Speakers
AM
WD
TM
BP
JW

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Dreaming of an Inclusive Campus Climate
Lessons learned and yet to be realized of inclusive campus practices: from validating student veterans, to rethinking first year orientation, to contemplating collaborative Pedagogy.
Speakers
JB

Jason Bisping

University of Colorado
CP

Coya Paz Brownrigg

Assistant Professor, DePaul University
Coya is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre School at DePaul University, where she teaches classes on directing, ensemble creation, Hip-Hop theater, and theater history. She is also the Artistic Director of Free Street Theater in Chicago, which has been "taking theatre out of theaters... Read More →
avatar for Michelle Hayford

Michelle Hayford

Assistant Director of Center for the Arts, Florida Gulf Coast University
Applied theatre, theatre for social change, University-Community/non-profit partnerships, ethnodrama, gender studies

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Dreaming the Profession: African American Artists Envision a More Enlightened Working Future
Panelists revisit the idealism, advocacy and reform work undertaken by African American theatre artists seeking reform within the American theatre industry.
Speakers
AM
HE

Harry Elam

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford Univeristy
BK
K
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Fat Chance: Fat, Class, and the American Dream
Through performance and critical position papers, this panel explores how fat is utilized performatively to mark difference in social class and how fat characters become politicized for ideological purposes.
Speakers
JB
LC
avatar for Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, yoga teacher and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their power as social... Read More →
JM
KN

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Material Dreams--Economic and Labor Im/Possibilities
Scholar/Practitioners examine case studies ranging from labor unions to dream sequences in musicals to analyze the material reality of dream acts.
Speakers
HB

Heather Barfield

CFO / Adjunct Associate Professor / Associate Artistic Director, Austin Creative Alliance/ Austin Community College / VORTEX Repertory
directing new work, performance art, ritual theater, Artaud, feminist performance practices, writing about performance, arts criticism, performance of economics, non-profit arts administration, adjunct challenges, job seeking, local arts community collaborations, arts advocacy, Actor's... Read More →
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Jane Barnette

Dramaturg, Theatre Historian, University of Kansas
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
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Paul Bonin-Rodriguez

The University of Texas at Austin
Dance in/as “Fake News”: Notes from the Policy FrontFriday, 4:45-6:15 p.m., Cartoon Room 2  In a recent editorial, arts analyst Alan Brown wrote: “Cultural policy has failed us. Patterns of investment in cultural infrastructure too often reinforce class divides instead of... Read More →
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Chase Bringardner

Auburn University
VP of Conference, Orlando 2013
CE

Christin Essin

Vanderbilt University
LF

Laura Farrell-Wortman

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Let me play the lion, too!”: A Rare Vision for Training Collaborative Theatre Makers
This panel explores a visionary approach to classical theatre training by discussing our experience dreaming up and implementing an innovative MFA company model built upon interdisciplinarity and collaboration.
Speakers
DB
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Matt Davies

Assistant Professor, Mary Baldwin College
An Associate Professor in Mary Baldwin College's MLitt/MFA in Shakespeare and Performance in association with the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, Matt is also an associate director with Actors From The London Stage, and a professional actor and director.
JS

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Longing for What We've Left Behind (And Dreaming Ahead?)
This panel features six scholars discussing research projects that they've abandoned and a collaborative discussion of how we might dream them ahead and back to life.
Speakers
AF
JK

Jennifer Kokai

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Weber State University
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Tom Robson

Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance, Millikin University
Focus Group Representative for Theatre History
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Daniel Smith

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, Translation Studies, History of Sexuality

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

Movement in the Margins: Movement as Opening, Transition, and Liminal Dream-Space of a Play
An illustrated panel discussion on how movement coaches work with directors to create subtextual and meaningful movement-based theatre as transitions within often conventional drama.
Speakers
TB
JC
SR

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

1:30pm MST

How to Get the Most out of ATHE and this Conference!
New to ATHE? This session is for you! Find out all the ways this conference and ATHE can be of maximum service to you.
Speakers
DK

David Kaye

Chair, University of New Hampshire
Actor, Director, Designer, Deviser with a specialty in Interactive theatre and theatre for social justice. I invest a good deal of my artistic life focused on utilizing theatre is a springboard to engage in difficult dialogues and the goal of building a more just, inclusive and empathetic... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 3:00pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

1:30pm MST

2015 Conference Committee Meeting
Moderators
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Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 4:45pm MST
Moor 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

1:30pm MST

Paid Workshop #1: Theater Grottesco: Movement and Gesture as Genetic Cultural Memory
This workshop begins with the premise that culture is stored in our genes as instinct. Glimpses of these memories can be seen as movement and gesture, many of them unconscious. Where language provides oral and written history, and thought gives us world views; movement and gesture, on a deeper and subconscious level, reveal memories of cultures foresworn, family and tribal histories, present pop culture messages imprinting without our awareness or consent, and perhaps even portents of the future. Participants should come ready to move at the ability they are able to; in loose fitting plain colored clothing (no advertising!), hair pulled back and jewelry off. We start on time and prefer to work barefoot.
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Thursday July 24, 2014 1:30pm - 4:45pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Paid Workshop

3:15pm MST

Acting (AP) Focus Group Debut Panel - Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session 2
Acting teachers will introduce new or adapted acting exercises that have been selected for presentation. Attendees may observe and/or participate in these exercises.
Speakers
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Jane Brody

Jane Drake Brody: Master Teacher
There can be no more exciting activity than teaching talented young actors to release the joy in them. I am a former actress, singer, agent, director, casting director, and long time teacher. Currently I write books that I hope are helpful to actors, teachers and directors. These... Read More →
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Maria Cominis

Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton
Let's talk about students independent rehearsal. We all deal with students who don't know how to rehearse when left on their own to work with their scene partner. In Rehearsing In The Zone, A Practical Guide To Rehearsing Without A Director (Kendall Hunt 2013), students learn how... Read More →
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Rebecca Covey

Associate Professor, Florida International University
Rebecca Covey is an Equity actor, designated Linklater Voice teacher and Associate Professor in Acting, Voice and Movement at Florida International University in Miami.   At FIU she serves as Head of Performance and as the resident Voice & Dialect Director. She also works as a professional... Read More →
JK
CJ
BS

Bradley Stephenson

University of Missouri
Teacher, artist, scholar, husband, father, gentleman.
LA

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

3:15pm MST

American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS), Black Theatre Association (BTA), and Latino/a (LFG) Joint Focus Group Debut Panel -- Curtains Up
An emerging scholars panel introducing new scholarship in American, Black, Latina/o and Latin American Drama.
Speakers
AA
VA

Virginia Anderson

Connecticut College
CA
RD
SG
DJ
K
JN

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

3:15pm MST

Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group Debut Panel - Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel
This adjudicated panel spotlights the work of scholars who have not previously presented at a national conference as well as established scholars new to the areas of music theatre and dance.
Speakers
HA
DG

Donatella Galella

PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
ATHE 2014 Papers: "The Promise of (Dis)Pleasure: Yellowface in Contemporary Musical Revivals" "Superheroes, Heteropatriarchy, and Musicals" Bio: Donatella Galella is a PhD Candidate in Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is a critical history... Read More →
MJ

Mary Jo Lodge

Associate Professor, Lafayette College
BV
AW

Alison Walls

CUNY Graduate Centre
JW

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

3:15pm MST

Performance Studies (PSFG) Focus Group Debut Panel - Emerging Scholars Panel
The annual, vetted emerging scholars panel for the Performance Studies Focus Group.
Moderators
PM

Patrick McKelvey

Dis-Affection and Theatrical Labor, Brown Univeristy
Bertolt Brecht’s theory has a greater impact on Chinese opera than otherwise, despite his incorrect and misleading perception on Mei Lanfang, as observed by such critics as Leonard Cabell Pronko and Min Tian. The reception of his theory, particularly alienation effect, by Chinese... Read More →
KS

Speakers
LA
KW
PZ

Phillip Zapkin

Doctoral Student, GTA, West Virginia University
I'm in the opening phases of my dissertation in the WVU English Department. My diss will be about contemporary British and non-US Anglophone adaptations of Greek drama as responses to neoliberalism.

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

3:15pm MST

Women and Theatre Program (WTP) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Joint Focus Group Debut Panel
This joint session between WTP and LGBTQ highlights emerging theatre scholars working in gender and/or sexuality studies and presenting at ATHE for the first time.
Moderators
JB
JF

Jason Fitzgerald

Columbia University graduate student, PhD in Theatre/English Yale School of Drama MFA 2008, Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism
RM

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

3:15pm MST

Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Moderators
SL

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

3:15pm MST

Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Focus Group Open Forum
Come join other ATHE members as we discuss a myriad of topics related to the teaching and the study of theatre as a liberal art.
Moderators
JB
HB
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Shawna Mefferd Carroll

Assistant Professor of Theatre, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
I'm the conference planner for the Theatre as Liberal Art Focus Group. If you're interested in TLA, talk to me! I'm both a theatre artist and educator - director, artistic director, and performer. I teach dramatic literature, script analysis, theatre history, directing, and have... Read More →
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Alison Frost

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
I teach a variety of theatre classes at TAMUCC including Acting 3: Period Styles, Theatre History 1, Audition Preparation, Acting for the Camera, and Musical Theatre. I teach 2 classes for a Study Abroad program I take to England/Scotland every 2 years. I serve on the Theatre as a... Read More →
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Jay Sierszyn

Director of Theatre, Wisconsin Lutheran College
Out-going "Theatre as a Liberal Art" Focus Group Representative
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Lee University

Lee University, 1113

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

3:15pm MST

(Im)migrant Dreams 1: The Pursuit of Cultural Citizenship Through and Against Hegemonic Theatrical Forms
We consider the politics of engagement with theatrical form in (im)migrant bids for cultural citizenship within national theatrical cultures including the United States and Ireland.
Speakers
MG
CM
JR
RZ

Rui Zhang

M.A. student in Theatre at Illinois State University.

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Digital Dreams and Multimedia Mirages (in the Desert)
Presentations on two multimedia-based works: a collaboration with many resources, technological, scientific and creative; and the brainchild of a nearly one-person department with limited resources.
Speakers
DF

Daniel Fine

Media Design and Education, Freelance
MFA in Interdisciplinary Digital Media & Performance Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts School of Theatre & Film / Arts, Media + Engineering. I tell stories by manipulating moving images, puppets, text, actors, inanimate objects, and interactive technology. By combining my... Read More →
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Lance Gharavi

Associate Professor, Arizona State University
I am an artist, scholar, and educator--in no particular order. Much of my research and creative work involves playing in the intersections of performance with technology, religion, and science.
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Stephen Schrum

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Areas of interest: Playwrighting and Digital Performance. Using technology for both teaching and performance. Also, taking lesser known works and breathing new life into them.
JT

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Games That We Play
A workshop that explores the hidden ideologies and possibilities of theatre games and exercises
Speakers
JB

Jason Bisping

University of Colorado
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Lisa Brenner

Associate Professor, Drew University
Lisa is a Member at Large for Theatre and Social Change. She is the co-author of Katrina: the K Word, a play based on interviews with residents of New Orleans. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Columbia University. At Drew, where she recently won the Distinguished Teaching Award... Read More →
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Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, yoga teacher and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their power as social... Read More →
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Annalisa Dias-Mandoly

Director|The Salima Project http://salimaproject.org MA Theatre History & Criticism, The Catholic University of America
CG

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Improv Comedy Creates Joy for Actors of All Ages
Improvisation works like a dream. Learn how to use techniques in class and on stage to enhance skills like timing, cooperation, and most of all...comedy!
Speakers
JR
BL

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Inclusive Engagement: Diversity Includes People with Disabilities in Theatre
A panel discussion featuring various practices of inclusive engagement followed by a discussion of diversity including people with disabilities.
Speakers
PJ

PeggyRae Johnson

Keene State College
JR

Julie Rada

Morales Fellow, University of Utah
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Michael Wilson

Assistant Director, CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre
I use the beauty and magic of theatre for learning, activism, and community development. I focus on re-defining masculinity and developing the field of Applied Theatre. Assistant Director of CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre Director, www.manquestion.org
CK

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Opening Doors to the Dream: Leadership in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Join leaders who have worked with students creating theatrical festival experiences in all disciplines of theatre, supported by scholarship opportunities. Come dream with us.
Speakers
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Scott Mackenzie

Chair Region II, and Prof of Theatre, Westminster College
Chair of KCACTF Region II and recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for excellence in theatre education. Dr. Mackenzie is Professor and Director of Theatre at Pennsylvania’s Westminster College. He earned his MFA in Acting at Michigan State University and Ph.D. from Wayne... Read More →
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Elizabeth Vandenberg

National Member-at-Large, Irene Ryan Respondent, VIP
Elizabeth van den Berg, KCACTF National Member at Large, Irene Ryan and SDC Coordinator, is a Professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD.  She recently directed HAIR at McDaniel College, and works professionally in the Washington DC... Read More →
JW

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Publishing Book and Performance Reviews: How, Where, and Why
Editors from peer-reviewed scholarly journals will offer insight and answer questions on publishing book and performance reviews for academic presses.
Moderators
AS

Speakers
CB

Chase Bringardner

Auburn University
VP of Conference, Orlando 2013

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

Renewing Shakespeare's Structure: Lessac's Structural NRG and the Shakespearean Actor
Participants will apply Lessac's Structural NRG to Shakespearean text and discover elements of interpretation, characterization, and heightened emotion and intensity that reveal the potential for speaking Shakespeare's lines as he might have intended.
Speakers
EB
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Helen Housley

Associate Professor of Theatre, University of Mary Washington
Helen Housley is a Certified Lessac Trainer who has been vocal/dialect coaching for several years. She received her Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Maryland and has been a theatre educator for many years. In addition, Dr. Housley is a director. Recent productions include Macbeth... Read More →
JJ

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

The Grand Canyon State: Engaging with Place at ATHE
A curated series of performances, The Grand Canyon State will engage with the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of our attendance in Arizona.
Speakers
SL

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

3:15pm MST

We Have Your Students; Do You Want them? Transfer Dreams of the 2-year College Student
40% to 60% of 4-year college graduates in the United States first attended 2-year colleges. 2-year colleges offer 4-year colleges a needed source of new enrollment, however problems with transfer and articulation cause roadblocks for 2-year college students. Transfer relationship success stories will be presented, and questions and comments are welcomed as we strive for a better relationship between 2 and 4 year Theatre programs.
Speakers
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Sherry Boyd

Professor, Dallas College-North Lake
I am a professor in Theatre and Humanities at Dallas College--North Lake Campus in Irving, Texas.  Before North Lake, I taught middle school music and drama at The Hockaday School for nine years. In 2016, I earned my MA from Texas Woman’s University in Stage Management/Directing... Read More →
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Bill Gillett

Asst Professor, Coodinator for Theatre, Carroll Community College

Thursday July 24, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

5:00pm MST

2014 ATHE Awards Ceremony
Moderators
DS

Dani Snyder-Young

Associate Professor of Theatre, Illinois Wesleyan University
Talk to me about nominating your hero for 2015 ATHE Awards. Applied theatre, critical pedagogy, social justice.

Thursday July 24, 2014 5:00pm - 6:00pm MST
Princess D-G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Ceremony

6:00pm MST

Keynote Speaker: Luis Alfaro
Keynote Presentation and Dialogue with Professor Tiffany Ana Lopez
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Thursday July 24, 2014 6:00pm - 7:00pm MST
Princess D-G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Keynote Speech

7:15pm MST

2014 ATHE Opening Reception
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Thursday July 24, 2014 7:15pm - 9:00pm MST
Princess H-I, Exhibit Hall, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Reception
 
Friday, July 25
 

7:45am MST

ATME Morning Warm Up: Satisfaction Cycle
Please join us for this special conference-wide warm up based on Body-Mind Centering.
Moderators
EB
HC

Friday July 25, 2014 7:45am - 8:15am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Warm Up

8:30am MST

Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Debut Panel
This session provides a venue to graduate students or first time presenters at ATHE to present a paper or conduct a workshop related to Theatre Direction in teaching and research.
Moderators
LM
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago

Speakers
BC

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

8:30am MST

2015 Conference Planners' Meeting 1
Moderators
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Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Advocacy (ADV) Committee Meeting
Join us for an opportunity to update and address issues of the committee.
Moderators
KE

Kathryn Ervin

Professor, California State Univ., San Bernardino

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Arts Summit Meeting
Arts Summit Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
President's Suite, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Excellence in Playwriting Award Committee Meeting
Speakers
DS

Dani Snyder-Young

Associate Professor of Theatre, Illinois Wesleyan University
Talk to me about nominating your hero for 2015 ATHE Awards. Applied theatre, critical pedagogy, social justice.

