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OC-centric New Play Festival Returns for 2013

August 1, 2013 by | CoPA News

Founded by associate professor of theatre Tamiko Washington, OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival returns to campus for its third straight year.  OC-centric brings Chapman theatre majors together to work alongside professional actors and directors. The festival is promoted across the Southland and is quickly becoming a destination for exciting new theatre.  Tickets

College of Performing Arts Students Travel to Europe

July 15, 2013 by | CoPA News

Assistant professor of theatre Donald Guy and associate professor of dance Alicia Guy co-taught the TH351 theatre travel course in June and July 2013. Twenty-one College of Performing Arts students joined them on a 23-day long journey that included visiting 5 countries and 19 cities. The course afforded the students the opportunity to tour many ancient

Music Alumna to Serve as Pacific Symphony Summer Coordinator

June 18, 2013 by | CoPA News

Bella Staav (’13) has been hired to act as the 2013 Summer Coordinator for Orange County’s Pacific Symphony.  She has served in several different roles in the organization over the past several years, from Education Intern and Musical Playground Coordinator to Operations Intern most recently.  Congratulations Bella!

Theatre Student News

June 3, 2013 by | CoPA News

The TH 329: Dramaturgy class taught by Dr. Jocelyn L. Buckner received a Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival for their dramaturgical work on the Department of Theatre’s spring production of Stage Door , by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber and directed by Dr. Nina LeNoir. B.A. Theatre major Stephanie

Technical Theatre Students Land Cirque du Soleil Internships

May 22, 2013 by | CoPA News

Theatre majors Michael Lee (’13), Katey Phillips (’14) and Francesca Muscolo-Arlt (’15) have recently been awarded Cirque du Soleil internships.  Michael will take an internship on the production of O at the Bellagio in Lighting and Automation, Katey will be a wardrobe crew intern on Zarkana at the Aria, and Francesca will be a wardrobe crew intern

Theatre Alumnus to Debut Play at South Coast Repertory

May 20, 2013 by | CoPA News

Eternal Thou by Matthew McCray (’98) will be presented at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA from June 6-9, 2013. Framed by the spiritual philosophies of the mystic Martin Buber, Eternal Thou is a high-tech science fiction drama about the future of the Internet and man’s search for spiritual enlightenment. In Eternal Thou, the

Theatre Professor Publishes in Theatre Survey

May 9, 2013 by | CoPA News

In March 2013,  assistant professor of theatre Jocelyn Buckner presented the paper “’The History of America is the History of Private Property’: The Politics of Home, Humor, Hate, and History in Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun ,” and served as panel chair for “Staging the Nation: Three Centuries of Constructing

Music Alumnus Accepted Into Chautauqua Opera Apprentice Program

May 8, 2013 by | CoPA News

Music alumnus Brett Sprague (’10) has been accepted into the competitive apprentice program at Chautauqua Opera for the 2013 summer season.  He will perform Rector Adams in Peter Grimes .  The Chautauqua Opera Young Artist program was formally established in 1966, followed by the creation of a Studio Artist program in 1981. In

More Piano Student Awards

May 2, 2013 by | CoPA News

Arsen Jamkotchian (’14) won first place at the 2013 California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) State Honors Auditions. Arsen won the district competition in the fall and went on to compete in the finals this last weekend at the CAPMT State Conference. In addition, Primo Cervantes (’16) won first prize this past weekend at the 2013 Orange County Symphony’s Young

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