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Stars Behind The Stars is a bi-weekly series featuring theatre makers behind the scenes.
“You’ve seen vaudeville acts. You’ve seen comedies where fat people fall. Now come and witness a daring vaudeville comedy act starring a Fat person. Enter, if you dare,” warns playwriting student Greg T. Nanni who stars in his one man show FAT.
Theatre alumnus and Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann ’14 will stage 7 Deadly Sins — Temptation in the Magic City in vacant Miami Beach storefronts this fall.
Theatre student Kanika Vaish directs Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj for SoHo Shakespeare Company.
Vichitra by Theatre alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, an episodic, audiovisual project, will be produced at The Bushwick Starr this winter. Chowdhury’s Vichitra is “the fourth installment of an experiment in queer South Asian imagination,” where “Carnatic classical music is the shapeshifting protagonist.”
Theatre alumnae Daaimah Mubashshir ’15, Gethsemane Herron-Coward ’19, Zizi Majiid ’20, and Katherine Wilkinson ’19 have been selected for the 2020-2021 Women’s Project Theater Lab.
The Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School has awarded theatre alumna Anna Rebek ’20 the 2020-2021 Opera Directing Fellowship, a nine-month program.
Alumna Ashley Tata ’12 directs Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music, Program One as a part of the Bard Music Festival.
Alumnus Saheem Ali ’07 joins The Public Theater as one of its new Associate Artistic Directors, along with Shanta Thake.
Alumna Gethsemane Herron-Coward '19 was selected as one of the six winners at the 2020 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival from Samuel French leading to her play Falling Man to be included in the 45th Festival Plays Series.
Alumna Felicia King ’18 joined the writers of Shakespeare Now, an anthology of adaptations of Shakespeare’s work for television.
Playwriting alumnus Johnny Lloyd ’20 has been named the Director of Artistic Development for the nonprofit, the Tank.
