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A Message from our ChairOf course this has been an exciting year! We are, after all, a theatre and dance department that strives for the extraordinary in all we do, right?!! We trust this edition of our alumni newsletter provides you with a brief retrospective of this past year, a glimpse into the most recent adventures of our alumi, updates in the activities of faculty and staff, and an introduction to our 2012-13 production season.

In addition to these announcements I’d like to tell you about the Department of Theatre and Dance ten-year curricular review that we will conduct this coming year. A daunting project to be sure, but an important one that presents an opportunity for our department to look back at the last ten years so that we may be guided in determining our goals for the future. Obviously from my perspective one of the most noticeable developments within the last ten years may be that we are now the Department of Theatre AND Dance! We have tried to create an atmosphere in which theatre and dance not only co-exist, but one in which their shared relationship enhances our student’s scope of the fine arts and

performance. As a result our curriculum and productions have found many new and unique disciplinary paths and connections. Likewise, our students find such incredible ways to explore them both in their separate and combined forms.

Yet another notable change within the last ten years can be seen in ways the department has evolved in our commitment toward global engagement in the

contexts of theatre and dance. Course offerings and experiences that globally engage students in the arts have been recently implemented that extend our curriculum beyond Native American Performance and Dance in World Cultures to include Latina/Latino Theatre, Exploring India at Home and Abroad Through the Arts, and Indigenous Film.

As I write to you this afternoon our newest faculty member, Jimmy Noriega, is in Peru for five weeks where he and several students are attending workshops and devising a play that will be performed in regional theatres in Lima. Over winter break twelve students, Patrice Smith and I explored the arts in Chennai and Kerala, India as a portion of the course, Exploring India at Home and Abroad Through the Arts that Shirley Huston-Findley and I taught during the fall semester. It was a fabulous experience filled with meeting artists, attending professional theatre and dance schools, amazing performances, and visiting significant architectural sites. In this spirit of global connection Dale Seeds will spend a portion of his 2012-13 leave in Alaska where he will continue his scholarship in indigenous performance and Shirley Huston-Findley will conduct further research in India during the spring of 2014. Due to my continued interest in ethnic dance forms as well as modern continued on page 7

Featured Alum

Clay DrinkoPage 3

2012-2013 ProductionsOur 2012-13 season offers theatre and dance that explore the very nature of what performance is, its functions and the ways in which it is created.Page 7

Faculty NotesFaculty and staff desire to keep up with majors, alumni, and friends of the department on current and past events We hope you find this newsletter as a reliable source of alumni news and events.Page 2

2012 Graduates

Read about the comings and goings of our 2012 graduates.Page 7

Alumni UpdatesWe would love to hear from you! Email psmith@wooster.edu and let us know what you’re up to. Page 6

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Annual NewsletterIssue No 6 2011-2012

Wooster in India Program

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Faculty NotesShirley Huston-Findley, Associate ProfessorOnce again it has been a busy and rewarding year! As many of you know Kim Tritt and I team-taught a new Wooster in India course entitled Exploring India at Home and Abroad Through the Arts, which included a three-week field experience in southern India. We learned much and have begun proposing the course again for 2013-14—we always were gluttons for punishment! I also published an article: “In Pursuit of Well-Being: The Purpose, Process, Pleasure and Pain of Forming Boomerang Intergenerational Theatre Company,” co-authored with theatre alum Jamie Carroll Morris in Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of the Acting/Directing Symposium of the MATC and co-authored an article with Peter Mowry (Music), Kitty Zurko, (Art Museum), and former VPAA Iain Crawford entitled “Undergraduate Research in the Fine Arts at the College of Wooster,” for the Council on Undergraduate Research. My article, “Understanding Cultural Perspectives Through Greek and Hindu Theatre” will appear in Education About Asia in the spring. In addition I was fortunate to direct two student productions for our Festival of New Plays and collaborated with Kim on a piece for the spring dance concert by contributing a narrative entitled Breathing India: A Contradiction.

