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June 2003 We got a postcard announcing a production of three one-acts by alum David DeWitt (BA 83) at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC. Collectively titled Her Sonoma Story, the three plays run Jun 18 through June 29, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. The Neighborhood Playhouse is at 340 East 54th St, 212-330-7093. A description from the theatremania.com website:
The next day brought another postcard, promoting two evenings of one-acts titled First Light at Circle East in New York City. In addition to works by Craig Lucas and Joe Pintauro, David DeWitt's "This Will Be the Death of Him" will be presented. The run is June 12 through June 29. Here's David's bio from the Circle East website: David DeWitt is a Circle East member. For the company: SHE HAS CHARACTER ("Centered Margins" festival). HER SONOMA STORY, a trilogy of integrated shorts, is running this month at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Other one-acts include WHAT I MISSED IN THE '80s Sanctuary, Fourth Unity) and MAE AND HER STORIES (Primary Stages' "Moment of Bliss" festival). Regional productions in New Jersey, Arkansas, and Texas. Full-lengths include ALL FOR THE NEW MAN BAND. Master's in acting, University of South Carolina.
We received this email, including attached production photos, from R. Scott Williams (MFA 96): Our production of Lee Blessing's Thief River, a DC premiere, closed last weekend to tumultuous audiences and rave reviews. This play seems to have struck a chord with audiences, with its themes of acceptance, love, and past choices made and regretted. The Washington Post was particularly enthusiastic, calling the production "beautifully rendered," and giving special mention to director Steve Carpenter (MFA, 95), former USC grad student Peter Joyce, who provided the dynamic lighting design ("...the combined skills of actors, director, writer and designers...create the kind of theatrical intensity that sucks most of us into its vortex"), and to myself, for my dual roles ("R. Scott Williams makes the biggest leap, from the role of a brutal homophobic drifter to that of the middle-aged Gil, well settled into his identity as a gay man..."). This summer, Steve will be appearing at Olney Theatre Center in Piaf, while I'll be doing the summer stock thing, playing in Brigadoon at Shenandoah Music Theatre in Virginia.
Email from alumna Karen Eterovich (MFA 89): The next performances of "Love Arm'd, Aphra Behn & Her Pen" will be in conjunction with the Kings County Shakespeare Cos. production of The Rover on June 14 at 3pm. An additional performance of "Love Arm'd" will take place on June 28 at 3pm. All performances are at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. For tickets and more information check out: http://www.kingscountyshakespeare.org/ Since last I wrote "Love Arm'd" has toured to Columbia, SC; Richmond, VA; and Milledgeville, GA. Upcoming directing projects include She Stoops to Conquer. I am also developing a comic one-woman show based on the life of Jane Austen (1775-1817) - if you are interested in obtaining more info on this new show, please drop me a line! Wishing you sunshine and warmth this summer, Karen Eterovich
May 2003 We got a postcard announcing a production of Lee Blessing's Faith River at the Theatre Alliance at the H Street Playhouse in Washington, DC. The cast includes alum R. Scott Williams (MFA '96). The show is directed by Steven Carpenter (MFA '95). The show runs May 10-June 7, with performances on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Box office is 1-800-494-8497.
SCREENED AT THE 2003 SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL: Plenty of movies aspire to bring you back to where you were born and show you what you’re missing, but seldom have has a film so found itself perfectly in tune with what makes rural Americana special as this homespun vision of love, friendship and family. Nosey Parker is the kind of film that you can take your grandmother to and come out of it with a better relationship with her. It’s the kind of film that you could watch seventeen times and never get bored of. ...Take it from a jaded bastard; if you don’t come out of this film applauding and hoping that co-lead Natalie Picoe is on the verge of something great in her acting career, you need therapy – plain and simple. Nosey Parker is due to play at Columbia's Nickleodeon later in 2003 and Natalie promises to come to town with the film. (Photo of Natalie Picoe and co-star Richard Snee from the Bellwether Films website.) Columbia's The State newspaper featured alum Bruce Littlefield (BA 1989) in a business section article. Littlefield, working with real estate agent extraordinaire Barbara Corcoran, co-wrote Use What You've Got: And Other Business Lessons I Learned From My Mom, which according to The State "ranks among the top-selling business books in the nation." Littlefield was a dual-major in theatre and journalism at USC. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Outstanding Senior at the University of South Carolina, he moved to New York City and found work as an actor. He also gained a master's in journalism from New York University. Bruce co-wrote the play, Game$how, a parody of pop culture. He worked extensively with Gail Sheehy on the best-selling biography of former First Lady Hillary Clinton entitled Hillary's Choice, and has just completed a commissioned play based on the life of Fritz Perls, the father of Gestalt Therapy. AND he owns The Rosendale Cement Company, now a popular restaurant in the Catskills. You can read more about him—if you're not already exhausted—at his website Movin' In. Current MFA directing candidate Craig Miller directed August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Trustus Theatre through agreement with the department. The production was a great success. The Free Times reviewer, for example, wrote: Guest director Craig Miller has staged the work with attention to all its varied tones and nuances, comic to sorrowful. The fine set is the work of Andy Mills, and K. Dale White did the perfectly period costumes. This is in every way a powerful rendition of a potent work.
