Around the World The Womb, a film script written for Cinecorp by Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco ’09, will be filming in late 2010/early 2011. Gonzalo’s play Expiration was a finalist at Long Beach Playhouse’s 19th Annual New Works Festival, and Reverie Productions’ sixth annual Next Generation Playwriting Contest, and has had readings in California and New York. His comedy, The French Play, was a finalist at Long Beach Playhouse’s 20th Annual New Works Festival and had a reading in California in June 2010. Dramatis Personae had a workshop production at The Playwright’s Realm and a staged reading in New York in May. Kevin Rich ’04 was in Distracted, directed by PJ Paparelli, at the American Theater
Hallie Foote, Bryce Pinkham ’08 and Maggie Lacey in Horton Foote’s The Death of Poppa at Hartford Stage. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
Company in Chicago, in which he played “Dad.” Last year, he played Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Deb Alley, and Richard in Richard II, directed by Henry Woronicz. This summer, he will return to the Illinois Shakespeare Festival to play Sebastian in The Tempest, directed by Deb Alley, and Porthos in The Three Musketeers, directed by Karen Kessler. This fall, he will begin a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Drama at Kenyon College, near Columbus, OH. After directing the New York premiere at P.S.122 of Lola Arias’ Kingdom, Yana Ross ’06 writes that she was invited by the Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre to stage Nobel-laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s Bambiland at the National Theatre in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her deconstruction of Heiner Müller’s Macbeth opened the 2008 season of Volksbuehne-Am-RosaLuxemburg Platz in Berlin and stayed in the repertory for a year and a half. Beth Morrison ’05 produced Yana’s Sleeping Beauty by Jelinek for the Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea. Yana continues to direct internationally, from Florence to Warsaw and Berlin, with a home base in Vilnius, where she recently premiered Fassbinder’s Bremen Freedom, Ibsen’s Master Builder and Schnitzler’s La Ronde. Brooklyn-based Sallie D. Sanders ’02
Olivia and Viola Sunderman, daughters of Erik Sunderman ’06
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Alec Tok’s ’03 first film A Big Road, was nominated for Best Asian Feature Film at the Singapore International Film Festival.
continues as a development consultant with clients including Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company, 651 ARTS, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Martha Clarke/Spring Lake Productions, and New York City Players. Christopher (Kit) Sanderson ’05 was in Oslo, Norway this year directing a new translation of Uncle Vanya, which he also commissioned and which was featured in LIFE Magazine online, as well as Sylvia Plath’s 3 Women, and a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which performed in Oslo and then toured to New York’s Central Park for a two-week limited engagement. The Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award was given to Justin Sherin ’08 by a panel that included Christopher Durang ’74, Susan Hilferty ’80, Morgan Jenness and Richard Nelson (Former Faculty). Justin was also recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. Currently Assistant Technical Director at Stanford University, Erik Sunderman ’06 helps with facilities, Drama Department shows, on-campus groups,and events. He lives in San Jose, CA, with his wife Debbie and their two daughters, Viola, four, and Olivia, eight months. Nondumiso Tembe ’09 has moved to Los Angeles, where she was in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, and performed on behalf of her country, South Africa, during half-time at the Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA games to promote the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. She also performed at the Los Angeles Convention Center during South Africa’s Freedom Day Celebrations and the World Cup kickoff, at the request of the South African Consulate-General. Nondumiso will be recording her first solo album in South