2023 Conference Schedule

2023 Valdez Theatre Conference Schedule

(as of May 15, 2023)

 

Saturday, June 10

8:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Registration Desk Open

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 to 3:15 p.m.

Room C: Rehearsal of Kyle Walker’s An Immortal’s Companion

1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Rand Higbee’s Born a Clown

4:45 to 6:15 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Carey Seward’s Monumental

Room C: Rehearsal of Philip Middleton Williams’ A Tree Grows in Longmont
8:00 p.m. 

Valdez Theatre Fringe Kick-Off

 

Sunday, June 11

8:00 to 9:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast Reception

8:15 to 9:15 a.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Cody Goulder’s The Natural Law

Room D: Rehearsal of Samuel Thomas Heyman’s Triptych – A Love Story In Three Acts

9:15 to 10:15 a.m.

Room A: Conference Orientation with Conference Coordinator Dawson Moore

Getting Outdoors with Tom Moran 

9:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Emily Everett’s Tryhard

Room D: Rehearsal of Laura Sansing Pfizenmayer’s Cancer is a Pain In My Ass

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Rand Higbee’s Born a Clown

Room C: Reading of Kyle Walker’s An Immortal’s Companion

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 to 3:15 p.m.
Theatre: Voice Over: How to Do It and What Does the Business Look Like with Debi Derryberry and Rodger Bumpass; moderated by Stephen Rothman

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Kaeli Meno’s Pinpricked

Room D: Rehearsal of Charlotte Lang’s Rocket Yourself to the Moon

3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Room C: Rehearsal of Barry Levine’s Aliens!

3:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Theatre: Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner, Frank Collison, Rob Lecrone, and Ben Corbett: part one

3:45 to 6:45 p.m.

Room D: Rehearsal of Dave Osmundsen’s Is This All This Is

4:45 to 6:00 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Carey Seward’s Monumental

Room C: Reading of Philip Middleton Williams’ A Tree Grows in Longmont
8:00 p.m.

Magpie’s: Valdez Theatre Fringe

 

Monday, June 12

7:30 a.m.

Student Housing: Morning run with Tom Moran

8:00 to 8:45 a.m.

Room B: Places Yoga with Rachel Gregory

8:15 to 9:45 a.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of DC Cathro’s Fixed

Room C: Rehearsal of Tom Moran’s Holy Fire

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

Room B: Reading of Cody Goulder’s The Natural Law

Room D: Reading of Samuel Thomas Heyman’s Triptych – A Love Story In Three Acts

10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Room C: Rehearsal of A.A. Milne’s Once On A Time, adapted for the stage by Andrea Staats

10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Seth McNeill’s Bullet

10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Emily Everett’s Tryhard

Room D: Reading of Laura Sansing Pfizenmayer’s Cancer is a Pain In My Ass

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 to 2:15 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Tori Rice’s Maybe for a Minute

Room C: Rehearsal of Rebecca Kane’s Is Anyone Watching This?

1:15 to 3:00 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Charlotte Lang’s Rocket Yourself to the Moon

Room D: Reading of Kaeli Meno’s Pinpricked

2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Michael C. O’Day’s Before Vinson

Room C: Rehearsal of Brandon Monokian’s Echo and Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside a Diner in New Jersey at 2AM

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Barry Levine’s Aliens!

3:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Room D: Reading of Dave Osmundsen’s Is This All This Is

4:45 to 6:15 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Jillian Blevins’ The Bed Trick

Room C: Rehearsal of Daniel Emlyn-Jones’ Niqabi

8:00 p.m.

Magpie’s: Valdez Theatre Fringe

 

Tuesday, June 13

7:30 a.m.

Student Housing: Morning run with Tom Moran

8:00 to 8:45 a.m.

Room A: Places Yoga with Rachel Gregory

8:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Dante Medema’s Beneath the Mask

Room D: Rehearsal of Sanjit Sengupta’s Global Alligator

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

Room A: Reading of DC Cathro’s Fixed

Room C: Reading of Tom Moran’s Holy Fire

9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Aurora Jane Behlke’s Founders, Keepers

Room D: Rehearsal of Erin Lerch’s Pinch Point

10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Seth McNeill’s Bullet

10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Room C: Reading of A.A. Milne’s Once On A Time, adapted for the stage by Andrea Staats

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Jesse D. Saywell’s Truth Be Told

Room D: Rehearsal of Paul Braverman’s Deuce Cooper: Pier Pressure

12:45 to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Tori Rice’s Maybe for a Minute

Room B: Rehearsal of Sarah Lyn Eaton’s Well Run Dry

Room C: Reading of Rebekah Kane’s Is Anyone Watching This?

Room D: Rehearsal of Timothy Crawford’s No Champagne in the Champagne Room

2:45 to 4:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Michael C. O’Day’s Before Vinson

Room C: Reading of Brandon Monokian’s Echo and Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside a Diner in New Jersey at 2AM

2:45 to 4:45 p.m.

Room D: Rehearsal for Leif Larson’s Shake the Disease

2:45 to 6:15 p.m.

Room D: Rehearsal of Katy Laurance’s The Good Word

4:45 to 6:00 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Jillian Blevins’ The Bed Trick

Room C: Reading of Daniel Emlyn-Jones’ Niqabi

8:00 p.m.

Theatre Nobody presenting Where We Go Together or The Flashlight Play
(By Kevin Michael Wesson)

10:00 p.m.

