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Special Thanks
AATE wishes to thank the following sponsors of the 2011 National Conference:
AppleHal Leonard
Music Theatre International
AATE would like to thank:
AATE wishes to give special recognition to the following outstanding organizations for support of AATE programs:
AATE wishes to thank the following for contributing to the AATE Annual Fund:
AATE is funded in part by a co-occupancy grant from:
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Sandra AsherCyndee BrownRives CollinsRobyn FlattMara GoldmanJoanne Guthrie-Gard
Glen HallJennifer HartmannRuth HeinigDeborah IrwinGai JonesLynn Kelso
Joanna KrausJulie LarkinRuth MarkindJoyce McGreevyGary & Gina Minyard
Allison Morgan RomanoJohn NewmanDiane NuttingMichele PalermoJudith Rethwisch
Joseph RobinetteLindsay ShieldsKarin StrattonAnne ThurmanJohn TolchDorothy Webb
AATE 2011 Conference CommitteeAATE 2002 Lucas Adams Jeremy AdkinsMary Kate Barley-Jenkins The Butts Family Anne Cantrell
Londi CarbajalDiane ClaussenJean Deven Jane FitzgeraldAndrew Harris Linda HartzellSusan Lee
Kate Lichter Brian LieskeTim McCarty Mollie McDougall Joyce McGreevy Diane Nutting The Querciagrossa-Green Family
Sarah Sinclair Carol TrawickAndy WigintonLin WrightVanessa ValliereSuzan Zeder
Arena StageBarrel of MonkeysBeiging PlayhouseThe Children’s Theatre Foundation of AmericaColumbia College Chicago Illinois Theatre AssociationIndiana UniversityThe Ivy Group
Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre ProgramsNederlander CorporationNorthwestern University Theatre Department Purple Crayon PlayersQuest: arts for everyone Renaissance Downtown Hotel ChicagoRoundabout Theatre Company
School TubeSeattle Children’s TheatreSoutheastern Theatre ConferenceStage One Family TheatreTYA/USAUnited AirlinesUniversity of Texas, Austin
Table of Contents
Welcome to Chicago! 4
Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future 5
Reflecting On Our Theme 11
You Said, We Heard 11
Schedule At-A-Glance 12
Exhibitors 15
Detailed Schedule - Wednesday, July 27 - Preconferences 16
Detailed Schedule - Wednesday, July 27 - Meetings and Events 17
Detailed Schedule - Thursday, July 28 18
Detailed Schedule - Friday, July 29 33
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Thursday, July 28 37
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Friday, July 29 38
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Saturday, July 30 39
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Saturday, July 30 40
Detailed Schedule - Saturday, July 30 53
Detailed Schedule - Sunday, July 31 68
Maps 69
Index 74
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Welcome to Chicago!A Letter from the President
Welcome to the 2011 national conference of the AATE –Lakeside Reflections. What’s my favorite piece of reflecting art in Chicago? “The Bean” – also known as the Cloud Gate sculpture. The Bean reminds us that when we look at great art, we see ourselves somewhere within, gazing back. The Bean has a way of inviting us to see the world from another point of view and check our blind spots (especially when you step inside it and have a reflected view of your derriere). And as it reflects the Chicago skyline and the stars in the evening, the Bean reminds us that art compels us to lift our gaze higher – the work is always about something bigger and more important than the immediate travails that surround us. Here’s wishing you a marvelous conference. May it be filled with reunions with old friends, even as you meet dynamic new colleagues for the first time. May it be a time of renewal and growth. May it be a time of synergy that comes from bringing great people together in a beautiful place. May reflection help magnify all that is truly important as we continue our important work together.
Rives CollinsPresident, American Alliance for Theatre and Education
AATE Board of Directors
AATE Staff
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AATE Mission StatementThe American Alliance for Theatre and Education connects and inspires a growing collective of thea-tre artists, educators, and scholars committed to transforming young people and communities through the theatre arts.
AATE Diversity StatementAATE embraces diversity and encourages inclusion of all races, social classes, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations, national origins, and abilities.
Rives CollinsPresident
Betsy QuinnImmediate Past
President
Daniel Kelin, IIPresident-Elect
Joseph FurnariTreasurer
Gary MinyardCommunications
Director
John NewmanDevelopment
DIrector
Katherine KrzysEx Officio
Christina MarínMembership Director
Karina NaumerProgramming
Director
Manon van de WaterPublications and
Research Director
Lynne KingsleyExecutive Director
Kelly PrestelMembership and Marketing
Coordinator
Elizabeth Brendel HornEditor, Incite/Insight
Scott OserSales Manager
Henry SuchmanDesigner, Incite/Insight
Amanda WindesAATE Intern
Reflecting on the Past, Present, and FutureA Letter from the 2011 National Conference Co-Chairs
In 1944, theatre artists and educators passionate about working with young people traveled to Evanston, Illinois to dream together. Their gathering marked the formation of the organization now known as AATE. More than 60 years later, in March of 2010, Illinois/Chicagoland members of AATE gathered just steps from that original meeting place to dream of the conference you are attending right now. We began our planning process with a visit to the past as we dreamt of the future.
While the 2011 conference committee has been meeting formally since last spring, seeds of this conference were planted and growing in our minds and hearts for years--since the two of us drove from Chicago to Minneapolis for our first AATE conference together in 2002, beginning a journey that led us from co-chairing the new guard reception to co-chairing a conference. In the past year, we have revisited so many memories of our time with AATE thus far– memories that have shaped us personally and professionally. We've reflected on the many successes and challenges we encountered as event chairs, network chairs, coordinators, and AATE staff, harvesting collective wisdom from conference sessions, network gatherings, and board meetings. We've smiled thinking back to communities formed beside chocolate fountains and during ice cream sundae receptions. It has been our dream to weave together the sum of our experiences from our journey so far, into this, our tenth conference together, creating space to reflect on the themes and ideas that have challenged and inspired us over this past decade, and dream of the journeys to come. We hope your conference experience will give you the space and time to do the same-- to look back, to
look forward, and to dream with your minds and hearts.
Leigh Jansson and Talleri McRaeAATE 2011 National Conference Co-Chairs
Conference Co-Chairs
Talleri McRae is an Education Associate at Stage One Family Theatre in Louisville, KY. She has worked alongside theatre artists and educators in California, Texas, Alaska, Kentucky, and Illinois, including collaborations with About Face Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, and Next Theatre in Chicago. During her graduate studies,Talleri researched perceptions of theatre and disability with young people, and offered ongoing professional development workshops to teachers and administrators in south Texas and rural Alaska. A proud member of AATE since 2002, Talleri also holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Leigh Jansson first joined AATE 2002, and has since been a project chair, network chair, and manager of the AATE National Office from 2004-2009. While in DC, she also worked with Imagination Stage, The Little Gym, Potomac Theatre Company, and other local organizations as a teaching artist, performer, and director. Leigh currently lives in Beijing where she is a curriculum developer for The Ivy Group, a provider of early childhood education throughout China. She provides teacher workshops and after school drama programs in addition to her work with Beijing Playhouse as Artistic Director of the Family Stage Theatre Camp. Leigh holds a BS from Northwestern University and an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Conference Committee2011 Conference Committee (picture - March 2010)Top Row (L to R): Talleri McRae, Leigh Jansson, Kat Matassarin2nd Row (L to R): Erin Michael, Karen Weberman3rd Row (L to R): Kathleen Arcovio, Katie Eckert4th Row (L to R): Jerry Proffit, Laura Steenveld Hamilton
Not Pictured: Tom Arvetis, Steven Barker, Steve Barberio, Rives Collins, Betsy Driver, Chris Eckles, Jeff Glass, Elise Hauskin, Rachel Jamieson, J. Daniel Herring, Kim Kolher Hort, Jenny Sawtelle Koppera, Emily Labbe, Anne Lefkovitz, David Lundin, Margaret McLaughlin, Alli Metz, Anakin Morris, John Muszynski, Anne Negri, Betsy Quinn, Merissa Shunk, Jacob Watson
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Talleri McRae, Leigh Jansson
Winnifred Ward and members of the Children's Theatre Committee of the
American Educational Theatre Association
State Representatives
Alaska
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Washington D.C.
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Anne WilliamsMat Su School District
Teresa MinarsichArizona State University
Wendy MaplesStep UP Theatre
Nora Matthews
Mitch MattsonArena Stage
Brenda May ItoColumbus State University
Valerie Baugh-SchlossbergBoise State University
Jacob WatsonPurple Crayon Players
Kaycee Sewchok
Gustave J. Weltsek, Ph.DIndiana University
Jennifer Van Bruggen
Jeremy KislingLexington Children’s Theatre
Troy CompasNorth DeSoto High School
Julian LazarusLinganore High School
Judith RethwischAffton High School
Maurice J. MoranVerona High School
Jennifer DiBellaRoundabout Theatre Company
Nicole LorenzettiYoung Playwrights Inc.
Gordon HensleyAppalachian State University
Dan StoneLinn Benton Community College
Barry KornhauserFulton Opera House
Joseph BaldinoLaura Manning Turner
College of Charleston
Laurie MelnikUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Steven BarkerLejuene High School
Jennifer Reif
Julia MagnascoFirst Stage
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AATE Debut Panels
AATE introduced Network Sponsored Debut Panels after the time honored component of ATHE’s conference programming con-
vened by their Focus Groups. This year we continue this tradition started in 2009 and welcome first time presenters to share their work during these special sessions. Debut panels, reviewed and moderated by experts in our field, showcase the work of teach-ers, artists, practitioners and scholars who have never presented before this year at an AATE conference. Please join us in welcom-
ing this year’s Debut Panelists of the Playwriting, College/University/Research (C/U/R), International, High School, Profes-
sional Theatre, and New Guard Networks!
Professional Theatre Debut Panel: Thursday, 11:00am - WackerPlaywriting Debut Panel: Friday, 2:45pm - Old Town International Debut Panel: Friday, 2:45pm - LaSalle
C/U/R Debut Panel: Friday, 4:00pm - LaSalleHigh School Debut Panel: Friday, 4:00pm - Bucktown B
New Guard Debut Panel: Saturday, 10:45am - Bucktown A
Networks
The AATE Networks offer opportunities for drama and theatre specialists not only to network within their areas of expertise, but also to reach out to other specialists for potential cross-collaboration. Although participation in networks is optional, members are encouraged to join one or more networks that address their needs, and investigate multiple networks that span several areas of interest. AATE Networks foster the exchange, development, and implementation of ideas throughout the year, providing professional development, advocacy, and other tools within and across both theatre and education.
Current AATE Networks
APPLIED THEATREChairs: Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Andy Wiginton
This network includes individuals working with organizations that produce theatrical events of Applied Theatre (a form of educational theatre). It is comprised of artistic management and educational staff members from a wide variety of theaters and organizations, as well as freelance artists and artist-educators.
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY/RESEARCHChairs: Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg, Matt Omasta
This network includes individuals and organizations interested in college, university, and research concerns.
HIGH SCHOOLChair: Alicia Sanders
This network services the needs of secondary schools teachers and those professional theatres committed to providing for adolescent audiences. The network provides resources for the secondary school teacher, including lesson plans, support for innovative classroom ideas, and communication among its members.
INTERNATIONALChairs: Bethany Lynn Corey; Helen Zdriluk
This network strives to create connections on an international level between the fields of drama and theatre for youth.
NEW GUARDChairs: Donald Amerson; Brianna Stapleton-Welch
This network recruits new members of AATE and supports the professional fields it represents. It also serves as a support network for seasoned professionals without a permanent AATE network home. Yearly conference events include the New Guard Reception and related conference sessions.
PLAYWRITINGChairs: Kelby Siddons, Laura Turner
This network supports playwrights and advocates of quality new plays for youth. Activities include publishing the Award Winning Plays list, as well as the Unpublished Play Projects and the Playwrights In Our Schools Residency Project.
PRE-K - 8Chair: Dinah Barthlemess
This network represents AATE members who teach drama to preschool, primary, intermediate, and middle school (junior high) students. Constituents include drama specialists, elementary teachers, elementary or middle school theatre educators, or college professors training elementary drama teachers.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTChair: Katie Dawson, Laurie Melnik
This network provides opportunities for reflective analysis and sharing of professional development programming, current research, and professional development program or framework development that meaningfully responds to the articulated needs, wants, and voices of teachers (pre-service and practicing) across the curriculum, arts educators (specialists, teaching artists, consultants), administrators, and professional development providers and communities.
PROFESSIONAL THEATREChair: Wendy Bable, Ali Oliver-Krueger
This network includes individuals working with organizations that produce theatrical events. It is comprised of artistic, management, and education staff members from a wide variety of theatres and organizations, as well as freelance artists and artist-educators.
YOUTH THEATREChairs: Wendy Maples, David Markey
This network is comprised of artistic, management, and educational staff from a diverse array of youth theatres and organizations, as well as freelance artists and artist-educators. Youth Theatre is defined as quality theatrical experiences and/or performances by students (typically ages 8-18) for an audience.
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Don’t miss the Network Breakfast Meetings on Friday and
Saturday at 8am in the Grand Ballroom! Join a new network,
collaborate with others in your network or sign up to be a net-
work chair!
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Active CommitteesFinance and Development
Rives CollinsJoseph FurnariLynne KingsleyJohn NewmanBetsy Quinn
Programming Advisory CouncilKarina Naumer, Programming Director
Stacey ArdeleanAlexandra LopezChristina MarínDiane NuttingRachel Prouty Betsy Quinn
Research and PublicationsManon van de Water, Research and Publications
DirectorJennifer Chapman
Helen Cahill Drew Chappell Jeanne Klein
Laura McCammonDebra McLauchlin
Beth MurrayMatt Omasta
Johnny Saldaña Carmine TaboneGustave WeltsekPatricia Zimmer
Incite/Insight Editorial BoardElizabeth Brendel Horn, Editor
Rives CollinsDaniel Kelin, IILynne KingsleyGary Minyard
Theatre In Our SchoolsGary Minyard, Communications Director Karina Naumer, Programming Director
Steven Barker, MD/DC/VAAshley Forman, MD/DC/VA Mitch Mattson, MD/DC/VA
Jacob Watson, ILKaycee Sewchok, ILJennifer DiBella, NYNicole Lorenzetti, NYGustave Weltsek, IN
Bethany Lynn Corey, TXRoxanne Schroeder-Arce, TX
Youth Theatre Journal Editorial BoardGustave Weltsek, Editor
Manon van de Water, Publications and Research Director
Cyndee BrownLenora Inez Brown
Drew Chappell Jennifer Chapman
Robert ColbyMaría Inés Falconi
Steve FefferLorenzo Garcia
Amy Petersen JensenJeanne Klein
Debra McLauchlanLaura McCammon
Carole Miller Beth Murray
Johnny SaldañaManon van de Water
E.J. WestlakeStephani Etheridge Woodson
AwardsKatherine Krzys, Awards Committee and General
Awards ChairAngie Sweigart-Gallagher, Distinguished Book Award
ChairPamela Sterling, Distinguished Play Award Chair
Rita Kotter, Lin Wright Grant ChairJudith Rethwisch, Lin Wright Grant Chair
Joe A. BabbWendy Bable
Dinah BarthelmessMax Bush
Jennifer ChapmanRives CollinsXan JohnsonLise Kloeppel
Kat MatassarinJohn NewmanAmy OakesonTim OrtmannBryna RifkindJanet Rubin
Alicia SandersKelby SiddonsXanthia Walker
Lin Wright
Organizational MembersAcademy of Theatre Arts
ACES Educational Center for the ArtsActors Theatre of Louisville
Adventure Stage Chicago - Northwestern University Settlement Association
Adventure TheatreAlley Theatre
Alliance Theatre CompanyAnglo-American School of Moscow
Appalachian State UniversityArena Stage
Asolo Repertory TheatreBarrel of Monkeys
Bay Area Children's TheatreBerkeley Repertory Theatre
Brimmer & May SchoolC&T
Caryl Crane Children's TheatreChildren's Civic Light Opera (CCLO)
Children's Theatre CompanyChildren's Theatre of Charlotte
ChildsplayCiti Performing Arts CenterCreative Arts Team - CUNY
Creative Directions of Illinois, Ltd.Dallas Children's Theater
danact3.comDeer Park Schools
Denver Center for the Performing ArtsDetour Co Theatre
District 65 Evanston, c/o Haven Middle SchoolDreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre
Eastern Michigan UniversityEasy Ware Corporation
Educational Arts Team, Inc.Flint Youth Theatre
Ford's Theatre SocietyFort Lauderdale Children's Theatre
Fulton Opera HouseGifford Family Theatre
Hartford StageHolton-Arms School
Imaginarium ñ Theater of Thought ExperimentsImagination StageImprobable Players
InterAct Story TheatreJMU Children's Playshop
Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Program- CAKaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Programs - CO
Kensington Parkwood Elementary SchoolKent Place School
Kentucky ShakespeareLexington Children's Theatre
Li'l Buds TheatreLincoln Center Theater
Linn Benton Community College TheaterMagik Theatre
Main Street Arts Children's TheatreManhattan Theatre Club
Maui Academy of Performing ArtsMesa Arts Center Outreach
Metropolis Performing Arts CentreMosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
National Constitution CenterNational University of Tainan Department of Theatre of
Creation and ApplicationNew Trier High School
NOORDA Regional Theatre Center for Children & Youth at UVU
Olympia Family TheaterOmaha Theatre CompanyOregon Children's TheatreOrlando Repertory TheatrePalo Alto Children's TheatrePennsylvania Youth TheatrePerforming Arts Workshop
Portola Valley Theatre ConservatoryPurple Crayon Players
Quest AcademyQuest: arts for everyone
Roundabout Theatre CompanySaint Mary's Hall
San Francisco United School DistrictShakespeare Theatre Company
SHINE! LA's Youth TheatreSt. Paul's School
Stage OneStages Theatre Company
The Agnes Irwin School Theatre ProgramThe Chapin School
The Episcopal AcademyThe New Victory TheaterThe Paper Bag Players
The Theater Offensive, INCThe Theatre School DePaul University
University of Northern ColoradoUniversity of Washington Libraries
Young Actors TheatreYouth Stages, LtLC
University Departmental Members
Brigham Young UniversityCUNY School of Professional Studies M.A. in Applied
TheatreEmerson College, Division of Performing Arts
New York University Program in Educational TheatreNorthwestern University, Department of Theatre
Rowan UniversityThe Catholic University of America
University of New Hampshire, Department of Theatre & Dance
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Theatre and Dance
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Corporate MemberKaiser Permanente
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Reflecting On Our ThemeHow can reflection can be woven into our time together at conference? How can we relate what we see, hear, and feel at conference to ourselves, our students and our work? How can we remember and record our experiences together? In order to navigate these questions, we are fully equipped with two Reflection Facilitators, Jose Cruz González and Juliana Saxton, to shape our time as a community during conference. What questions do we ask ourselves and our students as we work? Which structures help our reflective process? Which structures hinder it?
Throughout the conference our Reflection Facilitators will be reminding us to reflect as we learn, share, network, engage and listen. Don’t miss these opportunities for reflection:
- Storytelling Event: Reflecting Identities-- Thursday July 28, 7:30pm-8:45 pm , Grand Ballroom
- Morning Reflection and Yoga-- Friday July 29 & Sat July 30, 7:00 am ,Grand Ballroom
- Reflection by Region - Friday July 29, 11:00am-12:30 pm, Grand Ballroom - Closing Reflection and Annual Meeting - Sunday July 31 9:30-11:45 am
Reflection Facilitators
José Cruz González's plays include The Sun Serpent, Super Cow Girl and Mighty Miracle, Los Valientes, Sunsets and Margaritas, Invierno, The Heart’s Desire, The Blue House, Tomás and the Library Lady, September Shoes. A collection of his plays, Nine Plays by José Cruz González Magical Realism & Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences was published by the University of Texas Press in 2009. Mr. González has written for PAZ, the Emmy Award nominated television series produced by Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel. Mr. González was a recipient of a 2004 TCG/Pew National Theatre Residency grant. In 1997 he was awarded a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. He teaches theatre at California State University at Los Angeles. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and TYA/USA. He is an Associate Artist with Cornerstone Theater Company (CA), and Playwright in Residence with Childsplay (AZ).
Juliana Saxton, professor emeritus, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria. Co-author (with Norah Morgan) of Teaching Drama: a mind of many wonders (Nelson Thornes, 1987) and Asking Better Questions (Pembroke, 1994/2007); (with Carole Miller), Into the Story: Language in Action through Drama (Heinemann, 2004); (with Monica Prendergast) Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice (Intellect, 2009). Co-chair of the 2nd International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI) and the Academic Program for the 5th World Congress of International Drama Education Association (IDEA), she has received the University of Victoria Alumni Teacher of Excellence award and a Campton Bell Lifetime Achievement Award from AATE.
You Said, We Heard
The AATE 2011 conference committee has put a lot of effort in ensuring that, in keeping with the theme, Lakeside Reflections take place during the days of the conference. At the same time, we wanted to be intentionally thoughtful throughout planning the conference. So, we asked ourselves: How can we intentionally and purposefully allow the logistical planning of our conference to reflect our values as conference chairs, conference committee, and an organization?
What we came up with feels like a good start: carefully considered feedback from previous years’ events, paired with an articulation of the efforts that this year’s planning committee, staff, and other volunteers have made toward continually improving AATE’s programming. Reflecting on “you said” and “we heard” reminds us that AATE volunteers, attendees and planners are in fact one and the same, and that AATE programming IS, proudly, the direct result of its members hard work.
“You Said, We Heard” notes are scattered throughout the program. These notes highlight feedback received from conference attendees and our responses.
-Leigh and Talleri
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On Reflection---
Reflection is, in Bill Doll’s (1993) words, “taking experience and looking at it critically, variously, publicly ... [and is] the only reliable guide to further action.”
Theatre, Peter Brook (1998) reminds us, is “not just a place, not simply a profession. It is a metaphor. It helps to make the process of life more clear.” When we reflect together on that process, those acts of theatre can become for us all stations of departure for future actions.
And while reflection is, firstly, intrapersonal, it functions best as shared experience. Our first simple thoughts become more complex as they mix together with others’ ideas and responses and the variety of facets for these new points of view promote different ways of thinking about the world and ourselves.
Thoughts compiled by: Reflection Facilitator Juliana Saxton
YOU SAID: You enjoyed the facilitation of the New Guard Reception/Networking Event.
WE HEARD: We worked with the New Guard Network once again to make the tradition of the New Guard Mentee/Mentor Reception (also known as the Speed Networking Event) a thoughtful and enjoy-able event. In fact, the New Guard added onto the reception this year, and introducing a year-round mentor/mentee project.
