[Usittne] USITT NE Meeting Minutes from Phoenix
Crystal Tiala
tiala at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 19 21:49:00 EDT 2007
Minutes from Phoenix
March 15th, 2007
Attendees:
Crystal Tiala Boston College tiala at bc.edu
Cosmo Catalano Williams College ccatalan at williams.edu
Keith Cornelius Emerson College keith.cornelius at emberson.edu
John Forbes University of Vermont jbforbes at uvm.edu
John Devlin St. Michael’s College jdevlin at smcvt.edu
Nate Wiessner Williams College Nathaniel.t.wiessner at williams.edu
Timothy Parrish UVM taparris at uvm.edu
Dan Daugherty U. Maine Daniel.daugherty at umit.maine.edu
Lauren glover UVM lglover at uvm.edu
Clyde Tyndale Falmouth Acadamy ctyndale at cape.com
Mike Katz MIT mkatz at mit.edu
Tina Shantz St. Michael’s College cshantz at smvt.edu
Michelle Merola St. Michael’s College mmerola at smcvt.edu
Dominic Donadio Salem State College domdnd at gmail.com
Nancy Polisson Rockport High School npolisson at rockport.kiz.ma.us
Arthur Dirks Bridgewater State College adirks at bridgew.edu
Chase Rozelle Eastern Connecticut State rozellec at easternct.edu
Karen Perlow MIT kperlow at mit.edu
Ruth Conrad Boston College conradru at bc.edu
William Beautyman Limelight Productions wbeautyman at limelightproductions.com
Andy Knox TD Cape Cod Comm Coll. AKnox at capecod.edu
Kendra Murphy ATD Cape Cod Comm. Coll kmurphy at capecodd.edu
Melissa Friebe Senior, Gustaus Adolphis mfriebe at gac.edu
Leslie Hammond TD Choate Rosemary Hall, CT lhammond at choate.edu
Sabrina Notarfrancisco cost. Des. Conn. College snotar at conncoll.edu
Sandra Jervey Salem State – student stu_sjervey at salemstate.edu
Christopher Morris TD/des. Salem State College Christopher.morris at salemstate.edu
Rafael Jaen Cost. Des. Emerson College Rafael_Jaen at Emerson.edu
and a very brief appearance by Laura Crow from the University of Connecticut
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Mike Katz: Please make sure all these attendees are reminded to sign up for the USITT NE listserve.
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Elections were held:
There were no new nominations or volunteers for any officer’s position and therefore all current officers will serve another year
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Officers:
Our officers for the upcoming year are:
Crystal Tiala – Chair –tiala at bc.edu since 1997
Ron Dallas – Secretary/Treasurer – ron at dallas-family.com since…..forever
Michael Cottom – Vice Chair - mcottom at theater.umass.edu since 2006
Mike Katz – Director of Communications – mkatz at mit.edu since 2001
Jeff Gardiner – Computer Communications – jeffg at erols.com since 2001
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Last year’s events:
- Toured the facilities at Williams College in October; organized by Mike Katz and Cosmo Catalano
- Helped sponsor a stage management workshop at St. Michael’s College in September
- Co-sponsored the 7th annual REPA Job Expo in Boston along with StageSource and The Boston Dance Alliance
- August BBQ at Crystal’s house
- KCACTF Region I;
o Sponsored the Tech Olympics
o Sponsored the Technical Craftsmanship & Innovation award that awards a student with USITT membership and money for USITT publications.
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Upcoming events, opportunities and improvements:
Web Site & list serve
Send event information to Jeff Gardiner at jeffg at erols.com website: www.usittne.org
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Sandra Jervey from Salem State College has agreed to work on calendar information for the web in return for complimentary student membership in our region. We need to get Jeff Gardner and Sandra Jervey in contact with one another.
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See our website at www.usittne.org for details on signing up for the NE listserve. Although, in writing this I realize that you will only receive this if you are already signed up. So make sure your friends and colleagues sign up as well.
