Global EPIC Event
120+ Speakers!
50+ Sessions across 24 Hours
50 HOURS OF CONTENT
Starting 9am, EST
JANUARY 10, 2022
LIVE or ON DEMAND for one month.
Tickets start from 60 USD.
Translation by Wordly into 15 Languages
YOU get to choose your agenda. Watch one Pillar, or move between all four Pillars of CREATE, DESIGN, PERFORM, and PRODUCE. Go where you are most inspired.
CREATE: Directors, Choreographers, Composers, Creative Industry Leaders
PERFORM: Dancers, Actors, Singers, Circus Artists, Clowns, Coaches, Physical Therapists
DESIGN: Lighting, Sound, Scenic, Puppetry, Costume, & Automation Designers, Technicians & Backstage Personnel
PRODUCE: Producers, Production Managers, Company Managers, Stage Managers, Press and Marketing Personnel.
Buy your ticket now!
A Standard Ticket gives you access to the 24-hour live conference.
A Premium Ticket gives you the 24-hour live conference and replay access for 1 month to watch all of the sessions. With the premium ticket, you can view all sessions from all four Pillars in your own time. That’s 50 Hours of Content!
Get your ticket so you don't miss this amazing chance to hear from the industry leaders (and more):
Available anywhere and translated into 15 Languages
(including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish).
More info at: www.globalepicevent.com
9:00AM EST
OPENING
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An Inside Look into Dubai Expo
Karl Jenkins, Kat Landry
10:15AM EST
CREATE - The Language of Choreography: Communicating Culture and Story Through Movement
Sergio Trujillo
CREATE - Composition as a Dramatic Narrative: Beyond the Canvas
René Dupéré
PERFORM - Innovation of Human Performance: Circus and Multi-Disciplinary Spectacles
Boris Verkhovsky
DESIGN - That Strange Thing I Do: Creating Special Effects on Stage
Jeremy Chernick
PRODUCE - Managing The Company: The Essential Role of Broadway's Company Managers
Susan Sampliner, Susan Keappock, Kim Shaw
11:30AM EST
CREATE - Dance Outliers: Keeping Dance Forms from the Street Alive & Authentic
Michael Moloi, Natasha Jean-Bart, Matías Jaime
PERFORM - The Stories We Create: Maximizing Your Full Potential and Mastering the Artistry of Life
Lisa Hopkins
DESIGN - Bringing Design to Life: Hamilton's Costumes, from Inspiration to Implementation
Paul Tazewell, Scott Westervelt, Jessica Dermody
PRODUCE - Productions on the High Seas: The Rising Tide of Entertainment on Cruise Ships
Joyce Arbucias, Richard Hester, Marahscalh Stanton
1:00PM EST
MAINSTAGE - Producing Your Own Work
Ken Davenport
2:15PM EST
CREATE - Directing with Diversity: Breaking Down Stereotypes & Opening the Range of Expression
Leslie Ishii, Liam Steel, Kimberley Rampersad
PERFORM - Life is a Cabaret! A Sizzling Conversation with Joey Arias and Reuben Kaye
Joey Arias, Reuben Kaye
DESIGN - Audio Engineers & Design: Technicians & Artists
Carin Ford, Jon Weston, Jessica Paz, Vinnie Macri
PRODUCE - Producing for the Cultural Moment
Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez, Daryl Roth
3:30PM EST
CREATE - Collective Creativity: The 7 Fingers, Sum of Its Participants
Gypsy Snider
PERFORM - Demystifying Casting: Influence on the Creative Process
Pavel Kotov, Tara Rubin, Niki Winterson, Victor Vazquez, Andrée Deissenberg
DESIGN - Little Amal: The Refugee Story Told by a 7Ft Puppet
Craig Leo
DESIGN - Beyond the Boundaries of Puppetry
Michael Curry
PRODUCE - Sustainable Practices for Productions
Molly Braverman, Christian Gade Bjerrum, Peter Maccoy
5:00PM EST
MAINSTAGE - Mehmet Ünal Ensemble: Theremin to Metaverse, Evolution of Electronic Music Instruments and Performances
Mehmet Ünal, Kerem Demirayak
6:15PM EST
CREATE - Words & Music: Speaking Across Languages and Cultures Through Song
Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty
PERFORM - Send In The Clown: Learning from Play, Laughter, and Failing Big
Shannan Calcutt
DESIGN - Design Tools: CAD
Jim Woodward
PRODUCE - Creating Mega Ceremonies: You Only Get One Shot
Scott Givens
7:30PM EST
CREATE - Dare to Create: Gilles Ste-Croix - A Life Behind and Beyond the Making of Cirque du Soleil
Gilles Ste-Croix
Introduced by Robert Lepage
PERFORM - Creating Safe Spaces in High Risk Storytelling
Dayna Grant, Cha Ramos, Mahsa Ahmadi
DESIGN - The Language of Light: Storytelling with Lighting Design
Natasha Katz, Dawn Chiang, Gabriel Chan
PRODUCE - New Management Approach: Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice
Narda E. Alcorn, Lisa Porter
9:00PM EST
MAINSTAGE - Billy Porter: Superstar, Artist & Activist
Billy Porter
10:15PM EST
CREATE - Fresh Avenues in Opera: How Directors Are Making Opera New and Vital
Mo Zhou, Matthew Ozawa, Priti Gandhi, Gene Scheer
PERFORM - A Dancer's Life: Living a Latin Legacy
Isaac Hernández
PERFORM - Pursuing Your Dream, Inspiring A Generation: Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland
DESIGN - The Essential Role of Hair & Make-Up
Joe Dulude II, Chuck LaPoint, La Sonya Gunter
PRODUCE - Leading Through Change: Managing through Crises and the Shifting Face of Live Entertainment
Jerry Nadal
PRODUCE - Production Management in Theme Parks
David Stewart
11:30PM EST
CREATE - The Writer's Voice I: Serving the Underserved
Douglas Lyons
CREATE - The Writer’s Voice II: Capturing Culture Clash Onstage
David Henry Hwang 黄哲伦
PERFORM - Working Through Mental Health and Finding Success: Actors Sharing Their Experiences
Bret Shuford, Pearl Sun
DESIGN - Projection Mapping: The Creative and Technical Approach
Tamás Vaspöri, Peter Milne, Omar Serna
PRODUCE - Propared: Reinventing Live Event Project Management
Ryan Kirk
1:00AM EST
MAINSTAGE - Shifting the Narrative: How Touch Compass's Five Pillars of Disability Leadership Centers Diverse and Inclusive Perspectives
Lusi Faiva, Rodney Bell, Suzanne Cowan
2:15AM EST
CREATE - Fearless, Impassioned. All In. Giuliano Peparini - Artistic Director.
Giuliano Peparini
CREATE - Telling The Stories We Need Now: A Director's Vision
Kenny Leon
PERFORM - Your Body is Your Instrument: Maintenance and Care for Performers
Heidi L. Green, Taaj Jaharah
DESIGN - IATSE: Professional Stagehands Union (Discussion on Purpose and Values of Unions)
Carin Ford, Denise J Grillo, Sandy Paradise
PRODUCE - Show Calling and Production Stage Management at Scale: Behind the Scenes of Running Olympic Ceremonies and Stadium Shows
Gareth Hulance, Jorge Tapia Briggs
3:30AM EST
CREATE - Devising the Director and Stage Manager Collaboration in the Global Context
Ong Keng Sen 王景生
PERFORM - The Chameleon: An Actor's Career Crossing Circus, Broadway, Film, and Directing
Lorenzo Pisoni
PERFORM - The Life and Legacy of Actor
Lillias White
DESIGN - The Future of Automation in Entertainment: TAIT
Gemma Hodgson, Jim Love, Kevin Taylor
PRODUCE - Break Through the Noise: Press & Marketing in 2022 and Beyond
Chris Boneau
5:00AM EST
MAINSTAGE - Bringing Art and Creativity to Public Spaces in War Zones and Beyond
Samantha Robison, Safen Muhammad
6:45AM EST
CREATE - Creating Mega-Spectacle: Protecting the Message while Raising the Scale
Lulu Helbæk
PERFORM - We Come From Away: Four Actors' Journey Into The Global Hit
Josh Breckenridge, De'Lon Grant, Joseph Naim, Teddy Trice
DESIGN - Spectrums of Light: Working Across Genres in Lighting Design
Chris Moylan
DESIGN - Imagining the Space: The Creative Process of a Scenic Designer
Jae Hun You 유재헌
PRODUCE - A Tale of Two Cultures, Beetlejuice on Two Sides of the World
Matt DiCarlo, Yoonha Choi 최윤하
8:00AM EST
MAINSTAGE - CLOSING
