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
Theatre majors Trevor Weil (’12), Michael Lee (’13), Steven Bravek (’13) and Jason Goussak (’14) were selected to participate in the USITT Elite training program in Las Vegas, NV. The program, hosted jointly by Cirque du Soleil and USITT, hosted a total of 32 students from across the country. Students were assigned to
Every spring, students in the BFA Theatre Performance program prepare and perform in a showcase for Hollywood professionals. This performance opportunity allows them to network, meet top casting directors, and secure an agent before they graduate from Chapman. This year the BFA Showcase is directed by instructor of theatre Jonathan Pope Evans. Jonathan is a
The College of Performing Arts reported last year Theatre alum Rachel Rincione (’02) landed a role in the ensemble in the new 25th anniversary U.S. touring company of Les Miserables. Now she is joined by Music alum Weston Olson (’04) in the role of Courfeyrac! The tour will stop
On April 16, The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and the Department of Theatre will present “A Readers’ Theatre Evening: Excerpts from The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel”, directed by Theatre Chair Nina LeNoir. Set in a Ukrainian village in 1649, following a pogrom in which all but two of the village’s Jews were
The Department of Theatre had originally planned to produce the classic stage play Our Town this spring. When, unexpectedly, the rights were no longer available, the Department Chair, Dr. Nina LeNoir, had to find a replacement for the season. “I didn’t have to look very far,” she says, “as the Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson’s play,
The Chapman University Department of Theatre is fielding a team of 16 actors to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition at the Region VIII Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Ogden, Utah, February 7-11, 2012. Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student
Department of Theatre alumna Rachel Parsons (’06) was featured in a supporting role as a high school student in Shattered Silence, an independent film shown on the Lifetime network as Sexting in Suburbia in January. The film is loosely based on a true story of cyber bullying that happened Rachel’s current hometown in
Our spring season will now include the classic drama The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson. In a decaying Bible-belt town, a murder trial takes place. Everyone knows who is guilty, but no one knows why. In this award-winning Off Broadway play by Lanford Wilson, the everyday events of a small town in the Midwest
The students performing in the Department of Theatre’s The Servant of Two Masters this November will have the unique opportunity to work with two coaches with unique, specialized training. Doug Oliphant, the production’s Fight Choreographer, is a theatre director and actor based in Los Angeles. As a director, Doug has assistant directed