Alumni Notes about a post-nuclear apocalypse blurs the line between cyberspace and reality. In March of 2013, David Byrd ’06 assumed duties as managing director of the Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. David was previously the director of marketing at Westport Country Playhouse. While continuing to love living in Denver, Janann Eldredge ’06 enjoys the many opportunities to see YSD alumni who pass through the Mile High City, both onstage and off. She has turned her attention from theatre to arts advocacy, and was recently appointed to the Denver County Cultural Council.
Tommy Russell ’07, Alex Major ’08 (in mask), and Caitlin Clouthier ’08 in Seventy Scenes of Halloween, directed by Joseph Cermatori ’08, at Vaudeville Park in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY). Photo by Alyssa Blumstein.
Drew Farrow ’06 and Jo McInerney Farrow ’08 welcomed Evan Olivia Farrow on April 14, 2013.
Drew Farrow ’06 continues working in the design and engineering department at Showman Fabricators and finished his third semester as an adjunct assistant professor at New York City College of Technology in the entertainment technology department. Jo McInerney Farrow ’08 has kept busy on the Off-Broadway circuit. Drew and Jo have also welcomed the newest addition to the Farrow family. Evan Olivia Farrow was born on April 14, 2013, in Manhattan at 8 pounds 12 ounces and 22 inches long. She looks forward to meeting all of her YSD family. Brian McManamon ’06 originated three roles in the world premiere of Bodega Bay by Elisabeth Karlin at the Abingdon Theatre in New York. Brian is also in ongoing rehearsals with Christianna Nelson ’05 and Joe Tapper ’06 for Imagining the Imaginary Invalid, a new piece for Mabou Mines conceived in collaboration with Ruth Maleczech and Clove Galilee, scheduled to open in October 2014. This spring, a number of YSD alumni and friends, including Carrie Van Hallgren ’06, collaborated on the world premiere of Something About a Bear at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The play was produced in partnership with Theatre Novi Most (the company founded and run by Lisa Channer ’00) and Vladimir Rovinsky (who
studied at YSD as a part of a Russian exchange program). Collaborators included Martin Gwinup ’88, who serves on the faculty of the University of Minnesota with Lisa and Carrie. Nelson Eusebio ’07 was at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012 as the Phil Killian Directing Fellow, assisting Libby Appel and Bill Rauch on The Seagull and Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Then he went back to New York to direct his first short film and produce two others. Nelson also produced Leviathan Lab’s mainstage show in New York, then went on to PlayMakers Rep in North Carolina to direct It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (with lighting design by Burke Brown ’07) and finally screened all the films at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. At the beginning of the year Nelson stepped down as artistic director at Leviathan, then went on to direct an educational tour of Twelfth Night for the Old Globe and Clare Barron’s play Solar Plexus for Ensemble Studio Theatre’s marathon of new plays. Jesse Hill ’07 is associate artistic director of terraNOVA Collective in New York, where she founded and curates the annual Ground breakers Playwrights Group. This year she returned to YSD to direct Wintertime by Charles L. Mee for the spring acting project. It has been a blessed and fulfilling year for
(from left) Carrie (Van Deest) Van Hallgren ’06, Constance Congdon (Former Faculty), Lisa Channer ’00, and Vladimir Rovinsky at opening of Congdon’s new play, Something About a Bear, at University of Minnesota.
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