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Alumni Successes

Fall 2005

Carol Buglewicz (’03) has started a nonprofit theatre company called And Beyond Theatre Company, in Denver, Col. Beyond theatrical productions, her company provides dramatherapeutic techniques and other events like sociodrama workshops. Currently, Buglewicz is working on a script that tells the story of a female Ethiopian refugee in America. She also taught a week-long workshop in Jacksonville, Fla., at the Seacoast Christian Academy of the Arts.

Melissa Dowty (’05) is an acting apprentice at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville in the 2005–2006 Apprentice/Intern Company. The apprentices are an ensemble of 22 actors from around the country who attend regular classes in movement, scene study, text analysis, and audition technique.

Theatre alum Jonathan Gilbert (’02), currently the graduate recruitment coordinator at the Tisch School of the Arts, just completed his New York debut in the 9th Annual New York International Fringe Festival. He directed and wrote a book for a new musical about the “dangers”of same-sex marriage entitled The Day the World Went Queer! New York Magazine reviewed: “For a single concept show, The Day the World Went Queer! is sure amusing with infectiously raunchy lyrics and rowdy tunes delivered by a snappy cast with charm to spare.”

Christine Feay (‘04) is currently a customer service representative at DVC, Inc., a multimedia duplication/packing facility. Currently, Feay is playingStella in and designing the lights for Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean for Spotlight Players in Indianapolis. Feay performed in and designed the lights for The Laramie Project at Spotlight Players in August 2005. She has been hired part time by Brebeuf Jesuit Prepatory School to be their lighting designer for the season and by The Alley Theatre to design lights for their November production of Rope.

Brian Schilb (’01), currently a prethesis M.F.A. candidate at the University of South Carolina, is due to finish in December 2005. As a nonequity member at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, a LORT D Equity Theatre, he has performed in six mainstage productions, working towards membership in the Actor’s Equity Association.

 

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