KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

3:00pm EST

Arts Admin Intern Orientation

Monday January 27, 2025 3:00pm - 6:00pm EST

FA 109

Orientation, Arts Admin participants

Speakers

Christie Maturo

Professor of Theatre, Region 1 Vice Chair, Region 1 Ryan's Chair

Christie Maturo is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches acting and directing. Christie has worked across the country as an actor, director, and producer. Most recently she worked with Undermain Theatre in Dallas and on the award-winning... Read More →

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 →

Monday January 27, 2025 3:00pm - 6:00pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Arts Admin

9:00pm EST

Dramaturgy Kickoff

Tuesday January 28, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST

FA 109

Kickoff, Dramaturgy participants

Speakers

Krysta Dennis

see above, KCACTF Region 1 Dramaturgy co-chair

Dr. Krysta Dennis, Associate Professor of Creative Arts at Siena College, works as a theatre-maker, director, and playwright in the US and internationally. Krysta holds a dual PhD from the University of Kent in the UK and the Sorbonne in Paris, and trained as a performer at L’Ecole... Read More →

James Montano

Dramaturgy Vie Chair, KCACTF Region 1 Dramaturgy Co-Chair

James Montaño is a dramaturg, educator, critic, and playwright. He teaches public speaking and performance at Harvard University, and has taught theatre history at Brandeis University and the University of Texas Austin. He also works in literary management and community works at... Read More →

Tuesday January 28, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Dramaturgy

9:30am EST

Getting Your Foot In the Door

Wednesday January 29, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST

FA 109

General, open to all. A workshop aimed at constructing quality resumes and portfolios that will make a student stand out and assist them in their next steps towards a career.

Speakers

Michael Frohling

Central Connecticut Stage University

I have worked in the live entertainment business since 1995, and have been moderately successful in paying my bills with my theatre checks. I have worked in California, Maine, North Carolina, and Minnesota. I have worked in small store front theatre, large regional theatres, outdoor... Read More →

Wednesday January 29, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

12:00pm EST

Irene Ryan's Preliminary Response AM YELLOW Group

Wednesday January 29, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST

FA 109

Response, Ryan participants

Speakers

Christie Maturo

Professor of Theatre, Region 1 Vice Chair, Region 1 Ryan's Chair

Justin Pesce

Irene Ryan Vice-Chair, KCACTF Region 1 Leasdership

Wednesday January 29, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Irene Ryans

2:30pm EST

Irene Ryan's Preliminary Response PM YELLOW Group

Wednesday January 29, 2025 2:30pm - 4:30pm EST

FA 109

Response, Ryan participants

Speakers

Christie Maturo

Professor of Theatre, Region 1 Vice Chair, Region 1 Ryan's Chair

Justin Pesce

Irene Ryan Vice-Chair, KCACTF Region 1 Leasdership

Wednesday January 29, 2025 2:30pm - 4:30pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Irene Ryans

9:15am EST

Graceful Feedback

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:15am - 10:45am EST

FA 109

General, open to all. How do you offer feedback with specificity that empowers the other? How do you stay open and available to listen on the receiving end? Our requirement to give feedback should never be clouded by one's own sense of agenda. In this workshop you’ll cultivate conscious communication skills to develop grace in your feedback. Gain clarity on how you can reinforce your listening to authentically support your scene partner, director, students, friends, loved ones, and yourself by using the gift of words. If you can change your language, you can change your story. Please bring a journal with an open mind and heart. Be prepared 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 9:15am - 10:45am EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

4:00pm EST

Making Friends with Your Character

Thursday January 30, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

FA 109

General, open to all. No person exists solely in stereotypes or emotional values. While it is easy to write off a stranger, coworker or acquaintance as being just a jerk, a sociopath, psycho, idiot, racist, control freak, from the perspective of a theater maker it makes for a boring, surfaced level rehearsal process. What makes our characters who they are? Why do they do the things they do? What do they want? What is getting in their way? How do they move thru the world? In this workshop, participants will be given a scene from a play and asked to unpack who the people in that scene are? We will look at objectives, obstacles and tactics to decipher how these characters navigate the world to get what they want.

Speakers

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 →

Thursday January 30, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

9:30am EST

Nimble Professionals

Friday January 31, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST

FA 109

General, open to all. How can young professionals or students entering the profession can navigate an ever changing professional landscape, follow opportunities, and be open to discovering new facets and paths. I am imagining this will primarily be geared towards Design\/Tech students. It will explore opportunities outside "traditional" theatre... i.e. in trade show, rental, touring, event design etc.

Speakers

Daniel Gallagher

St. Lawrence University Theatre

In an art form as open and welcoming to all as theatre is, diversity and inclusion should be a no brainer. Unfortunately, even as many theatrical companies move to represent a more diverse world onstage through the stories we tell and the actors who tell them, the reality offstage... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

11:00am EST

Lighting color with LEDs

Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EST

FA 109

General, open to all. This presentation goes through the challenges and opportunities in lighting with LEDs. This class will go through basic LED color theory and spectral content. We will take a deep dive in complex additive color systems, and also look at some of the more basic arrays and subtractive LED systems. This class is good for those who are interested in lighting design, but also for scenic and costume designers to help them understand how (and why) their palettes will look different on stage.

Speakers

Jason Perry

Workshop Presenter, Electronic Theatre Controls

I graduated from Emerson College with a Theatre Design/Technologies degree with an emphasis on Lighting. I worked in the greater Boston area for ten years working in theatres and event production. The last twelve years I have worked for manufacturers in the Theatrical Lighting industry... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

1:00pm EST

Musical Theatre Semi-Final Response

Friday January 31, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm EST

FA 109

Response, MTSA participants

Speakers

Julia Burke

Musical Theatre Vice Chair, KCACTF Region 1 Leadership

Karen Oster

KCACTF boardmemebr region 1, United States

Correy West

Open Jar Representative, Open Jar Institute

Correy West was last seen on Broadway in Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations. He made his Broadway debut in South Pacific at Lincoln Center. Subsequently, he performed in the Broadway production of Nice Work If You Can Get It at the Imperial Theatre alongside Matthew... Read More →

Elijaih Caldwell

Dori Bryan-Ployer

Artistic Director, Independent Artist

Dori is the Artistic Director and Director of Education for The Mass Arts Center in Mansfield MA. She holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory, an M.Ed. from Cambridge College, and an MA from Emerson College. She earned her Ph.D. in education through Lesley University. Dori brings... Read More →

Kathleen Castellanos

Collaborative Pianist / Coach, Independent Artist

J. Kathleen Castellanos (she/they) Kathleen is an active music director, vocal coach, and educator working throughout Boston and the greater New England area; her career has taken her throughout North America, as well as Germany and Austria. Kathleen is a proud member of the performing... Read More →

Kathryn Krull

Music Director and Artist, Independent Artist

Kathryn Krull,Musical Director, Vocal Director, Conductor, Performer, and Pianist Kathryn Krull Music Directing over 15 years; has appeared in circuses, cruise ships, and stages as a performer and musician, but identifies as a pianist, clown, and collaborator. BA in Music and Theatre... Read More →

Natalie Toro

respondent, Independent

Jillian Zack

Guest Artist, Independent Artist

Pianist and music director Jillian Zack has enjoyed a diverse and exciting series of collaborations. From making her Broadway stage debut as the Organist in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird to being a finalist in London’s Wigmore Hall Song Competition... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

MTSA

9:30am EST

Ask a Dramaturg

Saturday February 1, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST

FA 109

Dramaturgy Participants

Saturday February 1, 2025 9:30am - 10:45am EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Dramaturgy