Current as of May 7, 2019
All activities are subject to change.
Saturday, June 8
1:00 to 8:00 p.m. Registration Desk open.
8:00 p.m. Black When I Was a Boy, written and performed by Cooper Bates.
Sunday, June 9
| Room A | Room B | Room C |
| 10:30 a.m. Room A: Play Lab panelist meeting (not open to public) | ||
| 11:30 a.m. Room A: Theatre Conference and Play Lab Orientation Session with Dawson Moore | ||
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 p.m. Exploring Movement Theatre Through Archetypes with Megan Skye Hale | 1:30 p.m. The Art in You: Finding your Story with Cooper Bates | |
| 3:00 p.m. Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner and Frank Collison, Part One | 3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on Writing, Directing, and Staging Intimacy: Philosophy and Practicality | |
| 4:30 p.m. Publishing for Playwrights with Eleanore Speert | ||
| 6:00 p.m. Dinner Break | ||
| 8:00 p.m. An Evening with Our Featured Artists | ||
| 9:45 p.m. (approximate) Last Frontier Fringe | ||
Monday, June 10
| Room A | Room B | Room C |
| 9:15 a.m. Morning Stretch and Release with Merreley Donohue | ||
| 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Rand Higbee’s Tales of the Monkey King | ||
| 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Kristen Ritter’s Nefarious | 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Linda Billington’s The Children in the Ice | 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Joanna Castle Miller’s The Storehouse |
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 p.m. From Improvisation to Script, Led by Ron West and Catherine Butterfield | 1:30 p.m. Applying Movement Principles to Enhance Cold Reading with Megan Skye Hale | |
| 1:45 p.m. Individual Appointments for the Monologue Workshop | ||
| 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Anna Lynn Baker’s Exist to Exist | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: John Perovich’s mother | father | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Kevin Michael Wesson’s No Surprises |
| 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Sean DeMers’ Little Blue Pill | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Kathy Rucker’s Darling | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Prisca Jebet Kendagor’s Seven and Ten |
| 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break | ||
| 8:00 p.m. Cyrano’s Theatre presents Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, directed by Codie Costello | ||
| 10:15 p.m. (approximate) Last Frontier Fringe | ||
Tuesday, June 11
| Room A | Room B | Room C |
| 9:00 a.m. to Noon Individual Appointments for the Monologue Workshop | ||
| 9:15 a.m. Morning Stretch and Release with Merreley Donohue | ||
| 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Joy Cutler’s Cathy the Great | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Kate Mickere’s A Banshee Killed My Boyfriend | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Cody Goulder’s Time Warped |
| 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Kyle Walker’s The Otterman | 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Joe Gulla’s Reel Wood | 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Tom David Barna’s Sun Go Down |
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 p.m. My First Play Sucks! with Schatzie Schaefers, Arthur M. Jolly & Cassandra Medley | 1:30 p.m. Basic Movement and Mask Principles with Megan Skye Hale | |
| 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Tom Moran’s Life Support | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Ward Kay’s Three Times a Lady | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: April Littlejohn’s Playing Boyfriends |
| 4:00p.m. Play Lab: AR Nicholas’ MsRememberment and the 6000 Years | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Piper Werle’s Bettie Page in the Modern Age | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Jan Probst’s Bird on a Tree Branch |
| 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break | ||
| 8:00 p.m. Spelman College presents Hands Up by various artists, directed by Keith Arthur Boldin | ||
| 10:00 p.m. (approximate) Last Frontier Fringe | ||
Wednesday, June 12
| Room A | Room B | Room C | |
| 9:15 a.m. Morning Stretch and Release with Merreley Donohue | |||
| 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Paul Braverman’s Captive Audition | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Greg Romero’s Bulldozers | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Donna Stuccio’s Midnight at Black Diamond Trestle | |
| 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Grant Kniefel’s Rylan and Bec | 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Adam Seidel’s California | 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Lisa M. Konoplisky’s Dog Park | |
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | |||
