Fall Conference 2020
November 17-18, 2020
Online
This year’s reimagined Fall Conference will be held online, allowing greater access for more NAMT members to attend from their homes, offices or home offices! We’ll still have almost everything you expect from a NAMT event (sadly, you’ll have to bring your own cocktails and hors d’oeuvres), including plenty of time to meet and network with new colleagues from around the country, in-depth discussions about both the art and the business of creating new musicals, a members-only sneak peek at the Festival of New Musicals, and more. We’ll explore what the future of musical theatre might look like in 2021 and beyond, with all the changes this year has continued to bring us. What stories will we tell and how will we tell them? How will our institutions adapt? What new skills are we learning, and what changes will we want to keep post-crisis?
Registration
Attendance Eligibility
The Fall Conference is open to NAMT members in good standing and invited guests only. If you are not sure of your membership status, or are interested in attending the Conference as a way to learn more about membership, please email Member Services Director Adam Grosswirth.
We’ve made this reimagined online Fall Conference as accessible as possible, and encourage you to register as many people from your organization as you can. This is a great opportunity to introduce new staff members to NAMT!
Rates and Deadlines
- $50 for one attendee from your organization
- $80 for two attendees from your organization
- $100 for three or more attendees from your organization
- You may register up to 12 people* on a single form for the Fall Conference or Festival of New Musicals or both. This is the fastest and easiest way to register your organization! If you need to register more people for the Conference, you will receive a code to do so at no additional charge.
- *More than 12 people from your organization may attend the Conference and Festival, this is just a technical limitation of our registration system. If you’re registering more than three Conference attendees, your confirmation email will include a code to allow you to come back and register more at no additional charge.
- Non-members may attend the conference by invitation only. Non-member rates are $65/$100/$125
The deadline to register using this form is Friday, November 13. Late registrations will be possible directly through our online events platform, at a rate to be determined. Register now for the best price!
Registration Process
Each attendee will receive a login to our online events platform, and important pre-event information will be sent via email. Therefore, you must provide a unique email address for each attendee on the registration form.
Your registration will not be complete until you click the SUBMIT button at the very end of the form and you have paid (if applicable). You will see a confirmation screen and receive an email upon completion.
Festival of New Musicals
The Festival of New Musicals is a separate event, but you may register for both events at once using this registration form. This year, both events will take place in the same virtual space, but your registration type will determine which sessions you have access to. Visit the Festival page for more details.
Agenda
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 (All times ET)
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Online Check-in and Networking The official start of the 2020 fall events! Check in at the virtual “registration desk” to get acclimated to our online platform, then get to know your colleagues with some one-on-one digital speed-dating. |
| 12:00 - 12:15 pm | Welcome Remarks |
| 12:15 - 1:15 pm | Keynote Speaker |
| 1:15 - 2:00 pm | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Stories From The Front Lines Breakout affinity groups by role and department to get to know each other, discuss how everyone has been handling the unprecedented events of the past year, and assess how we want to move forward as a musical theatre community. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Concurrent Breakout Sessions Topics will include: |
| 4:00 - 4:15 pm | Break |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm | Annual Membership Meeting |
| 4:45 - 5:00 pm | Break |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | New Works Gatekeeping: Disrupting Harmful Models |
| 6:00 - 7:00 pm | Remote Happy Hour |
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (All times ET)
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Online Check-in and Networking Check in at the virtual “registration desk” to get acclimated to our online platform, then get to know your colleagues with some one-on-one digital speed-dating. |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | EDI & Anti-Racism Workshop In her work and travels, Seena Hodges (Founder + CEO of The Woke Coach™) often hears people say things like, “I want to better understand how racism continues to erode the fabric of this country,” “I want to be a better, more inclusive organizational leader,” or “I want to know more about how I can make a difference through my organization.” Then, they all end with the same sentence: “But… I don’t know where to start.” In this follow-up to last year’s workshop, join The Woke Coach™ for an engaging interaction that challenges all of the excuses that keep us from creating more inclusive organizational practices and being more intentional with our allyship. Participants will leave the session with a plan for executing the work that an authentic commitment to inclusion requires. About The Woke Coach™ Because we are passionate about progress—and know that it is possible for everyone—we facilitate conversations and build bridges to civil engagement one interaction at a time. |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Meet the Writers Your exclusive preview of the 32nd Annual Festival of New Musicals and first chance to meet this year’s writing teams! |
| 4:00 - 4:15 pm | Break |
| 4:15 - 5:15 pm | Concurrent Breakout Sessions Topics will include: |
| 5:15 - 6:15 pm | Lessons Learned As many of us look forward to getting “back to normal,” or a “new normal,” what might we keep from this time? What new skills have we learned? What positive changes have we made? How have our ways of working changed for the better? What new ways have we found to connect with our patrons? What new stories do we want to tell? |
| 6:15 - 6:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
As of 9/14/20. Subject to change!
