Great Plains Theatre Conference

Metropolitan Community College presented the Great Plains Theatre Conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 May 2013 at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Omaha) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT. Convert into your local time.

The mission of the Great Plains Theatre Conference at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, is to enable playwrights and theatre artists to share time, energy, and talent in the service of developing craft, creating new work, and strengthening community on a local and national scale.

The Panel Series is a platform to discuss wide ranging topics that are resonant for those who are making theatre today. The discussions begin with our national guest artists and then open up to the wider community.

The panelist include: Connie Congdon, Ruth Margraff, Kate Snodgrass, Erik Ehn, David Neumann, Sibyl Kempson, Mac Wellman, Justin Townsend, Eliza Bent, and our young Design Wing fellows.

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• The Triumph, Tragedy, Humor and Humanity of Failure: The politics, aesthetics and fertility of failure illustrated by real occurrences of epic failure. With Sibyl Kempson, Mac Wellman, Connie Congdon, Kate Snodgrass, and moderated by Kevin Lawler

Tuesday 28 May at 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 1 p.m. CDT (Omaha) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York) / 18:00 GMT. Convert into your local time.

• In Pursuit of a Dark Euphoria: New wildness in imagination, form, collaboration, rehearsal, and production—and the special challenges that this work brings. With David Neumann, Sibyl Kempson, Justin Townsend, and moderated by Eliza Bent

Wednesday 29 May at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Omaha) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT. Convert into your local time.

• Design and the all-important collaboration (of our threatened species): The dreams and anguish of a new generation. With Justin Townsend, The Design Wing, and moderated by Eliza Bent

Thursday 30 May at 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (Omaha) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:30 GMT. Convert into your local time.

• T and C: The function and malfunction of theatre in a capitalist/consumer society. With Ruth Margraff, Mac Wellman, Connie Congdon, Kate Snodgrass, Erik Ehn, and moderated by Eliza Bent

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