The reappearance this season of four major revivals of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—at the Classical Theatre of Harlem and on Broadway, as well as at Arena Stage in Washington, DC and Trustus theatre in Columbia, SC—further consolidates the belief that Wilson has spawned a veritable industry of his own…. Trustus’s director Craig Miller demonstrated a solid understanding of the play’s power dynamics. Instead of Ma ordering Irvin to tell off Sturdyvant, Miller deleted three words (“You tell Sturdyvant”) and revamped Ma Rainer’s final moments in the play so that Ma lashed out at both Irvin and Sturdyvant before she signed her name and said, “One more mistake like this, and I can make my record some place else.” “ I thought that August let off Sturdyvant too easily by not having him stand there and wait for Ma to sign the release form,” Miller says. “I really wanted to power-pack that moment so that when the form changed hands, we saw the power shift. That release form is a symbol, and when it is out of her hand, her power is gone.” Trustus’s Ma Rainey, the amply endowed Valdina Hall, remained in control of the means of production from the moment she burst in until the absolute last second that she walked out the door. For, as Ma herself admits in the play, once the white record producers have captured her voice, “It’s just like I’m some whore and they roll over and put their pants on.”
Production photos from Trustus' Ma Rainey' Black Bottom, courtesy Craig Miller. The picture on the left appeared in American Theatre.
April 2003 Dr. Howard Kingkade's (MFA, '84) screenplay, A Working Class
Hero,
is one of nine
December 2002 Email from Karen Eterovich:
Jamestown, Virginia, 1676. A riotous pub, a rebellious,
charismatic leader, a dissipated, dysfunctional, drunken governing
counsel, a ravishing Indian Queen, a lusty widow and voluptuous,
tempting wives, Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter" - an insightful
story that will make you laugh and cry and ask Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter" directed by Karen Eterovich will be read by a roster of actors with Broadway and Off-Broadway credits on Monday, December 2, 2002, 6pm to 9 pm at the HERE Arts Center in the Dorothy B Theatre on 145 Sixth Avenue (between Spring & Broome). "The Widow Ranter" has never been produced in the United States - please let me know if you've heard of a production! William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" directed by Karen Eterovich at Bergen Community College, plays December 4-8. See http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/community_events/ for more information! And email from Andrea King: Hi USC Theatre folk! I'm not too far away there in the great metropolis of Charlotte, NC. I've been keeping very busy lately. I was recently hired by the Children's Theatre of Charlotte as a teacher. I just finished the Fall 8-week session. I had 10 different classes once a week. And I have come to the conclusion that I'm never having children! Actually, it was fun and I learned a lot from it. I am also a part of the Children's Theatre touring group called The Tarradiddle Players. It's a group of three actors that tours to preschools around NC. Good times. A few months ago, I was nominated in the Creative Loafing (similar to the Free Times) for Best Newcomer in Theatre for my roles in "Anton in Show Business" with the Actor's Theatre of Charlotte and "You Can't Take It With You" with Theatre Charlotte. I am currently involved with a group called Chickspeare (an
all-female Shakespeare troupe) in a Well, this has turned into quite a lengthy little story, so I'll wrap it up. I'll be in Cola some over New Year's. I hope to see you all around.
