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www.tanys.org Callboard - Volume XVII • Issue 2 • Fall 2020 Page 6 Ed Sayles - The Musical Theatre Process: from Auditions Through Performance Saturday, November 21 at 9:30AM This workshop is designed to take participants through the entire musical process from a professional perspective which can be applied to a community theatre situation. It will begin with auditions, then move through preparations for rehearsals, including creating rehearsal schedules that maximize time by explaining how to run multiple rehearsals. We’ll also discuss the organization of staff and developing the design in the most efficient and simplest manner possible. Ed Sayles - After 40 years as a successful producer and director, where his accomplishments earned him places in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the American Theatre, Ed began his own consulting business, Creative Communications & Development. CC&D offers a wide range of services to not-for-profit agencies, including Mozaic. Since Ed began consulting at Mozaic he has helped raise over $1.7 million for capital improvements and program expansion. He also enjoys working at Mozaic’s Spotlight Studio, a visual and performing arts facility where he works with a company of 40 performers with developmental disabilities and directs monthly performances. Ed has served two terms on the Theatre Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. He has received resolutions of commendations from the U.S. House of Representatives, the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly. Ed holds degrees in History, Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Directing. Jumbo Schimpf - Acting Technique Saturday, November 21 at 2PM Workshop Descriptions What’s the best one for you? Stanislavski? Meisner? Strasberg? Or maybe Graham – did you know Martha developed her own acting technique? What about Adler, Spolin or Grotowski? Or Stanislavski after he changed his method? Turns out, no teacher can give you all the tools to be the best you. That’s where this workshop will help. We’ll take a tour of a few different techniques, illustrate how each has its place, and figure out which have the most to offer you (until you need another one). Annette Procunier - Adjudication for Everyone Saturday, November 21 at 9:30AM We will examine what adjudication has to offer festival participants not just those who are associated with the performance as well as how to ensure the comments provided are suitable to everyone. We will look at how to make positive comments in difficult situations where the play or its performance are lacking and how to work to raise the level of future production for the company. Annette Procunier - Annette Procunier has worked in community, educational and professional theatre for 50 years as a director, designer, stage manager, play polisher, adjudicator and workshop leader. As a director, she has worked for 16 different theatre companies in Canada and the U.S., and her productions have won awards and critical acclaim. Annette was a founder of two professional theatre companies in Canada, and she has represented Canada internationally and on the board of Theatre Canada. As an adjudicator, she has participated in festivals in Europe, Canada, Japan, and the U.S., judging more than 150 festivals in 35 years. Annette is the author of the only book on adjudication, Do You See What I See? and is a fellow of AACT. She has worked extensively with playwrights on script development, has been a judge in several play writing competitions, has adjudicated several new play festivals, and worked with new playwrights for the Inspirato Festival in Toronto. Annette Procunier - Direction and Detail Saturday, November 21 at 3:15PM This session will examine the importance of detail both in dramaturgy and theatrical execution and how to make choices that will enhance the production and deal with the limitations of the company in resources, skill and talent.