Lisa Norman Lisa Norman (former Adjunct, Theater) will join the core faculty of the Theater Department this fall as Associate Professor of Theater. She teaches sophomore Acting. Craig Snyder Craig Snyder recently produced a self-guided urban bicycle tour of select public artworks in downtown Seattle, titled Loop. He collaborated with Ruthie Tomlinson, Jessica Bender and Tania Kupczak in an installation titled Wait, Where Am I? in the Woolworth’s windows in Tacoma. Also, his essay Fear and Loathing on Brokeback Mountain was published in Jump Cut, #53 this summer.
Loop by Craig Snyder
Jarrad Powell Non Sequitur will present a concert of Jarrad’s work at the Chapel Performance Space in October. In addition, on September 29 his work Goro-goro was performed in Jakarta, Indonesia to help commemorate the 70th birthday of renowned Indonesian poet Goenawan Mohamad. Jarrad was awarded a sabbatical leave in spring 2012.
Byron Au Yong Byron Au Yong created music for The Mother of Us All (Spectrum Dance Theater/Moore Theatre) and reSet (Whim W’Him/Intiman Theatre). He was composer-inresidence for two Sundance Institute Theatre Labs, plus he presented Kidnapping Water as Post-Catastrophic Performance (Staging Sustainability Conference/York University) and Seven Ways to Develop Material (Taiko Conference/Stanford University). Keira McDonald In the spring, Keira co-wrote and directed Turning Parlor Tricks for SPF at Theatre Off Jackson. This summer she performed her new one woman show CockTails with Astronauts at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, TX and The Sunset Theatre in Wells, B.C.. She is currently working on her new one-woman show Blonde with the Wind with Canadian writer Jayson McDonald.
Eric Banks Eric Banks and his ensemble, The Esoterics, spent the summer in Argentina composing a choral ballet that will premiere in Seattle next May. Eric and The Esoterics performed in March at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association, whose Washington chapter awarded Eric ‘Choral Director of the Year.’ The Esoterics released two CDs in October.
Tiffany DeMott This spring Tiffany Laine De Mott worked as cinematographer, graphic designer and co-editor with author Isaac Marion to create an international theatrical trailer for his book Warm Bodies. The book has been optioned by Summit Entertainment and the film, starring Nicholas Hoult and directed by Jonathan Levine, will begin production this summer.
Greg Carter Greg Carter directed Inherit the Wind this September at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, a company he created in 2004. Carter was nominated as Outstanding Director at the TPS Gregory Awards in 2010 for The Laramie Project, and Strawshop is the only company in the region nominated two consecutive years for Outstanding Production. Carol Roscoe Carol performed the role of Sue Baylis in All My Sons at Intiman Theater, and she also originated the role of Sheri in the world premiere of Pilgrims Musa & Sheri in the New World at ACT Theatre This fall she will be directing faculty member Alyssa Keene in a production of Reckless at Theater Schmeater. Gayle Clemans In June, Gayle Clemans completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled “Parental Points of View: Photographic and Filmic Acts in Contemporary Art.” She is thrilled to be finally finished.
Jarrad Powell
Elizabeth Darrow Dr. Darrow was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Story Mansion in Bozeman, MT. This non profit group has worked for years to save a beloved historic mansion as a public asset for the city and state, and has received more than $1.7 million in grants. Her article “Montana Medici: The Copper Kings of Butte” will be published this winter.
Tiffany DeMott
Erica Howard Erica partners with Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center, providing environmental education to students and the community. She co-produced Seward Park’s centennial events and is helping develop a book about the park. Her creative recycling proposal was a finalist for a Ford Community Green Grant, and she is launching a campus Sustainability Steering Committee this fall.
Jeff Brice Jeff Brice will be presenting his paper “Beyond the Threshold, The Role of Presence in Healing Games” at the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art held in Istanbul this fall. The paper highlights four immersive games created in Jeff’s Interactive Narrative Environments course in collaboration with Ari Hollander from FIrsthand Technology VR lab, with the purpose of reducing pain in burn patients.
Erica Howard with Seward Park Environment and Audubon Center
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