November 2002 Email from Alyson King: Hi everybody. I'm still in LA acting my heart out. I no longer work as a graphic desinger. I just finished filming a television show for The Learning Channel called Identity. I've also been very busy with theatre this year. I recently closed a campy little 60's comedy called "One Toe in the Grave" for which I received a smashing review in which I was called a "particular standout" and a "sweet and sexy Marilyn Monroe look-alike". I've also given writing a try. I'm currently working on a couple of short films that will hopefully start production soon. I will not only write these, but of course act in them as well. Hey, that's the beauty of writing your own script. That is about all. I'll be visiting SC over New Year's and hopefully will get to see everyone then. And more email, from Larry Dooley: Hello to everyone at USC Theatre...and beyond! This is Larry Dooley (MA 1994) writing from Ogden, Utah, where I am Assistant Professor of Theatre at Weber State University. I have been reading the Alumni news and thought it was time to check in and say a few words about what I've been up to. I remember many people from my days at USC...and I hope a few of you remember me. After USC, I went on to earn a PH.D. in Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism from Indiana University, Bloomington. It was a long but (in the end) great experience. In 2000, I accepted an offer to be a Visiting (one-year contract) Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The position ended up lasting two years, and I really enjoyed Chicagoland. During the second year, I went on the tenure-track search and ended up with an offer from Weber State. I am loving it here. We live at the base of the mountain where some of the Olympic downhill events took place and the job description is right up my alley: Theatre Generalist. I am teaching a little of everything, from history to Acting--and I am directing once per year. Having a ball with new challenges. Finally (but more importantly), the "we" mentioned above is now up to 4. My wife, Donna, and I have two young boys: Patrick (4) and Ian (17 months). Yes, life is busy--and great! I would love to hear from anyone at USC or among the alums. My best to everyone! ldooley@weber.edu
August 2002 Dept. Chair and Artistic Director Jim O'Connor with Prof. Erica Tobolski visited the Utah Shakespearean Festival and met with a number of USC alums and interns. Guy Molnar, recent MFA, was hired again this season. Recent BA grads Eric Abrams and Stephen Cone are interning.
June 2002 Aluma Nan Savard is appearing in the ensemble of the Kennedy Center’s summer production of Sweeney Todd, headlined by Brian Stokes Mitchell and Christine Baranski. Here’s her bio from the program:
Craig Miller emails from the Clinton Area Showboat theatre, where he, Rebecca Hadley and Scott Bellot were invited this summer by guest director of Antigone, Jay Berkow:
The review did say that, and I quote: "Director
Craig Miller's production enfolds the audience with comedy, while
playfully challenging conservative views of alternative lifestyles."
It also states that, "Costume designer Rebecca Hadley's costumes were a colorful template that added to the production's sparkle." The
show closed on Sunday - and we have all moved on now to "Sylvia"
which opens on Thursday. Scott [Bellot] is doing a nice job
in that show - he is playing Greg. I have also attached some photos from Victor Victoria! Enjoy.
May 2002 News received by email from Mindi (Blackburn) Penn and Thom Penn Thom and I are in Dallas, TX. After moving here for Thom to pursue his MFA in Acting at SMU, we've stuck around a few extra years, due in part to the fact that we are 3 now, with the arrival of our daughter Maddi on August 10, 1999. Thom has worked extensively here in Dallas at the Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Theatre Three, and WaterTower Theater. He is currently the drama professor at a small, private Christain school called The Cambridge School of Dallas. He'll be appearing as Hotspur in the 2002 Dallas Shakespeare Festival. I spent 1997-1998 working at Theater Three and Our Endeavors here in town up until I was 6 months preggers with Maddi (doing a show preggers drives costumer designers crazy, by the way!) Then, I took off 2 1/2 years from performing to hang out with her, only doing the occasional staged reading and teaching acting for SMU's Continuing Ed department. I have just finished my "comeback" performance as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at WaterTower Theater. It was SO good to be back on stage again! Here are some family pics: http://people.smu.edu/mpenn/ The temp job at took at SMU when we arrived in Dallas has become my current position as Assistant Director of Continuing Studies, so that's where you'll find me 9-5 these days. mpenn@mail.smu.ed .
He's just signed to be the face of Viagra. Does this look like the face of Viagra?
