Schuleburg High School Auditorium

Schuleburg High School Auditorium
 

Tony Williams – Area One-Act Play Contest Director
Sch
:  (361) 284-3226 ext. 1175    Fax:  (361) 284-3349
twilliams@iisd1.org

Mike Doggett - Area One Act Play Contest Host & Stage Manager
Theater Office: (361) 284-3226 ext. 1222   fax: (361) 2843641    Cell: (361) 676-6100
mdoggett@iisd1.org  


                        
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to Vanderbilt and Industrial HS  

FROM THE CONTEST MANAGER, Tony Williams:

Aug. 15, 2011 District OAP contest information

1.  OAP online entry system  information and instructions on how to submit your information: http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/drama/EntrySystems.html - online eligibility due 10 prior to contest (March 23)
NEW THIS YEAR - Community Standards Compliance Form that must be signed and returned to the UIL office and a copy taken with you to contest.  You will see instructions on how to print this form on the online entry system when you enter you eligibility from online, you can also find the form on the UIL website.  YOUR PRINCIPAL NO LONGER HAS TO VERIFY YOU ELIGIBILITY FORM BY SIGNING INTO THE ENTRY SYSTEM.


2. 
Please mail a two copies (one for the judge and one for music timing) of your original cut scripts to Tony Williams by Monday, March 1, for scripts to be mailed to the judge to review before the contest. If you do not send in your script in time it will be the responsibility of the director to send it directly to the judge.  Please keep in mind that the script needs to be an original (non typed) script that is marked with your cutting and sound cues.  Public Doman scripts may be copied or typed.

Please mail two copies of your original script cutting to me at
Tony Williams, Box 369, Vanderbilt TX, 77991

If you are not able to get your script to me by March 1, please mail one script directly to the judge and bring your second script with you to the site rehearsal.  If you are mailing your script directly to the judge please indicate the script is for District 26 AA contest at Industrial High School, in Vanderbilt Texas, on Saturday, April 2.

Please mail your script directly to the judge (_____________), be sure to include which contest the script is connected to 2A, Area 2, Region IV in Vanderbilt.  The judge's address is located on the UIL drama wesbite's judges page.

3.  Please remember to bring all UIL required credentials (see below) with you to your site rehearsal.  If you would like to mail it in early to save time at your site rehearsal, feel free to do so.

4.  Please ask your students entering, the theater, during a performance to sit in the back of the auditorium and not walk all the way down to the front row.  

5.  Also, remind your company to be SILENT in the lobby of the theatre as sound goes through air vents, in the lobby, directly into the theater.

6.  Food.  Click here to find out what food choices are available in Vanderbilt and in Edna (15 minutes away)

7. Helpful forms.

8.  Email Mike Doggett to set up your official one hour site rehearsal see available times below.

Music Log Form pdf file

Music Log Form  Excel file, that will add your time up as you go.  If a sound cue is shorter than one minute you must enter it as 0:32. 

NEW Community Standards Compliance Form

THINGS YOU WILL NEED TO BRING WITH YOU TO TH E SITE REHEARSAL

1. 2 Original cut copies of your script for the judge and the sound timer.
2. Music log (not over 10 minutes).
3. Proof of royalty payment.
4. Permission to cut a full length play by the publisher (if needed).
5. Permission to produce a play not on the approved list (if needed).
6. Permission for any additions to the basic unit set (if needed).
7. Permission to add characters or change character gender (if needed) .
9.  Substitute cast change forms (if needed).
Be sure to bring official substitutes from, signed by your administrator, in case you have a change of cast or crew.
10. Eligibility Form.  Now done online. 
11.
 community compliance form signed by your administrator (this is new this year)

 

 

Click UIL DRAMA WEBSITE LINK:
http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/drama/

Theatre Phone: 512.471.9996 Theatre FAX: 512.471-7388

 


Critic Judge: 
 
Mark Pickell
Mark has participated in the OAP process as a student, director, and judge at every level of the competition. As a director he appeared at the state meet twice, placing 2nd in 2004. He also appeared twice at the state meet as a student. He was honored to serve as a critic judge at the State One-Act Play Competition in 2010.He holds a BFA with honors from Southwestern University in Georgetown.  He is a member of the TETA Adjudicators Organization's Standards and Practices Committee as well as the UIL Advisory Committee. He has acted and directed professionally in Houston and Austin.  He has received both a B Iden Payne Award and an Austin Critics' Table Award for his directing in Austin.  He currently serves as Artistic Director for Capital T Theatre in Austin, Texas.


STAGE/AUDITORIUM (click for more information): 

* Large (50’x 35’) fully functional theater
(no fly system). Legs and curtains can be pulled in
   to create a smaller playing area.
* Theater seats 900.
* Loading dock door, at rear of theatre, for easy load in. For low level trucks loading can be done through the side door of the theatre.

*
All curtains pull from the SL wing.
* There will be blue lights backstage for each show.
* Restrooms available on stage (SR wing), in the lobby and near your dressing rooms.
*
UIL unit set will be on the back wall of the stage for quick set up. 
 
* Storage for you props, furniture, etc. will be in the theater classroom, which is located directly behind the back wall of the stage.


SOUND: 
*HOUSE SOUND SYSTEM is located in the back of the theatre
*Bose Panaray speakers (two location of speakers: one set on the back wall of the theatre and one set in front of the stage).
*Bose Subwoofer 
*System can play mini-c/d, c/d, tape, and you can plug you own player into the system, if needed.
*Each school is welcome to bring you own sound system if the house system does not meet your needs.
*Headsets for backstage communication, available if needed.


