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Mark
Scharf (MFA 1984 Playwriting)
is writing and acting
in the DC/Baltimore area where he is serving his third term as Chairman
of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival (now beginning its 25th Season)
and as a new member of the Fells Point Corner Theatre's Board of
Directors. His plays Blue Mermaid and Get Stuffed were
produced this past summer in Baltimore, and his new one-act Memory
Garden will
appear in November, 2005 at Gettysburg College’s One-Act
Festival. As an actor, he appeared in Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation
of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw during September and
October of 2005. During the Spring 2006 semester, Mark returned as a
teaching Playwriting as a Guest Artist at the University of Mary Washington
during the 2006 Spring semester.
Email Mark at MarkScharf@aol.com,
or visit his site by clicking here.
Alumni: Share your news with us. Email updates and links to mr2xk@virginia.edu
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 Spring
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News from the Chair
by Tom Bloom, Chair, Associate Professor, Scenic Design
It’s spring and the end of another academic year is upon us. Spring
in Charlottesville! Remember the beauty of it all...
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A FAMILY GATHERING
IN NEW YORK
by David W. Weiss, Professor Emeritus
One of the joys of teaching is the extended family a teacher
develops with all the students who pass through a program and
its productions year after year...
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In Honor of the Memory of
Jim Hillgartner
Who Passed Away on April 9, 2006
by Robert Chapel, Professor
It is hard to put into words what Jim Hillgartner meant to me, to those who worked
for the Heritage Repertory Theatre and our Department of Drama, and, well, quite
frankly, to the World...
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Hoos in Gotham
by Robyn Hussa, Producing Artistic Director, Transport Group
In the fall of 1993, 13 classmates met at the University
of Virginia's Department of Drama and have been connected at the hip ever
since. In
2001 they formed a not-for-profit theatre company in New York city and
called it Transport Group...
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Sound design
Michael Rasbury’s specialty grabs theater audiences by the
ears.
by Peter Manseau
Sound can take you places. Anyone who has ever plugged in a pair
of headphones and let the worries of the day fade will tell you
that. Whether you favor the sylvan trickle of new age music,
or the pounding drums of arena rock, there is often no quicker
route away from where you are than the one that runs through
your ears...
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"Inside the Box"
by Betsy Rudelich Tucker, Assistant Professor,
Acting and Directing
The week after Thanksgiving the Helms was, for the second year running,
full of playwrights, actors, directors, and…wait a minute…First Year
Engineering students?? (read
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Faculty News
News from Kate Burke, Robert Chapel, Betsy Tucker, Lee Kennedy,
John Frick, and Richard Warner...
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