Two Essential AACT Conferences
Pre-events to AACTFest ’09 Tacoma
June 22-24, 2009 • Tacoma, WA
Community Theatre Management Conference
and
AACT’s First Ever Technical Theatre Conference
•• Community Theatre Management Conference ••
This educational gathering is for anyone with responsibility for managing a community theatre and brings together administrators from all levels of avocational theatre. From the volunteer who “runs things around here” to the “just starting” part-time employee to the full time professional manager… all are welcome. Learning is through a series of intensive, topic specific, round table discussions with participants sharing experiences - both problems and solutions.
•• Technical Theatre Conference ••
Have a technical question that you just can’t seem to get answered? Ever wonder if you are using materials in the most effective way? Curious what new products and services are available that might be JUST what you are looking for? AACT’s first-ever Technical Theatre Conference may be just what you need. Each session will be a balance between presentations by equipment manufacturers and service providers for technical theatre, and question and answer session with industry professionals where you can ask that burning question! It is a great opportunity to learn more, solve problems, and get one on one time with those producing the brightest and newest products to help your productions shine!
Susan Austin
American Association of Community Theatre
866.Our.AACT
Michael Park joined the CBS daytime drama AS THE WORLD TURNS on March 12, 1997, in the role of Detective Jack Snyder.
Park garnered a Daytime Emmy Award-nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2007. In 2001, he was nominated for both a Daytime Emmy as a Supporting Actor and a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, along with co-star Maura West, for Favorite Couple.
Park grew up with his brother and two sisters in Canandaigua, NY, with parents George and Rosemary. He attended Nazareth College, in Rochester, NY, and worked in construction during his summer vacations. Despite not being a music or theater major, he decided to change career paths when he continued to win the lead roles in school musical theater productions.
After graduation, Park was acting in repertory theater when he was cast as Raoul in the national tour of "Phantom of the Opera." Following the tour, he appeared in "Hello Again," and understudied in the revival of "Carousel," both at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, before making his Broadway debut in the original cast of "Smokey Joe's Cafe." After leaving the musical, Park appeared off-Broadway in "Violet" during which time he was cast on As the World Turns. He appeared alongside Martin Short and Faith Prince in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of "Little Me" and performed in City Center's Encores production of "Bloomer Girl" in March 2001.
Park is an avid softball player and golfer, who often tees off with his castmates. Park and his wife, Laurie, a music therapist whom he met in college, currently live in New York State. They have three children, son Christopher Michael, daughter Kathleen Rose, and daughter Annabelle Jayne.
