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38thANNUALMid-AmericaTheatreConferenceMarch16-19,2017HyattRegencyHoustonGalleriaHouston,TexasWeHaveaProblemConferenceKeynoteSpeaker:DiepTran,AssociateEditor,AmericanTheatreMagazineTheatreHistorySymposiumRespondent:BrianEugenioHerrera,PrincetonUniversityPlaywritingSymposiumRespondent:DeniseO’Neal,ShabachEnterpriseandWatchMyGrooveEnt.,LLCMATCOfficersPresident:PeterA.Campbell,RamapoCollege1stVicePresident:BethOsborne,FloridaStateUniversity2ndVicePresident/ConferenceCoordinator:ChrisWoodworth,HobartandWilliamSmithCollegesAssociateConferenceCoordinator:ShawnaMefferdKelty,SUNYPlattsburghSecretary:JenniferGoff,VirginiaTechUniversityTreasurer:TylerA.Smith,BallStateUniversityTheatreHistoryStudies,theJournaloftheMid-AmericaTheatreConferenceEditor:SaraFreeman,UniversityofPugetSoundBookReviewEditor:RobertB.Shimko,UniversityofHoustonTheatre/Practice:TheOnlineJournalofthePractice/ProductionSymposiumofMATCEditor:JenniferSchlueter,TheOhioStateUniversitywww.theatrepractice.usWebsite/Listserv:MarkMallett,StocktonCollegeofNewJerseymatc.us/MATC-L@LISTSERV.ilstu.eduGraduateStudentCoordinators:AaronScully,UniversityofMissouri,ColumbiaJuliaMoriarty,WayneStateUniversityProgramDesign:TimOsborne,KumquatUnderfoot

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SymposiaCo-ChairsTheatreHistorySymposiumMichelleGranshaw,UniversityofPittsburghChandraOwenbyHopkins,ConverseCollegePractice/ProductionSymposiumDanDennis,OhioUniversityDrewVidal,BallStateUniversityPlaywritingSymposiumKristiGood,LycomingCollegeMilbreBurch,UniversityofMissouriGraduateLiaison:RachelBauer,UniversityofMissouri,ColumbiaPedagogySymposiumAndyGibb,TexasTechUniversityTravisStern,BradleyUniversityEmergingScholarsSymposiumMartineKeiGreen-Rogers,UniversityofUtahLezlieCross,UniversityofNevada,LasVegasArticles-in-Progress&Pitch-Your-BookJocelynL.Buckner,ChapmanUniversityRobertB.Shimko,UniversityofHouston

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MATCFellowsArthurBallet,1988JedDavis,1988PatriciaMcIlrath,1988CharlesShattuck,1990RonEngle,1993BurnetHobgood,1994GlenQ.Pierce,1997JuliaCurtis,1999TiceMiller,2001FeliciaHardisonLondré,2002RobertA.Schanke,2002WeldonDurham,2003FergusCurrie,2005BillyJ.Harbin,2006KentNeely,2006JudithZivanovic,2006JohnPoole,2009WilliamR.Jenkins,2010RosemarieK.Bank,2012CherylBlack,2015DorothyChansky,2015AnneFletcher,2015JonanthanA.Herbert,2015RhonaJustice-Malloy,2015MarkMallett,2017

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TheRobertA.SchankeResearchAwardTheRobertA.SchankeResearchAwardrecognizesexcellenceintheatrescholarshipthroughanawardpresentedbytheTheatreHistorySymposiumoftheMid-AmericaTheatreConference.In2005,agiftof$5,000wasmadebyProfessorRobertA.SchanketoestablishanawardthatrecognizesresearchexcellenceinitiallypresentedattheMid-AmericaTheatreConference.TheMid-AmericaTheatreConferencehasmatchedProfessorSchanke’sgifttoestablisha$10,000endowment.RobertA.SchankeisProfessorEmeritusofTheatreatCentralCollege,Iowa.HeisauthorofIbseninAmerica:ACenturyofChange(Scarecrow,1988),EvaLeGallienne:ABio-Bibliography(Greenwood,1989),andShatteredApplause:TheLivesofEvaLeGallienne(SouthernIllinois,1992;finalistfortheLambdaLiteraryAwardandtheBarnardHewittAward).HecoeditedwithKimMarraPassingPerformances:QueerReadingsofLeadingPlayersinAmericanTheaterHistory(Michigan,1998)andStagingDesire:QueerReadingsofAmericanTheaterHistory(Michigan,2002).Theirfinalcollaboration,withBillyJ.Harbin,TheGayandLesbianTheatricalLegacy,appearedin2005.“ThatFuriousLesbian”:TheStoryofMercedesdeAcosta(SouthernIllinois,2003)wontheForeWordmagazineBookoftheYearawardinthebestgayandlesbiannonfictioncategory.HealsopublishedWomeninTurmoil:SixPlaysbyMercedesdeAcosta(SouthernIllinois,2003)andAngelsintheAmericanTheatre:Patrons,Patronage,andPhilanthropy(SouthernIllinois,2007).HismostrecentbookisQueerTheatreandtheLegacyofCalYeomans(PalgraveMacmillan,2011).HeeditedTheatreHistoryStudies(1993-2005)andtheTheaterintheAmericasSeriesforSouthernIllinoisUniversityPress(2000-2014),andservedasVice-PresidentforMembership,Vice-PresidentforAwards,andVice-PresidentforResearchandPublicationsforATHE.HeisamemberoftheNationalTheatreConferenceandtheCollegeofFellowsoftheAmericanTheatreandalsoreceivedATHE’sExcellenceinEditingAward.HereceivedtheATHECareerAchievementAwardinEducationalTheatre(2013)andtheATDSBettyJeanJonesAwardforOutstandingTeaching(2014),andhebecametheDeanoftheCollegeofFellowsoftheAmericanTheatre(2014).TheRobertA.SchankeResearchAwardisgivenannuallytoanuntenuredfacultypresenteroftheTheatreHistorySymposiumandcarriesacashawardof$500andpublicationinTheatreHistoryStudies,thejournaloftheMid-AmericaTheatreConference.AnnouncementoftherecipientoftheRobertA.SchankeResearchAwardwillbemadeduringtheall-conferenceluncheononSaturday.RecipientsoftheRobertA.SchankeResearchAward:LaDonnaL.Forsgren,2016:“ForMembersOnlyto#BlackLivesMatter:TheBlack

RevolutiononCampus”ChandraOwenbyHopkins,2015:“WhispersfromaSilentPast:InspirationandMemoryin

NatashaTretheway’sNativeGuard”JenniferGoodlander,2014:“KhmerIdentitiesthroughtheArtsaftertheKillingFieldsina

Post-9/11NewYorkCity”

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ChristinEssin,2013:“MemoryControl:Mythology,Technology,andAChorusLine”NaomiStubbs,2012:“TheBlackVoid:AbsentingLaborinPleasureGardens”LisaJackson-Schebetta,2011:“CompaniestoKeep:AirRaidDramasandInternational

EthicalResponsibilityinAmerica,1936-1939”BethOsborne,2010:“Storytelling,Chiggers,andtheBibleBelt:The‘GeorgiaExperiment’as

thePublicFaceoftheFederalTheatreProject”KellyCarolynGordon,2009:“ClassAct(resses):HowDepression-EraStageActresses