We received this email update on Darlene Patrice Mann, from her mother: Darlene Patrice Mann (Class 1993, BA Theatre) received her MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University @ Meadows School of Arts in 1996. She now lives in the Los Angeles area. Darlene was married Oct, 2000 to Joe Clark (USC Class 1992/ Mass Communication) Joe is Best Boy Grip on Six Feet Under filmed in Los Angeles. Darlene's credits include: Family Law, Another World 1997, Guiding Light, Walker Texas Ranger, Kenan & Kel , Wishbone, TV movie Murder in the Mirror, boxoffice movie The Big Tease, and in theatre Hamlet and As You Like It (Dallas Shakespeare Festival), Warp (Off-Broadway), and Pilgrimage (Blowing Rock). Darlene is a member of "The SpyAnts" Theatre Company in Los Angeles, and is busy with plays and auditions.
April 2002 This-and-that collected for the Alum News section of the Spring THSPnews: Rising undergraduate Stephen Cone has been hired by the Utah Shakespearean Festival for roles this summer. Drew Bates, BA 2001, is currently living in Burbank, CA working in an editing office at Universal Studios. Some recent credits in LA include voice-over for the History Channel, features in The Majestic, Spider Man, Orange County, TV appearances in Alias and Grounded for Life. He is a member of Theatre East. Sterling Rush, BA 1999, is in LA working as the onset dresser for Fox’s 24. Features include The Patriot, Vanilla Sky, Men in Black 2 and for TV, 24, Grounded for Life and Strip Mall. Alyson King, BA 2000, is in LA working as a graphic artist for Glendale Theatre Company. She has had feature roles in commercials and student films. Jennifer Moody, BA 1998, is now in LA following a year at Shadowbox Theatre in Columbus, OH. She is moving away from acting and is the lead singer in a band. David Coleman, MFA 1999, spent two years in Atlanta, GA, designing professionally including two world premieres. He was guest designer for Dollywood’s Night Shift, and the University of South Carolina’s Twelfth Night. David has started his own design business called Sallos Designs Inc., which focuses on commercial props and art direction as well as designing for Fox Sports Net and doing technical drawing for Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Lindsay Wray, BA 1999, spent two years in Atlanta and is now a member of Actors’ Equity Association. She did the world premiere of If It Were Easy… as well as appearing in commercials, trade shows, and films in Atlanta. She moved to LA with David Coleman in August 2001 where she is pursuing acting. Kevin Shaw, MFA 1997, is currently designing the lighting for a show at the Florida Repertory Theatre. It is a musical review called My Way, based on the music of Frank Sinatra. Since moving to Chicago in February of 2000 Kevin has designed several shows including the Chicago premiere of The Empress of China, and the world premiere of Lust ‘N Rust: The Trailer Park Musical. He’s a member of The Frump Tucker Theatre Co.(www.frumptucker.org). He’s also involved with a company called AlleyCat Productions which is developing a new musical called Madame X (www.see-madamex.com). During the day he works as a Theatre Specialist at Schuler & Shook, Inc. (www.schulershook.com), a theatre consulting and architectural lighting design firm with projects going on all over the country. Susan Parker Morrison, BA 2001, is currently working as an intern with Florida Studio Theatre, a small Equity theatre in Sarasota, FL. She is working with the marketing department and house managing the Mainstage until June.
March 2002 USC alum Tyler Marchant is the Associate Artistic Dirctor
of Primary Stages Company in NYC. He is the "curator"
of two evenings of 10 minute plays collectively titled "A Moment
of Bliss." Included in the second evening is a script by another
USC alum David DeWitt. They are keeping company with playwrights
such as Neil LaBute, Romulus Linney and others. The performances are free, on Monday, March 4 and Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 pm. Performances are at Primary Stages, 354 West 45th Street, between 8th and 9th avenues.
January 2002 Two to four inches of snow closed the Columbia campus for a couple days, beginning January 2. Alas, neither students nor faculty were back to work yet but staff got a New Year's surprise.
USC alum Firdous Bamji has a featured role in Tony Kushner's new drama, Homebody/Kabul, directing by Declan Donnellan at The New York Theatre Workshop. USA Today called his performance "especially compelling." A decade after the success of the two parts of Angels in America, Kushner returned this December to NYC with his new work, Homebody/Kabul, at a time when the play's setting of Afghanistan has become a major focal point of the world. Homebody/Kabul follows a British woman fascinated by Afghanistan and her encounter with an Afghan man whose fingers were cruelly severed. In the second part, the woman's husband and daughter search to find her in the nation's capital after she has mysteriously disappeared.
