TYA/USA Professional Development Presents: Guiding the Lightning: Building a Culture of Innovation Thursday June 18, 2015 @ Noon to 1:30 PM CENTRAL

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The Winter's Tale at People's Light. Photo: Mark Garvin

TYA/USA Professional Development Presents:

Guiding the Lightning: Building a Culture of Innovation

Thursday June 18, 2015 @ Noon to 1:30 PM CENTRAL

This webinar will share strategies for setting “creative collisions” in motion to promote innovation, as well as approaches to strategic planning and reflection that help implement new ideas and support creative risk-taking.

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More Info:

Now in its 40th season, People’s Light has made innovation part of its organizational practice. Five years ago, Artistic Director Abigail Adams and Producer for Arts Discovery Programs Wendy Bable began to intertwine the artistic work of the theatre with all education programs, threading the two together like strands of DNA to facilitate reciprocal influence on both artistic and education projects/programs. This shift required a re-structuring of staff and re-configuring of organizational structure to support this cross-pollination. As we fold our community partnerships into this model with initiatives like Community Matters and New Play Frontiers, we continue to break the mold of traditional regional theatre to discover new opportunities and survival strategies in an ever-shifting audience landscape.

The session will be an interplay between presentation and reflection, giving participants the opportunity to identify spaces for innovation in their own artistic practice and work through possible action steps to set creative collisions in motion.

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OUR GUESTS:

Abigail Adams 2014

Abigail Adams, Artistic Director, People’s Light - During her 38 year association with People’s Light, Abbey has directed more than 60 plays, including The Cherry Orchard, The Rainmaker, The Trip to Bountiful, Dividing the Estate, Nathan the Wise, and In the Blood. She has directed readings and workshops of new plays for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Circle Rep, New York Stage and Film, and the Public Theatre. Abbey served for 10 years on the faculty of Swarthmore College and has also taught at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College.

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Wendy Bable, Producer for Arts Discovery Programs, People’s Light - Wendy Bable is a director/teaching artist/playwright who has directed over twenty-five plays for both young audiences and adults, including Still Life with Iris, Through the Darkness, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Bald Soprano, Gypsy, Antigone, Lysistrata, and The Lesson. Her work on Seussical, the Musical at Zach Scott Theatre and Steven Dietz’s Still Life with Iris received Austin Critic’s Table Nominations for Best Direction in 2008 and 2009. Wendy was named a Winifred Ward Scholar by the American Alliance for Theater and Education, and in 2011 she was selected as the U.S. ambassador to the ASSITEJ International Directing Seminar in Cologne, Germany. Her direction of The Transition of Doodle Pequeño was featured at the Kennedy Center in the 2012 New Visions/New Voices festival.

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