Schedule At-A-GlanceTIME EVENT LOCATION
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
8:00 am – 9:00 am Preconference Registration open Registration Desk8:15 am - 8:45am Directing Preconference departs Columbia College Chicago (Offisite)9:00 am – 5:00 pm Directing Preconference Columbia College Chicago (Offsite)9:00 am – 5:00 pm Young Playwrights Preconference Renaissance Ballroom11:00 am - 4:30 pm AATE Board Meeting #1 Wrigleyville4:00 pm – 8:00 pm General Registration open Registration Desk4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Welcome Meeting and Conference Orientation Grand Ballroom Foyer6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Incite/Insight Editorial Board Meeting Wrigleyville7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Reception: APTP Performance and Reflections Grand Ballroom
Thursday, July 28, 2011
7:45 am – 6:00 pm Registration / Information Desk open Registration and Information Desks8:00 am – 7:00 pm Meet the Exhibitors / Exhibit Hall Open Grand Ballroom8:00 am – 9:15 am Meetings: State Reps; Network Council; Various Locations TIOS Leadership; Awards 9:15 am – 9:30 am Morning Announcements Grand Ballroom9:00 am – 12:15 pm Workshop A: Redmoon (Paid Workshop)* Gold Coast9:00 am – 12:15 pm Workshop B.2: Albany Park Theater Project (Paid Workshop)* Cuisines9:30 am – 10:45 am Session Block T1 Various Locations11:00 am – 12:15 pm Session Block T2 Various Locations12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch Break 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm National Standards/Advocacy Meeting Gold Coast1:15 pm – 2:30 pm President’s Welcome and Grand Ballroom Featured Speaker Vivian Gussin Paley 2:45 pm – 5:45 pm Workshop B.1: Albany Park Theater Project (Paid Workshop)* Gold Coast2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Session Block T3 Various Locations4:15 pm – 5:45 pm Session Block T4 Various Locations4:15 pm – 6:30 pm Shakespeare High Screening & Discussion Grand Ballroom6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Session Block T5 Various Locations6:00 pm – 7:15 pm Research & Publications Meeting Gold Coast6:30 pm – 7:15 pm Meet the Exhibitors for Passport to Prizes / Dinner Break Grand Ballroom7:30 pm – 8:45 pm All-Conference Storytelling Event: Reflecting Identities Grand Ballroom9:00 pm – 10:15 pm New Guard Reception: Speed Friending Gold Coast10:30 pm Playwrights Slam Gold Coast
Friday, July 29, 2011
7:00 am Morning Reflection and Yoga Grand Ballroom7:30 am – 9:00 am Doyle Fellowship Breakfast President’s Suite8:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration open Registration Desk8:00 am – 6:00 pm Information Desk & Exhibit Hall open Grand Ballroom8:00 am – 9:15 am Network Breakfast Meeting #1 Grand Ballroom9:15 am – 9:30 am Morning Announcements featuring Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) Grand Ballroom9:30 am – 11:00 am Session Block F1 Various Locations11:00 am – 12:30 pm Reflections by Region Event Grand Ballroom11:45 am – 1:30 pm CTFA Corey Medallion Luncheon* Petterino’s (Offsite)12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break 1:30 pm Chicago Architecture River Cruise* Offsite1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Session Block F2 Various Locations1:30 pm – 3:45 pm Conversation with CTFA Corey Medallion Recipients Gold Coast2:15 pm – 5:15 pm Workshop C: The Cooperative Classroom w/ Karen Hall (Paid Workshop)*Michigan2:45 pm – 3:45 pm Session Block F3 Various Locations4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Session Block F4 Various Locations4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lois Lowry Book Signing Grand Ballroom5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Passport to Prizes Raffle and Reception Grand Ballroom6:00 pm – 7:30 pm AATE Awards Ceremony Grand Ballroom
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TIME EVENT LOCATION
Friday, July 29, 2011 (cont.)
7:15 pm AFTY’s What’s the T?* Victory Gardens Theatre (Offisite)7:30 pm Beauty & the Beast* Oriental Theatre (Offsite)7:30 pm Awards Dinner Reception (Tickets $5)** Renaissance Ballroom8:45 pm TYA Trivia IQ: The Game Show Renaissance Ballroom D9:30 pm Publishers’ Showcase Renaissance Ballroom A - C10:30 pm Blues Night Gathering Cuisines
Saturday, July 30, 2011
7:00 am Morning Reflection and Yoga Grand Ballroom8:00 am - 9:30 am Past Presidents’ Breakfast President’s Suite8:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration / Information Desk open Registration/Information Desks8:00 am – 9:15 am Network Breakfast Meeting #2 Grand Ballroom8:00 am – 9:30 am Past Presidents’ Breakfast President’s Suite9:00 am – 9:15 am Morning Announcements featuring Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) Grand Ballroom9:00 am – 12:00 pm Workshop D: Lenora Inez Brown (Paid Workshop)* Wacker9:15 am – 10:30 am Session Block S1 Various Locations10:45 am – 12:00 pm Session Block S2 Various Locations12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Load busses for Northwestern University Outside Hotel Lobby1:00 pm – 1:30 pm AATE Conference arrives at Northwestern Arts Circle (NU)1:00 pm – 4:30 pm NU Registration Desk/Info Desk open Norris Student Center (NU)1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tours of the Winifred Ward Archives (approx. 45 mins) Northwestern Library (NU)1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Nurturing Partnerships: Connecting with AATE and Partners Louis Room (NU) on Theatre In Our Schools 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm Session Block S3 Norris Student Center (NU)4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Session Block S4 Norris Student Center (NU)5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dinner Break5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Leadership Interest Meeting Pizza Party Annie May Swift (NU)6:45 pm – 7:30 pm National Conference Planning Meeting Annie May Swift (NU)8:00 pm – 10:00 pm The Edge of Peace Keynote Performance ̂ Barber Theatre (NU)10:00 pm – 11:30 pm Post-Show Reception sponsored by Northwestern University Barber Theatre Lobby (NU)10:30 pm – 12:00 am Busses depart Northwestern University for the Renaissance Hotel Arts Circle (NU)
Sunday, July 31, 2011
8:00 am – 9:15 am Finance Committee Meeting Wrigleyville9:30 am – 11:45 am Closing Reflection Breakfast Event and Annual Meeting Grand Ballroom featuring Suzan Zeder and Henry Godinez 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Board Meeting #2 Wrigleyville
* - Tickets must be purchased in advance.** - Tickets available for purchase at the Registration Desk until 5pm on Thursday, July 28.^ - The Edge of Peace was originally commissioned and developed by Seattle Children's Theatre. This keynote performance is produced with support from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America.Bold denotes an all-conference event.
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Exhibitors
1-Danact3.com: Teaching-Artist: Mr. U.S. Grant one person performances; Creative Dramatics Workshops, Acting, Improv, Playwriting, Directing, Equity Actor, Musician; www.danact3.com2-Kryolan: Kryolan Professional make-up: Professional make up for the Theatre and Film Industry3-Broadway in Chicago: Broadway In Chicago Group Sales presents Broadway hits in Chicago-Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Memphis, West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, and Million Dollar Quartet (through 2012). Ask about: Workshops, Study guides, Q & As, and $15.50 tickets for select performances.4-CUNY/CCNY: Promoting the two graduate degrees available through the City University of New York, CUNY: 1. M.S.Ed in Educational Theatre at the City College of New York; 2. M.A. Applied Theatre though the Creative Arts Team at the School of Professional Studies5, 6, 7-The Scholar’s Choice: Exhibits academic books on behalf of university and scholarly publishers.8-Theatre Sage9- MTI: Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theaters from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond.10, 11, 12-Dramatic Publishing: We provide plays, musicals and theatre resource books and license productions.13-Intellect: Intellect is an independent academic publisher committed to original thinking and emerging disciplines. We publish scholarly, peer-reviewed work at the cross section of arts, performance, media, creative practice and popular culture. Please visit www.intellectbooks.com to learn more.14-Drama Ed Network: Standards-based products and teacher training services for arts and literacy for ages preschool-adult.15-Stage Stars Records: Accompaniment CD’s of Broadway shows used for rehearsals and auditions16-Ticket Peak: TicketPeak is a web-based ticketing application that enables theaters to sell tickets online or from the box office. It includes features like print-at-home tickets, barcodes, check-in and user seat selection. Its low cost ensures you will save money by using it.17-My Theatre Apps: Scene Partner, an iPhone app that helps actors get off-book fast. Uses text-to-speak software, voice recording and the actor’s script to provide a new tool for memorizing lines.18-Plays for Young Audiences19-TYA/USA
20-Drama Sound: We sell original, instrumental, mood-based music (in CD and/or MP3 format) for arts and education. Our music is copyright free for educational/creative projects.21-Routledge: For two centuries, Taylor & Francis has been fully committed to the publication of scholarly information. Under our Routledge Imprint, we publish a variety of journals in the Arts and Education field. Visit the Routledge Table to view our journals and pick up FREE sample copies of our journals.22-University of South Carolina: The University of South Carolina’s Masters of Arts in Teaching-Theatre Degree.23-Easy Ware: Easy-Ware's Total Info is an affordable, family-friendly CRM solution for schools of all sizes combining comprehensive fundraising (including wealth prospecting, events, auctions, volunteers, grants and more) with advanced ticketing, marketing and patron management. No per ticket fees, integrated online donations and ticketing make Total Info the only solution you'll ever need.24-Child’s Play: Child’s Play Touring Theatre believes in encouraging and validating the creativity of children and is dedicated exclusively to performing stories and poems written by children. Since 1978, we have reached over 4 million audience members through performances, workshops and residencies and have performed the works of over 15,000 young authors.25-Creative Directions27-AMDA: American Musical and Dramatic Academy is an accredited college with campuses in the heart of New York City and Los Angeles. AMDA offers a 4 year BFA or a 2 year conservatory program in : Musical Theater, Acting or Dance. AMDA has an audition process, offers scholarships and seeks talented students around the world. Teachers, please come visit our table and we’ll be happy to schedule a time to visit your high school or visit www.amda.edu.
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Questions? Call Scott Oser at 301-279-0468, Email: [email protected]
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Passport to PrizesCollect stickers from each exhibitor on your Passport to Prizes, found on the back of your conference welcome letter. Submit your completed passport in the collection box by 4pm on Fri-day. You can win a multitude of prizes, including an iPad and AATE membership at the Exhibitor Raffle at 5pm on Friday.
Detailed Schedule - Wednesday, July 27 - Preconferences
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Directors on Directing PreconferenceWednesday, July 27, 9:00am-5:00pmColumbia College Chicago (off-site)
This preconference is designed for anyone interested in how a director can maintain both a unified vision and creativity throughout the rehearsal process. The first half of the day will be conducted in small group settings. A panel of professional directors from Chicago and professional TYA directors will prepare the same scene to direct in their own style with and for the participants of his/her assigned small group.
The second half of the day will be a whole-group reflection: sharing of the various scenes rehearsed in the small group settings, followed by a moderated discussion comparing and contrasting the various directing styles, strategies and rehearsal techniques.
Presenters
Tom Arvetis is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director for Adventure Stage Chicago at the Northwestern Settlement House in Chicago’s West Town community. Recent di-recting credits include And A Child Shall Lead by Michael Slade (Chicago Premiere), Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back by Jason Tremblay (World Premiere), The Blue House by José Cruz González (World Premiere). With Silk Road Theatre Project: Dragon/Sky by Elizabeth Wong (workshop reading). As a writer: I Dream in Blues (produced at ASC in 2006) and Walk Two Moons (to be produced at ASC in Fall, 2011). With the support of the Doris Duke Foundation, Tom is presently working on a community-based project that synthesizes ASC’s TYA aesthetic with stories that are emerging from within the West Town community.
Katy Carolina Collins is a founding member and co-artistic director of the Vintage Theater Collective. Previous productions with Vintage include: A Wintertime Tale, Misan-thrope, or the Impossible Lovers and Hedda Gabler. In Chicago she's worked with: Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, New Beast Theater, and The Building Stage. Regionally she has worked with: The Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare on the Cape, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and The Minneapolis Playwrights Center. She is a graduate from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program.
Frank Maugeri became the Artistic Director of Redmoon in 2009 and Co-Artistic Director in 2011. He has served as a director, designer, and performer for over 15 years; in addition, he shapes the aesthetic of Redmoon’s marketing materials, leads the staff in community vision work, and manages much of Redmoon’s large community of freelance artists and interns.
Young Playwrights Inc.’s Teacher Training Institute PreconferenceWednesday, July 27, 9:00am-5:00pmRenaissance Ballroom
Young Playwrights Inc.’s Write A Play! Teacher Training Institute provides educators a blueprint for integrating playwriting into English Language Arts and Theatre Arts curricula, grades 3-12. This standards-based interactive professional development work-shop builds a foundation of dynamic individual and collaborative writing exercises that introduce and explore the fundamentals of dramatic writing; tested over 30 years in the classroom, this approach has proven successful with young people at all levels of academic ability and for teachers with a range of specialties. Each participant receives the Write A Play! Curriculum Guide, detail-ing key concepts and exercises including character, dialogue, setting, and conflict.
Presenter
Brett W. Reynolds’ career in the theater spans four decades and two continents. For Young Playwrights Inc.: directed Caitlin Parrish’s The View From Tall (YPF XXII); Lauren Gunderson’s Parts They Call Deep (YPF 2002) and Julia Jarcho’s Nursery (YPF 2001); Jerome Hairston’s The Love of Bullets (YPF/Public Theater); David E. Rodriguez’s I’m Not Stupid (YPF School Tour) and numerous original staged readings (including Madeleine George’s The Most Massive Woman Wins, Graham Parkes’ The Writer, and Melanie Wallner’s Simultaneity); Set Designer, Young Playwrights Festival XXIV. For the Independent Shakespeare Company: directed Henry V (Odyssey Theater); Macbeth (London at The King’s Head, Los Angeles at CSUN/Northridge and Samuel Goldman Amphitheater) and Noel Coward’s Still Life. Resident play-wright for Great American Children’s Theater: The Secret Garden (Dallas Theater Center, LA Times Pick of the Week), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Pentages, LA), The Wind and the Willows (Wilshire, LA) and The Velveteen Rabbit (with music by Tom Kochan). As an educator, Reynolds has trained teachers worldwide in Young Playwrights Inc.’s Write A Play! Curriculum (Guthrie Theater, North Carolina Theater Arts Education Conferences, Texas Educational Theater Association). Recently, Reynolds was invited by Victoria University to work with the newly-launched Culture Shack in Melbourne, Australia, bringing Young Playwrights Inc.’s work to their immigrant and refugee populations. Consultancies: President Clinton’s Summit for America’s Future, Massachusetts Arts Council. He has taught for Young Playwrights Inc. since 1993.
Detailed Schedule - Wednesday, July 27 - Meetings and EventsWednesday, July 27, 11:00am-4:30pmGrand BallroomAATE Board Meeting
Wednesday, July 27, 6:00-7:30pmWrigleyvilleIncite/Insight Editoral Board Meeting
Tips for First Time Attendees
1. Don’t be afraid to separate from your colleagues and friends! If you want to attend a session that your colleagues and friends aren’t interesting in attending, go anyway! Ultimately the conference is what you make of it, so be sure to attend sessions that will specifically inspire your work.
2. If there are two sessions happening at the same time that you really want to attend, don’t be afraid to divide and conquer! Decide with friends, colleagues, or new friends who will attend specific sessions and then chat later about what you learned over delicious food and drinks.
3. Graduate students (and undergrads!) are strongly encouraged to mingle with students from other programs. It’s really interesting and fun to learn about other programs in theatre and education. Friendships and future collaborations often come from meeting at AATE!
4. Don’t be afraid to take some time off to explore the city. While in a perfect world you could attend every session and event possible, if you want a night off to go out for dinner and paint the town red, then go for it!
5. When you get contact information or a business card from someone, take a moment later that day to jot down on the back of the business card how you met them, where you met them, or any interesting conversations that you had with that person. This might help you keep everyone's names and faces straight once you get home from the conference and sort through that pile of business cards and scraps of paper.
6. If you have them, tuck a few of your own business cards into the back of your conference nametag so that they are easily accessible to hand out.
7. Attend the network breakfasts and visit! These are a great way to find out about the various networks of AATE and to see the faces involved. You will meet a lot of new people in a short time, which can be overwhelming, but helpful if you want to become more involved in AATE.
8. Enter the exhibitor raffle for prizes because they give away great stuff, like AATE memberships or conference registrations for the coming year.
9. Remember to take off your conference nametag when you leave the hotel so that you don't walk around the city broadcasting your name and personal information to everyone you meet on the street.
10. Attend the Awards Ceremony. Even if you don't know any of the nominees.
11. Try to map out your day in the morning or the night before. There are so many wonderful sessions held simultaneously and trying to decide which session to attend during the short breaks can be frustrating.
12. Take advantage of opportunities to meet new people. If you are usually shy, push yourself to meet new people, the AATE Annual Conference is a friendly and open environment.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTWednesday, July 27, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Grand BallroomAlbany Park Theater Project Reflects on Past, Present and Future
The ensemble of Albany Park Theater Project kicks off the conference! This opening event will include scenes and excerpts from past APTP shows, from their most recent production, Feast, and may even include works in progress for an upcoming show this fall. After the excerpts, APTP’s artistic staff (including David Feiner) and teen ensemble will reflect on the elements of their process, and stay after that to discuss how reflection will be woven through the conference.
ALL CONFERENCE EVENTWednesday, July 27, 4:30pm-6:00pm
Grand Ballroom FoyerConference Orientation and Welcome Meeting
Join members of the conference committee and both new and returning attendees for an overview of the conference schedule and structure, major events, and not-to-miss traditions. Also, familiarize yourself with the AATE Networks and interest strands, and how to navigate the conference's many sessions to meet your personal and professional goals and individualize your conference experience.
Detailed Schedule - Thursday, July 28Thursday, July 28, 8:00am-9:15amOld TownAwards Committee Meeting The AATE Awards Committee will gather to plan final arrangements for the 2011 AATE Awards Ceremony and Dinner Reception. Early plans for 2012 Awards Process will begin to unfold. Meeting is open to AATE Awards Committee members and those who are interested in joining the committee.
Thursday, July 28, 8:00am-9:15amDearbornNetwork Council MeetingThis meeting will update current AATE Network Chairs of the changes to AATE’s Project Proposal model and engage in dialogue about the new model. AATE’s Membership Director and Membership Coordinator will be available to answer questions about the new model and inform Network Chairs how their valuable project ideas can be supported by AATE in the coming years. This meeting is open to AATE Network Chairs and members who wish to serve as network chairs in the future.
Thursday, July 28, 8:00am-8:45amDearbornState Representatives MeetingCurrent and prospective state representatives are invited to attend this meeting to discuss the new state representatives program and guidelines. State representatives will begin planning their efforts for membership, programming, and advocacy in their state. Those interested in representing their state are welcome to attend.
Thursday, July 28, 8:45am-9:30amLaSalleTheatre In Our Schools Planning MeetingJoin AATE leaders as we plan Theatre In Our Schools (TIOS) 2012! Building on the successes of the 2011 TIOS regional mini-conferences, student activities, social networking, awareness items, advocacy tools and more, have your say in making 2012 the best TIOS year yet. Learn how to get involved to advocate and raise the awareness of the benefits of theatre in schools in your area.
Thursday, July 28, 9:15am-9:30amGrand BallroomMorning Announcements
Start your day with All-Conference Announcements. Find out about the different kinds of events, schedule changes, and any other important updates brought to you by the 2011 Chicago Conference Committee.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amGrand Ballroom Moments and Memories from Mother Hicks and The Taste of SunriseScenes and excerpts from the first two plays of The Ware Triology(commissioned and developed by Seattle Children's Theatre). The excerpts will be directed by Tom Arvetis and featuring actors from Northwestern University's production of The Edge of Peace. These two award winning plays represent landmarks in the contemporary cannon of dramatic literature for young audiences and have been produced by theaters, universities, and high schools all over the United States. If you have ever seen or been involved in any of these productions come and share your stories.
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Devising Workshop with Albany Park Theater Project - Morning SessionPaid WorkshopThursday, July 28 9:00am-12:00pmCuisines
Join David Feiner and members of Chicago’s highly-acclaimed Albany Park Theater Project (APTP) for an interactive workshop on devising original theater from real-life stories. APTP’s multi-ethnic community of teen artists has been devising award-winning, ethnography-based theater for nearly 15 years. At this workshop, you will learn hands-on how APTP engages youth in creating theater that tells the stories of immigrant and working-class Americans. The workshop will go beyond the basics of brainstorming and theme selection, to focus on the techniques APTP uses to transform raw material into sophisticated theater.
APTP is an ensemble of youth artists who collectively write, choreograph, compose, and stage original performance works based on people's real-life stories. Since 1997, APTP has cre-ated more than 50 performance works integrating theater, mu-sic, and dance. They have performed for more than 25,000 people at their 90-seat home theater in Albany Park and at venues throughout Chicago and beyond. Their performances bring together one of the most truly diverse audiences in Chi-cago.
Room for Ritual: Designing Interactive Reflective Spaces with RedmoonPaid WorkshopThursday, July 28 9:00am-12:00pmGold CoastRedmoonʼs workshop will provide participants hands-on experi-ence using the tools of spectacle to transform public space. Using techniques derived from Redmoonʼs teaching methods, participants will engage in ritual design, installation design, and art making that will turn the conference hotel space into an in-teractive, experiential environment for reflection. The completed Room for Ritual installation will be open as a space for private or group reflection throughout the conference.
Redmoon provides artistic events for public engagement, creat-ing unexpected theater in unexpected locations. Founded in 1990 to promote a unique brand of Spectacle performance committed to the highest quality artistic product and civic well-being, Redmoon transforms streets, stages, and architectural landmarks into places of public celebration. With a style that is equal parts puppetry, pageantry, gadgetry, robust physical per-formance, and visual art installation, Redmoon creates unique theatrical experiences that galvanize community and celebrates the human imagination.