Magpie’s: Valdez Theatre Fringe

 

Wednesday, June 14

8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of claire dettloff’s chew the fat

Room C: Rehearsal of Michael Shaeffer’s Terminator 4: Judgment Dork, a parody

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

Room B: Reading of Dante Medema’s Beneath the Mask

Room D: Reading of Sanjit Sengupta’s Global Alligator

10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Hope Villanueva’s BUZZ

Room C: Rehearsal of Douglas R. Gearhart’s The Manager

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Aurora Jane Behlke’s Founders, Keepers

Room D: Reading of Erin Lerch’s Pinch Point

Theatre: Everything You Need to Know About Screenwriting but Were Afraid to Ask with Arthur M. Jolly

12:30 to 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Room C: Rehearsal of Joe Barnes’ The Trillionairess

1:00 to 4:15 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Greg Romero and Mike Vernusky’s Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms

1:00 to 1:45 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Jesse Daniel Saywell’s Truth Be Told

Room D: Reading of Paul Braverman’s Deuce Cooper: Pier Pressure

2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Sarah Lyn Eaton’s Well Run Dry

Room D: Reading of Timothy Crawford’s No Champagne in the Champagne Room

2:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Theatre: Rehearsal of Donald Molnar and Alicia Payne’s Justice for Maurice Henry Carter

3:15 to 5:00 p.m.

Room D: Reading of Leif Larson’s Shake The Disease

3:15 to 5:45 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Katy Laurance’s The Good Word

3:45 to 4:30 p.m.

Room C: Rehearsal of Erin Moughon’s Simon Says

4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Tamar Shai’s What if Susan Boyle Couldn’t Sing?

6:45 p.m.

Boarding for two-hour trip to Shoup Glacier aboard Stan Stephens Cruises

9:45 p.m.

Magpie’s: Valdez Theatre Fringe

 

Thursday, June 15

7:30 a.m.

Student Housing: Morning run with Tom Moran

8:00 to 8:45 a.m.

Room A: Places Yoga with Rachel Gregory

8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Joshua H. Cohen’s Furies

Room D: Rehearsal of Kathryn Ryan’s What Help Looks Like

9:00 to 10:15 a.m.

Room A: Reading of claire dettloff’s chew the fat

Room C: Reading of Michael Shaeffer’s Terminator 4: Judgment Dork, a parody

9:15 to 10:00 a.m.

Room D: Rehearsal of Kevin Michael Wesson’s Chance Hotline

9:15 to 10:10 a.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Reading of Jan Probst’s The Prophecy of the Crows

10:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Scott C. Sickles’ The Presidential Chili Cook Off

Room D: Rehearsal of Kelsey Jameson Sullivan’s Worm Teeth

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Hope Villanueva’s BUZZ

Room C: Reading of Douglas R. Gearhart’s The Manager

Noon to 3:00 (break for lunch)

Room B: Rehearsal of Danielle N. Frimer’s Monarchs

Noon to 3:00 (break for lunch)

Room D: Rehearsal of Emma Gibson’s Lumin

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Greg Romero and Mike Vernusky’s Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Room C: Reading of Joe Barnes’ The Trillionairess

3:45 to 4:30 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Erin Moughon’s Simon Says

3:45 to 5:30 p.m.

Room B: Rehearsal of Bridgette Dutta Portman’s Dead People

3:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Room C: Reading of Donald Molnar and Alicia Payne’s Justice for Maurice Henry Carter

Room D: Rehearsal of Nicholas Walker Herbert’s Isolato

4:45 to 5:45 p.m.

Room A: Reading of Tamar Shai’s What if Susan Boyle Couldn’t Sing?

8:00 p.m.

B Street Theatre and The Journey Company present Arlene Hutton’s Blood of the Lamb

10:00 p.m.

Magpie’s: Valdez Theatre Fringe

 

Friday, June 16

7:30 a.m.

Student Housing Morning run with Tom Moran

8:00 to 8:45 a.m.

Room A: Places Yoga with Rachel Gregory

9:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Joshua H. Cohen’s Furies

Room D: Reading of Kathryn Ryan’s What Help Looks Like

9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Room A: Rehearsal of Evan Edwards’ Mixed Messages

Room C: Rehearsal of Tae-nyun Kim and Rebecca Padrick’s We Were Made For Fantastic Spaces: or The Laundry Play

10:15 to 11:15 a.m.

Room B: Reading of Jan Probst’s The Prophecy of the Crows

Room D: Reading of Kevin Michael Wesson’s Chance Hotline

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Scott C. Sickles’ The Presidential Chili Cook Off

Room D: Reading of Kelsey Jameson Sullivan’s Worm Teeth

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 to 3:45 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Danielle N. Frimer’s Monarchs

Room D: Reading of Emma Gibson’s Lumin

3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Room C: Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner, Frank Collison, Rob Lecrone, and Ben Corbett, part two

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Room B: Reading of Bridgette Dutta Portman’s Dead People

Room D: Reading of Nicholas Walker Herbert’s Isolato

8:00 p.m.

TBA Theatre presents Greg Romero and Mike Vernusky’s Radio Ghosts, directed by Erin Dagon Mitchell, starring Ryan Buen, Jessica Faust, and Wayne Mitchell

 

Saturday, June 17

9:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Room D: Reading of Tae-nyun Kim and Rebecca Padrick’s We Were Made For Fantastic Spaces: or The Laundry Play

Theatre: Reading of Evan Edwards’ Mixed Messages

Noon

Theatre: Final presentation of the Voiceover Workshop

12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 to 1:45 p.m.

Theatre: Monologue Workshop Tech Rehearsal

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Theatre: Monologue Workshop Final Presentation

6:00 p.m.

Reception

7:00 p.m.

TBA Theatre’s Monte Carlo-themed Gala Dinner, honoring Kim Estes with the Jerry Harper Service Award.