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Make plans to attend this year’s Annual Convention at Furman.
At this time, any registration will take place on-site at McAlister Auditorium.
Published Slate of Officers and a new set of governing Rules to be voted upon at the Annual Business meeting on November 5 at Furman University
2023 Keynote Presenter
West Hyler, Director and Founder of the SC New Play Festival
Special Guest: Toni Simmons Henson, Executive Director of SETC
Open to All Delegates: Masterclass on Stage Composition and Stage Pictures with West Hyler. To participate as a Director and/or Actor in the masterclass, sign up with this link:
All are welcome to observe!
In Spreadsheet form is the Convention Schedule (to be read on a large screen)
COMING SOON: The full Convention Schedule will be on SCHED, the electronic playbill. Make sure to download the SCHED app on your smartphone to be connected with all events at the Convention!
The Community Theatre Division and the Mauldin Theatre Company will be hosting the Community Theatre FORUM at the Mauldin Cultural Center, on Saturday, November 4th, 6:30-10:00 PM
To meet the needs and wishes of theatres in SC, the Community Theatre Festival is now a Community Theatre FORUM. Best of all, IT IS OPEN TO ANYONE and FREE!! Are you an independent artist or a newly established theatre company? An established company that needs to rebuild your patronage? Wanting to do more than just tick boxes and create a truly diverse group of company members and audience members? Do you just need an excuse to meet with like-minded, artistic, creative theatre people?
Whether you consider yourself a community theatre or a professional theatre, or a hybrid or something unique, if you are a theatre person, use this link: COMMUNITY THEATRE FORUM to sign up.
As part of the Annual Convention, the Forum will be held on Saturday, November 4th, from 6:30-10 PM at the Mauldin Cultural Center and open to all delegates registered for the convention. However, you don’t have to be registered for the convention. You can just attend the Community Theatre Forum by signing up HERE
There will be a time to discuss, a time to network and socialize, a time to find out how SCTA can best serve you and your theatre!
Need more information? Contact Community Theatre Chair- Anna Brown or SCTA Executive Director- Anne Lavely
Special Thanks to our Corporate Sponsors:
Productions Unlimited is the Event Sponsor for Tech Olympics
College and University Division
There are opportunities to network and connect with colleagues and promote your program to over 500 high school students.
November 3rd: Keynote Speaker and the Keynote Afterglow- location TBA.
November 4th: Social Hour hosted by the College/University at the Host Hotel: Homewood Suites- Downtown Greenville
November 5th: Unified College Auditions & Tech Portfolio Reviews with Call Backs after lunch
Producing/Professional Division
Friday, November 3: Join members at the SCTA convention for complimentary drinks and food at the Keynote Afterglow party. Location is still TBA.
Saturday, November 4: From 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, members will lunch privately on the Furman campus to elect the Division Chair and discuss how to develop and promote the division.
Not an active member yet? Sign up here for membership!
Additional Information to help with planning.
Fee Schedule for Convention and Community Theatre: Deadline to Register without late fees is Friday, October 6
Share your talents and insights in a workshop or forum. Use this form:
A block of King rooms in Downtown Greenville have been reserved at Homewood Suites- Downtown at a rate of $229/night. The link to this block of rooms may have been disabled by the hotel.
A second block of King rooms (near the crossroad of I-85 and I-385) have been reserved at Homewood Suites- Greenville at a rate of $189/night. This site is further away from Furman but closer to the Community Theatre Festival in Mauldin. The link to this block of rooms may have been disabled by the hotel.
View the basic schedule for this year’s convention: