Annual Report - 2006 College of Performing and Visual Arts
ensemble. In the fall he will be performing in the national tour of the musical The Producers. The tour is scheduled to run for a year. Mathew Bennett (01 Theatre) is writing plays in the Salt Lake City area. One of his plays was recently produced by the Plan-B Theatre Company. Plan-B was founded by SUU alumni and has established its presence as a successful theatre company in the Salt Lake City area. Cammery Blevins (06 Theatre) will begin a yearlong internship at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA) in Santa Maris, CA this fall. In the summer she will be a stitcher for PCPA and in the fall she will be a design assistant. She then will be going on to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jake Corn (06 Theatre) will be working in the USF Ticket Office this summer and in the spring semester of 07 he will be attending Bible College at Atlanta Christian College. Katie Fischer (05) played the role of Rose Benjamin in Neil Simon’s God’s Favorite this summer in the Neil Simon Festival. This is her second season with the Festival. Pete Hulin (03 Theatre) was working as a lighting technician on the International tour of West Side Story. He reported in the early spring of 2006 that the tour was in China. Andrew Hunsaker (06 Theatre), one of two Outstanding Students graduating in Theatre this year, is a member of the USF acting company this summer and in the fall he will be a theatre teacher at Tuacahn High School with his new bride. Andrew plans to continue on to graduate school in the near future. Kevin Lindsay (04 Dance) is working with STREB, Dance, Danger, Action!, a Brooklyn New York based group. Tom Marrott (05 Theatre) is currently employed with Oasis Stageworks in Salt Lake City as a light and sound technician. Katie McNamara (06 Theatre) has been working as a freelance stage properties artisan in the Phoenix area for the past few months and also reports she has been moonlighting as a stage electrician as well. She will be working in props this summer at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, California. Merriane Nedreberg (06 Theatre) is working in the stage properties area for USF this summer and will be headed to the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia this fall to study in properties design and production. Steven Nielsen (former Theatre and Dance student) is currently part of the performing ensemble of the Celine Dion show in Las Vegas, NV. Zane Perkins (05 Theatre) is working for Disneyworld in Florida. Karen Quisenberry (88 Theatre) left Yale School of Drama as Head of their Stage Management Program and now teaches Stage Management at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. Keala Settle, (former Theatre student) was playing the lead in the national tour of Hairspray this spring. Chad Taylor (05 Theatre) acted in a production of The Full Monty at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah in the spring. Alicia Tafoya (03 Theatre) graduated from Texas Tech with her Master's Degree in Theatre this spring. Jared "Head" Ullman (04 Theatre) was reported to be the Assistant Audio Technician for the national tour of the musical Rent last spring. Miranda Wright (06 Theatre), our other Outstanding Student in Theatre this year will be also be attending CalArts in the fall in the MFA program in Producing and Management.
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