KCACTF Region IV

		DIRECTING INITIATIVES DIRECTING INITIATIVES \| NEW PLAY PROGRAM (NPP) \| SSDC FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM SSDC NATIONAL DIRECTING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS - Region IV Festival The following students were selected for participation in the SSDC National Directing Fellowship Program for KCACTF Region IV, Festival 42 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Dureyèa Rashad Collier, Columbus State University Laura Beth Eastman, Troy University William Hatten, University of Southern Mississippi Anastasia James, Georgia Southern University Rebecca Morton, Christopher Newport University Christopher Rushing, Georgia Southern University Congratulations to you all! The SSDC coordinator, Dewey Scott-Wiley, will be in touch with you soon about additional details. The KCACTF Region IV Directing Initiatives is a program designed to recognize and celebrate the work of student directors in the Southeast. Region IV has four programs for directing at the regional festival: SSDC Student Director Fellowship Program - a national award program sponsored by the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). Students are chosen to present one prepared scene at the regional festival from a list of five scenes chosen for this national fellowship program. One student director from each region is selected through participation in this program and is awarded a fellowship to participate in the KCACTF National Festival in April of each year. Please visit the appropriate link at the top of this page for additional information on the SSDC Student Director Fellowship Program. Ten Minute Play Festival Directing - a regional award program designed to support the work of student playwrights and directors. Up to six student directors are chosen for this project on the basis of experience and faculty recommendations. These student directors will hold auditions at the festival and work with the student playwright and actors to produce a staged reading, informed in presentation format by Actors' Equity Association guidelines, of the new script. One student is chosen from either the Ten Minute Play Festival or the Short Play Festival as the Region IV New Play Program (NPP) Directing Fellow. The NPP Directing Fellowship awards a subsidy to support a directing residency with the Journeymen at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC. Please visit the appropriate link at the top of this page for additional information on the NPP Directing programs. John Cauble Short Play Festival Directing - a regional award program designed to support the work of student playwrights and directors. Up to six student directors are chosen for this project on the basis of experience and faculty recommendations. These student directors will hold auditions at the festival and work with the student playwright and actors to produce a staged reading, informed in presentation format by Actors' Equity Association guidelines, of the new script. One student is chosen from either the Ten Minute Play Festival or the Short Play Festival as the Region IV New Play Program (NPP) Directing Fellow. The NPP Directing Fellowship awards a subsidy to support a directing residency with the Journeymen at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC. Please visit the appropriate link at the top of this page for additional information on the NPP Directing programs.