2010 Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule as of March 5, 2010.

Saturday, May 15

9:00 a.m.
Registration begins and continues daily in the foyer of the Civic Center.
7:30 p.m.
Craig Pospisil’s Somewhere in Between, presented by the Prince William Sound Community Drama Department, Directed by Dawson Moore.

Sunday, May 16

9:00 – 9:55 p.m.
Theatre Conference Orientation Panel with Erma Duricko, Barclay Kopchak, Dawson Moore, and Jayne Wenger.
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Room A:Acting in the Play Lab with Carrie Baker.
Room B: How to Direct a Reading of Your Own Play with Erma Duricko
Noon – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 – 3:30 p.m.
Room A: Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner and Frank Collison. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and perform a monologue written by playwrights in attendance at the Conference. Session one: preliminary work and exploration of the chosen monologues.
12:45 – 1:55 p.m.
Room B: Export Theatre: Writing styles that succeed in overseas markets, with Timothy Daly, Part One.
Room C: Class TBA
2:00– 3:25 p.m.
Room B: Playwriting Class
Room C: Class TBA
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Room A: Playwriting Class TBA
Room B: Actor’s Vocal Preparation with Carrie Baker. An introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework for actors. This technique uses modified yoga positions to open and access breath and helps the actor gain vocal power, control, and expression. Actors should wear workout clothes.
5:00 -7:25 p.m.
Welcome Reception & Fish Fry on the Civic Center lawn for Conference participants.
7:30 p.m.
An Evening with our Featured Playwrights, featuring the authors presenting short readings from their own work. Directed by Erma Duricko. Followed by a reception in the Civic Center foyer.
9:30 p.m.
Fringe Festival Kick-Off performance on the Civic Center stage.

Monday, May 17

8:00 – 8:55 a.m.
Room C: Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney.
9:00 – 10:10 a.m. Play Lab
Room A: Play
Room B: Play
Room C: Play
Lunch Room: Room A: Monologue Workshop (by appointment)
10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Room A: Basic Unarmed Combat Techniques for the Actor with Michael Hood.
Room B: Export Theatre: Writing styles that succeed in overseas markets, with Timothy Daly, Part Two.
Noon - 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 - 1:25 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Play
Room B: Schatzie Schaefers’ A Wee Rembrandt
Room C: Play
1:30 - 2:10 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Tracey E. Wood’s Alone
Room B: Barry Levine’s Sex with Brett’s Mom
Room C: Play
2:15 – 3:10 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Kate Rich’s Flip
Room B: Michael Werwie’s Valeri Marco
Room C: Francine Dick’s Living in Permafrost
3:15 – 5:00 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Jaclyn Villano’s Unanswered, We Ride
Room B: Ken Love’s Route One South
Room C: Sarah Saltwick’s She Creatures
5:00 – 7:25 p.m.
Dinner Break.
7:30 p.m.
Judd Lear Silverman’s Heart, produced by Anchorage Community Theatre
10:00 p.m.
Fringe Festival.

Tuesday, May 18

8:00 – 8:55 a.m.
Room C: Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney.
9:00 – 10:10 a.m. Play Lab
Room A: Suehyla El-Attar’s Fishbowl
Room B: David Guaspari’s Kaput
Room C: Play
Lunch Room: Monologue Workshop (by appointment)
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Jeremy B. Sony’s Twisted Tales
Room B: Play
Room C: Joe Barnes’ The Unicorn
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 1:40 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Mark Muro’s The Dream of the Giant Squid
Room B: Karyn Traut’s The Realm of Love or Folding Laundry
Room C: Carey Seward’s The Penthouse
1:45 – 2:55 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Kathleen Harper’s To Weave a Coat of Dreams
Room B: Michael S. Parson’s Dis/Connect
Room C: Play
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Damon Chua’s Dark Side of the Moon
Room B: Judd Lear Silverman’s Superhero Blues
Room C: Arlitia Jones’ Bear’s Map of the Bottom World
5:00 – 7:25 p.m.
Dinner Break.
7:30 p.m.
Production to be announced.
10:00 p.m.
Fringe Festival.

