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Newsletter April 2016 E-news

In This Issue:

  • Up Next: Force Continuum
  • UTS Presents: The Secretaries
  • Simon Tran (BA '16) reflects on the Civil Rights Pilgrimage
  • Drama PhD Students Delve into Medieval Manuscript Pages in UW Special Collections
  • Alumni News, April 2016

KEEP IN TOUCH AND STAY CONNECTED

Editor: 
Katrina Ernst
katrinae@uw.edu

School of Drama Address:
Hutchinson Hall
Box 353950
University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 98195-3950

(206) 685-0600 phone
(206) 543-8512 fax

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We feel like we've been waiting all year—because we have!—to see second-year MFA directing student Malika Oyetimein's staging of Kia Corthron's Force Continuum. This is Malika's first solo full production for the School of Drama (she co-directed last season's Bus Stop with fellow directing student Sean Ryan), but you might have caught her work as part of Intiman's festival last summer. Since then Malika has been named to City Arts Magazine's 2016 Future List. Join us at the Jones Playhouse this April 27 through May 8 and catch the work of our talented students, including scenic design by Lex Marcos, costume design by Fawn Bartlett, sound design by Jack Conger, and lighting design by Bryce Bartl-Geller, as well as many of our second and first-year graduate actors.

Banner photo: "Force Continuum" actors Bria Henderson, Brace Evans, and AJ Friday (Photo by Mike Hipple).

Up Next: Force Continuum

MFA director Malika Oyetimein stages Kia Corthron’s explosive socio-political drama about three generations of African American police officers torn apart by the very organization to which they have dedicated their loyalty and working lives. Corthron tells an unflinching and deeply felt story of tragically flawed human beings trying to do the right thing in difficult circumstances and getting it very, very wrong. As timely now as it was when first produced in 2001, Force Continuum… Read more
April 19, 2016
The Secretaries, show poster

UTS Presents: The Secretaries

Patty Johnson, a new secretary at Cooney Lumber Mill, is a little overqualified and a little concerned. What's up with this mandatory Slim Fast Diet? Where do these women get their lumberjack jackets? And what is happening to all of the attractive lumberjacks!? Discover with Patty the truth of femininity in this satirical comedy about gender norms, sexuality, and empowerment. The Secretaries by The Five Lesbian Brothers directed by Alyssa Karounos April 21–May 1… Read more
April 19, 2016
Simon Tran at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Civil Rights Pilgrimage with UW's Dept. of Communication.

Simon Tran (BA '16) reflects on the Civil Rights Pilgrimage

by Simon Tran It all starts with Drama and ends with Drama. This last October and again this March I participated in the University of Washington Department of Communication’s Civil Rights Pilgrimage, a nine-day intentional trip to the Deep South to learn about the Civil Rights history in the places where the monumental Civil Rights events occurred. On the pilgrimage we met with living Civil Rights activists, saw theatre performances about the Civil Rights, and dove into the racial… Read more
March 28, 2016
Drama PhD students look at medieval manuscripts in Special Collections.

Drama PhD Students Delve into Medieval Manuscript Pages in UW Special Collections

by Jay Eckard “You’re getting a PhD in the theatre? …are you, like, an actor?” “No,” I say, without dropping my smile. I’ve had practice with this response. You can tell: for example, I never, ever use the word “dramaturg” in the sentence, however accurately it might describe what I used to do for a living. “I used to be a director, but then I decided to go back to school. I’m a scholar: I study medieval and early modern drama.” At this point, the faint look of… Read more
April 05, 2016
Will Alvin (MFA '09) at work in LA.

Alumni News, April 2016

Susan Champion (PATP '95) earned her law degree in 2011 and is featured in a documentary film for her work as a lawyer for The Stanford Justice Advocacy Project (formerly the Three Strikes Project). "The Return" will have its premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. J Jha (PATP '14) is currently playing in Rickshaw Girl at Bay Area Children's… Read more
April 19, 2016
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