UtilizedConflictingCulturalIdealsforWomentoFightEconomicCrisisinTheirCommunity”

RobertB.Shimko,2008:“TheMiseriesofHistory:ShakespeareanExtremityasCautionaryTaleontheRestorationStage”

ScottIrelan,2007:“Goon,Warrior,Communitarian,andMythos:TheLincolnLegendofDramaticLiteratureandLivePerformance”

ShaunaVey,2006:“TheMasterandtheMademoiselle:GenderSecretsinPlainSightinNon-TextBasedAntebellumPerformance”

EllenMacKay,2005:“TowardaNewTheatreHistoryofDionysus”

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TheatreHistorySymposiumRespondentDr.BrianEugenioHerreraBrianEugenioHerrerais,byturns,awriter,teacherandscholar-presentlybasedinNewJersey,butforeverrootedinNewMexico.BrianjoinedthefacultyofPrincetonUniversityasAssistantProfessorofTheaterintheLewisCenterfortheArtsin2012.AtPrinceton,heisalsoaffiliatedwiththeProgramsinGenderandSexualityStudies,AmericanStudiesandLatinoStudies.Brian'swork,whetheracademicorartistic,examinesthehistoryofgender,sexualityandracewithinandthroughU.S.popularperformance.BrianholdsdegreesfromBrownUniversity,theUniversityofNewMexicoandYaleUniversity,whereheearnedhisPhDinAmericanStudies.HeistheauthorofLatinNumbers:PlayingLatinoinTwentieth-CenturyU.S.PopularPerformance(Michigan,2015)andTheLatina/oTheatreCommons2013NationalConvening:ANarrativeReport(HowlRound,2015).WithStephanieBatiste(UC-SantaBarbara)andRobinBernstein(Harvard),Brianservesasco-editorofthenewlylaunched"PerformanceandAmericanCultures"seriesatNYUPress.BrianrecentlycompletedtermsofserviceontheExecutiveCommitteefortheAmericanSocietyforTheatreResearch,ontheSteeringCommitteefortheAmericanTheatreArchiveProject,ontheExecutiveCommitteeforModernLanguageAssociation'sDramaDivisionandontheAdvisoryCommitteefortheLatina/oTheatreCommons.HisautobiographicalsoloshowIWastheVoiceofDemocracypremieredin2010inAlbuquerqueandhassubsequentlybeenseeninTaos,Seattle,LosAngeles,Chicago,Lawrence(KS),NewYorkCity,ChapelHill,Ithaca,Tempe,Princeton,Beirut,andAbuDhabi.In2013,Brianlaunchedtwonewstoryworkshows,BoyLikeThatandTouchTones.Heiscurrentlyatworkontwootherbookprojects:StarringMissVirginiaCalhounandCasting:AHistory.

PlaywritingSymposiumRespondentDeniseO’NealNamedarecipientoftheMaryMcCloudBethuneAward(NationalCouncilofNegroWomen,2015)andoneofthe"100Creatives"of2014bytheHoustonPress,S.DeniseO'Nealhasbeenawriter,directorandproducerforover20yearsandhasmostrecentlybecomeapublishedplaywright.SheistheexecutivedirectorofShabachEnterprise,anon-profittheatercompanybasedinHouston,TXandtheownerofWatchMyGrooveEnt.,LLC.Hermostrecentcriticallyacclaimedproductionsinclude:Ms.Lily'sGroove,JustAFewFeetAway,BagelAnyone,FlyInTheWindshield(whichwasBroadwayWorld's"Editor'sPickforBestNewPlayof2013”)&InOneBreath.In2013,shefoundedthenationalplayfestival,FadeToBlack,celebratingthenewworksofBlackplaywrights,whichisthefirstofitskindforHouston,TX.In2014sheservedastheassistantdirectorforthePulitzerPrize-winningproductionofRuinedwrittenbyLynnNottageinitsHoustonregionalpremiere.ShedirectedtheproductionofIntimateApparel,alsowrittenbyLynnNottagein2015.SheiscurrentlyamemberoftheDramatistsGuild,servesasaboardmemberofScriptwriters/HoustonandisveryactiveintheHoustontheatrecommunity.

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ScheduleofEvents

ThursdayMarch16,2017RegistrationDesk:12:00-8:00PreFunction,2ndlevelSession1:1:00-2:15 HistorySymposium1RegencyDRevealingArchivalOmissionsChair:ChandraOwenbyHopkins,ConverseCollege“Chrysothemis:RhetoricandScholarlyRamifications” TiffanyPounds-Williams,TuftsUniversity“Hanswurst’sPublic:AnExaminationoftheLudicPoweroftheStagein18th-Century

Vienna” ElizabethCoen,UniversityofPittsburgh“CastingTituba:RecoveringJacquelineAndre’sPerformanceinTheCrucible(1953)” AmyGuenther,UniversityofTexas,AustinHistorySymposium2RegencyARestagingHistoriographicDilemmasChair:MichelleGranshaw,UniversityofPittsburgh“PageSansStage:DramaticLiteratureasEssentialTheatreHistory” RodneyDonahue,ClarendonCollege“WeCanNeverGoBacktoBefore:TheTime-boundMusicalinanAgeofRevival” BryanM.Vandevender,UniversityofWisconsin-Oshkosh“HowDoYouSolveaProblemLikeTotalitarianism?” MacyJones,LouisianaStateUniversity“AProblemofTheirOwnMaking:HowOneProductionForeverChangedtheHistoryofthe

ClevelandPlayHouse” JeffreyUllom,CaseWesternReserveUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium1PostOakWrestlingwiththeActingProcess(andtheActors)Chair:EmilyRollie,CentralWashingtonUniversity“OvercomingtheObstacle:Less“Trying”andMore“Doing”BothonStageandOff” CateBrewer,UniversityofMaryWashington“TheParadoxofBadActing” AndrewBlasenak,VillanovaUniversity“ICan’tStandUpForFallingDown:GrowthMindsetTheoryandTheAuditionProcess” GregDoran,UniversityofPrinceEdwardIsland

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PedagogySymposium1RiceSystemsDesign(ContentandCurriculum)Chair:AndrewGibb,TexasTechUniversity“TheatreandFirst-YearSeminars:LearningObjectivesinSync” SusanKattwinkel,CollegeofCharleston“Latin@TheatreintheQueerStudiesCurriculum:RespondingtoLGBTQHomelessnessin

EmilioRodriguez’sSwimmingWhileDrowning” TrevorBoffone,UniversityofHouston“‘Ihavegreatcomfortfromthisfellow’:CollaborationasSubjectandMethodinthe

