Press Release: Jacqueline Lawton selected as a TCG's 2013 Online Conference Curator
From June 6-8, TCG's National Conference: Learn Do Teach will take place in Dallas, Texas. This year, the conference will be guided by four focused programmatic arcs--Diversity and Inclusion, Audience Engagement, Financial Adaptation and Artistic Innovation. While attendees are free to roam among sessions, these arcs offer a deep dive into these key areas—a “conference within the Conference” that captures the intimacy of our smaller convenings. These arcs will match those ready to Learn specific models with those ready to Teach, and connect attendees with shared goals to mobilize together and Do. To get these powerful and important conversations started, TCG has invited Jacqueline E. Lawton, David J. Loehr, Caridad Svich and Adam Thurman to be online Conference curators.
AUGUST SCHULENBURG, TCG's Associate Director of Communications shares more about the process:
"These four theatre-thinkers will be co-hosting Conference-themed blog salons here on the TCG Circle starting now and going all the way up to the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas. Each online curator is charged with leading a conversation regarding one of our four programmatic arcs: Artistic Innovation, Audience Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion and Financial Adaptation.
Here’s how it will work: the curators will each lead with a post introducing themselves and their own personal angle on their arc. Then, they’ll be working with myself, and my colleagues Dafina McMillan and Devon Berkshire, on curating posts from other theatre people connected to the themes of their arc."
Click here to learn more about how to be involved. Also, here’s more information about the Online Conference Curators:
Jacqueline E. Lawton (Diversity & Inclusion) received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener fellow. Her plays include Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: Love Brothers Serenade, Mad Breed and Our Man Beverly Snow. She has received commissions from Active Cultures Theater, Discovery Theater, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, Round House Theatre and Theater J. A 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color, she has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and a PONY Fellowship from the Lark New Play Development Center. She resides in Washington DC and is a member of Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena. jacquelinelawton.com
David J. Loehr (Audience Engagement) is the editor and artistic director of 2amt. He is also the artist-in-residence & co-founder of the Riverrun Theatre Company in Madison, Ind. Plays include: The Incomparable Radio Theatre of the Air, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Seeing Red, Wise Man, A Report of Gunfire, The Rough Guide to the Underworld and more. His work has been performed at the Capital Fringe Festival, Chicago Fringe Festival, Louisville Playwrights Festival, NJ One Minute Play Festival, South Carolina Repertory Company, Glass Mind Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is also a marketing consultant and occasional sound designer for multiple theatre companies. davidjloehr.com 2amt.com
Caridad Svich (Artistic Innovation) received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel. She has edited several books on theatre including Out of Silence (Eyecorner Press), Trans-Global Readings and Theatre in Crisis? (both for Manchester University Press) Divine Fire (BackStage Books), Out of the Fringe (TCG), andConducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus). caridadsvich.com
Adam Thurman (Financial Adaptation) is the director of marketing for Court Theatre, one of the largest nonprofit theaters in Chicago. During his tenure, Court has had some of the highest grossing production in its 57 year history. He is also the founder of Mission Paradox, an organization devoted to connecting art and audience. He authors a widely read blog on the arts, marketing, leadership, diversity, and other issues at MissionParadox.com. He has been featured in the LA Times, Time Out New York, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Artist Resources and TedxBroadway. Adam is a former board member of the League of Chicago Theatres and has served on the Illinois Arts Council’s Advisory Panel. He has been recognized as an Emerging Leader by Americans for the Arts and the Theatre Communication Group (TCG). He is also a member of the TED mentor program and provides support and counsel to TED Fellows.
"These four theatre-thinkers will be co-hosting Conference-themed blog salons here on the TCG Circle starting now and going all the way up to the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas. Each online curator is charged with leading a conversation regarding one of our four programmatic arcs: Artistic Innovation, Audience Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion and Financial Adaptation.
Here’s how it will work: the curators will each lead with a post introducing themselves and their own personal angle on their arc. Then, they’ll be working with myself, and my colleagues Dafina McMillan and Devon Berkshire, on curating posts from other theatre people connected to the themes of their arc."
Click here to learn more about how to be involved. Also, here’s more information about the Online Conference Curators:
Jacqueline E. Lawton (Diversity & Inclusion) received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener fellow. Her plays include Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: Love Brothers Serenade, Mad Breed and Our Man Beverly Snow. She has received commissions from Active Cultures Theater, Discovery Theater, National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, Round House Theatre and Theater J. A 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color, she has been nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize and a PONY Fellowship from the Lark New Play Development Center. She resides in Washington DC and is a member of Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena. jacquelinelawton.com
David J. Loehr (Audience Engagement) is the editor and artistic director of 2amt. He is also the artist-in-residence & co-founder of the Riverrun Theatre Company in Madison, Ind. Plays include: The Incomparable Radio Theatre of the Air, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Seeing Red, Wise Man, A Report of Gunfire, The Rough Guide to the Underworld and more. His work has been performed at the Capital Fringe Festival, Chicago Fringe Festival, Louisville Playwrights Festival, NJ One Minute Play Festival, South Carolina Repertory Company, Glass Mind Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is also a marketing consultant and occasional sound designer for multiple theatre companies. davidjloehr.com 2amt.com
Caridad Svich (Artistic Innovation) received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for GUAPA, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel. She has edited several books on theatre including Out of Silence (Eyecorner Press), Trans-Global Readings and Theatre in Crisis? (both for Manchester University Press) Divine Fire (BackStage Books), Out of the Fringe (TCG), andConducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus). caridadsvich.com
Adam Thurman (Financial Adaptation) is the director of marketing for Court Theatre, one of the largest nonprofit theaters in Chicago. During his tenure, Court has had some of the highest grossing production in its 57 year history. He is also the founder of Mission Paradox, an organization devoted to connecting art and audience. He authors a widely read blog on the arts, marketing, leadership, diversity, and other issues at MissionParadox.com. He has been featured in the LA Times, Time Out New York, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Artist Resources and TedxBroadway. Adam is a former board member of the League of Chicago Theatres and has served on the Illinois Arts Council’s Advisory Panel. He has been recognized as an Emerging Leader by Americans for the Arts and the Theatre Communication Group (TCG). He is also a member of the TED mentor program and provides support and counsel to TED Fellows.