KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

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9:00am EST

The Revolutionists Response

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EST

Founders

Response, Invited Production

Speakers

Anjalee Hutchinson

KCACTF Regional Exchange, KCACTF Region 2 RED Chair

Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson teaches at Bucknell University where in 2019 she received the Bucknell Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence and in 2022 received the Bucknell Diversity and Inclusion Award. A graduate of the MFA directing program at Northwestern University, Anjalee... Read More →

KCACTF Region 1

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EST
Founders Davidson Hall

Invited Production

12:30pm EST

Adaptation and Inspiration

Thursday January 30, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm EST

Founders

General, open to all. A comprehensive look at adaptation across genres using different forms of primary texts to study how to create successful adaptations. This course will combine reading and watching of existing adaptations, and writing assignments where students are able to practice and develop their own adaptations. This class will ask you to look at source material in a new way, sometimes challenging the faults of the material from its time and place in History, and finding ways to explore new relationships to the story through adaptation. There will be a writing exercise at the end of class, please bring a laptop or writing instruments.

Speakers

Cassie M. Seinuk

Vice chair npp, Region 1 Npp co-chair

Cassie M. Seinuk is a Jewish Cuban playwright, AEA Stage Manager, visual artist and educator in Boston, MA. Her play From the Deep has won multiple awards including The Pestalozzi New Play Prize, the Latinidad Playwrights Award at the Kennedy Center, and was a recipient of the Boston... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm EST
Founders Davidson Hall

Workshop

1:45pm EST

Play Filled Devising

Thursday January 30, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm EST

Founders

General, open to all. How might one integrate Play into their process to further collaboration and bolster creativity for an authentic community? B4TheOther believes Play is the process of becoming. This is a on your feet somatic exploration into the unknown world of Play. In this workshop players will be guided through light theater/clown games, written exercises, and discussion that blends observation, reflection, and bubble popping questions. Please be prepared to move, get messy, and to gain a new sense of community!

Speakers

Malia'Kekia Nicolini

B4 The Other Creations Co-Founder, B4 The Other Creations

Malia’Kekia Nicolini (‘O ia/she/they) is kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian), they received their inoa (name) traditionally from an inoa po (mothers dream) that held both an inoa ho’ailona (symbol) and their inoa ulaleo (ancestors voice). Malia’Kekia is an internationally... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 1:45pm - 3:15pm EST
Founders Davidson Hall

Workshop

3:30pm EST

Power-Up Your Voice and Characters!

Thursday January 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST

Founders

General, open to all. Want to make more creative character voices? Wondering how the new Nosferatu makes those sounds without wrecking his voice? In this practical and playful voice workshop, you get experiences with the physiology of breath opening and the essential coordination of healthy breath support–for expressive characters and transformations. You can apply these tools to speaking or singing. The exercises weave together methods from Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Alexander work, and Chuck Jones’s resonance exercises. If possible, dress for movement/comfort and bring a yoga mat, towel, or blanket if you’d like to use it for floor or seated activities. Participants of all abilities will be offered multiple ways to engage in the exercises and discussion fully.

Speakers

Ginger Eckert

Professor, Salem State University

Ginger Eckert’s vocal coaching and teaching features all the sounds and vocal dynamics of global languages, with the goal to arrive at communication that is honest, expansive, inclusive, accessible, and culturally-sustaining for each person. She currently brings her experience as... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Founders Davidson Hall

Workshop