UndergraduateTheatreClassroom” ZacharyA.Dorsey,JamesMadisonUniversity

BenLambert,JamesMadisonUniversity“What’stheBuzz?:TheChallengesofTeachingMusicalTheatreHistoryinOneSemester” RebeccaHolley,UniversityofMissouriSession2:2:30-3:45HistorySymposium3RegencyD50YearsLater-ProblemsandChallengeswithGeorgeRyga’sTheEcstasyofRitaJoeChair:SamerAl-Saber,FloridaStateUniversity“TheRiseandFallofTheEcstasyofRitaJoe:theVexingProblemswithCanada’s‘First’Play” WesD.Pearce,UniversityofRegina “MissDonohuesaysthatRitaJoeisaprobleminclass:AddressingtheProblematicAspects

ofGeorgeRyga’sTheEcstasyofRitaJoe” GregDoran,UniversityofPrinceEdwardIsland“Howdoyousolvea(Canadian)problemlikeRitaJoe?:AnexplorationofRyga’sThe

EcstasyofRitaJoeandNorthAmericanIndigenousPerformance” EmilyRollie,CentralWashingtonUniversity

HistorySymposium4RegencyAProblematizingSpaceChair:DanVenning,NewYorkUniversity“TheMoviePalace’sRoleinTheMemoryofAmericanTheater” LoganUthenwoldt,MiamiUniversity“‘Closets?Whatdoesthishavetodowithclosets?’:Theproblemofthehiddenhomosexual

inDoricWilson'sNowSheDances!”JeffGrace,KnoxCollege

“‘DifferentDesert,SameWar:’Hyperreality,theImaginary,andDroneWarfareinGeorgeBrant’sGrounded”

IngaMeier,StephenF.AustinUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium2PostOak

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HowtoSucceedinBusinessChair:BooneHopkins,ConverseCollege“ThrowingaTantrum:TheChallengeofStartingaNewU/RTACompanyinCentralOhio” DanDennis,OhioUniversity“DoYouFeelOk?:WelcometoTheWorld’sSafest“Art”Show” Shelby-AllisonHibbs,UniversityofTexas,Dallas“HowDoYouSolveaProblemLikeaDramaturg:TheDramaturgasTheatricalCurator” CatieChoate,TarrantCountyCollegePedagogySymposium2RiceLiftOffI(Beginning-LevelCourses)Chair:TrevorBoffone,UniversityofHouston“WeHaveLift-Off:DiscoveringtheIntellectualandCreativeUniversethroughtheTheatre

FirstYearSeminar” ShawnaMefferdKelty,SUNYPlattsburgh“‘Inthe(Class)RoomWhereitHappens”:PedagogicStrategiesforUsingHamiltontoEngage

Students” HeidiL.Nees,CaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity“FromRealitytoPagetoStage:DabblinginPlaywritingfortheIntrotoTheatreClassroom” JenniferGoff,VirginiaTechUniversity BrianM.Scruggs,FrostburgStateUniversity“AbandoningtheFormula:TeachingBeginningPlaywritingfromaFeministPerspective” JenniePardoe,UniversityofMissouriPlaywritingSymposium1(Orientation&FirstReadThrough)RegencyCSession3:4:00-5:15HistorySymposium5RegencyDProblem-Solving:ARoundtableSponsoredbytheTheatreHistorySymposium,thisroundtablewillbeanopportunityforapanelofscholarstodreamofnewideasandpathstogetheratMATCandwithinthefield.Thepanelwillthinkaloudastheyrespondtoaseriesofthreekeyproblemsthatreachbeyondinstitutionalaffiliationandrankimpactingthegraduatestudent,pre-tenure,mid-career,andpost-tenureMATCattendee.Followingthepanel’scomments,timewillbegivenforaproductivedialoguewiththeaudienceasatangiblemeansbywhichMATCattendeesmayworktogetheracrosssymposia,panels,andindividualinstitutions.

JocelynL.Buckner,ChapmanUniversity MartineKeiGreen-Rogers,UniversityofUtah

MichelleGranshaw,UniversityofPittsburgh ChandraOwenbyHopkins,ConverseCollege ScottMagelssen.UniversityofWashington

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Practice/ProductionSymposium3PostOakPracticingResponsibilityOnStageandOffChair:CateBrewer,UniversityofMaryWashington“SustainabilityinPractice,inProductionandPersonnel” RonnieChamberlain,NorthernKentuckyUniversity“‘BesiegedbyOtherCenters’:Dramaturgy,(Counter)Narrative,andtheAftermathof

NationalTrauma” AlisonChristy,UniversityofHouston“ThespiansDoItOnStage:TheInsandOutsofMimeticSexuality” TyrrellWoolbert,TheOhioStateUniversityPedagogySymposium3RiceMissionDesign(CurricularGoals)Chair:VanessaCampagna,MonmouthCollege“BlackPerformanceintheUniversity:AProblematicCycleofAbsenceandDistance” MatthieuChapman,CentralWashingtonUniversity“CheckYourBias:EngagingEthicalInquiriesinTheatreHistoryStudies” MiriamHahnThomas,BallStateUniversity“InternationalStudentsinTheatreClasses” DericMcNish,MichiganStateUniversity“GiveThemAnotherNarrative:LGBTQ-SupportiveTheatrePedagogy” ShannonSavard,TheOhioStateUniversityPedagogySymposium4RegencyATheNon-Majorinthetheatreclassroom:“Youmeanwehavetomove?”Chair:Shelby-AllisonHibbs,TheUniversityofTexasatDallas“PlaywritingandtheIntrotoTheatreStudent” PenelopeCole,IndependentScholar“‘StopLecturing!AnExperientialApproachtoTeachingIntroductionToTheatre” KevinCrowe,UniversityofColorado,Boulder“EngaginginPhysicalListeningforNon-MajorsandMajorsAlike” JennCalvano,UniversityofLouisville“TransformingTheoryintoActionwithMichaelChekhov” AndyGrapko,IndependentScholarPlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsSage/Richmond/RegencyCDinner:5:15-6:30ExecutiveCommitteeMeeting

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Session4:6:30-7:45HistorySymposium6RegencyDShiftingParadigmsinMedievalandEarlyModernTheatreChair:RodneyDonahue,ClarendonCollege“TheMedievalFrauenfrage,CorpusChristi,andtheImperativesofTheatreHistory” JesseNjus,CarnegieMellonUniversity“(GesturalOntologies):SimianSocialityintheProductionofEarlyModernUniversals” ScottVenters,UniversityofWashington“‘ThatReverendVice’:FalstaffastheAffableGlutton” BrienBianchi,UniversityofHoustonPractice/ProductionSymposium4PostOakHistoriographyinProductionChair:RobShimko,UniversityofHouston“HarlequinintheGhetto:DevisingNewWorkfromHolocaustComedy” AlanSikes,LouisianaStateUniversity withCaitlinBrimer,KendallKrebsbach,ScottMitchell,LindseyPotter,ErinSheets,

ShelbiYoung,LouisianaStateUniversityPedagogySymposium5RiceMissionOutcomes(PersonalandCommunityImpact)Chair:PatrickM.Konesko,UniversityofWyoming“MakingBrighterConnections:TheatreSummerCampforYouthontheAutismSpectrum” MichelleHayford,UniversityofDayton“AccessibilityforAll:DallasChildren’sTheater’sSensoryFriendlyPerformances” Shelby-AllisonHibbs,TheUniversityofTexasatDallas“DearStudents,Youare‘Houston’” VanessaCampagna,MonmouthCollege“AnUnlikelySanctuary:EvangelicalChurchesandtheProblemofDecliningArtsEducation” CarlaLahey,LouisianaStateUniversityPedagogySymposium6RegencyAWhenCollaborationGoesWrong:DramaturgyandPedagogyChair:TylerA.Smith,BallStateUniversity“LettingtheDramaturg(s)In:PromotingDramaturgicalCollaboration”