The workshop will be led by Neighborhood Arts Director Angela Tillges.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amRenaissance Ballroom AApplied Theatre Network Meeting
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amWackerAssessing Classroom Theatre Performance in the Age of Rubrics and 5-point ScalesChair: Andrew RyderPresenters: Andrew RyderJoBeth GonzálezJulia Ashworth
As states ratify standards for theatre education, they seek ways to effectively assess classroom theatre performances. Such experiences are immensely valuable, but we need evidence of specific skills. Authentic assessments are based on aesthetic, theatre-specific criteria, and include: clear focus and expectations; developmental process; a sense of the whole; and attention to ensemble and individual skills. Presenters will describe state-provided assessments; participants will create their own, which the larger group will discuss. Participants will leave with guidelines for developing classroom-based performance assessments.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amMichiganDeep Dramatic Currents--How 20th Century American Small Play Publishers Contributed to the Depth of the Dramatic Canon for Young AudiencesChair: Katherine KrzysPresenters: Ashley HareMax Bush
This session will reflect on how owners of small 20th century play publishers, namely: the Association of Junior Leagues of America (1910s-1950s), Anchorage Press (formerly Children's Theatre Press created in 1935 by Sara Spencer), Coach House Press Chicago (created by Louise Dale Spoor in 1945) and New Plays (created by Pat Whitton Forrest in 1964), influenced playwriting trends, encouraged playwrights to write for young audiences, established new criteria for playwriting and created our diverse canon of dramatic literature in the field. Rather than reading papers, the panel participants will discuss their in-depth research on the former subjects and on playwright profiles, commissioning, pre-print production qualifications, connections to AATE and its predecessors, advisory boards and play publicity. They will read quotes from correspondence, articles and publicity. Following questions for each presenter, the audience will be asked to participate in a discussion regarding playwriting trends for the future and the viability of production of these early plays.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amBucktown ADramatic Viewpoints: Linking Role Drama to Literature and WritingChair: Carmine Tabone
Participants will experience two activities (Vote From Your Seat and Dramatic Viewpoints) that have been used successfully with elementary, middle school and high school students and teachers both
in language arts and theater classes to help clarify and affirm students' values and points of view around various topics. These topics can then be extended to the study of a book or play and the examination of themes, characters and scenes. Participants will have the opportunity to present topics in which they are interested and develop connections to their own work. The session will also demonstrate the connection to writing genres such as persuasive writing and character narrative.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amRenaissance Ballroom CHERE COMES GOSLING! Reflections on Varied Approaches to a Script for Very Young Audiences.Chair: Lynda SharpePresenters: Sandra Fenichel AsherJudy Matelzschk-CampbellAbby SchwarzPatricia Zimmer
Full immersion, traditional proscenium, in the round, on tour? All of the above? In a series of workshops and productions of Sandra Fenichel Asher's adaptation of her own picture book with music by Ric Averill, participants explored these possibilities. Children danced, bubbles bounced, feathers flew as Head Start and other nursery schools shared in the joyful birthing of a very new script for young audiences. Come help us reflect on our process, various styles and results as we ponder the prospects for future Theater for Very Young Audiences.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amOld TownInclusion in the Theatre Arts Class: Asking (and Answering) the Hard QuestionsChair: Diane NuttingPresenters:Kelly CatesMary ElizaBeth PetersJamie Querciagrossa
Inclusive theatre education experiences have the power to create an environment that welcomes all, breaks down barriers, and pushes all students to reach beyond self-determined limitations. Theatre artists who have created and facilitated an inclusive environment know that there are equal benefits to those students with and without disabilities. Yet, the very nature of an inclusive theatre arts classroom can bring some very hard questions to light, such as: - How do we teach across the spectrum of learning to insure that
students of all abilities are able to be equally challenged? - What happens as the "academic content" of the curriculum
becomes more challenging as students become older and more advanced in their studies?
- What happens when inclusion strategies don't work (or stop working)?
- Is there ever a time when inclusion is not the best option? - How do you communicate your philosophy of inclusion to (and
gain the advocacy of) parents of students without disabilities throughout your organization?
This session will bring together practitioners who are in the midst of their inclusion journey to explore and discuss the "nitty gritty" (and often unspoken) challenges of an inclusive theatre arts environment.
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Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amRenaissance Ballroom BLet the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games Begin: Experiencing and Reflecting Upon Young Adult Literature through Dramatic Exercises. And May the Odds be Ever in your Favor!Chair: Jessica BateyPresenters: Jessica Batey Daniel Mahler
This workshop will model methods educators can utilize to engage young people in literary texts using interactive participatory exercises. We will be using Suzanne Collins' popular young-adult novel, The Hunger Games, as a means of developing classroom strategies for bringing literary fiction to life. During our session we will simulate some of the circumstances experienced by the society in which the book takes place, using excerpts from the text. We will adapt techniques of Dorothy Heathcote, Jonothan Neelands and Augusto Boal, among others, to model ways in which theatre can be used to spark discussions and reflections on how the themes portrayed in literature translates to the reality in which we live.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amBucktown BMake it or Break it: What are Keys to Successful Facilitation?Chair: Teresa Fisher
Without a strong capable leader at the helm, workshops can go horribly wrong with goals unmet, not enough reflection time, participants left emotionally bereft, and mass chaos. As theatre educators, how do we prepare for success and avoid pitfalls? What are the keys to effective facilitation? How do we meld our unique personality styles with effective teaching practices? How do we learn to balance encouraging full participation in our workshops without pushing participants too far? In this hands-on discussion/workshop, we will explore what makes or breaks a successful facilitation. Using our collective experiences and knowledge, we will examine the factors which lead to success or failure when facilitating workshops to gain a better understanding of how we can support each other in becoming successful facilitators.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amPrinter's RowOur Different Stories: Using stories to recognize and embrace differenceChair: Emily Hooper Lansana
Emily Hooper Lansana is a professional storyteller, school administrator, and consultant. For more than twenty years she has worked creating, adapting, collecting and teaching storytelling in a range of diverse communities. In this hands-on workshop Ms. Lansana will share experiences that encourage participants to reflect on the role that storytelling can play as we seek to recognize and celebrate difference. She will share examples from work with teachers and students in Chicago Public Schools as well as the larger cultural communities in Chicago. Storytelling serves a critical role in the educational setting by allowing students and teachers to share their unique voices and experiences. It helps to build relationships and foster an environment of respect. Participants will reflect on where stories come from and how we can most effectively share them. The workshop will include practical
techniques for how to collect/present/discuss/and reflect on stories and their role in unique educational settings.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amRenaissance Ballroom DStudent Educational Theatre Internships: Building A Quality Experience For College-students Through Partnership Between Higher Education And Professional TheatreChair: Sarah Mae JohnsonPresenters: Brian HarperDr. Marilyn “Cookie" HetzelSonsharae TullJose Zuniga
Explore a credit-bearing internship created through Metropolitan State College of Denver and Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Programs. Session focuses on three success factors: a shared philosophy balancing educational value with quality theatre; commitment to unleashing the potential of students; mutual goal of bettering the community. Video clips, coordinator expertise and interactive discussions with participating interns lead session participants to reflect on the value of quality internship as viewed by students, academic institutions, and community organizations.
Thursday, July 28, 9:30am-10:45amBridgeportThe Humanizing Language of the ArtsChair: Carole MillerPresenters: Carole MillerJuliana Saxton
Last year, in constructing our argument for advocacy of the arts, we looked at drama education as a discipline in its own right and its relationship to brain research. This year, we take up something to which we alluded, namely that drama is a valued servant to a number of legitimate curriculum subjects. In this paper, we focus on literacy as more than handmaiden to the language arts/social science curriculum.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmBridgeportACTivate: Stimulating Dialogue, Deepening Understanding, And Cultivating Respect Through Creative Drama And Theatre For Social ChangeChair: Julia Newby Magnasco
In this workshop, participants will actively explore First Stage's Bully Ban program - an initiative designed to address a Wisconsin State mandate to implement effective bullying prevention policies in all schools. Using activities based in theatre for social change and creative drama, the Bully Ban invites students to bring their issues, concerns, and realities to the table. As a group, we explore and reflect on best practices, maintaining the attitude that we do not have all the answers, and that bullying behavior is complex and more often than not won't be solved in one exchange. This curriculum engages students in critically thinking about issues of power in their school community and creating practices for developing respect for one another.
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Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmOld TownBuilding a Diverse Theatre Curriculum: Students, Teachers, and the Role of PrivilegeChair: Jennifer ChapmanPresenters: Christina MarínStephen Gundersheim
This session will explore the question: "what actions work strategically to build a diverse high school theatre curriculum?" The discussion will include work that could be done in both the college/university and high school arenas. Session participants will use others' personal narratives about challenging teaching moments to: 1) discuss the role of power and privilege in moments when we get "stuck"; 2) brainstorm actions in response to challenges that narratives pose; and 3) identify different stakeholders that teachers can turn to for help in moments of conflict, when they get stuck in a teaching moment, and when they come face to face with an issue of diversity that they do not know how to respond to. The personal narratives used will come from the "Building a Diverse Theatre Curriculum" session participants at the 2010 conference and will be available to pick up at the registration desk upon check-in. Participants may choose to read and reflect upon the narratives before attending; copies will also be available at the session for review.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmPrinter’s RowRevision Reflections: North Carolina's New Essential StandardsChair:Gordon Hensley
Can state arts standards consciously center around transferable "soft skills" such as communication, collaboration, and creative thinking? In response to this leading question North Carolina has just launched new essential standards in the arts. This session, lead by revisioning task force member Gordon Hensley, is a preview of the new North Carolina theatre curriculum.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmBucktown B"Can We Talk?" A Forum for Emerging and Diverse Playwrights - and Frustrated Drama Teachers.Chair: Spring HermannPresenters: Spring HermannD.W. GregoryDaphnie SicreKarl O. Williams
Playwrights and drama teachers want to talk! How do theatre-making institutions cultivate new plays - and how do drama teachers find them? What do teachers mean by appropriate material for their schools, and what are the issues in selecting new material to develop? Teacher, director, or playwright - who should have the most authority in structuring new plays for youth? We will encourage an open sharing of opinion and dialogue by all.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmRenaissance Ballroom BDifferentiated DramaChair:
Lisa DennettPresenters: Lisa DennettStacy Deemar
This presentation combines power point, hands-on activity and open interactive dialogue. Participants will learn basic learning styles in addition to how to differentiate instruction. The session will explore the following two questions: How can we make our teaching, directing, productions and classroom experience more engaging and appropriate for all of our students? How can we enhance our current practices to be more aware of different learning and teaching styles? All participants are encouraged to reflect and share their own experiences in the area of differentiating drama.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmRenaissance Ballroom AEarly Bridges: The Conduit Between Theatre and the Early Childhood ClassroomChair: Maria AspJohn Sessler
Informed by the latest research in child development for ages 2 ½ to 5 years old, an early childhood adaptation of Children’s Theatre Company's signature critical literacy program, Neighborhood Bridges, has emerged. In this new program, Early Bridges, we believe that children's play is essential to their well-being and that when given time and opportunity, self-initiated play is the surest way for children to fully realize all of their intellectual, emotional and social potential. Early Bridges is rooted in Developmentally Appropriate Practice, as outlined by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Workshop participants will be guided through a hands-on Early Bridges session, learning the strategies for bringing substantive theatre-arts education experiences to preschool-aged children based on the Neighborhood Bridges model.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmBucktown A"Far Beyond the Classroom Walls": The Lifelong Impact of High School Theatre and Speech Teachers-Implications for Teacher EducationChair: Laura A. McCammonPresenters: Laura A. McCammonJohnny Saldaña
"Quality high school theatre and speech experiences can not only significantly influence but even accelerate adolescent development, and provide residual, positive, lifelong impacts throughout adulthood." This was the key assertion from a 2009-2010 survey of 234 North American adults who participated in secondary Speech and/or Theatre programming. Respondents reported gaining self-confidence and self-awareness, public speaking skills, and personal work ethics and habits. The teacher's role was vital. The majority of respondents noted that their teachers were professional, knowledgeable, nurturing, and passionate; however, 10% of teachers were viewed as dysfunctional. This session will focus on how pre-service and in-service teacher education programs can develop these competencies in future teachers.
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Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmWackerProfessional Theatre Network Debut Panel - Innovation & Subversion: Radical Acts in Professional Theatre for Young Audiences Chair: Wendy BableAli Oliver-Krueger
Rather than allowing current economic challenges, organizational structures, and audience appetites to limit our creativity and tempt us to work from a space of fear, how might these limitations be a useful catalyst for creativity? This session will share and interrogate deliberate approaches (taken by the panelists) to different aspects of Theatre for Young Audiences that have affected important shifts in organizational ideology and methodology. Panel participants will share recent acts of innovation and subversion, ranging from radical actions to gentle disturbances, in their artistic, leadership, and/or organizational practices that have disrupted or altered established patterns of working with beneficial results. Each panelist will present a short case study detailing the given circumstances framing their approach and a description of the action they chose to disrupt or alter those circumstances. The case study presentations will be followed by a dialogue/brainstorming session amongst the panelists and the participants to examine and interrogate other practices or situations that would benefit from unorthodox approaches and problem solving.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmDearbornOther People's Stories: How to Activate Ally-ship through Theatre ActivismChair: Sara KerastasPresenters: Anna RangosSukari StoneRuben CastroCristian GorostietaBritney Fryer
How do we create oral history theatre/docudrama that focuses around other people's stories? How do we activate ally-ship through theatre-making? These two questions stem directly from our on-going experience in our current youth-driven oral history project, WHAT'S THE T?. The theme for the project is trans-identity, yet, there are currently no trans-identified folks in the ensemble. How do we proceed in a comprehensive, non-exploitative, socially conscious way? How do we tell stories that are not our own?
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmRenaissance Ballroom DThe Power of Theatre: Exploring Successful Methods to Inspire Change in your CommunityChair: Frieda de LacknerPresenters: Frieda de LacknerJared Randolph
Celebrating their 25th anniversary serving audiences in Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Programs shares its model for community engagement. Learn about the power of harnessing the influence and "star" status of performers through
follow-up interactions, activities and resources that deepen the theatrical experience and make students ambassadors of change. Effective tools and methods will be presented based on current work addressing the following topics:
- bullying- self-esteem- healthy eating- active living- HIV awareness and prevention
Participants will be given time to reflect on the needs of their own community and resources already available to them, receive coaching from Kaiser Permanente facilitators, and strategize how their own program can make a positive impact.
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmMichiganUnpack Yourself: A Theatre Experience Infusing Collaborative Learning Strategies to Support English LearnersChair: Susan BrantleyPresenters: Susan BrantleyRay ConseurJohn K. BrownDr. Xan Johnson
Storytelling serves a critical role in the educational setting by engaging English learners in an introduction to theatre to share their unique voices and experiences. An emphasis on oral presentation built through social interaction and cultural exchange builds relationships and fosters an environment of respect. Dr. Xan Johnson and Susan Brantley will be on hand to discuss the impact of sociocultural learning theory, linguistics and the drama experience. How prepared are we as educators to engage students not yet proficient in English in drama programs? How do we support EL students through effective, scaffolded lessons that anticipates learning that is on the horizon? How does your current belief system regarding language acquisition impact your lesson design and execution?
Thursday, July 28, 11:00am-12:15pmRenaissance Ballroom CWhose Reflection Counts?: International Perspectives On Process Drama As Inclusive Educational Pedagogy And Practice.Chair: Brian S. HeapPresenters: Pamela BowellAud Bergraf
Worldwide 75 million children of primary school age are not enrolled in school.25 million of these are children with disabilities. Others are working children, rural, nomadic & indigenous groups, linguistic minorities, & those affected by HIV/AIDS. But the thrust to promote inclusive education is not about underdevelopment. In all countries both children and adults may be excluded from access to education because of poverty, homelessness, disability, language, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation. The leaders of this session, from the UK, Jamaica and Norway will conduct an abridged version of process drama work about inclusion conducted with older teenagers over a two-day period in Sandnes, Norway in October 2011.
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Thursday, July 28, 12:15pm-1:00pmGold CoastNational Standards Update And Discussion
AATE is an official member of The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS), the newly formed partnership of organizations and states that will lead the revision of the 1994 National Standards for Arts Education. The standards will describe what students should know and be able to do as a result of a quality curricular arts education program. This meeting will be the first of the AATE National Standards/Advocacy Committee to learn about, discuss and plan AATE’s involvement in the Standards Revision process and national arts advocacy. This meeting is open to AATE Standards/Advocacy Committee and members who are
interested in advocating for the arts at the national level.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTThursday, July 28, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Grand BallroomPresident’s Welcome and Featured Speaker Vivian Gussin Paley
Vivian Gussin Paley writes and teaches about the world of young children. She examines their stories and play, their logic and their thinking, searching for meaning in the social and moral landscapes of classroom life. A kindergarten teacher for 37 years, Mrs. Paley brings her storytelling/story acting and discussion techniques to children, teachers, and parents throughout the world.
She is the recipient of the 1987 Erikson Institute Award for Service to Children and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989. She received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 1998. In 1997, her book, The Girl with the Brown Crayon, was given the Harvard University Press Virginia and Warren Stone Prize as the outstanding book about education and society. In 1999 the same book brought her the NCTE David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. Mrs. Paley received the John Dewey Society’s Outstanding Achievement Award for the year 2000, and, more recently, in 2004 was named “Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts” by the National Council of Teachers of English.
YOU SAID: You loved the lunchtime storytelling event in San Francisco!
WE HEARD: We decided to present a similar event around the theme of identity, this year showcasing talent from the Chicago storytelling commu-nity! We also incorporated our theme of reflection into the event—allowing the stories to be a springboard for how our own stories interact with the stories of our students.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmRenaissance Ballroom DAssessing the Arts: Creating Qualitative And Quantative Tools To Assess Your Theatre Education ProgramChair: Pamela DiPasqualePresenters: Pamela DiPasqualeErin Riffle
Without solid evidence supporting the successes of your theatre education program, it can be difficult to make a convincing case to funders, school districts, teachers and even parents that your program is valuable. This hands-on workshop will help you create the necessary tools to assess and evaluate students' cognitive, social and physical learning improvements that result from participation in your program.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmGold CoastCalling All DirectorsChair: Jeanne HopsonPeter LoffredoPresenters:Dr. Xan JohnsonRives CollinsRobyn FlattCharla CochranSteve BarberioDr. Harvey Miller
Directors from all theatre milieu, (freelance, comm.. theatre, youth theatre, middle/high school, university and Equity) will informally lead exploration into specifically chosen areas of discussion. This is a continuation of former sessions with attendees polled so we can focus on common goals, problems and solutions. We build connections among the various areas of directing. Our panel serves to moderate an open discussion to facilitate the continued exchange of ideas. Session has had immediate appeal to directors from every network and arena and has proved to be very popular as a director’s forum for those with little Or extensive experience. Panel represents AATE, AACT, ATA and ATHE. We strive to examine our similarities and appreciate our differences with an emphasis on cooperation and communication in order to benefit and facilitate our professional growth. A first-day 90-minute session facilitates networking from early on in the conference.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmDearbornChild's Play: A Journey Through Early Childhood Dramatic ActivitiesChair: Mary Quest
This session will focus on drama experiences for young children in group settings and explore appropriate ways to provide opportunities for children to perform. The value and benefits of drama experiences for young children will be discussed.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmWackerIt's Brave To FailChair: Jacqueline Stone
Take risks, develop your own voice, and take chances. Know who you are. This workshop is designed to give tangible tools for teaching artists who are working with students from ages 3-18 years but will provide adaptations that will be applicable to all teachers looking for some new strategies. In this hands on workshop participants will analyze and assess their own individual strengths and weaknesses, common challenges, and an expansion of their own teaching toolkit. Topics covered will be teacher and student fears and dreams, classroom management, improvisational theatre exercises and early learning comprehension. Skill sets focused on include communication, spontaneity, building an ensemble, trust, physical and verbal engagement, and self-confidence. Know who you are and how you can best support your students.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmBucktown BLatino TYA Plays: What's Available? Who's Producing Them? Who's Not? Why?Chair: Roxanne Schroeder-ArcePresenters: Roxanne Schroeder-ArceGillian McNallyMarilee MillerGayle Sergel
The 2010 census is anticipating documenting over fifty million Latino/as l iving in the United States; however, these numbers are disproportionately underrepresented in the TYA produced nationwide. From professional TYA companies to plays performed by youth in school theatre programs, Latino stories and characters are absent or, at best, deficient. There is a lack of awareness about what plays are available and a need to talk about its challenges. In this interactive panel presentation/workshop, we will provide resources for those interested in offering Latino TYA plays in their communities. We will hear from the field’s most produced publisher about what Latino plays are available. Participants will engage in a discussion about the challenges in representation, resources, and audience development.
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Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmBucktown AMaking Waves in Critical Literacy: Animating Creativity and Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom Chair:Kiyoko Motoyama SimsPresenters:Kiyoko Motoyama SimsTessa Flynn
Neighborhood Bridges is critical literacy in action. Elementary and middle school students in this signature literacy program of the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company understand the power of narrative by becoming examiners not only of the text but of the world around them. As they identify assumptions, and the dominant social and cultural values in stories both written and performed, Bridges students ask questions, reflect on and challenge their own biases and ideals, and ultimately transform the narratives. Through a sample of interactive storytelling, creative writing and theatre exercises, participants in this session will experience first-hand how critical literacy is facilitated throughout the four phases of a typical Neighborhood Bridges session. Workshop participants will also explore and reflect on the recent research findings of a two-year assessment project, in partnership with the University of Minnesota, which highlights the direct correlation between creativity and critical pedagogy achieved through dramatic play in the classroom. Neighborhood Bridges is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a recipient of the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant which has funded the dissemination of the program to thirteen sites nationally, from New York to Hawaii.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmPrinter's RowParticipant Perspectives on Ethics & Theatre for Young AudiencesChair: Matt OmastaPresenters: Matt OmastaMillie StruveMachaela Watson
This session invites participants to explore the ethical relationships among participants involved in Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). Specifically we will address questions about how theatres handle controversial material: who (if anyone) is responsible for processing difficult themes with young people, if TYA companies have a responsibility to engage with social issues in their programming, perceived educational responsibilities, and other ethical matters. We will first present the results of a survey that involved over 400 TYA professionals, educators, funding agencies, and parents. Following this, all participants will be invited to discuss the study and reflect on their own perceptions and experiences.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmMichiganProcess and Performance: Devising Non-Traditional Theater with TeensChair: Courtney J. BoddiePresenters: Sobha K. Paredes
What happens when we build real opportunities for teens to truly collaborate in a creative process? This professional development session, inspired by a Belgian production created by teens and presented at The New Victory Theater in the 2009/10 season, will ask participants to work as theater artists to devise an original performance piece. During this session they will build ensemble skills, a performer's toolbox and fully contribute to create an original work. Participants will utilize a peer reflection process that will give time for them to rehearse, reflect and revise their work, promoting ownership of the process and the final theater piece. Participants will also be able to reflect on the work overall and make practical applications to their own specific teaching situations.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmLaSallePurposeful Planning and Rigorous Reflection: Exploring Expertise in Teaching Artist/Teacher PartnershipChair: Bridget LeePresenters: Katie Dawson
Within the Drama for Schools professional development model, teaching artists partner with classroom teachers to explore the potential of drama-based instruction to activate learning for all students. To prepare each lesson, teaching artists and teachers move through a planning protocol; after the lesson, they use a reflection protocol to revise the lesson for future use. This session interrogates the need for a lesson planning and reflection process that views expertise in the arts and education as an ongoing process, less about the mastery of content or one skill and more about an ethos of problem-solving and inquiry. Participants will be invited to share their arts integration planning/reflection protocols, and consider larger recommendations for the field. As artists and teachers, we will consider interdisciplinarian mindfulness as part of the arts integration partnership. We will weigh out a potential hierarchy of expertise (e.g., the fidelity of the art form vs. classroom management) and consider how intentionality can help frame our planning and reflection conversations. This is a working session with attendees. Please bring your ideas and examples of planning/feedback protocols to share.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmRenaissance Ballroom AStudents in Mask, Transformations Across the Curriculum and BeyondChair: Shawnna Pledger
A transformative learning experience happens when one puts third-graders in a full face mask. I propose to recreate this experience for my colleagues at the AATE conference by leading a full face mask workshop just as I would for my third-grade students. It has been my experience that masks allow children to step out of themselves and safely make bold choices; to actually be somebody else. Mask work invites discussions about the power of body language. Mask work helps students learn to interpret social cues. Masks produce class-wide empathy by giving the students insight about what each character is going through. It fosters understanding of character and emotions while developing skills in the areas of self-control and kinesthetic awareness.
