Sessions

Over 200 sessions will be presented at the Annual Conference in Kansas City in March 2010. Each day will open with a special blockbuster session. Sessions are listed by day and also by Commission.

All sessions and presenters are subject to change.

• Executive Committee Meeting 1 - Luncheon

• Executive Committee Meeting 2

• Design Expo Committee Meeting

• Board of Directors Meeting I

• Commissioners Meeting 1
• Finance Committee Meeting I
• Technical Production Leadership Meeting

• A Blonde's Expose for Highly Technical Humans - Sally Struthers

• Grants & Fellowships Committee Meeting

• USITT-USA Committee Meeting, National Team
• USITT-USA Committee Meeting, Student Team

• Almost Everything You Want to Know About USA 829
• Dust Collection & Ventilation Systems
• Education Commission Meeting/Reception
• First Timers Reception hosted by the Caucus on Human Issues
• Incremental Change - Melding your experience with your job
• Integrating Show Systems Without Resorting to a Sledgehammer
• International Sound Artist - John Leonard
• Nominations Committee Meeting 1
• So You Think You Know Everything About Top Hats
• The Future of Theatre Minds in Immersive Design: A conversation with 5D The Future of Immersive Design Conference
• The Last 50 Years - What have we learned about how theatres work?
• Walking Tour - Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
• Wanna Rock 'n Roll All Night?
• What Not to Wear II: It's All About the Packaging
• Working with Hair: Laying Hair and Ventilating

• Commissioners Meeting 2

• 100 Years of Color in Stage Lighting
• Automation 101 - Terminology
• Costume Design & Technology Commission Meeting
• Evolution or Immaculate Conception: Lighting Control Over 5 Decades
• Green Room Redefined
• Health & Safety Commission Meeting I
• Membership Committee Meeting
• People of Color Networking Project
• Recruiting Strategies for USITT
• Scene Design Commission Meeting I
• Setting Up Shop
• SMMP 20th Anniversary Celebration
• Standards Committee Meeting
• The Art of Sound for Dance
• Working Outside the Black Box

• USITT FELLOWS ADDRESS

• Fifty & Nifty

• Canadian Members/CITT Meeting
• Chesapeake Regional Section Meeting
• Desert State Regional Section Meeting
• Heart of America Regional Section Meeting
• Intermountain West Regional Section Meeting
• Midwest Regional Section Meeting
• New England Regional Section Meeting
• New York Area Regional Section Meeting
• Northern Boundary Regional Section Meeting
• Northern California Regional Section Meeting
• Northwest Regional Section Meeting
• Ohio Valley Regional Section Meeting
• Rocky Mountain Regional Section Meeting
• Southeast Regional Section Meeting
• Southern California Regional Section
• Southwest Regional Section Meeting
• Upstate New York Regional Section Meeting

• ETCP Certification Arena Rigging Exam

• Honoring Oscar Brockett - Making the Scene

• USITT-USA Committee Meeting, National Team
• USITT-USA Committee Meeting, Student Team

• Publications Committee Meeting I

• AutoCAD and Vectorworks: Working Together
• Awards Committee Meeting
• Costume Design & Technology Poster Session
• Creative Methods of Teaching Color Theory
• Creative not Crisis: Recession Management
• Day of Focus on Live vs. Pre-recorded FX (1)
• Designing with Color & Gobos. Where do I begin?
• Healthy Technician II
• It's Not Just Lighting the Stage Anymore -- Cross-over and Lighting Designers Then and Now
• Making Your Way to Broadway
• Open Mentoring Session for Students with USITT Fellows
• PQ 2011, Spotlight on Students
• Renovating Izenour-Era Theatres
• Student Chapter Leadership Meeting
• The "False Faces" of W.T. Benda
• The Physics of Stage Rigging - What You Need to Know to Use Rigging Safely

• ETCP Certification Theatre Rigging Exam

• Board of Directors Meeting II
• Digital Theatre Words Working Group

• Golden Pen Award Winner Book Signing

• Basic Electricity 201
• Beyond the Rulebook: Managing the Gray Area
• Day of Focus on Live vs. Pre-recorded FX (2)
• Great 20th Century Designers: Remembered by Colleagues
• H&S Q&A 4 STDNTS
• How to Get High Quality With Limited Resources
• Keys to Collaboration: Successful Teams and Buildings
• Mask Making: New Materials and Old Techniques
• Message from a Piece of Cloth
• Production Electrician Evolution
• Queer Nation Roundtable
• Rosco User Group Reception and Meeting
• Scenic Art Outdoors
• Technical Production Commission Meeting and Reception
• To Swage or not to Swage...and other Nicopress Questions

