Stay connected to the 2024 TYA/USA National Festival & Conference with the Virtual Track!
From April 8th to 15th, the Virtual Track for the 2024 TYA/USA National Festival & Conference will feature online access to keystone programming from the in-person event – including digital versions of Featured Performances, recorded keynotes, recorded Song Slam Cabaret – as well as two live webinars exploring brand new Virtual Track topics.
The Virtual Track concluded on April 15, 2024.
Thank you so much for joining us online!
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Photo featuring Julissa Sabino Hobbs and Javaron Conyers in Alliance Theatre’s “All Smiles”. Photo by Casey Ford.
From April 8th to April 15th, Virtual Track registrants had access to:
1. On-demand digital versions of Featured Performances from the in-person Conference including:
– All Smiles (Toddler Takeover)
– A Tale of Two Cities
– Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: I Am Fearless Royalty
– Peter and the Wolf (Toddler Takeover)
And an on-demand digital version of a bonus Virtual Track only show!:
– Super Aunty (TYA BIPOC Superhero Project)
2. On-demand access to two recorded Conference keynote conversations between Peter C. Brosius & Christopher Moses and Yolanda Renee King & Pearl Cleage
3. On-demand access to the recorded Song Slam Cabaret featuring 10 songs from TYA musicals with music direction by Deborah Wicks La Puma
4. Participation in two live webinars exploring major topics of conversation in our field now: shared leadership models and navigating staff transitions in organizations.
Accessibility Note: Recorded content – including the Featured Performances, Song Slam Cabaret, and keynotes – will be captioned. All live Zoom webinars will have ASL interpretation and Zoom captions enabled.
Keynote Speaker & Webinar Panelists
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Yolanda Renee King
Keynote Speaker
Born on May 25, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia to Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King. Yolanda Renee King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was named in honor of her aunt, Yolanda Denise King, who died a little more than a year before she was born.
As a young activist, Yolanda has earned the respect and admiration of her generation for her outspoken support of the ongoing work to fulfill the great dream her grandfather shared with America.
She has passionately addressed mass gatherings in protests against gun violence, homelessness and inhumane treatment of refugees seeking asylum on the U.S. southern border. When she met with President Obama in the oval office, Yolanda Renee asked him, “Mr. President, what are you going to do about all of these guns?”
In an effort to empower young people to use their voice for good, Yolanda has made a splash on the national scene. In June 2022, following the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Yolanda published a column in The Washington Post calling on her generation to stand up against gun violence. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, ABC News, and other national media outlets to help carry on the mission her grandfather gave his life for so many years ago.
Although both of her parents are energetic social reform activists, they have encouraged her to follow her heart in choosing a career, while being a caring and compassionate person. Yolanda Renee has chosen to become a life-long human rights activist in her own right, while leaving open options for pursuing her own career and interests.
In a recent interview, Yolanda Renee noted that she had a dream in which her grandfather appeared. When asked how she interpreted the purpose of her dream, she responded “to remember that he is always with me.”
In 2023, Yolanda, along with her parents, will embark on a year-long effort to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I have a dream speech,” advocating for policy changes that help Black and Brown Americans realize the dream that her grandfather spoke out.