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Research and Publication Committee (RPC) Meeting
Please join us for discussion of the current projects and future goals of the Research and Publications Committee.
Moderators
RS

Robert Schanke

ATHE Vice President for Awards
AS

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Strategic Planning (SPC) Committee Meeting
Strategic Planning (SPC) Committee Meeting
Moderators
PY

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Theatre History (TH) Focus Group Membership Meeting
This is the membership meeting of the Theatre History Focus Group.
Moderators
CM

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Meeting

8:30am MST

Achieving the Dream: From ATHE Staged Reading to Renewed Production
This session will explore staged readings at previous ATHE conferences which have experienced the renewal of full productions elsewhere. We will learn from the processes, lessons, and experience of fulfilling the dream of a production, and how the experience at ATHE contributed to the process.
Speakers
SB
KJ
BM
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Affecting Kinesthesia from Internal and External Awareness in Viewpoints Practice
This participatory workshop explores various perspectives on kinesthetic awareness and response in viewpoints practice with the goal of unleashing creative possibilities
Speakers
EB
JC

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Bordering on Queer
This panel explores how material and discursive borders produce queerness, and how queer performances potentially eschew the rigidity of these borders.
Speakers
AH
KK

Kareem Khubchandani

Williams College
If you're reading this leave me a poke... = ) Pokes are under-rated
EK
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James McMaster

PhD Student in Performance Studies, New York University
James McMaster is a revolting queer Filipino-American activist, scholar, performer, and poet. He has his MA in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas at Austin, and will soon be moving to NYC to pursue his PhD in Performance Studies at New York University. His... Read More →
LM

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Build it and They Will Come: Fostering Institutional Investment for a Diversity-Focused Theatre Company
A roundtable discussion on the establishment and maintenance of a diversity-focused theatre company in institutions that privilege the polytechnic over the liberal arts.
Speakers
TC

Tessa Carr

Auburn University
Tessa W. Carr, PhD is the Artistic Director of Auburn University's Mosaic Theatre Company and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre. Carr earned her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include devised... Read More →
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Heather May

Associate Professor/Artistic Director Mosaic NY, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
MP

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Chairs and Deans: Ideas, Strategies, Dialogue
Chairs and Deans meet together to discuss issues involving academic and artistic leadership and administration. A great opportunity to share ideas among kindred spirits!
Speakers
JC
JP
BL

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Dreamin' Black Churches
This panel will explore the role dreams play in the reversal and maintenance of the status quo in many Black Christian traditions.
Speakers
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Soyica Colbert

Mysterious Mixings: Passing in Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Georgetown University
Professional wrestling is a popular spectacle in which muscular men and women throw, body slam, and attempt to pin each other in stadiums full of screaming fans. Professional wrestling thus has many of the trappings of contemporary sports; however, it also fulfills many of the established... Read More →
TC
DJ
TT

Tiffany Trent

PhD Student, ASU Theatre for Youth
AL

Anndretta Lyle Wilson

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant, UCLA Theater and Performance Studies - University of California Los Angeles

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Dreaming of New Content: Other Asian Performance Forms
Scholars and teachers know about the major classical Asian theatres. This panel will introduces lesser known but popular Asian performance forms for the generalist audience.
Speakers
GC

Geetha Creffield

Goldsmiths University of London, Goldsmiths University of London
I am a postgraduate student in Theatre and Performance. I am also a director of a youth ensemble. I am interested in the intersection of theatre and culture nad am an investigator of sociology of theatre.
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Ronald Gilliam

Doctoral Candidate, Asian Theatre, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
I am currently a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Asian Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I previously received my MA from the department of Performance Studies at New York University and my BA in Theatre and Chinese Language from Butler University. My current academic research... Read More →
DJ
KW

Kevin Wetmore

Loyola Marymount University

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Going to the Chapel: Dreaming of a Queer Wedding
In a post-DOMA world of homonormativity, where gay citizenship is often premised upon the institution of marriage, how might we dream of a queer wedding?
Speakers
JB

Joy Brooke Fairfield

Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University
TM

Thomas Meacham

University of Connecticut
LZ
KN
JS

Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Interrogating the American Dream/Performing the American Reality
Performances from and a discussion of a multi-campus collaboration based on interviews across the U.S. about attitudes towards money and opportunity post the financial crisis.
Speakers
MA
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Lisa Brenner

Associate Professor, Drew University
Lisa is a Member at Large for Theatre and Social Change. She is the co-author of Katrina: the K Word, a play based on interviews with residents of New Orleans. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Columbia University. At Drew, where she recently won the Distinguished Teaching Award... Read More →
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LD

Lesley Delmenico

Penetrating Habitual Stratifications: Traversing Urban Spaces en route, Associate Professor Department of Theatre and Dance Grinnell College
In 2013, I was asked by Gospel Light Christian Church (GLCC) in Singapore to direct a Christmas show and make it more professional and “experiential”. The church leadership was fully aware of the pre-existing Christmas shows put up by “megachurches” such as New Creation Church... Read More →
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Celeste Miller

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance, Grinnell College
Since 2013 Celeste Miller has been working with a partnership between an undergraduate liberal arts college and a college of osteopathic medicine have to offer a workshop using embodied/in-bodied experiential exercises in the context of the course, “Medicine and the Humanities... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Perspectives on the Acting Profession
This panel will combine four papers featuring performers who were able to dream up new versions of themselves or of their America.
Speakers
RD
FL
ML
MS

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Resistance to Renewal: The Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
This panel will address collaborations between theatre and other disciplines, particularly how these partnerships may lead to shared resources, renewed creativity, and new audiences.
Speakers
VD
EH
JK

Jennifer Kokai

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Weber State University
KL

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

The Artists Speak!!: A Creative State of the Field about Latina/o Theatre in the U.S. Today
Five Latina/o theatre artists currently engaged in theatrical activities across the U.S. offer their own reflections on the development, creation, and reception of Latina/o work.
Speakers
JC
AM
CM
JN
GR
ER

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:30am MST

Troubleshooting the Dream; Sharing Ways to Help Devised Productions Work in the Liberal Arts
Two designers, two lead deviser/directors and one technical director assemble to speak frankly about the complications of ensemble created work and share ideas and tips.
Speakers
HA
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Rich Brown

Professor, Western Washington University
Deviser/actor/director/teacher. Carnegie Foundation’s State of Washington Professor of the Year 2015 KC/ACTF’s National Outstanding Lead Deviser/Director 2012 for "US"
MH

Mark Hutchinson

Technical Coordinator, Bucknell University
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Anjalee Hutchinson

Associate Professor, Bucknell University
Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson, a director and devisor, teaches at Bucknell University. A graduate of the MFA directing program at Northwestern University, Anjalee has freelanced as an actor /director in New York City, Chicago, London and Mumbai. Ms. Deshpande Hutchinson is trained... Read More →
SM

Sarah Martin

Assistant Professor/Scenic Designer, Trinity University

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30am - 10:00am MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:00am MST

Awardee Videotaping
Friday July 25, 2014 9:00am - 5:00pm MST
Castile 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  N-A

10:15am MST

2014 ATHE Plenary - Dream Activism and Pedagogies for a Changing America
The American Dream has long been aligned with national westward expansion, in the desire both to settle and occupy as well as to generate and convert local economies and ways of life. This panel proposes an alternative direction for dreaming: starting from indigenous perspectives and on-the-ground activism in Arizona and moving through institutions of higher education. Panelists share local models of production and activist engagement that meet a new imperative in the classroom: to understand and respond to the shifting demographics and economic conditions that affect our students, our jobs, our universities and the state of the field. “Dream Activism” proposes models for sustainable movement-building to envision new ways to teach and practice theater in higher education around the country.
Moderators
TU

Speakers
CC

Catherine Cole

Professor and Dept. Chair, University of California, Berkeley
BG
DJ
RR
TS
PY

Friday July 25, 2014 10:15am - 11:45am MST
Princess DE, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Plenary

12:00pm MST

American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Focus Group Membership Meeting
A membership meeting for The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). Open to all members, and to those interested in joining ATDS.
Moderators
MC

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Meeting and networking opportunity for artists and scholars interested in black theatre. Focus group business and elections will be conducted. All are welcome.
Moderators
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University
PJ

Patrick J. Sims

Black Theatre Association Focus Group Conference Planner

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Design, Technology and Management (DTM) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Design / Technology / Management (DTM) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Moderators
OC
DM

Denise Massman

Siena College
Denise R. Massman, MFA (Costume Designer) has been specializing in all aspects of theatrical design for over 40 years. Her latest work has been for a 10-episode, 10 hour telenovela style “soap opera” in Norway. This project has been gathering steam since 2019. The challenge has... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Moor 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #1
Moderators
LM
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Electronic Technology Committee Meeting
Moderators
TB

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Interactive Theatre Program (ITP) Subcommittee Membership Meeting
A meeting of the Subcommittee on Interactive Theatre, which is part of the Advocacy Committee. Anyone interested in Interactive Theatre is welcome to attend.
Moderators
ME

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Focus Group Membership Meeting
At the LGBTQ Focus Group Membership Meeting, participants discuss the goals, leadership, and future plans of the focus group.
Moderators
CB
JF

Jason Fitzgerald

Columbia University graduate student, PhD in Theatre/English Yale School of Drama MFA 2008, Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group Meeting
The annual business and fellowship meeting for all who are interested in the many forms of Music Theatre and Dance.
Moderators
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Ronald Gingerich

Professor of Theatre - Emeritus, Dickinson State Univeristy
Music Theatre / Dance Focus Group Representative

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT) Focus Group Member Meeting
Moderators
RS

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Annual meeting for members interested in promoting the study and the teaching of theatre as a liberal art. Agenda includes: officer nominations and conference planning.
Moderators
JB
HB
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Shawna Mefferd Carroll

Assistant Professor of Theatre, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
I'm the conference planner for the Theatre as Liberal Art Focus Group. If you're interested in TLA, talk to me! I'm both a theatre artist and educator - director, artistic director, and performer. I teach dramatic literature, script analysis, theatre history, directing, and have... Read More →
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Alison Frost

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
I teach a variety of theatre classes at TAMUCC including Acting 3: Period Styles, Theatre History 1, Audition Preparation, Acting for the Camera, and Musical Theatre. I teach 2 classes for a Study Abroad program I take to England/Scotland every 2 years. I serve on the Theatre as a... Read More →
JS

Jay Sierszyn

Director of Theatre, Wisconsin Lutheran College
Out-going "Theatre as a Liberal Art" Focus Group Representative
LU

Lee University

Lee University, 1113

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

What Shall We Do With This Focus Group Called 'Religion and Theatre'?
This session will continue an ongoing conversation with Religion and Theatre members over the efficacy of our focus group name.
Moderators
MS

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

2014 Career Achievement Winners
Moderators
DS

Dani Snyder-Young

Associate Professor of Theatre, Illinois Wesleyan University
Talk to me about nominating your hero for 2015 ATHE Awards. Applied theatre, critical pedagogy, social justice.

Speakers
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Daniel Banks

Co-Director, DNAWORKS
Daniel Banks is a theatre director, choreographer, educator, and dialogue facilitator. Daniel is Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts. He is the founder and director of the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative, engaging... Read More →
HE

Harry Elam

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford Univeristy
LV

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Desertscapes: Perception and the Desert
This panel investigates the relationship between perception and desert environments. Imaginaries of/with desert landscapes are considered through the contexts of policy, archaeology, science, and performance.
Speakers
VA
DB
ME
KI
DA

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Dreaming of Shared Place: Site Specific Performance and Change
Speakers
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Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

associate professor of theatre, miami university
Associate Professor, Miami University
LB

Lisa Biggs

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Actress, playwright, and performance scholar focusing on Theatre for Social Change, esp. work with incarcerated women and men in the US and in South Africa.
NM

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

National Communication Association and Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Focus Group Collaborative Working Session
This session will examine political theatre from an ontological and epistemological perspective.
Moderators
MA
JB
KG
MS

Matt Saltzberg

Secretary; MFA in Directing Candidate, Association for Theatre Movement Educators; Western Illinois University
Matt Saltzberg holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Missouri; an M.A. in Theatre Performance from Long Island University; and a B.A. Theatre Performance from Susquehanna University. He has taught at St. Lawrence University, the University of Missouri, and Southern Illinois... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Staging Latinidad: Reports from the Field Engaging Recent Productions of Latin American and Latina/o Plays
Participants offer reports from the field that thoughtfully explore productions by both Latin American and Latino/a playwrights and companies in Latin America and the US
Speakers
TM
KR
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Tlaloc Rivas

Assistant Professor of Theatre, The University of Iowa
RS
CV
GW

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

We Are Not Dreaming Towards a Technology, But Becoming Our Dreams
This panel explores the theoretical underpinnings of hybrid forms of live and mediated performance.
Moderators
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Lisa Abbott

Immediate Past Chair KCACTF Region IV, Georgia Southern University
Lisa L. Abbott (Immediate Past Chair, KCACTF Region IV) MFA, SDC, Professor Abbott teaches Acting, Directing and Playwriting at Georgia Southern University. She has been an active participant in KCACTF for the past 20 years, both as a student and as a faculty member.  She has worked... Read More →
KB
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David Coley

Assistant Professor, St. Gregory's University
Performance and Media, Performance Theory, Film Theory, Film History, Hybrid Theatre
SG

Steve Gerlach

Graduate Student-Digital Art and New Media- Performative Technologies, UC Santa Cruz
I am a twenty year theatre professional that has returned to school in pursuit of an MFA in Digital Art and New Media. I hope to exercise the degree in not only the theatre world, but the art world in general.
SK

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Women Seeking Refuge
This panel explores performances by and about refugee women, considering when and how performance succeeds (and sometimes fails) to act as a refuge.
Moderators
JB
LC
MH

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Jane Chambers Rehearsal
Women and Theatre Program requests a three hour time block for a rehearsal for the Jane Chambers reading, in the same space where the reading itself will occur (see separate session request for reading). We also request a three hour session for the performance itself, later that day or the following day.
Moderators
RM
MR

Maya Roth

Professor, Georgetown University
theater, gender and performance, cross-cultural adaptations of classics, civic poetics, ensemble, multiracial theater, British and American women playwrights (especially feminist)

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

12:00pm MST

Paid Workshop #2 Theater Grottesco: Silent Storytelling
In 18th century France, as an effort to rein in the sacrilege of theater, a ban was placed on the spoken word in public places, except by the church. The theater community responded by developing pantomime blanche, a style of silent story-telling. A story told today might contain devices from film including pans, close-ups, and pull- backs, where the actors are performing in miniature while creating full scenes through the use of sound and the portrayal of objects. Participants should come ready to move at the ability they are able to; in loose fitting plain colored clothing (no advertising!), hair pulled back and jewelry off. We start on time and prefer to work barefoot.
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Friday July 25, 2014 12:00pm - 3:15pm MST
Arabian Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Paid Workshop

1:15pm MST

Bingo Raffle and Refreshments
Moderators
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Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Exhibitors
AI

AHSTF / ICTF (CANCELLED)

American High School Theatre Festival, 321
NC
BM
AF
JF

John Flax

Producing Artistic Director, Theater Grottesco
Theater Grottesco (TG) is a 30 year old, Lecoq-based physical theater ensemble that creates devised works, often combining classical physical styles into modern cutting-edge work. TG has toured nationally and internationally and has taught at theaters and colleges across the country... Read More →
TC

Theatre Communications Group

Booths 123 & 125
For over 50 years, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, has existed to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Founded in 1961, TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking... Read More →
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National Theatre Institute

National Theater Institute, 1321
With a singular schedule and an unmatched breadth of training, the National Theater Institute's six semester-long programs offer students a springboard to the professional world at the two-time Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Founded in 1970, NTI's credit-earning... Read More →
EJ
PM
UO
JH

Johns Hopkins University Press

John Hopkins University Press
NU
TT
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Judith Sloan

Co-founder, Artist, Educator, Adjunct Professor Gallatin, NYU, EarSay, Inc.
Judith Sloan is an award-winning writer, audio artist, radio producer and performer. Her new work, YO MISS! is in development with dramaturg Morgan Jenness. She is co-founder with Warren Lehrer of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to documenting and portraying the lives of uncelebrated... Read More →
MI
ST

Select Travel Study

Select Travel Study, 515
We create custom short term, faculty-led theatre study programs to London, Edinburgh and across Europe. We work exclusively with faculty to design the very finest educational theatre experiences for your students, each crafted to your specifications and run exclusively for your students... Read More →
AS

Friday July 25, 2014 1:15pm - 2:00pm MST
Princess H-I, Exhibit Hall, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Bingo Raffle

1:15pm MST

PSI Fluid States - CANCELLED
An introduction to the Fluid States Conference
Moderators
BJ

Friday July 25, 2014 1:15pm - 2:00pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Religion and Theatre (RT) Focus Group Debut Panel - Emerging Scholars Debut Panel in Religion and Theatre: Religious Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal
In this session, emerging scholars examine the intersections of religion and performance, building upon the conference's theme of performance as refuge, resistance, and renewal.
Moderators
RB

Speakers
AF
SV

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

2:15pm MST

Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA) Debut Panel
This session offers an opportunity for graduate students to present on a topic related to the teaching or the study of theatre as a liberal art.
Speakers
AD

Andrea del Moral

Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative
JS
LU

Lee University

Lee University, 1113

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

2:15pm MST

Professional Development Committee (PDC) Meeting
The Professional Development Committee will discuss ongoing projects and consider proposals for new projects.
Speakers
JP

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

2:15pm MST

Paid Workshop #2: Luis Alfaro: Getting Your Hands Dirty
Paid Workshop #2: Luis Alfaro: Getting Your Hands Dirty
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Paid Workshop

2:15pm MST

Be It Even So Humble, There's No Nightmare Like Home
This session explores the ways in which, over the course of the last half century, theatre has promulgated nightmares where the American dream once flourished.
Speakers
JC
DC
AG

Andrew Gibb

Associate Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism, Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance
Andrew Gibb is an associate professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism in the Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance.

