October2022_CollegeNews

20 | October | College News Issac Garza's short film is in the 2022 Austin Film Festival Chas Harvey is King Ubu and is a part of the Los Angeles-based theatre company The Actors' Gang Nicholaus Ortiz stars in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity , directed by Jerry Ruiz 5 6 ALUMNI ACCOLADES Isaac Garza's short film Chemistry was selected to play in competition at the 2022 Austin Film Festival. [4] Chas Harvey stars in the title role of The Actors' Gang production of Ubu The King . The Actors' Gang is a Los Angeles-based theatre company led by Tim Robbins, who also directed the production. Tim Robbins was the orginal lead for this production. [5] Grace Hickey plays Hope in the award-winning film, Room for Daisy . Grace won Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film, at the Content 2022 film festival. Nicholas Ortiz stars in Zach Theatre’s production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity directed by faculty member Jerry Ruiz . [6] Laurel Toupal and Trevor Ray Person star in The Beauty of a Blank Space directed by Alum Ryan Love , which premiers at the Austin Film Festival, Oct. 28th and 31st, 2022. DEPARTMENT ACCOLADES Texas State’s Theatre Department opened up the New Works Festival in early October featuring staged readings of two new works: I Wanna be a F*cking Princess by Jenny Connell Davis directed by Kathleen McDowell and How Wren and Alucard Broke the World by Kate Salters directed by Insha Iqbal . The plays featured bobcat talents: Amber Gibson, Zoe Barkhurst, Maxwell Hanesworth, Kevin Engel, Frida Cantu, Elisa Pedraza Sanchez, Kaitlyn Huston, Nalliyah Jenkins, Paola, Sara Scheidt, and Savanah Downing. 4