CarrieWinship,UniversityofMissouri“Smackdown:ClassroomCollaborationVs.RehearsalRoomCollaboration”

MartineKeiGreen-Rogers,UniversityofUtah“CollaboratingaboutCollaboration:UsingConsensustoBuildAssessment”

CatGleason,UniversityofMissouri

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PlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsSage/Richmond/RegencyCSession5:8:00-9:15HistorySymposium7RegencyDUncoveringSpatialPoliticsChair:JeffreyUllom,CaseWesternReserveUniversity“ProblemsofPlace:TheImportanceofVenueinMid-CenturyPerformancesofQueer

Sexualities” KirstenPullen,TexasA&MUniversity‘WhenAllTheTown’sAStage’:AnnJellicoe’sCommunityPlayProcess” KatePierson,FloridaStateUniversity“PlacesofPerformance:CommunityStrivingsintheHillDistrictPerformancesofFrederick

Kittle,Jr’sSevenGuitars” KeithByronKirk,UniversityofPittsburghPractice/ProductionSymposium5PostOakWORKSHOP–UnifiedActorTraining:IntegratingVoice,Movement,andPsychologicalPreparationChair:SaraBecker,UniversityofHouston“FromDisparatetoIndivisible:AnIntegratedApproachtoDevelopingtheKinesthetic

Actor” EricHarrell,RegentUniversityPedagogySymposium7RiceTranslunarCoast(Process)Chair:TravisStern,BradleyUniversity“ImprovisedTriage:Wellness-InclusiveTheatrePedagogy” KarenM.Dabney,MidwesternStateUniversity“TheProblemwithWriting:RethinkingWritingAssignmentsandAssessmentforStudent

SuccessandInstructorSanity” AmyOsatinski,UniversityofColorado,Denver“‘Forgetnotthattheearthdelightstofeelyourbarefeetandthewindslongtoplaywith

yourhair’:TheAlexanderTechnique,Mindfulness,andWellnessforPerformingArtsStudents”

EricS.Kildow,KentStateUniversity,Trumbull“TwoChairs,aHeartyHandshake,andaPatontheShoulder:TheNeedtoGivePermission

forActorstoPartner–TheUseofPartneringPedagogicalToolstoEncourageHonestCollaborationswithinMovementCurriculum”

ChloéWhitingStevenson,OwensCommunityCollege

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PlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsSage/Richmond/RegencyCFellowsOpeningNightReception:9:30-11:30PreFunction,2ndLevel

FridayMarch17,2017

RegistrationDesk:8:00-6:00PreFunction,2ndLevelBreakfast:8:00-9:30RegencyBSession6:9:00-10:15HistorySymposium8RegencyDWorkingOutProblemsofGender,Race,andClassthroughAmericanPerformanceChair:KeithByronKirk,UniversityofPittsburgh“SecretScience:ProblematicStagingsofPhysics‘fromBelow’” VivianAppler,CollegeofCharleston“SweatEquity:ProblematizingLaborinLynnNottage’sDramaturgyofDeindustrialization” JocelynL.Buckner,ChapmanUniversity“FitandFeminist:CrossFitasaProblematicFeministPraxis”

ShannonWalsh,LouisianaStateUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium6RiceAddressingSexualViolenceChair:WesPearce,UniversityofRegina“WhentheProblemisPersonal:WorkingonNaomiIizuka'sGoodKidsasaSexualAssault

Survivor” KateBusselle,UniversityofMissouri“StalkingtheBogeyman:TheProblematicofSocially-EngagedTheatreinAlaska(and

Beyond)” BrianCook,UniversityofAlaska,Anchorage"’Whatamadwendthouart’:GrapplingwiththeProblemsofAdaptingandStagingAphra

Behn'sTheRover“foraContemporaryAudience EmilyRollie,CentralWashingtonUniversityPedagogySymposium8PostOak

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CreatingProblems:ArtisticAnalysis,DevisedProduction,andGraduatePedagogyWorkshopFacilitators:DavidJortner,BaylorUniversityAaronBrown,BaylorUniversityJoshuaHorowitz,BaylorUniversityPlaywritingSymposium2WestheimerPedagogy/PlaywritingSymposiumCo-SponsoredPanelThePedagogyofPlaywritingChair:KristiGood,LycomingCollege“OneThingTakesMeOut:EdwardAlbee’sPlaywritingPedagogy”

DavidCrespy,UniversityofMissouri“TheHeroine’sJourneyasPedagogicalToolfor21stCenturyStorytelling”

PacoJoséMadden,ArizonaStateUniversity“PedagogyofPlaywriting:ACaseStudy”

JonathanHerbert,OzarksTechnicalCommunityCollegePlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRegencyC/Sage/RichmondPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressMakingRoomByBrookOehme,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,Carbondale Dramaturg:JessicaHinds-Bond,NorthwesternUniversitySession7:10:30-11:45HistorySymposium9RegencyDTroublingHistoricalNarrativesinPerformanceChair:AoiseStratford,CornellUniversity“PerformingRevolution:TheProblemofReenactingtheBostonTeaParty” BethOsborne,FloridaStateUniversity“Who’sinWe?:HistoricalPerformanceandProblemsofthePastattheTobagoHeritage

Festival” VictoriaPettersenLantz,SamHoustonStateUniversity“RewritingtheHistoricalNarrative:AppliedTheatreandtheVoicesoftheMarginalized” ShannonHughes,YorkUniversityHistorySymposium10PostOakRethinkingRepresentationontheAmericanStageChair:StaceyConnelly,TrinityUniversity“TheYellowfaceProblem:TheatricalityandAsian-AmericanIdentityinLloydSuh’sCharles

FrancisChanJr.’sExoticOrientalMurderMystery”

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Kee-YoonNahm,IllinoisStateUniversity“ClowningAroundinColoredFaces:ComplicatingtheBinaryinHistoricalNarrativesof

RacialRidiculeinEarly20thCenturyMusicalComedyPerformances” ShaneBreaux,CUNYGraduateCenterQueerVaudevilleasAmericanHistoriography:TaylorMac’sA24-DecadeHistoryofPopular

Music” DanVenning,NewYorkUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium7RiceNavigatingBarrierstoCommunitySolidarityandAdvocacyChair:GregDoran,UniversityofPrinceEdwardIsland“‘TakeOuttheThrash’:ConfrontingaDisciplinaryConundrumthroughProtest

PerformanceandPaper-Writing” AaronEllis,FloridaStateUniversity“CheckingMyPrivilege:CollaborativeDramaturgy,Directing,andtheEthicsof