Since graduation, Firdous continues to work with parts in film, touring in The King and I, playing at San Francisco's ACT and roles in several notable off- and off-Broadway plays, including Eric Bogosian's Suburbia and Karen Hartman's Gum.
August 2001
July 2001 Alum Karen Eterovich emailed: Cosmic Leopard Productions Presents: "Dangerous Pens: Aphra Behn & Harriet Beecher Stowe" Together for the first time in History! One Night Only! "Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn & Her Pen" and "Aunt Hattie’s House" Two award-winning shows! Two of the most pivotal women in history fly solo! Aphra Behn, 17th century spy, playwright, novelist and Harriet Beecher Stowe, humanitarian and 19th century working mother! Friday, August 3, 2001 at 8:00 pm at: The Feltre School 22 West Erie Street Chicago, IL 60610 (312)255-1133 Directions: On the L - the Chicago & State St. Stop OR the Grand & State St. Stop. Walk 3 blocks south to State & Erie, the Feltre School is at the intersection of State & Erie. It is a 30 minute walk or 7 minute cab ride from the Palmer House. Parking in the area is difficult, allow plenty of time to find a space on the street or in a garage nearby. Suggested Donation: $10.00 (all proceeds benefit The Feltre School) For more information: karen_eterovich@hotmail.com ATHE MEMBERS ADMITTED FREE WITH CONFERENCE ID Visit us in the Exhibition Hall at booth #209.
Alum Becki Dosen emailed: I have completed my first year as the Costume Shop Supervisor at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. I design all the costumes for their 5 show season, run the costume shop, and teach two courses a year. I was hired, with the help of Ann Courtney and Owen Collins to revamp the costume division. (I am the first full time Costumer they have had.) I am developing new costume courses and adding them to the graduation requirements of the students. I enjoy my job immensely! I am proud to say that I was the first baby-sitter for Ann and Owen's daughter, McKelvy. She is my pretty, pretty princess! They are off on a job for the summer, but e-mail me pictures regularly, so I do not miss the growth and development sh e is doing while away from Auntie Becki. I am also the secondary care taker for their Beagle Clodah (SP?). Kevin Shaw is working for a theatre design company in Chicago, and designing all over the city. Right now he is in Michigan worshipping a possible Broadway show. Steve Shirey is doing well in Texas at his new job. Also in Texas is Betsy Zumfelde. She is the Costume Shop Manager at a University in Lubbock. Their Costume Design Professor quit this year and she tried to lure me down there to reunite the dynamic duo! Kerrith Wolfe is getting married any day now, and working in Virginia at The Wayside Theatre. She may be coming to Bradley this spring to work for me on Triumph of Love as an overhire cutter/drapper. We will see if it pans out. Drew Bates, an undergraduate alum is in LA working as an extra when he can, and going on all the auditions he can. Cheers to all of us that are chasing our dreams! Becki Dosen M. F. A. '99
June 2001 Emeritus Professor Jim Patterson sends along this e-mail he received from R. Scott Williams: I will be appearing in a play called Vigil at the Warehouse in Greenville in the fall. We run the last two weekends in October, and the first in November. The role is a hoot and a half, and will require lots of concentration. The play has only two characters, and the other one is an elderly woman who speaks only about 6 lines throughout the play. In other words, I talk nonstop for two hours. (Shades of ...Larry Kramer...) It looks fairly certain that Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush will be happening again at Arena [Washington, DC], so I'll move from Vigil right into rehearsals for that. I guess I made a good impression last year as The Chairman, since the director asked me to perform in a 30 minute revue of Gilbert and Sullivan a few weeks ago. We were hired by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, to perform at a birthday party for her husband. We actually performed at the Supreme Court building, and were given a VIP tour of the justice's chambers. That was more exciting than the show itself, in my opinion. And you haven't lived until you've been frisked by The Secret Service. Others around town have been doing well. Deborah is understudying the two leading ladies in Hedda Gabler at The Shakespeare Theatre, quite a coup, in my opinion. (Judith Light is playing Hedda, and has received raves.) In addition, Deb is teaching Camp Shakespeare again this summer. One of her cohorts is Leigh Ann Niles (Nies?), who plans a big wedding next year. Steve Carpenter has directed a hit production of a British play called The Memory of Water at a local house. They've extended. Earlier this year, he directed a well-received production of The Chosen at the DC Jewish Community Center. (He called me in to read for that one, but I was busy with other work which conflicted). In