2008 AATE Conference Schedule (as of May 5, 2008)
Below you will find an outline of the conference schedule of breakout sessions for each day. Please note that only one session chair is listed for each session in this version of the schedule, but all presenters listed on your proposal will appear in the conference program and the final version of the online schedule. Additional details on sessions and other events will be available in the conference program, and may be available on the website in June. Please note that all session and event times and locations are subject to change.
Conference Schedule Outline:
Thursday, July 24 |
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8:00am – 6:00pm |
Paid Intensive Workshops* |
10:00am – noon |
All-Conference Excursion to MLK Center |
1:00pm – 6:00pm |
Exhibits Open |
1:00pm – 4:15pm |
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4:30pm – 6:00pm |
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4:00pm – 6:30pm |
Internship/Job Fair |
7:30pm – 9:00pm |
Opening Ceremonies |
9:00pm – 10:00pm |
New Guard Reception |
10:00pm |
Playwright Slam |
Friday, July 25 |
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8:00am – 6:00pm
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Exhibits Open |
8:00am – 12:00pm |
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9:00am – 12:00pm |
Paid Intensive Workshops* |
12:00pm – 12:30pm |
Exhibitor Reception and Giveaway |
2:00pm – 5:00pm |
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5:00pm – 6:30pm |
Network Meetings |
7:30pm --11:00pm |
Spotlight on Playwrights |
Saturday, July 26 |
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8:00am – 9:00am |
Keynote: Breakfast with Susan V. Booth, Artistic Director, Alliance Theatre, Recipient of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award, Atlanta, GA |
9:00am – 12:00pm |
Spotlight Atlanta workshops (TBA) |
12:30pm – 2:30pm |
AATE Awards Luncheon* |
2:45pm – 3:45pm |
AATE Annual Meeting |
4:00pm – 6:00pm |
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4:00pm – 7:00pm |
Exhibits Open |
7:00pm – 11:00pm |
On-site Performances |
Sunday, July 27 |
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8:00am – 9:00am |
Network Meetings |
9:00am – 11:15am |
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11:30am – 1:00pm |
Closing Ceremonies |
* Some luncheons and excursions are optional and require pre-registration at additional charge. All times, sessions, and presenters subject to change.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Please note that only one session chair is listed for each session in this version of the schedule, but all presenters listed on your proposal will appear in the conference program and the final version of the online schedule. Additional details on sessions and other events will be available in the conference program, and may be available on the website in June. Please note that all session and event times and locations are subject to change.
THURSDAY, JULY 24th, 2008
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
1:00pm - 2:30pm
| TH | Building a Collaborative Creative Classroom | Sheila Kerrigan |
| TH | Listen & Learn: The New York City Theatre Legacy Project | Dr. Joseph Furnari |
| TH | A Vision of Playful Footsteps | Kerstin Mercer |
| TH | Touching Up the Footprints, Transmitting the Dream: Dynamic Tips to Improve Your Performance Pieces | Glenys McQueen-Fuentes |
| TH | Forgotten Treasures | Laura Turner |
| TH | A Shrug is not Just a Shrug: Creating an empathic community through understanding the unspoken language of the body | Arianna Ross |
| TH | Was that 8’ or 8” ?: Teaching Practical Communication in Technical Theatre |
Steven L. Barker |
| TH | PATHWAYS: Improvisation Exercises that Establish Ensemble & Provide Exciting Starting Points for Devising Original Theatre | Lisa Barker |
| TH | Youth Theatre in Action: What Does Good Work Look Like? | David Markey |
| TH | "Painting Your Actors with Light: Lighting Design for Directors" | Bob Fowler |