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Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmOld TownTeaching With, About, In And Through The Arts For Young People. To Develop An Essentials Of Fine Arts Course For The Classroom Teacher Or Education Major.Chair: Cheryl Kaplan ZachariahPresenters: Manon van de Water, PhDCheryl Kaplan Zachariah, MFA
A round table discussion for and by university and college professors teaching courses in Arts Integration for the classroom teacher. Arts Integration courses are the introduction and investigation of the essentials of aesthetic arts including expression and exploration through visual art, music art, dance art and theatre arts for young people. The current cuts in arts education, as well as the aftermath of NCLB requirements and the testist nature of our school system force the arts educators--music, dance, visual arts and theatre/drama--to create integrated arts courses, instead of offering courses focusing on the individual arts. This raises a number of pertinent questions about the role and place of arts in the education of our children. This will be an open dialogue in which we share experiences with everyone to discuss the creation of successful and unsuccessful Arts Integration courses.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmRenaissance Ballroom BThe Cooperative Theatre ClassroomChair: Karen Hall
As theatre educators we all know the importance of ensemble - working together towards a mutual goal. Adding cooperative learning to your teaching tools will help you achieve the ensemble you desire and provide you with strategies to keep your classroom engaged during rehearsals, warm-ups and critiques. This abbreviated version of Karen Hall’s paid workshop is open to all registrants.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmRenaissance Ballroom DThe Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts - In Action!Chair: Rick SperlingPresenters: Rick SperlingKate MendeloffYouth Members of Mosaic's Next Stage Company
This high-energy session will explore both the theory and practice behind one of the nation's most acclaimed youth arts programs, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. Remarks by Mosaic founder Rick Sperling will be followed by a brief live performance by a small group of Mosaic young artists, ending with interactive small group discussions and Q-and-A facilitated by Kate Mendeloff, drama and community engagement faculty at the University of Michigan Residential College. The session will focus on the results of a three-year study by the University of Michigan Psychology Department and School of Social Work documenting Mosaic's youth development impact, featured in the publication Excellence on Stage and in Life: the Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts. (All session attendees will receive the publication.) The Mosaic Model involves utilizing three E's -
Expectations, Environment and Empowerment to achieve three S's: Skills, Self and Society. Through presentation, performance, and discussion, attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the Mosaic Model and with practical ideas for how principals of the model can be applied to enhance the impact of their artistic work with youth and teens.
Thursday, July 28, 2:45pm-4:00pmRenaissance Ballroom CUnmasking the Metaphor: Filling in the Blind-spot of a "Color-Blind" CultureChair: Lise KloeppelPresenters: Lise KloeppelJodi VanDerHorn-Gibson
Our session seeks to not only share the beginning steps of a larger, arts-based research project on the topic of race but also to use the tools of theater to reflect upon our personal and professional relationships to race. W.E.B. DuBois named the problem of the color-line THE problem of the 20th century. Can we say the same is true for the 21st century or have we entered a post-racial age? In searching for solutions, do we turn to despair and hopelessness as if this is a social reality we'll never transcend? Using arts-based and ethnographic research methods, we aim to devise an ethnodramatic performance that situates the personal inside the political and examines the everyday metaphors masking the accepted power structures in our lives.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-7:00pmBridgeportAATE Research Awards PresentationsChair: Lorenzo GarciaPresenters: AATE Research Awards Finalists
The AATE Research Awards are offered annually for significant theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, critical, historical, or other research in any area of drama/theatre for young people.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmRenaissance Ballroom DA Journey Through Early Childhood Dramatic Activities: Reflecting on Ways to Transform a Safe and Fun Space to Learn for All AgesChair:Heidy M. Perez-Cordero
This workshop intends to engage the participants in a journey experi-enced by early childhood education students. The facilitator will invite the participants to play the games her early childhood students experi-enced, as a way to develop the skills to start kindergarten. After each exercise, the facilitator will invite the participants to reflect on what variations they would like to apply to the game, according to the demo-graphics and contexts of the communities in which they might share them in the future. The participants will have the opportunity to try out each activity during the workshop, as a way to give them the chance to actively engage and then reflect on the techniques before taking the games to their community. The session will conclude with a video pres-entation of the facilitator’s experience applying some of these dramatic activities in an early childhood setting.
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Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmRenaissance Ballroom CEmpowHER Yourself: OverHERcoming Self SabHERtageChair:Rachel Brill
This workshop is designed to empower women to challenge the obstacles that society has placed on them, which lead to self sabotaging behavior. Participants will find their own sense of empowerment throughout their exploration in the workshop.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmRenaissance Ballroom BEvery Idea is a Good Idea (Part One): Group Story Writing and Performance with Barrel of MonkeysChair: Luke HattonElizabeth LevyPresenters: Rani WatermanTom Malinowski
Part One will explore the Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) process in the classroom. Participants will have a hands-on experience of our in-school curriculum as we explore how BOM works to create enthusiasm for language arts and performance. We'll start with the BOM classroom agreements, then warm up, have an interactive introduction to the literary concept of the day, move on to original story writing in small, collaborative groups and finally, theatrically present our work to the rest of the participants. There will be 5-10 minutes at the end for reflection/discussion. While participants are encouraged to attend Part Two of the workshop (Saturday, July 30, 4:15-5:45pm), it is not required in order to participate in Part One.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmMichiganImprobable Players: Using Educational Drama in Addictions Pre-ventionChair: Lynn Bratley
This workshop weaves curriculum strands of health and theater education to set the stage for thinking about how substance abuse affects everyone: all the the ways it impacts us, our friends, our family and our community. We'll draw on issues we have heard about, seen in the media, or read about. Using sociodrama, we will improvise scenes that illuminate the topic, observing effects of substance abuse on characters, action, conflict, and resolution. We will see how people get pulled into certain roles when substance abuse is present and how to change that: handling peer pressure, identifying classic roles people play where there is substance abuse, and how to do a simple intervention. The conclusion of the workshop will leave participants empowered with new tools to use with youth. Improbable Players' how-to guide for using drama in prevention education will be available.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmBucktown BPicking Yourself Up By Your Analogical Bootstraps: Linking Cognition Research and Applied TheatreChair: Peter Duffy
There has been a much attention paid in recent years to cognition, theatre in education and learning. Though some connections between theatre and cognition are spurious at best, there is some exciting research that theatre artists and educators can benefit from in order to deepen embodied learning through theatre. This presentation will summarize several theories of mind and demonstrate how research can be activated within a theatrical context to increase student learning. Specifically we will consider a model called “Analogical Bootstrapping” as a method to deepen emotional connections to applied theatre techniques. Participants will be given opportunities to apply presentation content to applied theatre techniques in order see how facilitators can deepen empathetic responses. This hands-on presentation is geared toward theatre in education practitioners. Drama teachers, arts administrators, and university professors will benefit from the material because the content is specific, instantly applicable, and research-based. The goal of the presentation will be to offer practitioners insight and practice into the complex field of cognition and neuroscience and their links to applied theatre with youth.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmBucktown ASensory Theatre (or Theatre for More)Chair: Aimee Reid
Child audiences with physical disabilities require simple adjustments to be engaged in mainstream theatre; additionally, their presence offers unique artistic challenges to mainstream theatre for youth. Based on a discussion held at last year's AATE conference in conjunction with research conducted between 2009-2011, video clips of The Blue Light and Other Stories, produced in the Phoenix area, will be shown along with demonstrations of the techniques used in the performance. Afterwards, a discussion will be held on the findings of the production, along with a brainstorm session to improve upon the techniques.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmGrand BallroomShakespeare High Screening and Reflection
Shakespeare High is a riveting documentary about a socio-economic cross-section of teens in Southern California who study Shakespeare to compete in a drama Festival run by the many thousand-strong volunteer teacher organization: DTASC (Drama Teachers Association of Southern California). The film focuses primarily on under-served teens, highlighting the life-changing effect that this activity and competition have for them, and underscoring the necessity of an arts curriculum, and its effectiveness in saving lives and keeping kids and teens engaged and in school.
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Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmLaSalleSpeaking Aloud the Silenced Story: Emergent Identity, Storytelling and Critical Literacy.Chair: Gustave J Weltsek Ph.D.Presenters: Amy HertScott Van Buskirk
Using the theoretical work of Deborah Britzman and Judith Butler as a jumping off point, one drama and theater education professor and three education students speak the silenced story of the complex negotiation of an emergent self within the intense power dynamics of teacher education. Situated in notions of critical and multi-literacies (Harste, Leland et al) and critical performative pedagogy (Weltsek and Medina) the group uses master storyteller George Shricker's storytelling process as a vehicle for critical self-reflection. This interactive session engages participants in storytelling strategies while the group deconstructs the hybrid socio-cultural relationships between student and teacher.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmRenaissance Ballroom AWhy Is There More Drama Surrounding My Drama Class Than The Drama I Teach? Techniques To Master Discipline in Elementary and Middle School Drama ClassroomsChair: Stacy Deemar
Discussion in both small and large groups will target key discipline strategies in both the elementary and middle school drama classrooms. The group will share and analyze positive and negative responses to specific methods. We will also critique how school rules may or may not always be the best methods to apply in a drama classroom. The group will be introduced to 1, 2, 3, Magic by Thomas W. Phelan, a book about effective discipline in elementary and middle schools.
Thursday, July 28, 4:15pm-5:45pmDearbownWriting Dramatic Action: A Mini-Workshop for High School TeachersChair: D.W. Gregory
Torn from the playbook of The Playwrights' Gymnasium, a Washington, D.C., playwrights' workshop, this 90-minute session is devoted to clarifying a key element of the playwright's craft. We know all about action; without it, we have no drama. But how do you create action on the page? This session combines an acting exercise with a writing exercise to vividly illustrate the concept. Taught by a widely produced and published playwright, this workshop has been conducted to great success with middle school and high school students as well as adults. Come prepared to wing it and take away an activity that will drive home the point for your students and yourselves.
Thursday, July 28, 6:00pm-7:00pmRenaissance Ballroom CAPTP Reflections
Join APTP as they reflect on their day with AATE.
Thursday, July 28, 6:00pm-7:00pmRenaissance Ballroom DCurrent and Future Artistry in TYA: A Conversation with the Doyle FellowsChair: Abra ChusidPresenters: Abra ChusidJennifer Hartmann LuckJenny Anne KopperaKathy KrzysAimee ReidBrianna Stapleton WelchKarl O. Williams
Since 2008, AATE has presented the Don and Elizabeth Doyle Fellowship to outstanding graduate-level students of demonstrated artistic ability in the area of Theatre for Youth. In this session, fellowship recipients will share their artistic contributions to TYA, and Kathy Krzys will moderate a discussion on current and future artistry in TYA with all session attendees.
Thursday, July 28, 6:00pm-7:00pmRenaissance Ballroom AEMU's Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Virginia KosteChair: Jenny Anne KopperaCurrent EMU Drama and Theatre for the Young students, alumni, and faculty
Join Eastern Michigan University Drama and Theatre for the Young graduate students, alumni, and faculty to celebrate the life and work of Virginia Koste. Be with us to share your personal stories of Jinny and to reflect upon how her mentorship continues to flourish in abundance!Our presentation will cover Koste's multi-faceted career and her ongoing legacy in the field. The discussion following will seek to analyze the current trends involving play as it relates to drama, improvisation, theatre, social development, creativity, and more! By reflecting together on Jinny Koste's life work, we will ensure that future generations will continue to connect and intersect with her passion and vision for the field.
Thursday, July 28, 6:00pm-7:00pmRenaissance Ballroom BMusic Theatre International Information Session
Join one of our conference sponsors, Music Theatre International, for an informational session.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTThursday, July 28, 7:30pm-8:45pm
Grand BallroomReflecting Identity through Storytelling
Please see the following page for a full description.
ALL CONFERENCE EVENT
Reflecting Identity through StorytellingThursday, July 28, 7:30pm-8:45pm, Grand Ballroom
Join Chicago-based storytellers Anne Shimojima, Donna Washington, and Crom Saunders for an evening of folktales, personal narratives, and other stories about identity. Stay after the stories to be a part of a community discussion about how our own stories and identities affect the work we do with young people. This event was co-conceived by the Multiculturalism and Diversity Forum.
Crom Saunders is very passionate about his performing! In addition to several appearances in full productions, and performing with the ASL Comedy Tour circuit, Crom has his own one-man show, “Cromania!”, which tours nationwide, featuring skits incorporating over 40 different characters, comedy, improv, and storytelling. Crom also co-founded ICEWORM in 2000, a nationally touring troupe which featured improv and sketch comedy. He recently completed his fifth directing job- an ASL production of the musical, “The Wiz,” after having directed four other plays, two of which Crom wrote himself. Crom has also been gaining recognition online with his Clogs, his unique vlogs which have been viewed by thousands of people on YouTube and Facebook. Crom also has interpreted dozens of plays, from children’s theatre to musicals and has taught dozens of ASL linguistics and theatrical workshops across the nation. He currently teaches at the ITP program featured at Columbia College, Chicago, and is working on launching a nationally touring ASL Improv Troupe, known as “Interpreter’s Nightmare.” You can check out some of his work on http://cromsaunders.tripod.com or search “Crom Clog” on YouTube.
Anne Shimojima has delighted youth and adult audiences of all sizes with her graceful and spirited tellings of folktales from her Asian heritage and around the world. Her thirty-plus years as a school library media specialist have given her a rich knowledge of story and a keen ear for performance. Anne has also taught graduate courses in storytelling and for seven years was on the Board of Directors of the Wild Onion Storytelling Celebration in Chicago. To find out more visit her at www.anneshimojima.com.
Donna L. Washington is an author and award-winning storyteller & multicultural folklorist who has been sharing stories with audiences for over twenty years. Her amazing vocal pyrotechnics and dynamic physicality make her stories come alive and enthrall and delight audiences from four to one hundred and four. She has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival and numerous festivals, schools & libraries across the country. Donna has seven multiple-award winning CDs. She is an accomplished author of four children's books with her next one due in 2012. Donna presents a wide range of tales from many different cultures. Korean Stories, Greek and Celtic myths, African folk tales, Arthurian Legends, English lore, American folk heroes, Halloween stories, holiday stories and a mixture of many other things! She also has a wide range of additional tales including personal narratives and stories of her own creation. She spends her days roaming the county performing for schools, libraries, festivals & special events as well as doing workshops for librarians and educators and anyone else who will listen to her. She lives in Durham, NC with her husband Dave, son Devin, daughter Darith & two cats. To find out more, visit her at www.DonnaWashington.com. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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AATE Conference Scholarship Fund
This year, the AATE Conference Scholarship Fund benefited Crawling With Monsters, a group of seventeen theatre artists and students from the University of Texas – Pan American. Originally founded as a touring, bilingual children’s theatre troupe, these students became alarmed and disturbed by the recent mass killings, kidnappings, displays of tortured and mutilated bodies, decapitations, and more in Northeastern Mexico. Last year, they transformed into a different type of theatre company in an effort to respond to the violence and intimidation in our community. Their work addresses the effects of the regional violence on children, their parents and their teachers. Most of the script is comprised of transcripts from interviews with people in Reynosa. They and their sources remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, and have not risked performing the play in South Texas or Mexico.
Please join us in honoring the recipients of the 2011 AATE Conference Scholarship Fund at the AATE Awards Dinner Reception on Friday, July 29 at 7:30pm. Tickets may be purchased at the registration desk by Thursday at 5pm. Check out Crawling With Monsters on Friday at 9:15am in the Grand Ballroom and Saturday at 2:45 in McCormick.
AATE wishes to thank the following contributors to the 2011 AATE Conference Scholarship Fund:
Sarah AndaloroStacey ArdeleanSandy AsherSteven L. BarkerJane BonbrightDrew BowenLucy BrysonJennifer ChapmanKirsty and Rives CollinsRosalie ContinoJennifer DiBella
Kristen EvansDaryl Farrington WalkerAminisha FerdinandMelba FeyRosalind FlynnPam FreedyJoseph FurnariJo Beth GonzalezTheresa GrywalskiRosana Gutierrez-RiosHenry Hamilton
Jesse HawkesBob and Jeanne HopsonRachel JamiesonColeman JenningsBarbara JohnsonLynne KingsleyCher LastonAmy Lee EllowitzMary Alicia McRaeKateri McRae
Talleri McRaePatti MeyersCarole MillerGina & Gary MinyardWilliam C. MitchellDiane N.Karina NaumerKelly PrestelJerry ProffitBetsy QuinnJudith Rethwisch
Joseph RobinetteDan RosenthalAlicia SandersJuliana SaxtonRoxanne Schroeder- ArceRobert & Melissa SchultzGayle SergelNick SheridanDonna Stone
Anne ThurmanDiana TorresManon van de WaterDaryl WalkerXanthia WalkerEric WileyPatricia Zimmer
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTThursday, July 28, 10:30pm-12:00am
Grand BallroomPlaywrights Slam
Come one, come all to the Annual Playwrights Slam! In this tradition emceed by "the Queen of the Slam," Sandy Asher, a dozen or more playwrights will read five-minute excerpts of their own new plays. A great opportunity to sample scripts and hear what your colleagues have been working on (as well as their character voices!). Handouts and time to schmooze included.
ALL CONFERENCE EVENTThursday, July 28, 9:00pm-10:15pm
Renaissance BallroomNew Guard Wine and Cheese Reception
Whether you are brand new to AATE or a seasoned pro, attendees are invited to mix and mingle at the New Guard Reception. Meet new people with speed friending and reflect on your experiences with your new pals. New this year, AATE is excited to announce its new
Mentorship Program. Come out to learn more about the program, and to make new friends!
Detailed Schedule - Friday, July 29Friday, July 29, 7:00am-8:00amGrand BallroomMorning Reflection for Mind and Body
Wake up your body and mind during morning reflection with a variety of gentle stretching exercises. Prepare yourself for the day through informal guided meditation on your personal goals for each day.
Friday, July 29, 9:15am-9:30amGrand BallroomMorning Announcements featuring Barrel of Monkeys (BOM)
Come and start your day with All-Conference Announcements, brought to you by Barrel of Monkeys! A highlight of Chicago’s vibrant theatre scene, BOM is an arts education theater ensemble that works with elementary-aged students in Chicago. BOM teaches fundamental creative writing skills; provides a safe and supportive learning environment; builds self-esteem and confidence in children, and adapts stories written by children for the stage performed professional actors. BOM travels to schools presenting smart, funny theatre experiences—and throughout the conference’s morning announcements, they are going to share some of their favorite songs and sketches with you!
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ALL-CONFERENCE EVENTFriday, July 29, 8:00am-9:15am
Grand BallroomNetwork Breakfast Meetings
The AATE Networks offer opportunities for drama and theatre specialists not only to network within their areas of expertise, but also to reach out to other specialists for potentials cross-collaboration. Members are encouraged to join one or more networks that addresses their needs, and investigate multiple networks that span several areas of interest. AATE Networks foster the exchange, development, and implementation of ideas throughout the year, providing professional development, advocacy, and other tools within and across both theatre and education. During these in-person network meetings, members discuss current news and developments related to the network, create and propose network projects, and encourage networking among members.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amOld TownBuild More Than a Ramp: The Art of Accessibility in American TheatreChair: Kristen Link Mary ElizaBeth Peters
Over 50 million Americans self-identify as disabled - making Americans with disabilities the largest minority group in the country. Theatres struggle to address revised standards from the ADA, and wrestle with the question of Accessibility. We will explore and challenge the meaning of Accessibility: How can we create a more inclusive theatre for people with disabilities? How does Accessibility affect drama education? Kristen Link (City Theatre Company) and Mary ElizaBeth Peters (Wheelock Family Theatre) will lead attendees through a practical and philosophical session, discussing the implementation of successful Access initiatives at model theatres.We aim to broaden our view of Accessibility. Attendees will be challenged to evaluate their own preconceptions, and will leave with concrete strategies to make theatre arts education more universally accessible. http://accessibletheatre.org
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amGold CoastChanging the Way We ThinkChair: Jennifer Little
Public school curriculum can do more than teach students "theatre skills." We can expand our curriculum to encourage students to challenge their knowledge of the world, history, politics, math and science through the arts by collaborating with academic teachers; using applied theatre techniques and pushing students to explore other
points of view. This workshop will explore what our award-winning program has accomplished to date, along with exploring what other possibilities are available to theatre educators working with public and private elementary and secondary schools. In these times of economic cuts and needing to justify the arts existence in school curriculum, this collaboration helps everyone - the students, the arts, the administration and the academics. A powerful tool that inspires young people to get up and get involved.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amPrinter's RowCommunity-Based Programming and Youth Development at Arizona State UniversityChair: Stephani Etheridge WoodsonPresenters: Stephani Etheridge WoodsonKathleen ArcovioSarah SullivanBrianna Stapleton WelchAimee ReidRachel Hamilton
The child drama program at Arizona State University (ASU) has been investing time and resources into community-based programming. Over time we have begun to identify best practices in order to both provide robust and challenging education and training in the practice of engaged theatre, teaching artistry and positive youth development and to develop ethical partnerships with communities. In this session, ASU faculty and students present our organic model and talk through the challenges, mistakes and knowledges we have gained in experiential learning and community engagement.
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Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amGrand BallroomCrawling With Monsters: A Theatrical Testimony from the war zone from the Mexico-Texas BorderChair: Joseph FurnariPresenters: Eric WileyCrawling With Monsters
Twelve actors and musicians present stories of children and theatre from the war zone on the Mexico-Texas Border. Students at the University of Texas Pan-American were working on a children's play to be performed in the US and Mexico when they were told because of the violence in Reynosa, Tampaulipus, Mexico they would not be able to travel there. Their response was to create a play that tells a gripping story, that many people do not want to be told, of what is happening in Reynosa. Secretly-recorded testimonials and messages to the outside world are delivered in English and in Spanish with subtitles. Do we as artists have a moral responsibility to tell stories of social injustice?Can theatre truly effect social change?
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amRenaissance Ballroom DDirecting the High School Musical: Five Acting Techniques that WorkChair: Joshua Streeter
Sometimes the mark of a successful high school show is that students have memorized all their lines, but what are we teaching students about the craft? This workshop will give high school theatre directors practical tools that will transform their rehearsals into acting studios. Creating a character and working collaboratively is the focus of this workshop. There are many simple and easy ways to help high school students do this within the context of a musical or play. This workshop is designed to add tools to your tool box and is appropriate for any secondary educator or youth theatre director.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amWackerExploring A Raisin in the Sun with English Language Learners: Scaffolding Speaking Skills and Engagement with TextChair: Andrea DishyPresenters: Kati KoernerKarina Naumer
In this session, we will highlight the current work of Lincoln Center Theater's Learning English and Drama (LEAD) Project in New York City. LEAD is a collaborative, in-class theater residency that pairs an LCT teaching artist and a teacher of English Language Learners (ELLs). The program brings theater techniques into the classroom to bolster student confidence and skill in speaking English, as well as to provide students with a concrete understanding of key literary concepts. LEAD partners choose a piece of literature as the basis for residency work, building toward an informal culminating presentation in the classroom. We will frame this workshop by getting an overview of participants' prior experience and best practices working with ELLs. We will provide a snapshot of the LCT model, offer a basic understanding of the categories of English language proficiency, and will convey our perspective on well scaffolded instruction for ELLs via hands-on
activities drawn from a unit exploring A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The demonstration will be the basis for further reflection on the demands and challenges of scaffolding arts-integrated experiences for ELLs.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amMichiganFaith, Spirituality and Religion in Theatre For and With YouthChair:Jo Beth GonzalezPresenters:Christina MarinMatt OmastaGustave WeltsikJo Beth Gonzalez
The presenters of this session argue that spirituality is an essential aspect of the creative spirit. In secular settings where theatre is practiced with youth, discussions of spirituality, and by extension religion, are often skirted to avoid possible repurcussions from administrators, parents, colleagues and community members. This proposal focuses on the roles of spirituality, faith and religion in drama classrooms, play rehearsals, and theatre productions with and for youth. An introduction to the workshop's themes will include engagement with the "14 stages of Mindfulness Training" as developed by Thich Nhat Hanh. This will be followed by an on-our-feet exploration of his book for young people Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being. Discussion among the particiants will comprise the culminating phase.
