10:00am-6:30 pm    Registration Desk/Conference Info Center 
2nd Floor

 10:30-11:45 am Session 1 
History Symposium 1: Room 213
Cultural Intersections in Performance

Chair: Ron Zank, University of Nebraska at Omaha

“Our Mutual Triumph”: Cross-Cultural Shakespeare, Jewish Identity, and the Broadway Stage”

Christina Hurtado-Pierson, Stony Brook University

“Theatre in Exile: Dmitry Krymov’s adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and Our Town amidst Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”

Greer Gerni, University of Missouri Kansas City

"You And I Are Not So Different": A Historiography of Molière at The Abbey Theatre”

Mike Franz, Chestnut Hill College

“Orientalists at the Opera: The Push for New Approaches to Early Intercultural Performance”

Brandon LaReau, Florida State University

History Symposium 2: Room 225

Creating Time and Space Onstage

Chair: David Bisaha, Binghamton University, SUNY

“Opera of the Long Shadows: The Production Enigmas of Die Frauohne Schatten in the Twenty-first Century ”

Ryan Prendergast, Carnegie Mellon University

“Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez’s El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo”

Stefano Boselli, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“Revisiting Landscape Theatre: Sunset is the Solution”

Yiqi Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Practice/Production Symposium 1: Room 226
People First: Interrogating Assumptions of Theatrical Labor 

Chair: Emily Finck, University of Minnesota

“Performer Wellness Between Roles”

Troy Coleman, University at Buffalo SUNY

“Must the Show Go On?: Imagining Flexibility in Theatre Production”

Vandy Scoates, Wilkes University

Alison Morooney, Wilkes University

 “Creating Cultures of Care in Theater“

Sophie Peyton, Freelance Artist

Kassy Skoretz, Anoka Ramsey Community College

Pedagogy Symposium 1: Room 232
“Who’s Teaching the Teachers?: Resources for Workshop Leaders”

Chair: Collin Vorbeck, Blackburn College

Panelists:

Cat Gleason, Truman State University

Justin Maxwell, University of New Orleans

Mary Trotter, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Wes Pearce, University of Regina

Pedagogy Symposium 2: Room 235

“From Pandemic to AI: Challenges and Practical Tips”

Chair: Jennifer Lale, Indiana University

“Universal Design or Lawn-Mower Parenting?”

Lynn Deboeck, University of Utah

“Digital Engagement and Arts Methods”

Leslie Gulden, Texas Tech University

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Room A: Room 313

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Room B: Room 335

 11:45-12:45 pm Lunch Break 

 12:45-2:00 pm Session 2  
History Symposium 3: Room 213

Performance as Remembrance or Memorial

Chair: Christina Hurtado-Pierson, Stony Brook University

“Difficult days ahead…”: Intertextuality and Community in Eulogistic Performance”

Keith Byron Kirk, Virginia Commonwealth University

“The Kigali Genocide Memorial: A Site/Sight for Performance, Remains, and the Ubumuntu Arts Festival”

Karin Waidley, University of Michigan

“Dance, Sex, and Death in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman”

Samson Akanni, Bowling Green State University

History Symposium 4: Room 225

Explorations in Digital Performance/Technology

Chair: Ryan Prendergast, Carnegie Mellon University

“Choose Your Own Adven-Theatre: Engaging the Playtron in Contemporary Theatricality
Emry Sottile, Northwestern University

“White Noise: TV as White Devil in Black Technophobic Drama”

Mackenzie Bounds, University of Washington

“Lighting Abstraction in the Early Twentieth Century: Lumia and the Spectacle”

David Bisaha, Binghamton University, SUNY

“Photographing the Future: Searching for the ‘Significance’ of the Harlem Renaissance in Modern Photo Portraiture”

Shadow Zimmerman, Long Beach City College

Practice/Production Symposium 2: Room 226

Grappling with Emotional Weight: Directing Solutions

Chair: Karen M. Dabney, University of Virginia (UVA Acts)

““I have a way to do it that won’t hurt”: Accessing Violence Without Inflicting it in Rehearsal” 