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Pearl Cleage
Keynote Speaker
Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based playwright and novelist who is currently in her ninth year as a resident playwright at the Alliance. Her plays include What I Learned in Paris, The Nacirema Society, Flyin’ West, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Bourbon on the Border, and A Song for Coretta. She has written eight novels, including What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, which was an Oprah Book Club selection and spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. For the past thirteen summers, Pearl has served as the playwright and mentor for the Palefsky Collision Project which she describes as the “best antidote to cynicism.” In 2021, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom announced that Pearl Cleage would serve as Atlanta’s first-ever Poet Laureate. Pearl and her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr., collaborated on a few projects including the award-winning performance series Live at Club Zebra! for 10 years and the 2019 Mayor’s Summer Reading Club children’s book, In My Granny’s Garden with artist Radcliffe Bailey. In 1973, Pearl was a speechwriter for the Maynard Jackson campaign and later served as his press secretary; an experience in which she would later write about. Pearl’s play about Maynard Jackson, Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard, had its world premiere at Ford Theatre as a part of their Legacy Commissions Program in 2023. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a 2022 recipient of the Paul Robeson Award, and her work was recently honored at the first ever city-wide festival in 2023, the Pearl Cleage Festival, which was conceived by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
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Peter C. Brosius
Keynote Speaker
Peter joined the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) on July 1, 1997. Under his artistic leadership, CTC has developed and produced over 70 world premieres and received the 2003 Regional Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. His accomplishments at CTC also include the development of Threshold, CTC’s new play development program and in 2005 he completed a $30 million campaign to expand CTC’S facilities. Partnering with Jack Zipes, Peter launched Neighborhood Bridges, a nationally acclaimed critical literacy program that expanded to12 states. Peter has directed numerous world premieres including Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches, The Last Firefly, Snowy Day, Animal Dance, Seedfolks, Balloonacy, The Scarecrow and His Servant, Buccaneers, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, The Biggest Little House in the Forest, Iron Ring, Bert & Ernie, Goodnight!, Iqbal, Average Family, The Lost Boys of Sudan, Anon(ymous), Reeling, The Monkey King, The Snow Queen and Mississippi Panorama which were all commissioned and workshopped in CTC’s new play development lab. His production of Seedfolks has toured across the United States and was the only American production at the ASSITEJ Festival in Cape Town, South Africa.
In concert with his partners at Penumbra, Latino Theater Company, MaYi Theatre Company and Native Voices at the Autry,; Generation Now was created. – A a collaboration to commission, workshop, and produce 16 new plays by BIPOC authors for multi-generational audiences.
Under his leadership, CTC has transferred productions to The Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, and The New Victory Theatre as well as Chicago Children’s Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre and numerous other theatres nationwide.
Peter has directed at theaters across the country including at South Coast Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, South Street Theatre on Theatre Row, and Off Broadway for Pan Asian Repertory. He also spent many years as a director-in-residence at the Sundance Playwrights Laboratory. He directed Finding Nemo the Musical for the Walt Disney Company with book and score by Bobby and Kristen Lopez at Animal Kingdom in Florida.
Brosius is the recipient of numerous awards including TCG’s Alan Schneider Directors’ Award and honors from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and Dramalogue. He has also been honored with the Ivey Award for Directing in Minneapolis. He has served on the Boards of Theatre Communications Group, The Playwrights Center, and ASSITEJ USA. He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from New York University.
Peter is married to playwright Rosanna Staffa and is the father of Daria and Gabriel.
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Christopher Moses
Keynote Speaker
Christopher Moses has worked in professional theater for twenty years and was awarded the Governor’s Award for Arts and Humanities for his work in the field. After working at the Alliance for ten years, he became the Director of Education in 2011, overseeing the Alliance Theatre Institute (twice recognized as an Arts Model by the Federal Department of Education), Theatre for Youth and Families programming, and the Acting Program. Under his leadership, the Alliance launched its Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young program, providing fully interactive professional theater experiences for children ages newborn through five; the Alliance Teen Ensemble, performing world premiere plays commissioned for and about teens; Palefsky Collision Project, where teens produce a new work after colliding with a classic text; and Alliance@work, a professional development program designed for the business sector. Moses also expanded the Alliance’s summer camp program to serve over 3,000 children in multiple locations across Atlanta. In 2014, Chris added the title Associate Artistic Director and has continued to expand the Alliance’s commissioned works for youth and family audiences
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Molly Bunder
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Molly Bunder (she/her) is a Chicago-based theater maker and educator with a primary focus in community-based theatre. She teaches theatre as a tool for community engagement and empowerment. Molly works with young people, women’s organizations, first-generation college students, returning citizens, and those experiencing homelessness to facilitate original performances in community settings. Through innovative site-specific projects, she creates theatrical experiences that foster a sense of identity and belonging among both performers and spectators.
Molly is co-artistic director of Filament Theatre, a fast-growing theater for young audiences based in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood. Since joining Filament as an actor in 2013, Molly has developed the company’s educational programming and community outreach, including Filament’s groundbreaking anti-adultism framework which brings young people into Filament’s curating, planning, and rehearsal processes. Filament’s model of making new work for and with young people makes the company uniquely responsive to the needs of the young people in our community.
