Twenty-three members of the Judge Memorial Catholic High School drama program will participate in this weekend's three-day Utah Theatre Association conference.

Held this year in Provo at Brigham Young University on January 26-28, Darin Hathaway routinely takes a large number of Judge Memorial actors and technicians to the conference. Students have the opportunity to take master classes covering all aspects of theatre from playwriting to movement to acting technique to design to stage management and everything in between. Also available are scholarship auditions in singing and acting.

This year’s Keynote Address and Performance highlights a local favorite. The Utah Shakespearean Festival Artistic Director Brian Vaughn will be speaking with us about his performance experiences and work in theatre and then we will get to watch the Utah Shakespearean Festival Touring Play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

This year’s guests featured artists are Paul Castree and Elise Forier Edit. Castree has been a working actor for over 20 years, He has traveled throughout the United States and Canada performing on the stage, radio and television. He has appeared on Broadway and on the TONY Awards. He has worked with Twyla Tharp, performed on the Rosie O’Donnell Show, the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade telecast. Edie is a professional director, actor and award winning playwright. She has worked all over the country, in all kinds of theatres. Currently, she works as Head of Performance at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, where she teaches classes in acting and playwriting.