TYA/USA Professional Development Presents: The Role of the Artistic Director in TYA (Part 3 of our Leadership Roles in TYA Series) Tuesday, March 2

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Patrick Wade, Lauren Boyd, Jeremy Aggers, Enoch King, Markell Williams, and Alexandra Ficken in Alliance Theatre's THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE - Photo: Greg Mooney

TYA/USA Professional Development Presents:

The Role of the Artistic Director in TYA

(Part 3 of our Leadership Roles in TYA Series)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 @ 3:00 - 4:15 PM CENTRAL

We conclude our Leadership Roles in TYA Series with three experienced Artistic Directors discussing the work they do; how they came to where they are today; and the challenges, demands, and delights of the job.

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Our Guests:

Julia F - Metro

Julia Flood moved to St. Louis to become Artistic Director of Metro Theater Company in February 2014. During a 16-year tenure as Artistic Director of Eckerd Theater Company in Clearwater, Florida, Julia commissioned and produced such works as Vote? by Eric Coble (provoked by Florida’s role in the 2000 Presidential election) and Battledrum by Doug Cooney with Lee Ahlin (a musical about the effects of war on young people through the lens of Civil War drummer boys). As AD of Metro Theater Company, Julia leads a 43-year-old, multiple award-winning TYA company which has reached more than two million people in 41 states and on tour internationally. MTC is known for taking artistic risk to commission, develop and produce groundbreaking works (e.g., The Yellow Boat, In a Room Somewhere, Hush: An Interview with America, Tomato Plant Girl, Delilah’s Wish, Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle, Unsorted). Metro Theater Company’s extensive education work includes long-term, arts-integrated classroom residencies; after-school and summer programs for young people; creative play family workshops; professional development workshops for educators; and special programs tailored to the needs of social service agencies. Metro Theater Company also mentors artists, annually offering a Teaching Artist Fellowship to an emerging professional.

Julia brings more than 35 years of experience in the professional theatre to her role as Artistic Director of MTC, is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Dramatists Guild, and has served on the national Board of Directors of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA since 2011.

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Rosemary Newcott - As the Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families, Rosemary has blissfully directed dozens of productions such as A Christmas Carol, The Grimm Lives of the Inbetweens (premiere), Charlotte’s Web, The Wizard of Oz, The Real Tweenagers of Atlanta(premiere), Seussical, Class of 3000 Live! (Premiere), Go Dog Go!, Einstein is a Dummy (premiere), The Book of Ruth, The Hobbit, and more. She also directed the Alliance High School Collision Project for ten years and pioneered the Alliance’s new and innovative Theatre for the Very Young. Other favorite directing experiences include: Jason Invisible and Knufflebunny A Cautionary Musical both for the Kennedy Center and Frida Libre for La Jolla Playhouse. Rosemary was named Atlanta Lexus Leader of the Arts for December 2001 and is a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship. She was named Best director of the Year in 2002 by the AJC and in 2005 was awarded the GTC Distinguished Career Award. She is a 2009 recipient of the Princess Grace Special Projects award, the 2010 Spirit of Suzi Bass award and served on the board of TYA/USA. Rosemary holds an MA in Theatre from Northwestern University and a BA in English and Theatre from New Jersey City University.

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Whit MacLaughlin is an OBIE and Barrymore Award-winning director of works for the stage. He serves as Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories (NPL), where he has created 20 original works since 1996, and as Artistic Director for Producing for PAPAYA (Pennsylvania Performing Arts for Young Audiences), a producing and presenting organization also in Philadelphia. Thus, he is an experimentalist whose work extends into the realm of multigenerational performance-making. He has distinguished himself in Philadelphia at the helm of most of the Arden Theatre’s award-winning works for young audiences, including this year’s world premieres of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates by Laura Eason, senior writer for Netflix’s House of Cards and The Dinosaur Musical, by Willie and Rob Reale. His work has appeared in theatres around the country, including the Tony Award-winning Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis who commissioned MacLaughlin and NPL to create a work for young adults, PROM. He is a recipient of a 2002 Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship in Performance Art. His work has been presented at the Ontological Theatre, the Connelly Theatre, and PS 122 in NYC, at the Walker Art Center, the Warhol Museum, by commission at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, and at the Prague Quadrennial.

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