[Usittne] USITT NE Meeting Minutes from Phoenix
Perron, Celine
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Thu Mar 22 14:41:21 EDT 2007
Crystal
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Céline
From: Crystal Tiala <tiala at mindspring.com>
Reply-To: <tiala at mindspring.com>, USITT New England Section Mail List
<usittne at mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:49:00 -0400
To: USITTNE listserve <USITTNE at mit.edu>
Subject: [Usittne] USITT NE Meeting Minutes from Phoenix
Minutes from Phoenix
March 15th, 2007
Attendees:
1. Crystal Tiala Boston College
tiala at bc.edu
2. Cosmo Catalano Williams College
ccatalan at williams.edu
3. Keith Cornelius Emerson College
keith.cornelius at emberson.edu
4. John Forbes University of Vermont
jbforbes at uvm.edu
5. John Devlin St. Michael‚s College
jdevlin at smcvt.edu
6. Nate Wiessner Williams College
Nathaniel.t.wiessner at williams.edu
7. Timothy Parrish UVM
taparris at uvm.edu
8. Dan Daugherty U. Maine
Daniel.daugherty at umit.maine.edu
9. Lauren glover UVM
lglover at uvm.edu
10. Clyde Tyndale Falmouth Acadamy
ctyndale at cape.com <mailto:ctyndale at cape.cosy>
11. Mike Katz MIT
mkatz at mit.edu
12. Tina Shantz St. Michael‚s College
cshantz at smvt.edu
13. Michelle Merola St. Michael‚s College
mmerola at smcvt.edu
14. Dominic Donadio Salem State College
domdnd at gmail.com
15. Nancy Polisson Rockport High School
npolisson at rockport.kiz.ma.us
16. Arthur Dirks Bridgewater State College
adirks at bridgew.edu
17. Chase Rozelle Eastern Connecticut State
rozellec at easternct.edu
18. Karen Perlow MIT
kperlow at mit.edu
19. Ruth Conrad Boston College
conradru at bc.edu
20. William Beautyman Limelight Productions
wbeautyman at limelightproductions.com
21. Andy Knox TD Cape Cod Comm Coll. AKnox at capecod.edu
22. Kendra Murphy ATD Cape Cod Comm. Coll kmurphy at capecodd.edu
23. Melissa Friebe Senior, Gustaus Adolphis
mfriebe at gac.edu
24. Leslie Hammond TD Choate Rosemary Hall, CT
lhammond at choate.edu
25. Sabrina Notarfrancisco cost. Des. Conn. College
snotar at conncoll.edu
26. Sandra Jervey Salem State ˆ student
stu_sjervey at salemstate.edu
27. Christopher Morris TD/des. Salem State College
Christopher.morris at salemstate.edu
28. Rafael Jaen Cost. Des. Emerson College
Rafael_Jaen at Emerson.edu
29. 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.
_
Elections were held:
* There were no new nominations or volunteers for any officer‚s position and
therefore all current officers will serve another year
_
Officers:
* Our officers for the upcoming year are:
> * Crystal Tiala ˆ Chair ˆtiala at bc.edu
> since 1997
> * Ron Dallas ˆ Secretary/Treasurer ˆ ron at dallas-family.com
> since∑..forever
> * Michael Cottom ˆ Vice Chair - mcottom at theater.umass.edu since
> 2006
> * Mike Katz ˆ Director of Communications ˆ mkatz at mit.edu since 2001
> * Jeff Gardiner ˆ Computer Communications ˆ 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.
_
Upcoming events, opportunities and improvements:
Web Site & list serve
* Send event information to Jeff Gardiner at jeffg at erols.com website:
www.usittne.org <http://www.usittne.org/>
_
* 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.
_
* See our website at www.usittne.org <http://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.
_
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (www.kcactf1.org
<http://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 ˆ for set designers
· „I got my degree, now what?‰ ˆ 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.
_
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.
_
New Business
_
Save the date: The annual New England BBQ will be held in the afternoon
of September 8th, 2007.
_
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.
_
Software workshops: We agreed that each summer we should arrange a
workshop around some software that people would like to learn.
_
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.
_
Adjourned!
________
Many thanks to all who were there physically and in spirit.
Your Chair,
Crystal
Crystal Tiala
tiala at mindspring.com
EarthLink Revolves Around You.
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