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Volume 18, 4 | October 21. 2019

Week 4 NEWSLETTER

Department News

Week 4 - Oct 21 - Oct 25, 2019

Congratulations to UC San DiegoUndergraduate Theatre majorCynthia Ochoa on the selection ofher first play, Seperateland, forinclusion in the Final Draft New PlayFestival slated for January 2020 atCarlsbad's New Village Arts.

For more information about thefestival, click on the link below.

https://www.newvillagearts.org/final-draft

Assistant Professor & Head ofDirecting, Vanessa Stalling, hasbeen awarded the 2019-2020Hellman Fellowship. The HellmanFellowship Program was establishedat UC San Diego in 1995 throughthe generosity of Chris and WarrenHellman. 2019-2020 marks the 25thyear of this valuable program that isdesigned to provide financial supportand encouragement to young facultyin the core disciplines who showcapacity for great distinction in theirresearch and creative activities.

For more information on the Hellman Fellowship, click on the link below.

http://evc.ucsd.edu/faculty/awards/hellman/

Professor Stalling was recently nominated for a Jefferson award in Chicago for Director-Play-Large. She is part an impressive list of nominees.

Nominees for Director - Play - Large:Gary Griffin – “Indecent” – Victory Gardens Theater

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Pam MacKinnon – “Downstate” – Steppenwolf Theatre Company(Pam was a PhD student on campus in the early 90's and directed many of our students inStudio Projects at that time)Ron OJ Parson – “Radio Golf” – Court TheatreRon OJ Parson – “Too Heavy for Your Pocket” – TimeLine Theatre CompanyVanessa Stalling – “Photograph 51” – Court TheatreMary Zimmerman – “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” – Lookingglass Theatre Company

http://www.jeffawards.org/equity-nominees

We're so excited thatrehearsals for this fall's BALMIN GILEAD by LanfordWilson are well under way!We love the spirit ofcollaboration that runsthroughout our productions;from first read through lastweek, here's MFA actingcandidate Michael Rishawnlooking at MFA costumedesign candidate ChristopherFlagstad's fantastic research!

For more information and tickets click the link below.

http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/BalmInGilead/index.htm

Recap of Theatre & Dance involvement in the La Jolla PlayhouseWOW Festival

Sunday, October 20th there was a sneak concert preview of a new music theatre piece,The Golem of La Jolla by Professor and Department Chair Allan Havis & and MichaelRoth, visiting Lecturer in Sound, depicting the vivid dystopian crisis in America.

'La Jolla’s synagogue is persuaded to accept a blasphemous solution to ward off a violentWhite Nationalist march to their door.' There were excerpts from this exciting, innovativeopera’s score and soundscape, prior to what will be the official premiere in spring 2020.The cast included (L to R) Cantor William Tiep form Temple Solel in Cardiff as the Golemof La Jolla, Amanda Sitton (UC alumna) as Rabbi Joan, Douglas Jacobs (co-founder of

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San Diego Rep) as the Congregant and Professor Marco Baricelli as the Rabbi fromPrague,

Calafia at LIberty

Wetsuit Collective is anensemble of UC San Diegograduate students of alltheater-making disciplines whoare committed to theater as acollective act of creation. Webelieve in theatre’s power tospark conversation betweenpeople and the places theyinhabit. We create spaceswhere multiple truths, layers ofhistory, and audiences coexistwith performers in worlds oftheatrical possibility. Encircling the land-locked naval training building, the USS Recruit, Calafia at Liberty divesthrough layers of history about the mythic figure that inspired the naming of California:Queen Calafia. Using music and performance, audience members followed a path through history, myth,and the consequences of manifest destiny. This piece questions the legends we build overthe land we inhabit. Directed and Produced by Juliana Kleist-Méndez (UC San Diego MFA II)Costume Designed and Produced by Natalie Barshow (UC San Diego MFA II)Set and Projections Designed by Miranda Friel (UC San Diego MFA II)Sound Designed/Composed by Andrew Lynch (UC San Diego MFA II)Lighting Designed by Lindsey Stevens (UC San Diego MFA II)Assistant Directed by Simon Martin (UC San Diego undergrad)Assistant Lighting Designed by Natalie Hill (UC San Diego undergrad) Performers: Katie Melby, Daniella Toscano (UC San Diego MFA II), Astrid Espitia, BA,Shyane Cole, BA, Natalia Quintero-Riestra ((UC San Diego MFA I)

PC: Jim Carmody

https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival2019/productions/calafia-at-liberty/

PDA was a romantic documentary dance theater piecethat invites us to be a fly on the wall as performers give usa window into the romance, sexuality, and affection theyexpress in private and public.

"PDA"A docu-dance work on what we all do and love.

