Community in Motion
Saturday, April 13 at 4:00 p.m.
Black Box (McGuire Pavilion)
Free & open to the public
During the Spring BFA Showcase, the UF Center for Arts in Medicine’s Dance for Life and Sing for Life participants will take the stage Saturday, April 13 at 4:00 p.m., in the McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion’s Black Box Theatre on the UF campus. This performance is free and no advance tickets are required.
Spring BFA Dance Showcase: In Box Out
April 11-13 at 7:00 p.m.,
Apr. 11 at 9:00 p.m.
Apr. 14 at 2:00 p.m. & 4:00 p..m. (the 4:00 p.m. show is free)
Price: $9.00
Black Box (McGuire Pavilion)
Info: (352) 273-0526 http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance
University Box Office: (352) 392-1653 http://www.ticketmaster.com
From UF Public Relations major Hayden Manuel:
A bag of chips, slavery, World War II love letters and a guest dancer from Israel—the Spring BFA Showcase will be interesting to say the least.
The Spring BFA Showcase begins on Thursday and runs through Saturday, running two shows a night in the Nadine McGuire Black Box Theatre. The showcase is student-run and features faculty performances and a special guest performance by Dana Ruttenberg, an Israeli dancer and choreographer.
Ruttenberg, 34, is supported as a visiting artist by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, an organization that supports artists of Israeli decent. Ruttenberg is currently teaching Modern Dance at UF for the spring semester.
Ruttenberg said she will be premiering a work in progress that she has created on a group of student dancers.
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On Friday, April 5th, actor DaJuan Johnson will be hosting a question-and-answer session from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Constans Theatre at the Nadine McGuire School of Theatre and Dance. This event is free and open to all College of Fine Arts students and faculty.
“Getting to come back to the Swamp for this young alumni award is nothing short of amazing to me, but getting to come back and talk with students in the theatre and dance departments about the entertainment industry — is truly a dream come true! I’ve envisioned this day for a very long time. Go Gators,” Johnson said in an interview earlier in the week.
Johnson, who received his B.A. in Theatre in 2000, now calls Los Angeles home. His post-college career began with supporting roles on Criminal Minds and Prime Suspect. Those appearances eventually lead him to recurring roles on ABC’s General Hospital and Private Practice, as well as FOX’s 24. He recently guest starred on Bones and has appeared in over a dozen national commercials, including a 2012 Super Bowl commercial opposite of Jerry Seinfield.
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Playwright and Theatre Director, Deborah B. Dickey, who received her MFA in Acting and Directing from UF’s School of Theatre + Dance, premiered her play CROSS ROADS: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Norton S. Baskin in Unguarded Moments in 2012 at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL. A Classic Theatre, Inc. recently celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the publication of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling, with the return of CROSS ROADS in March 2013.
CROSS ROADS is based on the letters of Rawlings, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling, and her husband, Norton Baskin. The play chronicles the couple’s courtship, marriage, and long separation during World War II when Baskin served as a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Field Service in India. The play also contains a parody of Emily Post published anonymously in the AFS Archives and attributed to Rawlings through Dickey’s research at the University of Florida’s Special Collections, which houses the correspondence of Rawlings and Baskin.
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Pictured: Daniel Womack, Marissa Toogood and David Leppert.
The UF BFA Musical Theatre students recently participated in the Southeastern Regional NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) student auditions at Stetson University in Deland and received the largest number of awards in their division. Of the 55 singers in 10 college musical theatre categories, UF’s winners were:
1st place: Marcellis Cutler, Jacob Titterington, Marissa Toogood (recent graduate)
2nd place: Nathan DiIenno, Brooke Heffernan, Yael Reich, and Daniel Womack
3rd place: Daniel Fuentes, and David Leppert
Go, Gators!
UF SoTD Lighting Design graduate student Becky Stafford won 2nd place in the graduate level costume design competition at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). She was also a finalist in the “Ready To Work” portion of the design competition.
UF SoTD faculty members Robin McGee and Stacey Galloway presented a workshop on floral millinery trimmings to a packed room of SETC participants.