• 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and Scenofest Preview
• Automation Networking
• Bridging the Gap: Pushing Your Career to the Next Level
• Costume Design & Technology Legacy Project 1
• Day of Focus on Live vs. Pre-recorded FX (3)
• Kauffman Center-The Making of A Cultural Landmark
• Lighting Educators Retrospective
• Makeup for Cirque du Soleil
• Managing a Safe Shop - Tools & Techniques to Improve Your Workspace
• Online Course Management Tools
• Stage Management and New Technologies
• Wireless DMX and Dimming in Practice - Case Studies

• Old & New Products Showcase

• University of North Carolina School of the Arts Reception

• Architecture Commission Meeting
• Engineering Commission Meeting
• Exhibitors Committee Meeting
• Finance Committee Meeting II
• International Committee Meeting
• Lighting Commission Meeting I
• Management Commission Breakfast
• Regional Section Communicators Meeting
• Scene Design Commission Meeting II
• Tech Expo Committee Meeting

• Jennifer Tipton -- The Art of Stage Lighting

• All Exhibitors Meeting

• Member Author Book Signing

• Fellows Business Meeting

• Stage Expo Priority Space Selection

• Board of Directors Meeting III

• Late/Great Monograph Book Signing

• Are There Really Such Things as Difficult People?
• Design Integration of Technology and Flexibility in Theatres
• Education Commission Meeting II
• Fabric and Theatre Throughout the Ages
• Gaslights to LED
• Global Perspectives on Design and Technology Part I
• Pedagogical Perspectives
• Safety Concerns for the Touring Technician
• The Alterable Elizabethan Peascod Doublet
• The Future of Packaged Hoist Theatre Automation
• The State of Design and Technical Theatre in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
• Using Pre-Engineered Joists and Beams in your Scene Shop
• White Space Sell-Off: One Year In

• 50 years of Lighting Opera, Dance, and the Broadway Stage
• Young Designers' Forum on View
• Young Technicians' Forum on View

• Blue Hair to Gen Y: Keeping and Creating New Audiences
• Demystifying Line Arrays ??? A Low Science Look at How Line Arrays Work
• How to Start and Maintain a USITT Student Chapter
• Human Issues Working Session
• International Workshops through OISTAT
• Long Distance Relationships: Collaboration from Afar
• Student Liaison Committee Meeting
• Teaching Technical Direction in BA Programs
• The Future of Ballet Costume
• Vertical Theatres - Past and Present
• What's Wrong With This Picture

• 50 Costume Designers - 50 Years
• Color Conversations with L*A*B*
• Developmental Stages of the Undergraduate
• Leadership and Volunteer Opportunities within USITT
• Not Waving but Drowning: Diagnosing and Overcoming Burnout
• Playback Party and Sound Archive Project
• Seminar for Young Lighting Designers
• Student Design Competition Review and Awards
• Understanding ETCP
• USA Members Reception
• USITT and the OSHA Alliance Program - Work in Progress
• World Stage Design Gold Medal Winner for Scenery - Liu Xinglin

• Costume Design & Technology Commission Reception
• Florida State University Alumni Reception
• Health & Safety Commission Meeting II & Reception
• Lighting & Scene Design Commission Reception
• Scene Design & Lighting Commissions Reception
• Sound Commission Reception (Playback Party Continues)

• Architecture Award Review, Presentation & Reception
• Tech Olympics
• Yale Alumni Reception

• Commissioners Meeting 3 - 2011 Programming

• Regional Section Officers Meeting

• Young Designers' Forum on View
• Young Technicians' Forum on View

• Matt Conover "Innovation in Disney Entertainment: Technology Meets Storytelling"

• A Discussion of Green & Sustainable Theatre
• Building and Maintaining a Staff: Techniques and Ideas for Personnel Management
• Fair Use Project; Copyright and the Sound Designer
• Fast Tracking Rigging Standards
• Global Perspectives: The Non-traditional Stagings of Upstream Theater
• If We Knew Then What We Know Now - Looking Back
• Lighting Fixtures
• Publications Committee Meeting II
• Students and Politics of a Theatre Department
• Stump the Rigger
• Tech Olympics Committee Meeting
• Welding Safety
• World Theatre Designers

• Contemporary Lighting Designers
• DDL Demystified (Learn More About ACN)
• Designer-Director Team Collaboration
• Digital Projections in Productions 101
• How Do I Get That in My Classroom?
• Listening to our Future Audience - Looking Forward
• Movin' On Up: Transitioning Up the Job Ladder
• Outdoor Performance Safety
• Seeing in the Dark: Light Sensitive Paints Application & Uses
• Theatre, Meet Cosplay. Cosplay, Meet Theatre!
• World Theatre Designers

• Nominations Committee Meeting 2

• Breaking the Mold of Teaching the Way We Were Taught
• Costume Design & Technology Legacy Project 2
• Global Perspectives on Design and Technology Part II
• Preserving Our Past: Documenting, Digitizing and Restoring Our Theatre Heritage
• Sound Commission Open Meeting
• The Future of Graduate TD Programs

• USITT Anniversary Party