February 17, 2016 Hello Everyone! We hope you had lovely Valentines and Presidents Days this week! OTW: Sessions 2016 is happening Friday morning M

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February 17, 2016

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Hello Everyone!

We hope you had lovely Valentines and Presidents Days this week!

OTW: Sessions 2016 is happening Friday morning May 6 at the Kennedy Center preceding the New Visions/New Voices kick-off events! Sessions will feature a conversation with Rob Weinert-Kendt, Editor-in-Chief of American Theatre Magazine, a reading from our Year 3 Young Playwrights for Change winner, and more. Go HERE for more information and to register.

Our next Professional Development Webinar is coming up Monday February 29. We're continuing our Leadership Roles in TYA Series with The Role of the Education Director in TYA. I'll be sending out a separate mailing with more info and a registration link. I'll also be posting the registration link at the Professional Development Homepage..

March 20th is World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People. We want to hear from our members about how you’re celebrating! Send messages via Facebook or @TYA_USA using #WorldDayofTheatre or EMAIL us.

The TYA Blog continues its Movement & Dance series. Check out current and posts HERE. The Blog also added to the Design & Visual Storytelling series. See all posts HERE.

TYA/USA member Susie Tanner will be presenting a workshop entitled: ALLIES AT THE TABLE: The Role of White Theatre Artists in Multi-Ethnic Conversations (in collaboration with journalist and playwright Kitty Felde) at the international NYU 2016 Forum on Educational Theatre (FOET) in April. Lean more HERE.

The deadline for the Tony Awards Excellence in Teaching Award has been extended to March 7. Lean more HERE.

Finally, to join or to renew your Membership, sign on at the member center. If you have any questions or have trouble logging into your account, please contact us.

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All the Best,

Michael A. Van Kerckhove

Executive Director, TYA/USA

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via The Magik Theatre

The Magik Theatre Seeks Artistic Director. The position is open until filled. (Read More).

Metro Theater Company Seeks Teaching Artists. Application Deadline is March 28, 2016. (Read More).

Adventure Stage Chicago Seeks submissions for SCRATCH. Deadline is March 13, 2016. (Read More).

First Stage in Milwaukee is seeking candidates for their Teaching Artist Fellowships for the 2016-2017 season. Application Deadline is March 11, 2016. (Read More).

Job Postings at Children's Theatre of Cincinnati and Theatre Under the Stars: Cincinnati is hiring an Associate Stage Manager; TUTS is hiring a Headmaster or Dean for the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre. (Read More.)

Members in the News

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Matthew Mazzella and Tony Anagaran in HTY's "The Tiny Tree." Photo by Brad Goda.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth to Premiere THE TINY TREE (BroadwayWorld.com): With live music and song, a charming father-son astronaut duo and a fantastical setting on a planet far far away, the play is designed especially for tiny tots-but will also resonate powerfully with adults. (Read More.)

Childsplay Founder David Saar to Receive 2016 Shelley Award at 35th Annual Governor's Arts Awards (BroadwayWorld.com): The award, named in honor of former Arizona Commission on the Arts Executive Director Shelley Cohn, is presented to an individual who has advanced the arts through strategic and innovative work in creating or supporting public policy beneficial to the arts in Arizona. (Read More.)

Latina/o Plays for Young Performers: A Resource for Teachers (HowlRound): By Roxanne Schroeder-Arce: Several years ago, I began to compile a list of plays with Latina/o themes and characters appropriate (or worthy) to be performed by young performers; quality dramatic literature for teachers to produce with their students. (Read More.)

Chicago's Halcyon Theatre to Host Latina Social Issues Panel (Lawndale News): In association with its mission to present new voices from inadequately represented communities, Halcyon Theatre will host a one-night-only post-show discussion immediately following the 8p.m. performance of Estrella Cruz [the junkyard queen] Friday, February 19. (Read More.)

‘Bad Kitty’ kids’ books make a leap onto the stage (SFGate): A handful of excited elementary-age girls, wearing kitten ears and clutching paperback books, stood in front of Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. (Read More.)

BWW Interview: Cody Daigle-Orians and THE BOOK OF D at The Growing Stage (BroadwayWorld.com): In the play, D is a young outcast who escapes into a world of stories. He keeps a book, The Book of D, to grapples with the tough things in his life - his parents' divorce, his lack of friends, and the reasons for everything. (Read More.)

David Wood – the dramatist putting Dahl's scares on stage (West Briton): "My first Dahl adaptation was The BFG. I was writing it – again by the sea – at Hastings. I always play a game with myself when I'm writing so that I don't get distracted – this time, I had a television in my room but I wouldn't allow myself to watch it until I finished writing. One day, I decided to allow myself a little treat and turned it on at the exact moment it was announced on the news that Roald Dahl had died. That was one of the spookiest moments of my life." (Read More.)

Other Stories of Note

Blackness in Nonprofit Theater: Where Representation Becomes Marginalization (Nonprofit Quarterly): Black History Month has become the slot of choice in the nonprofit theater world for “the black show.” I call this a dangerous practice because it suggests a finite time period during which black stories, voices, and bodies may exist onstage and in the audience. (Read More.)

Should You Train Like an Artist or an Entrepreneur? (Backstage): At Pace University’s School of Performing Arts (PPA), I have just returned from our three-week Los Angles Senior Intensive and I’m seeing that traditional methods for actors seeking employment are shifting, largely due to new media. (Read More.)

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