When local teenagers sashayed onto a stage in Salmon Recital Hall, singing a lively Swahili song under the direction of an especially animated director, the energy level grew. And grew some more. Whoa, said Stephen Coker, D.M.A., associate professor and director of choral activities at Chapman University. Dial it down a bit. “If you
Jonathan Pope Evans, assistant professor of theatre, admits his film may not be easy to watch. The Buried chronicles the hate crime murder of a gay man in rural Alabama, and Evans opted for a surreal filmmaking style, recounting the event with dreamlike imagery. But the experimental narrative about the 2004 murder is gaining
Victoria Leach (’12), until this past May a student assistant and Chamber Orchestra manager for the Conservatory of Music, has just been hired by Santa Barbara’s Camerata Pacifica as Operations Manager. Victoria was a cello student of adjunct professor Roger Lebow but attended Chapman mainly to study arts operations/management. She joins a growing number
OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival returns to the Chapman University campus this month with full productions of 5 new works from Orange County playwrights. Under the artistic direction of associate professor of theatre Tamiko Washington, Chapman theatre majors and alumni work side-by-side with professional actors and directors in this exciting event. Supported generously by
Theatre alumna Maisie Chan (’12) has landed an internship at Disney World in Orlando, FL. She says “life at Disney World is very humid, but I’m really enjoying it. I’m really liking everyone who works here and the internship. They have given me the job of being the main Production Assistant for Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival
Honor and Family , a new 15 minute musical, written by Collin Martin (’10) with Thirza Defoe and Nolan Doran, was featured in this year’s West Village Musical Theatre Festival. This musical explores the meaning of honoring your family and honoring your country. This year, the West Village Musical Theatre Festival, now Off-Broadway, featured
The Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra (OCYSO), led by Daniel Alfred Wachs, assistant professor of music and music director and conductor of the Chapman University Chamber Orchestra, has been named a winner of the American Prize. The American Prize, founded in 2009, is an annual competition providing regional, national and international recognition for the
Chapman University has raised enough money to cover the cost of the $64 million Center for the Arts. President Jim Doti announced in his 2012 State of the University address that the center’s cost had increased from $50 million after Chapman realized it would need to place the center partially underground because of the City
Carol Neblett , Artist-in-Residence at the Conservatory of Music, will be playing the role of Heidi Schiller in Follies, The Kennedy Center’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, which will be transferring to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from May 3 through June 9, 2012. When
The Chapman University Dance Touring Ensemble, directed by assistant professor of dance Alicia Okouchi-Guy, consists of an elite group of 14 dance majors who rehearsed throughout the fall semester for an interterm tour of numerous high schools in Southern California as well as throughout the San Francisco and San Jose area and Las Vegas. This