COYA PAZ BROWNRIGG (Faculty) will be one of six storytellers performing at OUTspoken! on 9/11/2017 at Sidetrack Chicago. Doors open at 6pm.
OUTspoken! LGBTQ Storytelling at Sidetrack Our monthly event is the first Tuesday of every month – except this July 2017 when it will be Tuesday, July 11th (due to the 4th of July Holiday). Doors to MainBar open at 6pm Stories begin at 7pm Typically there will be […]
Source: Outspoken – Sidetrack Chicago
JOE MANTEGNA (BFA, Acting, ’69), who currently stars in Criminal Minds on CBS, will get the southeast corner of Hudson and Armitage avenues in Chicago named after him today. It will be designated Honorary Joe Mantegna Way. Joe once lived in the building at this corner. Congrats, Joe!
Joe Mantegna is an inordinately amiable, down-to-earth man and seems to have remained friends with everyone he has ever known
Source: Joe Mantegna — life has been lucky for him, and us by association – Chicago Tribune
DAVID MATTHEW BARNES (BFA, Playwrighting, ’97) wins Best Short Screenplay for Boxcar at the New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam.
IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) is one of eight recipients of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The award, presented by Yale University, recognized literary achievement or promise. Recipients receive a $165,000 individual prize to support their writing. Congrats, Ike!
Theatre School alum TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY (BFA, Acting, ’03) received the prize in 2013.
Source: YaleNews | Yale awards eight writers $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes
The Theatre School is well represented on Newcity Stage’s Players 2017 list including #1 CRISS HENDERSON (BFA, Production Management, ’86), #2 SUZANNE BIZER (Faculty), #3 ROCHE SCHULFER (Faculty), #16 P.J. POWERS (BFA, Acting, ’95), #26 MEGHAN BEALS (MFA, Directing, ’07), #27 COYA PAZ (Faculty), #33 GRETA HONOLD (MFA, Arts Leadership, ’11) & JOHN ZINN (MFA, Acting, ’00), and #36 ISAAC GOMEZ (Faculty).
The last year has been an eye-opening one for many of us. Events transpired on the local and national level that were often dispiriting and frequently horrifying. Yet throughout the year, the arts …
Source: Players 2017 | Newcity Stage
Moonlight, the film based on the play by alum TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY (BFA, Acting, ’03), won the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture – Drama last night. Congrats to Tarell and the cast/crew of the film!
Moonlight is stepping into the awards season spotlight. Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed portrait of a young black man growing up in Miami took home the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at this …
Source: Golden Globes 2017: Moonlight wins best picture drama
SETH RANDALL-TAPPLY (BFA, Theatre Technology, ’13) is a staff carpenter at Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis. During this promo for IRT’s upcoming production of Guess Who is Coming To Dinner, he shows off some DePaul blue while building the set.
Writer TARELL McCRANEY (BFA, Acting, ’03) and director Barry Jenkins are profiled in the New York Times about their film Moonlight, hailed as one of the year’s best films.
“Though he’d never written a screenplay, Mr. McCraney knew this story was meant to be a movie. He named it “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue,” and then it sat for nearly 10 years, until a mutual friend from the Miami drama scene emailed the script to Mr. Jenkins. The friend couldn’t believe the paths of the men had not yet crossed.”
Source: From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ – NYTimes.com
New Year’s Eve Times Square, ABC, CNN, & NBC, 12/31/2016. PAUL MILLER (BFA, Lighting Design, ’87) is the lighting director for the Times Square celebration.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_J1kVEbmhA
Glenwood Ave Arts Fest, Rogers Park, 8/20-8/21/16. JEN SMITH (BFA, Production Management, ’91) will be selling her handmade jewelry in Booth 84.
Source: Jen Smith Custom Photo Jewelry
