Kudos go out to Chapman University’s adjunct dance faculty member Brandee Williams Lara, who has been named one of four 2015 Dance Teacher Award winners by Dance Teacher Magazine and featured in the July 2015 issue! The awards will be presented at the Dance Teacher Summit, July 28-30, 2015 in Long Beach, CA. Each year,
The College of Performing Arts has named Associate Professors John Benitz and Donald Guy the co-chairs for the Department of Theatre beginning with the 2015-16 academic year. They replace Dr. Nina LeNoir who now serves as Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at Chapman. Professor John Benitz is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and earned his MFA in
Last Saturday, Chapman University’s President James L. Doti and Chancellor Daniele Struppa, along with University Advancement’s Executive V.P. Sheryl A. Bourgeois, Campus Planning V.P. Kris Olsen and Musco Center’s Founding Dean William Hall, hosted major building donors including Paul and Marybelle Musco, George and Julianne Argyros, and Bette and Wylie Aitken and others on an
Chapman University’s College of Performing Arts has announced that Dr. David Emmes, theatre director and co-founder of South Coast Repertory, Orange County’s Tony Award-winning professional resident theatre, will deliver the keynote speech at the school’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 23 in the Chapman Stadium. Dr. Emmes has been recognized as “a legend in repertory
Don Guy, Assistant Professor of Entertainment Technology, recently served as lighting designer/director for the show Masters of Illusion Live – Believe the Impossible! Based on the hit TV series Masters of Illusion, this live stage production played to sold-out performances at the Palacio De Los Desportes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on March 14-15, 2015.
Congratulations go out to Arsen Jamkotchian ’15 whose solo won the 2015 Concerto-Solo Competition sponsored by the Music Teachers’ Association of California, South Region, on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. Jamkotchian’s Division IV-winning solo performance of Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 (2nd, 4th movements) earns him a spot
Three student pianists from Chapman’s Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music won top prize at the 2015 Adult Performance Competition held by the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC), South Region, on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. Mia Barinaga ’17, Arsen Jamkotchian ’15, and Stella Monshaw ’17 will go on to
Donald Guy, Assistant Professor of Entertainment Technology, is currently Lighting Designer for the production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple at The Laguna Playhouse. Directed by Andrew Barnicle, The Odd Couple is a Tony Award-winning classic comedy of two famously mismatched roommates. When recently failed marriages force fastidious Felix to cohabitate with the slovenly Oscar,
Coming up on March 14 and 15, 2015, the play If All the Sky Were Paper, written by Chapman’s Chancellor Fellow and Director of The Center for American War Letters Andrew Carroll, and directed by Chapman University’s Associate Professor of Theatre John Benitz, will be performed at the famous Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City, CA. Presented by
Chapman University dance instructor and alumna takes Backhausdance company to New York this weekend for their performance debut at the famed Schimmel Center at Pace University.