The 2021 TYA/USA Virtual Festival & Conference is adapting and changing to respond to the needs of our national TYA community. Spread out over the course of the year, TYA/USA will offer four themed conference opportunities that bring the field together virtually as we move from recovery to reopening.
RECHARGE • RECALIBRATE • RESTART • REIMAGINE
Join us June 1-22 for RECALIBRATE TYA, a series that aims to expand upon a year of reflection and action towards anti-racism, anti-oppression, and accountability in the field of TYA. Deepen your knowledge, skill sets, and commitment to this vital work in a 4-day conference serving as a follow up to last fall’s Listen, Learn, Lead.
Spread over four weeks, panelists will share about a range of topics that will move the field’s conversations around accountability from theory to practice. Each webinar will be followed by an optional small group reflection facilitated by the TYA/USA team to provide a container to process the session’s contents and activate alongside peers.
Building upon May’s RECHARGE and June’s RECALIBRATE, 2021 Virtual Festival & Conference programming will continue throughout the year with themed series:
- RESTART TYA / August-October 2021: Convening to Share Resources, Ideas, and Solutions to the Complex Challenges of Moving from Recovery to Reopening
- REIMAGINE TYA / November 2021: Examining the Creation of New Work in the New Normal
Pricing & Registration Info
We’re offering four themed events over the year as part of the 2021 Virtual Festival & Conference. You can register for our RECALIBRATE TYA series (running weekly on Tuesdays in June from June 1-22, 2021), or opt to register for the full year of programming. Registering for the full year of programming will provide you access June’s RECALIBRATE TYA, along with recordings from May’s RECHARGE TYA event, and live access for RESTART and REIMAGINE. If you registered for the full year of programming in advance of RECHARGE, there is no need to register again. If you’re unsure of your registration status, please reach out to us at info@tyausa.org before registering.
When deciding on your pricing level, please consider that your registration fee is essential in supporting TYA/USA to provide programming for the entire TYA field all year. We need your support to ensure the stability and future of TYA/USA.
TYA/USA wishes to make programming available to as many individuals in the TYA field as possible. Registration is open to TYA/USA members and non-members. If you are not a member of TYA/USA, we encourage you to become one as part of your registration, as your support ensures our ability to continue to provide the national TYA community with vital resources.
If you choose to register at the Sponsor level, your registration directly supports our ACCESS FOR ALL option, offering the opportunity to participate to individuals who are unable to financially contribute at this time.
Registration for RECALIBRATE TYA – June 1-22, 2021
Organizational Registration – Large (10+ Participants) $200
Organizational Registration – Small (up to 10 Participants) $100
Individual – Access Sponsor Level $100
Individual – Registration Level 1 $75
Individual – Registration Level 2 $50
Individual – Registration Level 3 $25
Access for All Registration $0
RECALIBRATE TYA Registration grants you access to the four webinar panel discussions and opportunities to join optional small group reflections following the webinars. You will also have access to the recordings for all sessions, so that you can revisit them or view any sessions you miss.
Registration for FULL YEAR OF CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING FROM MAY-NOVEMBER
Full Year Organizational Registration – Large (10+ Participants) $500
Full Year Organizational Registration – Small (up to 10 Participants) $350
Full Year Individual – Access Sponsor Level $250
Full Year Individual – Registration Level 1 $150
Full Year Individual – Registration Level 2 $75
Full Year Access for All Registration $0
Full Year Registration grants you access to recordings of live webinar sessions from RECHARGE (May) and access to all upcoming programming: RECALIBRATE (June), RESTART (August to October), REIMAGINE (November).
Featured Speakers
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Shavanna Calder
Host & Facilitator
Consulting Director of Antiracism Initiatives, TYA/USA
Equity & Diversity Strategist
actor, writer, creative director, stylist, humanShavanna Calder (she/her) recently co-produced and co-hosted TYA/USA’s Listen, Learn, Lead: Antiracism in TYA Series, a nationwide learning program that served nearly 1,000 TYA professionals in exploring antiracism in their work and the field at large. She holds a Master’s Degree from NYU and also received her BA from Wellesley College where she studied Sociology & Cinema and Media Studies. She has worked with individuals on their Equity & Diversity journey as well as companies/organizations such as Stage Door Experience, Rock the Audition, Trusty Sidekick and Innovative Voice Studio. She is first generation and still identifies as a sociologist at heart.
