Theatre Festival Schedules

2024 Daily Schedule At-a-Glance

Thursday 11/21 Friday 11/22 Saturday 11/23
One-Acts Programming One-Acts Programming One-Acts Programming
7:00am: Registration 7:00am: Registration
8:00-8:40am 8:00-9:30am Thespys 8:00-8:40am 8:30am: Tech Chal. Regist.
8:50-9:30am 8:50-9:30am
9:40-10:20am 9:45-11:15am Workshops, Thespys 9:40-10:20am 9:45-11:15 Workshops, Tech Chal.
10:30-11:10am 10:30-11:10am
11:20-12:00pm 11:30am-1pm Workshops, Thespys 11:20-12:00pm 9:45-12:15 Workshops, Tech Chal.
12:10-12:50pm 12:10-12:50pm
1:00-2:00pm: Lunch 12:45pm: Tech Awards
2:00-2:40pm 2-3:30pm Workshops, Thespys
2:50-3:30pm
3:30pm: Registration 3:40-4:20pm 3:45-5:15pm: Workshops, Thespys
4:30-5:10pm 4:30-5:10pm
5:20-6:00pm 5:20-6:00pm
6:10-6:50pm 6:10-6:50pm 6:15-7:45pm Thespys
7:00-7:40pm 7pm: Showcase at Wauwatosa West 7:00-7:40pm
7:50-8:30pm
8:40-9:20pm

2024 General, Special, and Ongoing Events

Timeframe(s) What’s Happening Location
Thursday 3:30pm-8:00pm | Friday 7:00am-8:00pm | Saturday 7:00am-1:00pm Festival registration & merchandise sales Arts Center, TBA
Thursday 3:45pm-5:45pm | Friday 8:00am-5:00pm | Saturday 8:00am-12pm Exhibits: Post-secondary institutions + products/services Arts Center Gallery
Friday 9:45am-1pm | 2-3:30pm Thespy Contest/ Auditions Arts Center Lecture Hall
Thursday 7pm Showcase Wauwatosa West HS
All Day Friday + Saturday AM AWTE Directors’/Educators’ Lounge Arts Center Lounge (2nd Floor)
Saturday: 8:30am-9:30am Registration | 9:45am-12:15pm Contests | 12:45pm Awards Tech Challenge Zelazo Center, Bader Theatre