Molly’s favorite Filament projects include Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park (an original mystery that took the audience on foot and by bicycle throughout the neighborhood in search of clues); The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles (a play in a sandbox); and Forts: Build Your Own Adventure (an audience-driven performance installation); and Nicola McCartney’s Lifeboat (named one of the Chicago Tribune’s Top Ten Best of the Fringe).
Molly maintains strong relationships with theaters and educational institutions across the midwest and internationally, where she has taught, performed, and directed for the award-winning Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre, as well as Scottish Refugee Festival, the Scottish Mental Health Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the University of Glasgow, and International Performing Arts for Youth. In the US, she has directed free outdoor Shakespeare in the rural Midwest through Stone Soup Shakespeare, created a touring comedy show that encouraged young people to get health insurance, and has taught for Chicago Ideas Week, Mudlark Theatre, DePaul University, the University of Chicago(TRiO), Purdue University, and Beloit College, where she is an adjunct professor of Theatre.
Molly received an MA in Classical and Contemporary Acting, and an MFA in Directing, from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, ranked in the QS ‘World Top 5’ for performing arts education. She is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and lives in Portage Park with her family.
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Reji Simon
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Reji Simon (he/him) is a Chicago based producer & performing artist, and has been a Resident Artist and collaborator at Filament Theatre since 2017. In addition to performing, he is a teaching artist, producer, and casting director. Community and development lie at the heart of all of his work, Reji is committed to crafting community based art through the deconstruction of traditional theater normalities that act as a barrier to creation. Working collaboratively with his community of makers, Reji works to build spaces where artists of any medium can challenge the boundaries of imagination. As a member of Filament’s DEIA task force, Reji works to further the vision of Filament Theatre to create a vibrant & equitable environment.
Reji is the Producing Artistic Director of Filament Theatre, a leading learner in the practice of creating anti-adultist theater. Filament Theatre works in concert with thoughtful youth collaborators and adept professional adult artists to make daring, new, exciting work for young audiences. Filament works produced by Reji are The Secret Yes, Gather, Think Fast, Jordan Chase!, and In the Grove.
At Filament, you may recognize him from any iteration of The Van Gogh Café or The Snow Queen (Filament Theatre). In addition to his work at Filament, Reji performs in Chicago and has been seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Ride or Die (MPAACT, Jeff nominated), Hamlet & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Muse of Fire), I and You (Redtwist Theatre), and American Revolution & Moon Shot (Theatre Unspeakable). Regionally, Reji has performed with Cleveland Playhouse (Cleveland, OH) and was seen in StageOne Family Theatre’s world premiere of And in This Corner… Cassius Clay (Louisville, KY, written by Idris Goodwin). His television credits include The Redline (CBS). He has worked as a teaching artist at Filament Theatre, Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, and Cleveland Playhouse.
Reji was a YoungArts Semi-Finalist, a Richard & Mica Hadar scholar, and an alumnus of The Theatre School at DePaul University.
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Gricelda Silva
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Gricelda Silva (she/her) is a Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre, an Austin, Texas-based company that creates multilingual devised works featuring puppets and humans that highlight themes of social & environmental justice. Gricelda is a native Spanish-speaking Mexican-American originally from Laredo, Texas. Her BA is in Psychology and Philosophy from St. Edward’s University. Gricelda has devised and performed numerous roles for Glass Half Full Theatre since 2012, including the role of Belinda in the currently touring production of Cenicienta, and the title role of 2022’s Yamel Cucuy.
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Caroline Reck
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Caroline Reck is a Co-Producing Artistic Director of Glass Half Full Theatre, an Austin, Texas-based company that creates multilingual devised works that highlight themes of social & environmental justice. Caroline’s work as a creator, director, and designer focuses on strategies to open the hearts and minds of audiences to difficult topics using light-hearted, imaginative, and interactive puppet-based performance. A fluent speaker of English, French, and Spanish, Caroline blends multilingualism with visual narratives in their works, which have been presented by over 40 national Performing Arts Centers. Caroline is a graduate of the Lecoq School for Physical Theatre in Paris, and has an MFA in Theatre for Self-Producing Artists from Towson University in Baltimore. She is an Adjunct Professor of Puppetry and Movement at St Edwards University and Austin Community College.