As a performer she recently completed a run of The Legend of Georgia McBride at Milwaukee Rep & Arizona Theatre Company. Other favorite credits include: HBO’s Los Espookys, SNL, Grammys (2018), Hairspray (National Tour), CBS ‘Best of’ Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, For Colored Girls (Lady in Green), Caroline, or Change (Emmie). Additionally, she is the fortunate recipient of UCB’s Diversity Scholarship where she studied improv 101 and 201.
Shavanna is also the editor of Arts in Color (a site about people of color in theatre), which she started in 2012. The Arts in Color team shared auditions, history, news, celebrated showcasing seniors and much more. Additionally, she is the Creative Director of Mujer! (a feminist fashion magazine that defies partiarchal definitions of beauty). Whilst doing all of this she also worked full time at NYU, in various departments, for 7.5 years.
Proud Member of Actors Equity Association.
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Rudy Ramirez
Host & Facilitator
Consulting Director of Antiracism Initiatives, TYA/USA
Rudy Ramirez (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, arts educator, and facilitator. Rudy is an Arizona State University alumnus and Arizona native. As a performer, some of their favorite projects include Childsplay’s THE YELLOW BOAT, TOMAS & THE LIBRARY LADY (national tour), and THE SMARTEST GIRL IN THE WORLD. Rudy is a current teaching artist with Ping Chong + Company, and has served similarly at other organizations like Seattle Children’s Theatre, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Childsplay. They recently served as Director of Education at The Magik Theatre. Rudy is a founding member of the BIPOC in TYA Advisory Board and the project curator for ANTI-RACIST & ANTI-OPPRESSIVE FUTURES FOR THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES: AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE. Rudy firmly believes in the transformative power of storytelling, art-making, and theatre for all.
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Kim-Monique Johnson
Panelist
Kim-Monique Johnson, MSW, CPC, ELI-MP
(she/her/hers)Bringing over twenty-five years’ nonprofit experience, Kim-Monique Johnson provides support to organizations through organizational development, leadership development, group facilitation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies. She identifies as a Black, cisgender lesbian recognizing the importance of creating space for naming identities and lived experiences.
Johnson has experience in healthcare, human resources, and leadership coaching. Her coaching focus is with new managers as well as seasoned executives who face new challenges related to organizational management, diversity, racial equity, and inclusion. She is passionate about helping new managers as well as seasoned executives who face new challenges related to diversity, racial equity and inclusion. For leaders who wonder how to show up as their authentic selves, for people of color who may also be part of LGTBQ communities, she offers coaching to support their well-being and success.
Before becoming a senior consultant at Community Resource Exchange, Johnson served as the chief human resources officer at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the vice president of talent and team development at the Food Bank For New York City. Her global experience includes a year as a volunteer sexuality education teacher in Gabon, Central Africa and co-leading the first LGTBQ multi-year training for healthcare providers in Lima, Perú. Johnson is a certified Wiley Everything DiSC® workplace facilitator, a senior certified professional with the Society for Human Resource Management, and is certified in the Clark Wilson 360 Feedback Survey. She is also certified in Energy Leadership Coaching with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). She obtained a BA in psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, and an MSW from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Esther Triggs
Panelist
Esther Triggs has been named Interlochen Center for the Arts’ Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Triggs believes in meeting students where they are at within their work of becoming an intricate part of a diverse, equitable and inclusive community. Through the use of dialogue, reflection and action, we work toward transformation. Triggs co-founded Journey Theatre Project (JTP). JTP works with non-profits, corporate entities, educational, religious and community organizations to create a brave space for necessary conversations. As Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion there, Triggs challenged traditional power structures and disrupted unconscious bias, through the use of theatre, dialogue, game, and data.
