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Where Are They Now?
A quick update on what our graduates are up to now!
- Sarah Drew (Drama ’02) can be seen as a Kitty Romano in episodes Mad Men this season.
- Tina Fey’s (Drama ’92) film This Side of Truth is in post-production.
- Will Gatlin (Drama ’07) landed a lead role in an industrial for Boeing to promote their GPS technology.
- Kater Gordon (Drama ’04) is part of the Emmy winning writing team for Mad Men.
- Jonathan Green (Drama ’07), Matthew Fletcher (Drama ’07) and Walt McGough (Drama ’06) founded Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago, IL and directed, starred and wrote (respectively) Sideshow’s first production Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird), which ran June/July 2008 at the Chicago Dramatists Theater. Other alumni involved in Dante Dies!! include: Scenic Design by Lisi Stoessel (Drama M.F.A. ’08) and Sound Design by Ben Warner (College ’06). Sideshow just announced their 2009 spring show: What It Feels Like When Everything Freezes (another winter's tale) by Jonathan Green and Walt McGough, which will open February 26 at the Chicago Dramatists Theatre. www.sideshowtheatre.org/
- Peter Howard (M.F.A. in Drama ‘96) appeared in The Diary of Adam and Eve (adapted from a Mark Twain short story) at the Vineyard Playhouse in Martha's Vineyard this summer.
- Catherine Kim (Drama ’06) did a guest appearance on Gossip Girls and will be featured in an upcoming major film, Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past, starring Matthew McConaughey.
- David Koplan (Foreign Affairs ’93) has a film in post-production, The Human Contract.
- Brin Lukens (Drama ’07) is working for a major independent film producer in California.
- Julie Lynn (Foreign Affairs ’88, Law ’92 ) has a film in post production -Passengers and one in production -Blood Makes Noise
- Ben McKenzie’s (Foreign Affairs, Economics ’01) film The Stanford Prison Experiment is in post-production.
- Ntare Mwine (Drama ’89) can be seen in episodes of CSI, ER and Heros this Fall.
- Rachel Schuldenfrei (M.F.A. in Drama ’08) is the costume shop manager at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD
- Emily Swallow (Middle Eastern Studies ’01) is the lead in John Patrick Shanley's new musical, Romantic Poetry at Manhattan Theater Club. The show opens this November.
- Ben Warner (College ’06) is working on Romantic Poetry at Manhattan Theater Club as one of the staff sound engineers.
Please visit www.virginia.edu/drama/alumni.htm for more Alumni News. If you are interested in having your information on our Alumni page and/or included in future Drama Newsletters, please submit your name, e-mail address, graduation year, degree and a summary of what you are currently doing to jmays@virginia.edu.
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