KCACTF2017: Full Schedule

12:00pm PST

Respondent's Lunch

Responding is at the heart of what KCACTF offers our schools and we want to say welcome and thank you!! If you are an active respondent or would like to start responding to shows in your area, please join us for a gathering and Region Hosted lunch. There will be a brief orientation outlining the respondent training sessions for the week, a chance to network and reconnect with others who serve the region, and a time for us to celebrate the important work we all do. Please gather downstairs in the host hotel lobby by 11:45 am to walk the short distance to the Paramount together, or meet us there.

Speakers

Patrick Dizney

Chair, KCACTF Region VII

Incoming Chair of Region VII, Professor of Performance at Central Washington University, Respondent Coordinator, Next Step Coordinator, and CoHost for the Regional Festival. Please feel free to contact me about anything Festival related. We are excited for you to be here and work... Read More →

Michelle Felten

Monday February 20, 2017 12:00pm - 1:20pm PST
Paramount Café 519 16th Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

10:30am PST

Responding to Devised Works

For faculty respondents, this workshop will discuss how one might taylor your response to a devised work in comparison to a scripted play response.

Speakers

Rich Brown

Professor, Western Washington University

Deviser/actor/director/teacher. Carnegie Foundation’s State of Washington Professor of the Year 2015 KC/ACTF’s National Outstanding Lead Deviser/Director 2012 for "US"

Tuesday February 21, 2017 10:30am - 11:50am PST
Quartz Boardroom, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

12:00pm PST

Respondent Training

Are you interested in responding to shows throughout the region? This training is aimed at structuring a successful response to shows. Festival participants will practice by seeing festival shows, attending festival responses, and practice responding for each other. This is also a great workshop for folks who are already out in the trenches responding and want to brush up or refine skills. We will have a limited number of copies of Fragile Magic, a book that helps faculty fashion effective and useful responses.

Speakers

Michelle Felten

Tuesday February 21, 2017 12:00pm - 1:20pm PST
Quartz Boardroom, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

12:00pm PST

Respondent Training

Meet with the group again to discuss the process, troubleshoot, share ideas. Optional, but encouraged.

Speakers

Michelle Felten

Wednesday February 22, 2017 12:00pm - 1:20pm PST
Aspen A, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

1:30pm PST

'The Sh*t We Put Up With”: War Stories in Pursuing Academic Theatre

For a TD, the pursuit of tenure can be an exhausting process. When one has to teach at a remote satellite campus of a major university where civilization and culture consist of Wal-Mart, where do you go for outside production work? When one has to deal with tenured faculty who won’t do their job in a timely manner, but can’t be held accountable, what do you do? All too often, the technical faculty are subjected to the same tenure responsibilities as design faculty. Is it fair? Should it be changed?? Come here my story, and see my scars. Decide if I have a valid point or if I am just a whiner. If you are considering going into academic theatre and have questions or have had problems in the past, this is the workshop for you!

Speakers

Gregory Owen

Wednesday February 22, 2017 1:30pm - 2:50pm PST
Quartz Boardroom, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

12:00pm PST

Respondent Training

Meet with the group again to discuss the process, troubleshoot, share ideas. Optional, but encouraged.

Speakers

Michelle Felten

Thursday February 23, 2017 12:00pm - 1:20pm PST
Quartz Boardroom, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session

10:30am PST

Respondent Training

In this last training session, respondents will work with small groups to practice their own responses, based upon Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.

Speakers

Michelle Felten

Friday February 24, 2017 10:30am - 11:50am PST
Quartz Boardroom, Embassy Suites 1400 Stout Street Denver, CO

Workshop, Faculty Session