September 2018 College News

Nik Crawford (B.F.A. Acting 2017) is the artistic director for Lotus Eaters, where he also writes and performs. He recently applied his triple-threat skills to Night Market. He’s also performed in Dinner Detective at a Houston area dinner theatre, Oskar vs Tingamabob at the Alley Teatre, and Te Revisionist , a regional premiere at Stages Repertory Teatre. Cambria Denim’s play Arabesque No. 1 , won best script, best production, and best actor as part of the SheNYC Summer Teatre Festival LA at the Zephyr Teatre in Los Angeles. Her new play Lark and the Dark was developed as part of the National Young Playwright’s in Residence program and had it’s frst reading at the Atwater Village Teater in Los Angeles. Te play was directed by her mentor for the program, playwright/ director Charlotte Miller. And her play, A Girl Smiles in the Arctic is having its second production as part of OC- Centric—Orange County’s New Play Festival. Andrew Grifn (B.F.A. Acting 2017) is living in NYC where he is a company member at Te Playground Experiment. He recently won the Best Actor Award at the Of Broadway One Act Festival for his role in A Girl Smiles in the Artic . Emma Hearn (B.F.A. Musical Teatre 2018) was a full season company member at Music Teatre Wichita. Ashley Hildreth (B.F.A. Acting 2017) has performed in Platonov at the New Ohio Teatre and Tis is Modern Art at the New York Teatre Workshop, as well as in the 48 Hour in El Bronx Play Festival and a ghost reading series for Michael Weller’s newest play. She is currently an acting apprentice at the Actors Teatre of Louisville. Jorrel Javier (B.F.A. Musical Teatre 2018) was in the ensemble of Mamma Mia! At Casa Manana. Terissa Kelton (B.F.A. Acting 2010) will be part of a team of producers for Prophet a movie from Deadpool creator, Rob Liefeld. Te movie is based on the comic book character, John Prophet, a DNA-enhanced WWII soldier who wakens prematurely from a cryogenic freeze, leaving him searching for a mission. Te rights are held by Studio 8/Sony. Terissa is also co-executive producer on the animated Harriet the Spy series with Te Jim Henson Company and executive producer on the Flight of the Navigator . George Lamar (B.F.A. Acting 2017) relocated to New York City in the fall of 2017. He has since performed with the Sea Dog Teater in a staged reading of Across the Western Dinka and most recently participated in the Harlem9’s Obie Award winning, 48-hour Play festival in a new work titled Anon’s Gone by NSangou Nkijam. Chandler Lovelle (B.F.A. Musical Teatre 2017) is modeling for Vogue magazine. Danny Lutman wrote and produced Te Dead Files Revealed , which premiered in June on the Travel Channel before the start of the tenth season of the paranormal investigation series. Reasonable Doubt , another series from Danny’s production company, began its second season on Investigative Discovery. Danny cast the two leads, Chris Anderson and Fatima Silva. He continues his work with his indie improv team, Roundhouse, and Te Really Awesome Improv Show. Blair Medina (B.F.A. Musical Teatre 2018) made her Of-Broadway debut in the musical Heist . Marissa Menezes (M.F.A. Costume Design) has been hired as a costume assistant at Te Public Teatre in New York City, and costume coordinator for Tony-winning costume designer, Jane Greenwood. #BEETLEJUICE Johnny Brantley III (B.F.A. Musical Teatre 2016) is in the world premiere of the new musical Beetlejuice at the National Teatre in DC, and will make his Broadway debut in the same show in spring of 2019 at the Winter Garden Teatre. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 21