This summer I’m working on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship to support the leave I received for spring 2014. I’ll be spending a few months in India to develop a new research project focused on gathering a collection of narratives from a variety of female playwrights with the intention of discovering how and why, based on their personal artistic challenges and successes, the contemporary performing arts in India are gendered. More specifically, I intend to analyze whether or not their ages and, therefore, their distance from partition play a role in the types of experiences they’ve had. In other words, as we move further away from colonialism and India’s moment of Independence and more toward a globalized world where outside influences are rapidly changing Indian culture and playing a significant role in the growth of the middle class, how has the role of gender mattered differently depending on each woman’s location in that

distance? I’m also trying to finish up an article on Creativity in the Liberal Arts, a book chapter on Assessment in the Arts, and prepare for our fall production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus.

Dale Seeds, Professor of Theatre/Designeris currently on a research leave for 2012-13. This June he attended the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Later this summer he served as scenic designer for CAMEO’s production of the musical, Little Women, presented at the Medina Performing Arts Center. The Little Women production team included College of Wooster Theatre and Dance alum, Lindsay Phillips ’11. His further travel plans include Minnesota and North Dakota as part of his research on the 1862 Dakota Conflict. His findings will inform the development of a new play based on this historic event and its current repercussions.

This winter he plans to attend the Maine Media Workshop’s session on script writing in preparation for the development of a film script based on a recent Alaskan Native novel. And if this weren’t enough, he will be involved with the development of a new immersive performance work with long-time collaborator, Thomas Riccio of the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jimmy A. Noriega, Assistant Professor of TheatreIt was an exciting and busy first year for me in the department. I started the fall semester teaching three courses: The Physical Text, Latina/o Drama and Performance, and Directing. Latina/o Drama, which was offered at the college for the first time, is a class that I am very passionate about, and I was delighted by the response from the students. In the spring I taught The Written Text and Acting Methods, which also proved to be great classes. In the spring I directed Las Meninas, by Ernesto Anaya, which won the 2006 Oscar Liera National Award for Dramaturgy in Mexico. Our production of Las Meninas was the U.S. debut of the show and the international premier of the English text. The play brilliantly brings to life the 1656 classic painting by Diego Velásquez. I had a great time working on this production and was impressed by the five student actors involved, as well as all of the crew.

We were fortunate to be joined by Migdalia Cruz, the famed Puerto Rican playwright, who translated the script into English. Cruz’s stay included visits to classes, meetings with the cast, and a public lecture about her work. Dr. Analola Santana, from Dartmouth College, joined her for this lecture. In the spring we also hosted a Peruvian theatre collective, Cuer2, and they performed two plays and visited my acting class to give a workshop. It was exiting to be able to share these guest artists with our department and community.

This summer I took five students with me on a research trip to Peru. In addition to intercultural and artistic exploration, the group participated in master classes and workshops with some of Peru’s most respected and recognized theatre artists We also devised and performed our own play, Encuentro: Peru!!, which is based on our five weeks of fieldwork and research. The play is about being a stranger in a foreign land. It is a self-reflective and artistic critique on border crossing, the commodification of culture, exoticism, and cultural and individual identity. The play was presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Lima, Casa Teatro Arena y Esteras, the Scientific University of the South, and Teatro Ensamble. We were later invited to perform the play at the UNESCO/ITI World Festival of Theatre Schools, which was held in Romania from September 2-11. It was an honor to officially represent the U.S. and The College of Wooster on the world stage. The students involved were: David Grunfeld, Janna Haywood, Colin Martin, and Nora Yawitz. I am very proud of them! I am also excited to be starting my second year at Wooster!

Charlene Gross, Resident Costume Designer and Adjunct ProfessorThis pass year Charlene presented for the Costume Commission at USITT and 2 workshops at Region 2's ACTF Conference. She also designed Mikado for Baldwin-Wallace's Opera program. For her seventh season (!), Charlene is designing for Ohio Light Opera this summer (2012). This summer she will be designing costumes for Guys & Dolls, Connecticut Yankee, Blossom Time, Mikado, and the set design

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FALL DANCE CONCERT Directed by Kim Tritt | November 17, 18, 19 | Freedlander !eatre-in-the-Round | 8:15 PM

MARAT/SADE By Peter Weiss Directed by James Levin

October 27, 28, 29 & November 3, 4, 5 Shoolroy Theatre @ 8:15PM

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The College and a local Center of Disturbed Youth collaborate on a play about the French Revolution. Very enlightening.

VELÁZQUEZYou will never understand what it means to have

to earn a living, princess.