Attendees
Rick Feldman
TRUSTEE
Lourdes Figueroa
Creative Associate
Meg Fofonoff
Executive Producer/Artistic Director
Stephanie Cowan
Jeff Binder
Associate Artistic Director
Kristen Coury
Founder and Producing Artistic Director
Joel Markus
Managing Director
Laura Little
Senior Director, Global Accounts
Lady del Castillo
Program Assistant
Adam Grosswirth
Member Services Director
Betsy Militello
Executive Director
Ciera Iveson
New Works Director
Kara Kirby
kara@namt.org
Brittney Woolley
Development Manager
Ouida Maedel
Theater & Musical Theater Specialist
Ian-Julian Williams
Theater & Musical Theater Specialist
Katie Fisher
Director of Scheduling | Office of the Chairman
Greg Reiner
Theater & Musical Theater Director | Performing Arts
Matthew Woolf
Board Member, New York Theatre Barn
Alexander Tom
Associate Program Head
Michael Murphy
President
Bill Berry
Producing Artistic Director
Bernie Griffin
Managing Director
Seena Hodges
Founder + CEO
Allen Weeks
Production Director
Kelli Foster Warder
Associate Artistic Director
Peter Rothstein
Artistic Director
Elissa Adams
Associate Artistic Director
Michelle Woster
Managing Director
Chris Cartwright
Marketing Associate
Andrew Leshovsky
Marketing Director
Libi Baehr
Development Director
Hillary Hart
Executive Director
Dan Knechtges
Artistic Director
Megan Larche Dominick
Associate Artistic Director/Director of New Works
Rachel Liff
Artistic Associate and Education Coordinator
Jenna Jordan
Company Administrator
Nathaniel Vilandre
Production and Operations Manager
Emily Schriebl Schriebl Scott
Director of Development
Andrew Butterfield
Director of Marketing and Communications
Susanna Gellert
Executive Artistic Director
Guidelines
Participation Guidelines
NAMT is committed to recognizing and celebrating the diversity of experiences, talents, skills, cultures and opinions that our members bring to our community, and specifically to our events. We invite you to participate in the Fall Conference and Festival of New Musicals in a spirit of open-mindedness, curiosity and respect.
We want every NAMT event to be a safe, inclusive and productive environment for all participants. In that spirit, we ask you to…
- Be inclusive, actively seeking and inviting diverse perspectives
- Listen to understand
- Participate in an active and direct way, with professionalism and respect for others
- Be considerate, kind, constructive and helpful in your language and actions
- Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory or harassing behavior and language
- Respect confidentiality requests by speakers and other attendees
NAMT staff and Board may take action (up to and including expulsion with no refund and exclusion from future events) to redress disruptive, disrespectful or offensive behavior or any other actions deemed in conflict with the above guidelines.
Thank you to every NAMT community member for helping to make all of our events informative, inclusive and respectful.