Thank you for joining us at the 2022 conference! Live and in person at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN

Schedule and Program HERE

TTA Conference 2022

This project is supported, in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

TN Theatre Association Secondary School Festival winners 2022

One Act Play-

1st Place – Bearden High School, “Badger” - Dir. Lauren Andrejko

2nd Place – Collierville High School, “Black Comedy” - Dir. Ashleigh Williams

3rd Place – Stewarts Creek High School, “Peter and the Starcatcher” - Dir. Donald Fann

Best Ensemble- Rossview High School, “That’s Not How I Remember It”

Best Direction- Nolensville High School, “The Axeman’s Requiem” - Laura Lindsey

Best Technical- Nolensville High School, “The Axeman’s Requiem”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:  

Madelyn Newsom (Molly) – Stewarts Creek High School

Grayson Tooley (Brindsely) – Collierville High School

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: 

Sarenity Wright (Barbara) – Bearden High School

Jaden Edwards (Teen Barry) – Rossview High School

All-Star Cast 

Nolensville High School “The Axeman’s Requiem”

James Phillips (Baron)

Amy Negusse (Marie)

Cleveland High School “No One Heard Me Cry”

Johnny Legasse (Justin)

Lyrik Cook (Brad)

Stewarts Creek High School “Peter and the Starcatcher”

Jordan Chambers (Boy/Peter)

Wilker Viscaya (Fighting Prawn)

Bearden High School “Badger”

Eli Solomon (Timothy)

Violet King (Irene)

Collierville High School “Black Comedy”

Emily Hiatt (Carol)

Jefferson Shepard (Harold)

Rossview High School “That’s Not How I Remember It”

Riley Weeks (Lola’s Dad)

Mallory Skernivitz (Mom-Lola)

Wilson Central High School “Ajax”

Isaiah Groves (Ajax)

Layla Almumayiz (Athena) 

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TTA Scholarship

Winners - Best Solo Performer:

1st Place: Sh’Ahr Blackburn

2nd Place: Abby O’Guin

Winners - Best Design Tech:

1st Place: KB White

2nd Place: Alice Beattie

Audition Performance:

Winners - Best Solo Performer:

Jordan Chambers

Emma Hamblen

Winners - Best Design Tech:

Michelle Friedman

Paige Hall

Our 2022 Keynote Speaker Was:

Paul Carrol Binkley has been playing the guitar and composing his own music since he was nine years old. He trained at Berklee College of Music in Boston (Jim Hall Jazz Award), Austin Peay State University, and Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt. His solo recordings have received national recognition on such broadcasts as “Music from the Hearts of Space” and NPR’s “All Things Considered” and he has performed his original music worldwide from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville to the Singapore Jazz Festival. Mr. Binkley has also performed and recorded in a wide range of musical styles for a diverse group of artists including Percy Sledge, The Fifth Dimension, Lorrie Morgan, Jim Nabors, Nashville Opera, Nashville Jazz Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Modern Jazz Tuba Project, Cosmic Jazz Faculty, Conversation, Nexus Chamber Orchestra, Marty Raybon, Lari White, Mandy Barnett, Maria Muldaur, Janie Fricke, Holly Dunn, T.G. Sheppard, Carrie Tillis, the McCarters, and spent five years performing with country super group Alabama, including the “American Farewell Tour”. He also worked with Jerry Lewis and Rupert Holmes during the world premiere production of Marvin Hamlisch’s last musical, The Nutty Professor and performed with the national tour of If/Then at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

Paul has music directed, sound designed and composed for over 30 years for theatre companies including Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Vanderbilt University Theatre (Artist in Residence, 2011-2014), Iowa Theatre Artist Company, Mountain Playhouse, Coterie Theatre (Kansas City), Hudson Theatre (Hollywood), and Falcon Theatre (Burbank).  His original theatrical scores have accompanied many award winning plays in theatres across the country including the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Birmingham Children’s Theatre, and garnered Best Production in the United Solo Theatre Festival on Broadway.  Paul composed and arranged music for Scot Copeland’s The Wind in the Willows and Selkie: Between Land and Sea by Laurie Brooks (both published by Dramatic Publishing). His original musical Jack’s Tale (co-written by Scot Copeland) enjoyed it’s 2015 world premiere at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. to much critical acclaim, and his original musical If It Rains (co-written by Laurie Brooks) was featured in workshop at the New Plays for Young Audiences Festival (Provincetown Playhouse – NYU) in 2017. Paul has composed original underscoring for David Alford’s one-man performances of The Thanksgiving Visitor and A Christmas Memory (by Truman Capote), has performed the scores live with Mr. Alford since 1995, and will reprise the works beginning November 23rd at Belmont Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee (2022). He also created the original sound design and served as Musical Director for Alford’s Spirit: The Legend of the Bell Witch, and arranged and produced the music and original cast recording of Smoke: A Ballad of the Night Riders, both of which are performed annually in Adams, Tennessee. He served as Orchestrator and Conductor for the premiere performances of An Elegant Obsession (by George L. Mabry and Richard Gildrie) in the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall at Austin Peay State University in 2018. Most recently Paul composed an original score for Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Summer production (2022) of Cymbeline, directed by Leah Lowe.  

Besides founding and running his own independent label, PCB Music, he serves as musicologist and copyright infringement consultant for several national clients including: Samsung, Google, Honda, Sprint, Target, EA Sports, and Apple.

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