The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its second round of fiscal year 2013 Art Works grants, and Chapman University, through project manager Associate Professor of Theatre John Benitz, has been awarded $20,000 to support a tour of Andrew Carroll’s If All the Sky Were Paper, produced at Chapman in 2012 and 2010. The
Theatre alumna Malia Wright (’12) is playing the role of Dorinda in The Beaux’ Stratagem at A Noise Within in Pasadena, CA. This restoration comedy by George Farquhar, directed by Julia Rodriguez Elliott, is playing through May 26, 2013. The production received a terrific review from the Los Angeles Times . Visit A Noise
Theatre majors Michael Lee (’13) and Steven Bravek (’13) have been selected to participate in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Elite training program in Las Vegas, NV for the second year in a row! Through an intense application process, students are selected and assigned to one of the following areas of study:
Lance Frantzich (’12) is currently appearing in Belz! A Jewish Vaudeville Musical at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA. In this revival, 18 actors play 65 characters, sing an array of original and traditional Jewish songs, and tell dozens of jokes. Revolving around a fictitious Jewish comedian, Hugo Schwartz, audiences travel through five decades, beginning
Chapman University’s Department of Theatre is producing the 1936 classic comedy, Stage Door, directed by professor Dr. Nina LeNoir, with thirty-two student actors, four student stage managers, a creative and design team of seven students, staff and faculty, six additional support staff members, and a student production crew of thirty-three. That’s eighty-two students, faculty
Tucked off the main campus, down in the rehearsal studios of the Entertainment Technology Center on Palm Avenue, there’s some serious fun under way. Students are drinking, dancing, jesting and carousing their way through a wacky love triangle of a story. Oh, and there’s cross dressing. And a shipwreck. If it sounds
Nine Department of Theatre majors will be attending the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regional Festival in Los Angeles February 14-16, 2013 to compete in acting and directing competitions. The Irene Ryan Acting Competition nominees are selected by guest respondents for outstanding performances in Theatre productions in the previous calendar year. For
Donald Guy, assistant professor of theatre, is currently Lighting Designer for the production of Chapter Two by Neil Simon at The Laguna Playhouse. Directed by Andrew Barnicle, Chapter Two is Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical comedy about George, a middle-aged writer who is trying to deal with life after his wife’s untimely death. The performances run until February
Theatre alumna Whitney Kaufman (’06) has performed several recent engagements with the Kansas City Symphony, in their Christmas concerts as well as Disney in Concert last summer. She has also performed a program of Oscar-winning songs with the Malaysia Philharmonic in Kuala Lumpur, and has been appearing as a principal vocalist in Disney in Concert