 Faculty
Fanfare
Maida Withers, professor of dance: Dance Construction Company successful premiered the provocative dance-theatre work, Collision Course – a.k.a. Pillow Talk, December 7 & 8, 2012 in Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. For further information visit http://www.maidadance.com
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, professor of dance and department chair: My company and I performed throughout Jordan on tour for the State Department. Carl Gudenius (professor of design) designed the lights and we all were also able to see the ruins of Petra. Also my company received the following accolades for our 20th Anniversary Dance Concert. Carl also designed this concert's lights. We also were named the #1 best in dance by the Washington Post for 2012. Here are the links to recent press:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/burgess-at-20-dance-fully-evolved/2012/09/23/140bfb60-05a5-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/dancing-to-the-heart-of-the-matter/2012/09/20/ba7b50a6-0355-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/the-best-of-2012-dance/2012/12/06/7d544164-3d71-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_print.html
Ally Currin, professor of theatre: My new play CAESAR AND DADA, which just had a reading at TBG Studio Theatre in NYC (directed by Obie Award-winning Jason Loewith), will receive its world premiere production in May-June-July at WSC-Avant Bard, with Lee Mikeska Gardner directing.
I have been selected as resident playwright for Theatre J's Locally Grown Initiative for this season, and am writing a brand new script, THE REUNION PLAY, for its frist reading there on April 15, 2013.
I am working on a new musical commissioned by Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre (with composer/lyricist Matt Conner).
I am the resident playwright with First Draft this season.
This is my final year as Vice Chair for the National Playwriting Program of the American College Theatre Festival (Region 2) - I officially step up as chair in spring, 2013! The appointment will last for three years, and I will also be on the national board of the KCACTF during that time.
Sigridur Johannesdottir, assistant professor of design performed the following costume designs/projects outside of the department from May to December 2012.
Common Threads at National Portrait Gallery
Three women of 19th century America (Mary Lincoln, Varina Davis and Elizabeth Kekley (a freed slave and a seamstress)).
Becoming Calvin by Ann Timmons
Performed at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church
commissioned by the Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington
Collision Course a.k.a. Pillow Talk by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company,
Alan Wade, professor of theatre, was on sabbatical leave during the fall semester doing research on new media (London, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles). He served as interim artistic director of The Olney Theatre Center, Maryland, for a brief time (December) during a search for a new artistic director. [see his Wade’s Words column in this edition of CastNotes].
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