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Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (www.kcactf1.org)
Next year’s KCACTF is in Fitchburg/Leominster, MA from January 29th to February 3rd, 2008. Please come help us make it the best one ever.
SAVE THE DATE!
Upcoming goals:
a. Would like to get more faculty to display their design and tech work. If you are planning to come and would like to display, contact John Devlin (jdevlin at smcvt.edu) to confirm your space.
b. There were 30 design & technical workshops in all and workshops are already underway for next year. If you want to help out you will receive your registration for free to the festival and have a lovely thank-you letter for your participation to put in your college file or show to your industry boss. Please contact Crystal Tiala (tiala at bc.edu) to present your ideas or offer to volunteer. Already in the planning stages for next year:
· USITT New England section meeting hopefully including national representation
· Kip Shawger: Design and other jobs on cruise ships
· Brian Hapcic: photographing the lighting design in productions
· William Kenyon: the ethics of digital manipulation of portfolio pictures
· Orestes Mihaly and Chase Rozelle: scenic automation
· Stuart Duke: another facet of moving lights
· Gretel Geist: working on another costume workshop
· Barbizon, Mike Abdow: LED lighting
· Rosco, Bryan Steele: Scenic Textures, a practicum
· Rosco, Bryan Steele: New techniques in lighting
· Rafael Jaen: portfolio reviews
· Focal Press: feature some new book
· ETC: More moving lights, hands-on, beginning and advanced
· Thematics/Lightbox (Charles Kirby & Ben Tevelow): Lighting competition
· Thematics/Lightbox (Charles Kirby & Ben Tevelow): Lighting the set design model – for set designers
· “I got my degree, now what?” – what to expect and what to do next. Summer theaters, interships, graduate schools (needs volunteers for panelists)
· ALPS: TBD
c. I could really use some stage management workshops. I would also welcome management and marketing.
d. Saturday will be an interviewing/audition day for grad schools, summer jobs and internships. Schools, theaters and industry are invited to come and interview for the price of registration or free if you come and present a workshop of some type.
e. Lots of hands on opportunities with theatrical equipment, toys and books.
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News from the Regional Officer’s meeting
We can apply for some funding. Have requests to Crystal Tiala by August for upcoming ideas. Must include overall budget and plan.
The 50th anniversary for USITT is coming up. Sections may be asked to “bring a piece of the cake”, whatever that means.
We were asked to pick an event that we would most like a national officer to participate in and what we would like that officer to do.
We felt the officer should come to KCACTF and do a workshop on membership for all festival goers.
Meet with our section and consider holding future conferences in New England
We were told that we could send our top student designers to the next national conference and have their conference fees paid for. This is a one time only deal. I am clarifying the details on this offer and Rafael Jaen will spearhead the effort with Arthur Dirks to make the student picks.
In the officers meeting for regional sections, there has been a lengthy discussion on who should deal with membership dues. This is the contuation of a discussion the officers have been having for years. Most sections feel we should make regional membership an option when they register for national. It causes some accounting difficulties which are lengthy to explain. This idea will be ongoing as we get questions answered. In the meantime, we have agreed to direct those who sign up to the section website and make it clear that sections are separate and independent and to be a member takes separate dues.
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New Business
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Save the date: The annual New England BBQ will be held in the afternoon of September 8th, 2007.
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Visiting Local Theaters: Mike Katz and Karen Perlow have volunteered to spearhead arranging visiting local university or professional theaters in our area. They will keep us posted on the progress.
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Software workshops: We agreed that each summer we should arrange a workshop around some software that people would like to learn.
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Vectorworks: Crystal Tiala and John Forbes are going to arrange aVectorworks workshop at the facilities in Boston near the end of the summer. Stay tuned for details.
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Adjourned!
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Many thanks to all who were there physically and in spirit.
Your Chair,
Crystal
Crystal Tiala
tiala at mindspring.com
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