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2014-2015 Season 2

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Scholarship Recipients 5

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Checking In 6

Information 7

Cal State East Bay

Theatre and Dance Department

25800 Carlos Bee Blvd

Hayward CA 94542

510.885.3118

Cal State East Bay alum JamesMonroe Iglehart took home his firstTony this year for his performance as Genie in the new musical“Aladdin.” It’s been said that Iglehart was destined for showbusiness with his mother being a music teacher, his dad an actor inthe 1970’s and his aunt being a dancer. He fought the impulse at anearly age, but flourished throughout his years in the Theatre andDance Department and even included a special shout-out toCSUEB’sowncostume technicianCelestineRainey-Howes for “…keeping (him) in college.” Iglehart’s career started his senior yearat CSUEB when he auditioned for a swing role in a tour of“Showboat” and got it without even knowing what the job entailed.He later appeared in“The25thAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee”on Broadway as a replacement and originated the role of Bobby inthe Tony-Award winning musical “Memphis.” James was quotedsaying "The first time Iwatched theTonyAwards Iwas17years old,so this is... well excuse the cliché, but it's a wish come true."

CSUEB's own Tony Winner!!

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2014-2015 Season

Tartuffe

Playwright : MoliereDirector: Marc Jacobs

November 14-15 & 21-23Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM

Sunday @ 2 PMUniversity Theatre

ICE/ICE-X

Director & Choreographer :Eric Kupers

December 5 - 6Friday @ 8 PM

Saturday @ 2 PM & 8 PMPE 140

It's A Wonderful LIfe

Playwright : Phillip GrecianDirector : Carlos Aguirre

December 12 - 14Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM

Sunday @ 2 PMStudio Theatre

Dance Concert

Choreographer :Nina Haft

May 1-2 & 8-10Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM

Sunday @ 2 PMUniversity Theatre

Pillipino CulturalNight

Produced in cooperationwith PASA

December 22 - 23Friday @ 7:30 PMSaturday @ 6:30 PMUniversity Theatre

Performance Fusion

Program A: May 29 - 30Program B : June 5 - 7Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM

Sunday @ 2 PMStudio Theatre

In the Heights

Playwright : Quiara Alegria Hudes | Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel MiirandaDirector : Darryl V. Jones | Musical Director: Sierra Dee

Choreographers : Laura Elaine Ellis & Cathrine Delos SantosMarch 6 -7 & 13-15

Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM | Sunday @ 2 PM | University Theatre

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Scholarship Recipients

Friends of the Arts Award

Chad Foster is a Junior-­‐year Technicaland Design student at Cal State East Bay.This past spring he was the stage managerfor CSUEB’s 2013 production of Avenue Q.Chad is already demonstrating backstageleadership qualities. He did superb workon the San Francisco International ArtsFestival cooperative presentation of thePolish theatre, Studium Teatralne, in fall,2013. Chad is looking forward to all the

productions at CSUEB this upcoming year.

Len Libresco Family ScholarshipDavid Faubion is a recent transfer student from Moorpark College where heearned an AA in Technical Theater. David’s interest and success in the CSU East BayTheater Arts curriculum to date has been inspired by Professors Kaufman, Alcala,Olmsted, Kupers, Guthrie and Ellis. His opportunity to usher at the CSUEBperformances this year allowed him to observe the dedicated professional teamworkcentral to department productions. He has added dramaturgy and dramatic theory tohis interests. Having learned more about the value of dance, he hopes to create hisculmination piece for Performance Fusion next Spring featuring his singing with

excerpts from the comedy, Twelfth Night.

Technology & DesignAward

Margaret MacCormack has been astudent with the CSUEB Theatre and dancedepartment for two years. In her time hereshe has worked on four shows, includingAvenue Q, the musical, as the assistant

designer. In the upcoming year she will bescenic designer for the fall play and

continuing work as a student assistant in thescene shop. Margaret loves this department,the friends and opportunities she has gainedhere and looks forward to the next few years

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Scholarship Recipients

Katrena Cohea transferred to Cal State East Bay in 2013 as a theatermajorwith anoption indance. Shehasperformedwith the SanFranciscoConservatory of Dance andwas amember of Brisas de España Flamenco& Spanish Dance Company. As amember of the CSUEB Dance EnsembleandTouringCompany,sheperformed inthe2014 InformalDanceFacultyShow on our campus. In the near future, she hopes to work with pre-­‐kindergartenpublic school studentswhere she candevelop a curriculumthat concentrates on analyzing dance though poetry, literature and

music.

Dance Award

Channing/Kulijian Scholars

BethCampbellwill bea junior-­‐yearTheatreArts and English major at Cal State East Baythis fall. Last spring, sheplayed thepart of theBad IdeaBears in CSUEB’s 2014production ofAvenueQdirected byMarc Jacobs. She is alsokeeping busy this quarter by writing a playthat she plans on submitting to the KennedyCenter American College Theatre Festival(KCACTF) national playwriting competition.

