Annual Conference: Sarasota, April 28-May 3, 2009
Sarasota Conference Schedule click here
ATCA’s 2009 annual conference, its 36th, will be April 28-May 3 in Sarasota, Florida. ATCA members are invited to a three-ring circus of theater, sun, beaches, history and natural splendor for a different kind of ATCA conference. Included along with seven shows at distinctive theaters will be most meals, short bus rides, time to enjoy Sarasota and elegant dinners and parties. Featured will be the rotating repertory of Asolo Rep, three stages of Florida Studio Theatre and the longest continuously operating Equity dinner theater in the U.S. Sarasota promises to treat you like you’re on vacation.
Registration until March 28 is $200 for members and $225 for guests; thereafter, it is $225 and $250. DISCOUNTED RESERVATIONS at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota are $145 - $155, about half of standard, GOOD THROUGH MARCH 28, and are available on the weekend before and a few days after, if you want to extend your stay.
For more info go to the Conferences page.
April 4: ATCA/Steinberg winner announced: E.M. (Ellen) Lewis' Song of Extinction receives the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award.
The announcement was made April 4 at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The award includes a plaque and a cash prize of $25,000 - the largest national award for a new play.
Lee Blessing's Great Falls and Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts received Steinberg/ATCA citations and $7500 each.
Click here for press release.
Steinberg Winners 08
Playwright Yussef El Guindi wins 2009 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright.
The award recognizes El Guidi's play,
Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, which premiered in March 2008 at the Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago.
Click here for press release.
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