Colleges, Universities and VENDORS
The PA State Thespian Conference will be a 3 day conference.
Thursday, December 1st - a virtual component to the state conference that everyone can participate with from their home school. (Up to you whether you want to do this during the school day, or after the school day is over. The only live event over zoom would be around 3:30 in the afternoon, when school is over.)
Friday, December 2nd - The in person conference will start at North Penn around 1pm and conclude around 10:30pm.
Saturday, December 3rd - 9am-10:30pm, in person at North Penn HS
There is a $50 fee per institution or vendor payable to PA THESPIANS (this includes a table). If a check it can be mailed to - PA Thespians, c/o Mark Zortman, 3695 Crossfield Lane, York, PA. 17406 or handed in at registration. If using a credit card, it can be done at registration or setting up a time for a phone call. (contact chapterdirector@pathespians.org)
We would love to give you the opportunity to get special recognition and more notice with our students and teachers by being a sponsor. Sponsor opportunities are here.
Colleges and Universities - We highly encourage you to offer a scholarship of some sort (technical, performance, etc). You will receive the information from our Sr Scholarship applicants and our Jr. College Showcase applicants (about 2 weeks before the conference). This will not include the actual audition, which will take place live at the conference. You are welcome to sit in on the Sr Scholarship auditions while judging is being done by our adjudicators. The Jr College showcase is set up for college reps alone to view the performance auditions and talk with the technical applicants. Both of these events will be on Friday, so you will be able to meet and talk with students you may be interested in on Saturday. (You can simply put a note in their troupe mailbox for any student you would like to meet with further).
Our College visitation time will be Friday from 6-8pm and Saturday from 9am-2pm. Our workshop sessions will be Friday afternoon from 5-6 and Saturday from 2:45-5:00.
TRAK-1 BACKGROUND CHECK - ALL Adults (Workshop Presenters, College Reps, Chaperones & Troupe Directors - any non student) need to have a background check. You will receive an email with the application link. Please complete that ASAP. This background check is being done for and paid for by PA Thespians. This is separate from whatever school districts or colleges may require for adults.
MASKING is not required.
We need Thespy judges! If you are interested, click here, by October 8th
If you have specific questions about Thespy judging, please contact Melissa Mintzer.
Workshop Proposals - If you are interested in submitting a workshop proposal, please find the information on this page. These submissions are due by Sep 30th.
If you have general questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Mark Zortman (chapterdirector@pathespians.org)
If you have specific questions about Thespy judging, please contact Melissa Mintzer.
Workshop Proposals - If you are interested in submitting a workshop proposal, please find the information on this page. These submissions are due by Sep 30th.
If you have general questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Mark Zortman (chapterdirector@pathespians.org)