September 2019 College News

Houston. In addition, Sid will be mounting a reading of Waiting for the Number Six at the American Blues Teatre in Chicago. Ben Toomer ( ’18) made his regional debut at the Arena Stage in the new musical Jubilee . Caitlin Turnage (M.F.A., Dramatic Writing) has joined the faculty at Texas State, teaching undergraduate courses in playwriting. Her play, What We Scream Underwater When No One Can Hear Us , was named a Semi-Finalist for the Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series. Her play, My Mother’s Nose , was named a Semi-Finalist for the Headwaters New Play Festival. Anna Uzele (’18) fnished her run in Chicago, the lead role in the new musical Six , and will be heading back to Broadway in the same role the spring. [9 ] Annie Wallace (’14) celebrated her 1,000 performance in the national tour of Aladdin . Audrey Webb (M.F.A., Dramatic Writing ’19) recently procured a shopping agreement with an independent producer to represent an original television pilot script she wrote. Congratulations also to Audrey’s fellow M.F.A. students Connor Pate , Vic Shuttee , and Caitlin Turnage , who are co-creators of the series Sunk , which was conceived in Susan Busa’s TV writing classes. Te Pilot of Sunk , written by Audrey, was a Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival’s Screen Play Competition, Comedy Teleplay Pilot category. Her play Buried will have a reading at the 2019 Midwest Dramatists Center Conference in September. Audrey graduated in May with a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing. In late summer, Riley Wesson (B.F.A., Performance and Production) starred in the world premiere of Tail End Charlie at Haymaker Players in Austin. Riley also directed the fght choreography and alumnus Madison McAllister (B.F.A., Performance and Production) worked as the intimacy choreographer on the production. THE OTHER MOZART Te Other Mozart, directed by Isaac Byrnes , had productions at the Hong Kong Cultural Center, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Saul Ste- Marie, Ontario this summer. It is the true and untold story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. Created by Sylvia Milo, the monodrama is set in a stunning 18-foot dress (designed by Magdalena Dabrowska from the National Teater of Poland). College of Fine Arts and Communication | 25