Competitors to Colleagues at the Intersections Summit at Milwaukee Rep—Saturday 24 March 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-03-24

“Competitors to Colleagues: National Models for Engagement, Collaboration, and Community”
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. CDT (Milwaukee) / 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)

Nan Barnett (National New Play Network)
Lisa Adler (Horizon Theatre Company)
Kristen Jackson (Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company)
Sometimes community lies beyond neighborhoods or city or state borders. How does engagement work with a countrywide constituency? National New Play Network's strategy of turning competitors into collaborators has changed the ways that plays are discovered, shared, and propagated, and how theaters and theater-makers engage with each other to make work. Its programs, including Rolling World Premieres and the New Play Exchange, were created as a part of its mission to champion the development, production, and continued life of new plays and the innovation and implementation of new forms of communication between theaters and theater-makers. The organization awards engagement between theaters, artists, and the field, and NNPN’s partnerships with development and service organizations have led to projects like the National Directors Fellowships and Triple Play study. Can these models for interaction be expanded? How can artist and practitioner engagement be encouraged? And how do we create new intersections for collaborators? 

Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents the Intersections Summit livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 23 March and Saturday 24 March 2018.

This spring, Milwaukee Repertory Theater will host the Intersections Summit, a national convening for community engagement practitioners in regional theaters across the country. As large arts organizations add community engagement departments and practices to their institutions at increasing frequencies, the Intersections Summit will be a platform for reflection, inquiry, and collaboration.

At the heart of the Intersections Summit is the recognition that community engagement efforts constantly intersect with the work of others—with colleagues in other areas of our organizations, with organizers and leaders in our communities, with donors, trustees, audiences, and artists. The Intersections Summit is an opportunity for practitioners and supporters of community engagement to name the tensions and the strengths that occur at these intersections, to build collective capacity across institutional and geographical borders, and to envision a future for community engagement in the American theater. 

http://howlround.com/livestreaming-the-intersections-summit-at-milwaukee-repertory-theater-in-milwaukee-wi-friday-23