Performance Studies Class Notes

Jill Dolan 1988 Performance Studies
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Jill Dolan published her fourth book, Utopia In Performance: Finding Hope At The Theatre. She holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University ofTexas atAustin, where she heads the Grad program in Performance as Public Practice.

Stasia Ward Kehoe 1993 Performance Studies
Stasia Ward Kehoe, a playwright and freelance writer, is the author of many nonfiction books for young readers.  She also continues to choreograph and teach musical theatre for young performers.

Kelly Lynn Hogan 1995 Performance Studies
In addition to a 20-week adjunct professorship at her undergraduate alma mater Knox College beginning January 2007, Kelly will be directing at the college's Harbach and Studio Theaters. Additionally, she will be the assistant director at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Repertory for their production of The Heidi Chronicles, running January through February 2007.

Cornelia Cody  1998 Performance Studies

Cornelia Cody is a senior editor at Macmillan McGraw-Hill, adjunct faculty for the Department of Drama, and a doctoral student at the University of Maryland.

topDr. Ardencie Hall-Karambe 1998 Performance Studies
Dr. Hall-Karambe received an NEH grant to study African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal. Her oiginal play Ain't Gonna Nobody Turn Ua 'Round was  produced at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, and she developed a new African Diaspora Studies Curriculum that was adopted by her institution, Community College of Philadelphia.  The new department opened in Fall 2006.

Michael Simon 1999 Performance Studies

Michael Simon’s third novel, Little Faith, will be released by Viking in early September. The thriller involves a murdered former child star turned porn star, the fires at the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, and the rise of the religious right.

Wendy Clupper 1999 Performance Studies

Wendy Clupper is a PhD candidate at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, teaches a Theatre Practicum, and oversees Off-Center productions at the Experimental Laboratory Theater. She is serving her fourth year as an arts grants coordinator for the Maryland State Arts Council's Folk and Traditional Arts Panel. Her longtime research is on the Burning Man Festival.

Jessica Sack 1999 Performance Studies
Jessica Sack is the Jan and Frederick Mayer Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery.  Her research involves soundscapes and projects that connect sound, image, and the museum.

Meron Langsner 2000 Performance Studies

Meron Langsner directed the world premiere of Tonya & Nancy: The Opera at the Zero Arrow Theatre in Cambridge, MA.  The production was covered by NPR, FOX, and other radio and television stations, and in print by The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, ESPN Magazine, among others.

topAlissa Cardone 2003 Performance Studies

Alissa Cardone’s Kinodance Company was awarded an LEF Foundation Contemporary Work Fund grant for the film, Denizen, which will be presented in Boston by the Bank of America Celebrity Series in 2007.

Laura Winton  2004 Performance Studies
Laura Winton is pursuing a PhD in theatre at the University of Minnesota.