October 2016 College News

THEATRE Acting, Musical Theatre, Per formance and Production, Teacher Certif ication in Theatre, Technical Production, & Theatre FACULTY ACCOLADES Babs George appeared in Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky at the Austin Playhouse. Brandon R. McWilliams designed the costumes for the production of Charlotte’s Web at the Zachary Scott Theatre. Nadine Mozon performed her one-woman show, Blue Spiral , at the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference [1] in September. In October, Michael Rau was a speaker on the “The State of the (Interactive) Art” panel during the 54th New York Film Festival. At the Future of Storytelling Festival, he presented his interactive digital media installation/ theater piece Tempin g and spoke on the panel, “The Economics of Creating Personalized Experiences at Scale.” In addition, Michael workshopped and directed a new piece entitled Royalty and performed in a reading of School Shooting IV at Hearth Gods, a New Works laboratory in NYC’s East Village. Glenda L. Wolfe was costume designer for the Austin, Texas regional premiere of Nevermore, The Imaginary Life And Mysterious Death Of Edgar Allan Poe , produced by Doctuh Mistuh Productions. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Johnny Brantley III ( BFA Musical Theatre 2016) just booked the national tour of The Book of Mormon. Roberta Colindrez (BFA Acting 2008) was profiled in Playbill as one of 16 LGBTQ artists whose work is changing the way people view gender, sexuality and life both onstage and off. She was also recently featured in BitchMedia. This summer, Kurt Engh (BFA Acting, 2016) completed a 10-week long company management internship 1 2 3 Black and Latino Playwrights Conference tribute cast Renowned playwright, actress, and director, Regina Taylor Danielle Grisko and Lucas Matteson in Tartuffe by Molière 18 | October | College News