Coordinator--Patrick Reading, stagemanagement@kcactf5.org
Stage Management of a Festival Event
Any student with stage management experience may volunteer to stage manage a festival event (i.e. 10-minute plays, Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions, Professional Auditions, Faculty Acting Showcase, etc.) Assignments will be made by the Stage Management Coordinator and communicated via email in late-December. To help in scheduling stage managers to specific events, please inform the coordinator if and what other events in which you are planning to participate throughout the week.
Stage managing a festival event is not a requirement for regional festival participation, nor is it a requirement for the National Stage Management Fellowship.
Any student with stage management experience may volunteer to stage manage a festival event (i.e. 10-minute plays, Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions, Professional Auditions, Faculty Acting Showcase, etc.) Assignments will be made by the Stage Management Coordinator and communicated via email in late-December. To help in scheduling stage managers to specific events, please inform the coordinator if and what other events in which you are planning to participate throughout the week.
Stage managing a festival event is not a requirement for regional festival participation, nor is it a requirement for the National Stage Management Fellowship.
NATIONAL STAGE MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP
Each of the eight KCACTF regions will select one Stage Manager to be awarded a fellowship to attend the national festival. Selection will be based on the following:
Entry Qualifications:
The Stage Manager MUST:
*Undergraduate, graduate, and continuing part-time students must be matriculating and pursuing a degree at the time of the KCACTF official response.
Entries that do not meet either of the Qualifications above will not be allowed to participate in the Fellowship process.
- Professionalism and completeness of the prompt script and other paperwork.
- Effectiveness of coordinating and managing a festival event, based on the respondent’s feedback from the regional event coordinator.
- Personal demeanor and communication skills, based on interviews
- Written material submitted prior to the Regional Festival.
Entry Qualifications:
The Stage Manager MUST:
- Have stage managed either a participating or associate KCACTF entered production completed in the calendar year prior to the current festival (January – December, 2019). Productions in progress are NOT eligible.
- Have been a bona fide student in pursuit of a degree at the time of Stage Managing the production. For the purpose of the National Stage Management Fellowship, a bona fide student is:
- An undergraduate student* registered for at least six semester or equivalent quarter hours;
- Or a graduate student* registered for at least three semester or equivalent quarter hours;
- Or a continuing part-time student* enrolled in a regular degree or certificate program.
*Undergraduate, graduate, and continuing part-time students must be matriculating and pursuing a degree at the time of the KCACTF official response.
Entries that do not meet either of the Qualifications above will not be allowed to participate in the Fellowship process.
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Please remember, in order to participate in this event you must register for the festival
