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Bill McCann \u201979<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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We talk a lot about the Pioneer network, lifelong connections and how Transy has your back long after graduation. Ask Bill McCann, Class of 1979, and you\u2019ll find a specific example of how that generous faculty-student connection works even decades after graduation. In Bill\u2019s case, it\u2019s with a faculty member he didn\u2019t even know as a student. But that didn\u2019t stop him from asking for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCann has always loved the theater and held a deep interest in playwriting. \u201cTheater is another way of looking at the world,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of getting people to think about things they might not otherwise think about, in ways they wouldn\u2019t have thought of before.\u201d He began his career at Transy as a theater major, but, at his father\u2019s urging, changed his academic focus to history.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Transy, he worked for a defense contractor in D.C. and earned a degree in education. He returned to Kentucky to work for the Department of Education as a financial management consultant for school districts, helping with everything from budgets to bidding practices. He was always observing and sharing best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, as he was passing through mid-life, he asked himself what he really wanted to be doing\u2014\u201cand it was to write plays and do theater.\u201d He decided to earn a master\u2019s in theater at the University of Kentucky. \u201cI\u2019d always been involved with theater,\u201d he adds, \u201cI\u2019d tried and struggled to write plays for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from UK, McCann was asked to work on a skit about Alzheimer\u2019s disease that staff could use at a human resources conference and to include the humor that is so often overlooked. The idea took hold of him and, after completing his work for UK, he began a multi-year journey toward finding the best way to express the character and the story in play form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re a playwright, you work by yourself,\u201d McCann explains. \u201cIt really helps to get someone\u2019s feedback.\u201d McCann says he was in his forties when he first contacted Tim Soulis, a professor of fine arts at Transy and asked for his help. Soulis didn\u2019t hesitate, McCann says. \u201cHe\u2019s been reading, editing and talking through my plays ever since.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A good question can really open up different possibilities for you. And Tim is good about asking the questions…In many ways, the play wouldn\u2019t exist without him.” <\/p>Bill McCann ’79, playwright<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The most recent version of \u201cBoats Against the Current,\u201d has just been given a workshop performance in Somerset by Flashback Theater. The semi-professional troupe is talking about a possible full production in the spring of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current version is very much a nontraditional play,\u201d McCann says. \u201cIt\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s as experienced by the person who has the disease. I guess you\u2019d call it an interior play, interior to his mind. The audience sees what he sees. If he\u2019s not on stage and witness to something, then it\u2019s not in the play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the right perspective is what made the play work for McCann. He says he found the answer in a student production he saw at Transy in 2016. Something about that play, he says, made him realize, \u201cI\u2019d got it all wrong. I\u2019m trying to do a traditional play and it needs to be an interior play; it needs to happen in this guy\u2019s head.\u201d He rewrote the play in six days, sent it to Soulis for his feedback and then made more changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A good question can really open up different possibilities for you. And Tim is good about asking the questions,\u201d McCann explains. \u201cHe\u2019s been very helpful in that whole process,\u201d McCann says. \u201cOver the last seven years he has read a dozen versions. In many ways, the play wouldn\u2019t exist without him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCann actively passes on that mentoring spirit. He teaches remedial English and theater at the Bluegrass Community and Technical College, helping students construct thoughts into paragraphs. And he is devoted to nurturing, connecting and putting Kentucky playwrights on the map. It\u2019s become his mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past several years, he has helped found the Kentucky Playwrights Workshop, organized public outlets for playwrights at venues like the Kentucky State Fair, hosted \u201cKentucky Plays Today,\u201d an internet television program, and compiled and published \u201cThe Kentucky Theatre Yearbook.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his partner, Jeanine Grant Lister, he has edited and published a collection of plays by prisoners, \u201cI Come From: A Voices Inside Anthology,\u201d drawn from the prison outreach program of the Pioneer Playhouse that works with inmates at the Northpoint Training Center near Danville, Kentucky. Nine of the 14 plays were staged by BCTC graduate Ian Scott and Antagonist Productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCann knows the power that theater has to change how we perceive the world and each other. For inmate playwrights released in time to attend that local production, \u201cit was a way for them to reconnect with their families,\u201d says McCann. \u201cIt allowed their families to see them in a different way than they\u2019d been seen before; they weren\u2019t criminals, they were playwrights. And for some of them that really changed the perception of the family members. So it was very good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fruits of the Transy network fully realized. It\u2019s there for the asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill McCann \u201979 We talk a lot about the Pioneer network, lifelong connections and how Transy has your back long after graduation. Ask Bill McCann, Class of 1979, and you\u2019ll find a specific example of how that generous faculty-student connection works even decades after graduation. In Bill\u2019s case, it\u2019s with a faculty member he didn\u2019t even know as a student. But that didn\u2019t stop him from asking for help. McCann has always loved the theater and held a deep interest in playwriting. \u201cTheater is another way of looking at the world,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of getting people to think about things they might not otherwise think about, in ways they wouldn\u2019t have thought of before.\u201d He began his career at Transy as a theater major, but, at his father\u2019s urging, changed his academic focus to history.\u00a0 After Transy, he worked for a defense contractor in D.C. and earned a degree in education. He returned to Kentucky to work for the Department of Education as a financial management consultant for school districts, helping with everything from budgets to bidding practices. He was always observing and sharing best practices. Then, as he was passing through mid-life, he asked himself what he really wanted to be doing\u2014\u201cand it was to write plays and do theater.\u201d He decided to earn a master\u2019s in theater at the University of Kentucky. \u201cI\u2019d always been involved with theater,\u201d he adds, \u201cI\u2019d tried and struggled to<\/p>\n

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