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Cultivating Professional Recognition Beyond the Border of Theatre Academia for Theatre Academics
On this panel we ask: "How might we capitalize on theatre's collaborative nature to cultivate artistic practice and scholarship within interdisciplinary and liberal studies programs?"
Speakers
AB
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Season Ellison

Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
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Michelle Hayford

Assistant Director of Center for the Arts, Florida Gulf Coast University
Applied theatre, theatre for social change, University-Community/non-profit partnerships, ethnodrama, gender studies

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Devising the American Dream
This roundtable examines the impact of devising processes anchored in the mythology of the American Dream on students' creative imaginations, social consciousness, and artistic agency.
Speakers
AM
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Tommy Costello

SDC Directing Program Interim Vice Chair, SUNY Dutchess Community College
MM

Matthew Mazuroski

Assistanat Professor Acting/Directing, Youngstown State University
I currently head the acting/directing program at Youngstown State University. I have been acting and directing professionally for the past 25 years and received my MFA in Directing from Northwestern University in 2005. This is my second year attending the ATHE Conference and I am... Read More →
MM

Michael Mufson

Professor of Theatre, Palomar College
I'm currently exploring the concept of "Theatre for the public good." This involves challenging the dominant modes and motives of theatre production in the USA. Even the non-profit theatre sector is driven primarily by commercial concerns. What might it look like to create a theatre... Read More →
LS
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Christine Young

University of San Francisco
PZ

Peter Zazzali

Star Struck!: Exploring the Affect of Celebrity on the Great White Way, University of Kansas
Moving Knowledge investigates the choreographic processes of ten Western Australian choreographers to develop case studies that examine the links between memory, music and movement. Investigation takes place within the context of a dance work, the Album Project, that poses a nostalgic... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Doric Wilson Memorial Panel on LGBTQ Theatre
In honor of LGBTQ Theatre pioneer Doric Wilson, this panel will discuss the challenges and achievements of artists creating LGBTQ theatre in Arizona today.
Moderators
CP

Speakers
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YF

Yovani Flores

co-Founder/Producer/Writer/Performer, Equality Arizona
Ask me anything.
MP
JY

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dream Ecology: Exploring the Relationship between American Identity, Mythology, and History
Through an examination of ecological relationships, this panel addresses questions of perceived identity, social mythology, and the dream-like nature of American history.
Speakers
PB
NH
BS

Bradley Stephenson

University of Missouri
Teacher, artist, scholar, husband, father, gentleman.

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dream Lessons: What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then
This roundtable session gathers an impressive group of accomplished female scholars, asking them to share their top 5 tips for women entering the field today.
Speakers
CB
EK

Esther Kim Lee

Associate Professor, University of Maryland
RM
KM
HN
EO

Elizabeth Osborne

Memory Remade: The Legacies of *The Clansman* and *Birth of a Nation* in Popular Culture, Florida State University
“Dzieci is a wonderful example of the spiritual intensity possible when theatre engages the age-old mysteries of faith and the human experience. We at the Cathedral found the very stones of our monumental building coming alive through their presence.” ~ QUOTE FROM: Canon Tom Miller... Read More →
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Kristen Rogers

Director of Education, The Georgetown Palace Theatre
JS

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dream to Reality: Meeting A New Common Core Mandate for Vocal Success
This workshop will focus on teaching vocal strategies to adults and young students who want to become dynamic speakers.
Speakers
MG

Marjorie Gaines

Adjunct Professor of Theatre, California State University, Northridge
JG

John Graham

Assistant Professor, Drake University

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

El Teatro Campesino: History, Legacy, and Future Directions
As we approach the 50th anniversary of El Teatro Campesino, this panel examines the history, influence, legacy, and future trajectory of the famed theatrical troupe.
Speakers
HG
JH
AM

Angela Marino

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Hi everyone, I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. My research focuses on fiesta and carnival, U.S. Latin/o American theater, politics and performance. I co-edited a volume called Festive Devils... Read More →
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Kinan Valdez

Producing Artistic Director, El Teatro Campesino
Kinan Valdez is a second-generation member of El Teatro Campesino. Raised in the collective milieu of the famed social justice theater company, Kinan currently serves as ETC’s Producing Artistic Director, works as an educator at the University of California Santa Cruz and is a... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Embodied Dramaturgy as Compassionate Action in *Women of Lockerbie*, *Eclipsed* and *The Lonely Soldier Monologues*
Panel explores how dramaturgy is embodied in/around productions of three plays by women about women, moving actors and audiences toward cultural awareness and compassionate action.
Speakers
MB
WC
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Joan Lipkin

Writing/Directing/Social Activism
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Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

How are Historically Black Colleges and University Theatre Programs responding to LGBTQ issues and why?
A panel roundtable discussion, with excerpts from papers, on the presence or lack thereof of LGBTQ issues on the theatrical stages of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Speakers
CH

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Peripheral Devisings: Performing Women Negotiating Borders
Using ethnographic processes to examine women negotiating intercultural boundaries reveals under-voiced territories. This round-table considers devised and ethnographic performances that reveal the borders women negotiate.
Speakers
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Lesley Delmenico

Penetrating Habitual Stratifications: Traversing Urban Spaces en route, Associate Professor Department of Theatre and Dance Grinnell College
In 2013, I was asked by Gospel Light Christian Church (GLCC) in Singapore to direct a Christmas show and make it more professional and “experiential”. The church leadership was fully aware of the pre-existing Christmas shows put up by “megachurches” such as New Creation Church... Read More →
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Joy Powell

Director of Theatre/PhD Student, Missouri Baptist University/University of Columbia-Missouri
Joy is a second year PhD student at the University of Missouri-Columbia and for the past 10 years has served as the Director of Theatre at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, MO. She holds a bachelor's degree in Musical Theatre performance from Ball State University in Muncie... Read More →
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Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

PRESENCE - IMAGE - ACTION: Using a Grotowski-based approach to training first year acting students.
Often young students want to leap immediately to application or 'real' acting. This workshop will present exercises towards process oriented training with skeptical beginning actors.
Speakers
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Jeremy Williams

Producing Director, Convergences Theatre Collective
Jeremy Williams is committed to excellence and innovation in the Performing Arts. He focuses on challenging and redefining the creation of new works, developing curricula and pedagogy, as well as leading professional development of educators, artists, and audiences. As a Director/Choreographer/Producer... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Reparative Re-enactments: Performances of historical memory and activism in East Asia.
This panel explores performances of memory, redress, and activism. We ask how contemporary re-enactments of historical traumas and injustice address the shifting political subjectivities of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China.
Speakers
AK
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Dr. Daphne Lei

Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine
Daphne Lei is Professor of Drama, at the University of California, Irvine. She is internationally known for her work on Chinese opera, intercultural theatre, and diasporic and transnational performance. She is the author of many scholarly articles and three books: Operatic China... Read More →
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Katherine Mezur

Lecturer, UCB
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Melissa Wansin Wong

Ph.D. Candidate. Graduate Center, CUNY, Melissa Wansin Wong

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

The Resilience of a Balanced Staff/Faculty workload in the Desert of Academia
This moderated round table discussion will allow us to share solutions or ask questions of peers; something not possible at our home institutions where there are no other designers and technicians with the same work responsibilities. Session Attendees will be invited to join this moderated discussion.
Speakers
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Ellen E. Jones

Teacher, Portsmouth Public Schools
I am a Nearpod PioNnear, a Certified Nearpod Educator, and Flocabulary Certified. I have a background in .Design and Technical Theatre, History and Social Science, English, Public Speaking, Sustainability, Lighting Design, Scene Design, Scene Painting and Historical Decorative Painting. I... Read More →
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Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

To Sleep, Per 'Dance' to Dream: Dramaturgy, Dream Scenes, Dance and Directing
This panel explores the dramaturgy in staging dream scenes with dance. Scholarship, live readings, and performances will create a dream-space for movement, research, and discussion.
Speakers
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Jacob Hellman

University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ariel Nereson

Assistant Professor of Theatre, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
I'm the conference planner for the Theatre as Liberal Art Focus Group. If you're interested in TLA, talk to me! I'm both a theatre artist and educator - director, artistic director, and performer. I teach dramatic literature, script analysis, theatre history, directing, and have... Read More →
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Teresa Stankiewicz

Devising, feminism, indigenous studies, technology and theatre

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Whose Work Is It And Can You Use It? - Intellectual Property Of A Stage Production
This panel, with representation from the SDC, will explore and illuminate the sometimes-confusing issue of intellectual property as it relates to academic theatrical performance.
Speakers
RB
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Paul Lazarus

Executive Board Member, SDC
Executive Board Member of the SDC for 20 years, Paul Lazarus has an over 30-year award-winning career directing, producing and writing theater, television and film. He recently completed a feature documentary called “SlingShot” about Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his work to... Read More →
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University of Montevallo

University of Montevallo, 1121
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Laura Penn

Executive Director, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
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Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Activist Dreamscapes--The Im/Possibilities of War and Politics
Participants will engage with the challenges and possibilities of political performance and the theatre of war as a means of enacting change.
Speakers
JB

Jane Barnette

Dramaturg, Theatre Historian, University of Kansas
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
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Laura Lodewyck

PhD candidate, Northwestern University
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Max Shulman

Doctoral Student, Tufts University

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

2:15pm MST

Opening Doors: A Roundtable of Past Music Theatre/Dance Debut Panelists
This roundtable will bring together Music Theatre/Dance debut panelists from the past ten years who will share their experiences and pieces of advice with younger scholars.
Speakers
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Kathryn Edney

Folklore (Edney), Regis College
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Donatella Galella

PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
ATHE 2014 Papers: "The Promise of (Dis)Pleasure: Yellowface in Contemporary Musical Revivals" "Superheroes, Heteropatriarchy, and Musicals" Bio: Donatella Galella is a PhD Candidate in Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is a critical history... Read More →
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Sandra Graham

Associate Professor Music, Humanities, Babson College
Musical theater, early black theater, theater in the humanities, history of African American music
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Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

2:15pm MST

The Two-Year College Dream: A Summit of Two-Year College Theatre Programs Part 1
This 2 part series round-table is offered as a national summit for 2-year college Theatre program representatives to collectively identify challenges that face 2-year Theatre programs, and share strategies for meeting these challenges. All are welcome.
Speakers
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Tommy Costello

SDC Directing Program Interim Vice Chair, SUNY Dutchess Community College
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Bill Gillett

Asst Professor, Coodinator for Theatre, Carroll Community College

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

2:15pm MST

Jane Chambers Play Reading Dress Rehearsal and Performance

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM Play Reading Dress Rehearsal

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Performance of Reading
Moderators
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Maya Roth

Professor, Georgetown University
theater, gender and performance, cross-cultural adaptations of classics, civic poetics, ensemble, multiracial theater, British and American women playwrights (especially feminist)

Friday July 25, 2014 2:15pm - 5:30pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

4:00pm MST

Theatre History (TH) Focus Group Debut Panel 2014
This session presents the 2014 winners of the Theatre History Focus Group Debut Panel Competition
Speakers
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Kate Neff Stone

PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine
Kate Neff Stone is a fifth year PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. Her work is situated around the question of purity, tracing the connections of 19th century American theatre, tent revivals, and popular entertainment to modern Evangelical Christianity’s sexual... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Debut Panel

4:00pm MST

Adapting/Transgressing Shakespeare: Text and Performance, Gender and Sexuality
This session analyzes specific adaptations of Shakespeare, with a particular regard for how performance (de)constructs gender and sexuality.
Speakers
EI
DM
SV

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Artists and Scholars: Successful Models of Collaboration
The relationship between artist and critic has often been a contentious one. In this roundtable, participants will investigate innovative collaborations between theatre artists and scholars.
Speakers
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Gwendolyn Alker

ATHE Co-Vice President for Conference 2011
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Daniel Banks

Co-Director, DNAWORKS
Daniel Banks is a theatre director, choreographer, educator, and dialogue facilitator. Daniel is Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts. He is the founder and director of the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative, engaging... Read More →
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Shelley Orr

Lecturer, San Diego State University
Research interests include the theatre of Marguerite Duras, Memory and Performance, and Dramaturgy.
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Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Community and Identity: Difficult Dialogues and Student Leadership for Socially Just Communities
In this experiential workshop, SMC student educators facilitate interactive theatre exercises to identify campus values, develop creative responses, and work towards inclusive excellence.
Speakers
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Reid Davis

Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of CA
Reid Davis is Associate Professor of Theatre and Director of Interactive Theatre at St. Mary’s College of Ca.  He serves on the regional executive committee and directed 2010’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region VII invited production of ANGELS IN AMERICA... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Embracing the Muse: An Experimental Method in the Navigation of Intuition and Embracing One's First Creative Impulses
CANCELLED
Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5232, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Exposing Theatre Students to Prison Theatre
After older women inmates participated in Lifewriting classes, undergraduate theatre students were added to the experience, bringing out new dimensions in both young and old.
Speakers
JR
BL

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Impossible Dreams of Original Musicals - CANCELLED
CANCELLED - In collaboration with Pallas Theatre Collective, this demonstration panel posits that partnerships between university theatre departments and new musical development organizations are mutually beneficial both culturally and pedagogically.
Speakers
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BV

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Josefina Lopez and Theatrical Engagement with Borders and Immigration Politics
This panel spotlights the recent works of playwright Josefina L_pez, particularly her staging of home and the desert as conflicted sites of refuge, resistance, resilience, and renewal.
Speakers
TA
MM
MD
TU

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

LIGHT - The Ethereal Design Element
Established Directors and Lighting Designers examining the communication process. How do Directors and Lighting Designers collaborate during a design process realized so late in the rehearsal process?
Speakers
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Andrew Gibbs

Professor, University of Arkansas
D. Andrew Gibbs is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Drama at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he served as Chair of the department for 20 years and taught courses in design, technology and management beginning in 1978. He holds the PhD in Theatre from the University... Read More →
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Jeffrey Koep

Dean, College of Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 816
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John Wolf

Wayne State University
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Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Performance Philosophy Pedagogy: The Dream of Educating a Revitalized Society
This session features scholarship that invokes the contexts of Performance Philosophy to respond to the challenges neoliberalism poses to higher education.
Speakers
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Cissie Fu

Assistant Professor of Political Theory, Leiden University
--> intersections of politics, philosophy, and performance --> performance as citizenship --> performance as scholarship (practice-based research) --> politics of knowledge --> artistic activism
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Wade Hollingshaus

Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
MM

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Performing War, Dreaming of Peace
Military force is paradoxically framed as necessary for peace. Similarly, performances about war dream of peace. This panel investigates this interaction between war and peace.
Speakers
SB
LM
BP
JV

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Publishing Articles In Academic Journals: How, Where, and Why
Editors from peer-reviewed scholarly journals will offer insights and answer questions on publishing articles for academic presses.
Moderators
AS

Speakers
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D.J. Hopkins

Director, School of Theatre, Television, and Film, San Diego State University
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Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