| TH | Learning Through the Arts: The creation and crafting of an arts-integration professional development program | Lauren Kane Eskovitz |
| TH | Moving Teachers from Awareness to Practice | Carmine Tabone |
2:45pm - 4:15pm
| TH | Reaching All of our Students: Arts Integration in Action | Lenore Blank Kelner |
| TH | A Conversation with 2008 Childrens Theatre Foundation of America Medallion Recipients | Dorothy Webb |
| TH | Innovative Theatre Teacher Preparation: Exploring Essential Questions on Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Today’s Schools— CONTINUED from last summer! |
Jo Beth Gonzalez |
| TH | Developing Forum Theatre for Youth: Strategies, Struggles, and Successes | Liz Brendel |
| TH | Inspire, get ED! Arts Integrated Learning in Community Partnerships | Jennifer Nario |
| TH | Creating a Classroom community through drama | Desiree Hamburger |
| TH | How do Classroom Teachers Develop and Assess Creative Achievement in Their Students?: Preliminary Results from International Case Studies in Drama/Theatre Education / Using Rubric Scale to Build an Assessment Model for Drama Education in the Elementary School in Taiwan |
Laura A. McCammon / Dr. Mei-chun Lin |
| TH | How to Create a Successful Internship | Cheryl Kaplan |
| TH | The 2008 Puppet Election: Promoting Political Awareness in the Classroom Through Puppetry |
Laurie Melnik |
| TH | Building a Better Mousetrap: ASU> '> s Tour Bus program | Pamela Sterling |
| TH | Embracing Challenge and Change: Recommendations for Secondary Theatre Education / “Basically, I come to school to get my drama credit”: What drama class teaches us about student motivation and retention. |
April Gentry-Sutterfield / Debra McLauchlan |
| TH | Letting Everyone Play: The Philosophical and Practical Implications of Inclusion. | Diane Nutting |
4:30pm-6:00pm
| TH | Language Arts & Drama: Terrific Books & Stories to Dramatize (in class or on stage!) | Jean Prall Rosolino |
| TH | Making footprints -- using mandalas to collect stories in a safe way | Jill Parris |
| TH | PROTEAN SPECTACLE: CREATING TRANSFORMATIONAL COSTUMES, PROPS, AND SCENERY | Kim Alan Wheetley |
| TH | Reproducing Americans: The Children’s Theatre Unit of the FTP / Nellie McCaslin: Footprints of a Pioneer in Theatre Education | Angela Sweigart-Gallagher / Dr. Ann McCormack |
| TH | Beyond the Stage: Methods of Study Guide Writing |
Scott Anthony Lupi |
| TH | Taking a Show on Tour: Strategies and Challenges | Valerie Rhymer |
| TH | Young Native Voices: Theatre Education Project at Sycuan Reservation | Crystal Mercado |
| TH | Interactive Pedagogy: Applied Drama in the Theatre Classroom | Sarah Myers |
| TH | Workshopping New Plays with Secondary Students | Dr. John Newman |
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2008
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
8:00am - 9:00am
| FR | Common Ground: Interfacing Generations | Dr. Cynthia Brown |
| FR | Following the footprints of several Theatre in Education companies in England | Allison Downey |
| FR | Professional Development Partnerships in Drama-based Instruction: Linking Public Schools, Universities, and Communities | Katie Dawson |
| FR | Towards a TYA and Youth Theatre “Contract” | Matt Omasta |
| FR | Get’em Writing! A playwriting workshop exploring fun ways to get young people writing | Tamara Goldbogen |
| FR | Mock Election 2008: Stepping in Role to Understand the Election Process | Laurie Melnik |
| FR | Arts Integration Training—A Panel of the Best | Jennifer Ridgway |
| FR | Theatre Education in an Urban Public School: Challenges Faced and Mistakes Made | Betsy Quinn |
| FR | Act Like a Child: Practical Methods to Find the Child-like Qualities in Adult Actors | Shelli C. Kinsley |
9:15am - 10:15am
| FR | Playwrights in the Rainforest: A Child’s Voice | Jennifer Vitrano |
| FR | Dogwood’s Search: A TIE Original Production | Glenda Hensley |
| FR | Breaking Through; Fun Drama Games that Inspire | Shea Schatell |
| FR | Staying Light on your Feet with Museum Theatre | Pam Duncan |
