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 Festival Activities Include:

The Design Finals

Stage Management at Festival
Stage management fellowship applicants gain hands-on experience by managing a festival event.

Next Step Interviews and Auditions
An opportunity to interview with professional companies and Graduate programs.


Workshops
Each day workshops are held on topics that range from conceptualizing a play to specific techniques in research, design and technical execution.

DESIGN FINALS 

General Information

  • All student designers & technical directors of associate and participating production are invited to the regional festival. You should be contacted by the Regional Design & Technology Chair. If you believe that you have qualified for the Design Finals (or if you are unsure), but have not yet been contacted, please ask the Regional Design & Technology Chair.
  • You must be registered for the Festival in order to participate in the Design Finals.
  • You may present one design per design category.
  • Register for the Festival using the Festival Registration Form.
  • Register for the Design Finals by sending the Design Finals Registration Form to the Regional Design Coordinator.
  • Once you have registered, you will be assigned a time to present your design.  If we have no response from you by February 1, we cannot guarantee we will have a time available for you.  Please note any possible time conflicts on the registration form.
  • At Festival you will be assigned a 4' x 4' display space.  It is likely you will not have room for all your required design materials but you should have them available for your oral presentation.

Adjudication Process

  • Designs are evaluated on the basis of your gallery display and your oral presentation.
  • Each designer will give a five minute period to offer an oral presentation of their design which will be followed by a three minute question and answer session by the design panel.
  • The five minute presentation will be timed and the designer may not exceed the time limit. Please plan your presentation accordingly.

Presentation Essentials

Do You Have Everything?

•Written Concept Statement

•Photo documentation of all visual designs

•Research Materials or other supplemental material to explain your design process

•Mounting materials for gallery display

•Slides in carousel (check for direction and order prior to Festival)

•Audio and/or Video tapes or CD-Roms

  • Costumes: (See detailed recommendations for the Barbizon Costume Finals)
    • 6-12 swatched renderings not more than 18" x 24" matted
    • color chart for costumes not rendered
    • 3 drawings showing progression from initial sketch.
  • Lighting: (See detailed recommendations for the Barbizon Lighting Finals)
    • Light plot, hook up, instrument schedule, section and color palette mounted no larger than 26" x 40" per board (scale may be 1/4" or reduced by xerographic means)
    • sample cue sheets with a description of desired looks
    • rough sketches of significant lighting looks
    • paint and color sketches of set/costumes
  • Scenery: (See detailed recommendations for the Barbizon Scenery Finals)
    • plans and renderings matted no larger than 26' x 40", or a 1/4" scale model
    • bluelines
    • 3 drawings showing progress from initial sketch
  • Sound: (See detailed recommendations for the KCACTF Sound Design Finals)
    • recorded documentation of design
    • single line drawings using standard audio symbols mounted no larger than 24" x 36"
    • stage sectional showing speaker and equipment placement
  • Make-up: (See detailed recommendations for the Mehron Makeup Award)
    • 6-12 representative drawings labeled with make-up colors mounted no larger than 11" x 14"
    • A color chart for non-rendered designs
  • Properties:
    • Sketches and renderings of designed properties mounted no larger than 18" x 24" or a model or models
    • illustration of process
    • construction detail drawings.
  • Technical Direction :
    • Construction Drawings including any Groundplan, Section, Elevation and Detail drawings necessary to complete the project.
    • Sample Design Drawings as they relate to the Construction Drawings.
    • Initial Labor Estimate and Production Build Schedule with projected and actual milestones/deadlines.
    • Other supporting research materials, notes, or sketches showing development and analysis of the project.
    • Photographs of construction process.

The KCACTF National Festival Stage Manager Fellowship

This fellowship may be applied for by students who have stage managed an associate or participating entry. Student stage managers must be nominated by the director of the production they stage managed (or appropriate faculty mentor if the director is also a student). Letters of nomination should be sent to the regional design & technology chair, and copied to the regional chair. Please be sure to provide contact information, including email, for all student stage managers.

Please send materials by December 10th to:

Geof Eroe
Email: geoffrey.eroe@pcmail.maricopa.edu

Finalists will be selected from throughout the region and informed prior to Festival. Each finalist will be interviewed at Festival by a panel of regional judges, and each will be given a stage managing assignment at Festival. One student will selected as Region VIII's national nominee. A national committee with then interview each of the National nominees from the eight regions and one will be selected to stage manage the KCACTF National 10-Minute Play Festival in April at the Kennedy Center.