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Theatre & Dance Alumni News

ONLINE ALUMNI DATABASE:

The Department of Theatre and Dance has created an online database to keep in touch with our graduates and connect them with our current students. Information submitted will be used only within the department and not sold to any outside sources. Click on the link above to submit your information.

ALUMNI IN PRODUCTION :

Paul Decker '05 writes "I will be filming my third commercial, and just finishing up my second year of teaching living at the shore and close to AC. I recently directed The Odd Couple, an after school project and it was praised by the administration."

Alex McCausland '08 received a full scholarship to attend Indiana University, Bloomington, IN as an MFA candidate in Acting.

Jenn Rose '05 will present her choreography this September in The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia at the Live Arts Festival. Rose recently earned a Barrymore Award nomination for Best Choreography with her work on Avenue X with the 11th Hour Theatre Company in Philadelphia. The 15th Annual Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre in the Philadelphia area will be handed out Monday, October 5, 2009 at the Walnut Street Theatre. Click here for an interview with Rose.

Chad Parsons '06 has recently worked in Rock Island, IL with Circa '21 Playhouse in A Wonderful Life and Snow White, the Roxy Regional Theatre in TN in Altar Boyz, MacBeth, All Quiet on the Western Front and Cats. He is now the male lead singer in productions aboard the Silver Seas Cloud, Jean Anne Ryan Productions.

Jay Sefton '96 is the recipient of the LA WEEKLY award for best solo performance 2008 for The Most Mediocre Story Never Told!, which he also wrote. The production gets its East coast premiere as part of the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival, August 14-30, 2009. Sefton is the 2nd recipient of the J.P. Adler Prize for Excellence in Theatre from WCU.

NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS:

In July 2007, Michael Durkin ’08 & Stephen Blahut ’07 attended the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis on a fellowship awarded to them during the National American College Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C in spring 2007. They attended the national festival by winning the Region II Award for Dramaturgy for their work on the 2006 WCU show, The Merchant of Venice.  Every July, the Playwright’s Center has this festival which workshops five new plays called the Playlabs Festival. The Playlab is designed to help emerging playwrights work with professional directors and designers to put on a staged reading for their works.  Everything from cutting, rearranging, and rewriting had occurred to help develop the play the best it could be.  Many of these plays then go on to be produced professional at theatres around the country such as the Public Theater in New York City, the Geva Center Theatre in Rochester, and the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. 

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