Friday, November 12

Bryant Park Grill, 25 West 40th Street
6:00pm – 9:30pm

6:00pm – 7:00pm	Registration and Cocktail Reception
7:00pm – 9:30pm	Dinner and Opening Keynote Speech: Douglas B. Wilson (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs)

Saturday, November 13

The Desmond Tutu Center
180 Tenth Avenue (between 20-21st Streets)
8:30am – 5:00pm

8:30am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast Available Registration, Materials Pick-Up
9:00am – 9:15am	Welcome
9:15am - 10:15am	Changing Lives on a Global Scale Moderator: Christopher Hibma (Associate Director, Sundance Institute Theatre Program) Panelists: Judyie Ella Al-Bilali (Founder and Director, Brown Paper Studio); Mark Booher (Artistic Director, PCPA Theaterfest); John O’Neal (Artistic Director, Junebug Productions); Joanna Sherman (Artistic Director, Bond Street Theatre)
10:15am - 10:45am	Coffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am	Economic Survival and Sustainable Yield Presentation by William Baldwin (Investment Strategies Editor, Forbes Media). Nonprofit groups and the donors that support them are still licking their wounds from the stock market crash of 2008-09. What are the prospects for a continuing recovery on Wall Street? How much can an institution safely spend from its endowment? And how can 501(c)3 organizations maximize their appeal to givers? This session will range from the big picture on economic stimulus to the nitty-gritty of charitable remainder trusts.
11:30am - 11:45am	Coffee Break
11:45am - 12:45pm	Finding Our Sense of Social: Coming of Age After the Great Recession Robbie Blinkoff (Principal Anthropologist and Managing Partner, Context-Based Research Group)
12:45pm - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Breakout Sessions: What Do We Know About Audiences? Moderator: Rick Lester (CEO, TRG Arts) Participants: Brad Erickson (Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area); Terence McFarland (Executive Director, LA Stage Alliance); Sarah Sullivan (Senior Program Analyst, National Endowment for the Arts) Alternative Staffing Structures Moderator: Teresa Eyring (Executive Director, TCG) Participants: Gordon Gabbay (Owner, Humble Monkey LLC); Jacquie Holmes (Founder and President, Kiwi Partners); Tim Jennings (Managing Director, Seattle Children's Theatre); Stanford Makishi (Executive Director, Baryshnikov Arts Center) Stewardship in a Time of Change: A New Look at the Role of the Trustee Moderator: Jaan Whitehead (Co-Editor, The Art of Governance: Boards in the Performing Arts) Participants: Gigi Bolt (Board Chair, SITI Company); Aimée Hayes (Artistic Director, Southern Rep); Jerry Manning (Artistic Director, Seattle Repertory Theatre); Jim Steinberg (Trustee, Denver Center Theatre Company and The Public Theater) We make decisions every day, under many circumstances.  Over time, these decisions tell the story of our artistic and organizational priorities.  During prolonged times of financial hardship, when an entire field faces making the same difficult decisions to protect the health of their organizations, how much of a toll is taken on the imagination and artistry of our artistic directors and the artists we hire to create our plays?  How much of a toll is taken on the long-term health of the art form itself?  How can we talk about this?  Is there a sense in which trustees hold the art in trust for a community as well as the institution?  Are there ways trustees can support their artistic director’s ability to balance today’s economic imperatives with tomorrow’s artistic aspirations?  Join our panel of artistic directors and trustees as they try to grapple with these thorny questions.
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Coffee Break
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Banishing Burnout: Surviving Crisis Mode Moderator: Kate Warner (Artistic Director, New Repertory Theatre) Panelists: Barry Grove (Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club); Dawn Helsing Wolters (Managing Director, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Hetal Patel (Managing Director, Brava Theater Center); David Schmitz (General Manager, Steppenwolf Theatre Company) In our “new normal” economic climate every theatre in America is doing more with less. The challenges these times present are monumental to all aspects of our business, but specifically to our ability to attract, retain and grow our most valuable resource: the people who are the backbone of our organizations. How do we keep our staffs fired up and excited about the work of the theatre when we can’t promise a return to “normal”? Can we engage staff by ensuring they are a part of our conversation as we define ourselves in this “new normal?” Where do we find the spark of hope, and how do we flame that spark?
5:00pm - 7:30pm	Dinner on your own/National Council members' event
8:00pm	In the Wake, by Lisa Kron At the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street (just below Astor Place) Optional - click here to purchase tickets.

Sunday, November 14

The Desmond Tutu Center
180 Tenth Avenue (between 20-21st Streets)
8:30am – 12:30pm

8:30am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast Available
9:00am – 10:15am	Vision In Context Moderator: Angel Ysaguirre (Director of Global Community Investing, The Boeing Company) Panelists: Diane Paulus (Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater); Bill Rauch (Artistic Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); others TBA
10:15am - 10:45am	Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm	Blown Sideways with a Vision Mark Lipton (Author, Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course)
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Closing

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