It was recently announced that Mickey Rowe, School of Drama alumnus and openly autistic actor, was recently cast in the lead role inThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in a co-production with ...
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Lenne Klingamen (PATP '07)appeared in "Chicago Med" on NBC.She will also be playing the title role in...
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Tina Polzin (MFA '15) was awarded aInnovation Seed Grant from Seattle Pacific University to do a a bilingual staged reading ofLady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen in conjunction with her theatre company, 1-Off Production. The reading will be presented on...
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On Monday, April 24th the Seattle Repertory Theatre is partnering with UW the School of Drama and Communications Department to organize a FREE discussion panel for the UW and greater Seattle community. This panel of Seattleites will discuss the past and present resistance movements led by youth, in part reflecting on connections to Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of Here Lies Love (including the Marcos regime and the People Power Revolution). Join us at...
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Ron Heneghan (PATP ‘93) is currently performing in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew, running through April 9th.
Valeka J. Holt (PATP ’12) will be making her Arena Stage Debut as Ruth in their upcoming production of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The...
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Up next on the School of Drama main stage is Orlando, adapted by Sarah Ruhl from the novel by Virginia Woolf and directed by Professor L. Zane Jones. The production runs April 28th – May 7th at the Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre.
Orlando explores sex, love, and identity in a story that spans centuries. Orlando is a handsome, young English nobleman favored by queens and princesses. The poem he’s trying to write isn’t going well; otherwise, he’s having a very nice life. When he consorts with a gypsy, however...
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Dear Readers,
Entrepreneurship is quite the buzz word nowadays and, especially in our tech and app driven society, it seems that everybody is seeking it out. The Merriam-Webster definition of an entrepreneur is "one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise." However, it has come to mean much more than that in recent years. It can often be a stand in for adventurous, forward-thinking, innovative, and creative. In some ways artists were the original entrepreneurs - always creating new projects, re-imagining narratives and human...
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Ben Gonio (PATP '05) appeared in a co-starring role in season three of TNT's "The Librarians."
Jessica Martin (BA '08) is in the process of writing, producing, directing, and acting in her first feature film, Abby and...
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On February 20th, Valerie Curtis-Newton—MFA alumna, School of Drama professor, and Head of the Acting and Directing Masters Program—was awarded the prestigious Artist Trust Innovator Award. Professor Curtis Newton will receive $25,000 in unrestricted funds, funded by the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation. This prize is awarded to Washington State artists from any discipline who are pushing the boundaries and redefining the work of their field.
The Artist Trust press release talks about the ways in which Professor Curtis-Newton is an innovator in the field of...
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