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Faculty and Alumni Updates!
FACULTY:
"What our colleagues are doing this summer..."
Pam Black:
Pam will be teaching "Path A" for incoming graduate landscape and architecture students -- the summer session drama course, Figure Foundations. I am also preparing a drawing workshop for the Charlottesville Watercolor Guild. This past year, I have been gathering material for a book I am writing on the drawing process as well as hosting a conversation on drawing with Sanda Iliescu and Maurice Cox for graduate students in Architecture.
Josh Bond:
Josh will be working with the weavers in Colonial Williamsburg to recreate the cloth on the Jefferson Coat. The next phase is working with the master tailor in Williamsburg and doing a hand-sewn recreation using 18th century techniques. He also will be spending time in the textile conservation lab with the staff textile conservator. Colonial Williamsburg has started talking with Josh about presenting this piece at their 2014 Symposium. Josh recently returned from two weeks in England where he met with Jenny Tiramani, former Director of Theatre Design at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Just in - Josh announced that he will be leaving UVa to accept a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Costume Technology at the College of Charleston (UVa M.F.A. grad Janine McCabe heads the costume program there). We wish you well, Josh, and thanks for the bountiful contributions you made to our program!
Kate Burke:
--will be completing recording for a major international language-learning company, which shall remain nameless
--creating a website and marketing plan for Verbio Divina/Scripture from the Heart intensive sessions
--offering sessions at Shrinemont Episcopal Retreat Center "Art and Soul" summer program, Orkney Springs, VA
--working on completing her book A GUIDE TO SPEAKING SHAKESPEARE
Bob Chapel:
Bob is gearing up once again for his 24th summer with the Heritage Theatre Festival (his 16th as Producing Artistic Director). The upcoming season: "My Fair Lady," "Boeing, Boeing," "The 39 Steps," and "She Loves Me." He just completed directing "Evita" for the Department of Drama, which closed April 30.
Allen Fitzpatrick, a Drama Department alumnus and a veteran actor of the Broadway stage, will be "coming home" to play the role of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady," alongside other more recent alumni and some current students as well as professional actors from around the country. This will be Alan's first performance on the Culbreth stage as he graduated just before it was built -- his fond memories still being those of treading the boards in old Minor Hall.
John Frick:
- April 22, 2011 - PANEL MODERATOR: “The Mirror Image: Shakespeare in Authentic Style,” Holding Up the Mirror: Authenticity and Adaptation in Shakespeare Today. Conference, Lincoln Center.
- June 2011 - PRESENTATION {By invitation}: “Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Moral Reform Melodrama.” Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200: Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century, Bowdoin College.
- Summer 2011 PAPER: "Creating a Model: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Moral Reform Drama. The Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, Chicago
Doug Grissom:
Will attended the Theresa Rebeck/Lark Theatre Writer's Conference May 6-13 - and may be working/workshopping his new play there this summer.
LaVahn Hoh
LaVahn is the Dean of the fall 2012 Semester at Sea voyage and is busy hiring faculty.
Lee Kenndey:
...is designing "Romeo and Juliet," Winter's Tale," and "Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" for Illinois Shakespeare Festival and doing prelim work for a newly commissioned musical by Michael John LaChiusa called "Queen of the Myst" slated to be produced by Transport Group in the Fall.
Walter Korte:
Walter will be developing the fourth semester of History of Film, the sum of which will become the most intensive sequence of film history seminars of any institution in the country. Walter also will be teaching a seminar in Film Noir.
Marianne Kubik:
In June Marianne finishes up her teacher certification requirements with the Society of American Fight Directors. She's also re-writing her script for "The Forgetting River" (the puppetry project workshopped at the O'Neill in 2007), and is looking for a venue to remount it. She also plans to take a workshop in neutral mask with Dodi DiSanto in DC.
Caitlin McLeod:
Caitlin continues work on her book about Stage Managers on stage management - interviewing and writing on a collection of conversations with stage managers who are working in various levels of the theater industry.
Judith Reagan:
Jude was on a spring term '11 research leave wrestling with creating a website that will corral all University resources for developing oral skills, or public speaking. Currently such classes, programs and coaches are scattered among various University departments. Jude has also been doing voice work for an international language-teaching company - whose name shall not be mentioned. July 1st marks the end of her sabbatical, at which point she'll return to the University's Teaching Resource Center where she works with teachers from all Departments and Schools to support the teaching mission, to focus on creating and delivering rigorous and engaging classes.
Michael Rasbury:
Michael is working at the Lost Colony in May and and off-Broadway with the Transport Group this summer in July. He recently attended the Helen Hayes awards ceremony, nominated for Outstanding Sound Design in a Resident Production for Henry VIII, a Folger Shakespeare production that is up for 11 awards.
Richard Warner:
In the early summer Richard will be working on the initial phases of a project that will engage an undergraduate ensemble creating a performance piece that will involve Shakespeare, Stanislavski and Charlottesville with the idea that this might develop into an interdisciplinary course for the new Pavilion Seminar Series - a new initiative sponsored by the Jefferson Trust where a full professor will offer a semester-long seminar in one of the Pavilions.
Steven Warner:
- Completing training modules as part of the phase II Sponsored Grant project with Signature Science, LLC.
- Teaching Summer Session 1 Intro to Theater Technology
- Technical Director for Heritage Theatre Festival June 6th - August 7th
Gweneth West:
Gweneth is completing her term as chair of faculty senate and then becomes the faculty rep on the Board of Visitors. Research and preparation of the costume design of Parade. Much of Gweneth's summer will be dedicated to serving on the Provost's search.
ALUMNI:
Blake Segal graduated from Yale's MFA and appeared in a production of Amadeus - on the SAME WEEKEND! Review: 'Amadeus' melds drama and music http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/review-amadeus-melds-drama-and-music
 Mark Scharf (MFA, Playwriting 1984): The Baltimore City Historical Society has added copies of Mark's plays BLUE MERMAID, THE WHISPERS OF SAINTS, SCORPIONS, THE MEAN REDS and LAST NIGHT AT THE OWL BAR to their archives. Mark's play EMPIRES FALL was produced by the Run of the Mill Theatre, Baltimore, MD. A monologue from his play, The Whispers of Saints will appear in the 2011 Volume 3, Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays, both published by Meriwether Publishing, Ltd., and his plays KEEPING FAITH, LIZARD BRAINS and GET STUFFED, published by Original Works Publishing, are now available on Kindle on Amazon.com. Mark will appear on two Playwriting Workshop panels at the University of Baltimore at the UB Student Center for the Performing Arts on June 25th, 2011: The Craft of Playwriting and Marketing Your Plays. Mark returns as a Guest Artist to the University of Mary Washington to teach Playwriting during the Fall, 2011 semester.
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