Joyce Markley, and Dr. Phil Speary will present the August 13, 2016, KAC District 5 program.
Joyce will discuss similarities between playwrighting and other forms of creative writing. Phil will be talking about significant differences between playscripts and other types of written narratives.
Joyce, a playwright and KAC member, and Phil have often worked together to stage plays Joyce has written. Joyce and Phil work well together, have their talents known in staging plays the last couple of decades from Butler Community College to the Mary Jane Teall Theater and other venues for live works for the stage. Their productions entertain and offer quality voices to projects.
It isn’t just molding actors into new characters outside themselves that fascinates audiences, as Joyce and Phil will tell you. It is also seeing the depth of the emotions inside people who have worked hard to find the touching emotions. The memorization and incessant practice, as well as listening to each actor on the stage, make the curtain rise on opening night a thriller.
The demands are as strong for teamwork as if the playwright, the director, the actors, and the stage crew were in sports, operas, debates or—yes—jobs of the future.
Joyce will discuss similarities between playwrighting and other forms of creative writing. Phil will be talking about significant differences between playscripts and other types of written narratives.
Joyce, a playwright and KAC member, and Phil have often worked together to stage plays Joyce has written. Joyce and Phil work well together, have their talents known in staging plays the last couple of decades from Butler Community College to the Mary Jane Teall Theater and other venues for live works for the stage. Their productions entertain and offer quality voices to projects.
It isn’t just molding actors into new characters outside themselves that fascinates audiences, as Joyce and Phil will tell you. It is also seeing the depth of the emotions inside people who have worked hard to find the touching emotions. The memorization and incessant practice, as well as listening to each actor on the stage, make the curtain rise on opening night a thriller.
The demands are as strong for teamwork as if the playwright, the director, the actors, and the stage crew were in sports, operas, debates or—yes—jobs of the future.
Joyce Markley, a member of Dramatists Guild of America, has a Bachelor’s in Elementary
Education and has taken graduate classes in drama and writing at Wichita State. Her performed dramas include: Mind Scripted, at Wichita Community Theatre, about the control cell phones have in the lives of people; Hippie’s Wish, a musical comedy at Kansas Newman; The Supper Table, about a ‘50s farm family battling the effects of a lost harvest and the Korean War, at WCT; Dovetail, concerning the farm family after injuries of the eldest son, who returns home with his fiancée, at WCT; and others, including shorts and monologues.
Education and has taken graduate classes in drama and writing at Wichita State. Her performed dramas include: Mind Scripted, at Wichita Community Theatre, about the control cell phones have in the lives of people; Hippie’s Wish, a musical comedy at Kansas Newman; The Supper Table, about a ‘50s farm family battling the effects of a lost harvest and the Korean War, at WCT; Dovetail, concerning the farm family after injuries of the eldest son, who returns home with his fiancée, at WCT; and others, including shorts and monologues.
Dr. Phil Speary has directed theatre productions for more than forty years and has staged
productions for many theatres in the Wichita area including the Guild Hall Players at St. James Episcopal, WSR Signature Theatre, Wichita Community Theatre, Wichita Center for Arts, Music Theatre of Wichita, Wichita Shakespeare Company and the university theatres at Wichita State, Friends, and Newman.
He has also written over twenty playscripts (both original and adaptations; musicals and straight plays) which have been staged at area community and college theatres.
Dr. Speary has won the Mary Jane Teall Award for Outstanding Director five times for productions of Jeffrey, Romeo & Juliet, A Doll's House, The Lion in Winter, and The Cherry Orchard.
This coming season he will be directing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the new off-Broadway, award-winning, The Christians at Guild Hall, as well as a darkly Gothic Romeo & Juliet at WSR Signature Theatre.
With a Ph.D. in Theatre, Phil serves as Dean of Academic Support & Effectiveness at Butler Community College and he is a member of two councils for the Kansas Board of Regents.
productions for many theatres in the Wichita area including the Guild Hall Players at St. James Episcopal, WSR Signature Theatre, Wichita Community Theatre, Wichita Center for Arts, Music Theatre of Wichita, Wichita Shakespeare Company and the university theatres at Wichita State, Friends, and Newman.
He has also written over twenty playscripts (both original and adaptations; musicals and straight plays) which have been staged at area community and college theatres.
Dr. Speary has won the Mary Jane Teall Award for Outstanding Director five times for productions of Jeffrey, Romeo & Juliet, A Doll's House, The Lion in Winter, and The Cherry Orchard.
This coming season he will be directing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the new off-Broadway, award-winning, The Christians at Guild Hall, as well as a darkly Gothic Romeo & Juliet at WSR Signature Theatre.
With a Ph.D. in Theatre, Phil serves as Dean of Academic Support & Effectiveness at Butler Community College and he is a member of two councils for the Kansas Board of Regents.
Phil and Joyce will challenge you to do things you hadn’t thought you could do. Everybody can write, so come prepared. Bring a tablet, bring a pencil, whatever platform works best for you. You’ll have fun.
The meeting is from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Saturday, August 13, 2016, at Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS 67226. Note the time change.
Come early for treats and socializing. We will be meeting in the Lakeview Room.
Enter the drive at 7373 East 29th St N. (just west of Rock Rd on the south side of 29th Street).
Follow sign arrow to the Visitors Center parking.
From the visitors' parking lot enter the Welcome Entrance adjacent to that lot. Turn left at the hallway and walk through the dining room, past the serving bar, and into the Lakeview Room.
Come early for treats and socializing. We will be meeting in the Lakeview Room.
Come early for treats and socializing. We will be meeting in the Lakeview Room.
Enter the drive at 7373 East 29th St N. (just west of Rock Rd on the south side of 29th Street).
Follow sign arrow to the Visitors Center parking.
From the visitors' parking lot enter the Welcome Entrance adjacent to that lot. Turn left at the hallway and walk through the dining room, past the serving bar, and into the Lakeview Room.
Come early for treats and socializing. We will be meeting in the Lakeview Room.
Joyce Markley works with Michael Criss and Rudy Lane, Music for A. M. W. Productions, on the book and music for her play, Apartment of Many Windows.