April 8, 2013, from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Constans Theatre, University of Florida
Free and open to the public
Florida Players is excited to announce our 2013 Masterclass, featuring UF alum and Broadway actor George Salazar! This workshop, which will be held April 8th at 4pm in the Nadine McGuire Pavilion, is free, open to the public, and sure to be an amazing opportunity to gain insight into ‘the business’ of performing arts after graduating.
George Salazar is a New York City-based actor, singer, musician, and writer. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Florida and is represented by CESD Talent Agency and Sinclair Management. George made his Broadway debut singing “Light of the World” in the recent revival of Stephen Schwartz’s GODSPELL (Circle in the Square; dir. Daniel Goldstein). He also toured the United States and Canada playing “Otto” in the 2010-2011 SPRING AWAKENING National Tour (NETworks). Workshops and readings include Ryan Scott Oliver’s JASPER IN DEADLAND (York Theatre; dir. Daniel Goldstein), VENICE (Public Theatre; dir. Eric Rosen), David Byrne & Fatboy Slim’s HERE LIES LOVE (Public Theatre; dir. Alex Timbers), JC Lee’s POOKIE GOES GRENADING (Cape Cod Theatre Project; dir. Giovanna Sardelli), and LONG SEASON (Huntington Theatre; dir. Peter DuBois). George’s TV credits include appearances on CBS’ LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, ABC’S THE VIEW, OWN’S THE ROSIE SHOW, the 2012 TONY AWARDS telecast, and national commercial spots. To learn more about him, please visit http://thegeorgesalazar.com.
If you have any questions, please contact Alexandra Tanner at publicist@floridaplayers.org.
UF SoTD Lighting Design Professor Stan Kaye recently traveled to the Center for Marine Science at University of North Carolina Wilmington. The center is a new 40 million building funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and is administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology. Professor Kaye is providing lighting design and consulting for 8 negative pressure clean rooms/labs. He is specifying customized lighting technology and sophisticated controls to add dynamic lighting to their experimental protocols.
UF SoTD Lighting Design student Jamie Frank is assisting Broadway Scenic Designer Tobin Ost at the Asolo Repertory Theatre on Noah Racey’s PULSE, A New Dance Musicaland SoTD Lighting Design student Topher Stumreiter is assisting Michael Gilliam with lighting design on Pulse as well. SoTD Lighting Design student Patricia Coleman is currently at the Asolo assisting the lighting Desiger Dan Sculky on Clybourne Park.
Check out these photos of the UF College of Fine Arts promoting the arts at Arts Advocacy Day in the Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida!
UF College of Fine Arts students, Emily Pozek (SoTD), Ethan D. Tripp (SoM), and Megan Kirsop (SA+AH), were selected for recognition at Arts Advocacy Day, March 20, 2013. They were accompanied by CFA Associate Dean Margaret Mertz, SoM Professor Kevin Orr, and Director of the University Galleries Amy Vigilante. Also in attendance from the College of Fine Arts were the Director of Development + Alumni Affairs Jennifer McInnes Coolidge and the Director of Center for Arts in Medicine Jill Sonke.
Blood Wedding
March 29 & 30: 7:30 p.m.
April 2-6: 7:30 p.m.
April 7: 2:00 p.m.
Constans Theatre, $13-$17.
Info: (352) 273-0526 http://www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance
University Box Office: (352) 392-1653 http://www.ticketmaster.com
Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and directed by UF SoTD visiting artist Russell Schultz.
This explosive tragedy of passion set in rural Spain poetically portrays two past lovers and the depth of their feelings toward each other. For decades, audiences have been captivated by the fiery intensity of the play’s dramatic central love triangle and by the vivid imagery summoned through Lorca’s poetic language.
Presented by UF School of Theatre + Dance (College of Fine Arts).
Theatre Strike Force, the University of Florida’s premier improv and
sketch comedy troupe, offers free improvisational theatre lessons to
anyone! No experience is needed to show up to our five-level Academy,
which begins on Monday, January 14 at 7:00 p.m. in Reitz Union, room 361. You’ll learn games in the style of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and much more. Drop in any Monday night and give improv a try! Learn more on Facebook.