INFANTAEarn my sympathy. He who earns my sympathy earns a life.

He who does not, earns death.

VELÁZQUEZI would like to earn the favor of the princess.

INFANTA

Then stop working like a dwarf.

VELÁZQUEZIf the princess had been born in the bosom of a familyfrom Seville fallen into disgrace she would have had

to work like a dwarf too.

INFANTAThe little princess is a dwarf.

VELÁZQUEZ

The little princess will grow.

-Excerpt from Las Meninas

Featuring: //LAS MENINAS(The Maids of Honour)** A U.S. PREMIER **********

By Ernesto Anaya, Translated by Migdalia CruzDirected by Jimmy A. Noriega

//Festival of New Plays

Directed by Shirley Huston-FindleyAn evening of original works written,

directed, designed and performed by students, faculty, and staff

February 23, 24, 25 & March 1, 2, 3Shoolroy Theatre & Various Venues

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SPRING DANCE CONCERT Directed by Kim Tritt | April 19, 20 & 21 | Freedlander !eatre | 8:15 PM

With partial support from Cultural Events and Campus Council

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Ten years after graduating from The College of Wooster as a theatre major, I find myself in a very similar state of mind. I am almost delusional in my optimism for the future. I am ambitious yet also the cause of my own stress and anxiety as I tackle larger and larger goals. I feel well rounded, well prepared, and well-versed in theater, acting, and writing. Also, there’s nothing in my mini-fridge, and it’s probably been too long since I last called my mom.

Ten years ago, I was rehearsing for my I.S. performance, which was a devised piece I had written. There was also a theoretical component that was all but finished. I was applying queer theory to my original performance art piece, and I played four different characters including a drag queen and a woman. It was ambitious, so much so that it nearly got the best of me. I wasn’t handling the stress of rehearsals and revising well, and I was also stressed out about what my future would hold once I graduated. I stayed at Wooster over Christmas break that final year of college. I had to make up for all those times I laid motion and emotionless in my room, so anxious I couldn’t do anything. And maybe I had turned to drinking more than usual. These things happen, and we all deal the best we can at the time.

The good news is that my performances early that final spring semester were a huge success. They were sold out, and I got a standing ovation every night. Well, that might be partially due to there

being no seats for the audience, but they seemed to love it all the same. I had set an outrageously high goal for myself. I had struggled, and I nearly failed. That’s why it was a success. I pushed myself to the limits. I had to self-motivate and work independently much of that year, but I was never alone. Wooster supported me all the way. I had a crew, faculty, and friends that believed in me. They gave me words of wisdom or tough love or bubbling praise, depending on what I needed at each particular time.

Tens years later, I graduated from Tufts University with my Ph.D. in drama. The jokes about being a doctor of drama kind of write themselves, but my four years of the Ph.D. program put my invaluable experience at Wooster into perspective for me. Let’s go back a bit.

I moved to New York City right after Wooster. Dr. Shirley Huston-Findley had inspired me to not just rely on acting and being funny. She taught me about a whole different side of theater and theater studies. She taught me theory and writing and analysis. She passed onto me a love of feminism and performance art. She taught me that I didn’t have to only be a starving artist, a one trick pony. So I applied to New York University’s Performance Studies Masters degree program. I got in and transitioned into New York life by earning my MA from NYU while also auditioning around town. I did another performance art piece called

“Musictelevenerealdisease” as part of my thesis project at NYU and then produced it myself. I publicized it with postcards of me naked, holding a TV in front of my important bits. My time at Wooster and with I.S. had taught me how to focus lights, produce, promote, write, direct, and act in my own creations. I even invited agents. One showed up, interviewed me, and became my very first New York City agent.

Over the next few years, I did independent films, music videos, and tons of way off Broadway theater pieces and then the momentum stopped. Here’s where it gets good. Life is all about the crap moments. When everything stops or falls apart entirely, that’s when you’re really alive. What are you like during the life tests? Because that’s who you really are. I decided to apply for Ph.D. programs. I felt like I was falling back on something that I learned I could do back at Wooster. I could think, write, and teach, and after a handful of years acting up a storm in New York, I felt I really had things to explore and things to say. I wanted to analyze acting from the actor’s perspective, which I still feel makes me kind of special/awesome.

