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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR SERIES LGBTQ Issues in TYA Monday, January 13, 2014, 12:00 to 1:15pm CST Producing professional theatre for teen a
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR SERIES
LGBTQ Issues in TYA
Monday, January 13, 2014, 12:00 to 1:15pm CST
Producing professional theatre for teen audiences with LGBTQ subject matter has its own set of specific concerns. Questions up for discussion in this month's webinar include:
▪ Much of LGBTQ youth theatre these days is devised work, using the actual stories of LGBTQ teens and their straight-allies. Sometimes a playwright is involved, sometimes not. What are the positives and negatives of employing a professional playwright in devised youth theatre? And how do we keep our adult voices quiet enough for the youth voices to be heard with their full strength?
▪ Do you have to be LGBTQ to run an LGBTQ theatre?
▪ What are some examples of LGBTQ plays for youth?
▪ What issues are teen playwrights tackling as they trend away from "coming out" plays?
▪ How do we not forget the T and the Q? So often we focus on LGB that we can lose sight of those who struggle with gender identity and who want to live beyond the binary of gender.
Laurie Brooks, Jeff Church, and Amanda Kibler will serve as panelists.
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Laurie Brooks is an award-winning playwright and YA Fiction author whose innovative After- Play Forum designs are changing the way audiences engage in post-performance experiences across the country. Awards and grants include TCG’s National Theatre Arts Residency Program (with The Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO), AT&T Firststage award, three Distinguished Play Awards and the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup from AATE, NY Foundation for the Arts, and an Irish Arts Council Commissioning Grant (with Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, Ireland). Brooks’ Lies and Deceptions Quartet for young adults includes The Wrestling Season, commissioned by The Coterie Theatre, developed at New Visions/New Voices, featured at The Kennedy Center’s One Theatre World, printed in the November 2000 issue of American Theatre, and winner of “Best of Awards in Seattle, Kansas City and Dallas, both for the play and the Forum that follows it. Additional award-winning plays include Deadly Weapons, The Tangled Web, Everyday Heroes. Selkie:Between Land and Sea, Devon’s Hurt, The Match Girl’s Gift, Franklin’s Apprentice, The Lost Ones, Triangle, and Brave No World, commissioned and premiered at The Kennedy Center. Brooks has worked extensively in Ireland and has been Assistant Professor, Playwright in Residence and Literary Manager for the Provincetown Playhouse at New York University. She has been Guest Artist at the University of Texas at Austin, Playwright in Residence for the HYPE Institute at the ALLEY Theatre in Houston and Artist in Residence at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film, supported by The Virginia Piper Writing Center. Brooks served as a Panelist and Site Reporter for the NEA from 2001-2006. Her article, "Put A Little Boal in Your Theatre: A New Model for Talkbacks" appeared in American Theatre magazine (Dec. 2005). Brooks was a featured artist at the 2007 TCG National Conference at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis sharing her After-Play Forum method. Most recent plays include, Atypical Boy and All of Us, both commissioned by The Coterie Theatre, and Jason Invisible, commissioned by The Kennedy Center, March, 2013. Her novel for young adults, Selkie Girl, was published by Knopf in 2008. Her newest play Afflicted: Daughters of Salem, was commissioned by The Coterie Theatre and will premiere in January, 2014. Her website is www.LaurieBrooks.com. |
Jeff Church joined The Coterie as Producing Artistic Director of The Coterie in 1990, which, during his tenure, was named in the top five children’s theatres in the U.S. by Time Magazine. As a youth, he started a children’s theatre in his hometown of La Junta, Colorado, at age 15 because and operated it for 15 summers while getting his BA in Fine Arts at Colorado College. In the 1980s he served as playwright-in-residence at the Kennedy Center Youth and Family Programs and taught at Duke Ellington School. Over the years, Coterie highlights have included producing the Coterie’s Great Books/Banned Books season, which included a U.S. premiere of The Lord of the Flies. Work with playwright Laurie Brooks led to The Wrestling Season, a respected young adult play first published in American Theatre magazine. Jeff created the Coterie’s Lab for New Family Musicals, where the version Seussical he developed with the Broadway composers is now the most performed musical in educational theatre in the U.S. Recently, Jeff transferred The Coterie’s Lucky Duck with its Kansas City cast to the prestigious New Victory Theatre in New York.
Jeff has been a NEA panelist numerous times and a site reporter, as well as a board member of Theatre Communications Group. He was inducted into The College of Fellows of the American Theatre. For the past ten years, he has taught graduate level Text Analysis for University of Missouri, Kansas City. |
Amanda Kibler took her position as Education Director at The Coterie this past July. She earned an MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and has worked as an arts educator, director, stage manager, and actor. Before her move to Kansas City, she was Associate Education Director at the Omaha Theater Company and a member of the resident acting company where she was seen onstage in roles such as Red in Little Red Riding Hood & the Three Little Pigs and Rose in The Talking Eggs. She has also worked with the Orlando Repertory Theatre in Orlando, FL as Festival Coordinator and educator; and with Visible Fictions in Glasgow, Scotland as assistant director (Zorro and Curse of the Demeter) and educator. Her directing credits include Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie (The Coterie) and Holidays Around the World (Omaha Theater Company). |
Moderator:
Rosemary Newcott has been directing, acting and teaching at the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre since 1988, and now serves as its Artistic Director of Theatre for Young Audiences. Directing credits there range from the world premiere of Einstein Is A Dummy to the acclaimed high school Collision Project. She has also directed at the Horizon Theatre, Center for Puppetry Arts, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Virginia Stage Company, Seaside Rep and more, and holds extensive stage and film acting credits. A recipient of the prestigious Grace Foundation Award, Rosemary was named PBA Lexus Leader of the Arts and Best Director by The Atlantic Journal-Constitution for the 2001-02 season. In 2005, she received the GTC Distinguished Career Award and in 2008, became a recipient of a Princess Grace Special Project Grant. |
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