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Volume 18, 8 | November, 18. 2019

Week 8 NEWSLETTER

Department News

Week 8 - Nov 18 - Nov 22, 2019

Man In Love This Week! Get Your Tickets Now.

by Christina Anderson

directed by Stephen Buescher

Midwestern Metropolis during the Great Depression is severely segregated. If you're from'The Spread' you are trying to survive another eviction notice, soup line, or night on thestreet. If you're from the segregated Black area called 'The Zoo' you are literally fightingfor your life. Christina Anderson's play Man in Love is about race, love, and terror, all livingside by side.

For information or tickets, click the link below.

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http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/ManInLove/index.htm

Get Ready For Elektra Adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker in the ShankTheatre December 4-7

Come one, Come all! Step right up to see Elektra by Sophocles in a new, musicaltranslation by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Elektra finds herself in an endless circusorchestrated by her father’s murderers: her mother, The Queen, and her mother’s loverwho masquerades as The New King. Elektra cannot take part in the charade of happinessand rages against the court, waiting for her exiled brother, Orestes to return and avengetheir father. Through music, movement, and the female voice, Elektra takes us inside thetoxic cycles of violence that plagued the Ancient Greeks and continue as nationalspectacle today.

Directed by MFA Juliana Kleist-Mendez, Elektra Previews on Dec 2 and performs Dec 4 -7 at 7:30pm and Dec 7 at 2pm.

For information and tickets, click the link below.

http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/Elektra/index.htm

Winter Season Featured by UC San Diego News Center

On November 13th the UC SanDiego News Center featured adetailed exploration of the Theatreand Dance 2020 Winter Season. Ifyou haven't already bought yourtickets, be sure to give this article aread for more information on theamazing selection of shows wehave prepared for you this winter.

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https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/music-and-movement-underscore-opening-productions-in-theatre-and-dance-upcoming-season?fbclid=IwAR3EaSocxnH0Q1CnWjlx13gWgnRiPJGGvVxUF2_otlNaEI3E-Gv1v6AWj9o

PhD Students Present Research at 117th Pacific Ancient and ModernLanguage Assciociation

From left to right: Will Jones (fifth-year PhD), Kristen Tregar (fifth-year PhD), Dr. Bryan White (PhDAlumnus), Kristin Leadbetter (third-year PhD), and Desmond Hassing (second-year PhD).

Kristin Leadbetter and Desmond Hassing presented aspects of their ongoing research atPAMLA over the weekend in a panel chaired by Kristen Tregar and Will Jones.

Kristin's presentation "Hamilton: An American(Psycho) Musical" explored the role of illusion,delusion, and imagination in two musicals thatdebuted during the 2015-16 Broadway season:Hamilton (Lin Manuel Miranda) and American Psycho(Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, music & lyrics by DuncanSheik, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis).Investigating the shows through a hyperrealism lens,she considers the illusory themes of externalappearance as a reflection of interiority.

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Desmond's paper "Welcome to theEnlightened 21st Century. Now WhatDo I Do with My Racist Mascot?"highlighted the branding strategiesdeployed by modern day MinorLeague baseball teams as they workto adapt the Indigenous mascots andmonikers of the past to the "moreenlightened" present day.

In addition to chairing the "ImagiNation: Exploring the American Political Circus" panel,Kristen Tregar presented her paper "Other-Than-Human Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and theEthics of Consumption," while Will Jones presented "Imagining a More EngagedAudience."

Theatre and Dance Students Help Reenact Brown V. Board of Educationas part of Marshall Week

As part of the UCSDcelebration of Marshall Week,students in the Department ofTheatre and Dancepresented a theatricalengagement with the historicBrown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court decision onNovember 13th. The stagedreading was crafted by PhDCandidates Kristen Tregarand Will Jones andperformed by:

Shelby Becker (Undergraduate), Grayson Heyl (MFA Acting), Olivier Jamois(Undergraduate), Will Jones (PhD Candidate), Jada Owens (MFA Acting), Lois Shih (MFAActing) & Jordan Smith (MFA Acting)

Balm in Gilead Final Weekend

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The economic and social stressesplaced on the human condition takecenter stage in Lanford Wilson'sBalm in Gilead, directed by KimRubinstein, this November in theMandell Weiss Forum Theatre.