The Dream: Theatre as Foundational, Not Frivolous Through Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards require theatre skills for success. This workshop will address how to meet that challenge.
Speakers
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Marjorie Gaines

Adjunct Professor of Theatre, California State University, Northridge
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Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

The Role of Movement Training and Somatic Work in Releasing the Actors/ Performers Imagination
In this practical workshop and discussion four practitioners will explore from four different perspectives the role of movement and somatic training in releasing the imagination.
Speakers
ND
RJ
MK
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Sara Romersberger

Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
Movement Specialist and director

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive
CANCELLED
Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5320, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Creating a dream season: Roundtable on Best Selection Practices and Productions for Academic Theatre
Sharing best practices and successful production titles from multiple programs, this roundtable discusses pedagogies in the season selection process for academic theatre.
Speakers
SB
PC
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Jeanne Leep

Producer of Edgewood College Theatre and Professor of Theatre Arts, head of acting and directing program, Edgewood College
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Amy Seham

Amy Seham (USA) is a director, author, professor, and improviser whose book, Whose Improv Is It, Anyway? is a ground-breaking study of race, gender and power in Chicago improv-comedy. Her writing on improv has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies... Read More →
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Jeff Wax

Assistant Professor, Lone Star College

Friday July 25, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

5:45pm MST

Graduate Student Subcommittee (GSSC) Membership Meeting
Come with feedback on this year's Graduate Student Symposium, ideas for next year, and ready to elect a new GSSC co-chair.
Moderators
HS
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Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

5:45pm MST

Choreographing Migration: Movement, Geography, and Belonging
This panel tracks how choreographies of movement and migration function as intertwined global processes operating throughout history.
Speakers
MD
MM
AN

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Creatures from the Dreamscape: Puppetry as a Practice for Social Change
This workshop session invites participants to explore three puppetry practices that enact social change, and to dream up new ideas for harnessing puppetry's transformative potential.
Speakers
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Laura Purcell Gates

‘The history of this monster’: Puppetry as an intervention in disability stratification, Bath Spa University
Even though the Polish people repeatedly showed their resentment toward the communist regime in their country – as during the riots of 1956, 1970 and 1976 – only the strike of August 1980 enforced the leading party to enter into negotiations with the striking workers and to agree... Read More →
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Beth Osnes

Assoc. Professor, Theater & Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Beth Osnes PhD, is an Associate Professor of Theatre at CU and is a non-voting member of Environmental Studies. She is co-founder and co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, an endowed initiative on the CU campus to inspire creative communication on climate (www.insidethegreenhouse... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Developing a Movement Training Curriculum: Serving Our Students with Quality-Driven Pedagogy.
This session will discuss movement curriculum sequencing with quality-driven content and approaches to administrative constraints and the "desert island" phenomenon that many movement instructors experience.
Speakers
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Anna Sycamore DeMers

Assistant Professor, Middlesex County College
ANNA SYCAMORE DEMERS is a Level I-Professional Margolis Method Instructor. Her teaching centers on acting, movement and ensemble theatre. She is head of the Theatre Program at Middlesex County College in New Jersey and Adjunct MovementSpecialist at Kean University. Her pedagogical... Read More →
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Susan Pfeffer

Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Nevada, Reno
I am a theatre artist, Alexander Technique teacher and Assistant Professor of Theatre at University of Nevada, Reno where I teach movement, voice and devising. I investigate postmodern practice, performance studies, contemplative art and the integration of new technologies within... Read More →
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Matt Saltzberg

Secretary; MFA in Directing Candidate, Association for Theatre Movement Educators; Western Illinois University
Matt Saltzberg holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Missouri; an M.A. in Theatre Performance from Long Island University; and a B.A. Theatre Performance from Susquehanna University. He has taught at St. Lawrence University, the University of Missouri, and Southern Illinois... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dream Dialogues: The Pedagogy of Collaborative Conversations
This roundtable addresses the pedagogy of collaborative dialogue, or how we teach students to engage colleagues in productive, dynamic, and open conversations across creative fields.
Speakers
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Lindsay Cummings

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Theatre for social change, dramaturgy, feminist performance, affect theory
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Kristi Quinn

Associate Professor of Dramaturgy, School of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University
I'm a new play dramaturg, now teaching in the BFA Dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University. Right now I'm building a course for grad students looking at what makes a canon, so I'd welcome recommendations of reading for that. I am also dreaming up a future course about audiences... Read More →
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Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy
MY

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dream of a Queer Planet: Alternative Embodied Pedagogies for Actor Training
In this participatory workshop, we will investigate what queer and trans-centric theatre training pedagogy might look, sound and feel like.
Speakers
JB

Joshua Bastian Cole

Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
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Joy Brooke Fairfield

Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreaming about the End(s): Performative Research Contemplates Theatrical Eschatology
By performing original analysis, this panel asks how theatre dreams about the end of time, who we are, and how we can talk about it.
Speakers
JC
CG
JK

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreaming Lorraine: Meditations on New Landscapes of Theatre and Performance within the African Diaspora
Drawing upon inspiration from the seminal theatre artist Lorraine Hansberry, this roundtable explores future and varied landscapes of Black and African American performance and theatre.
Speakers
EB
PB
MD
LE
NH
K
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Tom Robson

Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance, Millikin University
Focus Group Representative for Theatre History
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Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreaming of the End
This panel examines performances that dream of The End in order to consider how they shape conversations about memory, history, human agency, and ethical responsibility.
Speakers
AD
JF
SM

Scott Magelssen

Assoc Professor, University of Washington, Southern Illinois University Press
If you have a book project having to do with Theater in the Americas, talk to me at the conference!
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Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreaming Up New Visions of the Avant-Garde: The Problems and Possibilities of Contemporary Experimental Performance
Taking as our examples companies from New York City, Austin, Toronto, and Brussels, this panel investigates the aesthetics, ethics, politics, problems, and possibilities of contemporary experimental performance today.
Speakers
RA
CC
JL
TN
JD

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Fulfilling Older Performers' Dreams: Where do You Fit in?
With the advent of a new generation of older performers, theatre lovers of all ages are discovering that there's something in it for everyone!
Speakers
JA
LC
RM
JR
SS
BL

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

How To Direct When You Are Not A Director
Professional and experienced academic directors provide targeted advice for professors required to direct at their universities, but who do not have professional training in directing.
Speakers
HB
VC
BF
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Alison Frost

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
I teach a variety of theatre classes at TAMUCC including Acting 3: Period Styles, Theatre History 1, Audition Preparation, Acting for the Camera, and Musical Theatre. I teach 2 classes for a Study Abroad program I take to England/Scotland every 2 years. I serve on the Theatre as a... Read More →
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Nathan Gabriel

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The glass is half-full.
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Matthew Mazuroski

Assistanat Professor Acting/Directing, Youngstown State University
I currently head the acting/directing program at Youngstown State University. I have been acting and directing professionally for the past 25 years and received my MFA in Directing from Northwestern University in 2005. This is my second year attending the ATHE Conference and I am... Read More →
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Ed. Simone

Director of the Theater Program, St. Bonaventure University
Director of the Theater program at SBU since 2002. Host/Writer/Producer for Classical 94.5/WNED Buffalo-Toronto. Member AEA Liaison Committee for Western New York. Associate Member, SDC. ATHE Focus Groups: Directing, Acting, Theater as a Liberal Art.

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Jinju (Beijing Opera) and the State in the People's Republic of China
The three papers in this panel offer case studies that problematize jingjuås troubled relationship with the PRC government from the 1950s to the 21st century.
Speakers
XF
SL
DR
EW

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

L.A. Theatre Works
Delve into the L.A. Theatre Works comprehensive collection of 450+ classic and contemporary audio recorded plays. Explore the unique production process of live audio play recordings, and investigate the potential usages of LATW recordings and technologies in higher ed. theatre classrooms, productions, and research
Speakers
MC
AL

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Dorado Room 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Race, Space, and Appropriation of Territory: Re-Historicizing the Other in American Theatre
Panelists examine how American playwrights portray the struggles between dominant and non-dominant cultures, and the ways in which historically opposing cultures share geographic space.
Speakers
CD
JD
FG
AG

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Re-imagining Theatre History: Developing Games & Liminal Pedagogy
We will develop and play-test a game on El Teatro Campesino, with a post-workshop discussion on making theatre history games for survey and seminar classes.
Speakers
JB

Jane Barnette

Dramaturg, Theatre Historian, University of Kansas
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
SB
BH

Bethany Holmstrom

PhD candidate, Graduate Center, City University of New York
19 c. theatre history, Civil War memories, war reenactments, digital humanities, pedagogy, Reacting to the Past
AK

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Moor 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Resistance, Renewal, and the NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance
Participants in the 2012 NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance reflect on their experiences in practice-based research and pedagogies.
Speakers
SE
SJ

Seth Jeppesen

Assistant Professor of Classics, Brigham Young University
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Daniel Smith

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, Translation Studies, History of Sexuality

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Revivifying Rehearsal Acts: Psychophysical Action Between Actor and Director
Communication in rehearsal is enhanced by renewed focus on action. This session considers the languages of Laban, M. Chekhov and Biomechanics toward shaping psychophysical action.
Speakers
BH
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Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →
PZ

Peter Zazzali

Star Struck!: Exploring the Affect of Celebrity on the Great White Way, University of Kansas
Moving Knowledge investigates the choreographic processes of ten Western Australian choreographers to develop case studies that examine the links between memory, music and movement. Investigation takes place within the context of a dance work, the Album Project, that poses a nostalgic... Read More →

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

The Actor's Dream: Memory Training for Actors
Learn practical tips on how to train your brain to memorize faster, reduce stress, gain confidence and remember virtually anything you'll encounter on-stage.
Speakers
MM

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Transnational Feminist Utopias and Dystopias
The panel Transnational Feminist Utopias and Dystopias proposes a unique exploration of daring theatrical and performative projects by women artists from Eastern Europe and Israel.
Speakers
MA
EF
DR
MS

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Staged Reading Open Rehearsal #1
An open rehearsal for the staged reading of a newly translated play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group
Moderators
CJ

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Moor 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

5:45pm MST

New Play Development Workshop: Rehearsal Part 1
Rehearsal for the second half of the plays selected for the New Play Development Workshop and Showcase series. (PLEASE NOTE: This session needs to be scheduled for Friday or Saturday of the Conference week.)
Moderators
CD
KM

Friday July 25, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

7:30pm MST

Performance by Vessel - Spectrum: Community Waterfall
Moderators
SK

Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Artists
V

Friday July 25, 2014 7:30pm - 8:30pm MST
South Pool, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Performance

7:30pm MST

Latino Theatre Commons
Friday July 25, 2014 7:30pm - 9:00pm MST
President's Suite, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30pm MST

Graduate Student Subcommittee Social
Join fellow graduate students for offsite food and drinks. Meet in the lobby at 7.30 to organize transport. Check Facebook group for updates.
Moderators
HS
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30pm - 10:00pm MST
Offsite 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30pm MST

Music Theatre/Dance Fellowship Gathering
A gathering of people interested in Music Theatre and Dance to socialize and share session ideas. Will meet at the designated location then migrate to a public space for refreshments.
Moderators
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Ronald Gingerich

Professor of Theatre - Emeritus, Dickinson State Univeristy
Music Theatre / Dance Focus Group Representative

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30pm - 10:00pm MST
Offsite 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30pm MST

Two-Year College Program Focus Group Open Dinner
Open to all interested in the Two-Year College Program Focus Group.
Moderators
BG

Bill Gillett

Asst Professor, Coodinator for Theatre, Carroll Community College
RS

Friday July 25, 2014 8:30pm - 10:00pm MST
Offsite 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

9:00pm MST

Journal Editor's Reception
Moderators
RS

Robert Schanke

ATHE Vice President for Awards

Friday July 25, 2014 9:00pm - 10:00pm MST
East Foyer Near Conference Registration Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel
  Reception
 
Saturday, July 26
 

7:45am MST

ATME Morning Warm Up: Dynamic Presence Training
Please join us for this eclectic conference-wide warm up - something for every BODY to get up and moving.
Moderators
HC
AN
MN

Saturday July 26, 2014 7:45am - 8:15am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Warm Up

8:15am MST

Black Theatre Network Alliance Meeting
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
President's Suite, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:15am MST

Membership and Marketing Committee (MM) Meeting
Moderators
DK

David Kaye

Chair, University of New Hampshire
Actor, Director, Designer, Deviser with a specialty in Interactive theatre and theatre for social justice. I invest a good deal of my artistic life focused on utilizing theatre is a springboard to engage in difficult dialogues and the goal of building a more just, inclusive and empathetic... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:15am MST

Cornering Your Market: How to Foster Your Marketing Savvy for a Thriving Career as an Actor
Actors learn the strategies needed to maximize their opportunities and set a marketing plan in motion for a fulfilling and thriving career in all mediums.
Speakers
LB
TH
SH
LK
KW

Kevin Wetmore

Loyola Marymount University

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Directing Dreams into Action: Researching Directors and Directorial Practice
How does a director's dream make its way to the stage? This panel considers international women directors' work, offering strategies for documenting artistic process.
Speakers
AF

Anne Fliotsos

Professor of Theatre, Purdue University
I'm a long-time member of ATHE and former FGR of the Directing Program. Rather than retype my profile, pls visit my faculty profile at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/theatre/directory/?p=Anne_Fliotsos See you at ATHE!
BH
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Emily Rollie

Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts, Central Washington University
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Dreamed-Up Histories: Ruptured Realities and Invented Performance
What constitutes an appropriately constructed version of history? Panelists examine contemporary playwrights who break down notions of identity performance and world-creation.
Speakers
NB

Nelson Barre

Human Palimpsests and Layered Storytelling: Ritual, Memory, and Oral Stratification in Enda Walsh’s The Small Things, National University of Ireland, Galway
In 1828, the American actor Edwin Forrest announced a playwriting competition for a $500 prize, "of which the hero, or principle character, shall be an aboriginal of this country." The winning entry was John Augustus Stone's METAMORA; OR, THE LAST OF THE WAMPANOGS, first performed... Read More →
JH
JP

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

DREAMSCAPE
*Dreamscape* depicts the death and inner life of a young woman, ãMyeisha Mills,à who dreams though the impact of the twelve police bullets that kill her.
Speakers
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Daniel Banks

Co-Director, DNAWORKS
Daniel Banks is a theatre director, choreographer, educator, and dialogue facilitator. Daniel is Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts. He is the founder and director of the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative, engaging... Read More →
KE

Kathryn Ervin

Professor, California State Univ., San Bernardino
RH

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Enacting Diaspora: Transcultural Encounters, Collective Creation, and the Theatre of Repair
This panel investigates transcultural collective encounters. Keeping in mind distinctions between projects of “remembering” and of “borrowing” we aim to facilitate dialogue between differently situated constituencies.
Speakers
SP
TR
CH
KM
NW

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Inviting Devised Work to the Table: Including Devised Work in a Department's Production Season
While universities have long included original, devised work within their training programs and pedagogy, recently devised theater practice has mainstreamed onto the main stage.
Speakers
BC

Bud Coleman

Professor of Theatre, University of Colorado at Boulder
DE
CG
EK

Edward Kahn

Ohio Wesleyan University
TM

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Is There Value In A Theatre Arts and Humanities Education?
In an era of global change, the Arts and Humanities are at a critical juncture. Itås time to value the skills a Theatre education offers.
Speakers
AB

Amy Brady

Senior Lecturer, Georgia State University
Queer Canadian theatre, directing, popular culture, liberal politics.
SM
BD
MG

Marjorie Gaines

Adjunct Professor of Theatre, California State University, Northridge
PJ

PeggyRae Johnson

Keene State College
TM
NM
MS

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Night Dreaming, Day Dreaming, and the Desert of the Real: Imagination and its Sources
Speakers
DM

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Nightmare or Reverie: How the Dream Ballet Shaped the Use of Dance in Musical Theatre
The dream ballet in musical theatre has engaged the audience with a look into the psychological journeys of the characters, as fantasy, vision, dream and nightmare.
Speakers
MJ

Mary Jo Lodge

Associate Professor, Lafayette College
DM

Dustyn Martincich

Senior Fellow, Arts College
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Ryan McKinney

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, City University of New York - Kingsborough CC
RP

Rene Pulliam

Interim Chair, The University of Mississippi

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Queer Dreams and Homonationalist Nightmares: Performing and Critiquing Queer Belonging
Panelists discuss homonationalism by examining queer performances by BDSM Nation from Taiwan, CHOKRA from the U.A.E., queer performers in South Africa and gay men in U.S.
Speakers
AB
NE

