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2020 SETC Convention

Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) - Connecting You to Opportunities in Theatre Nationwide
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Family Room
SETC’s Women+ in Theatre Committee and the Parent Artist Advocacy League are collaborating once again to bring attendees with children a quiet, tucked-away room designated for relaxation and re-connection during the convention. In addition, a Parent & Caregiver Resource Packet has been created to help you prepare for your visit to Louisville, Ky. Wed./Thur./Fri. | 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM Sat. | 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

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8:00am EST

Theatre for Youth Forecast CC - LO 07Riley Braem • Laura Byland Inspiration: The Pure Movement Work of Trish Arnold CC - Ballroom CRoxanne Wellington Gus’ Green Room CC - North Pre-Function Upper ConcourseBreak A Leg Network Actors Alley CC - North Pre-Function Upper ConcourseRoyal Caribbean Productions SETC Check-In and Registration Desk CC - South Pre-function Upper ConcourseAmanda Nielsen • Elizabeth Theodora • Disney Auditions SETC Convention and Louisville Info Hubs CC - South Pre-function Upper Concourse SETC Family Room CC - LO 25Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL)

9:00am EST

Secondary School Festival Debrief CC - LO 07Elaine Malone Email Marketing Makeover CC - LO 16Ceci Dadisman Putting Together a Touring Show for Schools and Community Organizations CC - LO 02Rosina Whitfield Design & Technology Committee and Interest Meeting CC - LO 01Matthew Leckenbusch • Emily Strickland • Krista Franco Aging Made Easy CC - LO 03Gene Flaharty Collaborative Goal Setting for Theatre Directors CC - LO 17/18Amy White Musical Makers: Integrating Devised Music Theatre Into Performance Training CC - LO 06Jeremiah Downes Seven Simple Steps to a Sensory-Friendly Production CC - LO 10/14Matthew Belopavlovich What to Do With Trauma: Performing Arts Program and Instructor Response CC - LO 11Dana Branson Pedagogies of Playwriting CC - LO 12David Beach • Laura King • Kimberly Patterson Act Like It's Your Business: Branding and Marketing Skills for Artists CC - LO 27Jonathan Flom Meisner and the Miller Voice Method: An "in the Moment" Warm-Up CC - M 108Andrew Bryce Transforming the Face: Crafting Characters From the Neck Up CC - LO 04Erin Parsons Trusting Impulse: An Introduction to Physical Freedom on Stage CC - Ballroom CDustin Whitehead African Diasporic Dance Styles of Broadway CC - Ballroom BMadia Cooper-Ashirifi Let's Improvise! Creative Physical Solutions to Staging and Text Interpretation CC - M 104Kathy Morath The Magical Moment Before CC - LO 09/05Rebecca Covey • Lesley-Ann Timlick You Can Juggle! An Actor's Juggling Primer CC - Ballroom ASam Wallace • Michael Williams Musical Journeys: The Musical Workshop for Secondary Students and Educators CC - M 107Susan Pike Digital Prompt Books for Stage Managers CC - LO 13Shawn Paul Evans Keynote Emerging Artists of Promise Meeting III LO 21/22Donald Fann SETC Young Scholars Panel Presentation CC - LO 08Sarah McCarroll What Do You Want From Me?! What Colleges Are Looking For CC - LO 20Rachel Black • Jacob Allen • Marianne Miller Phelps Creating New Theatre: Engaging the Personal and Political CC - LO 19/15Dan Bacalzo • Rachel Salerno • Samantha Wood • Ioannis Georgoulis Exploding Gender: Creating Space for Gender Diverse Theatre (Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Special Series) CC - M 112John Meredith • JD Stokely Design Competition: Displays Open CC - Exhibit HallMatthew Leckenbusch • Emily Strickland • Krista Franco Theatre Job Fair CC - Exhibit HallConstance Smith • April J'C Marshall Exhibit Hall Open: Commercial Exhibits & Education Expo CC - Exhibit HallVictoria Fisher FREE Headshot Booth - #519 CC - Exhibit HallAltman Lighting SCAN Trivia @ Exhibit Hall CC - Exhibit HallProduction Advantage

9:50am EST

Community Theatre Festival - "Stranger, Danger, Promise and Pledge" YPAS at duPont Manual High SchoolDramatists Play Service