About the play: The setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York'supper Broadway, where the riff-raff,the bums, the petty thieves, the lost,the desperate of the big city cometogether. The movement of thekaleidoscopic in effect, a surgingmosaic of overlapping andinterrelating speeches and action asseparate goals and characters areblended together around a commoncenter. At the core of the play areJoe and Darlene, two young peoplewho would seem to have thestrength and the need to transcend the turmoil and ugliness of the life in which they foundthemselves— but are, instead, crushed by it. But their loss is quickly absorbed in themaelstrom, as the others go on desperately seeking the joy and release and purpose inlife which will, most certainly, continue to escape them. (dramatists.com)

Preview Nov. 13 at 7:30pm

Performances Nov. 15, 16, 22, 23 @ 7:30pm and Nov. 23 @ 2pm

For more information or tickets, click the link below

http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/BalmInGilead/index.htm

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Upcoming Performances

Theatre & Dance Fall productions

BALM IN GILEADhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/BalmInGilead/index.htmMAN IN LOVEhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/ManInLove/index.htmELEKTRAhttp://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/Elektra/index.htm

Happening Around Campus

Exploring California's Indigenous Languages at the Symposium on theIndigenous Language Communities of the Californias (SILCC)

Join The Linguistics Department at SILCC tolearn about the linguistic heritage of our region

The symposium will feature presentations byNative American scholars and local communitymembers, centering on indigenousperspectives about the current status oflanguages of the region and efforts underwayto preserve and reclaim them for futuregenerations. Following the presentations therewill be a panel discussion about how to createlasting impacts of the International Year ofIndigenous Languages, based on theperspectives of the Kumeyaay, Kumiai,Cahuilla, Cupeño and Luiseño tribalcommunities of Southern California and Baja

California and their experiences with language reclamation work in their communities.

Nov 21, 2019 at 9:30 am in The Forum, 4th Floor of the Price Center East.

Free with Registration. For information about this event, click the link below.

https://calendar.ucsd.edu/event/symposium-on-the-indigenous-language-communities-of-the-californias-silcc/

Upcoming Performance Opportunity with ArtPower at UC San Diego

DJ/producer, percussionist,and vocalist Gingee is knownfor her unique take onelectronic music—blending

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elements of global bass,world music, and hip-hop.Her work is a reflection of thesounds and cultures she hasbeen exposed to growing upin Los Angeles as well as themusical world of her Filipinoancestors and beyond. Herproductions incorporate thesounds of percussioninstruments such asthe kulintang(gongs native tothe Philippines), kettle drum,and cowbells with rap andpoetry.

Nov 21, 2019 at 8:00 pm at The Loft.

Registration for this event is required. Event Fee $15.00.

For more information about this performance, click the link below.

https://calendar.ucsd.edu/event/gingee/

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MFA Playwright Pens Recent Episode of Chicago Fire for NBC

Congratulations to Alumnus RonaldMcCants who wrote the November13th episode of Chicago Fire,"Seeing is Believing."

MFA Acting Alumni Return to Ashland for the Oregon ShakespeareFestival 2020 Season

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Congratulations to MFA acting alumni Kimberly Monks (left) & William Thomas Hodgson(right) who will both be returning to Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the 2020 season.

William Thomas Hodgson will be portraying Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dreamand Ferdinand in The Tempest, both by William Shakespeare.

Kimberly Monks will be playing Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream By WilliamShakespeare and Benevolence Nausicca Sabine in black odyssey by Marcus Gardley.

For more information about the season, click the link below.

https://www.osfashland.org/en/news-multimedia/news-announcements/2020-season-casting.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2s9SMzWvkOufmHSr4JjfmytIo2yfOzFwU6kKPQdd6m7UTx_85yevlB8-w

MFA Dramaturgy Alumna Produces Nightly News Commentary

Using what she learned about story structure anddramatic stakes, MFA Dramaturgy alumnus TriciaMcKinney is now a Senior Producer at TheRachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Keep it going!

The Rachel Maddow Show is a daily news andopinion television program that airs on MSNBC,running in the 6:00 pm PST timeslot Mondaythrough Friday.

MFA Playwrights Set to Premiere at 2020 Humana Festival

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Congratulations to Playwright Jeff Augustin, UC San Diego Alumnus, who along with 2ndYear Vivian Barnes will be seeing the world premeire of the their plays at the 44th AnnualHumana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

The Humana Festival will feature Augustin's play Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, andBarnes will see her collaboration with non UC San Diego playwrights Jonathan Norton andGab Reisman, Are You There? fully staged.

https://www.actorstheatre.org/humana-festival/

Alumni Complete Shakespeare Tour for the Old Globe

Alumni Amanda (Junior) Bergman, MFA, Carlos AngelBarajas, BA, Willie Michiels, MFA & Rio Villa, BA, were allinvolved with Globe for All at the Old Globe this Fall andclosed this past weekend. Junior worked on costumes,Willie & Rio worked on arts engagement and Carlos actedin The Winters Tale.

The Old Globes’s Globe for All Tour brings free, live,professional productions of Shakespeare and selectproductions to diverse multigenerational audiences in theneighborhoods throughout San Diego County.

https://www.theoldglobe.org/arts-engagement/globe-for-all/

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