All events were recorded by Vijay Matthew, Adewunmi Oke, and Ramona Ostrowski, and livestreamed on HowlRound TV.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd
At the Intersections: How We Show Up
ASL Interpreted by Brittany Quickel and Laura Prickett
Whether you’re a first-timer or a Conference veteran, this “Playbook for the Conference” provided all the details you needed to make the most of our three days together. This session will also kick-off our At the Intersections series, grounding attendees in shared values and goals for these important conversations about disability, gender, national identity, race & ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd (video coming soon)
At the Intersections: Instead of Red Face
Featured speakers: Larissa FastHorse, playwright, theatre activist, TCG board member and Quita Sullivan, Program Manager, National Theater Project, New England Foundation for the Arts.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd
Opening Plenary Session: Anna Deavere Smith, "Ringside: Get Real"
ASL Interpreted by Miako Rankin and Sarah Clinkenbeard
Featured speakers in order of appearance: Teresa Eyring, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group; Chris Jennings, Executive Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Meghan Pressman, Managing Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; MK Wegmann, President and CEO, National Performance Network; John O'Neal, Founder, Free Southern Theatre and Junebug Productions; Anna Deavere Smith, Actress, Playwright, Teacher.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24th
Morning Plenary Session
ASL Interpreted by Kevin Dyels
Featured speakers in order of appearance: Devon Berkshire, Director of Conferences and Fieldwide Learning, Theatre Communications Group; Charles Newell, Artistic Director, Court Theatre; Kimberly Senior, Director.
Designer and Technologist John Maeda, who gave the talk "Creative Leadership: Change by Design" at Friday morning's plenary session, was not livestreamed.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24th
Breakout Session: Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Board
Featured speakers include: Gus Schulenberg, Director of Communications and Community Engagement, Theatre Communications Group; Elena Chang, Associate Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, Theatre Communications Group; Adrian Budhu, Managing Director, The Theater Offensive; Robyn Flatt, Executive Artistic Director, Dallas Children's Theater; Marshall Jones, III, Producing Artistic Director, Crossroads Theatre Company; Abe Rybeck, Artistic Director, The Theater Offensive.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24th
At the Intersections: Making Room for Deaf Artists in a Hearing Industry
ASL Interpreted by Sarah Clinkenbeard
Featured speakers include: Desdemona Chiang, Director; Tyrone Giordano, conspirator, dog & pony dc; Kala Granger, Ensemble Apprentice, dog & pony dc; Rachel Grossman, Ensemble Director, dog & pony dc; Aaron Kelstone, Artistic Director, RIT; DJ Kurs, Artistic Director, Deaf West Theatre.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24th
Plenary Session: Stephen Karam in conversation with Nikkole Salter
ASL Interpreted by Katrina Clark
and Valerie Sultan
Featured speakers in order of appearance: Diane Rodriguez, Associate Artistic Director, Center Theatre Group, and President, TCG Board of Directors; Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director, Dallas Theater Center and Vice President, TCG Board of Directors; Emilya Cachapero, Director of Artistic and International Programs, Theatre Communications Group; Elena Chang, Associate Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, Theatre Communications Group; Nelson Eusebio, Director; Bill O'Brien, Senior Innovation Advisor to the Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; DJ Kurs, Artistic Director, Deaf West Theatre; Stephen Karam, Playwright; Nikkole Salter, Actress/Playwright/Educator/Administrator.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25th
Breakout Session: The Zone of Provocation
Featured speakers include: Lindsay Allbaugh, Associate Producer, Center Theatre Group; Nataki Garrett, Associate Artistic Director, CalArts Center for New Performance; Motti Lerner, Playwright; Jack Reuler, Artistic Director, Mixed Blood Theatre Company; Ari Roth, Founding Artistic Director, Mosaic Theater Company; Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25th
At the Intersections: Refugee Nation:Activating Art from a Borderless Perspective
Featured speakers include: Leilani Chan, Artistic Director and Ova Saopeng, Associate Artistic Director, TeAda Productions.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25th
At the Intersections: How We Move Forward
At the Intersections culminates with a Town Hall that empowers all of us to share what we’ve experienced across these interwoven areas of identity.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25th
Closing Plenary: UN Ambassador Samantha Power, Oskar Eustis, and Kwame Kwei-Armah, "Theatre as Cultural Diplomacy"
ASL Interpreted by Valerie Sultan and
Christina Whitehouse-Suggs
Featured speakers in order of appearance: Teresa Eyring, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group; Derek Goldman, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University and Co-Founding Director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics; Susan Hilferty, Costume Designer, NYU Tisch School of Arts; Michael Kahn, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Rosalind Barbour, Chief of Staff, The Public Theater; Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater; Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director, Center Stage; Emilya Cachapero, Director of Artistic and International Programs, Theatre Communications Group.
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