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Another big day...

The final installment of the 2015 Student Leadership Program.

Chapter Select Showcase: Jerry Finnegan’s Sister (Kentucky Thespians, Troupe 3161, Owensboro High School), ‘dentity Crisis (Maryland Thespians, Troupe 3707, Bullis School), Smokey Joe’s Café (Indiana Thespians, Troupe 5151, Silver Creek High School), Lockdown (New Jersey Thespians, Troupe 6185, The Performing Arts Academy of the OCVTS)

Thespian Playworks staged readings: The Okay Kids; Atlas’s Equal

Main stage event: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Troupe 4982, Bradford High School, Kenosha, Wisconsin), Unexpected Tenderness (Troupe 1887, Riverton High School, Riverton, Wyoming)

Freestyle Theatre: Group: the Musical (Texas Thespians, Troupe 7372, Cypress Ranch High School), A Gleeful Variety from Saipan (Western Pacific Island Thespians, Troupe 5374, Marianas High School)

Generations Gala dance

WORKSHOPS:

Acting: Accent fun: Irish; Advanced Rasaboxes; Cell-ebrate acting; Creating believable stage villains; Enticing, expressive ensemble experiences; Finding the event of the scene; Impulses through Viewpoints; The perfect monologue; Physicality and the imagination; Sing your act off; Shhhhhh! Silence is golden; Sketch comedy from beginning to…; Unmasking the heart of creativity; Your (naked) body as a costume; Your (naked) body as a costume

Auditions: Colleges & Careers: Stage to screen

Dance: Broadway-style tap; Contemporary jazz

Directing & Dramaturgy:

Dramatic Writing: Let’s write; Thespian Musicalworks: Write a musical

General Theatre/Special Topics: Hello! Your baby; Theatre teacher superhero action figure game; What was my adjudicator thining

Musical Theatre & Voice: Acting a song

Stage Combat: Characters in conflict; Kill or be killed; Selliing the fight

Teachers Only:

Whew!! Today was awesome!

Early in the AM. Student leadership program AND PDIs for theatre educators...

Chapter Select showcase: The Other Room (Missouri Thespians, Troupe 2787, St. Francis Borgia Regional High School), Dear Finder (Louisiana Thespians, Troupe 1510, Mandeville High School)

Festival’s Got Talent – 5 minutes to wow the crowd

College & Thespian Scholarship auditions!!!

National IEs Showcase callbacks

Chapter Select showcase: Cosi (Minnesota Thespians, Troupe 7789, Chanhassen High School)

Main stage event: Big Fish (Troupe 694, McLean High School, McLean, VA)

Main stage event: The Twilight of the Golds (Troupe 5008, Harry S Truman High School, Levittown, PA)

Chapter Select showcase: Bright. Apple. Crush. (Alabama Thespians, Troupe 4590, Randolph High School), A Gathering of Angels: Selections from Naked Angels Issues Projects (Rhode Island Thespians, Troupe 1995, Cumberland High School)

Freestyle Theatre: Too Much Light…17 Plays in 30 Minutes (Colorado Thespians, Troupe 5869, Denver, CO), Plant (Kansas Thespians, Troupe 639, Salina High School Central), For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls (Missouri Thespians, Troupe 3482, Branson High School)

Late Night: Black and Red formal, Improv challenge, stand-up comedy by Jason Thomas Mayfield

WORKSHOPS:

Acting: Accent fun: British; Advanced scene study; Advanced Rasaboxes; The Bard is not so bad; Character exploration; Commedia dell’arte; Creation through Viewpoints Demystifying Shakespeare’s verse; I got the part…now what; Improv a musical; Improv theatre game intensive; Impulses through Viewpoints; Narrative improve; Libby Appel mask characterization; Physical theatre workshop; Puppetry manipulation 101; Rasaboxes overview; Sketch comedy from beginning to…; Theatre of illusion; Unmasking the heart of creativity; Voiceovers 101; We only have a hat; You don’t need a mic; Your body, your voice, and improv

Auditions: Getting the most out of your musical theatre audition; Make the most of your auditions

Colleges & Careers: Maximizing the college experience; Stage to screen

Dance: Advanced musical theatre dance; Broadway musical experience; Fun with court dancing; Hip-hop choreography; Musical theatre dance; Step up your musical dance skills; Swing dance; You better dance

Directing & Dramaturgy: But what I really want to do is direct; The director’s prep; Director’s toolbox

Dramatic Writing: The creativity game; Let’s write; Playwriting 2; Putting flesh on the headlines; Thespian Playworks: Atlas’ Equal rehearsal; Thespian Playworks: The Escalator rehearsal; Thespian Playworks: The Exile and the Onion Girl rehearsal; Thespian Playworks: It’s Gonna Rain rehearsal; Thespian Playworks: The Okay Kids rehearsal

General Theatre/Special Topics: Alumni involvement; Beyond the boos and hisses; Big Fish, Memphis, Ghost, Saturday Night Fever…they’re yours to stage; Fast, focused theatre arts management; First Aid and CPR for the theatre; Hands-on with Realtime Music Solutions; Make a difference; Managing, communicating, and selling; National advocacy, plain and simple; Script analysis; Six ways to hit your mark; Stand-up comedy and why we laugh; Theatre as a social voice; Troupe fundraising 101; What was my adjudicator thinking; Yoga for the creative artist

Musical Theatre & Voice: How to sing a comic song; Thespian Musicalworks: Group rehearsal

Stage Combat: Single sword;

Teachers Only: Acting on camera; Best practices for theatre education; Google for educators; The pedagogy of enthusiasm; Setting the stage for student-written monologues

Technical Theatre: Advanced audio design; Audio GPS; Costume coordination fundamentals; Keeping your hair on; LEDs…what exactly are they; Oh, the things you can do with a bald cap; Pixels, pixels, pixels; Scenic painting for the non-artist; Special-effects spectacular; Stage management: feng shui; Thrift shop chic; Working magic with cardboard and masking tape