Sessions
Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions - Preliminary Round
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tue
Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions - Preliminary Round, Day 2
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wed
NPP One Act Play Readings #1 - WIRE TAPS by Emma Swain & WHERE MUSHROOMS GROW by Sebastian Ffrench (followed by response)
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Thu
Performance Response for What We Leave Behind
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM Fri
NPP One Act Play Readings #2 - MISS JULIE by Amber Palmer & DISPLACE: A STREET THEATRE ONE-ACT by Zoha Bharwani (followed by response)
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Fri
NPP Ten Minute Play Festival
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sat
National Meeting
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Sat
Dr. Julie Rae Mollenkamp is an award-winning teacher-scholar-artist who teaches at the University of Central Missouri. She currently serves as the National Playwriting Program Member-At-Large on the National KCACTF Committee and the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Coordinator for Region V. Past leadership roles in Region V include NPP Chair, Directing Coordinator, and Irene Ryan Preliminary Judge. She is the 2020 KCACTF Gold Medalion recipient for Region V. Her one-woman performance piece, Another Woman’s Baby, premiered at the Ryan Repertory Theatre in New York June 2018, is slated to be published in Best American Short Plays 2018-19, and is included in the Rutgers’ 30 Year Feminist Artists Archives. She and her husband, Daniel, own Smashing Frames, a film and theatre production company that focuses on new voices and the synergy of talented artists working in a variety of media. Her favorite characters in the world are her sons, Charles and James.