Nicole Eschen

Women and Theatre Program Focus Group Conference Planner
SW

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Reach Out and Touch Your Audience
This session will explore methods of communicating with our multiple audiences through blogging, mobile technologies and distance learning, in the brave new technological world.
Speakers
LB
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Stephen Schrum

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Areas of interest: Playwrighting and Digital Performance. Using technology for both teaching and performance. Also, taking lesser known works and breathing new life into them.
JS
JT

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Reflecting on Dreamscapes in the Desert
A roundtable discussion aimed at engaging and disrupting the dramaturgical narrative of Taliesin West within the 2014 ATHE conference experience.
Speakers
CJ
KL
BM

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Spotlight on New Works: Discussion of Newly Published Works in the Fields of American Theatre, African-American Theatre, and Latino/a Theatre
This roundtable session offers a lively discussion of newly published works in the fields of American theatre, African-American theatre, and Latino/a theatre. Hear the authors discuss their research and writing process--what they left in, what they took out, and what questions they still hope to answer.
Speakers
AE

Amy E. Hughes

Associate Professor, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Amy E. Hughes is Associate Professor of Theater History and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theater at Brooklyn College. Her first book, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2012), received ASTR's... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

The Dream of Inclusivity and Social Justice: Dramaturgy/Performance as Cultural Bridge and Compassionate Action in Devised Work
When the genesis for the development of a new devised work is rooted in a community, how can dramaturgy and performance serve that community?
Speakers
MB
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Season Ellison

Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
JL

Joan Lipkin

Writing/Directing/Social Activism
KM

Kathleen McGeever

Department Chair, Professor, Northern Arizona University, Department of Theatre
Professor of Theatre, specializing in Stage Direction, and Department Chair.
CP

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

The Kinesthetic Environment
Explore environments in and around the conference through various movement lenses. Working in stillness or in motion, be prepared to have your mind blown!
Speakers
CC
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Anna Sycamore DeMers

Assistant Professor, Middlesex County College
ANNA SYCAMORE DEMERS is a Level I-Professional Margolis Method Instructor. Her teaching centers on acting, movement and ensemble theatre. She is head of the Theatre Program at Middlesex County College in New Jersey and Adjunct MovementSpecialist at Kean University. Her pedagogical... Read More →
DM
MS

Matt Saltzberg

Secretary; MFA in Directing Candidate, Association for Theatre Movement Educators; Western Illinois University
Matt Saltzberg holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Missouri; an M.A. in Theatre Performance from Long Island University; and a B.A. Theatre Performance from Susquehanna University. He has taught at St. Lawrence University, the University of Missouri, and Southern Illinois... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Hall Outside of FEDEX Office, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Waiting for the Beautiful Revolution: Revisiting *Paradise Now*
This panel presents original readings of the Living Theatreås *Paradise Now* and new evaluations of the relationship between theatre and revolution that *Paradise* challenges us to conceptualize.
Speakers
JB
JF

Jason Fitzgerald

Columbia University graduate student, PhD in Theatre/English Yale School of Drama MFA 2008, Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism
RH
PY

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

What Dreams May Combine: Physical Theater and Improvisation Through the Sensibility of Islamic Culture
Based on the presenter's five years running a Iraqi university Drama program, this session continues the search for physical and verbal creativity within Islamic culture.
Speakers
PF

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:15am MST

Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Stage Reading Rehearsal #2
A staged reading of a newly translated play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group
Speakers
CJ
JM
AV

Adam Versenyi

Nature v. Society: Ramon Griffero and the Dramaturgy of Space, UNC-Chapel Hill/PlayMakers Repertory Company
As one of the most representative and influential figures of contemporary Chinese theatre, Meng Jinghui won his popularity among young audiences with his depiction of confusion, anxiety and passion felt by the younger generation through introducing Western avant-garde methods. With... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

8:15am MST

New Play Development Workshop: Rehearsal Part 2
Rehearsal for the first half of the plays selected for the New Play Development Workshop and Showcase series. (PLEASE NOTE: This session needs to be scheduled for Friday or Saturday of the Conference Week.)
Moderators
CD
KM

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

8:15am MST

The Two-Year College Dream: A Summit of Two-Year Colleges Part 2
This session is part 2 of series round-table offered as a summit to identify and address challenges that face 2-year college Theatre programs. In part 2 solutions are offered to the challenges identified in part 1. All are welcome.
Speakers
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Tommy Costello

SDC Directing Program Interim Vice Chair, SUNY Dutchess Community College
BG

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:15am - 9:45am MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

10:00am MST

ATHE Annual Membership Meeting: All Conference Forum
Moderators
HB

Henry Bial

President, ATHE
Looking forward to another great ATHE Conference!

Saturday July 26, 2014 10:00am - 11:45am MST
Princess DE, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Forum

12:00pm MST

Acting Program (AP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #1
Moderators
MM

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Focus Group Meeting #1
Please join us to find out more about ATME and learn about what we're up to in this conference and beyond.
Moderators
HC

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Awards Committee Meeting
Moderators
DS

Dani Snyder-Young

Associate Professor of Theatre, Illinois Wesleyan University
Talk to me about nominating your hero for 2015 ATHE Awards. Applied theatre, critical pedagogy, social justice.

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Dramaturgy (DR) Focus Group Membership Meeting
All are welcome at the Dramaturgy Focus Group Membership Meeting, where we network, find mentors, and discuss events and ideas toward planning next year's conference.
Moderators
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Karen Jean Martinson

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Dramaturgy Program Focus Group Representative, Conference Committee 2014
BM

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Graduate Student Subcommittee Brown Bag Lunch and Info Share
Bring a bite to eat and an optional teaching tip (or problem) to share, and join grads for lunch and conversation.
Moderators
HS
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Membership Meeting #1
Please join us for the second part of our annual membership meeting, where we'll begin brainstorming conference ideas for PSFG at ATHE 2015.
Moderators
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Joseph Cermatori

PhD Candidate, Columbia University
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Megan Shea

Language Lecturer, NYU
International Zombie Slayer

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Religion and Theatre (RT) Focus Group Business Meeting
Please join the R&T Focus Group for its annual business meeting. All conference attendees are welcome.
Moderators
JS

Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Senior Theatre Research and Performance (STRP) Focus Group Meeting
Learn about the Focus Group and how you can contribute to its goals, leadership, and future plans. Discover Senior Theatre news and trends.
Moderators
BP
BL

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Theatre and Social Change (TASC) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Come to the annual TASC Focus Group Membership meeting to see how you can get involved.
Moderators
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Chanelle Vigue

Virginia Commonwealth University
I am a teacher, director, dramaturg, actor, practitioner of theatre for social change, and theatre scholar. I am an ABD doctoral student in Theatre at BGSU. I am currently teaching Intro to Performance and Speech at Virginia Commonwealth University. I am also working on my dissertation... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Moderators
RM

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

12:00pm MST

'I Can Do That': Performing Race in Musical Revivals
Panelists will unpack significant racial performances in musical revivals in which the initial casting, sociocultural contexts, and texts themselves have significantly changed.
Speakers
KE

Kathryn Edney

Folklore (Edney), Regis College
DG

Donatella Galella

PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
ATHE 2014 Papers: "The Promise of (Dis)Pleasure: Yellowface in Contemporary Musical Revivals" "Superheroes, Heteropatriarchy, and Musicals" Bio: Donatella Galella is a PhD Candidate in Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is a critical history... Read More →
BM

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

(Re)acting to Identities of Conflict: Performing Memory and History in Latin America
This panel examines Latin American performances, where notions of identity are crucial to the action onstage, providing critiques of the current state of political discourses.
Speakers
SD
PH
JN
AS

Analola Santana

PhD Student, University of Missouri

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Created from Within: Queers and Queerness in the Carceral
The papers in this panel employ Michel Foucault's carceral system to explore how boundaries, deviance, punishment, and resistance operate around queer subjectivities in drama.
Speakers
SC
JD
HK

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Double Down or Diversify? The Musical Theatre Educator's Dilemma
Discussing current practices and ongoing dilemmas of musical theatre educators preparing students to achieve their dreams by being both type aware and artistically versatile.
Speakers
AF

Amy Fritsche

Assistant Professor, Acting & Musical Theatre at Kent State University.
CG

Caleb Goh

Musical Theatre Lecturer, LaSalle - College of the Arts
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask wherever you wish and it will be given you. John 15:7 WhatsApp - +65 9235 1359 Instagram: calebygoh
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Jeremy Sortore

Assistant Professor of Voice & Movement, Utah Valley University

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Dreaming of Peace, Dreaming of War: Coping Through Oral Histories
Exploration of oral histories in performance. How to cope with, work through, and respond to events such as the Vietnam War and Occupy Movements.
Speakers
AB

Amanda Boyle

Doctoral Student/GTA, University of Kansas
KG
ML
AT

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Heroic Journeys: Superscenes for Directors, Actors, Teachers, and Devisers
Myth and heroes are the unconscious dreams of humankind. Their essence and structure form most dramatic texts. Superscenes physically recapture them for today's theatre.
Speakers
avatar for Jane Brody

Jane Brody

Jane Drake Brody: Master Teacher
There can be no more exciting activity than teaching talented young actors to release the joy in them. I am a former actress, singer, agent, director, casting director, and long time teacher. Currently I write books that I hope are helpful to actors, teachers and directors. These... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Journeys of Renewal; Re-visioning Novels for the Stage
These artists will present papers about the "renewal"experienced by producing a work based on a novel. Critical questions include what changes were experienced/explored by the faculty, staff students and/or curriculum?
Speakers
MA
KE

Kathryn Ervin

Professor, California State Univ., San Bernardino
LD

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

Utopic Dreams and Nightmare Visions 1: Re-imagining and Re-performing *Angels in America* in the New Millennium
This panel investigates and challenges historic understandings of how *Angels in America* must be staged and recounts exciting new performative interpretations of Kushner's opus
Speakers
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Virginia Anderson

Connecticut College
TC
SG
WP
CR

Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 1:30pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

12:00pm MST

SETC Getchell Award Winning Play Development Workshop Rehearsal
Saturday July 26, 2014 12:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Rehearsal

1:15pm MST

Bingo Raffle and Refreshments
Moderators
avatar for Lionel Walsh

Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Exhibitors
AI

AHSTF / ICTF (CANCELLED)

American High School Theatre Festival, 321
NC
BM
AF
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John Flax

Producing Artistic Director, Theater Grottesco
Theater Grottesco (TG) is a 30 year old, Lecoq-based physical theater ensemble that creates devised works, often combining classical physical styles into modern cutting-edge work. TG has toured nationally and internationally and has taught at theaters and colleges across the country... Read More →
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Theatre Communications Group

Booths 123 & 125
For over 50 years, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, has existed to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. Founded in 1961, TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking... Read More →
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National Theatre Institute

National Theater Institute, 1321
With a singular schedule and an unmatched breadth of training, the National Theater Institute's six semester-long programs offer students a springboard to the professional world at the two-time Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Founded in 1970, NTI's credit-earning... Read More →
EJ
PM
UO
JH

Johns Hopkins University Press

John Hopkins University Press
NU
TT
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Judith Sloan

Co-founder, Artist, Educator, Adjunct Professor Gallatin, NYU, EarSay, Inc.
Judith Sloan is an award-winning writer, audio artist, radio producer and performer. Her new work, YO MISS! is in development with dramaturg Morgan Jenness. She is co-founder with Warren Lehrer of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to documenting and portraying the lives of uncelebrated... Read More →
MI
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Select Travel Study

Select Travel Study, 515
We create custom short term, faculty-led theatre study programs to London, Edinburgh and across Europe. We work exclusively with faculty to design the very finest educational theatre experiences for your students, each crafted to your specifications and run exclusively for your students... Read More →
AS

Saturday July 26, 2014 1:15pm - 2:00pm MST
Princess H-I, Exhibit Hall, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Bingo Raffle

2:15pm MST

Open Forum: Planning ATHE's Future
Moderators
PY

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Forum

2:15pm MST

Paid Workshop #3 - Kinan Valdez: Theatre of the Sphere: An Ancient American Approach to Activist Theatre
How can the philosophy of Ancient America resonate for activist artists, community-arts practitioners, and contemporary theatre makers? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the foundational principles of “Theater of the Sphere,” a holistic approach to activist/ensemble theatre based on Mesoamerican thought and developed by El Teatro Campesino.
Moderators
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Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Paid Workshop

2:15pm MST

*Changing Skins*: Transgender Folktales as Performed Inquiry and Advocacy about the Fluidity of Gender
Award-winning performance of transgender folktales interwoven with commentary examines marginalized stories, traditions and research to critique a binary system of gender identification. Holly Hughes responds.
Speakers
MB
HH

Holly Hughes

Professor, University of Michigan
I'm a queer feminist performance artist and dog lover. I direct the BFA in Interarts Performance at Michigan

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Collaboratively Dreaming B(l)ack: A Discussion Across the Disciplines
This workshop seeks to build a practical framework for working across disciplines when analyzing, researching, and producing plays.
Speakers
KB
VC
LE
MW

Monica White Ndounou

Associate Professor, Tufts University

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Creating Performances Using Dreams as Source Material
Using the dreams of participants as source material, this workshop will explore, combine and adapt various techniques to create and shape performances.
Speakers
JC
JC

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Digital Scholarship Panel
Emerging practices in digital humanities. Invited participants will discuss their various experiences with—and the future of—non-print research and publication in theatre and performance.
Speakers
SB
NF
SM

Scott Magelssen

Assoc Professor, University of Washington, Southern Illinois University Press
If you have a book project having to do with Theater in the Americas, talk to me at the conference!
DZ

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dream Genders and National Desire
This panel with papers will explore gender in stylized Asian theatre forms as supportive of or subversive to the larger fantasy of a nation's identity.
Speakers
II
KL

Kathryn LeTrent

Virginia Commonwealth U
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Katherine Mezur

Lecturer, UCB
GW

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dreaming Creativity Across Campus
This panel explores the use of acting exercises to teach creativity to non-arts majors and considers how such courses advocate for the value of theatre
Speakers
SB

Suzanne Burgoyne

Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Missouri
Suzanne Burgoyne, PhD, is Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor of Theatre, as well as Director, Center for Applied Theatre and Drama Research, University of Missouri. A recipient of Fulbright and Kellogg National fellowships, as well as a Carnegie Scholar (Scholarship of Teaching... Read More →
ME
WP

William Palmer

Graduate Instructor, University of Missouri
Dramaturgy, Directing, Theatre Pedagogy/Education, Theatre as a Liberal Art
JP

Jennie Pardoe

PhD Student, University of Missouri
LP
KR
BM

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Dreaming Together: Navigating Hope in Community-Based Theatre
This panel explores community-partnered performances which dared to dream in spite of barriers, through navigating the slipperiness of "hope" and the nebulous language of aesthetics.
Speakers
BG
RG
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Karen Jean Martinson

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Dramaturgy Program Focus Group Representative, Conference Committee 2014
JR

Julie Rada

Morales Fellow, University of Utah

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

How to Produce and Direct Interactive Courtroom Dramas
Courtroom dramas are easy to direct and stage. Use **The Steele Deal** as your guide to theatre that's audience participation at its best!
Speakers
SS
SS
BL

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Imagined Theatres: A Staged Reading of a Fictional/Theoretical Universe
Theorists of the stage present a collection of micro-fictions describing imagined theatrical performances. Occasional theoretical glosses situate these fictional worlds as propositions about the nature of the theatre.
Speakers
KG
RJ
AR
DS

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Legal Acts and Dreams of Justice
This session travels between the courtroom and the stage, to find dreams of juridical refuge, (extra)legal resistance, and institutional renewal that drive action and art.
Speakers
JB

James Ball

University of Maryland
LF

Laurie Frederik

Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, Cuba and Latin America, subversive culture and politics, revolution, law and performance
SK
PM
KS

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Open Session: Advocating for Your Theatre Department
Open Session: Advocating for Your Theatre Department
Moderators
KE

Kathryn Ervin

Professor, California State Univ., San Bernardino
JP

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Our Sounds, our Laughs, our Heroes: Performing the (Jewish-) American Dream
Excavating the history of Jewishness on America's stages, this panel reveals how Shakespeare, the Marx Brothers, and Superman served Jewish artists (re)negotiating anxieties of assimilation.
Speakers
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Kane Anderson

UC Santa Barbara
Kane Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara (2013) and an MFA in Theatre Performance from Arizona State University (2007). His dissertation, “Truth, Justice and the Performative Way!” Superhero Performance and the Battle for... Read More →
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Rick DesRochers

