Quaranteam: An Interactive Web Series about Working from Home, available for interactive zoom episodes every Friday, closes 5/15/2020. KEIGHT LEIGHN (BFA, Acting, ’09) guest stars.
Author: oshine
Middle Passage from Lifeline Theatre Available for Remote Viewing
Middle Passage, Lifeline Theatre, avaliable for remote viewing through 4/19/2020. HUNTER BRYANT (BFA, Acting, ’17) and MICHAEL MORROW (BFA, Acting, ’18) are in the cast, GREGORY J. FIELDS (BFA, Acting, ’19) understudies. SIMEAN CARPENTER (BFA, Lighting Design, ’18) is the lighting designer. MAREN ROBINSON (Faculty) is the dramaturg.
Kill Move Paradise from Timeline Theatre, Directed by Wardell Julius Clark, Now Available for Remote Viewing
Kill Move Paradise, Timeline Theatre, now streaming through 4/19/2020. WARDELL JULIUS CLARK (BFA, Acting, ’09) directs. Tickets for remote viewing can be found here.
The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral! Streaming Now Available
The Infinite Wrench, The Neo-Futurists, now avaliable digitally that you can access here. DAN KERR-HOBERT (BFA, Acting, ’03) is in the cast. KENDALL KARG (MFA, Art Leadership, ‘13) is the managing director.
The Dream King by Teatro Vista
The Dream King, Teatro Vista, postponed due to COVID-19. ASHLYN LOZANO (BFA, Acting, ’15) is in the cast. LIVIU PASARE (Faculty0) is the projections designer.
Lost Works: What Could Have Been Project Started by Alum
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.
American Theatre and the Chicago Tribune Feature Current Theatre School Students and Faculty for Zoom and Remote Learning Discussion
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 Coming Soon Early April
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 Coming to Theaters Spring 2020.
A Quiet Place Part II, in nationwide release. NIC JONES (BFA, Lighting Design, ’08) is the lighting programmer.
Killer Dream Home in Nationwide Release
Killer Dream Home, In nationwide release. TIA NICOLE LUI (BFA, Costume design and Costume technology, ’19) is the key costume superviser.