Lost Works: What could Have Been, is an essay featured in Howlround and initiative by KRISTIN IDASZAK (BFA, Theatre Arts, ’09 & Faculty) that endeavors to pay tribute to the work abruptly stopped by the COVED-19 outbreak. She is calling for submissions for varieties of tributes made to the all the work unproduced or half-produced before the shelter-in-place order. Learn more here. Read the Howlround article here.
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, Steppenwolf Theatre, closes 5/17/2020. CELESTE M. COOPER (MFA, Acting, ’12) is in the cast. TOM PEARL (Faculty) is the director of production.
Under the Tree, The New Colony, closes 5/3/2020. LILA GILBERT (BFA, Theatre Arts, ’18) is the production manager.
American Theatre features MADIE DOPPELT (BFA, Playwrighting, ’20), LISA PORTES (Faculty) and REBECCA WILLINGHAM (MFA, Directing, ’22) in discussion of how Zoom will revolutionize today’s college theatre programs.
“Portes remains confident that the theatre community will pull through. “The good news is that we’re creative,” she says. “We’re a creative field that is built on people collaborating together to figure out how to make things—and that’s what we’re doing.””
The Chicago Tribune features ADAM CRAWFORD (BFA, Acting, ’20) KYLE CUNNINGHAM (BFA, Lighting Design, ’20), VICTORIA DEIORIO (FACULTY), COYA PAZ (Faculty), JUSTEN ROSS (BFA, Acting, ’21), KEIMON SHOOK (BFA, Acting, ’21),
“It goes back to this question of, either we think our work matters or it doesn’t. And if we think it matters, it matters now as much as it did last week,” Paz said.
“As artists, it’s our job to mirror the world,” Ross said. “And if we’re not tapped in, we can’t mirror it successfully. So I think this is, if anything, good, because it shows everybody that we’ve got more work to do.”
Half Hour: A Steppenwolf Podcast, streaming early April 2020. GLENN DAVIS (BFA, Acting, ’04) is one of the hosts.
“…the world will come back, and so will we, and stories and connection will be more important than ever. Even if it’s just for a Half Hour.”
source: steppenwolf.org
A Quiet Place Part II, in nationwide release. NIC JONES (BFA, Lighting Design, ’08) is the lighting programmer.
The Corrido of the San Patricios, at Milagro Theatre in Portland Oregon, closes 4/11/2020. SYDNEY DUFKA (BFA, Costume Design, ’16) is the costume designer and ANTHONY FORCHIELLI (BFA, Lighting Design, ’16) is the lighting designer.
Killer Dream Home, In nationwide release. TIA NICOLE LUI (BFA, Costume design and Costume technology, ’19) is the key costume superviser.
Los Frikis, Haven at The Den Theatre, two nights only, 3/16/202 & 3/22/2020. Tickets are free! KRYSTAL ORTIZ (BFA, Acting, 2016) is the playwright. JUAN PABLO OCASIO (BFA, Acting, ’19) and CLAUDIA QUESADA (BFA, Acting, ’19) are in the cast.
