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2007-2008
Ken
Goldstein: In
addition to designing the scenery for the Department's
productions, this year Ken continues to serve
as the Resident Set Designer at Northern Stage,
a LORT theatre in Vermont. As such, he will be
designing four of the season's productions. This
year he will design Doubt, Beauty and the
Beast, The Elephant Man, and The Full Monty.
He will also be returning to Skylight Opera in
Milwaukee to design Nine.
David Lane: David
was the Artist in Residence for a couple of
weeks at the Berkshire Arts and Technology School
where he worked with the grade 11 students teaching
them still life painting. He also directed an
evening of improv and sketch comedy for the
Berkshire's own Opposable-Thumbs Comedy Productions.
Andi
Lyons: Andi designed the lighting
for the Stageworks/Hudson production of A
Wedding Story. At the ATHE(Association
for Theatre in Higher Eduction) Conference in
New Orleans, Andi delivered a paper entitled,
WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, HAS TO BE THERE
ON TIME: Assessing Student Work in Design Classes.
Leigh Strimbeck: Leigh
did a two week teacher development intensive
at the Actor's Center in NYC.
Yvonne
Perry:
Yvonne has been working a lot this summer -
a few of the highlights:
- She is in her third year as the on-camera
spokeswoman for TAFT Furniture.
- Narrating educational textbooks for McGraw-Hill
-Voice of the new Saratoga Gaming and Raceway
nighclub "VAPOR".
Paul
Ricciardi: In June, Paul completed
a teaching artist residency
with the Hudson Public School System and Stageworks;
Paul
worked with the entire 6th grade. 200 students
partnered and wrote nearly 100 plays. All plays
were
printed into a book that Paul will bring in
to school in
the fall.
Paul is currently running an arts camp in Brooklyn.
The camp is for members of the health care workers
union. He oversees 100 children, and supervise
20 staff
members.
Paul
is in the process of creating a website (www.paulricciardi.com);
more to be revealed.
Paul recently joined a college booking association
(for performing artists who tour); Paul will
be showcased
at their fall conference. More details to follow.
Paul was appointed to Visiting Assistant Professor
of
Theatre at SUNY Albany.
Gargi
Shinde: Gargi was a cast member
of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival "Grand
Jury Prize Award" winning film Frozen
River. Filmed in sub-zero weather in Plattsburgh,
New York, on Lake Champlain, Frozen River,
is a film about a real-life smuggling zone on
a Native American reservation between New York
State and Quebec. The jury was comprised of Director
Quentin Tarantino, Actors Sandra Oh, Diego Luna
and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was hailed by
Quentin Tarantino as, "one of the most exciting
thrillers I'm going to see this year!" -
it has been picked up by Sony Classics slated
for a release later this year. Gargi played a
Pakistani mother whose loses her baby in a particularly
critical smuggling operation.
Frozen River is directed by Courtney
Hunt and stars Melissa Leo (21 Grams, The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada), Misty
Upham (Edge of America, Skins), Charlie
McDermott (The Ten), and Oscar Nominee,
Michael O'Keefe (The Great Santini, A Few
Good Men, The Pledge), and Mark Boone, Jr.
(Batman Returns). (Photo
credit Courtney Hunt/Heather Rae)
Eszter
Szalczer: Eszter was awarded
a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Stipend in support of her research for her book
August Strindberg (scheduled to be published
by Routledge in 2009). She spent the summer
of 2007 researching in various theatre archives
in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently she is engaged
as dramaturge on a production of A Dream Play
by Strindberg at the Teatr Pokoleniy in St.
Petersburg, Russia, which premieres on June
27, 2008.
Elizabeth
Wong: winner of the 2007 Tanne Foundation Award.
This
award is a private nonprofit organization recognizing
and supporting American
artists whose work contributes significantly
to the cultural landscape. The foundation honors
poets, performance artists, AND playwrights
via nomination and a selection committee of
foundation trustees, www.tannefoundation.org
"I'm grateful and surprised by this unexpected
honor, and I thank the Tanne Foundation for
recognizing my writing and my efforts as an
artist. Central to my work is my desire to illuminate
and celebrate our common humanity, and have
some bigtime fun along with way." -- Elizabeth
Wong. Earlier this year, at the start of the
summer, Elizabeth's new musical "The
Magical Bird" for young audiences,
had its world premiere at Honolulu Theatre for
Youth. Commissioned by HTY, directed by Artistic
Director Eric Johnson, with original music composed
by Kala'i Stern.
Adam
Zonder : This
summer Adam was once again the Production Manager
and Executive Technical Director for the Hangar
Theatre. This encompasses 22 productions across
3 seasons and 2 performance spaces. For the
Mainstage Season they produced Doubt
(regional premier), Disney’s Beauty and
the Beast, Hair, Bleeding Kansas (world
premier), and All the Great Books (abridged).
For the Children’s Theatre Kiddstuff Season
we produced The Ant and the Grasshopper,
The Arkansaw Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, Cucumber
Phil, Androcles and the Lion, KIDDPlay, KIDDStars,
and Alice in Wonderland. For the Experimental
Wedge Season we produced Juliet and Her
Romeo, Language of Angels, Metamorphoses, The
Ugly One, The Emperor of Ice Cream or Thirteen
Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld (world
premier), Burying Barbie (world premier),
Girls School Gothic (world premier), and
The Argument (world premier). This
spring they will be producing a school tour
of The Truth About Dinosaurs which
will tour to area schools in upstate NY. Adam
is also consulting on the renovation/expansion
of Building A and Kulp Auditorium for Ithaca
High School.
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