Emily Finck, University of Minnesota

 “She’s Dragon Me Down: Adapting to Grief in She Kills Monsters”

Cason Murphy, Iowa State University

“Beyond Barriers: Puppets, Projections, and Pussy Power – Pinning Yourself to Midwest Progress”

Marzi Ashrafian, University of Kansas

Pedagogy Symposium 3: Room 232

“Making Contemporary Indian-Language Theatres Intelligible in the US Theatre Classroom”

Chair: Slade Billew, Stephen F. Austin State University

“What Makes Multilingual Indian Theatre Intelligible in the American Classroom: The Pedagogy of Non-Europhone, Non-Western Cultural Forms”

Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin - Madison

“Bridging Histories, Revisiting Paradigms: Exploring the Colonial/Postcolonial Continuum in Peruvian and Indian Theaters”

Gabriela Yepes-Rossel, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Learning/Unlearning the Modern Stage: Understanding Indian Theatre Through the Ecologies of Multilingualism and Translation”

Shrinjita Biswas, University of Wisconsin - Madison

“From the Iranian to the Indian Avant-Garde: Political Resistance in Two Asian Theatres

Ali Mansouri, University of Wisconsin - Madison

“The Connecting Cultural Threads Between Nigerian and Indian Theatre”

Kehinde Olukayode, University of Wisconsin - Madison

“From Monolingual to Multilingual: New Perspectives on Modern Indian Theatre”

Arijit Banerjee, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Practice/Production Symposium 3: Room 235

Musical Theatre in Production

Chair: Kassy Skoretz, Anoka Ramsey Community College

“Immigration and Musical Theatre: Staged Assimilation as seen in The Immigrant, Haven, the Dramatized Orchestral Work Ellis Island: The Dream of America, and Troupers: A Musical Vaudeville”

Anne Healy, University of Texas at Arlington

“Do You Think We Think You’re Alice? – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, and the Looking-Glass of Musical Adaptations”

John Berst, University of Miami

“Modernist Principles in Theatrical Space: An Examination of 'Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”

André Brandão de Castro, The Pennsylvania State University

Playwriting Symposium 1: Room 309

Introduction Session

Chair: Nathan Bowman, Benedictine College

 2:15-3:30 pm Session 3  

History Symposium 5: Room 213

Performance, Politics, and U.S. Presidents

Chair: Stefano Boselli, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“Honey, I am the Chandelier!": Camp, Realness, and Subjectivity in Roger Q. Mason's "Lavender Men"

Tyler Adams, Ohio University, School of Interdisciplinary Arts

“Quelling Catwoman: Eartha Kitt, the Vietnam War, and White Women’s Tears”

Kirsten Pullen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Conservative Theatrics: Finding Individuality through Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

Ty Hudson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

History Symposium 6: Room 225

Deception and Delusion in Drama

Chair: Rob Shimko, University of Vermont

“The Legacy of “Jewface”: From Oberammergau to Bradley Cooper”

Jesse Njus, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Acting in Bad Faith: Theorizing Deceptive Performance in a Post-Truth World”

John Fletcher, Louisiana State University

“Stanislavsky’s Moor: The Racial Politics of the System” 

Stefka Mihaylova, University of Washington

Practice/Production Symposium 4: Room 226

Movement, Empathy, and Intimacy: Michael Chekhov and Beyond 

Chair: Ron Zank, University of Nebraska-Omaha

“Process of Protest: Embodying Antigone”

Julian Stetkevych, Elon University

 “Creative Containers: The Intersection of Chekhov and Intimacy”

Lana Sugarman, University of Minnesota

 “I Can Only Imagine: Empathy as Kinesthetic Act”

Cate Heiner, Middle Tennessee State University

Pedagogy Symposium 4: Room 232

“Targeted Case Studies for Broader Equity”
Chair: Jackie Rosenfeld, Texas A&M University - Commerce

“Imageless, Not Themeless: Aphantasia and Actor Training Pedagogy”