10:00am EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "A Different Way of Thinking" CC - Ballroom D-EDawn Larsen • Chad McDonald • Cody Clark Magic • 4Wall Entertainment Lighting • XS Lighting & Sound

10:30am EST

Mapping Gender Parity CC - LO 17/18Rowen Haigh Inclusive Costuming, Hair and Makeup CC - LO 06Allison Amidei • Kyla Kazuschyk • Shondrika Moss-Bouldin • Hali Hutchison Make That Picture Move: Effective Use of Projection Design in Production CC - LO 10/14Cody Stockstill Making Gobos With No Budget CC - LO 20Terri Becker Secondary School Division Meeting CC - LO 07Elaine Malone • Cody Willets Ways to Start a Children's Theatre Program at Your College or University CC - LO 11Kim Correll Auditioning for RWS Corporate Entertainment CC - M 112Katie Proctor Delving Deeper Into Shakespeare Using the First Folio CC - Ballroom CPaul Hurley Simple Clarity in Performance: The Lecoq Approach CC - LO 09/05David Gaines Training Today's Action Actor CC - M 108Andrew Ray • Robert Aronowitz • Jason Tate Wake Up Your Resonators! CC - M 107Anne Swedberg • Brittany Bara Five Common Unarmed Combat Skills for the Stage CC - Ballroom ACaitlyn Herzlinger Living in the Song and Dance CC - Ballroom BGeneral Hambrick Taking the Mystery out of Auditioning CC - LO 01Addy Green Mental Health and the Character Within Us CC - M 104Joe Hernandez • Philip Searcy “Ding It” Before You Sing It: Song Analysis for Singing Actors CC - LO 04Charlie Gilbert • D'Arcy Webb Transitioning to Digital Stage Management: You Want to Use an App for THAT? CC - LO 13Shawn Paul Evans • Ken White Testimony Reminiscence Project: Uniting Seniors and Students as Family CC - LO 19/15Dr. Scott Hayes History/Theory/Lit/Crit Interest Group CC - LO 08Sarah McCarroll • Steven Burch

11:25am EST

Community Theatre Festival - "A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney" YPAS at duPont Manual High SchoolDramatists Play Service

11:30am EST

Devised Theatre for Change: Opioid Addiction CC - Ballroom D-E

11:45am EST

Actors Theatre of Louisville: Teching & Opening a Show Actors Theatre of LouisvilleRobert Barry Fleming

12:00pm EST

Arts Marketing on TikTok: A Beginner’s Guide CC - LO 20Shawn Ward • Emily Pritchard Vulnerability, Love Languages, and How They Impact the Team CC - M 104Sarah Chandler • Liz Haynes So, You Want to Be a Department Chair? CC - LO 02David Hartmann • Robin Roberts The Colder Side of Dyeing: Using Ice to Dye Fabrics CC - LO 17/18Cynthia Overton Theatrical Unions: Stage Managers, Designers and Stage Hands CC - LO 13Jeffery Cochran Directing Strategies: Conversation and Questions CC - LO 27Herb Parker • Bruce Speas • Richard St. Peter • Stephanie Earl Collaborating With Student Designers CC - LO 10/14David Navalinsky • Aubrey Snowden Filling the Gaps: Students From Novice to Beyond Advanced in the Scene Shop CC - LO 11Ryan Patterson Difficult Conversations: Classic Musical Theatre and the Modern Audience CC - LO 07Jenna Elser • Lisa Odom Directing Disability in the Classroom CC - LO 09/05Matt Greenberg Auditioning: Self-Tape Like a Pro CC - LO 01Peter Stone Creating the Soul of the Play: Chekhov's Atmospheres CC - Ballroom CPaul Hurley How to Hustle and Make a Life for Yourself in Professional Theatre CC - LO 12Karen Sabo Linklater Voice and Laban Movement CC - Ballroom ALynnae Lehfeldt • Roxanne Wellington • Anne Swedberg Out of Your Head!: Vocal Tactics to Open Up Any Performance or Monologue CC - Ballroom BNathaniel McIntyre Vocalizing the Body/Physicalizing the Voice: Integration Techniques CC - M 108Kylene Stephens • Julie Lyn Barber Being Alive: The Journey of a Song CC - LO 04Chelsea Nicholson Remembering Kathi: The Importance of Female Mentors in Theatre CC - LO 19/15Adanma Barton • Megan Burnett Theatre Etiquette 101: Behavior Tips to Get Rehired CC - LO 08Matt Reynolds

