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AUDITIONS:
Minor
Latham Playhouse, 118 Milbank Hall
Sign-up
sheets in the MLP lobby
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
6:00-8:00pm returning students
8:00-10:00pm returning students
Wednesday, September 3,
2008
6:00-8:00pm first-year
students and transfer students
Please prepare a two-minute
monologue; it can be modern, classical, or original. If you are auditioning
for Acting the Musical Scene please prepare 30 bars a cappella. There will
also be material provided by the department at auditions if you prefer to
use this. You will be expected to participate in a group warm-up and to stay
throughout the two-hour session.
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Students, Faculty, and Staff--Welcome.
First, introductions. As many of you will know, I've
recently arrived in NY and will be serving as the new Chair of the
Department of Theatre. It's an exciting time to be joining the department:
we have several new additions to the department, refurbished facilities, and
many exciting plans for the major, the production season, and our relations
to other units at Barnard and Columbia. I will meet many of you at
auditions and in my fall Theatre History class, but I also have office hours
and I'd be happy to meet any majors or prospective majors with questions
I'll try to answer, or with insights you'd like to provide.
I'm also delighted to welcome two new members of our
department. Michael Banta joins us as Production Manager; Michael received
his B.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia and the MFA in Technical
Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama and has held a wide
range of professional positions in the field, most recently at the New York
City Opera and the Hudson Scenic Studio. Hana Worthen will be teaching and
doing research in the Department as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the
Humanities for the coming two years, and then will assume an appointment as
Assistant Professor. She took her Ph.D. in Theatre Research from the
University of Helsinki, and her research focuses on theatre and ideology,
particularly in Nazi Germany and Socialist Eastern Europe after World War
II.
Finally, I want to give a special thanks to Patricia
Denison, for her imaginative service as Chair of the Department for the past
several years. I know that we all appreciate her commitment to making the
Department succeed, and to making the experience and education of our
students rich and rewarding.
Again, I look forward to meeting you, and to an
exciting year.
W. B. Worthen
Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts
Chair, Department of Theatre
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