News and Events

Fall 2009 - Summer 2010

• Burke Walker
  Preview of the Tempest
  (University Week, October 22, 2009)
  Empty Space founder and UW alum Burke Walker directs 'The Tempest' in renovated Jones Playhouse
• Act III for the Jones Playhouse - (A&S Perspectives, September 2009) History of the Playhouse theatre and its renovation.

Fall 2008 - Summer 2009

• Alex Danilchik
  wins Distinguished Staff Award
  (University Week article, June 4, 2009)
  School of Drama Technical Director won a Distinguished Staff award for 2009; honored at the UW's Recognition Awards on Thursday, June 11, 3:30pm in Meany Hall
  
  
• Sex, drugs and Hair
  (UW Daily Huskycast video, May 27, 2009)
  Hair comes to Hutchinson Hall in the Undergraduate Theater Society's first-ever production of the immortal stage show
  
  
• First-year MFA directors show their work in one-act plays at the School of Drama
  (University Week, May 21, 2009)
  
  
• Andrew Tsao
  chosen by graduating seniors for The Last Word
  (UW Alumni Association web page, Spring 2009)
  Senior class votes ‘dramatic’ professor to give the last word
  (UW Daily article, May 14, 2009)
  
  
• Fred Savage
  Visits the School of Drama
  (A&S web page Spring 2009)
  Actor and director Fred Savage met with School of Drama students to share his advice and experience in the entertainment industry.
  
  
• Jeffrey Fracé
  Melo (not mellow) drama
  (University Week article, April 23, 2009)
  pictures from rehearsal; interview with director
  
  
• Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
  (University Week article, February 26, 2009)
  Renovated, renamed and reopened with Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town
  
  
• Blithe Spirit
  (University Week article, February 12, 2009)
  A funny look at the afterlife in Noel Coward's
  
  
• Big Love
  (University Week article, January 29, 2009)
  A sprawling, brawling story of 50 runaway brides
  
  
• Ilkhom Theatre Company
  Sharing a Vision: Tashkent to Seattle
  UWTV on-line, 2008
  Documentary about the Ilkhom Theatre's visit to UW School of Drama and ACT Theatre
  
  
• Thomas Lynch
  One of two Seattle Opera's Artists of the Year
  
  
• Quick Change Room
  College of Arts and Sciences web site, Dec. 2008
  Play reflects reality of economic situation


• Twelfth Night
  (University Week, Oct. 2008)
  Music students jazz up New Orleans-style production
  
  

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