LIGHTS: 
*Light cues can be programmed into light board prior to your site rehearsal, if possible or during your site rehearsal. You may also run your lights manually.
Light Cue Programming Information Contact Mike Doggett if you have problems or need help. Click here to contact Mike Doggett.
*Control area for lights is located at the back of the auditorium.
*The stage will be have 9 light areas, and a blue and red wash (Click for light Plot).  
*ETC Express light board
*One Follow Spot


UNIT SET AND STORAGE:

Industrial High School will provide the standard UIL set.  Door and window unit, and French door are available.  Storage space is not very limited.  You will be able to move your props and furniture back to the storage area after your performance.   Industrial will provide spike tape for al schools.



DRESSING ROOM:

*All schools will have a private lockable dressing room.


REHEARSAL:
Please contact Mr. Doggett arrange your rehearsal time.  Industrial will take the last available time slot.
Date: Friday, April 6,
2012
    10:15 - 11:15 AM  - 
    11:30 - 12:30 PM  -

    1:15 - 2:15 PM -  
    2:30 - 3:30 PM  -
    3:45 -4:45 PM -
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012
     8:00 - 9:00 AM  - 
     9:10 - 10:10 AM -  
    10:20 - 11:20 AM  -

*Anyone that would like to come to the theatre before your site rehearsal to look at light or do whatever is welcome to do so - email Mike Doggett to arrange a time.

*Any conflict with rehearsal time will be broken with distance between schools and Vanderbilt.  Schools closer to Vanderbilt will rehearse at earlier times.  We will try to meet all director preferences, if possible. (Industrial will take whatever rehearsal time is left over allowing all other school to pick first)

*Set up time will not start until all of your things have been moved to the center of the stage. Set up time will stop when all items are relocated back in the center of the stage. You will then be able to move your things back to storage and or back to your dressing room.  

*Spike tape will be provided at the site rehearsal, by Industrial


DIRECTOR'S MEETING:
11:20 AM - Critic judge meets with cast and directors (theatre)
11:45 AM - Meeting with the contest manager and judge (teacher's workroom)


PERFORMANCE ORDER: 

The order of performances will run on the hour Order of performance was selected by a draw on August 15, 2011, By Bryan Blanar, Assistant Superintendent, Boling ISD
2012 Performance Order

    1:00 p.m ---------
Van Vleck HS
    2:00 p.m. -------- Bloomington HS
    3:00 p.m. ------- Tidehaven HS
    4:00 p.m. -------
Boling HS
    5:00 p.m. -------
Industrial HS
    6:00 p.m. ------- Edna HS

   

  The theatre will be open to audience members coming in late.  There have been improvements to the theater where light does not entire the theater, when the lobby doors are open.  DIRECTORS PLEASE ASK YOUR STUDENT AND PARENTS TO SIT IN THE BACK OF THE AUDITORIUM IF ENTERING LATE.


SITE CREW:
A site crew from Industrial High School will be on hand to offer technical assistance.  Light board and sound will be operated by a competing school’s stage crew.  Students from each school's crew will operate the curtain backstage.  If the site crew pulls a school's curtain or does any other technical operation a member of the cast or crew must give vocal instruction on every detail of the cue(s).


ADMISSION:

$5.00 Adults & Students $3.00


AUTHORIZED AND UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL:

In accordance with UIL regulations, only students listed on the official Eligibility-Notice (except alternates) may be in dressing rooms or on the stage area.  Only eligible students may participate in any capacity as members of the contest company.  This includes helping with costumes and make-up during the rehearsal or performance time at the contest site.

Further, the Area Meet prohibits all unauthorized personnel from the backstage, stage, or dressing room areas.  Unauthorized personnel are defined as alternates, parents, friends, colleagues, or other persons not specifically authorized by UIL rules and/or director of the one-act play contest.

The announcement of advancing plays, the presentation of awards, and oral critiques will follow the last performance as soon as the judge is ready with the decisions.  All casts are encouraged to stay for the critique of all plays.


DIRECTOR'S DON'T FORGET TO BRING:
(These items will be checked before your official one hour rehearsal begins)

1. 2 Original cut copies of your script for the judge and the sound timer.
2. Music cue log (not over 10 minutes).
3. Proof of royalty payment.
4. Permission to cut a full length play by the publisher (if needed).
5. Permission to produce a play not on the approved list (if needed).
6. Permission for any additions to the basic unit set (if needed).
7. Permission to add characters or change character gender (if needed) .
9.  Substitute cast change forms (if needed).
10.
Eligibility submitted online 10 day prior to contest
11. a copy community compliance form signed by your administrator (this is new this year)
12. 
Check for 300.00 for Area Contest, make check payable to Industrial High School Theatre

 
(click here)

Please call or email me anytime you have questions or if I can help you in any way.
mdoggett@iisd1.org, 361.284.3216 (school), 361.676.6100 (cell phone)


 

Schuleburg High School Auditorium

Area Districts Date Site Contest Manager Host Information Adjudicator
Area 1 25, 26, 28 Apr 14, 2012 BF Terry HS
5500 Ave N
Rosenberg, TX 77471
Tony Williams
Industrial ISD
Box 369
Vanderbilt, TX 77991

twilliams@iisd1.org
Phone: 361-284-3226 x1175
Cell: 361-935-8811
Fax: 361-284-3349
Jacquie Pritchard, Th Dir
jpritchard@lcisd.org
Phone: 832-223-3536
 
Huvar

Area Contest Website

UIL drama website area contest information




Region IV, 2A OAP Contest Website


Click here for UIL web page

         
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