Summer Education Conference

21st Annual Summer Education Conference
August 7 – 10, 2008

A unique opportunity for teachers and students to experience an unforgettable weekend of exciting performances, fascinating workshops and lively discussions with artists. Join us August 7-10, 2008 for the 21st Annual Summer Education Conference.

SEE GUTHRIE PLAYS

Little House on the Prairie
THE MUSICAL
book by Rachel Sheinkin
music by Rachel Portman
lyrics by Donna DiNovelli
based on the "Little House" books
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
directed by Francesca Zambello
Friday, August 8 at 7:30 p.m.
McGuire Proscenium Stage

The Government Inspector
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
from the original by Nikolai Gogol
directed by Joe Dowling
Saturday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Wurtele Thrust Stage

ATTEND WORKSHOPS

Do you ever need to take a full-length play and cut it down to a one-act, a scene or a required number of minutes? Do you need to create a set with whatever is in your garage, basement or attic? This year’s conference, "Adaptation Station," will help you answer these questions and more, providing you with the resources you’ve told us you need.

Fundamental to our conference are a series of workshops where teachers and students join together and gain hands-on experience. From music, to acting, to comedy, to adapting everything from a play, a musical, a set or props, you’ll leave our workshops more resourceful, creative and imaginative – ready to tackle any play, scene or one-act that comes your way. And we know that teams who participate in the conference often represent just a portion of their schools’ theater department/students; workshops are a chance to not only learn how to do something, but how to share it when you are back at school.

All Guthrie workshops are devised to give teachers and students a chance to learn directly from Guthrie actors, visiting artists and Guthrie scenery/prop shop staff.

HEAR FROM ARTISTS

Award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher will give the keynote address at the welcome dinner on Thursday, August 7. Mr. Hatcher (adaptor of The Government Inspector) has had work presented not only the Guthrie, but at the Manhattan Theater Club, Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others. He has won numerous awards including the 2000 American Theatre Critics Association Award. He is perhaps best known for his work with Mitch Albom on adapting Tuesdays with Morrie.

Little House on the Prairie lyricist Donna DiNovelli Donna DiNovelli will speak at the dinner on Friday, August 8. Ms. Novelli has had work presented at the Public Theater, New York City Opera and Joe’s Pub. She has won commissions and fellowships from the Manhattan Theater Club, ASCAP, Houston Grand Opera and the BBC. Besides teaching bookwriting in the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she teaches playwriting at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and was a visiting professor at Brown University, where she earned an A.M., studying with Paula Vogel.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

View the brochure. For questions or to register by phone call 612.225.6134. Registration deadline is June 6, 2008