Directed and choreographed by Jesca Prudencio (UC SanDiego MFA Alum)

A People of Interest productionLa Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival

https://wowfestival.lajollaplayhouse.org/overview/15348

Featured: Erica Mejos & Anna Galvan, Eden Hildebrand &Bernardo Pacheco, and Dana & Francis Thumm

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Assistant Director and Choreographer: Lauren HaughtonProduction Designer: Justin Humphres (UC San Diego T&D MFA Alum)Sound Designer and Composer: Melanie Chen Cole (UC San Diego T&D MFA Alum)Stage Manager: Yari CervasLine Producer: Braulio Fernandez-Flores

Hall Pass was a collection ofshort plays and musicals byrising talents, including EmilyKaczmarek (2018 JonathanLarson Grant Recipient), TrevorBachman (2019 Joe’s PubResidency Artist) and ElizabethIrwin (My Mañana Comes at SanDiego Rep). Set and performedthroughout a high school, theshow offered a glimpse of theworld young people navigateevery day. Brimming withmoments any former teenagerwill recognize and relish – as wellas those they might rather forget – audiences choose their own adventure as theyexperienced the trials and triumphs of the class of 2022.

Sofia Zeragoza, BA, was the assistant director.

PC: Peter Shrock

From the creators of the groundbreaking Waking LaLlorona, Las Quinceañeras offered a surreal,immersive, multisensory exploration of the famed rite ofpassage undertaken by many Latinas on their 15thbirthday. The mysterious Optika Moderna opened itsdoors once again after years of secrecy and seclusion,inviting participants to undergo their latest procedure“Proyecto (15).” Adventurous audiences were able tobook an appointment to meet with Optika Moderna’sstaff of trained paranormal opticians. Within the lab,

patients experienced a hallucinogenic journey into the early 1990s as they relived thefateful events surrounding the celebrations of multiple Quinceañeras.

Nicholas Ponting (UC San Diego MFA II) was Design Assistant and performed in the pieceand Elizabeth Barrett (UC San Diego MFA I) was Design Assistant.

WITHOUT A NET, created by Malashock Dance, wasan interactive, immersive and participatoryexperience, based on the theme of an edgy, “down-on-its-luck” traveling circus/carnival.

Samantha Rojales, MFA alumna did the projectionsand Mextly Couzin (MFA III) did the lighting design.

Malashock Dance advances the art and experience ofdance by creating original programs thatcommunicate, educate, challenge, entertain andencourage new forms of personal expression.

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PC: Jim Carmody

Upcoming Performances

Theatre & Dance Fall productions

BALM IN GILEADhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/BalmInGilead/index.htmMAN IN LOVEhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/ManInLove/index.htmELEKTRAhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/Elektra/index.htm

Happening Around Campus

Zac Monday: A Ways AwayVisual Arts Alumni Exhibition

Reception & Performance:October 23, 6–8 p.m.

October 23–November 14, 2019

Open: Tuesdays 2–3 p.m. /Wednesdays 12–3 p.m. /Thursdays 12–3 p.m.

Zac Monday’s crochet costumes and drawings are animated through performanceexperiences that are intended to direct how both the viewer and the maker interact. Whenperformed, characters are focused on guiding viewers through art/and everyday spaces,where our emotional and spiritual sensations can be expressed through textile touch; anenigmatic significance, as well as storyline.

For more iformation about this exhibition, click the link below.

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Updates

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MFA acting alumna MariaDizzia will star in the nationaltour of What the ConstitutionMeans to Me. The Tour startsin LA next January.

“I needed a remarkable,compelling actress with a mixof vulnerability and strength,and I find [Dizzia] riveting towatch onstage,” playwrightSchreck told The Times. “Sheknows the play because she’sseen every iteration of it andshe’s coached me through itas an actress. But I alsoadmire her as an artist and a human being. I deeply trust her, and I trust the play in herhands.”

For more information on this story, click the link below.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-10-15/heidi-schreck-what-constitution-means-to-me-national-tour-maria-dizzia?fbclid=IwAR1Jexur1KUClnWndyI0nVOwNrzVAbSaL1Q5Ws_rvmNMjpGwxEp2hinbBzA

MFA alumna Micha Espinosa ( UCSD M.F.A1994) Associate Professor at School of Film, Dance, andTheatre, Arizona State University, recently won the 2019Latino Book Award ( Academic Resource) for co-editing, Scenebook for Latinx Actors: Voices of theNew American Theatre. The collection of scenes is aguide to the contemporary Latinx playwrights for actorsand teachers. This book follows her firstvolume, Monologues for Latino/a Actors. Thecollections are published by Smith and Kraus andavailable on Amazon.

MFA acting alumna Zora Howard's play STEW willhave its Off Broadway premiere the beginning of nextyear. Page 73 will present it at Walkerspace Theatre fora limited run from January 20 through Saturday,February 22. Opening night is set for Saturday,February 1.

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For more information about this story, click the linkbelow.

https://www.page73.org/news-posts/announcing-stew?fbclid=IwAR1t1lNTbsEP3FboUks021-PWZHT6wGPHSHWhStx0sewroEW5WF-6zk9zxs

When Daniel K. Isaac, BA, was a student inthe department he was cast in a productionof THE LARAMIE PROJECT directedby Raimondo Genna, PhD, and played theactor track of Moisés Kaufman. Danielnever imagined getting to meet him andalso celebrate his work.

This past week Daniel attended TheTectonic Theater Project joining theTectonic family and friends from theBroadway community to celebrate the

power of arts education and the singular style of Kurt Weill. The cabaret fundraisersupports Tectonic Theater Project’s community engagement initiatives through theMoment Work Institute.

Daniel met Moisés Kaufman who he had portrayed years previously here.Pictured are Mi Ryng Son, Moisés Kaufman and Daniel.

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