Alumni Notes Susan is teaching at the university and startCentral, similar to The Daily Show, but for ing the process of looking for directing work sports. He misses his classmates, drawing around town. class and Pepe’s pizza. After six years at Yale (three years for an As a costume production assistant in televiMFA, two years teaching as a DFA candidate sion and film, Heidi Hanson ’09 has worked and one year’s leave), Jason Fitzgerald ’08 on Big Love, the film True Grit, and this season tells us that he has begun a PhD program in of Entourage. the theatre subcommittee of the Department As part of her freelance life in both New of English and Comparative Literature at York and Chicago, Jessi D. Hill ’07 has been a Columbia University. Jason also continues to guest director at New York University, write theatre reviews for Backstage. He can be Fordham and Long Island University. She just reached at: jfitz@aya.yale.edu. joined The Women’s Project Directors Lab and The hard-hitting effects of the economy on terraNOVA Collective New York City, where the theatre in Chicago made it difficult to she runs the Groundbreakers New Play Jennifer Lim ’04 played the lead in This work as a stage manager for Adam Ganderson Development program. Isn’t Romance at the Soho Theatre in ’06, particularly because he wants to have a David Howson ’04 became the inaugural London and Ophelia in a Chinese production family. And so Adam enlisted in the U.S. Army. Arthur Zankel Director of Arts Administration of Hamlet in Shanghai for the Grotowski Because he enlisted, instead of going in as an at Skidmore College, responsible for establishFestival in Wrocław, Poland. Photo by officer, the Army is paying back his student ing a new interdisciplinary program to pre© simonkanephotography.co.uk 2009 loans and letting him pick his job, starting pare students for creative lives and managehim off as an E-4 (equivalent to a corporal), ment positions in the visual arts, music, dance and giving him his choice of duty station after and theatre. In addition to launching and Drew and Jo are starting their lives together in he completes his training. He will do ten overseeing the program, David will be responNew York City where Drew works in the weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson near sible for teaching foundation courses in arts Design and Engineering Department at Columbia, SC, and then go to Fort Huachuca, administration, developing internship opporShowman Fabricators, and Jo is a freelance AZ, for 17 weeks of Intelligence Analyst tunities for students, and establishing a proStage Manager. Members of the YSD family School. gram of residencies for arts-management that are seen in the attached photo are: Cat Busy with projects in China and in New professionals. Tate Starmer ’06, John Starmer ’06, Liz York, Paul Gelinas ’09 has worked most Year Zero at Second Stage Theatre in New Alsina ’06, Ben Merrick ’06, Alison Acierno recently on Matt Damon’s The Adjustment York City featured Peter Kim ’04. It was Merrick (former staff), Guerry Hood ’05, Bureau, which included a cameo by Amanda directed by Will Frears ’01, with costume Danielle Federico ’08, Stephanie Ybarra ’08, Mason Warren ’08. Paul will be the producdesign by Jenny Mannis ’02 and set design by David Thomas ’07, Andrew Farrow ’06, Jo tion designer for a new series on Comedy Robin Vest ’02. McInerney Farrow ’08, Andrew Nagel ’06, Lily Twining ’09, Ryan Durham ’07, Lisa Shuster ’08, Kris Longley-Postema ’09, Katrina Olson ’07, Steve Neuenschwander ’08, Jack Hilley ’08, Melissa Urann Hilley, Arielle Edwards ’06, Amy Altadonna ’07, Ji-youn Chang ’08, Andrew Gitchel ’09, Lisa McDaniel, Justin McDaniel ’08, Shira Beckerman ’06, and Jeanne Wu. Present, but not pictured: Annie Jacobs, Steve Henson, Jessica Barker ’10, Mary Hunter (faculty), Ruby Hunter, Tiffany Hopkins (former staff), Cynthia Coco yc ’07. Susan Finque ’03 and her partner Maria Martinez sold their mansion in the historic small town of Evansville, WI, but not before Susan wrote and directed a ghost play, School for Girls, about the history of the former Leota Girls’ Boarding School, and staged it in her house, in the style of Fefu and Her Friends by Maria-Irene Fornes. Afterwards they left Wisconsin, headed west. Susan spent the winter on the Marine Base in Kailua, HI, with Maria’s son and two grandchildren. After leaving Hawaii and traveling up the Pacific Coast, Mason Lee and Peter Kim ’04 in Year Zero at Second Stage Theatre, directed by Will Frears ’01, Susan and Maria have landed back in Seattle. costume design by Jenny Mannis ’02 and set design by Robin Vest ’02. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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