Triggs has dedicated her career to educating communities in anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Triggs’ unique experience in both theatrical and corporate settings allows her to bridge gaps in facilitating conversations which leads to empowerment of individuals and groups toward equitable solutions.
Triggs is an alumnus of Cornell’s Diversity and Inclusion certificate program and a graduate of CUNY SPS’ master of arts in Applied Theatre program, that utilizes theatre for social justice work. She supports organizations in understanding the perceptual, institutional, and psychological process which impact the bottom line of an organization and how we, in community, interact with each other and create a culturally competent workplace.
Triggs’s work is rooted in Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire believed not in leading others but rather in supporting folx to get where they want to go. Triggs supports people who want to learn about themselves and the world they inhabit in order to transform it. “…the word is more than just an instrument that makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its constitutive elements. Within the word, we find two dimensions, reflections and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed-even in part–the other immediately suffers.” Paulo Freire.
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Brandon Michael Nase
Panelist
Brandon Michael Nase is an artist, performer, producer, and activist currently based in New York City. Brandon is celebrated for the versatility of his instrument, his powerful vision as an artist, and his commitment to racial justice.
As a performer, Brandon has been seen across the United States in musical theater, pop, R&B, jazz, and classical music venues. His recent credits include Cats (First National Tour; Old Deuteronomy), Show Boat (Bucks County Playhouse; dir. Josh Rhodes), Ragtime (Tulane Summer Lyric; Coalhouse), Evita (Asolo Repertory Theatre; dir. Josh Rhodes), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (3D Theatricals; dir. Mark Kudisch; Judah), Little Shop of Horrors (Sharon Playhouse; dir. Jennifer Werner; Audrey II), and Les Misérables (Dallas Theatre Center; dir. Liesl Tommy; Feuilly). He has also originated roles in new works such as ExtraOrdinary! (American Repertory Theater; dir. Diane Paulus), The Black Clown (American Repertory Theatre; Lincoln Center: Mostly Mozart Festival), and Frozen Live at the Hyperion (dir. Liesl Tommy; Olaf).
Brandon united his love of gospel jazz and musical theater as the producer and creator of “The Gospel According to Broadway,” a musical web-series which reimagines musical theater songs in gospel, jazz, and R&B styles. In collaboration with pianist Sujin Kim-Ramsey, Brandon arranged eight different songs from the musical theater canon ranging from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Jason Robert Brown. “The Gospel According to Broadway” filmed eight episodes and premiered with a live concert at The Green Room 42 in New York City. The entire series is available on YouTube and features Broadway performers Tiffany Mann, Rebecca Covington-Weber, Major Attaway, Caitlin Houlahan, and Ryan Vona.
A proudly Black artist and performer, in 2020 Brandon founded Broadway for Racial Justice, a non-profit organization which fights for racial justice and equity in the Broadway and theatrical community at large. As Executive Director of BFRJ, Brandon has spearheaded crucial initiatives for artists of color; including a financial assistance fund for unemployed artists and an anonymous hotline which connects BIPOC artists experiencing racism in the workplace with trained advocates. BFRJ also produces concerts, interviews, and other online content which all seek to amplify the voices and experiences of BIPOC performers and artists. Theatrical institutions and educational programs can enter into community with BFRJ as a resource to better serve artists and students of color through the program Allied with BFRJ, which provides actionable accountability support for organizations attempting to build an anti-racist artistic community.
Before pursuing a career as a performer, Brandon worked in public schools as a choral music teacher in his native Texas. He holds a Bachelor of Music in choral music education from the renowned University of North Texas College of Music and received his Master of Music in Vocal Performance (Music Theatre) from NYU Steinhardt. Brandon has studied voice with Michael Ricciardone, Dr. Jeffrey Snider, and Dr. Linda DiFiore and conducting with Dr. Alan McClung and Dr. Amanda Quist.
