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Here's the latest TCG-Philadelphia info, pulled from their website at http://www.tcg.org . Agenda, followed by speaker
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Agenda
Wednesday, June 20
2:00pm Registration begins Annenberg Center Lobby 5:00pm Opening Reception Annenberg Center Lobby 7:00pm Welcome, Celebration of TCG’s 40th Anniversary, Awards Ceremony, Keynote Zellerbach Theatre 9:00pm-midnight TCG late night gathering The Living Room at The Inn at Penn Open mike performance space The Inn at Penn Thursday, June 21 7:30am Breakfast 1920 Commons 7:30am Trustees Breakfast The Inn at Penn 8:30am Vendor Fair Annenberg Center Lobby 9:00am Plenary sessions Zellerbach Theatre 12:30pm Lunch Annenberg Center Lobby 1:30pm Open Space Convening Circle Zellerbach Theatre 3:00pm Open Space sessions Various locations 5:00pm Cyrano, Seattle Children’s Theatre Zellerbach Theatre 6:30pm Individual dining and theatre going 9:00pm-midnight TCG late night gathering The Living Room at The Inn at Penn Open mike performance space The Inn at Penn Friday, June 22 7:30am Breakfast 1920 Commons 9:00am Open Space Convening Circle Zellerbach Theatre 10:00am Open Space sessions Various locations 11:30am-1:30pm Lunch available 1920 Commons 4:30pm Open Space Community Reflection Zellerbach Theatre 5:30pm The Swan Tool, Miranda July Zellerbach Theatre 6:30pm Individual dining and theatre going 9:00pm-midnight TCG late night gathering The Living Room at The Inn at Penn Open mike performance space The Inn at Penn Saturday, June 23 7:30am Breakfast 1920 Commons 9:00am Open Space Convening Circle Zellerbach Theatre 10:00am Open Space sessions Various locations 11:30am-1:30pm Lunch available 1920 Commons 2:00pm Open Space Community Reflection Zellerbach Theatre 3:00pm The Gimmick, Dael Orlandersmith Zellerbach Theatre 4:30pm-6:00pm Closing reception Annenberg Center Lobby 10am-6pm daily: Annenberg lobby open for registration, information, Cybercafe, Open Space marketplace, NEA/TCG Career Development Program portfolio displays and Vendor Fair. --------
Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson (award presenter) is Producing Artistic Director of the Plowshares Theatre, Detroit, MI. His directing credits include Woza Albert, Zooman and the Sign, Pill Hill, The Piano Lesson, Buses, I am A Man and Two Trains Running, among others. He has been nominated repeatedly for Best Director by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Detroit News and Detriot Free Press. Anderson has held official positions with several national theatre organizations including the Black Theatre Network and the National Conference on African American Theatre. He has taught at Wayne State University, Western Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Michigan-Flint. Ben Cameron
Ben Cameron (TCG Executive Director) joined the TCG staff June 1998. Prior to this, he was Senior Program Officer at the Dayton Hudson Foundation and Manager of Community Relations at Target Stores, a division of Dayton Hudson Corporation in Minneapolis, MN where he supervised a $38 million national giving program. From 1988 through 1992, he worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as Director of the Theatre Program from 1990. He was Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre and Literary Manager for PlayMakers Repertory Theatre. He has taught theatre at Yale School of Drama, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and has published many articles on theatre. Joel Flatow
Joel Flatow (panelist) is Senior Vice President of West Coast Affairs and Artist Relations for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He also heads up the RIAA's artist relations department, which he initiated and developed upon joining the RIAA in February 1995 as Director of Government Affairs. He is a graduate of Yale University, as well as Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music Pre-Colleges, and recently completed ten seasons as a tenor with The Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Area Music Association and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman (speaker) is the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. His first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1988. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times as bureau chief in Beirut and in Jerusalem. Germaine Ingram
Germaine Ingram (panelist) is a Vice President of the Washington, D.C.-based Children's Defense Fund. From 1994 to June 2001 she served consecutively as General Counsel and Chief of Staff/Deputy to the Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia. She has held professorships at Temple and University of Pennsylvania Law Schools, and public interest and private law practices that specialized in civil rights, class actions, catastrophic injuries and other complex litigation. She is also a professional tap dancer. Ricardo Khan