Representation” MarinaBergenstock,IndependentScholar“ShoulderingtheBurdenofFreedom:Teatr21andtheDisabilityArtsMovementinPoland” SaraTaylor,IndianaUniversityPedagogySymposium9RegencyCPedagogyTriageSessionChair:TravisSternandAndrewGibbInvitedRespondents:CatGleason,UniversityofMissouriShawnaMefferdKelty,SUNYPlattsburghPlaywritingSymposium3WestheimerCheatByBellaPoynton,SUNY,Buffalo Director:MattFotis,AlbrightCollege Dramaturg:BrookeOehme,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,Carbondale Chloe:JenniferGoff,VirginiaTechUniversity Astrid:KathrynStahl,MichiganStateUniversityFluffyMountainBySamanthaVakiener,IndependentArtist Director:KarenM.Dabney,MidwesternStateUniversity Dramaturg:MattFotis,AlbrightCollege Lovel:AaronScully,UniversityofMissouri Ern:AndrewBlasenak,VillanovaUniversity Caz:JerichoJosephThomas,ArizonaStateUniversity

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PlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRichmond/SagePlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressTheSecretLanguageofRosesByPacoJoséMadden,ArizonaStateUniversity Dramaturg:SeanBartley,FloridaStateUniversity12:00-1:15LunchBreakSessions SymposiumCo-ChairsMeeting WhiteOakKitchen+Drinks,5011WestheimerSession8:1:30-2:45HistorySymposium11RegencyDRepositioningIdentity&PlaceChair:VictoriaPettersenLantz,SamHoustonStateUniversity“AProblemofCartography:MappingScottishIdentityinStephenGreenhorn’sPassingPlacesandIainFinlayMacleod’sIWasaBeautifulDay” DeanaNichols,IndependentScholar“TheProblemwithLosTejanos:NationalityandEthnicityinNineteenth-Century

SouthwesternFolkDrama” AndrewGibb,TexasTechUniversity“TheProblemofPerception:TheKentuckyCycle’sPolarizingReception” KellyBremner,Emory&HenryCollegeHistorySymposium12PostOakStagingProblemsasProductionChair:BryanM.Vandevender,UniversityofWisconsin-Oshkosh“ProblemasPraxisandtheBeginningsofBrechtinIbsen’sTheWildDuck” ElliottTurley,UniversityofTexas,Austin“AGenerativeCrucible:ProblematizingPastandPresentthroughHistoriographic

Approach” HeidiL.Nees,CaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity,SanLuisObispo“ProductionsasProblemsandthePedagogyofDesign” DavidBisaha,BinghamtonUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium8RiceTheEthicsofEmbodimentinRehearsalandPerformanceChair:MegHannaTominaga,ConverseCollege“DirectingTransgenderPerformanceandPracticesofEmbodiedAdvocacy”

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BooneHopkins,ConverseCollege“ComposingtheCulturalPast:TheProblemofEthicalRemembering” LanceMekeel,OhioUniversity,Chillicothe"’YouAin'tGotNoLegs,Lt.Dan!’:TheDangersinPoorDramatizations,Misrepresentations,

andErasuresoftheLimbsandAbilitiesofPerformersandCharacterswithPartialAmputations”

JohnMichaelSefel,TheOhioStateUniversityPlaywritingSymposium4WestheimerLefttoLoseByLaurynHalahurich,Washington&JeffersonCollege Director:CarrieWinship,UniversityofMissouri Dramaturg:SaraTaylor,IndianaUniversity Maia:TaliaGritzmacher,OzarksTechnicalCommunityCollege Zeke:AaronScully,UniversityofMissouri Mother:KristiGood,LycomingCollegeTheHardestThingByTaranHaynes,UniversityofAlaska,Anchorage Director:AaronScully,UniversityofMissouri Dramaturg:TylerA.Smith,BallStateUniversity Craig:EricHarrell,RegentUniversity Mary:LynnDeboeck,UniversityofUtahPlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRegencyC/Sage/RichmondPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressProjectGirlsByBellaPoynton,SUNY,Buffalo Dramaturg:KirstenEaston,IndependentScholarSession9:3:00-4:15HistorySymposium13RegencyDReimaginingPerformativeArchivesChair:DavidBisaha,BinghamtonUniversity“Signed,Signified,Delivered:MelodramaticModesofRhetoricattheAlaska-Yukon-Pacific

ExpositionIncubatorBabies” RobertWighs,UniversityofWashington“TheProblemofAvant-GardeAuraintheBlackMountainCollegeArchive” SusanneShawyer,ElonUniversity“DigitalHumanitiesandtheHistoricalImagination:Houston...dowehaveaproblem?” ScottKnowles,SouthernUtahUniversity

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HistorySymposium14PostOakUndergraduateEmergingScholarsSessionChair:LezlieCross,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas“’Nethersolian’ExpressionandSocietalSuppression:TheCensorshipofSapho” JacquelineFisher,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges“TheMysteryofChildren:TheProblemwithIgnoringChildrenintheYorkMysteryPlaysof

theMedievalEraandToday” LaurynMorganThomas,UniversityofPittsburgh“Lemonade:AGatewayDrug” NicoleGreen,TexasA&MUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium9RiceDramaturgicalExperimentationChair:AlisonChristy,UniversityofHouston“DigitalDramaturgyattheHoustonShakespeareFestival” RobShimko,UniversityofHouston

KaylaBoffone,IndependentScholar“FightorFlight:EmbracingtheProblemofOnstageTransitioninShelaghStephenson'sAn

ExperimentwithanAirPump” LauraNicholas,BaylorUniversity“’KillYour(Internet)Darlings:’TroublingtheNarrativeofProfessionalWrestling” JessicaLloydKrenek,UniversityofMaryland,CollegeParkPlaywritingSymposium5WestheimerSubject’sRemainsByKirtShineman,GlendaleCommunityCollege Director:RobertKimbro,DuchesneAcademyoftheSacredHeart Dramaturg:MilbreBurch,UniversityofMissouri Kirt:JerichoJosephThomas,ArizonaStateUniversity Melissa:JennCalvano,UniversityofLouisville Anis:MilbreBurch,UniversityofMissouriChrysalis*ByMonicaA.Hand,UniversityofMissouri Director:EmilyRollie,CentralWashingtonUniversity Dramaturg:KirstenEaston,IndependentScholar Christine:KathyPrivatt,LawrenceUniversity Barbara:MilbreBurch,UniversityofMissouri Darlene:JanePurse-Wiedenhoeft,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh*InMemoriam:

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MonicaA.HandenthusiasticallyacceptedourinvitationtoshowherworkatMATCbeforepassingawaysuddenlythiswinter.HervoiceasaqueerwomanofcolorgreatlyaffectedthePlaywritingSymposiumleadershipandcompelledustoretainhermaterialintheconferenceforalltoexperience.PlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRegencyC/Sage/RichmondPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressRedSkyatNightByJoeStollenwerk,UniversityofSouthDakota Dramaturg:DanVenning,NewYorkUniversitySession10:4:30-5:45HistorySymposium15RegencyDConfrontingAdvocacy&PerformativePoliticsChair:RobertCrane,UniversityofPittsburgh“NathantheWise:Piscator’sCrusadeAgainstAnti-SemitismandIslamophobia” StaceyConnelly,TrinityUniversity“APostcolonialReflectiononAdvocacy:SevenJewishChildrenandthe“Problem”of

