The 2010-2011 School Year is now underway and Ohio EdTA is ready to help you on your journey this year. If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact any Board member- we are happy to help you capitalize on everything we have to offer you and your students.

Please take a moment to download the opening letter and info sheet. Take a moment to either type in the info and email the info sheet mack to Scott Wilson or print it out and send it through the mail. Also, if you would like to have a show screened for performance at the State Thespian Conference, please download that form and return it to Russ Kwitkowski either digitally or through US mail.

September 30 - October 3- EdTA Annual Conference in New York City

October 9- Troupe Development Day @ Hilliard Davidson

December 4- Central Area Conference @ Dublin Scioto

December 4- Northeast Area Conference @ Riverside

December 4- Southeast Area Conference @ Buckeye Trail

TBA- North Area Conference @ Edison

TBA- Southwest Area Conference @ Troy

March 11-13- National Junior Conference @ Bexley

March 25-27- State Thespian Conference @ Dublin Scioto

June 20-26- International Thespian Festival @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Formerly known as Leadership Day, this event is a great way to get your students headed in the right direction to help strengthen your troupe! It will be held October 9 at Hilliard Davidson HS. Download the registration and return it to Sandy Belcuore by October 1.

NORTHEAST AREA STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN OUR STARS PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN JOIN OTHER THESPIANS IN PLANNING OUR AREA CONFERENCE AND BE ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND FOR FREE!  CLICK ON THE NORTHEAST AREA TAB ON THE RIGHT FOR MORE INFORMATION.

The 2009-2010 Honor Troupe Information is available. Every troupe is encouraged to enter their troupe for recognition. The application for this school year will be due at the 2010 Leadership Day in the fall.

Many of you have asked for a digital version of the Ohio EdTA Membership Handbook.  The handbook nas recently been revised and can be downloaded as a pdf file.  It contains pertinent information particularly for those troupes which have been invited to bring their show to State Conference.  Please read over it and as always, e-mail any Board member with questions.  We're here to help you,

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!