Associate Professor of Theatre, Long Island University Post
Associate Professor of Theatre Long Island University Post Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center Books: The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian - Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy - Bloomsbury, 2014 Member... Read More →
LK

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Palabras del Cielo: A Critical Dialogue on Latina/o TYA Plays and Playwrights
This panel examines the historical, cultural, social, and political dimensions of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, focusing on the future development of the growing genre.
Speakers
CA
JC
JH

Jorge Huerta

Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
I am known as "The Melodramatic Mexican" by my students and friends, so that's one of my passions: my Mexican/Chicana/o heritage. I am also passionate about the promotion of US Latina/o and Latin American theatre in the U.S. I earned my B.A and M.A. in Drama at Cal State L.A. in 1966-67... Read More →
CM
JN

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

Recovery and Renewal: Performing New Dreams of Native American Women
This panel seeks to explore ways in which Native American women resist Western constructs and methodologies and renew their roles through women-centered native performances.
Speakers
JD
DD
AM
HN
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Beth Osnes

Assoc. Professor, Theater & Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Beth Osnes PhD, is an Associate Professor of Theatre at CU and is a non-voting member of Environmental Studies. She is co-founder and co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, an endowed initiative on the CU campus to inspire creative communication on climate (www.insidethegreenhouse... Read More →
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Stefani Overman-Tsai

UC Santa Barbara
LW

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

The Family Dream House 1: Staging Home and Contested Spaces
This panel is part of a three-session series that explores how the family house has been re-dreamed on stage, through ritual, and using collaborative performances.
Speakers
DC
AC
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Jessie Glover

Theatre of Conviction | Ohio Prison Arts Connection | Otterbein University
JM
JS

Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

The Utopic Frontier: Theatrical Explorations of the Dreams of America
This panel examines the complex and contradictory visions of America as constructed by immigrants and citizens from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.
Speakers
AI
JC
AE

Amy E. Hughes

Associate Professor, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Amy E. Hughes is Associate Professor of Theater History and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theater at Brooklyn College. Her first book, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2012), received ASTR's... Read More →
DM
LM

Laura Mielke

Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Laura L. Mielke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas where she teaches course in early and 19thC American literature. She is the author of Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature (2008) and co-editor with Josh Bellin of... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:15pm MST

I'm Not the Dream That You Had Before: A Roundtable on the Future of the American Musical Theatre Canon
This session addresses the future of the musical theatre canon and the long-term significance of recent trends: jukebox musicals, movicals, superhero musicals, transnational musicals, and revivals.
Speakers
MC
DG

Donatella Galella

PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
ATHE 2014 Papers: "The Promise of (Dis)Pleasure: Yellowface in Contemporary Musical Revivals" "Superheroes, Heteropatriarchy, and Musicals" Bio: Donatella Galella is a PhD Candidate in Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is a critical history... Read More →
SJ
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Laura MacDonald

Lecturer in Musical Theatre, University of Portsmouth
Music Theatre/Dance Conference Planner
JS
BM
RZ

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

2:15pm MST

SETC Getchell Award Winning Play Showcase
The Playwrights and Creative Teams focus group presents a public performance of the winner of the Getchell award for Playwriting, co-sponsored by the SETC.
Moderators
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Mark Charney

Mark J. Charney is Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University, and is also Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, having worked there for 27 years as Chair of English and Director of Theatre. He is author of the David Mark Cohen prize winning play, The... Read More →
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Daniel Patterson

Professor of Theatre, Keene State College
Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Racquetball, Blues, Hard Rock, Superhero comics (collectible), imagination in all it's guises, creativity and collaboration (child of the sixties).
JR
RS

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Showcase

2:15pm MST

Southwest Directs: Workshop with Regionally-based Professional Directors (Part 1 of 2)
In this double session, regionally based professional directors demonstrate rehearsal methods though work on scenes from a common script, with undergraduate student actors.
Speakers
RB
DH
LM
KM

Kathleen McGeever

Department Chair, Professor, Northern Arizona University, Department of Theatre
Professor of Theatre, specializing in Stage Direction, and Department Chair.
JS

Joya Scott

Orange Theatre
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago
ET
MW
SW

Saturday July 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:45pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

4:00pm MST

Arabic and Arab-American Theatre: Beyond the Desert
Panelists address theatrical and performative strategies formulated to counter Orientalist stereotypes as projected on the Arab world and, by extension, Arab-Americans.
Speakers
avatar for James Al-Shamma

James Al-Shamma

Associate Professor of Theatre, Belmont University
HB
MS

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Closing the Loop: Reflections on and Dreaming the Possibilities of Assessment in Theatre Pedagogy
Open roundtable where leaders and participants from Assessment Strategies and Pedagogical Applications working pre-conference will share their discoveries and discuss opportunities created by assessing theatre pedagogy.
Speakers
JD

Jane Duncan

Director of Accreditation, Nova Southeastern University
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Bradley Griffin

Associate Professor of Theatre, Pepperdine University
Assessment, Ecumenica Journal, study-abroad programs, directing for non-directors, theatre history & criticism
TM
MS

Monica Stufft

Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of San Diego

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Creating Theatre with and for Seniors
Learn how Senior Theatre companies combine scenes, improvisation workshops, murder mystery dinner theatre, and variety shows to create programs that have something for everyone.
Speakers
JA
PB

Peggy Burgess

Professional in Senior Living Community; my goal is to make theatrical performance viable for all seniors, regardless of ability or disability--"On stage at Every Stage"is my motto. Interests include all aspects of Senior Theatre; music (especially opera); play writing; poetry
LC
RM
SS
BL

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Cultivating Empathy: Essential Training for Actors and Engaged Citizens of the World
Using specially adapted Michael Chekhov, meditation, and Viewpoints exercises, learn methods for inspiring your students to imagine change, take action, and make their dreams realities.
Speakers
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Wendell Beavers

Associate Professor, Performance, Naropa University
Wendell Beavers, a dancer and educator, founded Naropa University's MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance Program in 2004. He was a founding faculty member and Director (1984-1990) of The Experimental Theatre Wing (ETW) at NYU teaching there from 1979-2003 where he was involved in... Read More →
TG

Terry Glaser

Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego
Ms. Glaser is a stage director of plays and operas, as well as a playwright, translator, and acting teacher. On the faculty of the University of San Diego since 2005, she has worked both in academia and the professional theatre for over 25 years. She has taught at UCSD, USC, CalArts... Read More →
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Matt Saltzberg

Secretary; MFA in Directing Candidate, Association for Theatre Movement Educators; Western Illinois University
Matt Saltzberg holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Missouri; an M.A. in Theatre Performance from Long Island University; and a B.A. Theatre Performance from Susquehanna University. He has taught at St. Lawrence University, the University of Missouri, and Southern Illinois... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5332, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Desert(ed) Vistas: Performing Spaces, Embodied Identities, and Defining Dreams
Through the landscapes of hysteria, gun culture, and the savage frontier, this panel explores the performativity of physical and conceptual desert(ed) spaces.
Speakers
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Raimondo Genna

Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota, Department of Theatre
LL
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Megan Shea

Language Lecturer, NYU
International Zombie Slayer

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Dream Big: *Artistic Literacy* for the 21st Century
This roundtable of scholars, teachers, and practitioners will apply the principles in Nancy Kindelan's *Artistic Literacy* to theatre studies in liberal arts environments and beyond.
Speakers
JB
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Shawna Mefferd Carroll

Assistant Professor of Theatre, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
I'm the conference planner for the Theatre as Liberal Art Focus Group. If you're interested in TLA, talk to me! I'm both a theatre artist and educator - director, artistic director, and performer. I teach dramatic literature, script analysis, theatre history, directing, and have... Read More →
KJ
RM

Richard Major

Professor of Theatre, Milligan College
Teaching at a small faith based liberal arts college Keeping updated and exploring new methods of teaching after a career spanning 35 years in higher education Touring productions for theatre for young audiences in Appalachia Integrated fine arts curriculum which allows students... Read More →
CM
EO

Elizabeth Osborne

Memory Remade: The Legacies of *The Clansman* and *Birth of a Nation* in Popular Culture, Florida State University
“Dzieci is a wonderful example of the spiritual intensity possible when theatre engages the age-old mysteries of faith and the human experience. We at the Cathedral found the very stones of our monumental building coming alive through their presence.” ~ QUOTE FROM: Canon Tom Miller... Read More →
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Kathy Privatt

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Lawrence University
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Emily Rollie

Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts, Central Washington University
JS

Jay Sierszyn

Director of Theatre, Wisconsin Lutheran College
Out-going "Theatre as a Liberal Art" Focus Group Representative
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Kathleen Sills

Festival Planning Committee, KCACTF Region 1
Forthcoming!
JB

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Dreaming the Character: Embodying Archetypes to Deepen and Heighten the Character
Participants will explore three Archetypal Characters using Michael Chekhov's Imaginary Body and Centres exercise and apply to them to a character from a play.
Speakers
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Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

KICKIR: Keeping it Critical, Keeping it Real
A round table discussion of solo performance as practice-based research addressing issues such as racial identity, gender performance, community engagement, and dance as cultural expression
Speakers
EH
KK

Kareem Khubchandani

Williams College
If you're reading this leave me a poke... = ) Pokes are under-rated
EO
LP

Laurelann Porter

Towards a Poetics and Erotics of Performance, Arizona State University
PhD candidate in theatre and performance of the Americas. Dissertation fieldwork in rural Bahia, Brazil. Understanding arts practices in a certified Urban Quilombo as epistemological constructs weaving the social fabric of a community rooted in social resistance. Through analysis... Read More →
AS

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Performing a Nightmare, Enacting a Fantasy: Collaborative Creation in/through David Ives' *Venus in Fur*
This session demonstrates and develops strategies for creating consensus- based rehearsal methods that dismantle the traditionally hierarchical relationship between actor and director in the production of scripted drama.
Speakers
KJ

Kellyn Johnson

UC Santa Barbara
JM
KC

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 11, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Publishing Books with Academic Presses
Academic press editors will discuss book publication across the span of the scholarly career, from submitting a first book proposal to editing a book series.
Moderators
AS

Speakers
CR

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Religion and Theatre: New Methodologies for Research, Performance, and Pedagogy
A core working group will present the results of a year-long book proposal project on methodologies for addressing religion in theatre and performance studies.
Speakers
DC
CM

Claire Maria Chambers

All Times
Hedonist, heretic, mystical anarchist, cosmic ethicist. I have designs on becoming either a Hedonist or a Heretic. Possibly both.
AD
KE

Kurt Edwards

East Central University
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Lance Gharavi

Associate Professor, Arizona State University
I am an artist, scholar, and educator--in no particular order. Much of my research and creative work involves playing in the intersections of performance with technology, religion, and science.
BL
EL
BP

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Renewing the Dream Process: Design Projects that move from Dream (Concept) to Reality
Design instructors share design projects and educational processes that encourage beginning design students to explore various aspects of the design process.
Speakers
SH
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Ellen E. Jones

Teacher, Portsmouth Public Schools
I am a Nearpod PioNnear, a Certified Nearpod Educator, and Flocabulary Certified. I have a background in .Design and Technical Theatre, History and Social Science, English, Public Speaking, Sustainability, Lighting Design, Scene Design, Scene Painting and Historical Decorative Painting. I... Read More →
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Lynne Porter

Associate Professor, Resident Designer, Fairfield University

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

The Dance Captain: A Dream Job or an Impossible One?
This roundtable discusses the Dance Captain, examining the history of the profession, the skills needed and the role of women in the field.
Speakers
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Valerie Accetta

Head of Musical Theatre, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Valerie Accetta is the Head of Musical Theatre at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. An Equity actress, she played Margy Frake in the First National Tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's State Fair, starring John Davidson. Other performance credits include Cinderella, The Sound... Read More →
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JG

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

The Personal is Political: Indicting Immigration Policy Through Theatre
This session was inspired by the conference locale: performances of two plays depicting how immigration policies affect people politically, socially, and psychologically; panel discussion follows.
Speakers
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Lisa Brenner

Associate Professor, Drew University
Lisa is a Member at Large for Theatre and Social Change. She is the co-author of Katrina: the K Word, a play based on interviews with residents of New Orleans. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Columbia University. At Drew, where she recently won the Distinguished Teaching Award... Read More →
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WB
ED
SP

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Transnational Visions: Performative Interventions in Latin American and Latina/o Performance
This panel examines Latin American and Latina/o performances that engage in a transnational vision of art by focusing on methods used to stage performative interventions.
Speakers
AL
TM
IM
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Yvette Martínez-Vu, Ph.D.

Academic Coach, Consultant, and Podcast Host, Chicana M(other)work
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Colleen Rua

Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State University
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Analola Santana

PhD Student, University of Missouri

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

4:00pm MST

Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Indigenous Actors--The Im/Possibilities of Representation
Scholar/Practitioners reflect on the challenges of representation of indigenous actors in Guatemala, South Africa, the Yucatan Peninsula, Hawaii, and in the archive.
Speakers
JB

Jason Bisping

University of Colorado
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Haley Honeman

Arizona State University
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Stefani Overman-Tsai

UC Santa Barbara

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Roundtable

4:00pm MST

Southwest Directs: Workshop with Regionally-based Professional Directors (Part 2 of 2)
In this double session, regionally based professional directors demonstrate rehearsal methods though work on scenes from a common script, with undergraduate student actors.
Speakers
RB
DH
LM
KM

Kathleen McGeever

Department Chair, Professor, Northern Arizona University, Department of Theatre
Professor of Theatre, specializing in Stage Direction, and Department Chair.
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Joya Scott

Orange Theatre
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago
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MW
SW

Saturday July 26, 2014 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Workshop

5:45pm MST

(Im)migrant Dreams 2: American and Other, Performing Cultural Citizenship
Papers consider the dramaturgy of theatrical and everyday performances of Americanness, citizenship, and "the Other" in moments of nation-making in the long 19th-century United States
Speakers
MP
MG
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Andrew Gibb

Associate Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism, Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance
Andrew Gibb is an associate professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism in the Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance.
CM

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Deviant Dreams, Normative Nightmares: Performing Feminist Revenge Fantasies
This panel brings together critical perspectives on performances that stage feminist revenge fantasies.
Speakers
JB

Jocelyn Buckner

Assistant Professor, Chapman University
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Yvette Martínez-Vu, Ph.D.

