This is a great opportunity for the music/dance or Austin.Com...edy students to continue to perform and meet other youth performers from around the state. 

After the performances at the Dougherty Arts Theatre in May, we will cut the show for time during the following week, then performing a 40 minute cutting of Austin.Com...edy at the a Texas youth theatre festival, June 1-4, 2006. 

The students will perform along with 14 other youth companies from around the state.  This year the festival site is at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, just east of Houston.

The $60 festival fee covers:

• Festival entry and performance fees
• Six workshops taught by theatre professionals
• Tickets to all Festival performances
• Parties and social events
• Sunday Awards Brunch

What you can expect during the festival:

• Thursday afternoon official kickoff, pizza party, and evening performances 
• Friday and Saturday morning workshops with theatre instructors from around the state.*
• Campus lunch at a (reasonable catered price).  The students may also leave campus for lunch with their parents, a chaperone, or alone (with prior parental permission).
• Afternoon performances and critiques*
• Dinner on you own
• Evening performances and critiques*
• Social events

• One scheduled rehearsal to familiarize performers with the San Jacinto College stage and theater.*
• Saturday evening party with the festival participants.
• Sunday Brunch and Award Ceremony to announce the recipients of the All Star Cast and Backstage Awards. 

Crew will rehearse with the cast in Austin

• May 4 from 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
• May 11 and 18 from 10:00 - 3:00 p.m.
• Plus dress rehearsal and performance at the Dougherty Arts Theatre in Austin at the end of May. (Date TBA)
• Plus cutting rehearsal and dress rehearsal prior to going to the Festival
• Festival dates June 1-4, 2006

The $60 festival fee covers:

• Festival entry and performance fees
• Six workshops taught by theatre professionals
• Tickets to all Festival performances
• Parties and social events
• Sunday Awards Brunch

What you can expect during the festival:

• Thursday afternoon official kickoff, pizza party, and evening performances
• Friday and Saturday morning workshops with theatre instructors from around the state.*
• Campus lunch at a (reasonable catered price).  The students may also leave campus for lunch with their parents, a chaperone, or alone (with prior parental permission).
• Afternoon performances and critiques*
• Dinner on you own
• Evening performances and critiques*
• Social events

• One scheduled rehearsal to familiarize performers and crew with the San Jacinto College stage and theater.*
• Saturday evening party with the festival participants.
• Sunday Brunch and Award Ceremony to announce the recipients of the All Star Cast and Backstage Awards. 

This years Festival is at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, just east of Houston.

The $60 festival fee covers:

• Organizational meeting
• Six age-appropriate workshops taught by theatre professionals
• Tickets to all Festival performances
• Parties and social events
• Sunday Awards Brunch

What you can expect during the festival:

• Morning Workshops with theatre instructors from around the state.
• Campus lunch at a (reasonable catered price).  The students may also leave campus for lunch with their parents, or a chaperone (with prior parental permission).
• Afternoon performances
• Dinner on you own
• Evening performances
• Back to your accommodations for the night to rest up so you can begin the whole process again the next day.

• Saturday evening party with the festival participants.
• Sunday Brunch and Award Ceremony to announce the recipients of the All Star Cast and Backstage Awards. 
• Since the children will be participating under the EASY Theatre banner, there will be one mandatory organizational meeting for the siblings and parents prior to the festival. 

We've taken EASY Theatre Youth Troupes and plays to this wonderful festival in the past.  Parents found it preferable to arrange their own accommodations.  This ranged from camping, staying with relatives, and sharing hotel rooms with other participants.  Traditionally most of our Youth Troupe parents attend the festival with their children, or vacation in the same city while their children attend the festival.  By giving families the ability to make their own accommodation arrangements and keep their children with them, allows families to control their expenses.  Where the children stay is almost immaterial, since almost all their time is spent at festival events.

Parents and non-participating family members may purchase tickets to individual performance blocks, or a festival pass.  They may also purchase tickets to the Awards Ceremony and Brunch on Sunday. 

Parents will be given info on the age appropriateness of each play and will choose which shows they wish their children to see.  Directors, cast, and crew sit together during shows.  Parents, guests, and siblings may also sit with us.  If your child isn't attending a show, they need to be with you.  In the past there has been one show per year which contained themes which I felt were appropriate for my teen, but not my younger child.  I left my teen with the other director, and took my younger child back to the hotel for a nap and a swim.

In the past the amount of parental involvement has ranged from sending their child to the campus with another parent and attending only their child's show, all the way to staying with and guiding their child to each workshop, meal, and play.  Often it depends on the age of the child and the wishes of the parent.  For example:  My teen (like most of the participants there) got himself to all his classes, plays, rehearsal, and meals; while I took my 5 year old to all her events.

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