Spotlight May-June 2019
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BONUS OFFER — The first fifty (50) registrants to take advantage<br />
of Early Bird registration rates (by <strong>June</strong> 29) will receive a complimentary<br />
ticket to their choice of Hale Centre Theatre Saturday evening<br />
productions: Disney Freaky Friday: A New Musical or Cinderella.<br />
REGISTRATION TYPE STATUS EARLY BIRD STANDARD<br />
Hilton Garden<br />
Inn, Salt Lake<br />
City/Sandy,<br />
Utah<br />
Group (3 or more) Member $225 $250<br />
Individual Member $250 $300<br />
Individual Non-Member $325 $350<br />
AACTEd Hours — Participants will once again earn 17 AACT-<br />
Ed Hours for participation in all sessions of their conference track (prorated<br />
hours will be awarded to those who are not able to attend all<br />
sessions).<br />
Register before <strong>June</strong> 29 to reserve your seat at the <strong>2019</strong> TEAMS<br />
Conference with Early Bird discounts. Conference Registration, Hotel<br />
Information, and much more can be accessed by visiting aact.org/team.<br />
Tim Jebsen<br />
Executive Director of Midland (TX) Community<br />
Theatre since 1997, Tim has helped the<br />
organization increase the size of their operating<br />
budget, purchase a 1929 downtown historic theatre,<br />
and raise $3.6 million for renovations to the<br />
Cole Theatre prior to hosting the 2006 AACT<br />
International Theatre festival. Midland Community<br />
Theatre (MCT) produces fourteen shows<br />
per season in three performance spaces, including<br />
musicals, dramas, comedies, mysteries, melodramas,<br />
and children’s theatre. Tim adjudicated the<br />
2013 National AACTFest in Carmel, Indiana. He previously adjudicated<br />
state festivals in Mississippi, Indiana, and New Mexico, as well as<br />
region festivals for AACT Region I (2009) and Region X (2010). Prior<br />
to working in Midland, Tim led the Salina (KS) Community Theatre,<br />
the Mansfield (OH) Playhouse, and the Weathervane Playhouse (OH).<br />
In 2015, Tim was elected Vice President of the International Association<br />
of Amateur Theatres (IATA/AITA), serving from 2015-<strong>2019</strong>. Tim<br />
earned his MA in Drama from Bowling Green State University and his<br />
BA from Wittenberg University.<br />
Lee Ann Bakros<br />
Lee Ann currently serves as marketing and<br />
public relations director for the Des Moines<br />
Community Playhouse and is in her 25th<br />
season on the theatre's staff. However, her<br />
love for the Playhouse goes back many more<br />
years. It was there that she experienced her<br />
first live theatre production at age seven, and<br />
began volunteering backstage while in high<br />
school. Prior to joining the Playhouse staff,<br />
Lee Ann was arts and entertainment editor at Cityview, a weekly alternative<br />
newspaper, and marketing director for its parent company, Business<br />
Publications Corporation. Before that, she served as executive director<br />
of the Metro Arts Alliance, greater Des Moines' local arts agency.<br />
Lee Ann earned a B.S. in mathematics from Iowa State University and<br />
an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa.<br />
Lee Ann stresses that Development is an integral part of any nonprofit,<br />
noting that operating funds, capital campaigns, and special events<br />
are all part of the plan. She stresses that “with more corporate dollars<br />
being shifted from philanthropy to brand marketing, it's even more important<br />
for marketing and development to work together for the success<br />
of the organization.” <br />
30 AACT <strong>Spotlight</strong> <strong>May</strong>/<strong>June</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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