Academic Coach, Consultant, and Podcast Host, Chicana M(other)work
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Lisa Sloan

PhD Candidate, UCLA Theater and Performance Studies

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Digital Dreams: The Impact of Technology in Dance-Media Performance
This panel explores the use of technology in dance-media performances, including the combination of live dancers with digital projections and telematic dance.
Speakers
KB
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Anna Sycamore DeMers

Assistant Professor, Middlesex County College
ANNA SYCAMORE DEMERS is a Level I-Professional Margolis Method Instructor. Her teaching centers on acting, movement and ensemble theatre. She is head of the Theatre Program at Middlesex County College in New Jersey and Adjunct MovementSpecialist at Kean University. Her pedagogical... Read More →
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Shana MacDonald

Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Shana MacDonald is an Assistant Professor in the Speech Communication Program at the University of Waterloo, where she teaches performance studies, gender and communication, and visual culture. As an artist-scholar, she explores the community-building potential of practice-based... Read More →
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Teresa Stankiewicz

Devising, feminism, indigenous studies, technology and theatre

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dream Building & Sustaining Momentum: Strategies for Fostering Organizational Diversity Through the Arts
BTA & BTN Joint Session - Session is designed to discuss ways in which theatrical experiences in professional, community and educational settings, can help shape an organizational discourse around issues of diversity and inclusion.
Speakers
MD
MP
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University
PJ

Patrick J. Sims

Black Theatre Association Focus Group Conference Planner

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreaming with Collective Imagination: Devising in and across the Liberal Arts Curriculum
Practitioners and educators of devised performance discuss and share examples of interdisciplinary experimentation encouraged in their liberal arts curricula. Audience participation in discussion is welcomed.
Speakers
JM
MT
BW
JW

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dreams for the Future: Empowering Students Through Service-Learning Projects
A panel exploring how theatre programs and non-profit organizations can collaborate to create valuable civic engagement opportunities that offer students both social-emotional and theatrical educations.
Speakers
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Steven Hitt

Artistic Producing Director, CUNY LaGuardia Community College
Steven Hitt is Artistic Producing Director for the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) and is currently producing his 14th season. His work is focused on developing new works for the stage using theatre and dance to look at issues of social justice. _x000D_ As a performer, Steven... Read More →
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Ryan McKinney

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, City University of New York - Kingsborough CC
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Stefanie Sertich

Professor of Theatre, LaGuardia Community College, National ASPIRE Coordinator
National ASPIRE Chair, Professor of Theatre at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, in Queens, NY. Mellon Foundation, CUNY Graduate Center and LaGuardia Humanities Alliance Scholar’s Coordinator. Stefanie directs new works, musicals and creates devised theatre... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Dreaming of Praxis--Pushing the Limits of Im/Possibilities in Rehearsal, Pedagogy, and Performance
Scholar/Practitioners explore how the im/possible, from liveness and Stanislavski to prisons and masks, can spark innovations in practice and performance.
Speakers
JB

Jane Barnette

Dramaturg, Theatre Historian, University of Kansas
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
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David Coley

Assistant Professor, St. Gregory's University
Performance and Media, Performance Theory, Film Theory, Film History, Hybrid Theatre
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DM
IG
DS
JF

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Living Fiction; Real Time: On Elevator Repair Service's *Gatz*
This panel places scholars in dialogue with ERS's artistic director, John Collins, to consider how *Gatz* materializes and temporalizes the (American) dream-spaces of Fitzgerald's novel.
Speakers
JC
BH

Beth Hoffmann

Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Contemporary British performance; live art; textuality and narrativity; British cultural studies; aesthetic theory and philosophy of art; social practice; matrixed/non-matrixed performance; immersive performance; narrative structures of alternate-reality games and "gaming for goo... Read More →
JF

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Living the Dream: Professional Development Panel for Theatre and Social Change Practitioners/Scholars
Professional practitioners/scholars provide advice on the current job market and funding opportunities for people who are particularly interested in Theatre and Social Change.
Speakers
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Lisa Brenner

Associate Professor, Drew University
Lisa is a Member at Large for Theatre and Social Change. She is the co-author of Katrina: the K Word, a play based on interviews with residents of New Orleans. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from Columbia University. At Drew, where she recently won the Distinguished Teaching Award... Read More →
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Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, yoga teacher and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their power as social... Read More →
TR
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Liz Foster-Shaner

Teaching Artist, Gateway to the Arts/Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Liz Foster-Shaner is a White woman, originally from Northern California now living in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a mother, educator, artist, and activist, and Manager of School and Community Programs for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Liz is developing workshops and projects that examine... Read More →
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David Kaye

Chair, University of New Hampshire
Actor, Director, Designer, Deviser with a specialty in Interactive theatre and theatre for social justice. I invest a good deal of my artistic life focused on utilizing theatre is a springboard to engage in difficult dialogues and the goal of building a more just, inclusive and empathetic... Read More →
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Sarah Senff

MA Student, Miami University
Feminist Theatre. Theatre for Social Change. Disability Studies.
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Michael Wilson

Assistant Director, CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre
I use the beauty and magic of theatre for learning, activism, and community development. I focus on re-defining masculinity and developing the field of Applied Theatre. Assistant Director of CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre Director, www.manquestion.org

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Putting the Science in Your Science Themed Play
This panel will discuss research methods and writing techniques to keep the science themes and references in your play accurate and bullet proof.
Speakers
GM

George Morgan

Playwright in Residence, Caltech

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Teaching Teachers to Dream: Social Engagement in Theatre Teacher Education
An interactive panel considering the possibilities and practicalities of social engagement in Theatre Teacher education.
Speakers
KJ

Kellyn Johnson

UC Santa Barbara

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

The Family Dream House 2: Re-Dreaming Home in Performance
This panel is part of a three-session series that explores how the family house has been re-dreamed on stage, through ritual, and using collaborative performances.
Speakers
EK
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Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer

Associate Professor, Concordia University
Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, PhD, Associate Prof. at Concordia’s Department of Theatre has been exploring the murky ground of Indigenous - non-indigenous relationships. She has made theater with Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann, Roberta Carreri, Vernice Miller, Floyd Favel and others... Read More →
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Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative
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LaRonika Thomas

Doctoral Student, University of Maryland

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Wet Dreams: New Perspectives on Pornography, Burlesque, and the Pleasures of Viewing
This panel reconsiders voyeurism, pornography, and the theatrical pleasure of viewing. Panelists reconsider pornography and burlesque as productive lenses for viewership and ethical considerations.
Speakers
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Frank Miller

Senior Lecturer, Georgia State University
Queer Canadian theatre, directing, popular culture, liberal politics.
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Aaron C. Thomas

Visiting Lecturer, Dartmouth College

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
McDowell B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ USA
  Panel

5:45pm MST

Dream Acts of Dramaturgy: Translation Staged Reading Curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group
A staged reading of a newly translated play curated by the Dramaturgy Focus Group
Speakers
CJ
JM
AV

Adam Versenyi

Nature v. Society: Ramon Griffero and the Dramaturgy of Space, UNC-Chapel Hill/PlayMakers Repertory Company
As one of the most representative and influential figures of contemporary Chinese theatre, Meng Jinghui won his popularity among young audiences with his depiction of confusion, anxiety and passion felt by the younger generation through introducing Western avant-garde methods. With... Read More →

Saturday July 26, 2014 5:45pm - 7:15pm MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Performance

7:30pm MST

Vessel Presents Unreal City: Remixes of the Arizona Landscape
Spectrum is an 'atmospheric' silent theatre performance that surprises and delights audiences transforming the street in to a stag, revealing the poetry and beauty of the mundane. Adorned in five colors of the spectrum, performers playfully weave in and out of audience public space creating a visual kaleidoscope.
Artists
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Saturday July 26, 2014 7:30pm - 8:30pm MST
Hotel Grounds, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Performance

8:30pm MST

Black Theatre Association Networking Dinner
Networking opportunities for faculty, graduate students and others who are interested in BTA and mentoring up-and-coming artists and scholars of Black Theatre. Individuals are responsible for his/her own meal and beverages. Location TBA
Moderators
PJ

Patrick J. Sims

Black Theatre Association Focus Group Conference Planner

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:30pm - 10:00pm MST
Offsite 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:30pm MST

Intimate Acts: Banned Play Readings
Performance: Banned Play Readings
Moderators
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Sonja Kuftinec

Professor, University of Minnesota
Staying less busy and more thoughtful; finding a way to be mindful about everyday practices including parenting and pedagogy.

Saturday July 26, 2014 8:30pm - 10:30pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Performance
 
Sunday, July 27
 

7:15am MST

ATME Morning Warm Up: Release Into Movement
Please join us for this conference-wide morning warm up. Get those conference juices flowing!
Speakers
HC
ND

Sunday July 27, 2014 7:15am - 7:45am MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Warm Up

8:00am MST

Acting Program (AP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #2
Moderators
MM

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Focus Group Membership Meeting #2
Please join us to find out more about ATME and learn about what we're up to in this conference and beyond.
Moderators
HC

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

Directing Program (DP) Focus Group Membership Meeting #2
Moderators
LM
AS

Ann Shanahan

Directing Program Focus Group Representative Associate Professor of Theatre Loyola University Chicago

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Bourbon 10, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

Latina/o (LFG) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Annual membership meeting for all ATHE members participating within or interested in Latina/o, Latin American, or Indigenous theater.
Moderators
IM

Irma Mayorga

Assistant Professor of Theater, Dartmouth College
The Panza Monologues, Second Edition from UT Press. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVQZzXSL6uI & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUotBOm2bYY Irma Mayorga is a scholar/artist in theater and holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design (UW-Madison) and a Joint Ph.D. in Drama... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) Membership Meeting #2
Please join us for the first part of our annual meeting! We'll be discussing the PSFG's current work and holding elections for the group's leadership.
Moderators
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Joseph Cermatori

PhD Candidate, Columbia University
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Megan Shea

Language Lecturer, NYU
International Zombie Slayer

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

Two-Year College Program Focus Group Membership Meeting
Meeting is open to all who are interested in the Two-Year college issues and perspectives.
Moderators
BG

Bill Gillett

Asst Professor, Coodinator for Theatre, Carroll Community College
RS

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

8:00am MST

A Dream for Catholicism in American Theatre Part 2: Empowerment Through the Art of Playwriting
This panel is the second part of an examination of Catholicism and theatre, investigating how playwriting can empower twenty-first century American Catholics.
Speakers
RB
AI
CG
RL

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Castile 5, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Acting Out: Dreaming of Women's Health in Narratives of Resistance
This panel explores the counternarratives and strategies women and theatre practitioners use to resist dominant narratives that shape women's experiences of aging, cancer and obesity.
Speakers
GA

Gwendolyn Alker

ATHE Co-Vice President for Conference 2011
LC
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Kimberly Dark

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, yoga teacher and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay, poem, and story at a time. She uses humor, surprise and intimacy to help audiences discover their influences, and reclaim their power as social... Read More →
JL

Joan Lipkin

Writing/Directing/Social Activism
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Sarah Senff

MA Student, Miami University
Feminist Theatre. Theatre for Social Change. Disability Studies.

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Cultivating Student-Dreamers in Contemporary Liberal Arts Environments
This session explores challenges and successes of educators teaching acting to contemporary Liberal Arts students who may lack experience in dreaming and imagining new possibilities.
Speakers
RC
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Alison Frost

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi
I teach a variety of theatre classes at TAMUCC including Acting 3: Period Styles, Theatre History 1, Audition Preparation, Acting for the Camera, and Musical Theatre. I teach 2 classes for a Study Abroad program I take to England/Scotland every 2 years. I serve on the Theatre as a... Read More →
CK

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Devising and Performing as Social Work: the Micro and the Macro in Applied Theatre
Wait, is that theatre or is that social work? Yes. Scholars and practitioners share projects serving social justice. See Prezi to preview.
Speakers
LD

Lesley Delmenico

Penetrating Habitual Stratifications: Traversing Urban Spaces en route, Associate Professor Department of Theatre and Dance Grinnell College
In 2013, I was asked by Gospel Light Christian Church (GLCC) in Singapore to direct a Christmas show and make it more professional and “experiential”. The church leadership was fully aware of the pre-existing Christmas shows put up by “megachurches” such as New Creation Church... Read More →
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MG

Meg Greene

Freelance Teaching Artist
Laughing is my favorite
RG
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Jodi Jinks

Mary Lou Lemon Endowed Professor, Oklahoma State
Jodi is the Mary Lou Lemon Endowed Professor and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Oklahoma State University. Her endowment funds ArtsAloud-OSU, a program dedicated to giving voice to incarcerated men and women in Oklahoma through autobiographical performance. Jodi is a company... Read More →
EL

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Don't Believe What Sensible People Say! Subverting Genre Expectations in Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre has clear genre expectations, and yet those constructs are continually subverted as artists, who donåt believe in sensible rules, craft impossible possibilities.
Speakers
KE

Kurt Edwards

East Central University
BG

Barrie Gelles

The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Vicki Hoskins

PhD Student & Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
AR

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Dream-a-turgy: New Tools for Translating, Staging, and Contextualizing *La vida es sueno*
Dramaturgs share hands-on experiences with taking Calderon's classic off the page, into class, and onto the stage, sparking discussion and challenging rediscoveries.
Speakers
RK

Rachel Katz Carey

Artistic Associate, theater simple
Rachel Katz Carey's award winning work as a director/dramaturg/instructor has been seen across the US and Canada in a 25 year career that spans world premieres of new plays, Calderon, Moliere, Shakespeare, Stoppard, Dostoevsky, Hans Christian Andersen and a dreamy musical astronomy... Read More →
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Rick Davis

Exec. Dir., Hylton Performing Arts Center/Associate Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University
Directing, translating, writing, writing about, and teaching theater and opera, new and old; building a community (artistic, social, political, economic) for the Hylton Center; exploring and advancing the enduring values and evolving opportunities of the liberal arts throughout the... Read More →
BG
AR

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Dreaming of Refuge and Inviting Resistance: Activist Performance, Critical Pedagogy, and Speaking (Affirming?) the Dominant
This roundtable locates minoritarian and under-represented performances as sites of renewal, revision, and resistance in the desert of increasingly neo-liberalized academic, public, and economic spheres.
Speakers
KM
PN
KS
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Esther J. Terry

Member, Scholar, JPOC - Jewish People of Color
Esther J. Terry, PhD, is a scholar of Early Modern race and performance. Her in-depth understanding of the historical and geographic complexities of racial identity informs her service in Jewish communities. She served as a Chair of the Racial Justice Task Force at Congregation Beth... Read More →
KW

Kevin Wetmore

Loyola Marymount University

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Dreams/Nightmares: Black Identity on Stage
This panel considers plays by Amiri Baraka, Lynne Nottage and Bruce Norris as texts that resist or reflect African American identities refracted through the American Dream.
Speakers
RA
CB
KN
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Analyzing the Dream--Critical Reflections on Performances
Participants explore the power dynamics of dream acts on stage in analyses of various performances, from Broadway to propaganda films to vaudeville.
Speakers
AB

Alicja Binder

Musical Theatre Lecturer, LaSalle - College of the Arts
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask wherever you wish and it will be given you. John 15:7 WhatsApp - +65 9235 1359 Instagram: calebygoh
DC

Daniel Ciba

Re-Membering Gayness, Tuft University
This paper will present an overview and the first-phase findings of a research and development project that has been in progress since late 2012. ‘Culture Hub’ is a multilingual networking and epublishing platform that explores the potential of current digital tools to open up... Read More →
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BP
NT
SV
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Catherine Young

Audiences and Animality: Taste, Laughter and the Animal Vaudevillian, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
My aim today is to relate an experience called “Desdemona never again” designed and rehearsed in just three months in order to celebrate the International Day against Gender Violence (November 25th). The pageant’s purpose was to raise awareness among the citizens. There were... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Let Them Achieve the Impossible Dream: The Business of Acting
How eductators can help enrich the theatre major's training with entrepreneurial tools and business etiquette to navigate the often-unmapped desert of employment in the arts.
Speakers
AF

Amy Fritsche

Assistant Professor, Acting & Musical Theatre at Kent State University.
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Ryan McKinney

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, City University of New York - Kingsborough CC
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Ryan Scrimger

Adjunct Associate Professor, University of San Diego

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

8:00am MST

Theatre Beyond the Proscenium: Using Drama as a Teaching Tool in Prison
This lecture/discussion, performance and interactive workshop reveals the power of creating theatre in maximum security prisons and with at risk individuals in the community.
Speakers
LC
JR

Janet Raskin

Adjunct Faculty, Theatre, Miami Dade College, ArtSpring, Inc.
MFA Theatre and MA TESOL, University of Central Florida. Talk to me about: Acting for the Camera Doing Drama with English language learners Doing drama with incarcerated women Michael Chekhov Technique Doing drama with people with Parkinson's

Sunday July 27, 2014 8:00am - 9:30am MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:00am MST

New Play Development Workshop: Showcase of New Plays
Showcase performance and public response to the new plays selected for ATHE's 24th Annual New Play Development Program
Moderators
CD
KM
JR

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
Princess D, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Showcase

9:45am MST

2015 Conference Planners' Meeting 2
Moderators
avatar for Lionel Walsh

Lionel Walsh

Professor, University of Windsor/Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium
Lionel is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art, University of Windsor, where he teaches acting in the BFA program. He an actor, director, and Artist Director of Northern Bruce Theatre, for which he directed Salt-Water Moon in July 2019. He is the Director of the Inspired Acting... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Castile 1, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

9:45am MST

Theory and Criticism (TC) Focus Group Membership Meeting
Come join us for our annual meeting to discuss past, present, and future business and to plan next year's conference. All are welcome!
Moderators
JB

Jane Barnette

Dramaturg, Theatre Historian, University of Kansas
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." -- Don Miguel Ruiz
LL

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Meeting

9:45am MST

*Shuo Meng Hua* (Talking in my Dreams): Using Drama for English and Chinese Language Learning
Four teachers describe their experience using drama to teach English in China and Chinese in the US through improvisation, self-scripted work, and performance of published plays.
Speakers
WE
CH
JR

Janet Raskin

Adjunct Faculty, Theatre, Miami Dade College, ArtSpring, Inc.
MFA Theatre and MA TESOL, University of Central Florida. Talk to me about: Acting for the Camera Doing Drama with English language learners Doing drama with incarcerated women Michael Chekhov Technique Doing drama with people with Parkinson's
JW

John Weinstein

Association for Asian Performance Focus Group Represntative

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

A Politic Dreamt, A Policy Staged: Performance and Policy in the 21st Century
This panel foregrounds policy as a site of inquiry for performance studies, and examines how dreams are deferred, depleted, and discovered through enactments of policy.
Speakers
CC

