September 2019 College News

Intensive this June in Washington, D.C. She attended lectures and workshopped scenes from Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice with 14 directors from across the country. Vic Shuttee (M.F.A., Dramatic Writing) participated in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in Washington, D.C. this past summer. Duncan Smith , Matthew Schlandt , Alexander Vogt , BK Frizzell , Sophie Misercola , Andrew Withers , Casey Glaude , Collin Schonhof , Hanna Hurd , Josh Demings , Mackenzie Lawrence , Presley Peters , Raye Pettigrew , Robert Morris , Ryan Flores , Ryan Walters , Shane Satterfeld and Summer Hawkins worked to create and produce four episodes of an anthology web series entitled Tales of Phantasmagoria . Te series will premiere online in October. [ 5 ] Amber Mawande-Spytek (B.F.A., Performance and Production) and Cameron Keith played the leading roles Kathy Seldon and Don Lockwood in Singing in the Rain at Circle Arts Teatre in New Braunfels. Brandon Summers (B.F.A., Performance and Production) played the role of Danny in the musical Baby! at Coppell Teatre this summer. Steven Jamal Tugman (B.F.A., Performance and Production) will be appearing as Grandpop in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue , at the Classic Teatre of San Antonio in mid-October. Jake Young (B.F.A., Musical Teatre) performed in the summer season at Te Lyric Teatre of Oklahoma Lyric and served as Dance Captain. ALUMNI ACCOLADES For Lightning Girl , a new one-act by Rita Anderson (M.A., Teatre History), was selected for Amplify , an international play event at London-based Kibo Productions. One of her monologues will be published in the anthology of 100 Monologues for New Plays 2020 – tentative publication fall 2020. Trever Berger (’18) made his international debut as Tony in West Side Story in Tokyo. Michael Burrell starred in the international tour of An American in Paris in China. Isaac Byrne (M.F.A., Directing ’19) Won Best Ensemble at the Hollywood Fringe for his performance in the play Butcher Holler Here We Come by Casey Wimpee. Victoria Byrom (B.F.A., Teacher Certifcation) started a summer internship with Broadway Teachers Workshop in June. In September, Victoria started an internship in promotions at the Pekoe group, a Broadway marketing and PR company, working on the launch of Te Lightning Tief and Six . Zachary Campion (B.F.A., Performance and Production) was dialect coach for Doubt at the Studio Teatre and Cabaret at the Olney Teatre Center, both in the DC area. He is currently in rehearsal for Right to Be Forgotten at Arena Stage. Chris Cook (B.A., Teatre and Mass Communication) is in LA and working as an Assistant Director in the Directors Guild of America. He recently won his frst DGA award. His credits in the last fve years include Schooled , Fear of the Walking Dead , Te First Purge , All Night , Nathan for You , Rhett and Link’s Buddy System , Comedy Bang! Bang! , An American Girl Story , Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street , and Daddy’s Home . Nick Eibler (’19) made his Broadway debut in Te Prom . Jecamiah Ibanez (B.F.A., Performance and Production) has completed his M.F.A. in Directing at Yale University. Jorrel Javier (’18) fnished the year long national tour the lead role in Te Lightening Tief , and will be making his Broadway debut in the same role the spring. [6] Magic Lantern Creations (owned by Lori Merkle and Matt Ford , B.F.A. Performance and Production) continues its successful run of major projects. In the past year, they have provided lighting for Paradise Hotel (FOX), Hollywood Game Night (NBC), Penn and Teller: Fool Us (Te CW), Martha and Snoop’s Pot Luck Dinner Party (VH1), and Nick Cannon Presents Wild ‘N Out (MTV). Daniel Miller (’19) played Tony in the West Side Story at AD Players in Houston Ricky Molnar (B.F.A., Performance and Production 2019) is currently working for Ashkan Image which does photography for the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. In September, Ricky will be traveling to Peru to College of Fine Arts and Communication | 23