Bard-fest boss leads U.S. Shakespeare Association
Philip C. Sneed, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s producing artistic director, has been re-elected president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. This spring, he is spending time in England, planning for the association’s 2010 annual conference, which will take place in January in London.
The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America provides a forum for the artistic and managerial leadership of theatres whose central activity is the production of Shakespeare's plays. Although most of the members represent theatres in the U.S., England’s “The Globe” and Shakespeare theatres in other countries are also represented.
The focus of the organization is its annual conference. Once a year, more than 100 representatives gather to share information directly relating to the production of Shakespeare’s plays. The format for the meeting often runs the spectrum from panel discussions to direct addresess by notable figures in the field, workshops, performances, small gatherings, receptions, and a closing banquet dinner.
Recent keynote speakers have included Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Libby Appel, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Ben Cameron, director of theatre Communications Group, Michael Kahn, artistic director of Washington D.C.’s The Shakespeare Theatre, and Kenneth Adelman who advised the Reagan administration and who now teaches Shakespeare at Georgetown University.
The meeting format often follows the “One-Play-Focus,” in which an individual Shakespeare play is discussed at length, including sessions on a variety of topics such as rehearsal techniques, dramaturgy, marketing, development, education, outreach, board relations and balancing life and art.
Following the association’s 2010 conference in London, the 2011 conference will take place in Boulder.
April 22, 2009
Philip C. Sneed
The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America provides a forum for the artistic and managerial leadership of theatres whose central activity is the production of Shakespeare's plays. Although most of the members represent theatres in the U.S., England’s “The Globe” and Shakespeare theatres in other countries are also represented.
The focus of the organization is its annual conference. Once a year, more than 100 representatives gather to share information directly relating to the production of Shakespeare’s plays. The format for the meeting often runs the spectrum from panel discussions to direct addresess by notable figures in the field, workshops, performances, small gatherings, receptions, and a closing banquet dinner.
Recent keynote speakers have included Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Libby Appel, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Ben Cameron, director of theatre Communications Group, Michael Kahn, artistic director of Washington D.C.’s The Shakespeare Theatre, and Kenneth Adelman who advised the Reagan administration and who now teaches Shakespeare at Georgetown University.
The meeting format often follows the “One-Play-Focus,” in which an individual Shakespeare play is discussed at length, including sessions on a variety of topics such as rehearsal techniques, dramaturgy, marketing, development, education, outreach, board relations and balancing life and art.
Following the association’s 2010 conference in London, the 2011 conference will take place in Boulder.
April 22, 2009