The Ohio EdTA Hall of Fame has been established to honor those individuals who have given outstanding service to Ohio EdTA and Ohio Thespians. Honorees will be persons who are not current Thespian troupe directors.

Nominations:

1. Any current Ohio EdTA adult member may submit a letter of nomination.
2. Letters of nomination must be received by Gloria McIntyre, Chapter Director, by January 27th, 2009.
3. Letters should contain the following information: (a) the full name and title (if appropriate) of the nominee, (b) the current school, business, community, or organizational affliation of the nominee, (c) any previous such afflications that contribuute to the nominee's qualifications, (d) a list of the specific contributions of the nominee has made to the owrk of the organization, (e) a statement by the person submitting the letter that he/she has researched and verified the accuracy of the information contained in the letter.

Qualifications

1. The nominee must have served Ohio EdTA in a significant manner over a period of several years.
2. The nominee may be a college/university professor or instructor, a conference host, an All-Ohio Show Director or Tech Director, a workshop or in-service presenter, a former Thespian Troupe director, a businessman, a parent, or a member of the community at large.
3. The contributions of the nominee may have focused on one or more areas which either advanced theatre education for students or teachers or advanced the organization's ability to serve its members.

Send Nominations to: gmcintyre@ohedta.org or 21872 Addington Blvd.; Rocky River, OH; 44116

The OEdTA Board of Directors is implementing a new program this year known as Honor Troupes. This is an opportunity for Thespian Troupes in Ohio to be recognized for the work they do that helps to make the troupe successful. It is not a competition between Troupes, it is more of a challenge to the individual troupes to work toward achieving gold, silver, or bronze status. The information and application forms are available for download here. The timeframe for this annual award spans the entire school year, so it is important to start collecting evidence of your events and activities now. The application for 2008-2009 recognition will be due by the date of the 2009 Leadership Conference. If you have any questions about this new recognition, please contact Scott Wilson, swilson@ohedta.org.

Congratulations to the 2009 All-Ohio Ensemble of All Shook Up

The directors and Board of Directors for Ohio Educational Theatre Association would like to thank everyone who auditioned/interviewed; competition was stiff this year. To those of you who were not selected, please know that your effort and talent was truly appreciated. To those of you who were selected, more information will be coming your way shortly. Thanks to everyone again.

For more information about All Shook Up, please visit our All Ohio Production section of our website.

Over the past few years, the Ohio Educational Theatre Association's organizational needs had begun to outgrow their website. This year there has been a complete redesign of their website and the board has tons of new and exciting ideas for this school year. With new ideas comes improvement, starting with a new website.

proVanceTek has worked with the Ohio Educational Theatre Association to completely overhaul the visual design of the website and its functionality. We're striving to appeal to the Theatre students, teachers, and parents of Ohio schools. We've created a design that incorporates an easy-on-the-eyes color scheme and a content management system that allows Ohio EdTA board members easily edit the site's content. We're striving to move from a Web 2.0 mindset this year to working towards the concept of Web 3.0 for next year - we have lots of ideas.

The new release of the website utilizes the Drupal Content Management System which is more widely used for corporate websites that manage lots of data and websites that need to incorporate lots of web applications. The former format of the website was limiting when it comes to some of the cool features we're planning on adding to our site. This year we hope to implement online registration for event, multimedia, and much more!

We hope you like our new design and the features we'll be adding. Stay tuned for more exciting improvements!