Myers to serve as reader in Alaska event

Judy Myers, MFA, associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, as well as artistic director for Gilmore Creek Summer Theatre 2007 and 2008, has been invited to participate as a reader in the Play Lab at the 2009 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska.

Myers will read roles in two to six plays from more than 50 works chosen to be read at the conference from June 13-20. Each play has one rehearsal in Valdez the day before the reading, directed by the playwright. After each reading, a panel of three respondents (featured international theatre artists, professionals, and educators), will give critical feedback to each playwright following the development format created at the Circle Repertory Theatre Company in New York with the intent of opening the writers up to new ways of understanding their plays. Audiences will also provide feedback.

“I will teach playwriting again this fall and I want to continue to participate in the development of new works at the national level, something I haven’t done in a long time,” she said. “To be able to bring that experience back to my students is invaluable.”