Ricardo Khan (award presenter) is a director, producer and co-founder of the Tony award-winning Crossroads Theatre Company. He was also one of the producting team of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, which received four Tony nominations. Khan has directed The Darker Face of the Earth, by former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage, and Black Eagles by Leslie Lee, all of which were produced at Crossroads and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He has also directed at theatres throughout the country, including the Negro Ensemble Company, the Apollo Theatre and the Village Gate all in New York, NY; Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He served as President of the Board of TCG from 1995-98. Paul Krajniak
Paul Krajniak (panelist) is the Executive Director of Discovery World Museum, an interactive science museum with a focus on entrepreneurship and engineering, in Milwaukee, WI. Currently Krajniak is creating an exhibit called "The Technojungle" that connects visitors with emerging and everyday technology. Krajniak has designed sets for Meredith Monk, Ping Chong and Todd Rundgren. Recently, he designed a retrospective exhibit about the work of Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Abel Lopez
Abel Lopez (panel moderator), is the Associate Producing Director of GALA Hispanic Theatre, and is the President of the Boards of Directors of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Non-Traditional Casting project. Lopez is a member of the Boards of Directors of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Washington Theatre Society, The Association of American Cultures and Theatre Communications Group, among others. He has directed productions at GALA, Horizons Theatre, DC Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Source Theater and the In Series in Washington, DC, among others. His production of The Pearl for the Kennedy Center toured throughout the United States. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Lopez also is a producer and frequent lecturer. Judith O. Rubin
Judith O. Rubin (presenter) is Chairman of the Board of Playwrights Horizons. She is a member of the National Council on the Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts and is Vice President of the Boards of Theatre Communications Group and of Public Radio International. Since1989, she has been a member of the New York State Council on the Arts. She also co-chairs the National Steering Committee of the American Arts Alliance Political Action Committee. Rubin is a trustee of the Mount Sinai/NYU Health System and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and of the Center for Arts and Culture. Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff (speaker) is the author of seven best-selling books on new media and popular culture, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, GenX Reader, Coercion, and the novel Ecstasy Club. His radio commentaries air on NPR's "All Things Considered," and his monthy column on cyberculture is distributed through the New York Times Syndicate and appears in over thirty countries. Rushkoff also writes for magazines and newspapers including Time, The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, GQ and The Silicon Alley Reporter. He has served as an adjunct professor of virtual culture at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program for the past three years and as an advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture. Rushkoff received an MFA in directing from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute. Visit www.rushkoff.com for more information. Kent Thompson
Kent Thompson (TCG Board President) is the Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He made his ASF directorial debut with the 1989 production of On the Verge and has also directed Twelfth Night, Tartuffe, The Immigrant, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Inherit the Wind, The Cherry Orchard, The Rover, Peter Pan, The Little Foxes, King Lear, Richard II, Big River, Heartbreak House, Henry IV, Part I and Dumas. In addition to ASF, he has directed at The Cleveland Play House, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY; StageWest, Springfield, MA; New Dramatists, New York, NY; Actors' Studio; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Utah Shakespearean Festival; Whole Theatre, New Jersey and Boston Shakespeare Company. He has served as Theater Panel Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. Jennifer Tipton
Jennifer Tipton (keynote address) is well known for her work as a lighting designer in theatre, dance and opera. Her work in opera includes Welsh National Opera’s The Queen of Spades, Phillip Glass’ In Penal Colony at A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle, WA, remounted by the Court Theatre in Chicago and Classic Stage Company in New York, Jake Heggi’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera and the Dutch National Opera production of Peter Grimes. Her recent work in dance includes Paul Taylor’s Dandelion Wine and Fiends Angelical, Twyla Tharp’s The Beethoven Seventh for the New York City Ballet, and Trisha Brown’s El Trilogy. In theatre her recent work includes a musical version of James Joyce’s The Dead at the Belasco Theatre, New York, NY, the Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles, CA and the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington DC; Measure for Measure at the Yale School of Drama: Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner in New York and North Atlantic for the Wooster Group. Tipton also teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. |