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ATHE awarded a Focus Group Grant to ATME for the May Colloquy and the visit of Antonio Fava.

February 2007

Congratulations to the Approved ATME Sessions for the 2007 ATHE Conference in New Orleans. July 26-29!

Sessions Coordinators should be contacting session participants to inform them of the approval. Notices of approved Multi-disciplinary sessions were sent to session coordinators from ATHE:

1. AIER: The Nature of Human Action Session Coordinator: Gerry Trentham
2. Exploring Actors' Physical Spontaneity Session Coordinator: Sarah Barker
3. Re-Actions Project Session Coordinator: Bethany Jean Urban
4. Debut Presenters Workshop of Impulse Based Acting Exercises Session Chair: Deborah Robertson
5. How to teach the principles of Alexander Technique to acting students when you are not an Alexander Technique teacher Session Coordinator: Sarah Barker
6. Warm-ups for Actors: Getting Ready to Play Session Coordinator: Judith Chaffee
7. Comedy and Play in the Liberal Arts Curriculum Session Coordinator: Davis Robinson

Any questions? Contact Ted Morin,

December 2006

• Congratulations to Joan Schirle, recipient of a Fox Foundation Fellowship:
  Joan Schirle, performer and director with DellArte International in Blue Lake, CA, has been awarded one of the first round Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships for ?professional development. The William & Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for American not-for-profit theatre, have established the Award to support an individual actor's professional and artistic development, to enrich relationships with the not-for-profit theatre and ensure continued professional commitment to live theatre. Round one recipients (and their host theatre) in the Distinguished Achievement category are Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham (Theatre for a New Audience, New York, NY), Karen Kandel (Mabou Mines, New York, NY), Joan Schirle (Dell'Arte International, Blue Lake, CA) and Andrew Weems (Intiman Theatre, Seattle, WA); recipients in the Extraordinary Potential category are Jonathan Broadbent (Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Bristol, England) and Juan Rivera Lebron (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR). The recipients will serve a four-month residency with their host not-for-profit theatre company. Recipients in the Distinguished Achievement category have considerable experience in professional theatre with a substantial body of work and will receive a $25,000 award. Recipients in the Extraordinary Potential category are early- to mid-career actors who have completed their training within the last ten years. They will receive an award of $15,000, with up to an additional $10,000 available to relieve student loans . The host theatre companies will receive grants of $5,000 in support of the residency. The Fox Fellowships round one activity will occur between October 16, 2006 and March 31, 2010.

September 2006

• Registration for ATME membership will be available online through a "printer friendly" application. We hope to have automatic online membership renewal by January.
• Kevin Otos has changed positions from Oklahoma State University to Elon University in North Carolina. His new email is .
• Sara Romersberger was awarded a grant by the Meadows Foundation at Southern Methodist University to produce the Spanish Golden Age comedy, La Discreta Enamorada, by Lope de Vega (In love but Discreet), translated by Vern Williamsen. Gustavo Tambascio, Argentinian director from Spain, will be in residence to direct the play at SMU working with Grover Wilkins, Artistic Director of the Orchestra of New Spain, who is composing and conducting the score. Costumes will be built for this production based on the work of Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, anticipating the exhibition of his couture designs coming to the Meadows Art Museum in February 2007. The production will be built and performed by SMU Meadows music and theatre students. Sara is producing the play, choreographing the dances for the show, and working closely with Mr. Tambascio.
  
  With support from SMU Meadows School of the Arts' new Dean, José Bowen, a second production will be performed two weeks later in Spanish, using the same design team, on the same set, employing professional actors from the Dallas area.

August 2006

• Bill Bowers, Mime and Actor, is starring in his solo play IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING at the Rattlestick Theater in New York City. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING is an exploration of the role Silence has in all our lives. Developed with, and directed by, Martha Banta, the show runs Aug 30 through Oct. 15, Mondays, Thursdays-Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3pm
  Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place NYC

  For tickets, go to www.smarttix.com , www.rattlestick.org or www.bill-bowers.com

• The new web site, www.atmeweb.org is up and running.
  
  Renewing or becoming a member can now be done online by clicking “Membership” on the homepage and then clicking “Application” in the upper right corner. Welcome all!

May 2006

• Marcia Douglas received Tenure at the University of Maine in May 2006.

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