Sessions By Day
All listings about Conference sessions are based on current information. All sessions are subject to change. Each session title links to a description of the session
LINKS
Monday, March 17
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 18
8:00 am - 9:30 am
9:30 am - 11:00 am
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Wednesday, March 19
8:00 am - 9:30 am
- Finance Committee Meeting I
- Design Expo Committee Meeting
- Lighting Houses of Worship/The Mega Church Age
- Commissioners Meeting IA
10:00 am - 11:30 am
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Grants & Fellowships Committee Meeting
- What Not to Wear: Presenting Yourself Appropriately
- USITT 1960-2010: 50th Celebration Plans
12:00 pm - 5:30 pm
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Introduction to Automation
- Tenure: Not the Final Frontier
- MSDS- Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup
- Dance Lighting from the Crazy Horse Paris
- Moving Scenery and the Scenic Designer. Things to Know
- Sound at Prague Quadrennial 2007
- International Resources and Opportunities: Training Costumers in Odessa, Ukraine: How Copying, Copying, and More Copying Builds a Foundation for Creative Work
- Tracing Our Roots: The Many Facets of Oliver Smith
- Iron-On Embellishments
- Commissioners Meeting IB
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Open Sound Forum
- First Timers Reception hosted by the Caucus on Human Issues
- Separating OSHA Fact from Fiction
- Programming Moving Lights in Book Shows
- Costume Study in London
- Education Commission Poster Session
- How to be Riggerous - Failure is not an option
- More Great Stuff Not Made for Us
- Working with Children and Youth
- Open Mentoring Session for Students with USITT Fellows
- Designing and building simple performer flying systems
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Queer Nation Roundtable
- Lighting Commission I Meeting
- Technical Production Leadership Working Meeting
- Cruise Ship Safety for Designers and Technicians
- Comparison of Styles: Digital vs. Hand Drawn
- Student Drafting/Portfolio Guidelines Update
- Fearless Footwear: Demystifying Shoe Modification
- Education Commission Meeting I
- A Visit with the Ensemble Theatre Company
- Membership Committee Meeting
- Stage Managers Roundtable
- Wireless Dimming and DMX in Practice
6:00 pm - 7:20 pm
- Lifting, Moving, and Stopping: tools and machines that help!
- Jewels of India: Costumes of the Classical Dances
- Education Commission Reception
- Guerilla Sound Design: The Three Hour Challenge
- Engineering Commission Meeting
- Managers' Forum
- Transformers, Generators, and Voltage
- Scene Design Commission Meeting I
- Don’t Build It – Project It
7:30 pm - 8:50 pm
- Giving Students the Skills They Need II
- Costume Design & Technology Commission Meeting
- Health & Safety Commission Meeting I
- Distinguished Educator Pedagogy - Karl Eigsti
- The Scenic Maquette as a Tool for Discovery
- People of Color Caucus
- Sound Playback/Archive Project Party
- Standards Committee Meeting
- Pigment, Fabric and Light--Interplay of Costumes & Painted Scenery Under Colored Lights
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Thursday, March 20
8:00 am - 9:30 am
- Northern Boundary Regional Section Meeting
- Northwest Regional Section Meeting
- Chesapeake Regional Section Meeting
- Heart of America Regional Section Meeting
- Upstate New York Regional Section Meeting
- Desert State Regional Section Meeting
- Southwest Regional Section Meeting
- Southern California Regional Section
- Southeast Regional Section Meeting
- Midwest Regional Section Meeting
- Rocky Mountain Regional Section Meeting
- New York Area Regional Section Meeting
- Northern California Regional Section Meeting
- New England Regional Section Meeting
- Ohio Valley Regional Section Meeting
10:00 am - 11:20 am
12:15 pm - 1:35 pm
12:15 pm - 3:50 pm
12:15 pm - 1:35 pm
- Search for Safety-Health & Safety Working Group Reports
- Changing the Way Theatre is Designed - Breaking the Box
- Conventional Fixture Projections
- Sound Design in the Houston Area
- Automated Rigging in Schools & Universities
- Creative Teaching: LIVE!
