News & Events
Alumni Successes
Spring 2009
Breona Conrad (B.A. ’08, theatre) secured work
with the Tweetsie Railroad Co. in Blowing Rock, N.C.,
from May to November following the
2008 Unified Professional Theatre
auditions in Memphis, Tenn. She has
signed with the Know Theatre of
Cincinnati on its national education
tour, Calculus: The Musical, which
runs through May.
Erica Tobolski (B.A. ’86, theatre) has
been appointed as the distinguished
visiting professor in the College of
Creative and Performance at the
Universiti Teknologi MARA in Shah
Alam, Malaysia, which is just outside
Kuala Lumpur. She is pursuing this
opportunity during her 2008–09
sabbatical from the University of South
Carolina. The associate professor of
voice and acting is teaching beginning
and advanced voice/speech, advanced acting, and
script analysis in Malaysia, where she will also study
the traditional southeast Asian art of shadow puppets
and masks.
Theatre graduate Jane Rebekah Frazier (B.A. ’00,
theatre) earned an M.F.A. in Theatre Pedagogy from
Virginia Commonwealth University in August 2008.
She is directing the upcoming IPFW production of
The Caretaker on April 3 and 4 in Studio Theatre.
Jenn Nickell (B.A. ’05, theatre) is the new drama
and arts teacher at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne.
Eve Escandon (B.A. ’04, theatre) worked as an
intern with the San Diego Repertory Theatre in 2008.
