Registration opening this summer.
--Make your hotel reservation now--
conference hotels are
Hampton Inn & Suites
and
Holiday Inn Express & Suites:
Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville-Smyrna
2573 Highwood Blvd Smyrna, TN 37167
--$139-$149/night
--to book your room as an individual, use this link:
https://group.hamptoninn.com/zoops3
--to book a group, email Sales Rep Jacob Hall
jacob.hall@hilton.com
629-201-1199
(cut off date is Friday 10/3/2025)
--approximately a 12 minute drive to Stewarts Creek High School
--complimentary breakfast
--suites available with pull out sofa
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Smyrna-Nashville Area
2565 Highwood Blvd Smyrna, TN 37167
--$125/night
--to book your room as an individual, use this link:
--to book a group, contact Sales Rep Brianna Selmer
(615) 751-4290
(cut off date is Thursday 10/9/2025)
--approximately a 12 minute drive to Stewarts Creek High School
--complimentary breakfast
--suites available with pull out sofa
Calvin Leon Smith
2025 TTA Keynote Artist
UT-K Theatre Alumnus
Calvin Leon Smith is currently starring as Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway. He previously starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Fat Ham on Broadway, following an acclaimed run at The Public Theater earning an Obie Award. Television credits include: Barry Jenkins’ Golden Globe award-winning Amazon series “The Underground Railroad,” HBO’s “The Deuce” and acclaimed series “High Maintenance." Other theater credits include Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat with The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, Animal Kingdom at The Connelly, The Miser at Moliere in the Park and On The Grounds Of Belonging at the Long Wharf Theatre; several plays with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Clarence Brown Theatre; and Macbeth at Shakespeare on the Sound. On film, Calvin has appeared in Benny & James (Cannes Film Festival premiere), Better Man (Best Actor, Queens World Film Festival), Paper Friends and RSVP. Calvin has a BA in Theatre from the UT Knoxville, an MFA in Acting from The Juilliard School and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.
--Calvin Leon Smith's keynote session will include a master class and performance, as well as his story about becoming a
Broadway actor--
TTA sent two high schools to the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Baltimore March 18-22, 2025! Click here to see the awards!
View the 2024 Scholarship and Award Winners HERE
TTA Is Partnering With:
TTA 2024 Sponsors:
Member Organizations & Partners
2024-25 TTA Partners
2024-25 Member Organizations
We strive to grow and improve theatre arts in Tennessee
The Mission of the Tennessee Theatre Association is to unite those persons and groups from throughout the state with a common interest in theatre arts and to further the growth and improvement of theatre of all types within the state.
Further, the Association's mission is to represent the state of Tennessee in all regional, national, and international theatre organizations that it deems appropriate.