Palestine” SamerAl-Saber,FloridaStateUniversity“WritingtheSelf:LangstonHughes’RadicalProblemandtheCreationofIdentity” CatherineVrtis,TuftsUniversityHistorySymposium16PostOakRelivingHistoryThroughPerformanceChair:IngaMeier,StephenF.AustinUniversity“‘Historycouldgoonewayoritcouldgoanother:HowtoRe-presentandRe-imagine

Afghanistan’sHistoryPost-September11th2001inTheGreatGame:Afghanistan” EmmaFuthey,TuftsUniversity“LivingHistoryandArmyArchives:Soldier-ActorsinAmateurPerformance” KarenM.Dabney,MidwesternStateUniversity“WhoseProblemIsItAnyway?:ImprovComedyasaTheatricalFirstResponse.” TravisStern,BradleyUniversityPractice/Production10RicePlaywritingandPractice/ProductionCo-SponsoredPanelVisualDramaturgy:ProblemSolverorProblemMakerinContemporaryPerformanceCreationChair:DanDennis,OhioUniversity“VisualDramaturgy:ProblemSolverorProblemMakerinContemporaryPerformance

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Creation” CatGleason,UniversityofMissouri“Dramaturgs‘See’theText:VisualDramaturgyandNewPlayDevelopment” MartineKeiGreen-Rogers,UniversityofUtah“OnBeingaLanguageArtistinaPhysicalMedium” JustinMaxwell,TheUniversityofNewOrleans“Theproblemofwhichtoolstouseorwhichhattowear:DesignerasVisualDramaturg” WesPearce,UniversityofReginaPlaywritingSymposium6WestheimerAGirlWalksintoaBarByMaryClohan,RutgersUniversity Director:ShawnaMefferdKelty,SUNYPlattsburgh Dramaturg:JoeStollenwerk,UniversityofSouthDakota Jan:LynnDeboeck,UniversityofUtah Phillip:AndrewBlasenak,VillanovaUniversityTheGivingTreeByBrookeOehme,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,Carbondale Director:JoeStollenwerk,UniversityofSouthDakota Dramaturg:CarrieWinship,UniversityofMissouri Narrator:MattFotis,AlbrightCollege TheBoy:RonZank,MonmouthCollege TheTree:EmilyRollie,CentralWashingtonUniversityPlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRichmond/SagePlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressGoodGriefByKirtShineman,GlendaleCommunityCollege Dramaturg:TylerA.Smith,BallStateUniversityPitchYourBookSessionRegencyCChairs:RobertB.Shimko,UniversityofHoustonandMeredithA.Conti,JamesMadisonUniversityAmericanScenicDesignandFreelanceProfessionalism

DavidBisaha,BinghamtonUniversityTheEdwinBoothPromptBooks:ASocialandTheatricalHistory LezlieC.Cross,UniversityofNevada,LasVegasPerformingTombstone:TheGunfightintheEighteen-foot-wideEmptyLotontheSouthSide

ofFremontStreetbetweenC.S.Fly’sBoardinghouseandaFrameResidence SeasonEllison,BemidjiStateUniversity

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StillHauntingtheCastle:FeministPostcolonialGothicTheatreattheEndoftheTwentiethCentury

AoiseStratford,CornellUniversityModalitiesofFreedom:BlackFeministStandupin20thand21stCenturyUSA

KatelynHaleWood,UniversityofVirginiaReformPerformed:TransatlanticSuffrage,Labor,andBirthControlActivismOnandOff

StageChrisWoodworth,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges

PitchYourBookEditors:ScottMagelssen,SouthernIllinoisUniversityPress,TheaterintheAmericasSeriesPatrickAnderson,NorthwesternUniversityPress,PerformanceWorksSeries7:00-10:00:Playwrights’FringeFestRegencyA

AdvantageByJerichoJosephThomas,ArizonaStateUniversityTheChineseLifeForceByMichaelMcGoldrick,ArizonaStateUniversityFlight11ByJenniePardoe,UniversityofMissouriTheKissByAoiseStratford,CornellUniversity

ExecutiveCommitteemeeting

SaturdayMarch18.2017RegistrationDesk:8:00-6:00PreFunction,2ndLevelBreakfast:8:00-9:30RegencyBSession11:9:00-10:15HistorySymposium17RegencyDComplicatingAsian&AsianAmericanRepresentationChair:NoeMontez,TuftsUniversity“AppropriatingCommunity:TheProblemofOrientalismintheLittleTheatreMovement” MerrittDenman,BaylorUniversity“AsianBodyasTransgressorinBroadwayMusicalTheatre” VickiHoskins,UniversityofPittsburgh“DisciplinaryProblems:HearingOrientalisminAlwinNikolais’Imago” AngieAhlgren,BowlingGreenStateUniversityHistorySymposium18PostOakReconsideringtheBodyinPerformanceHistoriography

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Chair:HeidiL.NeesCaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity,SanLuisObispo“‘HeHitMeonMonday:’ContextualizingtheAbsenceofCriticalScrutinyonDomestic

AbuseinCarousel”KatieHahn,TexasTechUniversity

“RethinkingHistory:GenderPresentationinTheWhite-HairedGirl” QianruLi,UniversityofGeorgia“Khudzhum:TheSurrogateProletariatontheUzbekStage” RobertCrane,UniversityofPittsburghPedagogySymposium10RiceMissionOutcomesII(ProfessionalPreparation)Chair:CatGleason,UniversityofMissouri“SoftSkillsforDesigners:PreparingStudentsforSuccess” WillMcCandless,SouthCoastRepertory“AMasterofFineArtsDegreeinTheatreforWorkingAdults” SherryR.Boyd,NorthLakeCollege“TheStrongandBalancedDesigner” LeticiaM.Delgado,LubbockChristianUniversity“TheImpactofGenderontheCareersofWomenTheatreFacultyinHigherEducation:A

QualitativeInvestigation” RachelE.Bauer,UniversityofMissouriPlaywritingSymposium7WestheimerTheVoight-KampffMachineontheEdgeofForeverByJustinMaxwell,UniversityofNewOrleans Director:EricKildow,KentStateUniversity,Trumbull Dramaturg:KristiGood,LycomingCollege 1:JuliaMoriarty,WayneStateUniversity 2:EricThibodeaux-Thompson,UniversityofIllinois,SpringfieldHeddaHelmer:IbseniteHeroineByJoeStollenwerk,UniversityofSouthDakota Director:SeasonEllison,BemidjiStateUniversity Dramaturg:JessicaHinds-Bond,NorthwesternUniversity HeddaHelmer:MissyThibodeaux-Thompson,UniversityofIllinois,Springfield Maid#1-4:JanePurse-Wiedenhoeft,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh Mrs.Exposition:EvaPatton,BallStateUniversityPlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRegencyC/Sage/RichmondPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressAProperManByStevenYoung,TexasWoman’sUniversity

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Dramaturg:DavidRuis,UniversityofKansasSession12:10:30-11:45HistorySymposium19RegencyDReexaminingBlackIdentityinAmericanCultureChair:ShannonWalsh,LouisianaStateUniversity“CreatingtheProblematicMythoftheBlackMaleRapist:StagingsandRepresentationsof