Frday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amBucktown AHidden TreasuresChair: Drew ChappellKelby Siddons
"Hidden Treasures" will present readings of plays that have great merit, but are not produced regularly due to content or casting issues AND/OR were done regularly at one point, but now have fallen off the current TYA "repertory radar." Two well known as well as up and coming playwrights will be asked to select two plays/musicals each they would like to highlight. Excerpts will then be shared as well as production/award history. This will be followed by a short discussion of the plays concerning obstacles to presenting these shows and how can they be dealt with, including success stories from attendees who have tackled issues like these.
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Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amLaSalleKnow Thyself: Social Identity, Personality, and Perspective Through DramaChair: Jennifer KatonaPresenters: Steven BeckinghamJessica DiCarloKeeshon MorrowHollie Rosenberg
This will be a presentation based on four different case studies conducted through research as part of the Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at the City College of New York. The individual case studies explore Identity formation through Shakespeare, playwrighting, devised theatre, and academic and professional casting experiences. Along with discussions about study findings and processes, the presentation(s) will be supplemented with video footage and ethnodrama of the researchers’ experiences.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amBridgeportLiteracy in Action: Integrating Theatre & Language ArtsChair: Elana Lagerquist
This interactive workshop will demonstrate the use of dramatic tools to build early literacy skills. Through practical, hands-on activities, participants will learn to integrate dramatic games into the language arts curricula with a focus on oral language development, word work, reading comprehension, and writing. We will work from a grade-level text to bring narrative story elements to life in a holistic way to deepen literacy skills. The participants will be taken through a progressive structure that includes pre-reading activities to engage students, dramatic approaches to presenting a new text, and follow-up experiences to deepen the understanding of a narrative piece of literature. Within the session, research and resources will be presented to advocate for the integration of the theatre arts into every language arts classroom.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amDearbornNew Boots for the WinterChair: Juliana SaxtonPresenters: Carole MillerJuliana Saxton
In this interactive workshop, we will explore the difference between needs and wants by walking in the shoes of a little boy who learns about that difference first hand. Those Shoes serves as a structure in which we examine, through multiple theatrical languages, how stories shape us, our families and our friends.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amRenaissance Ballroom AReflections on Bullying and InterventionChair: Taren Hastings
Due to the rise in suicides as a result of bullying, this workshop is designed to encourage reflection on how teachers and administrators currently address bullying and how we can implement new strategies to discourage a culture of hate in our schools and communities. The workshop is based on applied theatre techniques to allow group exploration and practice. Participants are encouraged to share their discoveries and some of the activities from the workshop with their students in an effort to begin a dialogue in a safe space.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amRenaissance Ballroom BTheater as a Martial Art: Presence and Creativity in Transforming ConflictChair: Jiwon Chung
This workshop will demonstrate exercises from Theatre of the Oppressed and the Martial Arts to depict, explore, contain and transform conflict, including physical and psychological/emotional violence. This workshop is for those who work in conflict resolution, with traumatized populations, or who encounter violence enacted or expressed in forum theater or in the classroom. The workshop will enrich, extend, support, and compliment the work and techniques of the actor through the martial arts, expanding the physical, emotional and energetic range, presence, and tactics of the performer. We will demonstrate how this creative exploration gives an embodied understanding of how to transform violent conflict, both metaphorical and actual, allowing an integrated expression of courage, presence, energy and insight in the expression and transformation of the human condition.
Friday, July 29, 9:30am-11:00amCuisinesYouth Theatre Network: Games Exchange X: Part IChair: David MarkeyWendy MaplesPresenters: Youth Theatre Network
We're back!! Join us for a hands-on exchange of dynamic and purposeful games and exercises for those working in the field of Youth Theatre. The goal of the exchange is to help identify and share games and exercises for building foundational theatre skills (e.g. ensemble, trust, risk-taking, active listening etc...) and an understanding of the processes of theatre (e.g. character creation, sequencing, objective/obstacle, etc.). Participants receive packets with detailed games for rehearsal and for class.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTFriday, July 29, 11:00am-1:00pm
Grand BallroomReflections by Region
Take time to connect with other AATE members in your geographic region. Use this casual meeting time to discuss how thoughts and ideas you gather throughout conference could be implemented at a local level.
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Thursday, July 28
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T1 9:30am-10:45am
T2 11:00am-12:15pm
T32:45pm-4:00pm
T44:15pm-5:45pm
T56:00pm-7:00pm
Bridgeport
Bucktown A
Bucktown B
Cuisines
Dearborn
Gold Coast
Grand Ballroom
LaSalle
Michigan
Old Town
Printer’s Row
Renaissance
Ballroom A
Renaissance
Ballroom B
Renaissance
Ballroom C
Renaissance
Ballroom D
Wacker
The Humanizing
Language of the ArtsACTivate Assessing the Arts Research Awards Presentations Research Awards Presentations
Dramatic ViewpointsFar Beyond the
Classroom Walls
Making Waves in
Critical Literacy
Sensory Theatre (or
Theatre for More)
Make It or Break It Can We Talk? Latino TYA PlaysCognition Research
& Applied Theatre
Workshop B: Albany Park Theater Project
(morning)
Workshop B: Albany Park Theater Project
(morning)
Workshop B: Albany Park Theater Project
(afternoon)
Workshop B: Albany Park Theater Project
(afternoon)
Other People’s
StoriesChild’s Play
Writing Dramatic
Action
Workshop A: RedmoonWorkshop A: Redmoon Calling All Directors!Research/
Publications Meeting
Reflections on the Ware TrilogyReflections on the Ware TrilogyShakespeare High Screening and
Reflections
Shakespeare High Screening and
Reflections
Purposeful Planning/
Rigorous Reflection
Speaking Aloud the
Silenced Story
Deep Dramatic
CurrentsUnpack Yourself
Process and
PerformanceImprobable Players
Inclusion in the Theatre
Arts Classroom
Building a Diverse
Theatre Curriculum
Teaching with, about,
in & through the arts
Our Different Stories Revision ReflectionsParticipant
Perspectives
Applied Theatre
Network MeetingEarly Bridges Students in Masks
Why is There More
Drama
EMU’s Celebration of
Virginia Koste
Let the 74th Hunger
Games BeginDifferentiated Drama
Cooperative Theatre
Classroom
Every Idea is a Good
Idea
MTI Informational
Session
Here Comes Gosling!Whose Reflection
Counts?
Unmasking the
MetaphorEmpowHER Yourself
Student Educational
Theatre InternshipsThe Power of Theatre
Mosaic Model for
Youth Development
A Journey Through Early Childhood Dramatic
Activities
Conversation with
the Doyle Fellows
Assessing Classroom
Theatre Performances
Professional Theatre
Debut PanelIt’s Brave to Fail
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Friday, July 29
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F19:30am-11:00am
F21:30pm-2:30pm
F32:45pm-3:45pm
F44:00pm-5:00pm
Bridgeport
Bucktown A
Bucktown B
Cuisines
Dearborn
Gold Coast
Grand Ballroom
LaSalle
Michigan
Old Town
Printer’s Row
Renaissance Ballroom A
Renaissance Ballroom B
Renaissance Ballroom C
Renaissance Ballroom D
Wacker
Literacy in Action Engaging Urban Youth I Made Myself Reflective Assessment
Hidden Treasures A Hidden Curriculum within Theatre Ed.
Teaching Historical Context
4th Grade Reflections on Empowerment
“What Does it Mean to be Human?”
The Pakistan Project High School Network Debut Panel
Games Exchange, Part 1
New Boots for the Winter Complicated Business Casting a Wider Net Recession Proofing for Arts’ Sake
Changing the Way We Think
Conversation w/ Corey Medallion RecipientsConversation w/ Corey Medallion Recipients Reimagining Arts Integration
Crawling With Monsters Every Idea is a Good Idea
Know Thyself Theatre Artist/Teaching Artist
International Network Debut Panel
College/University/Research Debut Panel
Faith, Spirituality & Religion in Theatre for
and with YouthWorkshop C: Karen HallWorkshop C: Karen Hall
Build More Than a Ramp Wanted: HIgh School Drama Teacher
Playwriting Network Debut Panel
Community-Based Programming & Youth
Development
Capturing the Faculty Voice
An Adaptive Theater 2nd Folio
Reflections on Bullying & Intervention
Reawakening the Poetic SpiritReawakening the Poetic Spirit What is PTO?
Theater as a Martial ArtProductive Discomfort in Teaching and Research
Discovering the Power of the Written Word
Arts Integration in the Classroom
Language to Life Reflections on the Field
Directing the High School Musical
Going Beyond the Show Active Dramaturgy
Exploring a Raisin in the Sun
InsideOUT: Digital Story-telling with LGBTQ Youth
And That’s a Blue Day Why Doesn’t Rapunzel ask the Prince...
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Saturday, July 30 Renaissance Hotel
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S19:15am-10:30am
S210:45am-12:00pm
Bridgeport
Bucktown A
Bucktown B
Dearborn
Gold Coast
LaSalle
Michigan
Old Town
Printer’s Row
Renaissance Ballroom B
Renaissance Ballroom C
Wacker
Xernona and Grand Dragon X Intersections of IPAY and AATE
Video Game Avatars New Guard Network Debut Panel
Working from Inside and from Outside the
StudentTheatre History for Middle School
Safe Theatre Project From Devising to Map-Making
Reflecting on the Past, Creating in the
PresentThe Right to Play
5 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back Adapting Plays for Young Audiences
Beyond Bueller Calling all Education Directors!
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Things We’re Not Supposed to Talk About
Drama/Theatre as Recursive Research
MediumPerforming the Margins
Collateral Bodies REALITY Theatre: A Walk in our Shoes
Educating, Empowering, Liberating Theater at the Core
Workshop D: Lenora Inez BrownWorkshop D: Lenora Inez Brown
Concurrent Sessions at a Glance - Saturday, July 30 Northwestern University
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S32:45pm-4:00pm
S44:15pm-5:30pm
1851
Annie May Swift
Arch
Armadillo
Big Ten
Chicago
Evans
Lake
Louis
McCormick
Northwestern B
Rock
Scholars
Wildcat A
Wildcat B
Evanston District 65 Drama Classes DIS/Ability and Drama
The Road to Ware
Best Practices: Teachers’ Embodied
Practice‘Pre’ Preservice Teacher Education
Demystifying Negative PerceptionsAATE Conferences: Deconstruct/
Reconstruct
Unmasking the Metaphor Our Haven: Site Specific Devising
#Tweatre: Harnessing the Power of Twitter
Put on a Safe Face Mommy, Why are the Stepsisters Boys?
Planning a Network Advance Games Exchange, Part 2
Engaging High School Audiences The Bully Menace and Applied Theatre
Crawling with Monsters (Encore)
Chalk and Mirrors Beyond Elementary
What’s Really Working We’re Still Here: A Model Drama Session
Igniting Young Voices Collaborating with Young Writers
Process of Developing New Theatre for
Young Audiences Graffiti Project
Beyond Story DramaBridging Multi-Language Communication
Gaps
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AUTHOR SIGNING FOR APPLIED THEATRE
Friday, July 29 12:00 - 2:00 pm with Juliana Saxton
Applied Theatre International Case Studies
and Challenges for PracticeEdited by Monica Prendergast
and Juliana Saxton
ISBN 9781841502816Paperback | $35 $28
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-3:45pmGold CoastA Conversation of Corey Medallion RecipientsChair: Dorothy WebbPresenters: Gloria Bond ClunieRob GoodmanColeman A. Jennings
Provides an opportunity for a dialogue with these special guests and especially for those who may be unable to attend the CTFA Luncheon.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmBucktown AA Look at the Hidden Curriculum within Theatre Education.Chair: Angela R. Hines
A preliminary comparative study was conducted prior to dissertation development, during fall 2010 at Arizona State University. The demographic information of the Drama teachers was compared and charted to the demographic information of their school. Additionally, current play production playwright's ethnicity was also charted alongside the information of the teacher and the school's population. First, to determine if there were signs of possible areas of hidden curriculum, both covert and overt, and secondly, to determine if the findings were relevant to possible areas of hidden curriculum within Drama education. Critical feminist theory provides a framework for
understanding through bell hooks’ (1994) sociocultural lens, and helps understand possible areas for dominant hegemonic discourse, while Patricia Hill Collins’ (1990) intersectionality lens helps complicate the problem further.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmRenaissance Ballroom CArts Integration in the Classroom through "Drama Frames", a Professional Development ModelChair: Jenny GoodfellowPresenters: Patricia BlackKorbi Adams
By strengthening integrated arts instruction and the ability for teachers to create integrated lesson plans that meet state and national standards, the use of drama standards in the classroom creates a scaffolding approach to learning that ensures student learning success. In this spirit, Childsplay shares the model that was developed through a US Department of Education "Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination" grant and how it translates to Arizona classroom teachers and teaching artists at Children's Theatre of Charlotte. This interactive session explores the potential for arts integration in the classroom and its success in the community.An instructional manual on the Drama Frames Professional Development Model will be distributed to workshop participants.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmPrinter’s RowCapturing the Faculty Voice: Creating theatre for faculty development and enrichmentChair: Jessica 'Decky' AlexanderPresenters: Tommy SimonDiviin HuffTae Yoo
Silenced or less addressed in many applied and educational theatre productions is the voice of the faculty and their experiences both in the academy and in the classroom. This session will showcase several theatre pieces developed by faculty and for faculty audiences through Eastern Michigan University's C2, a collective of faculty and students who address issues of teaching and learning through the creation of original theatre. The selected pieces capture an array of faculty successes and struggles including: issues of balance, classroom accommodation, cultural marginalization, gender inequity, and professional insecurity. A discussion on how theatre can be used as tool for faculty development will springboard the session. An exercise on how to generate authentic theatrical material from faculty experiences will close out the session.
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THE 2011 COREY MEDALLION EVENT
will be held at
PETTERINO’S150 N. Dearborn Street, Downtown Chicago
(2 blocks from the conference hotel)Friday, July 29, 2011, 11:45 am-1:30 pm
Orlin Corey Medallions will be awarded to:• Rob Goodman, founder of First Stage Children’s Theatre in Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin’s premier professional theatre for young people and families, about to celebrate its 25th year.
• Gloria Bond Clunie, Chicago-based award-winning playwright and drama specialist in Evanston’s District 65.
• Coleman A. Jennings, professor, administrator, director, playwright, author, producer and eminent leader in Theatre for Young Audiences.
On-Site Tickets may be purchased at the Dramatic Publishing exhibit table in the Grand Ballroom.
Ticket Prices:AATE Members - $50
Students - $30Patrons - $80 Others - $60
YOU SAID: You needed free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.
WE HEARD: We followed in the footsteps of the San Francisco Committee and provided computers in the main meeting room on the second floor on Thursday and Friday. In addition, any guests staying the Downtown Renais-sance Chicago Hotel have free wi-fi in their hotel rooms.
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Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmDearbornComplicated Business: Theatre for Dialogue in the Business School SettingChair: Katie DawsonPresenters: Lynn Hoare
How can theatre strategies be used to create moments of dialogue in business education? What are the ethical challenges of choosing to work in a business environment? What questions does an applied practitioner need to ask when developing an interactive theatre presentation for MBA students? This session interrogates the Career Services Theatre for Dialogue program, a partnership between the McCombs School of Business Career Services office and theatre faculty/staff at the University of Texas at Austin. During this interactive session, participants will explore business school content through a theatre for dialogue program development session. We will identify key learning theories that support applied practice in business settings and discuss plans for future research studies on this topic.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmBridgeportEngaging Urban YouthChair:Michele Miller
Engaging Urban Youth in Theatre will examine tools used in teaching theatre to urban high school students and how theatre strengthens communication, imagination, and problem solving skills. The workshop will explore two activities in improvisation and scripted work that allow students to be the critical investigator. In the first activity, facilitator will ask participants to portray good and bad job interviews. Facilitator will demonstrate the activity by having the participants choose aspects of a good and bad boss and interviewee. Volunteers will portray one an interview scenario using those character aspects. Facilitator will then have participants partner off and create two small improvised scenes that depict a good and bad interview. Facilitator will reflect with participants on how this is useful in an urban high school setting and how it explores why theatre skills are important for high school students to learn. The second activity will allow the participants to read and act out two scenes written by students at Emily Fisher Charter High School in Trenton, NJ. This activity will illustrate how students can learn how to develop plot and character through their own experiences, strengthening their communication and problem solving skills. As a closing activity facilitator will show a video clip of a dramatic scene created and performed by students at EFCS, evidence of how Friere’s idea of teachers being the listener as well as the educator, promotes cognitive growth.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmGrand BallroomEvery Idea is a Good idea (Part Two): Adaptation for Performance with Barrel of MonkeysChair:Luke HattonElizabeth LevyPresenters:Rani WatermanTom Malinowski
In Part Two, participants will be introduced to the company's fast-paced rehearsal and adaptation process. After a brief introduction and warm up, we will read aloud the pieces generated in Part One, as well as some choice stories created in our actual workshops with children. Participants will then decide which piece or pieces they would like to adapt for performance. Each adaptation group will be guided by a member of BOM through our collaborative process of preparing child authored (or, perhaps, adult authored) material for performance. We will rehearse the pieces a couple times, dive into the signature BOM bins of props and costumes, and then present our work to the group. There will be 5-10 minutes at the end for reflection/discussion. While participants are encourage to attend Part One of the workshop (Friday, July 29 1:30-2:30pm), it is not required to participate in Part Two.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmWackerInsideOUT: Digital Storytelling with LGBTQ YouthChair: Anne McNamee
This interactive paper presentation and workshop will explore the concepts of visibility and authenticity as they relate to the planning and implementation of the InsideOUT digital storytelling workshop. The session will include excerpts from a paper critically positioning the work of Inside Out within a broader context of applied theatre, media studies, and queer theory, exploring how both applied theatre within a designated safe space and digital social media can serve as effective mediums of authentic communication and autobiographical performance for LGBTQ young people. Additionally, participants will be invited to get a glimpse of the process and product of InsideOUT by engaging in interactive applied theatre exercises and viewing InsideOUT participants' digital stories. Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in planning and implementing self-representation projects geared toward LGBTQ youth.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-3:45pmRenaissance Ballroom AReawakening the Poetic Spirit: While Intellect Seeks To Control The World, The Poetic Spirit Bows With Reverence Before Its Mysteries. Now More Than Ever We Must All Be Poets.Chair: Kate Randolph BurnsPresenters: Kate Randolph BurnsJamie Silver
In Part One, participants are presented with an essay written by Daisaku Ikeda, Educator & Philosopher, defining the poetic spirit & humanity's need for its reemergence. The ideas of Daniel Pink (A Whole New Mind) are introduced. Session presenter, Jamie Silver, invites participants to reflect on these ideas. Part Two is a 40-minute performance (by Kate Randolph Burns) from William Luce's play The Belle of Amherst, based on the life & poetry of Emily Dickinson. Emily herself discusses with the audience the difference between "having the facts" and finding the "light within." She then demonstrates that it is the poet that recognizes within each person a "unique & irreplaceable humanity." Having experienced viscerally the essence of the session's topic, participants are then led in a dynamic dialogue & concrete exercises (Part Three) centering on the ideas of the central theme: reawakening the poetic spirit.
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Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmLaSalleTheatre Artist/Teaching Artist: A Model for Relevance in the 21st CenturyChair: Susan J. Rotkovitz and Steven J. SattaPresenters: Susan J. RotkovitzSteven J. Satta
For Theatre to be perceived as more than a luxury or part of the entertainment marketplace, for the art to be relevant in the 21st Century, we artists must make ourselves a necessity by working within our communities. Theatre artists must be Teaching Artists (TAs). Recognizing this, Towson University's Theatre Department created Towson Theatre Infusion, a program in which undergraduate Theatre majors become vibrant TAs through pedagogy and practice. The training reflects a variety of school curricula and national standards; teaching in area high schools; and linking lessons to a production. By sharing experiences, including the need for such a program, its design, results, and outreach to the greater community, we wish to stimulate discussion in order to advance our work, both pedagogically and structurally.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmOld TownWanted: High School Drama Director - Must Know How To Design Lights, Set, Sound, Costumes, Props, Blocking - Carpentry - Budgeting - Publicity - Electricity - All While Keeping Your Sanity.Chair: Colleen Cartwright
As a high school teacher, I wear many hats. I am expected to pick three shows a year and put on a performance for each. I find myself staying after school every day from September through April. In each show, utilizing and teaching my theatre students, I am expected to design and construct a set, lights, sound, costumes, props, make-up, special effects, and lead a management team in publicity, house and stage management, as well as budgeting and raising funds for supplies for each show, on top of actually directing it. I came into this position as a performer, not a technician, designer, or director. As a performer, I knew a little bit about a lot of things. As a theatre teacher, I am expected to know a lot about a lot of things. I know I am not alone in my struggle.
Friday, July 29, 1:30pm-2:30pmBucktown B"What Does It Mean to be Human?": A Process Drama with Third GradersChair: Selena Burns
In this session we will discuss preliminary results of a research project investigating how third graders explore the question "What does it mean to be human?" through a process drama that takes place in a magical town where human-like creatures such as vampires, werewolves and cyborgs exist. We will engage in select activities from the drama while analyzing which in-role and out-of-role activities allowed some students to recognize that defining characteristics of "being human" were sometimes changeable or ambiguous rather than black and white. We will also discuss how emotional attachment to role impacts students' connection to the concept of "human" rights, and
collectively design a potential follow-up drama that further explores the question of what human rights are and who should have them.
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The Cooperative Theatre Classroom with ITA Drama Specialist Karen HallPresented in partnership with the Illinois Theatre AssociationPaid WorkshopFriday, July 29, 2:15-5:15 pmMichigan
Participants of this workshop will watch a teaching demonstration with a diverse group of high school students from Maine East High School, debrief what was seen, and talk about the Johnson & Johnson method of Cooperative Learning. Through observation and discsussion, teachers will be able to take away practical strategies for their own classrooms to enhance student learning including lesson plans, critiquing strategies, and rehearsal strategies that use informal and formal cooperative learning strategies. At its heart, Cooperative Learning is about creating inclusion-- taking groups of people and bringing them together to enhance their personal learning. The more practical educational tools we have in our arsenal, the more effective our teaching will be and the stronger artists our students will be.