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Courtney J. Boddie
Panelist
Courtney J. Boddie, Vice President, Education & School Engagement, oversees all programs related to school communities including the New Victory school partnership program, teacher professional development training in the performing arts and an innovative approach in the professional development of more than 50 New Victory Teaching Artists. A 2021 Crain’s New York ‘Notable Black Leader and Executive,’ Ms. Boddie has expanded the theater’s scope of work in such programs as Victory Dance, which provides free dance and dance education to NYC summer schools; Create, a theater-based teacher professional development track for the city’s Pre-K expansion, the largest in the nation; and GIVE, a brand new initiative to address equitable student engagement in inclusion classrooms. During her tenure at New Victory, the Theater received the Arts Education Award (2008) from Americans for the Arts and a special Drama Desk Award (2012) for “…nurturing a love of theater in young people.”
In 2019, TYA/USA awarded Ms. Boddie with the TYA Community Impact Award for her leadership in New Victory SPARK (Schools with the Performing Arts Reach Kids), a robust multi-year arts program that has transformed New York City school communities previously underserved in the arts. Through intensive relationships with schools’ administrative and teaching staff, New Victory SPARK utilizes the theater’s existing school programs–including live performances by international arts companies, a highly trained ensemble of Teaching Artists and smartly-designed classroom curricula–to supply performing arts engagement that is as sustainable, creative and impactful.
Ms. Boddie is the Creator and Host of Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie, a monthly podcast featuring engaging and investigative interviews, roundtable conversations and panels with artists and arts education leaders. The podcast recently launched a video series called “We Can’t Go Back” with artivists, arts leaders and community activists discussing anti-racist and liberatory practices. She is an adjunct professor at New York University. Ms. Boddie is a Hermitage Artist Fellow and is a Women’s Center Media SheSource. She was on the Board of Directors of the Association of Teaching Artists (ATA) for 5 years (President, 2015 to 2017; Treasurer, 2018-19) and served on the Teaching Artist Committee of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, and the editorial board for the Teaching Artist Journal. Prior to joining New Victory in 2003, Ms. Boddie was Program Associate for Empire State Partnerships (NYSCA) and a teaching artist for Roundabout Theatre Company. She received her Master’s degree from the Educational Theatre Graduate Program at New York University.
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Mary Rose Lloyd
Panelist
New Victory Theater Artistic Director Mary Rose Lloyd is a performing arts curator, recognized for expertise in family programming and support of new work. She was on the board of TYA/USA and IPAY where she received the Mickey Miners Lifetime Achievement Award for significant impact on and contribution to performing arts for young audiences. Mary was a juror for the 37th Edition of Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris, is on the advisory board of Circus Now, and on the Board of Directors of The Chocolate Factory Theater. She received APAP’s William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence and Sustained Achievement in Programming and holds an MFA in Arts Management from Yale School of Drama, receiving the Morris Kaplan Award for Excellence in Arts Administration.
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Allison Mui Mitchell
Panelist
Allison Mui Mitchell has over 15 years of experience in public relations. As Director of Public Relations for New 42, she oversaw the public perception of the institution, its leadership and signature projects, The New Victory Theater and New 42 Studios. As communications strategist and principal press agent for the NYC cultural nonprofit, she managed public positioning, communication strategies and media relations for New 42’s artistic, education and creative youth development programs, including more than a dozen international productions at The New Victory Theater each season. Ms. Mui Mitchell was previously at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery (now Finsbury), a strategic communications and crisis management firm. Ms. Mui Mitchell currently serves on the Board of Directors for TYA/USA and Board of Advisors for Care+Wear. She is a graduate of The University of Virginia.