- Integrating Show Control into your System
- Costume Poster Session
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm
- En Pointe with Houston Ballet
- Undergraduate Teachers - Frontline Educators/Mentors/Guides
- Controlling the Frustration: Job Happiness
- Make it Stick- Painting Challenging Surfaces
- Writing the Lighting Text Book
- Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theatre for the 21st Century
- Transformational Makeup From Ancient Origins to Modern Theatre
- Continuing Adventures in Sound
- USITT's Role in Supporting New Product R&D
- Establishing a Venue Specific Rigging Operation and Maintenance Program
- Physics of Theatre: Rigging
- Clearing the Air
- Eloise Kazan, PQ Gold Medal Winner for Costume Design: Mexico
4:45 pm - 6:05 pm
- Awards Committee Meeting
- Management Commission Meeting & Reception
- Technical Production Commission Reception
- Visual Plagiarism
- The Figure Confined: the evolution of the corset and understructures
- Student Chapter Leadership Meeting
- How FCC Changes Will Affect Your Wireless Microphone
- The Show – er, the Class – Must Go On
- Room Acoustics and the Sound Designer
- Tuning Your Palette – Lighting, That Is
- Maintaining the Lighting Design/Plot of a Cirque du Soleil Show
- International Committee Meeting
- Practical Guide to Focusing Techniques
6:15 pm - 7:35 pm
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
9:15 pm - 10:35 pm
- It's My Advice, But Your Choice
- North Carolina School of the Arts Reception
- Human Issues Working Session
Friday, March 21
8:00 am - 9:30 am
- Regional Section Communicators Meeting
- OSHA Electrical Regulations Update
- Animals in Production
- The Production Process in LORT Theatres
- Combining Performing and Fine Arts
- Better Than Google: Cash Results for Your Lab
- The State of Design and Technical Theatre in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
- Contributing & Sustaining Members Breakfast
- Innovations: A History of Revolutions in Costume and Adornment
- Student Sound Design Presentations I
10:00 am - 11:20 am
- Creating Creatures, Costumes and Problem Solving Using Vara Form Thermoplastics
- Simple Machines in Technical Theatre
- Lighting Commission II Meeting
- Using MAX/MSP and PD for Interactive Theatrical Design
- KCACTF Design Chairs Business Meeting
- Student Liaison Committee Meeting
- Ergonomics and Self-Care for the Scenic Artist
- Golden Pen Award Winner George Tsypin
- Bettye Fitzpatrick, an Alley Theatre Legend
- ESTA Alternative Career Opportunities
- Basic Electricity 301
- Web-based Communications Update
- Architecture Commission Meeting/Distinguished Achievement Award
- Me & My Shadow: successful peer mentoring
- PQ2007: Scenofest Revisited
12:15 pm - 1:35 pm
- Education Commission Meeting II
- Crisis Driven Collaboration
- Architecture Award Review
- Wireless DMX installation and Best Practices
- Prague Quadrennial Planning Meeting
- Regional Section Officers Meeting II
- Student Designers in the Lab
- Scene Design Commission Meeting II
- Technical Practice in World Theatre
- The Ideal Portfolio: Smart Tips for Freelancing and Academic Professionals
- Open Sound Forum II
- Finance Committee Meeting II
- Legalities of Safety: Why your flame-proofed set can’t come into this theatre
- ESTA Technical Standards Update
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
4:45 pm - 6:05 pm
- Specifying the Specs
- ETCP Certification Candidate Information Session
- Designing with LED's
- Production Envy: Size Doesn't Matter
- I Love Props- Now What?
- An Overview of the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts
- Maintaining the Healthy Technician
- Rosco User Group Reception and Meeting
4:45 pm - 7:35 pm
4:45 pm - 6:05 pm
6:15 pm - 7:35 pm
- Technical Difficulties: Women's Experience in Technical Theatre
- Tech Expo Committee Meeting
- An Evening With John & Helen Meyer
- The Transition Tango
- Your First Day on Broadway: Working on a union wardrobe crew
- USA Members Reception
- Loves, Labors, Cost II
- Student Design Competition Review
- Seminar for Young Lighting Designers: Career paths based in the major regional cities
- Performing Miracles: The Art and Design of the Theatre of Disabilities
- Oscar Brockett Speaks Out
- Health & Safety Commission Meeting II
7:45 pm - 9:05 pm
- Liability for the Theatre Person
- University of Texas Alumni Reception
- It’s ALIVE! Puppet Techniques with the Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre
- Lighting Commission Reception
- Architecture Distinguished Achievement Award Reception
- An Evening with Rebecca Cunningham: Distinguished Achievement Honoree
- There's More to Recruiting than Scholarships
7:45 pm - 11:00 pm
9:15 pm - 10:35 pm
- The Art of Getting There: Process & Product
- FSU School of Theatre Reception
- Photoshop for the Designer
- Costume Design & Technology Commission Reception
9:15 pm - 11:30 pm
Saturday, March 22
8:00 am - 11:20 am
8:00 am - 9:30 am
- High School Musical, the Dark Side: Technical Production
- Crafts and Wigs with the Artisans at the Alley Theatre
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
8:00 am - 9:30 am
- The Brave New World of Performance Spaces within Educational Environs
- Beyond the Pie in the Face: Food for Production
- Dog & Pony in the Morning - When Red Bull Fails
- Student Sound Design Presentations II
8:30 am - 9:00 am
9:00 am - 9:30 am
9:30 am - 10:00 am
10:00 am - 11:20 am
- Stump the Rigger
- Publications Committee Meeting II
- Mystery Guest Sound Design Panel
- The Designer as Technician, The Technician as Designer
- Bringing Artistic Vision to Life
- Sustainable Design - to LEED or not to LEED
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
10:00 am - 11:20 am
- 3D Rapid Prototyping
- Tech Olympics Committee Meeting
- Stage Managers Forum
- Highlights of Lighting Programming at Scenofest
- Costume Design: Computer Savvy Designers in Long Distance Collaborations
- Sensors and Encoders
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
12:15 pm - 1:35 pm
- Distinguished Scenic Designer: John Lee Beatty
- ACN - A New Networking Control
- Slide Slam - A Pictorial of Theatre Design
12:15 pm - 5:30 pm
12:15 pm - 1:35 pm
- All You Need is Jonathan Deans
- Owning and Operating a Costume-Related Business
- Scene Shop Structures: commercial, regional, educational
- The Migration of International Lighting Equipment
- PQ 2007 Golden Triga Award, Russia
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
1:35 pm - 2:30 pm
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm
- Swords in Your Show - What You Need to Know
- Great Jobs for Costumers when Design is not Enough
- Undercover Scholar: designer cum dramaturge
- PQ Gold Medal for Scene Design: João Mendes Ribeiro, Portugal
- Steve Kennedy, Guest Sound Designer
- Management Roundtable on Projects
- Korean and British approaches to Lighting Training
- Good To Go: Built for the Road!
- Room Automations - Losing the Remotes
4:00 pm - 5:20 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
