Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) will be holding its 43rd Annual Meeting at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center in Minneapolis, MN on March 9 through 12, 2023!

We are seeking proposals for paper and co-paper presentations, round-table discussions, organized panels, workshops, performances, and hybrid presentations that can be linked to the theme IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE broadly construed, from the perspective of historians, scholars, teachers, producers, directors, actors, playwrights, choreographers, movement specialists, scenographers, technicians, designers, dramaturgs, stage managers, and spectators. 

Proposals might engage:

• Histories of impossible theatres—real, theorized, hoped for;
• Plays set in impossible places; with impossible characters, and that are impossible to produce;
• Impossible pedagogies: before, during, and after COVID;
• Technologies and methods that make the impossible possible

We are especially interested in submissions from anyone involved with theatre, but especially encourage submissions from graduate students, first-time MATC submitters, early career scholars, scholars of the global majority, international scholars, and non-academic practitioners!

See below — or visit the MATC website at http://matc.us — to find individual calls for papers for the all-conference papers, pedagogy symposium, playwriting symposium, practice/production symposium, theatre history symposium, articles-in-progress and pitch-your-book workshops, and emerging scholars panels.

Most symposia have deadlines of October 15, 2022.

• Playwriting Symposium: Dramatists Lab - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/playwriting-symposium/10-minute-plays (DUE SEPT. 30) 
• Playwriting Symposium: Plays in Progress - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/playwriting-symposium/plays-in-progress (DUE SEPT. 30)
• Playwriting Symposium: Actors, Directors, Dramaturgs, and Scenographers - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/playwriting-symposium/actors-directors-dramaturgs
• Pedagogy Symposium - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/pedagogy-symposium
• Practice/Production Symposium - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/acting-and-directing-symposium
• Theatre History Symposium - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/theater-history-symposium
• Articles in Progress Workshop - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/articles-in-progress-workshop
• Job Materials Review Workshop (new this year!) - http://matc.us/job-materials-review-workshop
• Pitch Your Book Workshop - http://matc.us/calls-for-papers/1116-2

The Mid-America Theatre Conference commits to advancing intersectional equity, inclusivity, and diversity; creating a conference that is welcoming and fully accessible; and to disrupting historical systems of exclusion within MATC and the broader academic and theatrical worlds.

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