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Nancy Schaeffer
Panelist
Nancy Schaeffer has served as Dallas Children’s Theater’s Director of Education for 36 years. The successful program serves over 4000 children annually through onsite classes and outreach programs in schools and other community venues. In 2020, Nancy was named DCT’s Artistic Director. Nancy has directed numerous DCT productions including Schoolhouse Rock Live, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Ella Enchanted: The Musical; Magic Tree House’s Holiday Musical: A Ghost Tale for Mr. Dickens; Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium; Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook; Teen Brain: The Musical; Skippyjon Jones; Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale; Go, Dog. Go!; Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat; Pinkalicious, The Musical; How I Became a Pirate; dont u luv me?; Madeline’s Christmas; EAT (It’s Not About Food); Goodnight Moon; The Secret Life of Girls; and 12 productions of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Nancy also directed DCT’s highly successful touring production of The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales which toured the U.S. and then traveled to Shanghai, China, playing at the 2006 Shanghai International Children’s Culture and Arts Expo. Nancy has directed for The Dallas Opera and Shared Stories for the Sixth Floor Museum. She has also directed the Christmas Celebration for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
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Bwalya Chisanga
Panelist
Bwalya Chisanga is a Queer performer and teaching artist from Dallas, Texas. Currently, known as an actor, Bwalya has been driven to take the time to expand and learn the value of all various facets of art and its semblance in educating society. In addition to Bwalya’s love of the arts, it is her mission, as an artist and vessel, to implement the notion of self-expression to further promote connectivity.
Bwalya has been fortunate to have taught with Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Junior Players Dallas, and currently with Dallas Children’s Theater.
Bwalya is also currently making their debut as Amaryllis + others, at Theatre Three!! Some of Bwalya’s favorite roles include Cooties (Shayla) with Flexible Grey Theatre Company/Uptown Players, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snout/Moth) with Lily & Joan Theatre Company, and Everybody (Somebody) at Stage West Theatre.
In addition to expanding her artistry, she has enjoyed her time in conversation with TYA/USA’s Bipoc in TYA affinity group, collaborated with protest and mutual aid groups in Dallas, and expanded her activism in her artistry.
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Tammy Harper
Panelist
Tammy Harper is the Director of Education and Community Outreach at Cape Cod Theatre Company / Harwich Junior Theatre and has been a leading force in theatre education on Cape Cod for the past 25 years.
At CCTC she has developed year round programming for Pre-K through Teen as well as for adults. She also leads CCTC / HJT’s extensive Outreach Program working with teachers to build programming that meets state curriculum frameworks. She has led workshops in Shakespeare, Greek Mythology, Creative Drama and Poetry and designed a Bullying and Teasing Prevention program that uses Creative Drama strategies to explore the dynamics of power and control. Tamara is an award winning actress who has toured her one woman production Tamsen Donner; a Woman’s Journey throughout New England. In 2015 she was awarded the first Social Collaboration in the Arts Award from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod for a bullying prevention curriculum called Know Myself, Understand Others. Tamara serves on the Board of Philanthropy Partners of the Cape and Islands and the Board of the Charitable Foundation of the Harwich Chamber of Commerce. She has facilitated workshops for organizations throughout the Cape including WE CAN, LIFE, Inc. (Living Independently Forever), The Latham Centers and Shamrock Financial. Tammy recently graduated from the Tufts University College for Civic Life, Institute for Nonprofit Practice, with a certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
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Sara-Ann Semedo
Panelist
Sara-Ann Semedo, a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA made her Cape Cod Theatre Company/ Harwich Junior Theatre Inc. debut in the musical Pippin. She later went on to play Mrs. Muller in Doubt, a role she is eager to reprise. Ms. Semedo has performed at the Lambs Theatre in New York City, Wheelock Family Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, North Shore Music Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, and Wellesley Repertory Theatre. During her theater tenure, she also completed several national tours.
Ms. Semedo acquired production skills during her time in New York, interning at CBS. It was during this time that she worked on the soap operas As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Ms. Semedo has earned degrees from the University of Massachusetts Systems, Northeastern University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her early career focused on criminal justice, human services, and secondary education where she created theatre outreach programs. Since this time, Ms. Semedo transitioned her knowledge and experience to the higher education setting where she is an Academic Coordinator at Cape Cod Community College and adjunct faculty at several area public colleges teaching Theatre Arts, Black Studies and Communications courses.
