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ALUMNI:

Felipe Cabezas (CLAS ’07): Felipe will be appearing this Fall in The Alchemist directed by Michael Kahn, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Molly Coyle(Drama ’08): Molly is working as a legal assistant by day and actress/stage manager by night in the Washington D.C. area. In the spring of 2009, she assistant stage managed Marisol for Forum Theatre in Washington D.C.  She will be understudying/assistant stage managing Forum’s production of both parts of Angels in America this Fall.  Molly recently played Mariane in Tartuffe at a small theatre in Bethesda and was cast in a television commercial for Carmax.

Julia Debo(Drama ’09): Julia has been working in Post-Production for the new Dr Oz Show in New York since July. She's thrilled to be working in New York and loves learning about the industry. Her duties include labeling and logging tapes, screening all episodes for grammar and consistency and celebrity sighting in the 30 Rock Studio elevator banks!

Tina Fey (Drama ’92) won three 2009 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Comedy Series (30 Rock as Exective Producer), Outstanding Guest Actress in A Comedy Series (for her Sarah Palin spoof on SNL) and Oustanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series (for her role as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock).

Kater Gordon (Drama ’04): Kater is a writer for the hit AMC drama series Mad Men and won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series alongside write Matthew Weiner for Mad Men episode “Meditations In An Emergency”. The Mad Men teams also won the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy Award. 

Mark Scharf (MFA ’84): Mark’s plays, Get Stuffed, Lizard Brains and Keeping Faith were published this fall by Original Works Publishing. A monologue from his play, Last Night at the Owl Bar, was included in the 2009 Theatre Audition Book, published by Meriwether Publishing.

FACULTY:

Bob Chapel, Professor
Bob is serving as academic dean for the Fall '09 around the world voyage of Semester at Sea, sponsored by U.Va..  He will be visiting Spain, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Vietnam, China, Japan and Hawaii before arriving in San Diego on December 14.  Next spring he will be directing Pippin for the Drama Department, and he will be returning for his 23rd season as producer and director for the Heritage Theatre next summer.

Gweneth West, Professor, Costume Design
After successful completion of the most challenging costume design project of her career, The Royal Hunt of the Sun directed by Stephen Terrell for Texas Shakespeare summer of 2008, Gweneth stepped away from summer theatre for the first time in 40 years. She found it amazing to see the sun and enjoy the out of doors. Summer school and summer orientation for incoming first years kept her more than busy.

Fall term finds her teaching five classes and taking on new challenges as the Chair-elect of the Faculty Senate in preparation of being Chair next year. Clearly this would not be possible without the support of Marcy and Josh and two fine second-year graduate students, Christina Leinicke and Caroline Varney, who continue to provide leadership in costume design and technology in support of the production program and teaching assistance in support of the academic program.

Spring will find her continuing her teaching and chair-elect responsibilities as well as embracing her newly elected position as KCACTF National Design & Technology Vice-Chair travelling to Regions 6 and 8 as a respondent to the Design & Technology Exhibitions mid February. She has also been invited by USITT to be the “James Lipton” Moderator for the USITT Broadway Seminar on Costume Design with Tony Walton and William Ivy Long ~ a two-day Professional Development Workshop investigating the designers’ beginnings and creative processes including a “show & tell”  of their latest works.

Gweneth continues her work with First Presbyterian Church singing in the choir, ringing hand bells, and serving as Moderator of the Diaconate for her second year.

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