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Janette Martinez
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Janette Martinez is an arts administrator, facilitator, and multidisciplinary artist from the Bronx, New York. Janette has a BM in Vocal Performance from Boston University and an M.S in Educational Theatre from The City College of New York, and she has worked in multiple capacities for organizations such as Disney Theatrical Group, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, New Victory Theatre, Spellbound Theatre, and DreamYard Project on their arts education and community engagement teams. Most recently, Janette led the Human Resources Operations department at Little Island and was a member of the inaugural team that opened the park for New York City, and she is now the Head of Staff, Development, and Inclusion at Camp Arcadia, a wilderness camp in Maine! She loves experimenting with creative, adaptable and inclusive approaches to organizational leadership in service to reimagining the workplace and how we gather to share our multitude of talents.
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Asha John
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Asha John is a Brooklyn-based theater practitioner, actress, dancer, and model. Asha has always had an innate love for the performing arts; in 2009 her passion was solidified when she was cast in her first off-Broadway production of When the Clouds Cover the Sun, at The Producer’s Club. Since then, she has been cast in numerous productions for stage and film, including classics like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra. In 2020, Asha graduated with her master’s in Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities from New York University and wants to pursue her doctorate in Theater Studies. She is currently a senior member and ensemble member for Spellbound Theatre, a devisor for the anthropologists, and the senior education program manager for the New Victory Theater.
Outside of her work as an actress, Asha has worked as a teaching artist, bringing her love of step, theater, dance, and math to the students in New York City. She has also worked with numerous community-based organizations, using the arts to advocate for all underserved communities.
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Susanna Brock
Webinar Panelist - "De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences"
Susanna Brock (she/her) is a disabled, New York based, Swedish theater maker, performer, director and educator who creates multi-sensory, multi-lingual and interactive theater with and for young audiences. She aims to create accessible spaces where young people can dream and play and critically reflect and comment on our world. For the past 15 years, she has had the opportunity to work in many different parts of the world including Stockholm, Paris, Kampala, Nairobi and New York where she has facilitated and performed in school and community-based programs. She is an ensemble member and senior leader at the award-winning company Spellbound Theatre, an ensemble member and administrator with Flying Leap Productions and has been a teaching artist with organizations like ArtsConnection, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and The Children’s Museum of Manhattan. The past 5 years she has also led trainings and professional development for The Department of Education, NYU, Brooklyn College and Bank Street School of Education. In 2020 she graduated with a Master’s of Applied Theater from CUNY School of Professional Studies.
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Douglas Clayton
Webinar Panelist - "Navigating Staff Transitions"
Douglas Clayton brings more than 25 years of experience in the arts and culture industry, specifically within opera, theater, and arts service organizations. Passionate about innovative business models in the arts and culture sector, his driving purpose is to create more equitable and effective ways for talented and committed people to be creative and successful in our society. Prior to founding Creative Evolutions, Mr. Clayton was a Senior Vice President at Arts Consulting Group working with a variety of national leaders and creative organizations in strategic planning, business analysis, and executive search. Before that, he served in various roles at Chicago Opera Theater, ultimately becoming General Director in 2017. In this role, he redeveloped the organization’s artistic identity and led the creation of a robust strategic planning and community engagement process that reversed a multiyear downward trend in audience attendance and donations. He also strategically prioritized recruitment and retention of key individuals, leaving the organization as the only multimillion-dollar opera company in the United States with an all-female executive leadership team.
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Mireya Hepner
Webinar Panelist - "Navigating Staff Transitions"
Mireya (Murry) Hepner was born in Mexico City and moved to the U.S. when she was four years old. She believes deeply in creating theatre that encourages empathy and that opens young minds to new possibilities. Her career over the past 35+ years includes work on Broadway, Off Broadway, in Regional Theatre, and on tour, working on diverse projects in various artistic, production and management capacities. As Artistic Producer of Rancho Cucamonga’s MainStreet Theatre Company, she curated and collaborated on 40 innovative shows geared specifically for children and family audiences. She serves on the board of TYA/USA, the national service organization for Theatre for Young Audiences.