BurtonWeaverwill be attending Cal State East Bayin the fall as a transfer student from Diablo ValleyCollege as a Theatre Arts major with an emphasis inacting.Hehad thepleasureof performing inCSUEB’sproduction of Avenue Q last spring under thedirection of Marc Jacobs. Burton is an aspiring actorwho has performed with many theatre companiesthroughout the greater Bay Area. Currently, he is amember of the Equity Membership CandidateProgram and is earning points towards joining theActors Equity Association. This winter, he will beworking at the New Conservatory Theatre Center inSan Francisco, understudying various roles in theirproduction ofAvenueQ. Burton hopes to oneday be

able to make a living doing what he loves.

Scholarship Recipients

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Summer ArtsSupport Grant

Yumi Nomura is a recent graduate ofCal State East Bay where she earnedher BA in Theatre Arts with an optionin Dance. Her last performance at

CSUEB was Self-­‐Discovering, which shedirected and choreographed for hersenior project. Yumi performed an

excerpt from her senior project at theKennedy Center American College

Dance Festival. This summer, she wasawarded a full-­‐ride scholarship and

selected to participate in theConnection: Lester Horton and AlvinAiley at CSU Summer Arts 2014. Herfirst professional performance was in

Dimensions Dance Theater’sCelebration 40 at Yerba Buena Centerfor the Arts in San Francisco. Since

then, she has done work exchange atAlonzo King Lines Ballet, where she

also took classes. Yumi is veryinterested in the study of kinesiologydue to the struggles she has gonethrough with her back injury. Shewould like to someday get a PhD tobecome a physical therapist and helpother dancers who are facing the same

problems she did.

Summer Arts AwardTeri Lynch fell in love withmusical theatre at the tenderage of 11. In high school shewas very interested in theatre,calling herself the typical“theatre geek”. Once it wastime for college, she wanted tocontinue exploring performingarts. This year, she auditionedto be part of CSU Summer Artsand is now attending theBroadway Boot Camp in CalState Monterey. It has beena wonderful experience for

her and she was constantlyblown away by all the

talented participants. She can'twait to get back to school inSeptember to get to workon even more musical

theatre training.

Summer Arts AwardCharles Williams iscurrently working on hisBFA inTraditionalArtsatCalState East Bay. He hasappeared on the CSUEBmain stage many timesthrough-­‐out his years in theprogram. Most recently, heperformed in the 2013Faculty dance showchoreographed by NinaHaft, Eric Kupers andstudents. He also hasparticipated inmanyFusionpieces choreographed anddirected by advanced dance students. Outside ofCSUEB, Charles has participated in the UniversityTouring Company. He is currently participating in CSUSummer arts in Monterey and is busier than ever!

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Checking In

April Rodriguez is back in California for the summer tointern for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences inLos Angeles. She is working with the Science Tech Councilon the matter of digital preservation. The motion pictureindustry is in a transition to a digital motion pictureindustry. Put simply, what is captured by the camera anddisplayed will most likely be an all-­‐digital file. In the past,the pipeline consisted of film as the format from creationto end. It was then a mix of both film and digital media.Most recently the trend is moving towards digitalthroughout. That being said, there are concerns andquestions about borndigital motion picture files and this iswhere April comes into the mix. She will be spending hersummer working with borndigital motion picture files-­‐experimenting with methods of cataloging them, archivingthem, and creating accessibility to them. After theinternship is over, April will return to UW-­‐Madison to finishup her masters program in Library and Information Studies,with an emphasis Archive & Records Management.

Lucas Hernandez came into the Theaterdepartment at California State University in the fallof 2013, unaware of the wonderful experiences tocome. His first performance was in the winterproduction of Alice in Wonderland as the WhiteRabbit and the March Hare directed by Marc Jacobs.Lucas traveled to Idaho for the Kennedy CenterAmerican College Theater Festival for the Irene RyanScholarship competition as a partner for Nick Berk.His first experience in musical theatre was thisspring, in show choir class taught by ProfessorDarryl V. Jones. In three short quarters, Lucas feelshe has advanced farther than he ever expected to asa freshman. This summer, he will be working on AVery Potter Sequel in Newark where he will beplaying Yaxley and James Potter directed by AmeliaLoredo.

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Department Information

Special Thanks to these creative organizations and artists who collaborate withour department in multiple, invaluable ways!

African and Aftican American Performing Arts CoalitionAXIS Dance CompanyDandelion Dancetheater

Friends of the ArtsImpact Theatre

Nina Haft and CompanyShawl-Anderson Dance CenterThe Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

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office at 510-885-3118.

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