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Newsletter October 2015 E-news

In This Issue:

  • Season Opener: The Cradle Will Rock
  • UTS Presents: Electra
  • Seattle Theatre Symposium
  • Lost & Founded: Seattle Group Theatre
  • Alumni News—October 2015

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Editor: 
Katrina Ernst
katrinae@uw.edu

School of Drama Address:
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Box 353950
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"The School of Drama has a rich history of training artists to use the power of their art—to raise their collective voices in order that the world might be changed for the better in some way. I am a director who believes that theatre’s fundamental function is to bring us into community. So, once we decided to do this piece, it became clear to me that we needed to include people from the School’s entire community." –Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton, director of The Cradle Will Rock

Join Professor Curtis-Newton, current students, alumni, faculty, and members of the Seattle theatre community who have come together to open the main stage production season of our 75th Anniversary. Opening night of The Cradle Will Rock is Friday, October 30. We look forward to seeing you there!

Pictured above: Aaron Francis Cammack, Jeffrey Fracé, and AJ Friday. Photo by Mike Hipple.

Season Opener: The Cradle Will Rock

We launch our season with Marc Blitzstein’s infamous musical, a biting critique of corruption, unrestrained capitalism, and income inequality as relevant today as it was in 1937. Set in “Steeltown, USA,” the story follows the efforts of Larry Foreman to unionize local workers and combat wicked, greedy businessman Mr. Mister, who controls the town's factory, press, church, and social organizations. The Cradle Will Rock kicks-off our anniversary season and features a cast of current… Read more
October 20, 2015
Electra show poster

UTS Presents: Electra

The daughter of a powerful war hero and a murdering queen, Electra can think of nothing but revenge for her father's brutal murder. When her brother returns from exile, the siblings enter into the cycle of violence that has plagued their family for generations. Sophocles' haunting tragedy of love and murder, as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago in this fierce adaptation, explores what happens when we become obsessed with vengeance at all costs.  Sophocles' Electraby Frank… Read more
October 20, 2015
Seattle Theatre Symposium

Seattle Theatre Symposium

The UW School of Drama PhD program hosts a symposium examining the founding visions of our city’s theatres. Monday, November 27:30 PMJones Playhouse Presentations by current PhD students include: UW School of Drama—Monica Cortes ViharoThe Mountaineers Players—Robert WighsAlice B. Theatre—Jay Eckard Following the presentations, the symposium will continue with a panel moderated by Seattle Times theatre critic, Misha Berson. Panelists will include Marya Sea Kaminski, Desdemona Chiang, Andrew… Read more
October 20, 2015
Seattle Theatres Lost and Founded

Lost & Founded: Seattle Group Theatre

Our free reading series, in partnership with One Coast Collaboration and UW World Series, continues with an evening honoring Seattle Group Theatre. William Hall, Jr. (founding member) and AJ Friday (current PATP student) will read Sizwe Banzi Is Dead by Athol Fugard. Former artistic director Timothy Bond (MFA '83) will be in attendance. Lost & Founded: Seattle Group TheatreMonday, November 9 at 7:30 PMMeany Studio Theatre… Read more
October 20, 2015
"Marie Antoinette" at Stages Repertory Theatre, directed by Leslie Swackhamer. Photo by Bruce Bennett.

Alumni News—October 2015

Christine Tschirgi (MFA 2007) designed the costumes for and Yesenia Iglesias (PATP 2014) plays Yaz in Water By the Spoonful, produced by Theatre22 and opening October 23 at West of Lenin. Leslie Swackhamer (MFA '90) was awarded the prize for Best Director at the Houston Press 2015 Theatre Awards for her… Read more
October 20, 2015
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