During my Ph.D. program at Tufts I kept acting. I did an episode of “Law and Order,” a Robyn music video, and two independent films I’m very proud of. One of them premiered at Sundance, and I did the score for that film. I also had to study and take my comprehensive and oral exams and then write

Featured Alum: Clay Drinko

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continued from page 3 - Drinkoand defend my dissertation on improvisation and its effects on consciousness and cognition. And I was teaching acting at Tufts, which I loved very much. It’s exciting to see your enthusiasm over a topic spread to others. I felt like the seriousness and excitement about theatre that I picked up at Wooster was being spread to a whole new group of smart, eager students. But in the midst of all the busyness and the successes, life kept being life. My dad died, my boyfriend of six years and I broke up, my grandparents, who were a big reason I went to grad school in the first place, died.

Those times were hard. I felt like I was back at Wooster, in my dorm room, unable to move, but I kept moving just as I had during my I.S. rehearsals. I buckled down. I made jokes, I kept moving...and even did a little shaking. To keep the metaphor going, I stayed home over winter break again. I finished my Ph.D. in only four years from the first class to the dissertation defense. I have turned that dissertation into a manuscript that has been submitted for publication. And having just graduated in May, I’m at yet another transitional phase. Instead of going fully into academia and becoming a full time professor, I am acting and writing again. I seems like a ridiculous 180 degree turn, but my Wooster experience taught me to follow my intuition, work hard, and not take the easy route or the route that has already been laid out. I guess that’s what I would love to tell my ten-year-ago self, “Old self, this shits’ gonna keep being

unsteady and uncertain and scary, because this shit is life. You will always keep learning and keep stressing yourself out and keep setting higher and higher goals for yourself, because you are alive and vibrant and that’s what success is. Success is in the struggle. Success is not in the stasis.” I might also tell him to lay off the booze.

So I’m taking German and improv classes and I signed with a new talent agent. I’m writing my memoir (which most 31 year olds have no business doing, but holy hell have I lived!). I’m running my first marathon this November. Somehow, it all makes perfect sense. I live in New York City and am making it work, creatively and intellectually moving forward. I think ten-year-ago Clay would be impressed. I mean he’d be a little weirded out that I have a dog, but I think he’d get a big kick out of the fact that I still only have baking powder and two Coronas in my fridge.

continued from page 2 - Charlene Gross Faculty NotesMiss Springtime. She continues to production manage the company and always welcomes interested alum to send in their resumes.  This summer she is pleased to be working alongside of Nicole Sacrow '15 and Hannah Middendorf '12 on the production crew.  Come visit and see a show. Travels to Norway are being planned for the fall before the 2012-13 year begins.

Jody LS Tidwell, Technical Director, Scene Shop Supervisor, and Lighting DesignerThe Theatre and Dance technical areas continue to thrive with students interested in the backstage areas. Our fall production of Marat Sade proved to be a challenge in Shoolroy Theatre with its many specialty items – a rolling bath tub, a falling chandelier, a guillotine, and cinder block walls (using a “green” approach for wall construction we purchased sheets of brick made from 100% recycled newspaper, cardboard and wood chips from Pulp Art Surfaces- a very cool solution!). Students lighting Fall Dance pieces created some gorgeous lighting cues and once again did not disappoint.

The renovation in lighting equipment tickled us pink as we dismantled the old patch panel and the installation of dimmers and additional circuits finally came to fruition. Yes, Freedlander is now dimmer per circuit!

Our spring production of The Festival of New Plays used Freedlander for student written pieces in addition to producing Las Meninas in Shoolroy, and as challenges arose students fulfilled positions keeping us on track. Las Meninas specialty items included a swing, a torture table that entered down a ramp attached to a tricycle, paintings that unrolled, and a steam bath. For New Plays we tested the renovated lighting circuitry and loved it, and for Spring Dance I used almost every instrument in sight just to prove we could now do it and we succeeded!

