KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

7:00pm EST

Invited Scenes

Thursday January 30, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST

FA 114

Scenes, Invited Productions

Speakers

Margaret Swick

Production Manager/Lighting Designer, SUNY Plattsburgh

Margaret is the Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the SUNY Plattsburgh Theatre Department. A journeyman with IATSE 919, they bring over ten years of experience in lighting design, programming, and operations. Margaret combines technical expertise with creative vision to... Read More →

Julia Devine

Acting/Directing Lecturer, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Julia Devine is an experimental theatre director, culture maker, and interdisciplinary arts practitioner. She's an Acting/Directing Lecturer in the Theatre Department at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. She's also co-founder of the avant pop art collective Famous Letter... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST
FA 114 Maloney Hall

Performance

9:00pm EST

Drag Show

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

Welte Auditorium

Show, open to all

Speakers

Emmett Buhmann

KCACTF Region 1 Chair, KCACTF Region 1 Chair

Emmett H. Buhmann (BFA, University of Wyoming, 2002; MFA University of California-Irvine, 2009) is the Lighting Design Faculty Member for the Bridgewater State University Department of Theatre. Freelance Design: Company ONE (peerless), The Un-Common Theater Company (Carrie: The Musical... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST
Welte Auditorium Welte

Performance

11:00am EST

Watermelon Alligator Production The Way It Is

Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST

FA 114

General, open to all

Speakers

Garrett Olson

Associate Artistic & Technical Director of Watermelon Alligator, Watermelon Alligator Theatre Company

Garrett Olson (he/him) is a professional working actor, director, screenwriter, film maker, song writer, seasoned fight director/stunt coordinator, intimacy director/choreographer captain and safety/accessibility consultant for stage and screen. He is currently the Technical Director... Read More →

Jess Wilson

Managing and Artistic Director, WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company

Jess Wilson (they/she) is a former C-level executive leader with extensive experience as an actor, director, playwright, intimacy director, stage manager, tech, designer, and producer, and is the Managing and Artistic Director of the WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company. They are an... Read More →

Rachael Kenneally

Actor, Watermelon Alligator Theatre Company

Rachael is thrilled to be reprising this role and working again with Watermelon Alligator and participating in this prestigious event! Rachael has performed on various stages on Cape Cod and Plymouth. Recent credits include 'Sweet Charity,' 'Elf the Musical,’ 'Hello Dolly!’ and... Read More →

Tony Ferriera

Stage Manager, Watermelon Alligator Theatre Company

Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
FA 114 Maloney Hall

Performance

3:30pm EST

NPP One Acts & Talkback (both shows)

Friday January 31, 2025 3:30pm - 6:00pm EST

FA 114

Talkback, NPP particiapnts

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 →

Friday January 31, 2025 3:30pm - 6:00pm EST
FA 114 Maloney Hall

Performance

9:00pm EST

NPP Monologue Slam

Friday January 31, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST

Semesters

General, open to all

Speakers

Cassie M. Seinuk

Vice chair npp, Region 1 Npp co-chair

Shawna Mefferd Kelty

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

Friday January 31, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Semesters Student Center

Performance

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