Auditions, Festivals, and Associations

Department of Theatre and Dance

UW Production Season Auditions

The department holds auditions several times a year for the current production season and also for summer theatre.

2023-2024 AUDITION INFORMATION

 

THE LARAMIE PROJECT, 25^th Anniversary Staged Reading

WYOpen Stages and Tectonic Theater Project

Runs OCT 11, 7:30pm, Thrust Theatre

Submit video auditions to Matt Greenburg at mgreenb1@uwyo.edu by SEPT 2 (details )

Cast list Monday, SEPT 4, rehearsals begin SEPT 9

 

METAMORPHOSES (Drama)

Runs OCT 25 - 29, Thrust Theatre

Get audition info from Scott Tedmon-Jones at stedmonj@uwyo.edu

 

Life/AFTER\Dark (Dance/Theatre)

Runs NOV 15 - 18, Studio Theatre

Auditions: Wednesday, AUG 30, 6:00-9:00pm, Mains Dance Studio (BCPA 1131)

Cast List Thursday, AUG 31, rehearsals begin Friday, SEPT 1

Bring completed audition forms (get from Aaron Wood at awood5@uwyo.edu)

 

RADICAL HUMANITY (Dance)

Runs MAR 1 - 3, A&S Auditorium

Audition Date #1: (David Dorfman Dance Repertory Work)

Wednesday, SEPT 6, 10:00am, Mains Dance Studio (BCPA 1131)

Audition Date #2: (Faculty Choreographed Work)

NOV 2023, Date & Time TBD

 

INTO THE WOODS (musical theatre)

April 4 - 7, April 11 – 14

Venue: Thrust Theatre

Audition Date(s) & Time(s) TBD

 

Please contact theatre_dance@uwyo.edu if you have additional questions.

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Associations / Festivals of Interest

• ACDFA
• KCACTF
• USITT
• URTA
• RMTA
  

 

American College Dance Festival Association

The American College Dance Festival Association's primary focus is to support and promote the wealth of talent and creativity that is prominent throughout college and university dance departments. ACDFA's sponsorship of regional conferences and the national dance festival provides the venue for students and faculty to engage in three days of performances, workshops, panels, and master classes taught by instructors from around the region and country. The conferences also provide the unique opportunity for students and faculty to have their dance works adjudicated by a panel of nationally recognized dance professionals in an open and constructive forum. Culminating with the presentation of pieces selected for their exemplary artistic quality, the conferences are the primary means for college and university dance programs to perform outside their own academic setting and be exposed to the diversity of the national college dance world.

ACDFA also sponsors the National College Dance Festival. A biennial event, the National Festival showcases works selected from each regional conference for presentation on gala concerts at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater.

Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide, which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents. The goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival are:

• To encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
• To provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;
• To improve the quality of college and university theater in America;
• To encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.

National KCACTF

United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc

Mission

The United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) connects performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialogue among practitioners, educators, and students.

Vision

• USITT will be a prominent leader of theatre and entertainment design, management, and technology through our conferences, exhibitions, awards, publications, and research. USITT is dedicated to the professional development of those who are an integral part of the performing arts and entertainment industry.
• USITT will promote the best of design and technology through exhibitions, which are widely distributed to new audiences;
• USITT will actively promote and support research and development today that creates the theatre of the future;
• USITT will honor the best of theatre design, management, and technology through nationally - and internationally - recognized awards;
• USITT will be the documentary body for the history of design, management, and technology in the performing arts and entertainment industry;
• USITT will disseminate information about the history of the field, and aesthetic and technological developments by producing the USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo, tours, and symposia;
• USITT will advocate for safe, efficient, and ethical practices;
• USITT will continue to strengthen the organizational operations of the Institute and National Office;
• USITT will grow and provide valuable services to our membership and insure that interests of members are represented regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The University/Resident Theatre Association

The University/Resident Theatre Association is the country's oldest and largest consortium of professional theatre training graduate programs and associated professional theatre companies. Founded in 1969, U/RTA provides a variety of service, management and informational programs to its members, and to non-member students, theatre professionals and producing companies, while serving as the primary liaison between the professional and educational theatres. U/RTA encourages the professional training of artists, and of future teachers in the performing arts for all levels of education.

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