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MARSHA
NORMAN
Playwright, Teacher and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
and Tony Award
Recipient of the 2007 SETC Distinguished Career Award
Keynote Presentation: Saturday, March 10th
MARSHA
NORMAN, playwright,
was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received her
B.A. from Agnes Scott College, her M.A. from the
University of Louisville, the 1983 Pulitzer Prize,
the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and
Drama Desk Awards for ‘Night, Mother.
For its treatment of suicide, the play was presented
by the Mayo Foundation’s
INSIGHT program to audiences of doctors around the
country. The play has been translated into 23
languages and has been selected for publication in
both British and American college textbooks. A
feature film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy
Spacek was released in August of 1986, for which
Miss Norman wrote the screenplay. ‘Night,
Mother received
a Broadway revival in 2004. Miss Norman is
currently working on the book for the musical Caraboo and
is the book-writer of the Broadway musical The
Color Purple.
Miss Norman also won the 1992 Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards for The Secret
Garden, for which she wrote book and lyrics. After successful national and
international tours, The Secret Garden is
becoming a perennial favorite in American theaters,
and opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Christmas
2000.
Her first play, Getting Out, premiered
at the Actors Theater of Louisville, and subsequently
played at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York. It won
the John Gassner Medallion, Newsday Oppenheimer Award, and the American Theater
Critics Association Citation. For the play’s treatment of epilepsy,
Miss Norman received The Epilepsy Institute’s
Humanitarian Award.
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Tom
Key
Executive Artistic Director, Theatrical Outfit
Acting Intensive
Tom Key
is best known for his award-winning performances from
off-Broadway to Los Angeles, as well as record-breaking
runs in Atlanta and Dallas, of the celebrated musical Cotton
Patch Gospel, which he conceived and co-authored
with the late singer-songwriter, Harry Chapin. Mr Key's
one-man play, C.S. Lewis On Stage, has been
presented across the United States and Canada, including
a production at the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Film and television
appearances include In the Heat of the Night, I'll
Fly Away, Following Her Heart with Ann Margaret, Getting
Out, etc. Tom also performs The Revelation
of John, and Screwtape in Person.
Tom Key has served since 1995
as The Executive Artistic Director of Theatrical
Outfit in Atlanta, with the purpose of giving dramatic
voice to the spiritual themes of the American South.
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Gary Garrison
Faculty, Department of Dramatic Writing Program,
NYU
SETC Ten-Minute Play Festival Respondent
Keeping the Drama in Your Work
and Out of Your Life
Based
on Garrison’s critically
acclaimed book, The Playwright's
Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work
and Out of Your Life, this repeat of last
year's successful workshop will explore the various
emotional issues every playwright or artist encounters
when facing the often ominous task of forging a
career.
Gary
Garrison, Ten-Minute Playwright guru, returns
to the SETC Convention as a respondent and presenter.
Garrison balances various roles ranging from
faculty member for the Department of Dramatic
Writing Program at NYU, to Artistic Director
for the First Look Theatre Co (NYU) and Program
Director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive
at the Kennedy Center. Amongst this, Garrison has
produced the last eighteen Festivals of New Works
for NYU, working with hundreds of playwrights,
directors and actors. Garrison’s has written
numerous plays including: Storm on Storm, Buddy, It
Belongs on Stage, Crater, Old Soles, Padding the
Wagon and Rug Store
Cowboy and is the author of the above mentioned
book as well as Perfect
Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten-Minute Play and Monologues
for Men by Men, Volumes 1 and 2. Garrison
was recently chosen the 2005 Outstanding Teacher
of Playwriting for the Association of Theatre in
Higher Education and is a member of the Dramatists
Guild.
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Atlanta Shakespeare
Company
Original Practice Shakespearean Acting
Laura Cole, Director of Education
and Training |
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Center for Puppetry
Arts
Applying Principles of Puppetry to Theatrical Production:
When, Where, Who, Why |
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Alliance Theatre
Dramaturgy
Freddie Ashley, Literary Manager and Celise Kalke,
Artistic Associate and Dramaturge |
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Artistic Directors Roundtable
Robert J. Farley, Georgia Ensemble Theatre
Richard Garner, Georgia Shakespeare
Rachel May or Hope Mirlis, Synchronicity Performance
Group
Anthony Rodriguez, Aurora Theatre
Kate Warner, Dad's Garage
Palmer Wells, Theatre
in the Square |
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Theatrical Outfit
Acting
Intensive (particularly suited to young actors)
Tom
Key, Executive Artistic Director and Jill Jane Clements,
Artistic Associate
Scenic Model Making
Rochelle Barker, Resident Designer |
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Cartoon
Network
Voice Acting
George
Lowe, the voice of "Space Ghost" |
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Dad's
Garage
Directing and Acting within
a Company
Kate Warner, Artistic
Director |
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