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Name: Christian Loaiza
Major: Music Education
Hometown: Perry, Iowa
Planned Graduate Date: Spring 2019
Name: Emma Feldhans
Major: Vocal Music Education
Hometown: Ankeny, Iowa
Planned Date of Graduation from Iowa State: Spring 2021
Instrument(s)/Voice Part: Mezzo-Soprano
Name: Joi Wright
Major: Performing Arts emphasis in Acting/Directing
Hometown: Dallas,Texas
Graduation: Spring 2019
Assistant Professor of Theatre, Cason Murphy (center), along with other members of the Shakespearean Performance Working Group at the ASTR Forum in La Jolla, CA
Iowa State University Assistant Professor of Theatre Cason Murphy presented his scholarship on the realities of inclusive theatre practices at the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Forum held in La Jolla, California, on November 15 – 17, 2018. For this opportunity, Murphy was generously supported by the Department of Music and Theatre, as well as a Faculty Research and Travel Grant offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Published originally at https://news.las.iastate.edu/2018/11/16/drumming-up-adventure/
Name: Keaton Lane
Majors: Journalism and Mass Communication and Performing Arts (emphasis in acting and directing)
Hometown: Elkader, Iowa
Graduation: Spring 2019
Iowa State Cyclone Football ‘Varsity’ Marching Band honored with Impact Award
Timothy Davis stood on the deck and looked out over New York City. As he gazed down at a little bodega and basketball court, he noticed the scene seemed familiar. He played on that basketball court as a struggling artist many years ago. Back then he only knew he wanted to be an actor in New York City. Now, as he stood on the balcony during a break from filming "Billions," Davis revelled in the fact his dream had come true.
Name: Kelly Olsen
Majors: Music Education (Instrumental) with a certificate in Violin Performance
Hometown: Cedar Falls, Iowa
Graduation: Spring 2020
Nationally renowned theatre director and educator Egla Birmingham Hassan will direct ISU Theatre’s It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play later this semester. Hassan was selected as one of the inaugural Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Artists in Residence, a new program funded by the Transforming Liberal Arts and Sciences Endowment which seeks bring renowned creative or performing artists to campus, primarily in music, theatre and creative writing, to participate in an artistic endeavor at ISU.
Iowa State University Theatre will participate in Playwrights Horizons’ #PlayOurPart initiative, a national, nonpartisan movement to increase voter participation by registering voters in theater lobbies. #PlayOurPart participants represent theatres from every corner of the nation, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Public Theatre, Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project, and Victory Gardens Theater, among others.
ISU Theatre has invited Vote Everywhere, a non-partisan voter registration ISU student organization, to set up registration booths at its production of This is Not a Pipe Dream, September 28-October 7, and Orpheus in the Underworld, November 1-4.
Listed below are links to recorded examples of our faculty performing the 2018 Iowa "All-State" etudes. Several of these etudes feature written comments to help you prepare your audition. These recordings are not meant to be definitive examples. They are simply one person's interpretation, with a limited amount of preparation time, to assist you in preparing your own interpretation.
Iowa State University Theatre faculty members Cason Murphy, Tiffany Antone, and Charissa Menefee were honored to present on three different panels at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference held in Boston, MA, on August 1–5, 2018.
Cason Murphy, ISU’s incoming assistant professor of theatre, was just awarded first prize in the Cinema ScandinaviaIngmar Bergman Writing Competition with his article, "Flirting with the ‘Loyal Wife’: Bergman’s Theatrical Affair with Nora."
Cinema Scandinavia‘s competition sought out articles exploring unique aspects of Bergman’s life and work and was held in conjunction with the Bergman 100 celebrations taking place throughout 2018 recognizing the 100th birthday of the great Swedish filmmaker. In his article, Murphy explores Bergman’s prolific theatrical career with specific focus on his radical deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1981 entitled Nora (which Murphy staged as his MFA thesis at Baylor University in 2015).
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