Karen Hall has been a high school theatre teacher and director for the past 21 years. Currently she teaches speech and drama at Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. In 2008, moti-vated by the success she was having implementing Cooperative Learning in her classroom; Karen became certified as a Johnson & Johnson Cooperative Learning Trainer and now leads training sessions for her colleagues. Karen holds a BFA in Musical Thea-tre from Syracuse University and an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College. In 2010 she was elected a Secondary Education Representative to the Illinois Theatre Association.
Friday, July 29, 2:00pm-3:30pm Off-SiteChicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise(pre-registration required)
Marvel at Chicago’s soaring towers on this 90-minute river cruise, narrated by a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent. This tour spotlights more than 50 significant sites and provides a whole new perspective on the city. The cruise departs just steps from the Conference, at Michigan Ave and Wacker Drive. (Approximately 1.5 blocks from the Renaissance Chicago Ho-tel’s main entrance).
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmPrinter’s RowAn Adaptive Theater: Creating Accessible Theater Experiences for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Chair: Marielle Duke
This session will examine the social, emotional, and behavioral differences of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the effect it may have on their experience of viewing and participating in theater. We will explore ways of adapting theater pieces and the performance space itself to create a more inviting and accessible production for audiences with Autism and sensory processing disorders. We will also look at how to create an effective theater residency program in a classroom of students with Autism.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmWackerAnd That's a Blue DayChair: Karen L. EricksonPresenters: Edward L. EricksonBeth Bowman
Essential, guiding, and reflection questions are important components of drama instruction. This session explores the role of questions in teaching and learning first through participants experiencing a lesson, "And That's a Blue Day" on the role emotions play in story and life and then through reflection and discussion about the value, type, and importance of questions used in the lesson to guide and shape the habits of mind and dramatic work of students.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmDearbornCasting a Wider Net: Discussing Race and Gender Representation in Educational TheatreChair: Amissa MillerPresenters: Amissa MillerSara Simons
This session will be a moderated discussion with participants on issues of race and gender representation onstage in an educational theatre setting. We will consider ideas of non-traditional casting, color-blind versus color-aware casting, overcoming barriers to representation, and strategies for changing the face of a theatre program. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences and generate their own questions for discussion. This session will consider the director's role in balancing education with aesthetics and how this role impacts the show selection and casting process. This session will also focus on how teachers, professors, and theatre professionals can meet our responsibilities as educators as we consider the race and gender implications of casting decisions.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmRenaissance Ballroom DGoing Beyond the Show: Building Education Programs to Enhance Your ProductionChair: Jenny Kostreva
Getting students in the door of the theatre is a goal we all have. This session will explore how to enhance the field trip experience for schools, making theater vital to the younger generation. How can we create programming that will keep the students wanting to come back for more? How do we best connect our productions to the school curriculum and give the opportunity for schools to get the most out of their experience? Bring examples of your own programming as well as questions for discussion.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmBridgeport"I Made Myself": Playmaking, Urban Youth, and ChangeChair: Robert ColbyPresenters: Bethany Nelson
This workshop explores the effects of playmaking on the development of urban students' identity as change agents in the cultural hegemony that informs their lives and constrains their futures. The content reflects a research project conducted with urban high school students of color in a low-income community faced with a host of social and economic challenges.This workshop integrates action and reflection, inviting participants to engage in playmaking structures designed to bring together their personal orientation with broader ideas about cultural hegemony, community, and the role of collective action in fostering social change. The session will include discussion of the research and student outcomes, and participants will reflect on the role of playmaking in understanding the self in relationship to society.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmLaSalleInternational Network Debut Panel: Sharing International Experiences in the Arts with and for YouthChair: Christina MarínPresenters: Elizabeth SchildkretErica SiegalJane LeavittJen Bleir
This will serve as the International Network's first debut panel. It will feature panelists new to AATE who will share their experiences abroad working with and for youth in the arts. It is our intent for this panel to give participants an opportunity to bring their experiences to the AATE community and for the community to gain an understanding of the participants work, its value to the culture of the host nation and the lessons learned.
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Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmRenaissance Ballroom CLanguage to Life - Using English Language Arts Standards in Theatre Arts Integration ResidenciesChair:Jackie WolffPresenters:Manuel Simons
English Language Learners are the fastest growing school aged population. This workshop presents clear ways to demonstrate ESL performance indicators in theatre arts integration workshops. Presenters will guide participants through several dramatic activities used successfully in this work, able to be adapted across the curriculum. Additionally, participants will consider ways to make their own teaching practices more inclusive of new language learners by building and adapting both activities and assessment pieces.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmOld TownPlaywriting Network Debut PanelChair: Kelby SiddonsPresenters:Spring HermannAlyssa Mulligan
New voices in TYA dramatic literature and new voices to AATE will be showcased in this panel discussion of playmaking and presentation of works.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmBucktown ATeaching Historical Context?! Isn't That the Responsibility of the Social Studies Teacher?Chair: Stacy Deemar
Discussion and a power point presentation will focus on the strategies and techniques used in the elementary, middle school and/or high school drama classrooms to teach historical context that directly correlates with a story, book or play that is being studied. What are the most effective methods to teach historical context without turning our drama classes into history classes? What is considered a sufficient amount of historical context in a drama lesson? How much time should be allotted to accomplish this goal?
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmBucktown BThe Pakistan Project: A School Wide Dramatization of Greg Mortenson's Work as Described In His Book, Three Cups Of Tea, Fully Integrating The Arts Throughout The Preschool - Second Grade Curriculum.Chair: Victoria BrownPresenters: Victoria BrownElizabeth Gekas
This presentation will introduce participants to a school-wide, arts integration methodology, with drama central to the work, and will challenge practitioners to consider sophisticated topics with young children (ages 3-8). Teachers at Lucy School were interested in Greg
Mortenson's work building schools and bridging cultures in Central Asia. Dramatizing this story as related in the book Three Cups of Tea, helped build school-wide community while at the same time fostering a positive image of Central Asia. Victoria Brown, school director and Elizabeth Gekas, drama teacher, will share their orchestration of this ten-week school-wide dramatization and how each classroom teacher integrated this work across the curriculum at Lucy School: An Arts Based School and Teacher Training program in Middletown, MD. Interest in arts integration is growing across the country with arts integrated schools now appearing in most states. However many of these programs do not understand the full potential of drama as a learning medium, beyond the benefits of theatre performance work. We also hope to encourage drama specialists and university drama programs to become more active in the growing national arts integration movement.
Friday, July 29, 2:45pm-3:45pmRenaissance Ballroom BProductive Discomfort in Teaching and Research: A DiscussionChair:Dani Snyder-Young
Teachers, teaching artists, and researchers encounter moments of discomfort in which participants articulate beliefs, enact stereotypes, or put forth ideas grating against our personal values and worldviews. In these moments of discomfort, how do we respond? How can we use them to grow? This discussion will engage participants in posing problems and sharing strategies for negotiating and growing from moments of productive discomfort in the classroom and the field research site.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmPrinter’s Row2nd Folio: Re-inventing Shakespeare for the Internet GenerationChair: Dr. Paul SuttonPresenters: Dr. Paul SuttonMax Allsup
Colliding Shakespeare, Manga, trading card games and online bar code reading technologies, 2nd Folio is the latest project by UK theatre company C&T. This workshop will offer participants the chance to play the card game 2nd Folio (www.2ndfolio.net), learning how it enables young people to deconstruct the language and semiotics of Shakespeare's plays, making them accessible and relevant to the digital generation. Participants will then learn about the project's underpinning pedagogy. The session will also demonstrate the functionality of the 2nd Folio website and explore how C&T has deployed QR reader technologies for use in classrooms. The session will demonstrate the growing database of media resources and learning experiences created by young participants themselves, working alongside theatre professionals such as Pilot Theatre. This database represents a growing set of reflections on students' experiences of Shakespeare and the 2nd Folio game and a desire by young people to share their discoveries online.
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Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmBucktown A4th Grade Reflections on Empowerment Through ProductionChair: Lisa Mitchell
This school year, five New York City elementary schools embarked on their first musical theatre production through a residency with a cultural organization. The impact of the production process on students was researched and filmed; this session presents a documentary which captures student reflections, explores the effect of theatre on self-efficacy beliefs, and encourages a dialogue about the capacity of in-school performance to empower young people. The session includes an overview of the residency program on which the research was based, an exploration of the research techniques used to gather student reflection, and a discussion on the implications and applications of the work.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmLaSalleCollege/University/Research Network Debut PanelChair: Matt OmastaValerie Baugh-SchlossbergReviewers: Johnny SaldañaGustave J. Weltsek, Ph.D.Panelists:Sarah Coleman Suzanne Katz
The annual College/University/Research Network Debut Panel will include presentation of research by scholars who are new to AATE and have not presented at the conference in previous year. Presenters were selected by peer review, and presentations will be followed by comments from scholars in the field.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmRenaissance Ballroom BDiscovering the Power of the Written Word: Building up the Desire to Write while Increasing the Level of Literacy through Creative Drama and Movement TechniquesChair: Arianna Ross
From the beginning of time, writing has had the ability to influence how a person feels. Many students need support in developing a strong author's voice. Storytelling and drama can both enhance and motivate people's desire to write, build an understanding of high level vocabulary words, increase self-confidence, strengthen literacy skills, develop self-respect, create positive group dynamics, and gain an appreciation for literature. Everyone will walk away with stories to tell and ideas to share with their co-workers, collaborators or students. How can the dramatic arts be both an empowering and educational tool for both the teacher and the student to use while teaching reading and writing? How can the arts specifically storytelling, movement, and drama be integrated into our daily activities?
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmBucktown BHigh School Network Debut Panel - A Controversy By Any Other Name....Chair:
Alicia SandersPresenters:Gene R. FrankTroy CompasMichael SchwartzSteven Barker
As high school drama educators, we are compelled to challenge our students by exposing them to material that is diverse and powerful, but so many of the "classics" can also be seen as potentially controversial. How can we continue to direct powerful productions that encourage our students to push limits while balancing the challenges of appealing to a community of parents and administrators? How far is too far? A panel of educators will answer these questions and more as they reflect on their experiences with works such as The Crucible and The Laramie Project in the high school environment, sharing tips and ideas for how to approach these issues. There will also be an opportunity for a larger group discussion.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmDearbornRecession-Proofing for Arts’ Sake: Integration of Theater into the CurriculumChair: Carolyn Chryst
The session will focus on ways to deliver content using theater in economical, efficient, effective and engaging ways for learners of all abilities and mobilities. To date, more than 1200 perservice teachers have experienced the "Infusing Theater across the Curriculum" workshop. The workshop typically occurs the week before the students' 3-week participation in area classrooms. I have witnessed both dramatic and subtle shifts in perspectives of practicing teachers about using theater elements in their classrooms because of interactions with perservice teachers who have experienced the workshop. Participants would experience portions of the reflective session imbedded in the seminar designed to challenge the TC to consider how racial, SES and gender stereotypes have constructed their understanding of teaching and learning. We would also explore the need to deconstruct our visions of the character "teacher" and our scripts for what constitutes "good" teaching so we are better able to offer all our students an opportunity to learn.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmRenaissance Ballroom CReflections on the Field: Observing, Contemplating, and ImaginingChair: Janet E. RubinPresenters: David RzeszutekLaura McCammonSusan D. WoodColleen CartwrightDanielle ShoenyJanet E. Rubin
This session is designed to identify commonly acknowledged strengths and weaknesses in the field as well as to look at what is unique to each respondent's perspective. Breakout group work will include all session participants and provide further opportunities to offer observations of shared experiences, contemplate solutions to professional challenges, and imagine steps for improving practice.
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Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmBridgeportReflective AssessmentChair: Stacey Ardelean
A discussion revolving around the creation of an assessment program created and used during the 2010-2011 school year of an elementary drama curriculum using skill based rubics and reflective writing by students and teacher. Please bring any and all assessments (and questions!) used to support the validity of a formal drama curriculum for discussion.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmGold CoastReimagining Arts Integration: Using CORE Curriculum to Inform YOUR CurriculumChair: Aliza Mendelewicz
We all recognize the value of bringing the arts into the core academic classes to reinforce student learning, but in this interactive workshop, a theatre teacher from a Manhattan middle school turn arts integration on its head. We will guide you through the process of reciprocal arts integration, where the theatre curriculum is informed by the mandated core curriculum, which, in turn, is reinforced by the theatre curriculum. Try out your own ideas, share your experiences, and explore the possibilities in aligning a theatre class or residency with the work students are already doing in their academic classes.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmRenaissance Ballroom AWhat is PTO and How Could AATE Members Connect Their Work with this International Conference?Chair: Jasmin CardenasPresenters: Jasmin CardenasWilla TaylorKelly Howe
A session to offer an opportunity to discuss the Pedagogy and Theater (PTO) conference and to link the kind of work that is shared at AATE and PTO. Reflecting on how arts education can be Freirian in practice. Reflecting on work that would have been brought from other parts of the world to the PTO conference. Sharing examples of theatrical work being done around the globe that is specifically about social justice. Reflecting on the kinds of discussion the popular educators (PO) and Theater of the Oppressed (TO) practicioners may have had at the conference that could be very similar to AATE attendees. Brainstorming whether future collaborations could be made between conferences or its attendees. PTO is an annual international conference in its 17th year. Its mission is to challenge oppressive systems by promoting critical thinking and social justice. We organize an annual meeting that focuses on the work of liberatory educators, activists, and artists; and community organizers. It is founded in the idealogies and works of Paolo Freire and Augusto Boal.
Friday, July 29, 4:00pm-5:00pmWackerWhy Doesn't Rapunzel Ask the Prince for a Ladder? Researching, Playwrighting, Producing the Grimm's TalesChair:Max BushPresenters:John NewmanTeresa Lee
Why doesn't Rapunzel ask the Prince for a ladder? To begin to answer this simple question it is necessary to look into the history of the recording and adapting of the tales by the Brother's Grimm, as well as the maany psycholoical interpretations of the tales. It is also necessary that a contemporary producer address this question and others like it if they are to produce the tales with their full, authenic voice. A researcher, a playwright and a producer will examine the Rapunzel question and other questions that arrise concerning the adapting and producing for the stage of the Grimm's Tales. Along with members attending the session, the presenters will have a conversation reflecting on the long and uneven history of producing the Grimm tales on the stage.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTFriday, July 29, 5:00pm-6:00pm
Grand BallroomPassport to Prizes Exhibit Raffle and Cocktail Hour
Win wonderful prizes, including an iPad and a 2012 AATE National Conference Registration, at the Passport to Prizes Exhibit Raffle. Instructions on how to enter can be found on the back of your welcome letter in your registration packet.
ALL CONFERENCE EVENTFriday, July 29, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Grand BallroomAATE Awards Ceremony
Please see the following page for a full description.
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You are cordially invited to attend The American Alliance for Theatre and Education
2011 Awards CeremonyFriday, July 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM in the Grand Ballroom
to honor the following recipients:
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Dina Rees Evans Theatre in Our Schools Award
Jennifer M. DiBella Nicole L. Lorenzetti
Lin Wright Special
Recognition Award
Kati Koerner
Research Award
Lifelong Impact: Adult
Perceptions of Their High
School Speech and/or
Theatre Participation
Johnny Saldana Laura McCammon
Matt Omasta Angela Hines
Distinguished Dissertation
Award
"Say It How It Is": Urban
Teenage Girls Challenge and
Perpetuate Cultural
Narratives through Writing
and Performing Theatre
Dana Edell
Distinguished Thesis Award
Ten Years After: A
Qualitative Study of
Students’ Experiences in a
High School Theatre
Company
Helen Zdriluk
Distinguished Book Award
Barrier-Free Theatre: Including
Everyone in Theatre Arts--In
Schools, Recreation, and Arts
Programs--Regardless of (Dis)
Ability
Sally BaileyPublisher:
Idyll Arbor
Campton Bell Lifetime
Achievement Award
Larry O’FarrellSusan Pearson
Youth Theatre Director of the
Year Award
Barry Kornhauser Adele Ulrich
F. Loren Winship Secondary
School Theatre Award
John Muszynski
Distinguished Play Awards
Category A: The K of D
Laura SchellhardtPublisher:
Dramatic Publishing
Category B: A Best Friends Story
Sandra Fenichel Asher Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing
Category C: The Giver
Eric Coble Publisher:
Dramatic Publishing
Winifred Ward Scholar
Lisa Barker
Don and Elizabeth Doyle
Fellowship
Brianna Stapleton Welch
Doyle Fellowship Recognition
Award
Noah Adams
Lin Wright Professional Teaching
Grant
Recipient
Diana TorresNominated by
Laurie Melnik
Lin Wright Professional Teaching
Grant
Runner up
Colette Silvestri nominated by
Barry Kornhauser
Runner up
Heather Wilson nominated by
Lisa Kramer
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The Awards Ceremony does not require tickets and is free to all conference registrants. A dinner reception will follow the Awards Ceremony. Reception tickets ($5) may be purchased at the registration desk until Thursday 7/28 at 5pm.
Detailed Schedule - Saturday, July 30Saturday, July 30, 7:00am-8:00amGrand BallroomMorning Reflection for Mind and BodyWake up your body and mind during morning reflection with a variety of gentle stretching exercises. Prepare yourself for the day through informal guided meditation on your personal goals for each day.
Thursday, July 28, 9:00am-9:15amGrand BallroomMorning Announcements featuring Barrel of Monkeys (BOM)
Come and start your day with All-Conference Announcements, brought to you by Barrel of Monkeys! A highlight of Chicago’s vibrant theatre scene, BOM is an arts education theater ensemble that works with elementary-aged students in Chicago. BOM teaches fundamental creative writing skills; provides a safe and supportive learning environment; builds self-esteem and confidence in children, and adapts stories written by children for the stage performed professional actors. BOM travels to schools presenting smart, funny theatre experiences—and throughout the conference’s morning announcements, they are going to share some of their favorite songs and sketches with you!
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ALL-CONFERENCE EVENTFriday, July 29, 8:00am-9:15am
Grand BallroomNetwork Breakfast Meeting
The AATE Networks offer opportunities for drama and theatre specialists not only to network within their areas of expertise, but also to reach out to other specialists for potential cross-collaboration. Members are encouraged to join one or more networks that address their needs, and investigate multiple networks that span several areas of interest. AATE Networks foster the exchange, development, and implementation of ideas throughout the year, providing professional development, advocacy, and other tools within and across both theatre and education. During these in-person network meetings, members discuss current news and developments related to the network, create and propose network projects, and encourage networking among members.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amLaSalle5 Steps Forward, 1 Look Back: Devising Original Work With Step UP TheatreChair: Wendy MaplesPresenters: Wendy MaplesJamie Koottarappallil
Join us as we reflect on five seasons of Step UP Theatre. Jump into the creative process of this teenage youth theatre company. Teens of Step UP Theatre volunteer their time each season to create an original full-length performance, OUTreachIN' to youth in and around San Diego. All are welcome to attend this session that will include elements of performance AND process. In this session you'll become a Step UPper and create something important with very few resources. Here, we'll give you techniques to begin devising theatre with your students and help guide their writing. We invite you to "Step UP and join us!".
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amMichigan
Beyond Bueller: Improvisational Theatre Training for Secondary Classroom DiscussionChair: Lisa Barker
Through interactive exercises and large-group reflection, participants will examine the ways in which improv theatre skills overlap with the skills teachers need as they facilitate classroom discussion with and among students. Since last summer's AATE workshop, "Embracing Chaos," Lisa has designed a dissertation study and begun to collect data around the question: To what extent does explicit training in key improvisational theatre tenets affect (1) how teachers understand discussion, (2) the nature of teachers' verbal offers during discussion, and (3) students' oral argument literacy? After actively engaging in introductory improv exercises, session participants can expect to hear a brief overview of Lisa's research design and collectively reflect on the ways in which this study could be expanded and improved for future research and professional development.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amRenaissance Ballroom BCollateral BodiesChair: Erin Kaplan
Collateral Bodies is a play that investigates human rights violations that happen specifically to women around the world. While human rights violations are universally atrocious, they always seem to be just a little more so for women and for most part, we evaluate "rights" though a western feminist context. This play seeks to subvert those assumptions asking what is a human right, why do we violate them, and investigates the role of sex and gender as a tool for empowerment, procreation, violence, defeat and commerce as it applies to different cultures around the world.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amRenaissance Ballroom CEducating, Empowering, Liberating: Applied Theatre in the Philippines, Uganda, Israel, and KoreaChair: Joohee ParkPresenters: Joohee ParkMichelle SolbergJessica Brown-VelezErika Hughes
In this session, we will reflect on the histories and practices of Applied Theatre in four nations bearing the marks of continued conflict: the Philippines, Uganda, Korea, and Israel, where artists, teachers, and activists (often the same persons) have used theatre to empower members of their communities, to educate them on social and political issues, and to liberate them from prejudice, neocolonial mentalities, and defeatism. The participants of this session hope to generate broader theoretical discourse on the practices and histories of Applied Theatre through these examples, and contemplate the future of applied theatre in community settings. We hope to draw parallels, explore differences, and prompt critical conversation about the role of applied theatre in environments of conflict. While each is drawn from a different set of political, cultural, and material contexts, we believe that reflecting upon each will reveal important connections, suggesting new paths or angles through which to address these problems and ethical issues in applied theatre research.
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Open Questions: The Key to Active Dramaturgy with Lenora Inez BrownPaid Workshop
Saturday, July 30, 9:00am-12:00 noonWacker
This unique workshop introduces what’s needed to develop new work in a variety of settings: the classroom, ensemble, or single-author dramatic texts. During this 3-hour hands-on workshop, participants will learn the central skills needed to help generate and deepen dramatic work. In addition to learning what’s needed to craft an Open Question and why they work, the work-shop explores ways to create Open Questions in conjunction with developing new work. Going beyond Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process and her idea of Neutral Questions, partici-pants will leave with a new set of writing and dramaturgical ex-ercises, and a better sense of how to enter collaborative conver-sations, as well as a working knowledge of the dramaturg’s basic skill: Open Questions.
Lenora Inez Brown is the author of The Art of Active Dramaturgy: Transforming Critical Thought into Dramatic Action (Focus Pub-lishing), and the former Head of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criti-cism at The Theatre School, DePaul University. She served as a dramaturg at numerous new-play workshops and festivals in-cluding The Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Series, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, The Bonderman Festival at Indiana Repertory Theatre, New Visions/New Voices at The Kennedy Center, and The Sundance Theatre Labs 2000 and 2001. She dramaturged the world premieres for numerous plays including Karen Zacarìas’s Mariela and the Desert, which received the 2006 Francesca Primus award, and Lydia Diamond’s award-winning adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. She is the immediate past president of the Theatre for Young Audiences/USA board and a member of the ASSITEJ 2011 Congress Advi-sory Committee. She has an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amGold CoastReflecting on the Past, Creating in the Present: Life Stories as a Source for Drama / TheatreChair: Jennifer Kulik, Ph.D.