| FR | Taking steps towards the 2009 Applied Theatre / TIE Pre-Conference | Allison Downey |
| FR | Sex Education: A Theatre and Media Approach to Teaching Sexuality, Gender and Sexual Health | Paula Gilovich |
| FR | Does Your Theatre Have a “Safe Theatre Policy?” | Nora Matthews |
| FR | Envisioning and Educating the Future: Examining the academic and professional preparation of theatre educators and teaching artists in policy contexts. |
Lori Hager |
| FR | Authentic Connections: Dramaturgy by Students for Professional Theatre | Carol T. Jones |
| FR | 2 Years on Tour: Creating Lasting Impressions with Partners in Education | Rachel Briley |
| FR | “Speak the Speech: Applying Choral Speak in Class and Rehearsal” | Kathryn Eckert |
10:30am - 12 noon
| FR | Walking the Tightrope: Meeting the educational needs of teachers | Deb Vaughn |
| FR | Building Voices out of Silence: Theater Work with the Deaf Community | Jennifer Strycharz |
| FR | Walking from TIE to Applied Theatre: Footprints from the field. | Andrea Dishy |
| FR | Managing to Walk when Your Feet go in Different Directions!: Challenges for Theatre Education Faculty in Administrative Positions |
Laura A. McCammon |
| FR | Shakespeare for the Committed: Reaching Juvenile Offenders and Urban Youth through the Work of the Bard | Nicole Smith |
| FR | Music & Lyrics: Songwriting in the Classroom | Kati Koerner |
| FR | The Nightingale, an original adaptation of the story by Hans Christian Andersen as told by the Tarradiddle Players, resident touring company of the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. |
Valerie Rhymer |
| FR | Performance as a learning medium in museums: does it work? | Tony Jackson |
| FR | Walking Together: Devising the Dream | Dr. Gregory Gurley |
| FR | Theatre in Health Education | Cheryl Kaplan |
| FR | The Process is the Message | Dr. Sherry Kerr |
| FR | Engaging Young Playwrights: Tools and Techniques to Spark the Writing Process | Sarah Myers |
2:00pm - 3:30pm
| FR | Creating Original Performance with At-Risk Youth | Sheila Kerrigan |
| FR | Calling All Directors | Jeanne Hopson |
| FR | New Prints and Pathways: Undergraduate Research on TYA and TIE | Oona Kersey |
| FR | Old Time Radio Theatre Brings Local History to Life | Francene Kirk |
| FR | Career & Professional Development: Articulating the needs and desires of our membership, identifying current mechanisms, exploring future possibilities |
Scott Rosenow |
| FR | Ideologies at Play in the United States: Stepping in the Past, the Present, Future. | Manon van de Water |
| FR | The Matrix: Creating A Practical Model for Designing Cross-Curricular Arts Residencies | Jennifer Barnette |
| FR | The Creative Arts Team: Interactive Storytelling in the Early Childhood Classroom – A Collaboration Between the Teller and Audience. |
Helen Wheelock |
| FR | Explore, Create, Expand: Theatre-in-Education Strategies as Dramaturgical Events | Julia Ashworth |
| FR | In Our Own Voice: Building Empathy and Community with Big Apple Playback Theatre. | Professor Hannah Fox |
3:45pm - 5:00pm
| FR | Create, Connect, Collaborate, Combine: The Alliance Theatre’s “The Collision Project” in the Classroom | Carol Fuller, Karen Ramps |
| FR | Creating New Models for Sustainable Theatre | Abel Cronejo |
| FR | It’s a Boy!/It’s a Girl! Using Process Drama to Explore the Construction of Gender | Sara Simons |
| FR | Lessons Learned from Serial interns: Successful Internship models | Lauren Appel |
| FR | Exploring Philosophy through Dramatic Pedagogy: Mantle of the Expert in Higher Education | Dr. Sherry Kerr |
| FR | “Living the Life…an environment inspired creative exploration” | Lisa Lang |
| FR | Excellence on Stage and In Life: Mosaic’s Model for Youth Development through the Arts | Rick Sperling |
| FR | Youth Theatre Network: Games Exchange VI | David Markey |
| FR | After School Programs: Creating a Footprint |
Gordon Hensley |
| FR | The Pickle Patch Bathtub – an original musical production for young audiences | Amy Ressler |
