As the weather gets increasingly cold and wet, our students and alumni are working up a sweat with all the work being created. Check out the fantastic productions that are opening in the near future - you're not going to want to miss them!
In this issue:
Up Next: Fucking A
Coming Soon: The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G
New Faculty Spotlight: Bridget Connors
UTS Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abriged) [Revised]
Alumni News
Up Next: Fucking A
This week we open Suzan-Lori Parks’ challenging and powerful piece, Fucking A.Parks’ otherworldly adaptation of The Scarlet Letter reimagines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tragic tale of an exiled adulteress. Hester Smith—branded A for Abortionist—plies her trade in order to regain a life she’s lost. D.C. Theatre Scenecalled the play “mythically powerful.” Parks’ is a master of harnessing language and music in a way that lets her stories land in the deep parts… Read more
Coming Soon: The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G
School of Drama undergraduates have been teaming up with Intiman Theatre Casting Director Ali el-Gasseir to bring the crazy world of The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G to life!
When playwright Qui Nguyen refuses to finish his "Gook Story Trilogy," his main character kidnaps him and force him to pen the story he's been avoiding for ten years, in this hysterical meta-theatrical ride filled with racist puppets, ninjas, and one very angry David Henry Hwang.
This… Read more
New Faculty Spotlight: Bridget Connors
We are so excited to have welcomed new faculty member Bridget Connors into our School of Drama family this year. Bridget joins us as a Senior Lecturer in Voice and Dialect, after having been the head of Voice and Movement at Point Park University in Pittsburgh for over ten years. Last week I sat down with Bridget to learn a little bit more about our new addition! - Bobbin Ramsey, Editor and Constituent Relations Officer
Hi Bridget, can you tell me a little bit about… Read more
UTS Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abriged) [revised]
On Thursday December 1st the Undergraduate Theater Society opens their second show of the season The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Directed by BA student Aaron Jin,this fast-paced, slap-stick comedy takes the audience through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays with incredible comedy and physical exertion!
In a world of dry, vomitless academia, how do we turn The Complete Works of William Shakespeare… Read more
November 2016 Alumni News
Ben Gonio (PATP '05) will be appearing in Season 3 of TNT's original series "The Librarians".
Lenne Klingaman (PATP '07) will be acting in Fingersmith at American Repertory Theatre, directed by OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch. The production opens December 4th and runs through January 8th.
Tlaloc Rivas (MFA '99… Read more