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Calida Jones
Webinar Panelist - "Navigating Staff Transitions"
Calida N. Jones is an accomplished musician, social justice advocate, and educator with more than 25 years of experience in performance planning, workshop and curriculum development, volunteerism, project management, and teaching in private and public institutions. Working with arts and cultural organizations across the nation, she has led efforts in advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. Passionate about intentional purposeful teaching and community engagement, her personal mission is to ensure that children with limited resources have access to musical opportunities and activities. She is also deeply committed to correlating the art of teaching to life skills and community building through the lenses of Equity, Diversity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility. She continues to be a regularly-sought after International Speaker, Coach, Violinist, and Music Educator. Calida activates her philosophy of community building, inspiration, actionable solutions, and hope through motivational speeches, workshops, and coaching individuals all over the globe. She has received numerous honors during her career, including a scholar fellowship at the Aspen Ideas
Festival, Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Fellowship, Grammy Music Educator Award nomination, the Connecticut Arts Hero Award for the Waterbury region, and the Father Thomas H. Dwyer Humanitarian Award for her work in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Featured Performances
Virtual Track content access ended on April 15, 2024.
Thank you so much for joining us online!
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All Smiles (Toddler Takeover)
Alliance Theatre - Atlanta, GA
DIRECTED BY SAMANTHA PROVENZANO
CREATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MARCUS AUTISM CENTER AND THE CORALWOOD SCHOOLHow do you smile? With your mouth or with your eyes? Does it show on your face or just on the inside? We all have different ways of showing, sharing and processing our emotions. Created in partnership with the Marcus Autism Center, this delightful show explores how all smiles are unique.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Alliance Theatre - Atlanta, GA
BY CHARLES DICKENS
ADAPTED BY BRENDAN PELSUE
DIRECTED BY LEORA MORRISWorld Premiere
BEST ENJOYED BY AUDIENCES 13+It’s the best of times and the worst of times. The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The oppressed call for revolution. Despots threaten global war. Sound familiar? It’s Paris and London, 1787, a powder keg of spies, lovers, madmen, and unexpected look-alikes. This radical reimagining of Charles Dickens’s classic tale of the French Revolution forces us to ask: am I who I am because of my actions or the circumstances of my birth? Do I control my destiny? And where do we begin if we want to right the wrongs of history?
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Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: I Am Fearless Royalty
Children’s Theatre of Charlotte - Charlotte, NC
BY PAIGE HERNANDEZ
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED & ARRANGED BY KRIS FUNN & PAIGE HERNANDEZ
BASED ON LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME FROM THE BOOK “AND STILL I RISE” BY MAYA ANGELOU | COPYRIGHT © 1978 BY MAYA ANGELOU | USED WITH PERMISSION OF CAGED BIRD LEGACY, LLC
One Act, approx. 60 minutes | For ages 5+
Inspired by the poetry of Dr. Maya Angelou, this show brings to life the fears we face every day and how we combat them. Through stories told with spoken word, hip-hop, and dance, we learn that each of us inside has what it takes to face our fears. This experience will have audience members singing from their seats, “life doesn’t frighten me, I am fearless royalty.”
For full program from the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte production, click here
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Peter and the Wolf (Toddler Takeover)
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre & Alliance Theatre - Atlanta, GA
PRODUCED BY Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre developed in collaboration with the Alliance Theatre
CHOREOGRAPHY BY RACHEL VAN BUSKIRK
A story about a brave boy who ventures outside the garden gate to explore with his animal friends. But beware of The Wolf lurking beyond the borders of the Wild Wood! Peter & the Wolf is an interactive outdoor show for kids of all ages.
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Song Slam Cabaret
Join us for the Song Slam Cabaret featuring performances of 10 original songs from TYA musical theatre writers with music direction by Deborah Wicks La Puma!
