KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

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9:00am EST

Devising, Bringing Your Story to Life Presentation

Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST

Discover a new and unique way of telling your story through the intersection of movement, story, music, gesture, and words. Bring a real story from your life. Bring an object that either relates to the story or is just something you like. Over the course of each session we will move, we will sing, we will write, and through proposals and assignments from the workshop teachers, each student will create a short solo performance piece.

Speakers

jerome yorke

KCACTF Regional Exchange, KCACTF Exchange - Region 3 Devising Project Coordinator

Jerome is a devised theatre maker and educator specializing in storytelling through movement, puppetry, mask performance, and clowning. His physically based play and approach to theatre-making blends styles ranging from eccentric characterization to acrobatic dance. He is an Associate... Read More →

Tannis Kowalchuk

Devising Leader, KCACTF Region 1 Devising Board Member

Tannis Kowalchuk is the founding artistic director of Farm Arts Collective and the co-owner of Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA. She is a theatre artist, flower farmer, and community organizer. She has directed and performed in over 30 original theatre productions in the US... Read More →

Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Torp Theatre Davidson Hall

Devising

12:00pm EST

NPP 10 Minute Play Tech Rehearsal

Saturday February 1, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST

Torp Theatre

Rehearsal, NPP participants

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 →

Shawna Mefferd Kelty

UP Next Play Respondent, KCACTF Region 1 NPP Co-Chair

Dr. Shawna Mefferd Kelty is a director, dramaturg, and chair of the Theatre Department at SUNY Plattsburgh (SDC Associate member and LMDA member). She teaches directing, dramatic lit (including Canadian Theatre, African American Dramas, and Contemporary Women Playwrights), history... Read More →

Saturday February 1, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Torp Theatre Davidson Hall

NPP

2:00pm EST

NPP 10 Minute Play & Talkback

Saturday February 1, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Torp Theatre

Talkback, NPP participants

Speakers

Shawna Mefferd Kelty

UP Next Play Respondent, KCACTF Region 1 NPP Co-Chair

Cassie M. Seinuk

Vice chair npp, Region 1 Npp co-chair

Bridget O'Leary

NPP Respondent, Independent Artist

Bridget Kathleen O'Leary is a freelance director, dramaturg and theater educator. Since 2022 she has been the Director of New Play Development for Moonbox Productions where she curates and oversees the annual Boston New Works Festival. From 2008-2018 she served as the Associate artistic... Read More →

Jackie Rosenfeld

KCACTF National Exchange, KCACTF NPP National Member at Large

Jackie Rosenfeld is the KCACTF National Playwriting Program Member at Large and is the Assistant Professor of Playwriting and Pedagogy at East Texas A&M University where she leads the New Play Development Initiative. Her plays have been produced in Texas and Colorado as well as New... Read More →

TJ Young

KCACTF Regional Exchange, KCACTF Region 2 NPP Chair

TJ Young is a Texas-born playwright and dramaturg based in Pittsburgh, where he serves as co-representative for the Dramatists Guild - Pittsburgh region. His plays include WE FLY, The Inseparables (Pittsburgh Public Theatre Commission), Isle of Noises (James Madison University Commission... Read More →

Saturday February 1, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Torp Theatre Davidson Hall

Performance