Wednesday, May 19

10:00 – 12:00 a.m.
Room A: Monologue Workshop, part two
Room B: Playwriting Class
Noon – 12:55 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 1:40 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Kathy Rucker’s Turing Tested
Room B: Steven Hunt’s Jubilation, Fairy Tale
Room C: John Kaiser’s Human Interest
1:45 – 2:25 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: P. Shane Mitchell’s And Lo the Kings
Room B: Andra Vebell’s Before Rise (Or, The Glass of Wine Play)
Room C: Linda Ayres-Frederick’s White Gloves and Patent Leather Shoes
2:30 – 3:40 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Peter J. Roth’s Quick and in My Arms
Room B: John Eller’s Even the Midnight Sun Goes Down
Room C: Play
3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Michael Solomon’s Androcles
Room B: Jerry McDonnell’s Christmas Closing In
Room C: Play
5:00 – 7:25 p.m.
Dinner Break.
7:30 p.m.
Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third, presented by Out North Theatre Company, directed by Schatzie Schaefers and starring Mark Robokoff and Aaron Wiseman, followed by a reception at the Valdez Museum. Late Night Programming
10:00 p.m.
Fringe Festival.

Thursday, May 20

8:00 – 8:55 a.m.
Room C: Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney.
9:00 – 9:55 a.m. Play Lab
Room A: Lisa Sparrell’s Starfish Jesus
Room B: Rand Higbee’s How Can I Tell If It’s Love?
Room C: Adria McCauley’s My Body, Electric
10:00 - 12:00 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Patricia Milton’s Solving Sunflowers
Room B: Paul Brynner’s The Pivot Point
Room C: Nicole Pandolfo’s Local Nobody
Noon – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 2:25 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Omar Penner Cline’s God, Scott
Room B: Gail Deschamps’ The Unforgiving Heart
Room C: Play
2:30 – 3:25 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Linda Billington’s Flotsam
Room B: Laura Neubauer’s The A-Team
Room C: : Isaac Martin’s L.O.L.
3:30 – 5:15 p.m. Play Lab
Room A:Elizabeth Birkenmeier’s Dearth, Trip, and Finn
Room B: Ed Blount’s The Glass Violin
Room C: Amy Tofte’s Family Jewel
5:15 – 7:25 p.m.
Dinner Break.
7:30 p.m.
P. Shane Mitchell’s The Courtship of Zack and Ada, presented by Cyrano’s Theatre Company. Late Night Programming
10:00 p.m.
Fringe Festival.

Friday, May 21

8:00 – 8:55 a.m.
Room C: Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney.
9:00 – 9:55 a.m. Play Lab
Room A: Geoff Kirsch’s Intelligent Design
Room B: Jason Rainey’s Schadenfreude
Room C: Play
Lunch Room: Room A: Monologue Workshop (by appointment)
10:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Anne Hanley’s Ring Around the Rosies
Room B: Play
Room C: Play
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 2:25 p.m. Play Lab
Room A:Cody Goulder’s Scavengers
Room B: Bella Poynton’s Fat Actress/Ugly Model and Other Destructive Labels for Women
Room C: Play
2:30 – 5:00 p.m. Play Lab
Room A: Eoin Carney’s Raw
Room B: Reginald Edmund’s South Bridge
Room C:Elena Hartwell’s A Strange Disappearance of Bees
5:00 – 7:25 p.m.
Dinner Break.
7:30 p.m.
An Evening of One-Act Plays from the Play Lab, presented by TBA Theatre, followed by a two-hour cruise on Stan Stephens Cruises to Shoup Glacier.

Saturday, May 22

10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Ten-Minute Play Slam.
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Monologue Workshop Final Presentation.
5:00 p.m.
Champagne Reception on the Civic Center lawn. Class and Cast Photos.
6:30 p.m.
Gala dinner, emceed by Wayne Mitchell. Musical performance, plus the presentation of the Jerry Harper Service Award.

Sunday, May 23

9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Brunch and wrap up discussion. Open to all participants.