InterracialSexualandIntimateViolence” LauraBaggs,UniversityofTexas,Austin“BlackFemaleRepresentation:WeHaveaProblem” DevairJeffries,FloridaStateUniversity“TheDreamEnds:BertWilliams,Mr.LodeofKoal,andtheEndofanEraforBlack

Musicals” BeckHolden,TuftsUniversityHistorySymposium20PostOakGraduateEmergingScholarsSessionChair:MartineKeiGreen-Rogers,UniversityofUtah“Whatis‘Problematic?’:RefutingAccusationsofSexisminVerdi’sRigoletto” SusanBywaters,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign“WalkaMileinMyShoes:ReclaimingThePeople’sTemple” MonicaCortésViharo,UniversityofWashington“TheImpossibilityofSymbol:Chekhov’sBreakingStringandtheStruggleforInterpretive

Control” ChelseaTaylor,UniversityofHoustonPractice/ProductionSymposium11RiceTheaterasLaboratoryChair:KarinWaidley,IndependentScholar/ArtistMessingwiththeForm:ReifyingtheSuzukiMethodofActorTrainingtoFosterEnsemble

forAntonChekhov’sTheThreeSisters BriMcCabe,OhioUniversitySketchComedyintheAgeofDonaldJ.Trump MattFotis,AlbrightCollegeProblemsandPracticalApplicationsofInterviewTheatreTechniquesasExperiencedinthe

RealmofDevisedTheatre:AnalyzingthePiece"Humanityis_____"PresentedinDetroit'sPerformanceFestival

ChloéWhitingStevenson,OwensCommunityCollegePlaywritingSymposium8WestheimerOfélio

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ByJoshInocéncio,IndependentArtist Director:JeffPaden,FloridaStateUniversity Dramaturg:RachelE.Bauer,UniversityofMissouri Ofélio:BryanM.Vandevender,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh Doctor:KristiGood,LycomingCollege GradStudent:AaronScully,UniversityofMissouriFightorFlightByKirstenEaston,IndependentScholar Director:VanessaCampagna,MonmouthCollege Dramaturg:DanVenning,NewYorkUniversity Father:EricThibodeaux-Thompson,UniversityofIllinois,Springfield Mother:EvaPatton,BallStateUniversity Daughter:TaliaGritzmacher,OzarksTechnicalCommunityCollegePlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRegencyC/Sage/RichmondPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressBlackbirds’GardenByMerlaineAngwall,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh Dramaturg:CarrieWinship,UniversityofMissouri12:00-2:00AllConferenceLuncheonandKeynoteRegencyABPresentationoftheRobertA.SchankeAwardInductionofNewMATCFellowKeynoteSpeaker:DiepTranDiepTranistheassociateeditorofAmericanTheatremagazine.Shecuratesthemagazine’smonthly,“Equity,Diversity,andInclusion”column.SheisalsothefounderandproducerofAmericanTheatre’sbiweeklypodcast,Offscript.In2014,DiepledthecreationandlaunchofAmericanTheatre.org,thefirstofficialwebsiteforthemagazine.HerwritinghasalsoappearedintheNewYorkTimes,TimeOutNewYork,TDFStages,Backstage,andSalon,amongotherpublications.Diephasabachelor’sinEnglishandArtHistoryfromtheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles.Shereceivedhermaster’sdegreeinartsjournalismfromtheGoldringArtsJournalismProgramatSyracuseUniversity.In2015,shewasacriticfellowattheNationalCriticsInstituteattheEugeneO’NeillTheaterCenter.2:00-3:00MATCBusinessMeetingRegencyD

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Session13:3:15-4:30HistorySymposium21RegencyDChallengingPerformanceHistoriographyChair:ScottMagelssen,UniversityofWashington“Missing:HistoryandtheProblemoftheArchive” OdaiJohnson,UniversityofWashington“HowtoKeepMelodramafromSneakingintoPerformanceHistoriography?” AnaElenaPuga,TheOhioStateUniversity“YesWeCan?ResistingtheObamaPresidency’sNeoliberalistEnvisioningoftheAmerican

DreaminKristofferDiaz’sTheElaborateEntranceofChadDeity” NoeMontez,TuftsUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium12RiceParticipatoryProblemsChair:BrianCook,UniversityofAlaska,Anchorage“GameTheoryasPraxisforDevisedTheater” PacoJoséMadden,ArizonaStateUniversity“TheAnti-CellPhoneBiasandPolicingAudienceBehavior” ColleenKing,LouisianaStateUniversity“ExploitingtheParticipativeInterface:EncouragingDeepImmersionandVisceral

EngagementinContemporarySite-BasedTheatreEvents” RandHarmon,UniversityofNorthernColoradoPedagogySymposium11PostOakTroubleshooting(CurricularandMethodologicalAdjustments)Chair:HeidiL.Nees,CaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity“TeachingAfricanAmericanPerformanceandActivismina‘VeryBlackYear’” LaDonnaL.Forsgren,MiamiUniversity“We’veJettisonedBrockett,NowWhat?:PedagogicalDuctTapeintheTheatreHistory

Classroom” TylerA.Smith,BallStateUniversity“What’stheProblemHere?:DistinguishingBetweenSkillDeficienciesandAttribute

DeficienciesintheActingandMovementClass” SladeBillew,StephenF.AustinStateUniversity“TheLiberalArtofTheatre:DirectingasPedagogy,ActingasCriticalThought” JenniferHerron,TuftsUniversityPlaywritingSymposium9WestheimerMyNona’sCanaryByDavidCrespy,UniversityofMissouri Director:JonathanHerbert,OzarksTechnicalCommunityCollege

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Dramaturg:DavidRuis,UniversityofKansas Scenographer:WesPearce,UniversityofRegina Nona:KathyPrivatt,LawrenceUniversity MichelleBenmayor:JenniferGoff,VirginiaTechUniversity MaryMasarano:JuliaMoriarty,WayneStateUniversityDeadDucksByMacyJones,LouisianaStateUniversity Director:CatGleason,UniversityofMissouri Dramaturg:BryanM.Vandevender,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh Scenographer:WesPearce,UniversityofRegina Imogene:JennCalvano,UniversityofLouisville Grace:VanessaCampagna,MonmouthCollege Jo:MissyThibodeaux-Thompson,UniversityofIllinois,SpringfieldPlaywritingSymposiumRehearsalsRichmond/Sage/WestAlabamaPlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressSurvivorGuiltByMattieuChapman,CentralWashingtonUniversity Dramaturg:SamWeiner,UniversityofHoustonArticles-in-Progress1(GraduateStudentSession)RegencyCChairs:RobertB.Shimko,UniversityofHoustonandMeredithA.Conti,JamesMadisonUniversity“ThisIsMyTexas”:UsingMichaelJohnLaChiusa’sGianttoDestabilizetheMythosofthe

AmericanSouthwestinRodgersandHammerstein’sOklahoma!”AllisonGibbes,FloridaStateUniversity

“MultipleSclerosis:TheatricalRepresentationsanditsMedicalandMetaphoricalCouplingwithHIV/AIDS"DeborahKochman,FloridaStateUniversity

