The time is upon us, Region 5!
The online Festival Brochure is now available for your viewing. Use the BROCHURE section in conjunction with the Guidebook app for all your Festival information, planning and details. We're ready to go! ONLINE FESTIVAL BROCHURE HOMEPAGE: http://www.kcactf5.org/fest-activities-home-brochure.html (ALSO APPEARS IN THE WEBSITE'S MAIN PAGE MENU) FESTIVAL ON, FRIENDS! KCACTF52017 has gone mobile! We're excited to announce we have a brand new mobile guide for you to use on Guidebook! Get the guide to access the most up-to-date information about our event, including schedules, maps, and much more. Go here to access the web/desktop version of the Festival 49 Guidebook and Schedule. To get the guide on your smartphone or tablet: 1. Download the Guidebook app from the Apple or Android app store. 2. Search for and Download our Guide: KCACTF52017 3. Check out all of the amazing programming and plan your extraordinary festival week! See you there! Look for the 'full word' logo that appears above, OR (more frequently) the blue "G" badge found at several places on kcactf5.org website------------->>>>>>>>>> — Festival 49 Team! GETTING AROUND REMINDERS: FESTIVAL 49 1-MAP: - The Festival 49 1-Map is a Google map containing every Festival venue, hotel, in addition to local restaurants. This is a very useful tool to help you navigate Downtown Des Moines. WALKABLE FESTIVAL - We are so excited that our festival in Des Moines will be a walkable festival. There will be no shuttles, so pack warm clothes and wear comfortable walking shoes. Go here to learn all about Des Moines, explore the awesome indoor Skywalk System, and start planning your Festival 49! GETTING TO HOYT SHERMAN PLACE ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY- Invited Productions, Festival Recognition Ceremonies, the Irene Ryan Finals, and the Costume Parade will occur at Hoyt Sherman Place, which is a 15 minute walk Northwest of the Marriott. (The Des Moines CVB is providing lit signs to mark the way to Hoyt Sherman on Wednesday evening.) There is free parking at Hoyt Sherman for those with access to vehicles. FESTIVAL DEADLINE REMINDERS: DESIGN INTENSIVES: Go here for more information on all of the wonderful Festival 49 Design Intensives! To register, contact Brad M. Carlson, Region 5 Design Intensive Coordinator at: carlsonbm@missouri.edu. EXPO REGISTRATION Deadline for all Design, Technology, Management, Dramaturgy projects is Wednesday, January 18. PORTFOLIO REVIEW Deadline is Thursday, January 19th. EARLY BIRD FESTIVAL REGISTRATION Deadline is Friday, January 20th. Please let me know if you have any questions.All the best, Brad DESIGN INTENSIVES: Scenic Painting! Puppet Making! Draping! Costume Runway and More! This year’s festival offers a wide variety of Design Intensives. The Intensives are longer sessions of hands-on workshops ranging from three hours to multiple days. Attendance is limited and only students who register in advance will be guaranteed a slot. Go here for more information on all of the wonderful Festival 49 Design Intensives! To register, contact Brad M. Carlson, Region 5 Design Intensive Coordinator at: carlsonbm@missouri.edu.
PROFESSIONAL AUDITIONS AND INTERVIEWS COMPANIES: Registration for Professional Auditions and Interviews is closed. For those already registered, go here to learn about the Professional Companies who will be present for the Festival 49 Professional Auditions and Interviews. FESTIVAL DEADLINE REMINDERS: EXPO REGISTRATION Deadline for all Design, Technology, Management, Dramaturgy projects is Wednesday, January 18. PORTFOLIO REVIEW Deadline is Thursday, January 19th. EARLY BIRD FESTIVAL REGISTRATION Deadline is Friday, January 20th. Please let me know if you have any questions. All the best, Brad The KCACTF Region 5 Festival 49 KEYNOTE ADDRESS will be given by Gary Garrison, former Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America. The Keynote address will be the finale of the Opening Ceremonies Event on the evening of Monday, January 23. Gary Garrison, for the last decade, was the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers headed by our nation’s most honored dramatists. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and full‑time faculty member in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five different festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison’s plays include The Unexpected Light On Azadeh Medusa, Too Quick to Pick, Ties That Bind, Skirting the Issue, Caught Without Candy, Game On, The Sweep, Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? and When A Diva Dreams. This work has been featured at the City Theatre of Miami, Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Open Door Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer’s Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, CityWrights, The Inkwell and Source Theatre in D.C., Baltimore Playwrights Festival, New Hampshire Playwrights Festival, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, The Playwright’s Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten‑Minute Play, A More Perfect Ten and two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men. He is on the Tony Administration Committee for the Tony Awards and the program director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center. A collection of short plays, Verticals and Horizontals, was published last spring by Original Play Publishers in Los Angeles. In April of 2014, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts instituted the National Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award given to the best ten-minute play written by a university dramatist. In the spring of 2016, he was awarded the Milan Stitt Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting by the Kennedy Center. -------------------------------------------------------------------- FESTIVAL DEADLINE REMINDERS:
IRENE RYAN PRE-REGISTRATION - Students must pre-register their scenes and partners by TOMORROW - Wednesday, January 11. EXPO REGISTRATION Deadline for all Design, Technology, Management, Dramaturgy projects is Wednesday, January 18. COLLEGE FAIR - Schools interested in participating in the College Fair need to register by TOMORROW Wednesday, January 11. PARKING - Parking rates are very expensive at the Downtown hotels including: Marriott, Hyatt, Residence Inn, Hampton Inn, Staybridge, and Embassy Suites. If you are staying at one of these hotels, you should plan to utilize the KCACTF off-site parking lot - only $25 per week for cars/vans and $60 per week for large busses. Go here to purchase your parking pass. All festival evens are within a 20 minute walk from the Downtown hotels. WALKABLE FESTIVAL - We are so excited that our festival in Des Moines will be a walkable festival. There will be no shuttles, so pack warm clothes and wear comfortable walking shoes. Go here to learn all about Des Moines, explore the awesome indoor Skywalk System, and start planning your Festival 49! Please let me know if you have any questions.All the best, Brad Happy New Year Region 5!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Season! FESTIVAL 49 is little more than 2 weeks away! Woohoo! Here are some important reminders! IRENE RYAN PRE-REGISTRATION - Students must pre-register their scenes and partners by Wednesday, January 11. MUSICAL THEATRE INTENSIVE SINGING AND DANCING REGISTRATION deadline is Monday, January 9. Go here to Register. PROFESSIONAL AUDITIONS AND INTERVIEWS registration deadline is Friday, January 13. EXPO REGISTRATION Deadline for all Design, Technology, Management, Dramaturgy projects is Wednesday, January 18. COLLEGE FAIR - Schools interested in participating in the College Fair need to register by Wednesday, January 11. PARKING - Parking rates are very expensive at the Downtown hotels including: Marriott, Hyatt, Residence Inn, Hampton Inn, Staybridge, and Embassy Suites. If you are staying at one of these hotels, you should plan to utilize the KCACTF off-site parking lot - only $25 per week for cars/vans and $60 per week for large busses. Go here to purchase your parking pass. All festival evens are within a 20 minute walk from the Downtown hotels. WALKABLE FESTIVAL - We are so excited that our festival in Des Moines will be a walkable festival. There will be no shuttles, so pack warm clothes and wear comfortable walking shoes. Go here to learn all about Des Moines, explore the awesome indoor Skywalk System, and start planning your Festival 49! Please let me know if you have any questions. All the best, Brad |
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