between, he appeared in Major Barbara, and stood out in the secondary role of one of the con-men/bums who populated the soup kitchen in Act II. He also played Steven Undershaft. Elliott Dash swept through town several months ago, on tour with The Acting Company. They only had two performances at a local university, so I failed to see him. Nan Savard works hard at Potomac Talking Books, both as a Narrator and as a technician. (I think she works with Barret Whitener there.) She and I still do the occasional Mrs Foggy Bottom gig. The big news you may have already heard. Christina [Keefe] and Jack [Young] are moving on. Jack has snagged the Artistic Director position at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, in Allentown, PA. Located on the campus of DeSales University, he'll be employed year-round, though the season is only a summer one. They have put up their Greenville house for sale, and plan to move at the end of July. Apparently, this has been in the wind for a while, so Jack chose next season at The Warehouse so it could go on without an AD. It's a huge move for them, but a good one, in my opinion. Christina gives up a terrific job in Greenville, teaching at the Arts Magnet high school, but she'll find something in the Allentown area, I have no doubt. I'm told they are only half an hour from Philadelphia.
May 2001 Alum Bernard K. Addison sent a postcard to let us know that he's appears on Frasier as "The Waiter from Belize," originally broadcast May 22nd on NBC. Bernard also appeared as Canada Lee in a staged reading of the play by the same title, May 18th and 19th at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Lee was a prize-fighter, an actor, and a victim of the McCarthy-era blacklist. For more information about Lee, see http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAleeC.htm. Lee's movie credits include Cry, The Beloved Country (1951); Lifeboat (1944); and Keep Punching (1939).
April 2001 Received this email from Owen and Ann Courtney Collins We had a baby on February 23rd of this year her name is McKelvey Courtney Collins. Pictures can be seen at: www.courtneycollinsstudio.com/baby/ I am still an assistant professor at Bradley University in Peoria. -Owen Collins Our Email addresses are ann@courtneycollinsstudio.com owen@courtneycollinsstudio.com
April 2001 Prof. Emeritus Jim Patterson shares this letter he received from the Wesners: Greetings from the seventies! If you remember your early days at USC, then you'll remember Lysistrata, Camino Real, Volpone, Charley's Aunt, Picnic, Hot L Baltimore, and the Wesners.
We've done a little of everything during the hiatus--including running our own off-off-Broadway theatre in NYC for awhile. Now David is writing screen plays and is a published playwright. We left NYC for Tennessee because of ailing parents, but we are settled in and content with the South once again. Please share the photo with your department. USC certainly taught us well!
March 2001 Jerrold Scott sends this email: As most of you know, in August of 2000 I moved from Washington, DC, to Cleveland, Ohio. I've accepted a professorship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Case offers a joint MFA degree with the Cleveland Play House, under the directio n of Peter Hackett, artistic director at the Play House, and Ron Wilson, chair of the department at Case. At CWRU, I'm teaching undergraduate acting, acting Shakespeare, and directing; and at the graduate level I'm teaching acting Shakespeare, stage speech, and dialects. I directed Moliere's "The Misanthrope" as the season opener for the university main stage, and will be directing "I Do! I Do!" for the Fredericksburg Theatre Company this summer. I've also received my first grant, the WP Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund, which I will be using to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts' summer short course on Shakespeare in London this July and August. Thanks as always for all your support and opportunities all these years, and I hope to work with you all again soon!
Jerrold looks forward to hearing from friends at: Jerrold Scott, Assistant Professor
February 2001 Nicole Bartet is this year’s winner of the Zelma H. Weisfeld Costume Design & Technology Award from the USITT. The award recognizes a USITT member who has demonstrated excellence or outstanding potential in the areas of costume design or technology in the performing arts while pursuing a graduate degree. The award includes a $1000 honorarium, to be presented at the 41st Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Long Beach, California. Nicole is a 3rd year MFA who is interning this semester in the Creative Costuming division of Walt Disney Productions. Nicole designed Theatre South Carolina’s productions of Ah, Wilderness! and The Living. USITT Awards for Young Designers have been won by USC MFA candidates or recent graduates twice before: Ann Courtney (MFA Lighting Design May 1999) and Kevin Shaw (MFA Lighting Design May 1998).