As our world becomes increasingly mobile, and the ability to connect to people from cultures other than ours becomes easier, finding an authentic way to connect with each other gains importance. A common place to begin this connection is through stories. Through hands-on exercises and activities based in reminiscence and playback theatre techniques, this workshop will demonstrate how memories and life stories can be generated and used as a source for creative drama activities and theatre productions. The participants will engage in a discussion of the ethical implications of using life stories in drama / theatre.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amOld TownSafe Theatre ProjectChair: Nora Matthews
This session will explore a range of safety concerns that both amateur and professional theatres can encounter when working with young people, and brainstorm as to how they might be prevented and/or remedied.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amPrinter’s RowThe Use of Drama/Theatre as a Reflective and Recursive Research MediumChair: Joe NorrisPresenters: Joe NorrisGeorge BelliveauLynn FelsJohnny Saldaña
This panel will focus on the three distinct yet interrelated arts-based research acts of data generation (aka collection), data mediation (analysis), and data dissemination (audience engagement). Joe Norris will articulate his experiences with playbuilding and the use of guided imagery, improvisation and storytelling as ways to generate data and how reflection produces themes upon which theatrical vignettes emerge. Johnny Saldaña will discuss various ways in which qualitative data can be translated into theatrical forms - ethnodrama - that reflect the lived experiences of the Other. Lynn Fels, through her work in performative inquiry, will focus on moments in both process and performance that invite us into spaces of reflection and learning. George Belliveau will provide data responses given by audience during/after viewing research-based theatre.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amBucktown AVideo Game Avatars: A Reflection of Self?Chair: Maurice J. MoranPresenters: Chris Klug
Players of video games are well in tune with the creation of avatars: a reflection/creation of the player themselves in the game world. Carnegie Mellon's Master's Program at the Entertainment Technology Center features the use of improv, dramatic structure, and character development in teaching interactive entertainment in the worlds of video games as well as location-based entertainment. Chris Klug, Faculty at the Center, will present how students at the center are trained in skills evolved from traditional theater to the application of those skills in the Virtual World.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amOld TownWhere Have All The Flowers Gone? Reflecting On Plays With Strong Political Import For High School PerformersChair: Max BushPresenters: Drew ChappellMax BushJo Beth Gonzalez
In this increasingly politicized culture--both domestically and internationally--why are there so few conemporary-set plays with a strong political element written for and performed by high school actors? They can and do vote. Within a year some will go to war. Others have already begun a long journey into national and international business and politics. Political decisions, both personal and national, affect their lives everyday. This panel will concern itself with writing and producing plays with a strong political component for/with high school performers and audiences. It will focus not on openly didactic plays but scripts and productions that remain in the aesthetic realm, and also contain political content. Two playwrights and two high school teachers/directors will make short presentations, then open the session to all attendees.
Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amBucktown BWorking from Inside and from Outside the Student: How Drama/Theatre Teachers can Promote Creative Achievement.Chair: Laura A. McCammonPresenters: Laura A. McCammonLarry O'FarrellAud BergraffBrian S. Heap
Globally schools are asked to develop young people's creative capacities; for some policy makers this has an economic imperative, for others it is a humanistic one. For the past five years, the workshop leaders explored the relationship between creativity and drama/theatre teaching and learning. We believe that creative abilities exist in all of us and that expanding our creative capacities can be transformational and empowering. We know that drama and theatre each offer opportunities for young people to expand both confidence and competence and realize their own creative potentials. While creativity occurs naturally in the arts, if the teacher understands the nature of creativity and how to build creative capacity, drama/theatre teaching and learning improves and benefits both student and teacher.
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Saturday, July 30, 9:15am-10:30amBridgeportXernona and Grand Dragon X: Using Process Drama to Explore Race AmityChair: Bethany Nelson
This hands-on workshop uses process drama to explore a little-known event in our racial history: the unlikely friendship of Xernona Clayton, who worked with Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights Movement, and Calvin Craig, Grand Dragon of the KKK. Beginning as opponents on either side of the racial divide, Craig ultimately renounced his Klan membership, and they gradually developed a shared understanding and lifelong friendship. Through process drama, participants will explore issues of "us and other" which still exist today, debate the nature of change, and consider possibilities for fostering race amity in the present. Finally, through consideration of a one-act play on the topic, participants will reflect on the potential of process based and performance centered approaches to addressing this challenging topic.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmMichiganCalling All Education Directors!Chair: Ali Oliver-KruegerAshley Forman
Education Director, Education Associate, Program-Education Director, Outreach Coordinator, Community Engagement Director - whatever your title, if you are tasked with your theatre company's education and outreach efforts, then this session is for you! In this roundtable discussion moderated by Ashley Forman (Youth Theatre Network) and Ali Oliver-Krueger (Professional Theatre Network) participants pose questions, share ideas and experiences, and discuss some of the issues and challenges facing our members today. Bring your questions and ideas, bring your expertise and experience, and come tap into the tremendous knowledge base of your fellow AATE education and outreach professionals!
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmDearbornFrom Devising to Map-Making: Using Applied Theatre and Site-Specific Performance to Activate Public Participation in City Planning at Waller CreekChair: Michelle DahlenburgPresenters: Michelle DahlenburgLynn Osgood
Join an applied theatre practitioner and an urban designer for an interactive workshop revisiting the techniques used in "The Ghosts of Waller Creek" project. The project explored applied theatre and site-specific performance as methods for generating public interest in issues at Waller Creek in Austin, TX. Waller Creek has historically been the site of urban decay and neglect and is undergoing redevelopment. By examining the creek's past, present, and future through theatre, we hoped to help Austinites connect to the space and participate in planning efforts. This workshop explores the challenges of translating information gathered from participants into the language of city planners. We invite discussion, reflection, and ideas regarding the difficulties of conveying the effects of applied theatre work to stakeholders and funders.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmBridgeportIntersections of International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) and AATEChair: Abra ChusidPresenters: Dr. Coleman A. JenningsAbra Chusid
The 2012 IPAY Showcase in Austin, TX, marks the first time an academic institution, The University of Texas, will co-host the event. Join us for a discussion to help shape IPAY as it moves from primarily a booking showcase to a showcase that includes an educational and professional developmental component.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmBucktown ANew Guard Debut SessionChair:Brianna Stapleton WelchDonald AmersonPresenters:Colleen ClementGene Frank
The AATE New Guard proudly presents two new presenters to the AATE Conference. Join us for these fresh and innovative presentations by the newest members of the field. Colleen Clement will present an interactive mini session titled "Bridging Multi-language Communication Gaps with Improvisation: Teacher Perspective and Reflection." Gene Frank will present an interactive mini session titled 'Educating Communities for Parenting and Norristown Educational Theatre, a Community Partnership in the Arts : Role-Play in Youth Development-Teen Parents." Attendees should come ready to get on their feet and try out new ideas from our presenter's work.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmPrinter's RowPerforming the Margins: Reflections on the Theatre of Transgressive YouthChair: Manon van de WaterPresenters: Manon van de Water (moderator)Mary McAvoyPete RydbergAndy Wiginton
In order to reflect upon the ideologies that shape our field, this panel presents research about performances that challenge notions of acceptable and appropriate theatre for young people. We examine punk performance and the embodiment of youth rebellion as a challenge to privileged theatrical forms, the performance of transgendered young people in queer youth theatre as a challenge to privileged identities in theatre for youth, and Prince/Prince, a Spanish-language fairytale play that challenges both privileged narratives and privileged geographies in the field. We intend for our panel to inspire dialogue and creative reflection about the limitations and possibilities when considering performance that challenges, disrupts, and transgresses our understanding theatre with, by, and for young people.
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Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmRenaissance Ballroom BREALITY Theatre: A Walk In Our ShoesChair: Kim Kohler HortPresenters: Kim Kohler HortEmily Labbe
This dynamic and interactive workshop will allow participants to explore REALITY Theatre's teen theatre program. Since 1994, REALITY has allowed young people the opportunity to create original productions via drama, movement, music and creative writing that explore the experiences and ideas of their generation. By infusing personal storytelling with current research and theater, REALITY's performance pieces are compelling and honest. In our workshop, we will share a performance by the teen ensemble. Then, together with the young actors, participants will reflect on the production and play with REALITY's devising techniques via verbal and experiential methods.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmLaSalleReflections on Adapting Plays for Young AudiencesChair: John NewmanPresenters: Drew ChappellDorothy WebbGayle SergelKristen Leahy
Much of the playwriting in the field of theatre for young audiences is adaptations of novels and other stories. Writers face intrisic challenges, such as remaining true to the original while creating their own artistic vision, as well as external challenges, such as obtaining rights, gaining approvals, facing production limits, considering cultural ownership of stories, and disqualying for development labs. The panel will explore how playwrights, dramaturgs, play developers, publishers, and novelists perceive these challenges from their own perspectives and help the group to arrive collectively at potential strategies and solutions to better facilitate adaptation writing in the field.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmGold CoastThe Right to Play: Engaging Young People in a Reflection on Human Rights Issues through Theatre GamesChair: Christina MarínPresenters: Christina MarínMelissa BergstromLindsay WeitkampAlex Sarian
This workshop will focus on how the power of theatre games and drama activities can be harnessed to motivate dialogue among young people regarding human rights issues. Employing the documents written and ratified by the United Nations in 1948 and 1989 respectively, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), we will facilitate a participatory experience through drama activities and reflexive praxis.The session is aimed at high school teachers and workshop facilitators who will be able to adapt and incorporate the games and activities
presented for their classrooms and rehearsals. The workshop is meant to address both academic and artistic goals and can be tailored to diverse curricular needs. Exercises from the workshop can be used in Social Studies, Humanities, Civics, English Literature, and Political Science courses. Participants will be invited to participate in games and exercises drawn from the texts of Augusto Boal, Viola Spolin, Michael Rohd, Liz Swados, and Julie McCarthy, among others. This will be a hands-on session with reflection built into the process. Workshop attendees will be constantly engaged in an ongoing praxis through written reflection and verbal engagement on paired, small group, whole group, and individual levels.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmRenaissance Ballroom CTheater at the Core: Theater Education and the Common Core StandardsChair: Peter Avery
The national Common Core Standards have the potential to be the most seismic influence on K-12 public school education in a generation. However, the current version of the Common Core does not explicitly reference arts education. What are the implications for theater education? Through an exploration of student voice, theater educators and administrators will discuss where there is genuine alignment of theater learning with the Core’s stated goals of the “literate individual.” Participants will consider if there is any “common” ground with the NYCDOE Blueprint for Theater and other existing arts based benchmarks. Additionally, educators will view film of student theater work that will help illuminate specific Core standards in ELA and Social Studies. The session will provide opportunity for reflection on participants’ own practice as well as time to consider the role theater education might play in addressing gaps within this initial Common Core iteration.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmBucktown BTheatre History for the Middle School StudentChair: Laura Steenveld-Hamilton
What can middle school students learn about their world and the past through theatre history? How does theatre affect history? And how has world history impacted theatre? Learn how to create a Theatre History Unit that can be used with middle school students. Discover how to use remarkable websites like Folger, Artsedge, the BBC, Scholastic, Youtube, and educational videos, in order to incorporate Project Based Learning technology into learning more about theatre history.
Saturday, July 30, 10:45am-12:00pmOld TownThings We're Not Supposed to Talk About: A Participatory Workshop in Pushing the EnvelopeChair: Bethany Lynn Corey
Within any classroom, theater or workplace there are certain subjects that are just off-limits. There are the written and unwritten codes of conduct that tell us what subjects are taboo. This session seeks to give us a space to discuss these taboo subjects and help us discover for ourselves what keeping them off-limits means for us, our practice and society. It seeks to provoke people to explore their own boundaries and provides the opportunity to push the envelope.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENT
Saturday, July 30, 1:30pm-2:30pmLouis Room
Nurturing Partnerships: Creating and Maintaining Successful CollaborationsFacilitated by Barry Kornhauser and Betsy Driver
Once busses arrive at Northwestern University, this all-conference gathering will explore how attendees can nurture partnerships throughout the year. Using AATE’s ongoing partnership with the Illinois Theatre Association as a springboard for conversation, come to connect with specialists, whether they compliment or contrast your own specialty, to dream about future partnerships. A special highlight will be to recognize AATE’s national advocacy campaign and regional programs each March, Theatre In Our Schools, in which partnerships are a vital component for success.
Transportation to NorthwesternOn Saturday, July 30, conference programming will move north to Evanston, IL, on campus at Northwestern University. Busses will load outside the main doors of the hotel, on Wacker Drive between noon and 12:45 pm, and arrive at Northwestern between 12:45 pm and 1:30 pm. Box lunches will be provided on the bus.
Busses will return to the hotel after the featured performance of The Edge of Peace at Northwestern University. Busses will load at the Arts Circle (just outside the Barber Theatre Lobby doors) between 10:00 pm and 11:30 pm, and arrive back at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown between 10:45 pm and midnight.
All registered conference attendees are welcome to take the busses to/from Northwestern. The Northwestern excursion is co-sponsored by the Northwestern University Theatre Department.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmArchBest Practices: Reflecting on Teachers' Embodied PracticeChair: Amy Petersen JensenPresenters: Joan Lazarus
As the nature of theatre pedagogy shifts to accommodate new concerns, policies and standards developed for 21st century teaching and learning we are interested in the best practices of teachers who inevitably influence the field at the ground level. This session explores what constitutes best practice in a twenty-first century K-12 theatre classroom. We specifically address how theatre teacher educators embody those best practices. To this end we investigate what theatre teachers self-report about their own best practice, and how peer-teachers describe other successful teachers who they believe surpass standard benchmarks for quality classroom and extra-curricular instruction in the field.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmWildcat BBeyond Story Drama: Using Kids' and Teen Lit as a Starting Point for Creative ExplorationChair: Brianna Stapleton WelchPresenters: Sarah SullivanBrianna Stapleton Welch
Most of us use picture books or fairy tales as inspiration for our creative drama work. Despite loving those time-tested stories, are you ready to try something new? In this session, we will explore new ways of engaging with children's and young adult literature as theatre artists. Participants will engage in tangible exploration of activities that can be used with your students/community to deepen engagement with literature, using drama to build a community of critical readers and innovative thinkers. We will workshop specific book-related activities that could be used with your students - please come ready to dive into stories! You will also leave the session with lists of book suggestions based on age group and topics and resources for finding other books and connecting with the Kidlit Community at large.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmNorthwestern BChalk & Mirrors: A Discourse on Race through Personal Encounters Teaching DramaChair: Daphnie SicrePresenters: Karl O. WilliamsDaphnie Sicre
This discussion is designed to engage the participants in a reflective conversation about race in America today, as well as present ideas and ways on how to teach it through Drama. We will explore our own personal encounters as teachers of color, through dramatic work and curricula. Acknowledging that the classroom is a racial space, we will reflect on our own personal journeys with our students and the impact it has had on our pedagogy. The session aims to mirror our teaching experience in collaboration with those attending, thereby creating a quilt of shared thoughts and reflections.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmMcCormickCrawling With Monsters: A Theatrical Testimony from the War Zone from the Mexico-Texas BorderChair: Joseph FurnariPresenters: Eric WileyCrawling With Monsters
Twelve actors and musicians present stories of children and theatre from the war zone on the Mexico-Texas Border. Students at the University of Texas Pan-American were working on a children's play to be performed in the US and Mexico when they were told because of the violence in Reynosa, Tamps., Mexico they would not be able to travel there. Their response was to create a play that tells a gripping story, that many people do not want to be told, of what is happening in Reynosa. Secretly-recorded testimonials and messages to the outside world are delivered in English and in Spanish with subtitles. Do we as artists have a moral responsibility to tell stories of social injustice?Can theatre truly effect social change?
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmArmadilloDemystifying Negative Perceptions: Working with the Hesitant Teacher.Chair: Laurie C. Melnik This session provides time and space to reflect on our work as a community of professional development providers, while driving through dilemmas that stem from both positive and negative perceptions about our work. For some teachers, drama-based activities become a break from the daily grind. For others, it provides a way to foster deeper understanding of the world around them. In this interactive session, participants will explore differing viewpoints from teachers who percieve drama from both ends of the spectrum.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmLouisEngaging High School Audiences: Reflecting on Innovations in ProgrammingChair: Jacob WatsonPresenters: Ellen AbramAlison MahoneyAlyssa Ramos
In this session led by Purple Crayon Players of Northwestern University, we will explore the means by which a university or theatre company can work to engage high school age artists and audiences through creative programming, productions, and unique partnerships. Topics addressed will include everything from the marketing of such programs to the logistical and educational framework necessary for their successful implementation. As a starting point for discussion, we will consider Purple Crayon Players' first-ever internship program, which charged high school youth to create an original, devised performance in response to our production of Laurie Brooks' The Wrestling Season. During the session, we will share excerpts of this performance and highlight the process by which it was created.
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Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmScholarsIgniting Young Voices: A discussion about young playwrights festivals from across the United States.Chair: Jim DeVivoPresenters: Elizabeth BojszaJim DeVivoJacob StoebelKristina Sutherland
Over the past 30 years, the number of playwriting programs for young people has grown throughout the country. Regional theatres sponsor festivals of new plays by young artists through their education and outreach departments and some organizations exist solely for the purpose of developing work by this population. This panel discussion will bring together a variety of these organizations to discuss the state of the field, explore the significance of the work, and to introduce some of the voices of their young playwrights.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pm1851Memories: Reflections on Evanston District 65 Drama Classes Through the YearsChair: Nancy Norvell BallPresenters: Jamie Querciagrossa Nancy Norvell Ball Katherine Kryzs
After a brief history of the District 65 Drama Program, Ms. Kryzs will lead a discussion with a group of former drama students focusing on how their elementary and middle school drama classes experiences have impacted their lives.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmLakePlanning a Network AdvanceChair: Wendy Maples and David MarkeyPresenters: Wendy MaplesDavid MarkeyYouth Theatre Network Members
The Youth Theatre Network is planning a second advance! The advance plans to bring 20-25 Youth Theatre artists together for a 2 day event in Bethesda, MD in early 2012. Our goal will be to explore, share, and define best practices in working with young people aged 8-18. The weekend will include six participatory sessions on ways of working with young people using both scripted and devised entry points. and four working meals to share lesson planning, assessment creation, publishing opportunities, parent/student contracts, etc. Recorded interviews with YTN members that will share the scope of Youth Theatre work to be used as an educational and recruitment tool for the field and for AATE. Join us as we discuss successes and challenges of planning a Network Advance.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmEvansPut on a Safe Face: Makeup safety for classroom, stage and lifeChair: Kristi Ross-Clausen
Learn the latest in safe selection, application and use of makeup via demonstration of products. This is a constantly changing area of technical theatre and one where a visual demonstration is worth far more than a thousand words. Anyone who designs makeup, teaches makeup application, or wears makeup for stage or street can beenfit from attending.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmWildcat AReflecting on the Process of Developing New Works for Young Audiences: Examining Themes of Modern Families and Accep-tanceChair:Emily Freeman
This session reflects on devising new work for young audiences, spe-cifically looking at "mature" themes of sexuality, and modern families. And Then Came Tango, a play developed at the Co-Op Presents Cohen New Works Festival at The University of Texas at Austin is based on the true story of two male penguins who fell in love, were given an or-phaned egg, and raised a baby fledgling. The penguins were protested and a children's story written about the events was banned in many libraries. This session will be an interactive workshop exploring devising methods used in the rehearsal process, as well as a discussion about the content and our responsibility as practitioners and artists to pro-mote representation on stage and in the classroom.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmRockReflections on What's Really Working . . . in their Own Words.Chair: Camilla MorrisonPresenters: Detour coaches and actors
You're invited to choose - deaf, blind, cognitively challenged, autistic - participate with an open mind and heart. Detour coaches have gone out into several communities this year to make theatre games, opportunities and magic REAL and accessible to even more excited folks. You are invited as we reflect and then join in the doing of what's worked, as well as participate in a few scenes from HONK, the road show with our own Detour actors.
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YOU SAID: You felt there were too many sessions for similar target audiences (such as playwrights or drama specialists) happened at the same time.
WE HEARD: While quality conference programming includes quality sessions that overlap, this year we created a session coding system to track the content of each proposed session. Our coding system made it easier to iden-tify each session’s target audience during the scheduling process, which minimized (though did not eliminate) the overlap that more than one session with the same target audience will happen at the same time.
Saturday, July 30, 2:45pm-4:00pmBig Ten Unmasking the Metaphor: Filling in the Blind-spot of a "Color-blind" CultureChair:Lise KloeppelPresenters:Lise KloeppelJodi VanDerHorn-Gibson
Our session seeks to not only share the beginning steps of a larger, arts-based research project on the topic of race but also to use the tools of theater to reflect upon our personal and professional relationships to race. W.E.B. DuBois named the problem of the color-line THE problem of the 20th century. Can we say the same is true for the 21st century or have we entered a post-racial age? In searching for solutions, do we turn to despair and hopelessness as if this is a social reality we'll never transcend? Using arts-based and ethnographic research methods, we aim to devise an ethnodramatic performance that situates the personal inside the political and examines the everyday metaphors masking the accepted power structures in our lives.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmChicago#Tweatre: Harnessing the Power of Twitter to Build a Theatre Education PLNChair: Rachel Evans
Discover the value of creating a PLN (Personal Learning Network) 140 characters at a time! Participants will open Twitter accounts, practice site/software navigation, and start to build a robust roster of followers and following tweople. Reflection upon personal professional development needs will lead to identifying strategies to meet them through tweets. Brainstorming possible uses of Twitter to strengthen the field will be included: advocacy, pedagogy, research, etc. Bringing your own laptop, ipad, or smartphone will ensure maximum participation in this hands-on opportunity to connect with the #tweatre education twibe.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmArmadilloAATE Conferences: Let us Deconstruct and Reconstruct Our Future!Chair: Karina NaumerChicago's Lakeside Reflections serves as the perfect opportunity for AATE conference attendees to come together to actively reflect on our annual conference structure. What is really working? What changes might we like to try out in the future? Session attendees will participate in a series of interactive theatre-based strategies and other reflective tools in order to formulate/brainstorm structural ideas that might be useful to AATE moving forward. Ideas coming out of this session will be communicated to the leadership of the organization.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmNorthwestern BBeyond Elementary: Contemplating Puppetry with AdolescentsChair: Kathleen ArcovioPresenters: Kathleen Arcovio
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Our workshop will examine the many ways puppetry can be utilized with older students (grades 7-12) in order to develop dramatic skills, tackle difficult social issues, and master content standards in a variety of subjects. In this hands-on workshop, participants will view abridged lessons demonstrating puppetry's wide applications for adolescents. Attendees will participate in a model lesson and construct their own puppet. Participants will leave the workshop with tangible lesson plans, new applications inspired by the workshop, and easy-to-use, inexpensive construction techniques. Reflection question - How is puppetry an effective teaching tool for young adults and what challenges does this kind of work face?