| FR | Follow your Gut: Design from the Inside Out | Meredith A Hoppe |
SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Saturday morning, 8am - 12noon
Spotlight Atlanta Sessions, TBA (concurrently with Spotlight Atlanta paid excursions)
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| SAT | Dreaming can be dangerous to your health | Juliana Saxton |
| SAT | Teens Devising For Teens: An Exploration of Sexual Health and the AIDS Crisis | Robin Willis |
| SAT | Acting with Conscience: Walking in Gandhi’s Footsteps | Manual Brian Simmons |
| SAT | Gossamer and Eat—New Plays at OCT and DCT | Deb Vaughn |
| SAT | Assessments and Evaluations: The Written Variety. | Shawnda Moss |
| SAT | Sak Pase? Nap Boule | Daphne Sicre |
| SAT | Directing “Hybrid” Productions: Telling the Story with Theatre, Music, Visual Arts, Dance/Movement and Film. | Wendy Bable |
| SAT | Calling the Hero, Invoking the Seer: Using Jungian Archetypes for an Acting Tool with Youth |
Steven L. Barker |
| SAT | Audio GPS to Help Navigate Your Sound System | Bob Fowler |
| SAT | Shakespeare’s Family: Using Interactive Performance to Explore With Classic Conflicts | Nick Bazo |
Saturday Evening on-site performances (concurrently with Saturday evening paid excursions to NBAF)
SAT 7:15PM: BAT BOY!, North Springs Performing Arts Magnet School Production, Director Brian Kimmel
SAT 8:45: Private Stories, Public Schools, performance by: Jill Holden
SAT 10PM: Spring Break '08: Tempe or Bust, Performance and Reflection on a Graduate Student Collaboration, Chair: Michelle Kable
SUNDAY JULY 27, 2008
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
9:00am-10:00am
| Sun | Collaborating Across Boundaires: Long Distance Artistic and Education Partnerships | Deb Vaughn |
| SUN | Ignoring the Borders: Using Theatre Arts in Guatemala, China and United States Classrooms | Joni Starr |
| SUN | TIE: Creating Campus Partnerships for Sustainability | Glenda Hensley |
| SUN | Drama and the Dream: Exploring Dr. King’s Dream of Social Justice through Drama. | Shannon Hawkins |
| SUN | First Draft Foothills | Lindsay Price |
| SUN | Youth as Cultural Agents: Community Building as Acts of Intervention, Celebration and Transfer | Heather Stickeler |
| SUN | Linking Classroom Drama and Humane Education: Practical Applications of Using Drama as a Teaching Tool within the NYC Public Schools | Karina Naumer |
| SUN | Wired and Wireless Microphones for Theatre Performances | David Mendez |
| SUN | Building a Cycle of Play Development: Faculty and Students Writing Original Plays for Young Audiences | Rachel Evans |
| SUN | Windows Into the Work—Walking the Dream of Artist Collaboration | Jennifer Ridgway |
| Sun | Theatre Education Coalition Meeting (Required) | Steve Barberio |
| Sun | Shakespeare Set Free! Techniques from The Folger Shakespeare Library,Washington D.C. | Julia Perlowski |
10:15am-11:15am
| SUN | Creating Dynamic Teacher Resource Guides | Claire McDonald |
| SUN | Ten years later: Four adults discuss the impact of participation in high school drama and theatre on their current lives and careers |
Helen Zdriluk |
| SUN | Leave Only Footprints: Eco-Critical Approaches to Theatre for Young Audiences | Doyle Ott |
| SUN | Translating the Vision, Finding the Footsteps: Transforming Text and Other Sources into Image-Movement Theatre. | Glenys McQueen-Fuentes |
| SUN | From the Mouth and Memory of Appalachian Miners- an ethnographic undergraduate research opportunity. | Celi Oliveto |
| SUN | TIE in United States’ Schools: Examining the Triangulation of Art, Education, and Community in Four American Educational Theatre Companies |
Allison Metz |
| SUN | Discover Musical Theatre in the Classroom | Debra Jean Zwicker-Sobrepena |
| SUN | The Dyslexia Theatre Project: A Drama-Based Professional Development | Spencer Sutterfield |
| SUN | Empowering Students with Power Tools; Creating a Tech Theatre Program in your School | Julian Lazarus |
11:30am: CLOSING CEREMONIES Including a panel discussion and performance! Details TBA.