| 1:30 p.m. Writing Theatre in Today’s Ultra-Political Climate with Timothy Daly (followed by book launch & signing) | 1:30 p.m. Lecoq’s Seven Tensions with Megan Skye Hale | ||
| 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Clem Martini’s The Extinction Therapist | 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Luke Gomez’ Blacklisters | 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Patrick Shaw’s Watchers | |
| 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break | |||
| 8:00 p.m. Popcorn Falls followed by a reception at the Valdez Museum, hosted by the City of Valdez | |||
| 10:00 p.m. (approximate) Last Frontier Fringe | |||
Thursday, June 13
| Room A | Room B | Room C |
| 9:15 a.m. Morning Stretch and Release with Merreley Donohue | ||
| 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Individual Appointments for the Monologue Workshop | ||
| 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Antoinette Winstead’s Tulsa 1921 | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Gail High’s Casserole Club | |
| 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Ashley Rose Wellman’s Wine Teeth | 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Katherine Glover’s Sex, War, & Syphilis | 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Tracy Carns’ The Dissolve |
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 p.m. Self-Producing for Playwrights, with James Hindman, Arlene Hutton, and Schatzie Schaefers | 1:30 p.m. Guided Movement Exploration and Physical Theatre Scenarios with Megan Skye Hale | |
| 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Philip Middleton Williams’ A Moment of Clarity | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Antoinette Martin-Hanson’s Life Can Be A Dream | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Roberta D’Alois’ One Left Behind |
| 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Luke Yankee’s Confessions of a Star Maker | 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Linda Ayres-Frederick’s The Umbrella Play | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Joe Barnes’ Monsters |
| 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break | ||
| 8:00 p.m. TBA Theatre presents The Death and Life of Edgar Allen Poe | ||
| 10:00 p.m. (approximate) Last Frontier Fringe | ||
Friday, June 14
| Room A | Room B | Room C |
| 9:15 a.m. Morning Stretch and Release with Merreley Donohue | ||
| 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Lynne Halliday’s Room 324 | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Erica Zephir’s Pain no more, god speed | 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Nan Gatewood Satter’s Yalu River |
| 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Anna Fox’s Sitting Causes Cancer and Other Modern Tragedies | 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Aren Haun’s Parallax | 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Angelica Howland and Michelle Gardner’s You, Me & Adam Levine |
| 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break | ||
| 1:30 p.m. Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner & Frank Collison, Part Two | 1:30 p.m. Stage Business: Submissions, Commissions, and Everything Else I Wish I Knew When I Started with Kevin Armento | |
| 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Elliot Kreloff’s The Dog Died | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Brandon Monokian’s fragments of a boy | 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: James Hindman’s Proof Positive |
| 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Anya Pearson’s The Killing Fields | 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Daniel Kwiatkowski’s Control | 4:00 p.m. Play Lab: Peter Filichia’s The Whole World |
| 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break | ||
| 8:00 p.m. Boarding for a 2-hour cruise to Shoup Glacier on Stan Stephens Cruises | ||
Saturday, June 15
9:00 a.m. Monologue Workshop performers called for tech through
10:30 a.m. Monologue Workshop Final Presentation
Noon Lunch Break
12:45 p.m. The Ten-Minute Play Slam, directed by Carrie Yanagawa
5:00 p.m. Reception on the Civic Center lawn
6:00 p.m. Group photos for playwrights, actors, and featured artists
6:30 p.m. Come dressed to two-step to the Gala Dinner, catered by the Serendipity Supper Club and produced by TBA Theatre. Return to the roots of country music with 1940s-style Hank Williams Tribute Band Hillbilly Shakespeare. Dig up your line-dancing finery and join the fun (dressing up is suggested but not required). The evening culminates in the presentation of the Jerry Harper Service Award to longtime staff members Shannon Stites and the late Michael Holcombe.
Sunday, June 16
10:30 a.m. Wrap up discussion with continental breakfast in the atrium at Prince William Sound College. All attendees are invited.