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmWildcat BBridging Multi-language Communication Gaps with ImprovisationChair: Colleen Clement
In this session, attendees will be exposed to both the need for and approaches to using improvisation as a means to bridge the social/emotional communication gaps that occur in multi-language classrooms. This session will not be addressing language acquisition or teaching ESL, but instead will delve into the divisions, ostracism, intelligence misconceptions, and low self-esteem issues that occur among students who don't all speak the same language at the same proficiency. This is especially important as immigration is undeniably on the rise.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmScholarsCollaborating With Young Writers: A Reflection On Actors Theatre Of Louisville's New Voices Young Playwrights FestivalChair: Jacob StoebelPresenters: Jacob StoebelSteven RaheJane B. JonesKeith Nixon
Having just completed the sixth annual New Voices Young Playwrights Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville continues to reflect on how our program provides excellent opportunities for young people of all backgrounds to identify, create and share their stories in the form of ten minute plays. This session will outline our process from in-school playwriting residencies, to programming the Festival, to working with playwrights in script development and rehearsal. We will also open the floor to reflection from other attendees on best practices for teaching young people to write plays.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pm1851DIS/Ability and drama: Opening the Stage DoorChair: Sarah Mayper
Young people with disabilities must have access to the world of theater - and this means more than just ramps! Theater educators can learn what it means to provide "Voice, Choice, and Access" to young people with disabilities through participation in theater work.
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Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmWildcat A Graffiti Project: Writing Plays with Literacy-Challenged High School StudentsChair:Doug Cooney
The experience of writing a full-length play that incorporates student's own vo ices and concer ns can awaken even the most literacy-challenged student to the exhilirating power of "the word." It also provides students with visceral and immediate exposure to the dynamic potential of theater as a live medium.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmEvansMommy, Why are the Stepsisters Boys?: Gender Identity and Non-Traditional Casting in Theatre for Young AudiencesChair: Francene KirkPresenters: Francene KirkJames MatthewsDana Sayre
The casting of two male actors as the stepsisters in a university production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella provoked questions about gender identity and casting from varying constituencies. From "Will you be making fun of who I am?" to "What should I tell my daughter?" to "Will the story be the same?", what started as an uncritical attempt at humor exposed a complex intersection of attitudes about gender and gender identity construction. This panel includes the production's faculty director, the faculty dramaturge, and a former student currently in a graduate program in performance studies. The panel will reflect on the experience, contextualizing it in the literature, and invite the audience to share their own experiences and observations.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmBig TenOur Haven: Site Specific Devising in a Public Middle SchoolChair: Betsy QuinnPresenters: Betsy QuinnBriana BowerRobyn CharJeff GlassElise HauskinJacob WatsonSeventh and Eighth Grade Students from Haven Middle School
Designed to serve those interested in site-specific devising, middle school theatre education and university/school collaborations, this session will share practical techniques and golden moments from an original play produced by Haven Middle School in Evanston, IL. "Our Haven" was a devised play featuring 175 diverse public middle school students performing in six sites around the school and sharing their unique perspectives about the past, present and future of Haven. Northwestern University theatre students directed the individual scenes in each site and helped the Haven students find their voices. The play was performed for approximately 1200 audience members during the fall of 2010. This workshop will feature middle school and university students demonstrating techniques and reflecting on the process of
creating "Our Haven". It will include information about specific devising activities, unique issues with site-specific work, scheduling complexities and working within the school community to make the project possible. Participants will be invited to both observe and participate in a number of exercises used in the creation of the play. Reflections written right after the performances last fall will serve as the content for many of these exercises.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmArchReflection in and on 'Pre' Preservice Teacher EducationChair: Joe NorrisPresenters: Joe NorrisGlenys McQueen-Fuentes Carolee MasonHelen Zdriluk
This panel will reflect on the role of an undergraduate 'pre' pre-service Drama in Education (DIE) and Applied Theatre (AT) program in a dramatic arts department. Joe Norris will examine the program, as a whole, outlining its current offering and projecting future needs. Glenys McQueen-Fuentes will discuss the teaching of reflection to first year students (a mix of performance and DIE students). Helen Zdriluk will reflect on the variety of instructional approaches taken in a combination of process drama and theatre courses that focus on teaching in, about, and through. Joe will also discuss the fourth year reflective practice course to fourth year in which student volunteer in the field. Carolee Mason will conclude with her experiences teaching students after their first degree.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmLouisThe Bully Menace and Applied Theatre: A reflective performanceChair: Philip TaylorPresenters: Larry BrennerAmissa MillerAlex Siriani
After a series of disturbing hate crimes against young people, the NYU Program in Educational Theatre was commissioned to develop a forum theatre project on citizenship and justice. NYU students will perform the forum piece and illuminate perceptions, which contribute to the aggressors and victims in the bullying dynamic. Audience members will be invited to intervene as spect-actors, providing all involved with the opportunity to critically consider and meaningfully explore effective responses to the events of the forum.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30 pmAnnie May Swift The Road To Ware
The Ware Trilogy by Suzan Zeder is unique in the contemporary cannon of dramatic literature for young audiences. Three plays set in the tiny town of Ware, Illinois, focusing on three decades of American history and issues of Deaf and Hearing culture. Suzan Zeder discusses the joys and challenges of thirty years of her own writing life spent in the com-pany of these characters and their stories.
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Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmRockWe're Still Here: A Model Drama Session from Evanston District 65Chair: Nancy Norvell BallPresenters: Joan LazarusLaurel Serleth
Master Teacher Laurel Serleth will teach a drama class with Evanston sixth graders. Professor Lazarus will follow with a discussion and dissection of the strategies utilized and facilitate a feedback session with students and audience members.
Saturday, July 30, 4:15pm-5:30pmLakeYouth Theatre Network: Games Exchange X: Part IIChair:David MarkeyWendy MaplesPresenters:Youth Theatre Network
We're back!! Join us for a part II of a hands-on exchange of dynamic and purposeful games and exercises for those working in the field of Youth Theatre. The goal of the exchange is to help identify and share games and exercises for building foundational theatre skills.
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Saturday, July 30, 5:45pm-6:45pmAnnie May Swift
Leadership Interest Meeting
Ever thought about joining a national board? Would you enjoy rolling up your sleeves and making a difference in how AATE conducts business and furthers the field? The discussion, led by AATE leaders, will include opportunities for how to get involved, and learn what it takes to become a State Representative, Theatre In Our Schools Chair, Network Chair, Board Member and/or how to serve on an AATE active committees. The benefits and networking opportunities that come with leadership roles in AATE are remarkable. Join us for pizza and discussion; add your voice and skills!
Saturday, July 30, 6:45pm-7:30pmAnnie May Swift
Conference Planning Meeting
Come share ideas for future AATE conferences with Programming Director, Karina Naumer and Executive Director, Lynne Kingsley and help shape our future programming!
Saturday, July 30, 8:00pmBarber Theatre
Keynote Performance: The Edge of Peace
Please see the following page for a full description.
Saturday, July 30, 10:00pmBarber Theatre Lobby
Post-Show Receptionsponsored by Northwestern University
Join us for a reception immediately following the Featured Performance of The Edge of Peace, sponsored by Northwestern University.
Featured Performance: The Edge of Peace*Saturday, July 30, 8:00pm-10:00pm, Barber Theatre (Northwestern University)
Reflections on The Edge of Peace, by Suzan Zeder
Friends and Colleagues,
The Edge of Peace is the end of a very long journey that began for me when I wrote Mother Hicks in the 1980s. I had no idea then that this play would become the anchor for a trilogy of plays that would define thirty years of my writing life.
The response to Mother Hicks was remarkable, due in no small part to the powerful presence of the Deaf character, Tuc, and to the artistry of Deaf actors who have played him over the years and have challenged assumptions about competency and communication. More than a decade after I wrote Mother Hicks, I gave Tuc his own play, The Taste of Sunrise.
Now, I come back to finish the stories of characters who are as real to me as members of my own family. Set in the last desperate days of World War II, The Edge of Peace is a play about the challenges of leaving home, coming home, and staying home when the danger and adventure of the world is far away.
Many of you who will see this first full production of The Edge of Peace have been on this journey with me. You have produced the two previous plays in your theatres colleges, community theatres and high schools. You have read and discussed them in your classrooms, creating a living legacy. So this is a kind of homecoming for you too.
I am deeply indebted to Linda Hartzell and Seattle Children’s Theatre for commissioning and supporting the development of all three plays. The fact that they have allowed us to bring this play to you, prior to their own premiere production, is an act of supreme generosity.
I thank Rives Collins, Talleri McRae and Henry Godinez for the courage and faith it takes to produce a play of this size and complexity.
I am most grateful for the plays themselves and for the profound difference they have made in my life.
-Suzan Zeder
Artistic Team for The Edge of Peace
Henry Godinez (Director) is the TIC Artistic Director, Northwestern University Theatre Department Associate Professor, and the resident artistic associate at the Goodman where his directing credits include Mariela in the Desert, Millennium Mambo, Straight As A Line, the Goodman/Teatro Vista co-production of Cloud Tectonics, and A Christmas Carol from 1996-2001. He is curator of the Goodman's Latino Theatre Festival and co-founder of Teatro Vista, where he directed Broken Eggs, El Paso Blue, Journey of the Sparrows, Santos & Santos and The Crossing. Other directing credits include Esperanza Rising and A Year with Frog and Toad (Chicago Children’s Theatre), Two Sisters and a Piano (Apple Tree/Teatro Vista), Anna in the Tropics (Victory Gardens), Boleros for the Disenchanted (Yale Repertory Theatre), True West (Portland Center Stage), Urban Zulu Mambo starring Regina Taylor (Signature Theatre in NYC), The Winter’s Tale (Missouri Repertory Theatre), Macbeth (Oak Park Festival Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) and several seasons of Stories on Stage for WBEZ Chicago Public Radio.
The Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University (Producer) produces and presents as many as 40 productions annually, in four theatres, for the School of Communication, and in partnership with the Departments of Theatre and Performance Studies, and the Dance Program. In addition, the Center produces the annual Waa-Mu Show, an original student written and performed musical, and is home for the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) that is dedicated to developing and producing new musicals by leading local and national artists. Celebrating its 30th anniversary the Center is a rich laboratory for experimentation for 400 undergraduate and graduate students who create, design, direct and perform in classic and contemporary plays, dance performances and musicals directed by faculty, MFA students and guest professional artists.
Suzan Zeder (Playwright) has been recognized nationally and internationally as one of the nation’s leading playwrights for audiences of all ages. Her plays have been performed in all fifty states, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, Germany, Israel, Ireland, and New Zealand. She is the three-time winner of the Distinguished Play award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, has been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and heads the Playwriting/Directing area in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds an Endowed Chair in Theatre for Youth/Playwriting.
*Originally commissioned at developed at Seattle Children's Theatre. This production of The Edge of Peace was funded in part by The Children's Theatre Foundation of America.
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The Edge of Peace staged reading at the University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2009.
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ALL CONFERENCE EVENTSunday, July 31, 9:30am-11:30am
Grand BallroomClosing Reflection Breakfast Event and Annual Meeting
Start the morning with cast members and the artistic team of The Edge of Peace, including playwright Suzan Zeder and director Henry Godinez. Reflect on the performance from the night before, and also take part in AATE's annual meeting with AATE President Rives Collins. In this final event of the conference, reflect on this year's programming and look forward to 2012.
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WE HEARD: Based on your feedback, we researched several different online platforms to host digital session proposal information. We chose Form Assembly because of its user-friendly nature. However, the technological capacity of Form Assembly, the AATE website, and the AATE conference website limits the amount of detailed information we are able to share in mass communication. As we look forward to 2012 in Lexington, we are open to any technological tools you might know of to help us include session details in people’s session confirmation.
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YOU SAID: You would prefer no sessions before 9 am, and no sessions on Sunday.
WE HEARD: Working within a very busy conference schedule, we were able to schedule meetings around a record number of sessions, and concentrate session blocks to be between 9am-6pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this year’s conference. One of the ways we were able to accommodate this request is that we offered several session concurrently—meaning that there are more sessions offered per session block than ever before. While we know that offers many choices every session block, it also represents the diversity and qual-ity of our sessions—so enjoy the tough choices!
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IndexAbram, Ellen 60Adams, Korbi 42Adams, Noah 52Alexander, Jessica 'Decky' 42Allsup, Max 48Amerson, Donald 7, 56Arcovio, Kathleen 5, 34, 62Ardelean, Stacey 9, 51Arvetis, Tom 5, 16, 18Asher, Sandra Fenichel 19, 32, 52Ashworth, Julia 19Asp, Maria 21Avery, Peter 58Babb, Joe A. 9Bable, Wendy 7, 9, 23Bailey, Sally 52, 53Baldino, Joseph 6Ball, Nancy Norvell 61, 65Barberio, Steve 5, 25Barker, Steven 5, 6, 9Barker, Lisa 52, 54Barthelmess, Dinah 7, 9Batey, Jessica 20Baugh-Schlossberg, Valerie 6, 7, 50Beckingham, Steven 36Belliveau, George 58Bergraf, Aud 23, 55Bergstrom, Melissa 58Black, Patricia 42Boddie, Courtney J. 26Bojsza, Elizabeth 61Bowell, Pamela 23Bower, Briana 64Bowman, Beth 46Brantley, Susan 23Bratley, Lynn 29Brenner, Larry 64Brill, Rachel 27Brown, Cyndee 9Brown, Lenora Inez 9, 13, 54Brown, John K. 23Brown, Victoria 48Brown-Velez, Jessica 54Burns, Kate Randolph 44Burns, Selena 45Bush, Max 9, 19, 51, 55Cahill, Helen 9Cardenas, Jasmin 51Cartwright, Colleen 45, 50Castro, Ruben 23Cates, Kelly 19Chapman, Jennifer 9, 21Chappell, Drew 9, 35, 55, 58Char, Robyn 64Chryst, Carolyn 50Chung, Jiwon 36Chusid, Abra 30, 56Clement, Colleen 56, 62Clunie, Gloria Bond 42Coble, Eric 52Cochran, Charla 25Colby, Robert 9, 46Collins, Rives 4, 5, 9, 25, 67Collins, Katy Carolina 16Compass, Troy 6Conseur, Ray 23Cooney, Doug 64Corey, Bethany Lynn 7, 9, 58Dahlenburg, Michelle 56Dawson, Katie 7, 26, 44de Lackner, Frieda 23Deemar, Stacy 21, 30, 48Dennett, Lisa 21DeVivo, Jim 61DiBella, Jennifer 6, 9, 52DiCarlo, Jessica 36DiPasquale, Pamela 25Driver, Betsy 5, 59Duffy, Peter 29Duke, Marielle 46Eckert, Katie 5Eckles, Chris 5Edell, Dana 52Erickson, Karen L. 46Erickson, Edward L. 46Evans, Rachel 62Falconi, María Inés 9Feffer, Steve 9Feiner, David 12, 17, 18Fels, Lynn 58Fisher, Teresa 20Flatt, Robyn 25Flynn, Tessa 26Forman, Ashley 9, 55Frank, Gene 56Freeman, Emily 61Fryer, Britney 23Furnari, Joseph 4, 9, 35, 60Garcia, Lorenzo 9, 27Gekas, Elizabeth 48Glass, Jeff 5, 64Godinez, Henry 13, 66, 67Gonzalez, Jo Beth 19, 35, 55
González, Jose Cruz 11Goodfellow, Jenny 42Goodman, Rob 42Gorostieta, Cristian 23Gregory, D.W. 21, 30Gundersheim, Stephen 21Hall, Karen 12, 27, 45Hamilton, Rachel 34Hare, Ashley 19Harper, Brian 20Hastings, Taren 36Hatton, Luke 29, 44Hauskin, Elise 5, 64Heap, Brian S. 23, 55Hensley, Gordon 6, 21Hermann, Spring 21Herring, J. Daniel 5Hert, Amy 29Hetzel, Dr. Marilyn “Cookie” 20Hines, Angela R. 42, 52Hoare, Lynn 44Hopson, Jeanne 25Horn, Elizabeth Brendel 4, 9Hort, Kim Kolher 5, 56Howe, Kelly 51Huff, Diviin 42Hughes, Erika 54Ito, Brenda May 6Jamieson, Rachel 5Jansson, Leigh 5Jennings, Coleman A. 42, 56Jensen, Amy Petersen 9, 60Johnson, Xan S. 9, 23, 25Johnson, Sarah Mae 20Jones, Jane B. 62Kaplan, Erin 54Katona, Jennifer 36Kelin, II, Daniel 4, 9Kerastas, Sara 23Kingsley, Lynne 4, 9, 65Kirk, Francene 64Kisling, Jeremy 6Klein, Jeanne 9, 50Kloeppel, Lise 9, 27, 62Klug, Chris 55Koerner, Kati 35, 52Koottaarappallil, Jamie 54Koppera, Jenny Sawtelle 5, 30Kornhauser, Barry 6, 52, 59Kostreva, Jenny 46Kotter, Rita 9Kramer, Lisa 52Krzys, Katherine 4, 9, 19, 30, 55, 61Kulik, Jennifer 55Labbe, Emily 5, 56Lagerquist, Elana 36Lansana, Emily Hooper 20Lazarus, Julian 6Lazarus, Joan 60, 65Leahy, Kristen 58Leavitt, Jane 46Lee, Bridget 26Lee, Teresa 50Lefkovitz, Anne 5Levy, Elizabeth 29, 44Link, Kristen 34Little, Jennifer 34Loffredo, Peter 25Lopez, Alexandra 9Lorenzetti, Nicole 6, 9, 52Lowry, Lois 12Luck, Jennifer Hartmann 30Lundin, David 5Magnasco, Julia Newby 6, 20Mahler, Daniel 20Mahoney, Alison 60Malinowski, Tim 29, 44Maples, Wendy 6, 7, 36, 54, 61, 65Marín, Christina 4, 9, 21, 35, 46, 58Markey, David 7, 36, 61, 65Mason, Carolee 29, 64Matassarin, Kat 5, 9Matelzschk-Campbell, Jud 19Matthews, Nora 6, 51Matthews, James 64Mattson, Mitch 6, 9Maugeri, Frank 16Mayper, Sarah 62McAvoy, Mary 56McCammon, Laura 9, 21, 50, 52, 55McLauchlin, Debra 9McLaughlin, Margaret 5McNally, Gillian 25McNamee, Anne 44McQueen-Fuentes, Glenys 29, 64Mcrae, Talleri 5Melnik, Laurie 6, 7, 52, 60Mendelewicz, Aliza 51Mendeloff, Kate 27Metz, Alli 5Michael, Erin 5Miller, Carole 9, 20, 36Miller, Dr. Harvey 25
Miller, Marilee 25Miller, Michele 44Miller, Amissa 46, 64Minarsich, Teresa 6Minyard, Gary 4, 9Mitchell, Lisa 50Moran, Maurice J. 6, 55Morris, Anakin 5Morrison, Camilla 61Morrow, Keeshon 36Murray, Beth 9Muszynski, John 5, 52Naumer, Karina 4, 9, 35, 62, 65Negri, Anne 5Nelson, Bethany 46, 55Newman, John 4, 9, 50, 58Nixon, Keith 62Norris, Joe 29, 58, 64Nutting, Diane 9, 19O'Farrell, Larry 52, 55Oakeson, Amy 9Oliver-Krueger, Ali 7, 23, 55Omasta, Matt 7, 9, 26, 35, 50, 52Ortmann, Tim 9Oser, Scott 4Osgood, Lynn 56Paley, Vivian Gussin 12, 24Paredes, Sobha K. 26Park, Joohee 54Pearson, Susan 52Perez, Heidy 25Peters, Mary ElizaBeth 19, 34Pledger, Shawnna 26Prestel, Kelly 4Proffit, Jerry 5Prouty, Rachel 9Querciagrossa, Jamie 19, 61Quest, Mary 25Quinn, Betsy 4, 5, 9, 64Rahe, Steven 62Ramos, Alyssa 60Randolph, Jared 23Rangos, Anna 23Reid, Aimee 29, 30, 34Reif, Jennifer 6Rethwisch, Judith 6, 9Reynolds, Brett W. 16Riffle, Erin 25Rifkind, Bryna 9Rosenberg, Hollie 36Ross, Arianna 50Ross-Clausen, Kristi 61Rotkovitz, Susan J. 45Rubin, Janet 9, 50Rydberg, Pete 56Ryder, Andrew 19Rzeszutek, David 50Saldaña, Johnny 9, 21, 50, 58Sanders, Alicia 7, 9, 50Sarian, Alex 58Satta, Steven J. 45Saunders, Crom 31Saxton, Juliana 11, 20, 36Sayre, Dana 64Schellhardt, Laura 52Schildkret, Elizabeth 46Schroeder-Arce, Roxanne 9, 25Schwarz, Abby 19Sergel, Gayle 25, 58Serleth, Laurel 65Sessler, John 21Sewchok, Kaycee 6, 9Sharpe, Lynda 19Shimojima, Anne 31Shoeny, Danielle 50Shunk, Merissa 5Sicre, Daphnie 21, 60Siddons, Kelby 7, 9, 35, 48Siegal, Erica 46Silver, Jamie 44Silvestri, Colette 52Simon, Tommy 42Simons, Sara 46Simons, Manuel 48Sims, Kiyoko Motoyama 26Siriani, Alex 64Snyder-Young, Dani 48Solberg, Michelle 54Sperling, Rick 27Steenveld-Hamilton, Laura 5, 58Stellwagen, Leslie 62Sterling, Pamela 9Stoebel, Jacob 61, 62Stone, Dan 6Stone, Sukari 23Stone, Jacqueline 25Streeter, Joshua 35Struve, Millie 26Suchman, Henry 4Sullivan, Sarah 34, 60Sutherland, Kristina 61Sutton, Dr. Paul 48Sweigart-Gallagher, Angela 7, 9
Swift, Annie May 64, 65Tabone, Carmine 9, 19Taylor, Willa 51Taylor, Philip 64Tillges, Angela 18Torres, Dianna 52Tull, Sonsharae 20Turner, Laura Manning 6, 7Ulrich, Adele 52Van Bruggen, Jennifer 6Van Buskirk, Scott 29van de Water, Manon 4, 9, 27, 56VanDerHorn-Gibson, Jodi 27, 62Walker, Xanthia 9Washington, Donna 31Waterman, Rani 29, 44Watson, Jacob 5, 6, 9, 60, 64Watson, Machaela 26Webb, Dorothy 42, 58Weberman, Karen 5Weitkamp, Lindsay 58Welch, Brianna Stapleton 7, 30, 34, 52, 56, 60Weltsek, Gustave 6, 9, 29, 35, 50Westlake, E.J. 9Wiginton, Andy 7, 56Wiley, Eric 35, 60Williams, Anne 6Williams, Karl O. 21, 30, 60Wilson, Heather 52Windes, Amanda 4Wolff, Jackie 48Wood, Susan D. 50Woodson, Stephani Etheridge 9, 34Wright, Lin 9Yoo, Tae 42Zachariah, Cheryl Kaplan6, 27 Zdriluk, Helen 7, 29, 52, 64Zeder, Suzan 13, 64, 66, 67Zimmer, Patricia 9, 19Zuniga, Jose 20
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