Update: June 21, 2006

ATCA INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE UPDATE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2006

YAHOO! GROUP

Ira Bilowit and Phil Stephenson have joined the famed Yahoo! Group. Please make sure you do that ASAP. There should be a message (or two) in your inbox inviting you to join. Please let me know if there is not.

ARE YOU IN OR OUT?

Jonathan Abarbanel has volunteered to call members who were not at the Canada conference to confirm that you are still interested in being involved with the committee. You may also respond to this e-mail if you have not yet been contacted.

LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD

Congrats to our own Bruce Burgun for being elected to the ExCom! We will expect him to feel deeply obligated to our committee's agenda at every turn. ;)

WE ARE THE WORLD?

As Dominic mentioned in his ATCA Update on Monday, Michael Barnes has been appointed as the chair of the ad hoc committee for a possible IATC World Congress in the U.S. Alice Carter has been invited to be part of that committee as well. The international committee--that's all of us, folks--form the core of this advisory group. This is why we need to know ASAP if you would still like to remain on the committee. Dominic wants to formally convene the ad hoc committee before the end of June, and release a preliminary report by the fall.

2006 YOUNG CRITICS SEMINARS

As of June 21, 2006, new ATCA member Lauren Snyder (OffOffOnline, New York City) has applied for the France seminar. Randy Gener (American Theatre magazine, NYC) may apply for the one in Korea. Committee member Phil Stephenson (Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh) has expressed interest in the Lithuania seminar.

IATC WORLD CONGRESS IN SEOUL

I will be the official ATCA delegate to the IATC World Congress in Seoul, Oct. 21-26. Glenn Loney and Carol Douglass have expressed interest in also attending as ATCA representatives (though not delegates.) Larry is in conversation with Yun-Cheol Kim, who is the Korean IATC representative and congress host, regarding the details.

YOUR INTERNATIONAL "TO DO" LIST:

* Sign up for the Yahoo! Group

* If you were not in Canada, let us know if you want to remain on this committee

* Save the date! The NYC mini-conference will probably be the last weekend in January or the first week of February 2007. We will probably have one committee meeting during the weekend.


Thank you for your work with international!


~Kerri Allen
American Theatre Critics Association
International Committee Vice Chair