February 2001 Steve Shirey emails that he is the new technical director at Stephen F. Austin State University He'd love to hear from any of the other alumni and faculty/staff: sshirey@sfasu.edu 2012 1/2 Pearl St
February 2001 Alumna Karen Eterovich (karen_eterovich@hotmail.com) writes by email: March, Women's History Month, begins and ends with a bang. The
next performance of "Love Arm'd, Aphra Behn and Her Pen"
will be at West Chester University in West Chester, PA in the Bull
Center Mainstage Theatre on February 27th at 8pm. The performance
is sponsored by the Department of English, Department of Theatre
Arts, Department of Women's Studies, The Women's Center, LUVIM/WCU
Office of Social Programs and the Office of Cultural Affairs. Excerpts of "Love Arm'd" were performed for the Girl Scouts Scholars Program held at Barnard College (West 117th Street in New York City) on February 3 this year. This commences the Love Arm'd Productions Community Outreach Program for underprivileged girls and young women. If you or anyone you know would like to have a "Visit With
Aphra" please e-mail me. January 6-9 February 26-28 March 3-4 March 5-7 March 11-13 March 19-20 April 6-8
December 11, 2000 Intern Jack Baker is quoted in the Washington Post about the experience of interning at The Shakespeare Theatre and her roles in Richard II. She said, "It's all about the demands of the production and what they can or cannot show of [the interns'] talents. They didn't have any women's parts in 'Timon' but they created a woman's role for me so I could have text....[In Richard II I have one line] but I say it with passion." The complete article is stored here. Jack sent along these backstage pictures.
December 5, 2000 The New York Times Living Arts section features an article "Burst of Energy in the Regional Theater." Bruce Weber writes that many regional theaters have "taken advantage of a strong economy, a growing companionability with commercial producers and their own institutional maturity to present riskier and more expansive work." Examples cited include Steppenwolf, the Goodman, the Guthrie, Denver Center Theater Company, Long Wharf, the Mark Taper Forum and Theatre South Carolina's affiliate, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Weber writes "Perhaps the most complex new play I've seen this season is 'Work Song,' a triptych of interlocking one-acts by Eric Simonson and Jeffrey Hatcher about the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, presented by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater."
Last update: July 19, 2004
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Her Sonoma Story is a trilogy of short plays tracing the experiences
of six women whose lives converge in unexpected ways on a rainy
day in Sonoma County, California. They are women bound together
not only by weather, but also by the self-discovery they are forced
to undergo during their encounters with one another. In the first
play of the trilogy, "She Has Character," a depressed yoga instructor
who lives in the shadow of a famous man challenges a strong willed
young reporter who has inadvertently made public the frustrated
woman's tragic secrets. In "She's at Home," a bohemian trailer
park houses a woman desperate to conceal her life and an abused
biker
chick that desperately wants to share it. In "She Finds," two lovers
face the unlikely past they share. 
That
production is now featured in an article
on Wilson in the May/June 2003 issue
of 
Happy
Thanksgiving!
Hello
from the great state of Iowa and the muddy shores of the Mississippi.
I just returned from my trip to Canada - absolutely beautiful and
man did I catch some fish! Already directed and closed 
Pictures of Mindi
as Maggie.
Bernard
Addison was Cop #1 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appeared
as a monster on Angel in February. He was “more voice
than face, as the face is significantly changed. It’s fun
to play a monster, I can tell you that.”
Ben
Fitch was in town for a last test [He hopes!] and dropped off
a postcard for his next production, a new play called Phriendz,
at the Flight Theatre in Hollywood, September 6-16. For reservations
call, 626/402-5341.
We
still receive the alumni news from USC and noticed that the Department
did Look Homeward, Angel this year. I am currently director
of theatre at one of the high schools in Clarksville, Tennessee,
and David is employed by the Theatre Department at Austin Peay State
University. I direct three mainstage productions each year, and
David serves as my TD and scenic designer. This past fall we also
produced "Angel." I wanted to share a photograph with
you of our production. Amazing how this coincidence made me feel
linked once again to USC and the Department after over 25 years!
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