FEATURED SONGS AND SONGWRITERS
“Life is Sweet” by Jodi Marr & Abe Reybold
“Anyone Here?” by Tidtaya Sinutoke
“Greed” by Paul Carrol Binkley & Laurie Brooks
“Abnormal Me” by Jeff Thomson & Matt Schatz
“The Water Spin” by Nico Raimont & Ashlee K. Thomas
“The Shape of Me” by Natalie Smith
“Duck for Dinner” by Oscar Chang, Timothy L. Michuda, & Carter-Quinn Tanis
“First Kiss” by Fernanda Douglas & Julia Gannon
“Superhero” by Julia Jordan Kamanda & Lisa Diana Shapiro
“Monkey Boogers!” by Brian Feinstein & Stephen Tyler Davis
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Super Aunty (TYA BIPOC Superhero Project)
Honolulu Theatre for Youth - Honolulu, HI
By Lee Cataluna
Music and Lyrics by Sean Joseph ChooWhat makes a superhero? Is it incredible strength? The ability to see through walls or hear a whisper a mile away? Or is it something more human, like the desire to be of service and the commitment to stick around? Three friends in a Hawai‘i schoolyard go through a challenging day, and at each turn, they are rescued by a woman of great strength, dexterity, compassion and wit. In Hawaii, the term “Aunty” is used both to mean a female relative and more generally, it is a term of respect for any woman who takes care of her community. The three children come to realize that the women in their lives are the strongest, fastest, bravest people they know, and that real heroes don’t leave after the crisis is over. They stick around and make lunch.
Webinar Schedule
Zoom Webinar access information is included in your registration confirmation email and will be sent in reminder emails to Virtual Track registrants prior to the webinar dates. All webinars will be recorded and available to watch for registrants who were unable to attend during the live programming.
Note: Times listed below are in EASTERN Time.
De-Centering Power by Centering Collaboration: A Panel on Shared Leadership Models in Theater for Young Audiences
Over the last 3 years, we have seen more and more organizations within and outside the TYA field moving into different types of shared leadership models as steps towards creating more diverse, equitable, and sustainable governing structures. In this webinar panel conversation you will learn about Spellbound, Filament Theatre and Glass Half Full’s journeys in creating their current shared leadership models. Participants will also reflect on their own organizational structures and opportunities to decentralize power.
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Molly Bunder
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Reji Simon
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Gricelda Silva
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Caroline Reck
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Janette Martinez
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Asha John
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Susanna Brock
Navigating Staff Transitions
Changing expectations around staff positions and greatly increased turnover have become a reality in many of our organizations. This is requiring us not only to spend more time hiring, but to consider what fundamental ideas we need to shift as an ecosystem. In this presentation and discussion, we’ll focus on two:
– Everyone will leave eventually, and that’s OK!
– Emphasizing short term productivity over humanity does not help you!
Through exploring a rethink on these two ideas, we will go over a Staff Transition Roadmap that gives sixteen actionable steps (eight in-advance of a departure and eight in-the-moment) that can value the human beings in your organization and provide peace and stability in a tumultuous time for living.
Participants are recommended to review the following articles prior to the webinar:
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Douglas Clayton
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Mireya Hepner
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Calida Jones
Our 2024 Sponsors
We thank our generous sponsors for their support of the 2024 National TYA/USA Festival & Conference.
Access for All Supporters
• Harry Poster • Theatre SilCo • Dwayne Hartford • Allison Mui Mitchell • Rives Collins • Brian Guehring •
• Amie & Ron Brockway • Paul Brewster McGinley • Gayle Sergel Brown • Marilee H Miller • Alicia Fuss •
• Todd Hulet • Jess Kaufman • Daniel Hahn • Andrea Palma • Andrew Duff • Sammy Lopez • Ana Romes •
• Deborah Wicks La Puma • Melissa Charles • Eric Johnson • Sigrid Gilmer • Cathy Archer • Karoline Myers •
• CCAE Theatricals, Inc. • Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts • Candace Lilford • Amy Kirkland • Susan Gurman •
• Mark Valdez • Kathryn Stahl • Jenny Hersch • Linda Hartzell • Amy Wine • Lisa Nilsen • John Lechner • Debi Curley •
• Tara Sissom • Viktorija Kovac • Celestina Billington •
TYA/USA’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Interested in sponsoring the 2024 National TYA/USA Festival & Conference? Learn more here.
