2020 SETC Convention: Full Schedule

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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

12:00am EST

Fringe Festival Kickoff - "Lost at Santa's Village"

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Abandoned at Santa's Village, 5-year olf Tim Mooney emerges with the resolve to never be lost again… a resolve that leads to a career in the theatre, acting, directing, craving attention and developing ELEVEN one man plays! Tim examines the psychological need for full self-expression, the "ten-thousand hours" theory and how your "pathology turns into your path."

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Storyteller/singer-songwriter, Dawn Larsen grew up in the Ozarks amid lots of mountain music, arts, and storytelling. She founded and operated the last traveling Toby tent show in the country and researches and publishes about that and tent theatre. For the past two years Dawn has... Read More →

Chad McDonald

Speakers

Timothy Mooney Repertory

Executive Director, Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre

Timothy Mooney author/adaptor of "Breakneck Hamlet," "Breakneck Julius Caesar," "Lot O’Shakespeare" and "Moliere than Thou!" His acting textbook, "Acting at the Speed of Life" is popular at high schools and colleges, and his seventeen new versions of the plays of Moliere have been... Read More →

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Friday February 28, 2020 12:00am - 1:00am EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

10:00am EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "Monkey Off Back - Circus Still in Town"

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The SHOW OF A LIFETIME! (it’s autobiographical) This comical, cautionary, three-ring
tale journeys from circus clown to activist, self-medication to meditation, felony charges
to stand up comedy. One foots firmly planted in recovery. One’s stuck in the past. Step
right up…join the circus in Dick’s high-wired head!

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Chad McDonald

Speakers

Dick Satori

Sponsors

4Wall Entertainment Lighting

XS Lighting & Sound

Owner, XS Lighting & Sound

Friday February 28, 2020 10:00am - 11:00am EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

11:30am EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "Hear I Go"

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A Mime and Foley Artist find themselves in an interdimensional struggle. At first, the
boundary between them is solid. One reality silent and invisible, the other tangible and
cacophonous. Each is only minding their own business, but what happens when the
barrier between them dissolves?

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Chad McDonald

Speakers

Erin Parsons

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University

Erin is a 2nd year MFA student at The Ohio State University, with a focus on acting and the creation of new work. She is a Fight Choreographer and training to be an Intimacy Director. Her most recent interest is utilizing live sound in theatre, in contrast to recorded audio. This... Read More →

Connor Graham

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4Wall Entertainment Lighting

XS Lighting & Sound

Owner, XS Lighting & Sound

Friday February 28, 2020 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

4:30pm EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "The Attic"

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Facing an attic full of abandoned belongings, a man recalls his family's stories. Through movement and puppetry, the audience discovers the story, piecing together the past through the mementos left begind. The attic is a bittersweet, comic exploration of the things we hold on to, and those we leave behind.

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Chad McDonald

Speakers

Aaron Gotlieb

Academic Theater Professional, Georgia State U Perimeter College

Aaron Gotlieb, The Fool Errant, is returning to the southeast a "Complete Fool" after completing his MFA in Physical and Devised Theater from Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy. In addition to creating, directing and performing in his own work, he has devised new shows with Teatro... Read More →

The Fool Errant

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4Wall Entertainment Lighting

XS Lighting & Sound

Owner, XS Lighting & Sound

Friday February 28, 2020 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

10:00pm EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "Big Top"

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One actor creates a whole circus world: aerial ballerina, brutal ringmaster, pooper-scooper, the mayhem, the fight, the thrilling escape across the high wire, the faithful dog, the monkey, the clowns!

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Chad McDonald

Speakers

David Gaines

Adjunct Professor of Theatre, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

David Gaines is an actor and director who specializes in movement, mask, improvisation, commedia, and clown. A graduate of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, his London company, Moving Picture Mime Show, successfully toured the world for 10 years. He then taught at the Ecole Lecoq... Read More →

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4Wall Entertainment Lighting

XS Lighting & Sound

Owner, XS Lighting & Sound

Friday February 28, 2020 10:00pm - 11:00pm EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

11:15pm EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "This is My Heart for You"

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"Love and acceptance are the same thing. You can't have one without another." The small Appalachian town of Troublesome is being rocked by a crisis of conscience that causes a vivd cast of characters to examine their own beliefs, fears and prejudices during one hot and profound summer that will change them all.

Moderators

Dawn Larsen

Associate Professor Theatre, Francis Marion University

Chad McDonald

Speakers

The Little Company

Sponsors

4Wall Entertainment Lighting

XS Lighting & Sound

Owner, XS Lighting & Sound

Friday February 28, 2020 11:15pm - Saturday February 29, 2020 12:00am EST
CC - Ballroom D-E

Festival, Fringe

10:00am EST

Fringe Festival Performance - "A Different Way of Thinking"

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Cody combines magic with comedy & storytelling to share what being autistic is like. By placing his magic effects within formative life experiences, Cody shows how autisum makes him different, yet not so different from most people. By the time his show ends, Cody hopes you'll think different about autism.

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Festival, Fringe