1:00pm EST

Project Compassion: A Game Confronting Genocide CC - M 108Stephen Davis Strategic Planning Committee Meeting CC - LO 21/22Maegan Azar Arts Administration Interest Group CC - LO 20Dominic Yeager Costume High Tech! CC - LO 16Tory Depew Music-Inspired Design: Free Your Creativity! CC - LO 09/05Kyla Kazuschyk • Emma Arends • Suellen da Costa Coelho KCACTF Respondent Training: Speaking to Young Artists (Part 2) CC - LO 07Joel Williams The Student Has Become the Teacher: Transitioning From Student to Professor CC - LO 27Rebecca Huguet • Dylan Bollinger • Todd Siff • Christie Connolly • Lauren Carlton • Bill West-Davis Acting and Auditioning for Anime Voice-Overs CC - LO 10/14Leraldo Anzaldua Joining Forces: Contact Improvisation for Everyone CC - Ballroom CTodd Fisher • Christine Fisher My Career Year: 12 Steps to Booking Your Best Jobs Yet CC - LO 03J. Winters Dive Into Devising: Interpreting Non-Theatrical Media CC - M 104Carrigan O'Brian Motion Capture Performance CC - Ballroom AAndrew Ray Partnering Basics: Salsa and Social Dance for the Stage CC - Ballroom BBrianna Larson Mind and Body on Stage: Getting Actors' Bodies in Sync With Their Brains CC - M 107Dan Buck How to Make Cold Reading Auditions Sizzle CC - LO 19/15Ashley Butler The Power of Partnerships in New Play Development and Production CC - LO 01Derek Green • Pamela DiPasquale • Corey Harrison Stage Management Interest Meeting CC - LO 17/18Stacy Blackburn • Karen Baker A Grassroots Guide to Great Theatre: Making Something out of Nothing CC - LO 08Maranda DeBusk • Shelby Mays • Joel Coady Musical Scene Study on Film CC - LO 12Tom Alsip Religion & Theatre Interest Group CC - LO 02Dr. Scott Hayes Why Choose a Community College Theatre Program CC - LO 11Michael Williams • Christopher Flynn • Jessica Gaffney Navigating the Business: Making Your Lived Experience an Asset (Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Special Series) CC - M 105/106Christine Bruno Playwright's Corner CC - LO 28Laura King • Darren Michael

2:30pm EST

Distinguished Career Award Keynote: North Carolina Black Repertory Company CC - Ballroom D-ELee Crouse • North Carolina Black Reperatory Company

3:30pm EST

SETC Annual Business Meeting CC - Ballroom D-EJeff Gibson

4:00pm EST

Going Rogue: DIY Captioning CC - LO 16Matthew Bivins • Lindsay Drexler • Alison Kendrick • Corinne Bass Down and Dirty Knife Fighting: Basic Knife Meets Unarmed Combat CC - M 107Regent University Performing on the Fringe or What I Did on My Summer Vacation CC - LO 13Dawn Larsen Physical Approaches to Character: The Laban Technique CC - M 104Gregg Lloyd Actorbatics: An Introduction to Droznin Russian Movement CC - M 108Carrigan O'Brian The Bridge: Where Stage Craft Meets the Technique of On-Camera Acting CC - LO 09/05Marcus Giamatti New Play Writing Workshop: Generating New Ideas CC - LO 06Josh Hartwell Student Forum CC - LO 07Kyla Kazuschyk

6:30pm EST

Secondary School Theatre Festival Recognition Ceremony CC - Ballroom D-ENorcostco

7:00pm EST

Community Theatre Division Meeting and Recognition Ceremony CC - Ballroom BTom Booth • Lynn Nelson • Dramatists Play Service President's Reception CC - South Pre-function Upper ConcourseJeff Gibson

8:00pm EST

Gala: 71st Annual Award Ceremony ($32) CC - Ballroom CBroadway Media Distribution • 4Wall Entertainment Lighting • XS Lighting & Sound

10:00pm EST

Gala Afterparty Dance CC - Ballroom A