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CONGRATULATIONS to our MFA Costume Design alum and current faculty member Ana Kuzmanic, who won The Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award at the 13th Annual Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Ana recently designed costumes for King Lear (directed by Bob Falls) at Goodman Theatre and Argonautika (directed by Mary Zimmerman) at Lookingglass Theatre. Within the past three years she has designed numerous productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lookingglass Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The House Theatre of Chicago, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Greasy Joan & Co. and Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. |
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CONGRATULATIONS! to our very own Cindy Gold, associate professor, who won, on November 6, the 38th annual 2006 Jeff Equity Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Gertrude Stein in Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein (About Face Theatre). Relive the night and watch Cindy's acceptance speech at StageChannel.com The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee evolved in response to a search by Chicago actors for a way to honor local theatre talent. Cindy is pictured here with Stephen Flaherty, composer of Loving Repeating. photo: Johnny Knight Photo |
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CONGRATULATIONS! to our alum and current visiting faculty member Mara Blumenfeld, who won, on November 6, the 38th annual 2006 Jeff Equity Award for her Costume Design for |
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Liz Luby, theatre department assistant, wins the 2006 Clarence L. Ver Steeg Staff Award. The award is given to one staff member a year whose efforts are essential to upholding the University's reputation for excellence in graduate education. She was nominated by graduate students. |
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Professor Tracy Davis received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. |
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Professor Billy Siegenfeld received the 2006 Ruth Page Award because of his vibrant dance artistry, developement of a unique dance vocabulary, and the exciting choreography created in that dance style. |
