KCACTF Region 6 - Festival 50 - 2018

Chase Waites is the KCACTF Region 6 Immediate Past Chair and a professor of theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery. Favorite credits include 12 Angry Jurors, American Idiot, The Birds, 12 Angry Jurors, Dog Sees God, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Private Eyes, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors... Read More →

Tracy Armagost is beginning her 31th Season with the Santa Fe Opera located outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently the Production and Recruiting Coordinator. Her main responsibilities include the programming and recruiting for the Apprentice Program for Technicians and... Read More →

Bombe is the director of theatre, resident costume designer and professor of theatre at Hope, where she has taught since 1991, and has held leadership roles with KCACTF at the state, regional and national levels, including as newly elected national vice chair. She will receive the... Read More →

Best known as half of the team of "Don and Jane" and continuing The Legacy of Don at SILV developing better ways to train students on cutting edge technology and to be the best they can be. In addition to being Don's partner in all life brought, Jane has done translation for Ladislav... Read More →

Jesse Dreikosen is currently the Head of Design & Technology at the University of Idaho. He received his MFA in scene design from Purdue Universityand a BFA in theatre design from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Before joining the University of Idaho Theatre Arts Department... Read More →

Steve Feffer is a professionally produced and published playwright who directs the graduate (MFA and Ph.D.) and undergraduate playwriting programs at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.  Steve currently serves on the National Executive Committee for the National Playwriting... Read More →

D. Andrew Gibbs is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Drama at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he served as Chair of the department for 20 years and taught courses in design, technology and management beginning in 1978. He holds the PhD in Theatre from the University... Read More →

Jacqueline Goldfinger is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced and developed by theaters including The Kennedy Center, La MaMa, FringeArts, Orlando Shakespeare, Finborough (Vibrant '16), New Georges, Barrington Stage, Vermont Stage, Perseverance Theatre, Philadelphia... Read More →

Melissa Hill Grande is a freelance director, costume designer, and educator based in Pittsburgh. Her credits include productions in the academic and professional realms, and she served as Associate Artistic Director for Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre. In the past year she has... Read More →

Heather Helinsky is an independent dramaturg providing research and analysis, consultation, and workshops to playwrights, directors, theater companies, and college-level education programs. Heather offers her time and expertise to playwrights so that they can be better prepared to... Read More →

Gregg Henry is artistic director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences and is director of the Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. Gregg... Read More →

Physical Theatre, Ensemble-based theatre, Devised Theatre, creating original work, founding a theatre company.

Kerro Knox 3 is Associate Director of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance and Associate Professor of Theatre at Oakland University and teaches lighting design and theatre history.  He has designed scenery, costumes and lighting for numerous shows in his 21 years at Oakland, and... Read More →

Michael Legg is the Director of the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Artistic Director of WildWind Performance Lab in Lubbock, TX.  For the last decade, his focus has been developing and directing new works.  He’s collaborated with playwrights... Read More →

Larissa Lury is an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University, a freelance director, a deviser and a former acrobat. She’s directed and workshopped plays for companies including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Southern Rep, New Georges, Ma-Yi, New Jersey Rep, Keen... Read More →

Randy Lutz has been with The Santa Fe Opera for 39 years and is currently the Properties Director, liaising with national and international designers and directors. Annually, he attends professional conferences to interview applicants and review portfolios for all technical departments... Read More →

Adam Miller-Batteau is a director, fight choreographer, and theater teacher living in Austin, Texas. He is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and currently teaches at the Universty of. He has choreographed fight for over a decade, staging violence in... Read More →

Chris Muenchow is a Senior Product Assurance Specialist at High End Systems in Austin, TX where he oversees the software quality of the Hog 4 Series of lighting control systems. Chris is also the primary lighting designer for musicals produced at the Woodlawn Theatre in San Antonio... Read More →

The National Theater Institute: Founded in 1970, The National Theater Institute (NTI) is the leading theater training program at the two-time Tony Award-winning  Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and the Moscow Art Theater School in Moscow, Russia. With a singular schedule and an unmatched breadth of training, NTI’s credit-earning training programs offer students a springboard to the professional theater world. These programs include a two-week residency in London or NYC, tickets to 20+ shows, and classes... Read More →

Andy Propst, founder of AmericanTheaterWeb.com, has written for such diverse publications the Village Voice, TimeOut NY, and Backstage. Andy has served three terms as judge for the Voice's Obie Awards and four terms as nominator for the Drama Desk Awards and spent seven years as a... Read More →

Natasha Staley is an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech. Recent professional work includes Voice and Text Director for Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Hamlet, and As You Like It at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival in Irvine... Read More →

Matthew Tibbs is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. Recent work includes sound designs of As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare in Love at Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Cay at Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Three Sisters... Read More →

Curt L. Tofteland brings with him 35+ years of professional theatre experience as director, actor, producer, playwright, writer, teacher, and program developer.Curt is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare Behind Bars program now in its 22nd year of operation in... Read More →

Rick Walters is Chair of KCACTF Region III, and Professor of Theatre and Director of Theatre Recruitment at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he teaches acting and voice in the BFA program. Rick has been a member of the acting companies at the Guthrie Theatre, Indiana... Read More →

Val Winkelman (DTM Chair, Region IV) has directed or designed over 200 plays, musicals and ballets. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas in Austin and is a Distinguished Alumna of the University of North Texas where she received a Bachelor of Arts... Read More →

Jeffrey Woodwardjoined Dallas Theater Center in July 2015 as the managing director. For seven years prior to that he served as the managing director of Syracuse Stage, a professional theater-in-residence at Syracuse University.  From 1991-2008, he was the managing director of the... Read More →

Since graduating from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, Bradley has appeared on stages across the country in the national tours of The Drowsy Chaperone (Robert Martin), Spamalot, Catch Me If You Can, Kathleen Marshall’s Anything Goes, and most recently... Read More →