Las MeninasCast and crew

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The College of Wooster Dance Company is a chartered organization open to all students on campus. Dance Company productions are housed under the umbrella of the Department of Theatre and Dance, and the company is grateful for the department’s collaboration and endless contributive efforts. Dance concerts provide an opportunity for students at Wooster to explore the art of choreography and performance working under the supervision Professor Kim Tritt. Choreographers pursue a process in the making of dances that resembles other forms of research endeavors; first forming a concept or idea for the dance, then through the body as instrument, developing and organizing movement materials that reinforce the idea. Last, choreographers work with the talents of dancers to creatively shape, form, and articulate the movement with clarity. Through weekly “sharings,” the choreographers show their work

and are critiqued by other dance company members and Tritt. Together, the Company works through the semester-long rehearsal process.

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Alumni UpdatesKristen Cooperkline ’07I graduated this spring with my MFA in Stage Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m moving to Jackson, MS with my new husband to begin my career. I hope everything is going well at Wooster!

Jonathan Becker ’86The past couple of years have been a whirl-wind of activity (as usual). My mask studio (www.theater-masks.com) added the 42nd country to the studio resume with Kuwait. So masks are now being used almost everywhere. I have been teaching twice in Norway, once in Nanjing, China and soon to leave for The University of Pretoria in South Africa. In the midst of it all I continue to teach at Ball State University in Indiana and my main hobby when I’m not doing everything else is looking for my cell phone. This summer is the first summer in my adult life I have no schedule and I am driving around looking for and visiting friends. I would love to hear from folks I haven’t that I met while at Wooster. It has become a goal of mine to make old and new friends a priority in life. Keep well everybody!

Katie Hammond ’03I’m still living in New York City and keeping very busy. I’m doing a lot of improv; performing on a house team at The Magnet Theatre, the Party Lions, I also perform regularly with The Story Pirates, Broadway’s Next H!t Musical, Comedy SportzNYC and my online sketch group webseries, Skittered. I’m going to South Africa this week to work with a program called artsINSIDEOUT - we’ll be working with children affected with HIV. We’ll be teaching music, dance, improv, storytelling and visual arts.

Robin Laubenthal ’06My husband (Christopher Laubenthal ’05) and I are still living in the Kansas City area and I have completed my Master’s in Counseling and Guidance. I am currently looking for work in my field. We also welcomed our first child, Vanessa Naomi Laubenthal, to the world on March 31, 2012 at 2:01 a.m. She is beautiful and smart as a whip and we feel very blessed. I’ll attach a picture to this so I can show off just how cute she is. Perhaps one day she will join the ranks of Wooster Alumni just like her Mom and Dad!

Bob McClearyI am on the verge of my 9th season as Technical Director at the York Little Theatre. 12 shows next season including 8 musicals.

Patrick Midgley ’07Patrick is touring the US with The American Shakespeare Center form July 2012 - June 2013 in productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night and The Duchess of Malfi.

Eric Scott ’97Now lives in LA, currently writing a new sketch show on Cartoon Network as well as writing/developing a sitcom for Nickelodeon. Continues to perform regularly at Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre.

Aaron Schwartzbord ’03Lots of stuff happening! Got married on June 10 to my boyfriend of 7 years! Theatre alums Andrea Heibler and Kate Hammond were present. The wedding was in NJ...but we’re having a second reception and small ceremony on August 11 in San Francisco (where my whole family is from). Additionally...bigger news...my husband is beginning his PhD in music composition and theory at the University of Oregon. This means that after 8 amazing years of living and working in New York, I’ll be moving to Portland, Oregon at the end of August. If there are any alums in Oregon, let me know. I’m ending my 3-year stint as Marketing Director for The Pearl Theatre Company (an off-Broadway non-profit) on August 3. Still looking for a new job in arts marketing on the West Coast...if anyone knows of anything, let me know! To contact me, please email aleeschwartzbord@gmail.com.

Vanessa Naomi Laubenthal Class of ’35

Dale ShieldsFormer College of Wooster theatre professor, Dale Shields was elected to the Associate Board of AUDELCO in New York City. He directed and conceived I, Too Sing America at Denison University as the Vail Artist in Residence and was Visiting Professor of Black Studies and Black Theatre History at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. He is presently directing the musical Ragtime at Ohio Valley Summer Theatre (Ohio University) and The Amen Corner for Project1voice this summer. He return to Wooster to conduct theatre workshops for the Youngstown Program (Dr. Hayden Schilling) and the diversity AFST Seminar /CDGE Black Theatre Workshop (Dr. Josephine Wright and Susan Lee) at The College of Wooster. The students wrote and

performed the spoken word production of I Want you to Know on campus in February. He will direct the musical production of Crowns at the Karmu House theatre in Cleveland, Ohio next season. He is the archivist and creator of the Iforcolor.org website and the Black theatre African American Voices web page of Facebook.