“ANewFormatofGenderOppression:TheWhite-HairedGirl”QianruLi,UniversityofGeorgia

“‘PigsDon’tKnowHowtoHate’:ConspiracyasanHistoriographicalIntervention”TyrrellWoolbert

Articles-in-ProgressEditors:PeterCampbell—OnlineEditor,TheatreTopicsSaraFreeman—Editor,TheatreHistoryStudiesBethOsborne—EditorialBoard,JournalofAmericanDramaandTheatreJenniferSchlueter—Editor,Theatre/PracticeSession14:4:45-6:00

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HistorySymposium22RegencyDTestingHistoricalElisionsChair:Kee-YoonNahm,IllinoisStateUniversity“BuriedTooDeepToFind:TheProblemWhenTheArchiv(ist)e‘Disappears’Art-i(n)-facts

fromtheirSource” SusanFinque,UniversityofWashington“ANaturalWoman:ADefinitionalandHistoriographicalProblem” LezlieCross,UniversityofNevada,LasVegas“TheatrePieceNo.1:TheProblemofTheatreatBlackMountainCollege” JenniferSchlueter,TheOhioStateUniversityHistorySymposium23PostOakRecontextualizingPolitics&PerformanceChair:KarenM.Dabney,MidwesternStateUniversity“TheVampyreofTheGrotto:AFriendlyexplorationintotheContemporaryViabilityof

GothicDrama” AoiseStratford,CornellUniversity“TheLastLastMealofTexas:ReexaminingExecutionandthePerformanceofPower” ShelbyLunderman,UniversityofWashington“ArmsandtheGirl:CurrentEventsFatigueandBroadwayintheGreatWar” DeAnnaTotenBeard,BaylorUniversityPractice/ProductionSymposium13RegencyCRepresentationandGenreinRacializedCircumstancesChair:DrewVidal,BallStateUniversity“HowDoYouSolveaProblemLikeInstitutionalRacism?:ProducingTheWizinHostile

Territory” AllisonGibbes,FloridaStateUniversity“FilteringEthno-TheatreThroughtheSieveofPractice(ality)—VisibilityatAnyCost?” KarinWaidley,IndependentScholar“AccessingAsianTheatreintheAmericanSouth:AFilmNoirInspiredAdaptationof

Bunraku” MegHannaTominaga,ConverseCollegePractice/ProductionSymposium14WestAlabamaStagingIdentityandIllnessChair:SaraBecker,UniversityofHoustonAll’sFairinLoveandDevising:FeministTransformationWithinTheatreCompanies AubreyHeleneNeumann,TheOhioStateUniversity’Hello,Iam...’:PerformingRecovery,CombatingStigmas,andEmbracingPublicDisclosure ThomasMichaelCampbell,UniversityofWisconsin,Sheboygan

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EradicatingMentalIllnessStigmathroughReproducingDevisedWork KaylaE.Loree,MiamiUniversityCallMeCrazy:FeministInterventionsinStagingthe“MentallyIll” AlexisRiley,IndependentScholarPedagogySymposium12RiceSystemsDesignII(Materials)Chair:JenniferGoff“TheTechnicalSkillofEmpathy” RonnieChamberlain,NorthernKentuckyUniversity“SquarePegs&RoundHoles:TheOpenAccessTheatreHistoryCourse” PatrickM.Konesko,UniversityofWyoming“TheTriumphsandChallengesofIntegratingTechnologyintoaTheaterClassroom:Usinga

ClassBlog” KirstenEaston,IndependentScholar“We’veHadaVirtualProblemHere” LynnDeboeck,UniversityofUtahPlaywritingSymposium10WestheimerMovingOnByBeckyRetz,UniversityofNewOrleans Director:RonZank,MonmouthCollege Dramaturg:SamWeiner,UniversityofHouston Josh:EricHarrell,RegentUniversity Abe:JonathanHerbert,OzarksTechnicalCommunityCollegeChangelingPlayByBrandyM.Carie,IndependentArtist Director:PenelopeCole,IndependentScholar Dramaturg:SeanBartley,FloridaStateUniversity Bennie:KathrynStahl,MichiganStateUniversity Clarice:VanessaCampagna,MonmouthCollegePlaywritingSymposiumPlays-in-ProgressTheDisappearanceofAnnPlatoByMonicaA.Hand,UniversityofMissouri(MilbreBurch,

proxy) Dramaturg:BrookeOehme,SouthernIllinoisUniversity,Carbondale

SundayMarch19,2017Breakfast:7:30-9:00RegencyBSession15:8:00-9:15

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HistorySymposium24RegencyDRewritingTheatricalHistoriesChair:VivianAppler,CollegeofCharleston“‘WhereICanBeMe’:TheProblemwithCastAlbums,Feminism,andthe11o’clock

Number” JoeStollenwerk,UniversityofSouthDakota“PregnancyPlaysinJacobeanandCarolineEngland:ProblematizingtheMotherlessStuart

Stage” SaraB.T.Thiel,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign“ShiftingtheParadigmofRaceinBritain:ThePossibilityandPoliticsofaRacialized

Macbeth” MatthieuChapman,CentralWashingtonUniversityHistorySymposium25RegencyCExploringImaginativeSpacesChair:AngieAhlgren,BowlingGreenStateUniversity“RiskYourSkin:EmbodyingProblemsofCulturalIdentityunderNeocolonialEconomic

PressureinManjulaPadmanabhan’sHarvest” MichaelValdez,FloridaStateUniversity“TheProblemoftheSpaceTourist:ANewNewTheoryoftheLeisureClass” ScottMagelssen,UniversityofWashington“‘Mysenseswandered’:TheLearofPrivateLifeandthePossibilityofaFictionofBedlam” KatherineSwimm,TuftsUniversityPlaywritingSymposium11WestheimerPedagogyandPlaywritingSymposiumCo-SponsoredPanel24-HourTheatreFestivalsandBestPractices24-HourCollaborativeTheatreProjectPresentation/RoundtableArticles-in-Progress2(Faculty/IndependentScholars)RiceChairs:RobertB.Shimko,UniversityofHoustonandMeredithA.Conti,JamesMadison

University“’CulturalSeeding’:VanTacVuTheatreDuringtheVietnamWar”

JayBall,UniversityofArkansas,LittleRock“Not-So-BenignViolation:TheDangerousComedyofSheilaCallaghan”

JenniferGoff,VirginiaTechUniversity“BeyondBallet:RepositioningGeorgeBalanchineasaPioneerofAmericanMusicalTheatre

Dance”RyanMcKinney,CUNY-KingsboroughCommunityCollege

“SplittingHair:RevivingtheAmericanTribalLove-RockMusicalintheMe-Decade”BryanM.Vandevender,UniversityofWisconsin,Oshkosh

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Articles-in-ProgressEditors:PeterCampbell—OnlineEditor,TheatreTopicsSaraFreeman—Editor,TheatreHistoryStudiesBethOsborne—EditorialBoard,JournalofAmericanDramaandTheatreTBASession16:9:30-10:45HistorySymposium26RegencyDTheatreHistorySymposiumResponseSessionPlaywritingSymposium12WestheimerPlaywritingSymposiumResponseSessionCloseofConference