Sharon Washington ’88 in the world premiere of Wild With Happy at The Public Theatre in 2012. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Cheryl Mintz’s ’87 22nd season as resident production stage manager was the world premiere of Christopher Durang’s ’74 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring David Hyde Pierce yc ’81, Sigourney Weaver ’74, and Kristine Nielsen ’80. Led by director Nicholas Martin, the rehearsal process was a joyous one, and Cheryl was proud to see the production move from the McCarter Theatre to Lincoln Center Theater before settling into a successful Broadway run. Cheryl continues to be fulfilled by the successes of her stage management interns and staff as they take on theatre work both in the New York area and throughout the country. Cheryl also salutes Actors’ Equity Association’s centennial and is proud to be featured as part of the Narrative Project and in the publication Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater. David Moore ’87 continues to serve as trustee for the Walker Art Center and co-chair of its Producer’s Council. In 2012–13 the council assisted a number of projects— including Cynthia Hopkins’s This Clement World and Elevator Repair Service’s Fondly, Collette Richland, scripted by company member Sibyl Kempson and directed by John Collins. For the Guthrie, the council provided support for its world premiere of Nice Fish, based on poetry by Louis Jenkins; the play was written by, directed by, and featured Mark Rylance. Deborah Reissman ’87 is living in Los Angeles with her husband and 16-year-old son. “I think I hated high school when I was 16,” she writes, “but as a parent I hate it even more!” Tim Saternow’s ’87 paintings of New York City were shown this past summer at the George Billis Gallery in New York. His Joshua Tree/High Desert paintings will be shown at
the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles and Culver City. Tim’s paintings were also recently shown in California at the Christopher Hill Gallery in St. Helena, and at BoxoPROJECTS in Joshua Tree. While vacationing in Italy and California, Rick Butler ’88 enjoyed the release of Peeples, the Lionsgate feature for which he did production design, starring David Alan Grier ’81. Rick returned as production designer for the upcoming season of Person of Interest on CBS, and finds time in between to teach at Brooklyn College. His recent designs for independent features include A Case of You, which opened at the TriBeCa Film Festival 2012, and The Longest Week, with release planned in 2014. After living for many years in the Hudson River Valley, Rick has moved to Soho. In 2011, Terry Frankenberger ’88 retired from private wealth management and took on the role of director of development for the College of Arts and Science at New York University. The transition has been relatively seamless, and Terry is enjoying his new role in higher education. Of greater importance, after 23 years together, Terry and his partner David were married in December 2012. On May 31, 2013, with his partner Steve, James Magruder ’88, dfa ’92, grd ’84 (Former Faculty) left to spend a year in Kampala, Uganda. He will continue his work running clinical trials to prevent HIV
Wendy MacLeod ’87. Photo by Lyn Hughes.
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Walker Jones ’89 with fans of Wicked. infection in mother/baby pairs and intends to complete another novel and host Americans who have had their shots. One of James’s goals for his year in Africa is to learn how to see again, to notice, to observe, to take in. His story collection, Let Me See It, is scheduled to come out next year from TriQuarterly Books, and he has finished a new version of Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot for A.C.T. in San Francisco, to be directed by Mark Rucker ’92. Sharon Washington ’88 completed a run of Wild With Happy by Colman Domingo at TheatreWorks in California in June. Sharon was thrilled to be nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for performing the same role in the world premiere production of the play at The Public Theater in 2012. Sharon is adapting the manuscript of her book about growing up in an apartment inside a New York Public Library into a one-woman show. She hopes to workshop the solo piece at a theatre in 2014. Sharon also did a workshop of a new play, Luce, by J.C. Lee at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, directed by May Adrales ’06 (Faculty). In July 2013, Wendy Rolfe Evered ’89 co-produced the short film Out with Ordi nance 14, written and directed by Charles Evered ’91 and co-starring Josh Fardon ’91. Last summer they were all represented at the Saturn Awards with their feature A Thousand Cuts, which was nominated alongside five other genre films whose budgets averaged $12 million or more. Wendy is working on her book Too Much, written and painted for the toddler crowd and the people who buy books for them.
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