Meredith Ricker Spitzmiller ’96We have four girls now, Kayla 12, Grace 9, Abby 6, and Rita 2. Other than everyday playacting and storytime with the girls, I teach a fine arts camp for a local Dayton group every summer. Ed and I both hope to get ‘back on the boards’ when time permits. Feel free to stop by if you’re ever in this neck of Ohio.

Liz Staruch ’95I recently earned my tenure and am now an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at West Chester University, just outside of Philadelphia. Search “The Camera Betrays You/The City Belies You” on YouTube to view my most recent dance film work. Along with a live concert component, the piece was presented at West Chester University, and Goddard College in Plainfield, VT with plans to present in NH in the works.

Cathy Taylor ’92Through my Chicago PR company, Cathy Taylor Public RElations (www.cathytaylorpr.com), I am currently representing Million Dollar Quartet, Immediate Family (at the Goodman, directed by Phylicia Rashad), A Red Orchid, American Theatre Company, Black Ensemble, Chicago Shakespeare, Court, Lookingglass, Northlight, Profiles, Victory Gardens, Writers’ and the League of Chicago Theatres. I also just finished a project with Steppenwolf and represented an 8-month run of the Doyle and Debbie show.

Laura Vandiver ’10I’m now living in Brooklyn and have been doing some local touring with an educational theatre company and I am hosting a local television show.

Visit our website www3.wooster.edu/theatrefor updated news & events.

ANDEmail: psmith@wooster.eduto send your updates for the

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Class of 2012Selena GraySelena will be staying Wooster to make money and gain work experience.

James LanceJames will be attending Boston University to obtain a masters of theological studies in philosophy and ethics.

Breanne LengacherBree will be working with contacts in New York to develop jobs in fashion design.

Jaquet LongJaquet will be working on making it to Broadway!

Hannah MiddendorfHannah is working this summer as a seamstress and wardrobe crew with Ohio Light Opera..

Bronwyn SchlaeferAfter graduation I will be working again at Central City Opera as a Stage Management Intern on Oklahoma! for the summer. After that, I’m looking for employment, hopefully in the stage design/stage management field.

continued from page 1 - Chair messagedance, I am working with the University of Hawaii dance program toward the creation

of an ethnic and modern dance three-week summer intensive program in Honolulu.

As I reflect on ways in which the department continues to evolve I am also pleased to report that due to the success of this spring semester’s Festival of New Plays our department hopes to establish a theatre tradition that closely resembles that of the annual Fall Dance concert in which students are the sole creators of choreography, performance and lighting designs. Shirley Huston-Findley, with the support of Jimmy Noriega, Dale Seeds, costume designer Charlene Gross and technical director Jody Tidwell, directed and assisted students in presenting two weekends of theatre that illuminated our

students passion, invention, and skills in playwriting, directing, design, acting, and technical theatre. We intend to recreate this opportunity so that it is incorporated within our 2013-14 main stage production season.

There are so many additional factors that are equally significant to the growth and development of our theatre and dance department in the past ten years, but there is always more that can be accomplished. We hope that our review will reveal even more ways in which we can improve, so your input would be helpful. If we have your email address we will send a short electronic survey to you asking that you reflect upon your experience as a major as well as consider aspects of your theatre and

dance education that have been most or least helpful to you since graduation.

Your response will assist us in finding avenues that will encourage our present students in theatre and dance to achieve their own measure of success as have each of you. If we don’t have your email address and you are reading this year’s newsletter on our website it means you are out of touch, we miss you, and want to hear from you!

Until we meet again, best regards!Kim

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Department of Theatre & DanceTheatre and dance as studied at The College of Wooster emphasizes the relationship between scholarship and artistry, investigating both the range and depth of the human experience.

We hope you will join us as we expand our understanding of performance by exploring both classical dramatic texts and contemporary dance in the making.For tickets and subscription information for the 2012-13 production season please visit: www3.wooster.edu/theatre

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Department of Theatre & DanceThe College of WoosterFreedlander Theatre329 East UniversityWooster, OH 44691