October 13, 2014
Newsletter
Fall 2014
Productions:
Department Pizza Meeting
October 14 at 5pm
Maas Conference Room
Come join us for a Departmental meeting on October 14 at 5pm.
We will discuss the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival trip that happens in January, HSRT, and various off-campus
opportunities both during the academic year and the summer!
Students will be speaking about their experiences in all of these
programs, so come with questions and an appetite - food will be
provided!
Urinetown
Music by Mark Hollmann, Lyrics
by Hollmann and Greg Kotis
Book by Greg Kotis
Directed by Richard Perez
November 18-22, 7:30 p.m.
November 22, Matinee
Upcoming
Dates:
October
THE PRESENTATION
Reading
The Theatre Department will be doing a playreading of The Presentation by Brian Gardner ‘85 Saturday evening, October 18 at 8pm.
Location is TBD, look for updates in the coming days!
14
Department Pizza Meeting: ACTF and off-campus opportunities. 5pm, Maas Conference Room. Food will be
provided.
18
The Presentation Reading,
8pm, Location TBD.
1
November
KCACTF National Playwright program deadline for
submission.
23
The Hinterlands Ensemble workshop, time TBD, Studio Theatre
Spotlight on:
KCACTF National Playwright Program
The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting Program (NPP) offers
three programs for student-written work: ten-minute plays, one act plays, and full-length plays.
Full submission guidelines are available on the website at http://kcactf3.org/playwrights.htm.
Ten-Minute Play
For KCACTF, a ten-minute play is ten pages or fewer (in 12 point typeface, not including character
information or title page). Please note that the maximum limit for this category is ten pages. Up to
six one act plays will be chosen as finalists by readers outside the region, and will be given rehearsed
readings at the Region 3 Festival. From these six, two finalists will be chosen for the national ten
minute play festival at the Kennedy Center, and the playwrights will be asked to submit their scripts
to the Kennedy Center for consideration.
One Act Play
For KCACTF, a one act play is more than ten pages, and less than one hour playing time. Generally 1545 pages in length, a one act play is performed with no intermission. Up to six one act plays will be
chosen as finalists by readers outside the region and will be given readings at the Region 3 Festival.
From these six, two (2) finalists will be chosen to be considered for the John Cauble Short Play Award,
and the playwrights will be asked to submit their scripts to the Kennedy Center for consideration.
Full-Length Play
This opportunity is for playwrights from schools who have NOT entered this play as either an
associate or participating production in Region 3. One full-length play will be chosen for a script-inhand reading at the Region 3 Festival.
If selected, the playwright is expected to attend the regional festival where the play will be given a
script-in-hand reading. If the playwright cannot attend the festival his/her play will still be eligible
for the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards, provided that the play has been either produced by a
college or university, or publicly presented in a “rehearsed” or “staged reading” format following
a significant development process. This reading can occur at their home school or at the regional
festival (either is acceptable).
If chosen to participate in the Region 3 festival, the playwright may choose to bring their own
director and cast, or s/he can choose to have a director assigned and a cast selected from among the
actors who audition for the ten-minute play readings on the Wednesday afternoon of the festival. The
selected play will automatically become eligible for all national awards for full-length plays from the
KCACTF (The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program), except the National Student Playwriting
Award, which must be awarded to a play entered as a participating production.
Please note that the DEADLINE for all National Playwright Program entries (ten-minute play,
one act play, full-length play) is NOVEMBER 1st, 2014 at midnight!
Submissions will be accepted this year ONLY via the Submittable website. The Region 3 NPP
submissions page may be found here: https://kcactfregion3npp.submittable.com/submit
Submissions are live, so students may send their plays now if they wish. Please do NOT fill out
the forms currently on the KCACTF website - those will be going away in a few days, and any
information entered there will be lost. All forms and document submissions should happen via
Submittable.
Grand Rapids City High School
Seeks Director
In this coming year, the Speech and Debate program at Grand Rapids City HS would like to provide a theatrical experience for their students. Two years of highly successful musicals at the school
have demonstrated a desire for theatre in the student body. The stage production would complement these activities (as well as the competitive Forensics program). To provide this opportunity
they are looking for an outside resource (faculty, staff, advanced/graduate student) to help with the
direction and staging. This is a first year, “beta” project, part of a longer-term initiative to embed
speech, debate and the performing arts as an established part of the extracurricular programming
at the school. They anticipate being able to offer a stipend, conditional on present grant requests.
For more information, Contact: William Harris wmrharris@sbcglobal.net or Visit: Talk Talk Talk
(cityhighforensics.wordpress.com).
Student Representative Reminder
Bridget McCarthy (senior class), Kenny Cole (junior class), and Sean Zorn (sophomore class), have volunteered to represent their respective classes at council meetings. If you are still interested in becoming a student representative at the weekly
Theatre Countil meetings (Tuesdays 12-1:45pm in DeWitt 221), please contact
Daina Robins at robins@hope.edu.
As a reminder, council meetings are open to all students who would like to attend,
except when matters of confidentiality are being discussed
Have something you would like to share? Please send an email by Thursday afternoon for inclusion in the Monday newsletter to Reagan Chesnut at
chesnut@hope.edu