With the support of her college community, Ms. Semedo created a successful speaker series called Intentional Critical Conversations which just wrapped up its first season. Currently, she is an esteemed member of the Board of Directors of CCTC/HJT.
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Eric Johnson
Panelist
Eric Johnson (he, him, his), is the Artistic Director of Honolulu Theatre for Youth, where he leads an ensemble of professional theatrical artists creating new work celebrating the diverse cultures and dynamic stories of Hawaii. HTY’s work has won numerous awards and recognition including a Helen Hayes Award for Anime Momotaro with Imagination Stage, a Visionary Voice Award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and most recently, six EMMY nominations for their television show The HI Way.
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Moses Goods
Panelist
Moses Goods is one of Hawaiʻi’s most prominent theatre artists. Though originally from the island of Maui he has been a part of the HTY ‘ohana for 18 years, serving as company actor, guest artist, commissioned playwright and now as an Artistic Associate. Moses has traveled nationally and internationally as an actor and a playwright. His vast body of work reflects his exploration of his identity as Black, Native Hawaiian and Queer. As a playwright Moses has written thirteen full length plays and dozens of short theatrical pieces. As an HTY actor has been in over a dozen productions including STORIES OF OCEANIA, DUKE, LONO’S JOURNEY and PANIOLO. His current project titled REMEMBERING JOHN BLOSSOM will celebrate the history of Blackness in Hawai’i and will premiere as part of HTY 2021 season of shows.
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Ernie Nolan
Panelist
Ernie Nolan, Executive Artistic Director of Nashville Children’s Theatre, is an award winning, internationally recognized director and playwright. Ernie currently serves on the ASSITEJ Executive Committee. He is a proud graduate of both the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program (BFA Musical Theatre) and The Theatre School at DePaul University (MFA Directing).
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Perri duGard Owens
Panelist
Perri duGard Owens
Founder, President & CEO
Perri leads duGard Communications, an award-winning firm, incorporating the creativity of strategic communications, the skill of public relations and the science of marketing to build awareness, change hearts and minds, or move people to act. With over 20 years of experience, she brings proven leadership in PR, media relations and communications within corporate, non-profit and agency environments – and a longstanding ability to prove measurable results. Matching strategy with positive impact and ROI is her passion, which has repeatedly allowed her to achieve goals and metrics through various media channels. Her experience also includes advertising, social media and digital strategy. Perri’s entrepreneurial pursuits are quite accidental, nearly ten years after starting dGC she continues to be passionate about develop campaigns, messaging and concepts that help clients achieve communication goals. Perri has built a reputation for being a driven, creative strategist able to absorb information quickly and devise results-oriented campaigns. Because of this, Perri has achieved success in several industries.
Perri’s work has been published in Essence, Vibe, Billboard Magazine, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ebony, USA Today, The New York Times, The Tennessean, The Nashville Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Business Journal, Modern Healthcare along with many other publications and media outlets.
Client Industry Experience: Travel/Tourism, Transportation, Transit, Aviation/Airports, Healthcare, Higher Education, Non-Profit/ Associations, Restaurants, Music, Entertainment, Financial Services, Faith-based/Religious, Engineering, Architecture
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Matthew Gutschick
Panelist
Matthew Gutschick (he/him/his) is Artistic Director of The Omaha Theater Company (The Rose) where he has directed Howie D: Back In The Day (World Premiere), Matilda, Harold And The Purple Crayon (OEA for Best Direction), Prancer (World Premiere). In 2020, The Rose opened a new 27,000 sq. ft. dedicated education space called The Rose Studios For Youth Artists. Matthew is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf, member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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Tyrone Beasley
Panelist
Tyrone Beasley is Artistic Associate/Director of Outbound Programs at The Rose Theater where he heads The Rose Theater’s Community Connections outreach program which partners with various organizations throughout the community with the aim to actively recruit socioeconomically disadvantaged students for theater, musical theater and teen classes, workshops and theater productions. Tyrone is Co-chair of The Rose Theater’s IDEA Committee and is also Co-chair of The Rose’s Teen IDEA Committee.
