CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION (New Play Development)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION (New Play Development)

2011 (January)                Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region II, Towson, Maryland

• Presentation:  “New Play Development:  Dramaturgy for All”

2010 (September)         Lyubimovka Festival, Teatr.doc, Moscow Russia

• Presentation:  “The WordBRIDGE model of New Play Development”
• Participation:  Attended readings of 12 new Russian Plays

2010  (March)                 The 2010 Festival of New Works.  Guest respondent.  New York University.  New York, NY.

• Responded to 3 Full Length Plays
• Directed a reading of Hannah Martin’s Salvation
• Panel Discussion Participant:  “Writing for Young Audiences”

2009 (March)                The 2009 Festival of New Works.  Guest respondent.  New York University.  New York, NY.

• Responded to 6 Full Length Plays
• Panel Discussion Participant:  “Development Opportunities off the Island” and “Regional Theatre Opportunities”

2009  (February)           Philadelphia New Play Initiative. 

• Panel Discussion Participant:  “A Practical Guide to Play Development.”

2009  (January)               Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region II.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Presentations:   “The Role of the Generous Dramaturg.”
• Respondent:  1 Full-Length, 2 One-Act Plays, 6 10-Minute Play

2008  (October)              Festival of One Act and Ten Minute Plays.  Guest respondent.  University of Wyoming.  Laramie, WY.

• Workshops:  “Play Development Practicum”

 2008 (July)                    Association for Theatre In Higher Education, Denver, Colorado

• Participation:  Respondent New Play Development Workshop Ten Minute Play Festival.  Responded to 9 10-Minute plays.

2008  (February)         Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII.  Los Angeles, California.

• Respondent One-Act and Ten-Minute Play Festival
• Respondent Full Length:  House Full of Letters

2007  (March)              Festival of Ten.  Guest artist, lecturer and respondent.  State University of New York – Brockport.

2007   (February)               Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII.  Cedar City, Utah.

• Presentation:  “New Play Development:  Theater’s Team Sport”
• Respondent One-Act and Ten-Minute Play Festival

2007    (February)             Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region IV.  Americus, Georgia.

• Presentation:  “New Play Dramaturgy”
• Respondent to Production of Bethlehem Motor Company

2007  (January)              Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region II.  New Paltz, New York.

• Respondent Full-Length and One-Act Plays

2006  (Fall)                 Lecturer for Dr. Mark Charney’s Beginning Playwriting Class, Clemson University.

• “Discussing the Short Play Form: One-Act and Ten-Minute,” Guest

2006  (August)              American Theater in Higher Education Conference.  Chicago, Illinois.

• Respondent – ATHE New Play Development Workshop.

2006  (May)                   New Plays Premiere.  Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

• Respondent to five plays.
• Led audience talkbacks.
• Met with playwrights individually about their work.

2006  (April)                 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.  Washington, D.C.

• Reader for national John Cauble Short Play Award.
• Mentor and lecturer for dramaturgy award winners.

2006  (February)        Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region V.  Fargo, North Dakota.

• Presentations:  “New Play Development:  Theater’s Team Sport” and “Working in the Fringe”
• Respondent One-Act Play Festival and Ten-Minute Play Festival

2006  (February)         Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region II.  New Paltz, New York.

• Presentation:  “New Play Development:  Theater’s Team Sport”
• Respondent One-Act and Ten-Minute Play Festival

2005  (Spring)              Squarewrights Playwrights Organization.  Stratford, Connecticut.

• “Play Development, the Practical Process,”

2004   (February)     Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region V.  St. Louis, Missouri.

• Presentation:  “Dramaturgy and the Development of New Work”
• Respondent One-Act Play Festival

2004  (Fall)                Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.  University of Missouri – St. Louis.

• Presentation:  “The Collaborative Process of Play Development,”

2004  (Spring)               Guest Lecturer for Dr. John Miles Foley’s Oral Tradition Class, University of Missouri – Columbia.

• “’The Play’s the Thing (and Not the Script)’: Ethnopoetics and Playwriting.”

2003  (August)              Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New York, New York.

• Participation:  On-Site Coordinator for New Play Development Workshop.

2003  (March)              Mid-America Theatre Conference.  Presenter.  Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Presentation: ‘“So This is What You’re Doing Now:’ Tensions Between Play Performance and Text Development and the Impact on Playwright-Director Collaboration.”

2002  (March)              Mid-America Theatre Conference.  St. Louis, Missouri.

• Presentation:  “When is a Cyclops Really a Psyclops?”