Two more Special Guests for TheatreFest 2016…and there are more
to come!
Special Thanks to Cindy SoRelle for her efforts in securing
these special guests and for writing this submission!
TheatreFest 2016 in Dallas is turning out to be an incredible
opportunity for teachers and students who want to learn more about the blue-collar
work behind the written word. If you
will be in Dallas for the 2016 TETA TheatreFest convention, here are some guests artists we
will have the privilege of getting to know.
KEN CERNIGLIA is joining us to talk
not only about his work in professional theatre but also about his important
initiative to preserve the archives of our American theatres, and you will want
to meet this person who has done so much for audiences of all ages. He is Dramaturg and Literary Manager for Disney Theatrical Group in New York
City, where since 2003 he has developed over fifty shows for professional,
amateur, and school productions, including The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin,
The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast jr., and The
Lion King Kids. For Disney Editions,
he edited Newsies: Stories of The
Unlikely Broadway Hit and Peter and
the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play.
In addition to his Disney catalog, Ken’s recent freelance
dramaturgy projects include Oliverio: a
Brazilian Twist on Dickens (Kennedy Center), Bridges (Berkeley Playhouse) and Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop). Ken is also resident
dramaturg for Seattle’s Fisher Ensemble, artistic director of Two Turns Theatre
Company, co-founder of the American Theatre Archive Project, and
President-Elect of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). He
holds a Ph.D. in theater history and criticism from the University of
Washington and presents and publishes his scholarship internationally. FYI, his name is pronounced
“chairneelia.” Welcome to Texas, Ken!
We are in for a fabulous time with Texas native GARY GARRISON, who is Executive
Director of the Dramatists Guild of
America, the national organization for playwrights, lyricists, and
composers headed by our most honored dramatists. Prior to Gary’s work for the Guild, this
accomplished playwright served as Artistic Director/Producer/fulltime faculty
member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts-Goldberg Department of Dramatic
Writing. AT NYU, Gary produced more than
45 festivals of new work in collaboration with literally hundreds of
playwrights, actors, and directors. Many
of you know him as the author of some of the best playwriting books for
students at the graduate, undergraduate and even high school level, and his
collection of short plays, Verticals and
Horizontals, was published in 2014.
Gary is the best-known short-play authority and festival
adjudicator in the US and is known to universities as the leading critic
respondent both at ATHE’s yearly conference short-play festival and the Kennedy
Center American College Theatre Festival.
In 2014, the Kennedy Center honored him by instituting the “National
Gary Garrison Ten-minute Play Award” given to the best ten-minute play written
by a dramatist each year. Gary is truly
a Master Teacher in every way. Welcome home, Gary!
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