2024 One-Act Schedule

wdt_ID Day Time Venue School Play
39 Thursday 4:30 PM Mainstage Shorewood High School Hollow
40 Thursday 5:20 PM Mainstage Badger High School Brian the Comet
41 Thursday 6:10 PM Mainstage Riverdale High School When Bad Things Happen To Good Actors
42 Thursday 7:00 PM Mainstage Madison East High School Country Gothic
43 Friday 8:00 AM Mainstage Gibraltar Elementary School Almost Maine
44 Friday 8:00 AM Recital Hall Burlington High School The Lost Boy
45 Friday 8:50 AM Mainstage Waukesha South High School A Midsummer Night’s Dream
46 Friday 9:40 AM Mainstage Hamilton High School Dreamwalk
47 Friday 9:40 AM Recital Hall Bay Port High School May I Have Your Attention, Please?
48 Friday 10:30 AM Mainstage Brookwood High School The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
49 Friday 10:30 AM Recital Hall Owen-Withee High School Fatality
50 Friday 11:20 AM Mainstage Reedsburg Area High School A Trip to the Moon
51 Friday 11:20 AM Recital Hall Tomahawk High School Ten Actors in Search of a Cell Phone
52 Friday 12:10 PM Mainstage Monroe High School Bad Auditions by Bad Actors
53 Friday 12:10 PM Recital Hall Drummond High School How To Survive Being In A Shakespeare Play
54 Friday 2:00 PM Mainstage Homestead High School Everyman
55 Friday 2:00 PM Recital Hall De Pere High School I Don’t Want to Talk About it
56 Friday 2:50 PM Mainstage West De Pere High School The Insanity of Mary Girard
57 Friday 2:50 PM Recital Hall Oconto Falls High School 12 Angry Villains
58 Friday 3:40 PM Mainstage Monona Grove High School Mmmbeth
59 Friday 3:40 PM Recital Hall Manitowoc Lincoln High School #Censored
60 Friday 4:30 PM Mainstage Neenah High School Soundscapes
61 Friday 4:30 PM Recital Hall Wisconsin Lutheran High School 100 Things I Never Said to You
62 Friday 5:20 PM Mainstage Appleton North High School King Lear
63 Friday 5:20 PM Recital Hall West Salem High School When Bad Things Happen to Good Actors
64 Friday 6:10 PM Mainstage Waterford Union High School The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
65 Friday 6:10 PM Recital Hall Augusta High School Man Woman Flower
66 Friday 7:00 PM Mainstage Waukesha West High School The Twelve Dates of Christmas
67 Friday 7:00 PM Recital Hall Plymouth High School Almost, Maine
68 Friday 7:50 PM Mainstage Northland Pines High School Robin Hood and the Unnecessary Rescue
69 Friday 7:50 PM Recital Hall Poynette High School An Experiment
70 Friday 8:40 PM Mainstage Barneveld High School The Girl In The White Pinafore
71 Friday 8:40 PM Recital Hall Greenwood/Loyal High School The Last Illusion
72 Saturday 8:50 AM Mainstage Pulaski High School In Search of the Golden Teardrop
73 Saturday 8:50 AM Recital Hall Lomira High School A Thing of Beauty
77 Saturday 9:40 AM Mainstage Waunakee High School How To Get Away with a Murder Mystery
78 Saturday 10:30 AM Mainstage Regis High School The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter
79 Saturday 10:30 AM Recital Hall Prescott High School Murder of Crows
80 Saturday 11:20 AM Mainstage Tremper High School Souvenir
81 Saturday 11:20 AM Recital Hall Osseo-Fairchild High School Dark Road
82 Saturday 12:10 PM Mainstage Beloit Memorial High School The Secret in the Wings
83 Saturday 12:10 PM Recital Hall Sheboygan Lutheran High School Dancing with Myself
84 Virtual Virtual Virtual Waukesha North Lockdown

2024 Thespys/Auditions Schedule

2024 Workshop Schedule

Fri., 11/22 – 9:45-11:15am The Dragon Bowline and other more useful knots, Theatre Building, Basement T7 Juggling, Mitchell Hall 385 Playwriting & Adaptation, Mitchell Hall 385 Working Shakespeare Scenes & Monologues: Feeding & Dropping, Theatre Building, Basement T6
Fri., 11/22 – 11:30am-1pm Let’s Get Knotty Theatre Building, Basement T7 Storytelling! Mitchell Hall 385 Playwriting & Adaptation, Mitchell Hall 375 Live Microphone Techniques Mitchell Hall 361
Fri., 11/22 – 1-2pm Lunch / Exclusive Exhibit Time
Fri., 11/22 – 2-3:30pm How to apply for undergraduate technical theatre programs Mitchell Hall 361 Let’s Sing A Song of Freedom! Theatre Building, Basement T7 Introduction to Theatre Dance Styles Mitchell Hall 385 Scenic Construction 101: Tools of the Trade Mitchell Hall 375
Fri., 11/22 – 3:45-5:15pm Stage Management Paperwork. What is it good for? Mitchell Hall 361 Rigging Standards for the Everyday User Mitchell Hall 375 Blocking: Actors Can do the Work! Mitchell Hall 385 Self Care for Theater Teachers Theatre Building, Basement T7
Sat., 11/23 – 9:45-11:15am Stage Management Paperwork. What is it good for? Mitchell Hall 361 Introduction to Theatre Dance Styles Mitchell Hall 385 Blocking: Actors Can do the Work! Theatre Building, Basement T6 Dialect Workshop, Theatre Building Basement T7
Sat., 11/23 – 11:30am-1pm Self Care for Theater Teachers Theatre Building, Basement T7