KCACTF Region 5 Festival 57

Program Representative and Teaching Artist, Rachel Kelsey, draws upon her personal and professional experience to bring you this workshop on building a theatrical resume. In this session, we will take a look at common resume layouts of industry professionals, examine what should be included on a resume, and craft our own. If time allows, we will deep-dive into headshots and websites as well. The intention of this session is to assist performers in creating tools to help them have successful careers and auditions. Here we will work on crafting strong, professional, and unique resumes. The session is taught from the lens and personal experience of Rachel Kelsey as she has attended professional auditions with individuals such as Alison Franck (Casting Director), Jeff Whiting (NYC Director/Choreographer), Kristian Charbonier (Casting Director), Sue Frost (Broadway Producer), etc. Things we will cover include:
- What to include within a theatrical resume (Physical Details, Contact Information, Experience (Stage, Film/Television, etc.), Education/Training, Awards/Honors, and Special Skills) as well as common formatting.
Organization of theatrical credits.
- Headshots - specifically how the individual would like to represent and market themself.
- What should be included within a performer, director, playwright and/or multi-hyphenate website.

Storyboarding is a vital practice for working out the visual aspects of a performance, but it can also be an essential part of the process for writing, designing, and building puppets and performing objects. In this workshop we will explore the process of storyboarding and how it can be applied to live theatre, especially for puppetry. I will demonstrate my own process for creating storyboards, using storyboards to understand how puppets will work and how they should be constructed, and guide you through the process for creating a puppet sequence to help tell a visual story.

This panel discussion focuses on ways to develop and communicate production concepts and visualize early ideas from the standpoint of both directors and designers. We will offer insights into our personal processes with perspectives from a director, a scenic designer, and a lighting designer. Additionally, we will take a look at common challenges that occur in this process and how to overcome them.

The fairytale design workshop is a three-day intensive workshop focused on collaboration and innovative theatrical designs. Each team member specializes in one technical theatre role: props, costumes, lighting, or scenic design, creating a high-concept design for classic fairytales. The final session will be presentations with guest judges and awards.

While university education often centers around how to do various jobs in producing theatre, this class will take a look through some of the industry that supports production.  For every actor on stage there are 10 people supporting them on the production.  For all of those, there are hundreds in different industries supporting them.  Lets take a look at what is out there.

Join us for a groundbreaking panel discussion that examines the intersection of artificial intelligence and theatre. This comprehensive workshop brings together theatre practitioners, technologists, accessibility advocates, and audiences to explore how AI is reshaping the landscape of theatrical creation and experience.

Explore the world of faux food for use on stage. Plan to be dazzled with displays of some of food items I have created over the years for various productions. We will discuss some common difficulties of faux food use and construction, and I will offer practical solutions I have employed over the years to solve such issue. We'll take detailed look at creating plates of food to be used in conjunction with elements of real food. As well, there will be fun tutorial on how to create fluff coating for use for cocktails, fried coatings, and soups. And provide a reference list of good places to purchase premade faux foods.

Qlab and Isadora are both video and audio playback software that supports Midi and other live camera feeds. Both have the capability to map images to a 3 dimensional surface. Both professional versions are around the same price. So which one do you choose? Come find out in this unbiased, no-holds-barred competition between two of the most common Projection Software on the market.

A brief introduction to what draping is in the world of the costume shop! How we shape darts, gathers, tucks, and more- some of the basic foundational techniques used in fabric draping.

In this workshop we will discuss techniques in drawing and painting with ink and watercolor for theatre design.

This is an in-depth workshop on the importance of prep week for the stage Management team and how it keeps our artists safe. How can you as a developing stage manager be the best prepared to start your production with safety as the priority? This workshop will give you tangible paperwork, layout expectations and help you and your stage management team to be prepared for your upcoming production.

There is a difference between knowing how to do a job and know how to get hired to do it!  Lets sit down and talk about working professionally.  I'll share insight from my time as a Master Electrician in regional theatre, Freelance Designer, Sales Associate with a Dealership and with ETC, a major manufacturer of lighting equipment.

3D modeling has become very popular in our industry. This workshop will demonstrate how designers can create quick scenic and lighting models and drafting for designs using Vectorworks. Feel free to bring a laptop and follow along!