Christopher Staley, Texas Tech University

Ella Ashley, Texas Tech University 

““Rompiendo la Cuarta Pantalla”: Breaking the Fourth Screen in Spanish-Language Theatre Instruction”

Marin Laufenberg, Idaho State University

““Daring Greatly” and How Shame Research Benefits Performance”

Karie Miller, Grinnell College

Pedagogy Symposium 5: Room 235

Workshop: Engaging and Empowering Students through Improv and Technology
Chair: Slade Billew, Stephen F. Austin State University

“Improv for Student-Teacher Negotiation: Using an Improv Mindset to improve student-teacher communication in higher education”

Brooke Oehme, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Space A: Room 313

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Space B: Room 335

Rehearsals

 3:45-5:00 pm Session 4  

History Symposium 7: Room 213

Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre

Chair: Mackenzie Bounds, University of Washington

“Independently Owned (and Operating): Nostalgia and the Dramaturgy of Shucked”

Frederick Miller, University of Pittsburgh

“Now We Are Here”: Nostalgia, Rollerskates, and Xanadu! The Musical”

Christiana Harkulich, Eastern Illinois University

“Revisiting Allegiance: Tensions Between Memory and History in Musicals”

Beth Osborne, Florida State University

“‘We’re in the Money?’ Or In It For the Money? Examining a Century of Musical Theatre Sources”

Ron Zank, University of Nebraska at Ohama

Theatre/Practice Session 4: Room 226

Practicing Access/Accessible Practice: Building a Disability-Inclusive Theatre

Chair: Catherine (Katya) Vrtis, Independent Scholar

“Developing Accessible Practices for Directors Working with Actors with Specific Learning Disabilities”

Clara Kundin, Arizona State University

“Building Cultures of Access in University Theatre: Reflections on Corsicana at the University of Pittsburgh”

Alison Mahoney, University of Pittsburgh

“My Year with Teenage Dick”

Winter Phong, University of Kentucky

Pedagogy Symposium 6: Room 232

“Decentered Playwriting in the Classroom”
Chair: Collin Vorbeck, Blackburn College

“Breaking, Examining, Reassembling: An Introduction to Decentered Playwriting”

Les Hunter, Baldwin Wallace University

Eric Micha Holmes, Goddard College

“Playwrights as Architects of Third Space”

Sarah Johnson, Indiana University - Bloomington

“Disaesthetics in Hip Hop Dramaturgy: Ruminations on Thinking and Doing”

Wind Woods, University of Puget Sound

“First People First: Community-based Theatre Praxis in Native American and Indigenous Spaces”

Carolyn Dunn, Cal State - Los Angeles

Pedagogy Symposium 7: Room 235

Workshop: Performance Pedagogy through Inclusion and Puppetry

Chair: Kirsten Pullen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Period Drama Training from a Culturally Inclusive Contemporary Framework”

Troy Scarborough, Texas Tech University

“Puppetry’s Transformative Potential in Actor Development”

Amanda Petefish-Schrag, Iowa State University

Jennifer Lale, Indiana University

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Space A: Room 313

Playwriting Symposium Rehearsal Space B: Room 335

 5:00-6:15 pm Dinner Break 

Around Madison

University Theatre: Wine in the Wilderness panel discussion/Q&A with members of design, dramaturgy, and production team at 5:30 pm (Lobby of Ronald E. Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall - 821 University Avenue). For Wine in the Wilderness show dates and times, go HERE.

 6:15-7:30 pm Session 5: All Conference Session 

Theatre/Practice Session on Accessibility with guest artist T.S. Banks: Room 235

Chair: Catherine (Katya) Vrtis, Independent Scholar

“Loud ‘N Unchained: QTMad-Krip Storytelling, Community Care and Abolition”

T.S. Banks, Loud ‘N Unchained Theater Company, Madison, WI

 8:00-9:15 pm Session 6: All Conference Event 

Hot Topics: Alumni Lounge in Pyle Center

Convener: Jen Plants, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 9:30 pm-12:00 am Fellows Opening Night Reception 

Overture Center

All conference attendees invited.