Clare Croft

University of Michigan
Reflecting on Queer DanceSaturday, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 220 Sullivant This roundtable brings together the authors—both scholars and artists—featured in Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford 2017). We ask how individuals, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices... Read More →
JH
KH
AK
PM

Patrick McKelvey

Dis-Affection and Theatrical Labor, Brown Univeristy
Bertolt Brecht’s theory has a greater impact on Chinese opera than otherwise, despite his incorrect and misleading perception on Mei Lanfang, as observed by such critics as Leonard Cabell Pronko and Min Tian. The reception of his theory, particularly alienation effect, by Chinese... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Cultivating Refuge, Collaboration and Renewal in the Theater Movement Community
MERGE(Movement Educator's Research Group) will discuss the work they accomplished over four retreats, offering the ATHE community a possible model for collaboration among colleagues'.
Speakers
avatar for Wendell Beavers

Wendell Beavers

Associate Professor, Performance, Naropa University
Wendell Beavers, a dancer and educator, founded Naropa University's MFA Theatre: Contemporary Performance Program in 2004. He was a founding faculty member and Director (1984-1990) of The Experimental Theatre Wing (ETW) at NYU teaching there from 1979-2003 where he was involved in... Read More →
EB
TC
JC
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Sara Romersberger

Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
Movement Specialist and director

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Castile 6, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Dare to Dream: Experiencing the Superconscious through Active Analysis
Explore *A Midsummer Night's Dream* through Stanislavsky's Active Analysis through Psychophysical Actions. Develop visceral, physical and imaginative connections- a conscious path to the superconscious.
Speakers
GB

Grant Bashore

Grant Bashore began mime studies in the 1970's with Dr. E. Reid Gilbert at the Wisconsin Mime Theatre and Valley Studio, which the New York Times at the time regarded as the center of mime training in the United States. Dr. Gilbert was an understudy of Etienne Decroux, the father... Read More →
PG

Philip G. Bennett

Founder/Artistic Director, The Bennett TheatreLab & Conservatory
Philip G. Bennett is a graduate of the four-year training program in acting, teaching and directing , American Stanislavski Theatre . He has been training actors professionally for more than forty years using Stanislavsky's Ultimate Technique: Active Analysis through Physical Actions. He... Read More →
SD

Stephanie Daventry French

East Stroudsburg University

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
McDowell A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Dreamlandia: The Space and Politics of Latina/o and Latin American Landscapes
Examining the U.S./Mexican desert, the Bronx, 1841 New Mexico, and Chile's 2011 student protests, panelists interrogate plays/performances that center space as a primary concern.
Speakers
TB
AG

Andrew Gibb

Associate Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism, Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance
Andrew Gibb is an associate professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism in the Texas Tech University School of Theatre and Dance.
JR
CV

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Dreams Into Nightmares: The Gothic in Contemporary Drama
Panelists examine contemporary manifestations of the gothic, particularly as related to queer theory, feminist theory and postcolonial theory.
Speakers
BC

Bud Coleman

Professor of Theatre, University of Colorado at Boulder
FM

Frank Miller

Senior Lecturer, Georgia State University
Queer Canadian theatre, directing, popular culture, liberal politics.
WP
AS

Aoise Stratford

PhD Student, University of Missouri-Columbia
Women in Theatre, Playwriting, Dramaturgy

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Fantasy Feminisms: Dreaming of the Perfect Syllabus
This roundtable provides an opportunity for collaborative exploration of what it means to facilitate a feminist theatre classroom, both in terms of curricula and pedagogical practices.
Speakers
GA

Gwendolyn Alker

ATHE Co-Vice President for Conference 2011
JB
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Michelle Hayford

Assistant Director of Center for the Arts, Florida Gulf Coast University
Applied theatre, theatre for social change, University-Community/non-profit partnerships, ethnodrama, gender studies
TK
EC
AE
JD
CY

Catherine Young

Audiences and Animality: Taste, Laughter and the Animal Vaudevillian, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
My aim today is to relate an experience called “Desdemona never again” designed and rehearsed in just three months in order to celebrate the International Day against Gender Violence (November 25th). The pageant’s purpose was to raise awareness among the citizens. There were... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Living within Rhythms of the Living Archive: Immersion Experiences in Culture, Language and Global Spaces
Practitioner/Scholars share experiences in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and within U.S. prisons and Reservations. Our art, pedagogy and souls have been transformed.
Speakers
RB
LC
SB
SF
TP

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Performing Freedom Dreams from Slavery to Civil Rights: Then and Today
This session explores performances of freedom and citizenship during the slavery and Civil Rights eras, as well as the politics of reimagining such performances today.
Speakers
BC

Brandi Catanese

faculty, UC Berkeley
Black joy, black life!
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Soyica Colbert

Mysterious Mixings: Passing in Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Georgetown University
Professional wrestling is a popular spectacle in which muscular men and women throw, body slam, and attempt to pin each other in stadiums full of screaming fans. Professional wrestling thus has many of the trappings of contemporary sports; however, it also fulfills many of the established... Read More →
DJ

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Publishing Articles about Actor Training: How to Write About the Teaching of Acting
Editors and writers for the peer-reviewed new journal METHODs will answer questions about how to publish articles on what you teach in your acting classrooms.
Speakers
CG

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Rediscovering the *Dream*: New Resources for Teaching *La vida es sueno*
It's the most famous play from the Spanish Golden Age. How can hands-on experiences from the stage make it more dynamic in class?
Speakers
RK

Rachel Katz Carey

Artistic Associate, theater simple
Rachel Katz Carey's award winning work as a director/dramaturg/instructor has been seen across the US and Canada in a 25 year career that spans world premieres of new plays, Calderon, Moliere, Shakespeare, Stoppard, Dostoevsky, Hans Christian Andersen and a dreamy musical astronomy... Read More →
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Rick Davis

Exec. Dir., Hylton Performing Arts Center/Associate Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University
Directing, translating, writing, writing about, and teaching theater and opera, new and old; building a community (artistic, social, political, economic) for the Hylton Center; exploring and advancing the enduring values and evolving opportunities of the liberal arts throughout the... Read More →
SP

Susan Paun de Garcia

Associate Provost, Denison University
I'm passionate about Spanish Golden Age theater in Spanish and in English translation, in period production and in modern adaptation.
BG
AR

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Research Dream Projects: Present Plans, Future Aspirations
Distinguished scholars will discuss their latest research projects, focusing on their present state and aspirations for their future development.

Cheryl Black: "In My Dream World I Would Find the Perfect Balance Between Scholarship and Art: Experiments in Performance Historiography" 

Kim Marra: "Embodied Methods in Performance Research: Riding and Dreams of Horses on Desert Stages" 

Felicia Londre: "The Great War Refought in Expressionist Dreams"

 
Moderators
RS

Robert Schanke

ATHE Vice President for Awards
AS

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Castile 4, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

The Family Dream House 3: Ritual Space & Family Identity
CANCELLED
Speakers
LD
KE

Kurt Edwards

East Central University
JS

Jill Stevenson

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College
Religion and Theatre Focus Group Representative

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

Theatrical Opportunities for Older Actors
After retirement, many older adults are turning/returning to their dream of the stage. Discover the many ways to create opportunities for older performers.
Speakers
PB

Peggy Burgess

Professional in Senior Living Community; my goal is to make theatrical performance viable for all seniors, regardless of ability or disability--"On stage at Every Stage"is my motto. Interests include all aspects of Senior Theatre; music (especially opera); play writing; poetry
DG
BP
PP
BL

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

9:45am MST

You've Got to be Carefully Taught: Musical Theatre Education in Postcolonial Asia
This panel will discuss what musical theatre means in postcolonial Asia and unearth the underlying dreams and desires of various postcolonial subjects.
Speakers
CG

Caleb Goh

Musical Theatre Lecturer, LaSalle - College of the Arts
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask wherever you wish and it will be given you. John 15:7 WhatsApp - +65 9235 1359 Instagram: calebygoh
SL
JH

Sunday July 27, 2014 9:45am - 11:15am MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

'Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me': Staging Stories of Immigration to the USA
Participants will investigate plays and musicals that feature stories of immigration to the United States of America and discuss their importance and relevance.
Speakers
AB

Amanda Boyle

Doctoral Student/GTA, University of Kansas
BG

Barrie Gelles

The Graduate Center, CUNY
AH

Anne Healy

Asst. Professor, BFA Musical Theatre Area Head, University of Texas at Arlington
SJ
GM

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess A, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

(En)Gendering Dialogues about Military Service and Veterans' Issues: War Performances as Resistance and Political Action
War is traditionally constructed as a hypermasculine, heteronormative sphere. This panel interrogates these preconceptions by analyzing war performance texts by women and gay men.
Speakers
MB
SD

Steven De Loose

GTA, Oklahoma State University Theatre
JV

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Castile 3, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Body, Mind and Energy: Resources and Techniques for the Performer
Exploration of the three concurrent levels of physicality, sensory work, and subtle energy work Suitable for a wide variety of genres and styles.
Speakers
TW

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Casita 5400, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Dreaming in Cuban: Interpretations of the Body in Dance, Theatre, Ritual, and Performance
This panel questions how the body of the actor/performer manifests Cuban dreamscapes in diverse sites of performance--from Afro-Cuban religious practice to Miami's theatre scene.
Speakers
avatar for Micha Espinosa

Micha Espinosa

Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Micha Espinosa (BFA, Stephens College; MFA Acting, U.C. San Diego) is an Arizona-based artist, activist, teacher, and an internationally acclaimed vocal coach. She has performed, lectured, and taught voice in Asia, across the Americas, and Europe. An Associate Professor of voice/acting... Read More →
LF

Laurie Frederik

Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, Cuba and Latin America, subversive culture and politics, revolution, law and performance
EM
JM
JL
SO
KR

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess B, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Dreaming of the Future: Mixed-Media, Digital Performance, and Subjectivity
This panel explores the formation of subjectivity within living and mediated performances.
Speakers
KB
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Christine Evans

Associate Professor
Born in London, brought up in the U.K., N.Z. and Australia, now making my home in the U.S., and still can't pack a carry-on bag with the panache you'd think a world traveler would possess. Can drive on both sides of the road, but not at once. Cannot distinguish one American strip... Read More →
AJ
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Judith Sloan

Co-founder, Artist, Educator, Adjunct Professor Gallatin, NYU, EarSay, Inc.
Judith Sloan is an award-winning writer, audio artist, radio producer and performer. Her new work, YO MISS! is in development with dramaturg Morgan Jenness. She is co-founder with Warren Lehrer of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to documenting and portraying the lives of uncelebrated... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess G, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Impossible Things Are Happening Everyday: Surprise in Musical Theater Spectacle
This panel examines the function of surprise in musical theater spectacle. How does the spectacular use of both technology and the human body in musical theater challenge assumptions about what is possible?
Speakers
DD
EJ

Emily Jones

Lindenwood University, 1312
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Laura MacDonald

Lecturer in Musical Theatre, University of Portsmouth
Music Theatre/Dance Conference Planner
DR

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess C, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

More Than a Piece of Paper: Professionalizing Undergraduates for Careers in Theatre and Performance Studies
Participants will share strategies to help undergraduate students secure professional employment, ensuring that their dreams of engaging in theatre and performance upon graduation are more than mirages.
Speakers
JB

Jocelyn Buckner

Assistant Professor, Chapman University
DC
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Matt Omasta

Associate Professor, Associate Department Head, and Director of Theatre Education, Utah State University
Matt Omasta is the Director of Theatre Education and Applied Theatre at Utah State University where he teaches courses in Drama Pedagogy, Theatre for Young Audiences, and Applied Theatre. His work has been recognized by the Educational Theatre Association (Founder's Award), American... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess E, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Moving From Floating Islands to Archipelagos: Intercultural Practices in Pedagogy, Training, and Performance
This panel explores how dreams of community and renewal are fulfilled through movement practices and traditions from the Odin Teatret and Latin-America.
Speakers
CC
EP

Elizabeth Parks

Independent Artist, Texas Tech University
Elizabeth is a performer and educator with research interests in theatre movement and theatre anthropology. She spent seven years in Denver as an actor, theatre and dance faculty member at Red Rocks Community College and Rocky Mountain Theatre Association board member. She holds a... Read More →
JR

Julie Rada

Morales Fellow, University of Utah
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Laura Rikard

Co-Founder, Theatrical Intimacy Education, U of Miami
Laura (SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is a director, actor, stage movement specialist, intimacy choreographer, Assistant Professor of Acting, Directing and Movement at the University of Miami and a founding member of Theatre Intimacy Education. Directing credits include: The Seagull, Dead Manâs... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Princess F, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Taking Senior Theatre on the Road
Learn how to set up a performing group that tours to senior audiences. Learn about organization, programming, and tips and tricks to make it successful.
Speakers
DG
PP
BL

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Bourbon 9, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

The Ethics of Performance Ethnography in Religious Research
Performance ethnographers wrestle with the ethics of their own assumptions, attitudes, and personal involvement when belief and spiritual practice inform research in religion.
Speakers
CM

Claire Maria Chambers

All Times
Hedonist, heretic, mystical anarchist, cosmic ethicist. I have designs on becoming either a Hedonist or a Heretic. Possibly both.
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Lance Gharavi

Associate Professor, Arizona State University
I am an artist, scholar, and educator--in no particular order. Much of my research and creative work involves playing in the intersections of performance with technology, religion, and science.
BP
LP

Laurelann Porter

Towards a Poetics and Erotics of Performance, Arizona State University
PhD candidate in theatre and performance of the Americas. Dissertation fieldwork in rural Bahia, Brazil. Understanding arts practices in a certified Urban Quilombo as epistemological constructs weaving the social fabric of a community rooted in social resistance. Through analysis... Read More →

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Casita 5308, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

The Role of Performance in Black Women's Community Organizing -- U.S., Suriname and South Africa
Three case studies investigate how Black women artists use performance to engage communities and enact revolutionary visions of more inclusive societies.
Speakers
KB
LB

Lisa Biggs

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Actress, playwright, and performance scholar focusing on Theatre for Social Change, esp. work with incarcerated women and men in the US and in South Africa.
LD

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Utopic Dreams and Nightmare Visions 2: Re-thinking and Re-imagining *Angels in America* in the New Millennium
Juxtaposing history, nostalgia and futurity this panel re-interrogates *Angels in America* proposing provocative new readings and interpretations of Kushner's opus
Speakers
VC

Vanessa Campagna

University of Missouri - Columbia
I am a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. At MU, I teach Acting for Non-Majors and Performance of Literature. My primary research interest centers upon gay and lesbian dramatic literature. I am also interested in Theatre of Ritual, and late... Read More →
LM

Liam Monaghan

Liam Monaghan recently graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a B.A. (Hons) in English and will begin his M.A. in English at Dalhousie University in September 2014.
WP
JW

Jay Whitehead

Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge

Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Bourbon 8, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

11:30am MST

Wanted! Freedom: Dead or Alive
CANCELLED
Sunday July 27, 2014 11:30am - 1:00pm MST
Casita 5130, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Panel

2:00pm MST

Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group Post-Conference -- Dialogues in the Desert
Moderators
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University
PJ

Patrick J. Sims

Black Theatre Association Focus Group Conference Planner

Sunday July 27, 2014 2:00pm - 11:00pm MST
Castile 2, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Post-Conference
 
Monday, July 28
 

9:00am MST

Black Theatre Association (BTA) Focus Group Post-Conference -- Dialogues in the Desert
Moderators
JS

Jonathan Shandell

Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Arcadia University
PJ

Patrick J. Sims

Black Theatre Association Focus Group Conference Planner

Monday July 28, 2014 9:00am - 1:00pm MST
Sonoran Room, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel 7575 E Princess Dr Scottsdale, AZ 85255 USA
  Post-Conference
 
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  • Acting Program (AP)
  • American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
  • Association for Asian Performance (AAP)
  • Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)
  • Directing Program (DP)
  • Dramaturgy Program (DR)
  • Lesbian - Gay - Bisexual - Transgender - Queer (LGBTQ)
  • Playwrights and Creative Teams (PACT)
  • Theatre and Social Change (TASC)
  • Area
  • Acting Program (AP)
  • Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)
  • Black Theatre Association (BTA)
  • Dramaturgy Program (DR)
  • Lesbian - Gay - Bisexual - Transgender - Queer (LGBTQ)
  • Music Theatre-Dance (MT-D)
  • Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG)
  • Religion and Theatre (RT)
  • Theatre and Social Change (TASC)
  • Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA)
  • Theatre History (TH)
  • Theory and Criticism (TC)
  • Two-Year College Program (TYCP)