Alumni in the News

Sean Tecson (B.A., Directing, 2015) has been named Education Data and Professional Development Coordinator at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.  

Martin Rodriguez (B.F.A., Theatre Studies, 2015), Amanda Lloyd (B.A., Theatre & Dance, 2014), Sarah Marcum (B.F.A., Theatre Studies, 2014), and Shae Tomlinson (B.A., Theatre & Dance, 2015) are finishing the first full season with their production of SURVIVAL CHECK, by Amanda Lloyd, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. 

Glenda Maddox (B.A., Theatre and Dance, 2003), received a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Costume Design for her work on The Bold and the Beautiful.

Jacqueline Heard Hinton (B.F.A., Dance, 2001) performed in “Anais, A Dance Opera” at the La Nouvelle Eve in Paris and opened the Festival International de Théâtre in Casablanca, Morocco, in March.

Catherine Ann Jones (B.F.A., Drama, 1965) will perform the sixth production of her one-woman play, Freud's Oracle, in Dallas May 2019.

Harrison Gordon Butler (M.F.A., Theatre, 2010) directed “The Laramie Project” at the Arena Stage in Hollywood in March. Butler was named “Teacher of the Year” in 2017 as a movement instructor for the Theatre of Arts Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Daniel Butler (B.A., Drama, 1982) was recently named 2018 "Music Counsel of the Year" by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel in Los Angeles, CA. Dan is currently the head of Business Affairs & Legal in Music for Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.

Rachel Winfree (M.F.A. Drama & Theatre for Youth Communities, 1979) is producing, performing in and directing INAPPROPRIATE, for NEO Ensemble Theatre in Los Angeles, in collaboration with her husband Michael Caldwell. The show will run in May at The Actor's Workout Studio in North Hollywood.

Julia-Lorenz Olson (B.A., Theatre and Dance, 2008) and Philip Olson (B.A., Theatre and Dance, 2007) host a new PBS show called "Two Cents", a new weekly series about personal finance for millennials and Gen Z that airs on Facebook Watch.

Will Davis (M.F.A., Directing, 2013), Chicago's American Theater Company’s artistic director, listed in New City Stage’s “Players 2018: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago.”