Tyrone served as the Artistic Director at The John Beasley Theater (JBT) in Omaha for ten years.
Tyrone earned a BFA in studio arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He attended California State University, Long Beach for graduate study in theater arts.
No stranger to the stage Tyrone has worked with acclaimed directors: Peter Sellars (The Merchant of Venice, It is Now Our Time), Claude Purdy (Jitney), Charles Marowitz (Shakespeare), and David Wheeler (The Trials of Ezra Pound) among others. Tyrone has performed in many theaters around the globe including The Goodman Theatre (Chicago), Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago), Thalia Theater (Hamburg, Germany), MC93 Bobigny (Paris, France) and The Royal Shakespeare Company (London, England). He has worked in front of the camera and behind the scenes in post-production on film and television projects for Disney, Fox, Sony, VH1, TriStar Pictures and the BBC.
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Jonathan Shmidt Chapman
Panelist
Jonathan Shmidt Chapman (he/him) is an artist, producer, writer, curator, and educator dedicated to the field of Theatre for Young Audiences. Throughout his career, Jonathan has been passionate about innovation, experimentation and advocacy in the TYA field. Most recently, Jonathan served as the first Producer of Family Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, creating ways to re-imagine the Lincoln Center campus as an international arts destination for families. Jonathan is also the Co-Founder of New York’s Trusty Sidekick Theater Company. He led the company through five years of growth and the creation of 12 original works, including the critically-acclaimed Up and Away (a multi-sensory, immersive experience for young people on the autism spectrum). Recent artistic credits include co-creator of The Cerulean Time Capsule for the Kennedy Center, and director of the world premiere of The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Finegan Kruckemeyer) at Seattle Children’s Theatre. He has held artistic and education-focused roles at The New Victory Theater, True Colors Youth Theatre, and the Cloud Foundation.
Schedule
Note: Times listed below are in EASTERN Time.
RECALIBRATE TYA will take place from June 1-22, 2021. Live sessions will be offered on the following schedule:
June 1, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
June 8, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
June 15, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
June 22, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Session #1: Deep Dive: Internal Accountability
How do we foster systems, best practices, and organizational cultures that bring us into deeper accountability with our peers and ourselves? This session will explore how TYA organizations can approach HR through an anti-racist lens; create internal checks/balance; and approach conflict with repair, restoration, and in community.
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Kim-Monique Johnson
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Esther Triggs
Session #2: Deep Dive: External Accountability
How do we foster systems, best practices, and organizational cultures that bring us into deeper accountability with our families, young people, and overall communities? This session will explore how TYA organizations can transparently share with external organizational stakeholders about their commitments to anti-racism and anti-oppression.
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Brandon Michael Nase
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Courtney J. Boddie
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Mary Rose Lloyd
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Allison Mui Mitchell
Session #3: Revisiting “Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Futures for TYA: An Interactive Guide”: Where Are We Now?
How can we learn from organizations that have been engaging with the ARAO Guide over its first quarter? In this session, we will introduce the first field-wide accountability report and hear from a variety of organizational leaders and company members who have been using the guide over the past several months. They will be reporting out about what they are learning, unlearning, and what is changing as a result.
This session will feature speakers from Dallas Children’s Theater, Harwich Junior Theatre/Cape Cod Theatre Company, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Nashville Children’s Theatre, and The Rose Theater.
Session #4: Looking Back & Looking Ahead: Where Are We Going?
Where do we stand as an industry and what comes next? In this session, we will conduct a year in review (ARAO Guide, Leadership Roundtable, and more) and cast a vision for where we go from here. Learn about and explore upcoming programmatic offerings and services from TYA/USA to help the community maintain forward momentum.
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Shavanna Calder
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Jonathan Shmidt Chapman
Our 2021 Sponsors
We thank our generous sponsors for their support of the 2021 TYA/USA Virtual Festival & Conference.
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