CHRIS GEARY was recently accepted to the Yale graduate theater program on full scholarship—one of only 16 spots! Chris has studied at Fordham Lincoln Center and is pleased to be successfully continuing his theatrical career. BLAKE HINSON now plays double bass in the New York Philharmonic. Blake attended Walnut Hill for two years before he left to attend the Curtis Institute—but once a Walnut, always a Walnut!
2007
SARAH KOENIG-PLONSKIER is the concertmaster at Juilliard this year. Over the summer, she played with the orchestra at the Olympic Games in London. KRISTIN PARKER performed as Natalie in Next to Normal at Arkansas Repertory Theater and then at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City in May. Shortly afterward, she began rehearsals for an off-offBroadway run as Catherine in Proof, opposite Naomi Bailis’s acting teacher Alan Langdon as Robert, at the Connelly Theater in the East Village.
KARISSA BARNEY and fellow Walnut TORY STOLPER ’09 were recently seen starring in a web series that launched online in July. They are trying to raise funds through Kickstarter to get production going.
ABOVE Kristin Parker ’06 as Natalie in Next to Normal
RACHAEL COX reported to AMANDA BERTONE ’05 that she is now working in the marketing department at Ballet West in Salt Lake City. BARNEY JOHNSON is attending graduate school at UC Santa Barbara for music composition. He writes: “I am doing great! I live out
New York City Alumni Event, October 2, 2012
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Ethan Van Ness ’09, Nami Miwa ’12, Margeaux Maloney ’10, Amelia Sturt-Dilley ’11; Brooke Stone ’02, Jonathan Parks-Ramage ’02, Deborah Siegel ’02; Daniel Salas ’12, Nikki Duquette ’12; Su Hyun “Jackie” Cho ’11, Jim Woodside, You Jung Choi ’11, Ka Yeon Nam ’11; Ashley VanEgeren ’00, Joshua Holden ’01, Isaac Spencer ’00; Adam Griffin ’88, Julie Saltman ’90
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
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