KCACTF Region VIII

Broadway Bound Auburn Kicks off Festival Week.

David Auburn's play Proof premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in May 2000, and opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on October 24, 2000. His play The Columnist will open on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre April 2012. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and Joseph Kesselring Prize for Drama. His other plays include: Skyscraper, performed at the Greenwich House and published by DPS; Fifth Planet, New York Stage and Film; Miss You, HBO Comedy Arts Festival; and The Next Life, Juilliard School. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine and The New England Review. He was a member of the Juilliard playwriting program.

Ten Productions Invited to Festival

Brigham Young University - The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
California Lutheran University - Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
California State University, Fullerton - The Dramatization of 365 Days by H. Wesley Balk, adapted Bruce Goodrich
Citrus College - God Sees Dog: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal
Concordia University - The Cover of Life by R.T. Robinson
Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy - The Unseen Hand by Sam Shepard
Santa Monica College - Cesar and Ruben, A Musical by Ed Begley, Jr.
Scottsdale Community College - The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
Utah Valley University - Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Weber State University - Xanadu; Book by Douglas Carter Beane with Music & Lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar

Special Invitation
Brigham Young University and the SCERA Center for the Arts -
Concert Staging of The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Ward Wright, Randall Wright, and Marvin Payne; Based on the Book by Susan Wojciechowski, Illustrations by P.J. Lynch

Festival Registration Time! Please review the information below:

1. Click on the Festival Button above to find information about Region VIII Festival 44 including host hotel info. Register for festival at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_registration.html. Festival registration for all events and workshops is $95.00. A single day pass will be available for $35.00.

2. Additional Program Registration and/or Application Required for the Following:

Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions. Please fill out the Intent to Participate Form before January 23rd, 2012. http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_ryans.html. Clarifications have been made to the royalty and permission information on the national website. Click here to review the webpage.
Devised Performance Project. Please fill out the Intent to Participate Form before January 15th, 2012 at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_devised.html.
Critics Workshop/National Fellowship. Please fill out the Intent to Participate Form before January 23rd, 2012 at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_critics.html.
Design, Technology & Management Exhibition and Finals. Please fill out the Intent to Participate Form before January 23rd, 2012 at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_design_finals.html.
SDC Student Directing Fellowship. Application deadline January 15th, 2012. Application information can be found at http://www.kcactf-8.org/directing_SDC.html.
Region VIII Student Directing/NPP Observership. Application deadline December 15th. Application information can be found at http://www.kcactf-8.org/directing_Observ.html.
LMDA/KCACTF Student Dramaturgy Fellowship. Application deadline December 15th. Application information can be found at http://www.kcactf-8.org/Dramaturgy.html.
Program Notes Recognition . Please fill out the Application Form before January 23rd, 2012 at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_program_notes.html.
KCACTF National Stage Manager Fellowship. Application deadline January 23rd, 2012. Application information can be found at http://www.kcactf-8.org/stage_mgnt.html.
Open Jar Institute Musical Theatre Auditions. Open Jar Productions will be offering one KCACTF scholarship to their summer institute through these auditions. Information on the auditions can be found at http://www.openjarproductions.com/Auditions-Admission.html. Please fill out the Intent to Participate Form before January 23rd, 2012 at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_openjar.html.

Next Step Professional Auditions. There will be an additional $10.00 registration fee this year. You can pay this $10.00 at the time of registration or at Festival. After you have registered for the festival, please fill out the Next Step Audition Registration form at http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_next_step_st.html as there are limited spaces.

3. Faculty Workshop. Workshop proposal deadline January 10th. If you are interested in offering a workshop at Festival 44, complete http://www.kcactf-8.org/form_workshop.html.

4. KCACTF Region VIII is continuing the process of supporting a board of student representatives and a chair whose role is to present student issues to the region’s leadership in order to better serve the participating students of KCACTF. Jacob Porter at Utah Valley University is the current chair. The student board will lead a feedback session at Region VIII's festival and bring the recurring issues before the regional leadership as well as assist the leadership as they continue to develop and refine various events at the festival. Become a Facebook Friend of KCACTF Region VIII Student Advisory Board.

5.KCACTF is pleased to continue an awards program for undergraduate theatre scholars attending KCACTF participating institutions.

In order to further student activity in the discipline of Theatre Scholarship, this program encourages and rewards research and scholarly writing among undergraduates throughout the nation. Research papers on all areas of the art and craft of Theatre, the outcome of class assignments or students’ own research interests, will be reviewed by KCACTF appointed readers for cash awards, KCACTF National Festival residencies and professional development opportunities. Download complete guidelines here.

6. If you would like to serve as a respondent, please email me at john.h.binkley@csun.edu and we'll get you started in the process. We are always on the lookout for quality respondents in our region!

If you need anything KCACTF related in the Southwest, please don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks so much,

John H. Binkley
Department of Theatre
California State University Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, California 91330-8320
office: (818) 677-6497
fax: (818) 677-2080
john.h.binkley@csun.edu

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The Playwright's Bill of Rights

We’re excited about the increase of new plays and devised theatrical pieces in our region. Some schools have re-imagined plays, or taken a new creative approach with an older play. While we applaud the imagination and creativity that goes into such work, we remind you that any change to a playwright’s text must be approved by the playwright, and permission granted in writing. We cannot cut or change lines, alter the structure of the play, or essential stage directions without permission. Playwrights, agents and theatrical publishing companies are approachable and willing to work with us to obtain that permission. We should start that negotiation well before rehearsals begin.

In light of the fact that theatre is a collaborative art, we’re giving you access to “The Playwright’s Bill of Rights” discussed by Gary Garrison, an Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild of America, at our festival last year. This document is not intended to limit your creative initiative, but to help make you aware of copyright issues, and to encourage you to invite the playwright as an active member of the collaborative team. We’ve heard horror stories of playwrights being locked out of that process once the final draft is completed. This document does not seek to give the playwright unreasonable control, but to encourage an active collaboration between the whole creative team.

Irene Ryans New Plays Next Step

Design Finals Next Step

Submissions Festival

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