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BILL ALBERT - (dir., playwright, SM, set
design, sound design,
technician) - [Middle Amana, Iowa]
Currently I am focusing on rewriting my first novel and will begin
marketing it before the
end of the year. I have written and published several short stories in
the past few years
and am editor of two newsletters. I have been an active volunteer for
Iowa County
Ambulance for three years and became certified as a Nationally
Registered Emergency
Medical Technician-Basic in July.
email: squad51@netins.net
GREG ARMKNECHT - (playwright) - [Austin]
email: garmknecht@hotmail.com
ELIZABETH ARNOLD (formerly known as "ROSA") -
(actor)
- [New York]
BA / MFA actor at UI 1983-88
Still living and working in New York City. Celebrated 20 years of
Marriage in June.
Still have 3 dogs, and an AEA and SAG card. Finished a musical
workshop reading of Esmeralda
by Steve Lutvak for the Rep. Theatre of St. Louis. Also did an
operetta of Applemando's
Dream's for the Vineyard and Tribecca Performing Arts Center.
Had my third
audition for Madame T. in B'ways Les Miz - (close but no
cigar............yet.) Also up for Jane Eyre, Beauty
and the Beast.
At the beginning of the year I was seen in The Last Night of
Ballyhoo at both
Syracuse Stage and Virginia Stage Companies. Need a job for the
fall, call me!
email: EPATheRose@aol.com
KATE ASPENGREN - (playwright) - [Iowa City]
Currently Visiting Ass't Professor-UI Theatre Arts Dept.
I still live in Iowa City and now that I've bought a house in
Coralville it doesn't look
like I'll be leaving anytime soon. (I still find it incredible
that any reputable
financial institution would give a home loan to a playwright.)
I'm an adjunct
faculty member at UI where I teach a playwriting class or two each
semester. I'm
also a visiting faculty member in women's studies at Cornell College in
Mount
Vernon. My play, FLYER, is due to be published by Samuel French
sometime this
fall. I'm also a newly certified EMT (emergency medical
technician) and hope to
begin working part-time in that field soon.
email: KPTB@aol.com
ROBB BARNARD - (actor) - [New York]
(MFA acting, '94)
In September of '94 Robb got his Equity Card with THEATREWORKS/USA
touring
around the country and pretty much figured he will never find any work
that is
not on a TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences) Contract until his hair
really does
turn at least 30% gray, and after Five tours with them, he got a
permanant
position with a Puppeteer, Jim West, and has been manipulating objects
since
then. Going on Six years in the same job--Who would have ever
thought I
could hold onto a job for that long! During the past SEVEN!
summers I
have found work at a wonderful place in Lenox, MA called Belvoir
Terrace. It is
an Arts Camp for girls from 8-16. I teach acting, direct 4 shows, and
really
enjoy life in the Berkshires for 10 weeks. I purchased a studio in
Brooklyn, NY 3 years ago, and it sits empty a lot. So if you need a
place in NYC
for a short stay, give me a shout, I might be out of town! 197 nights
last year...
email: RobbBarnard@aol.com
web: http://members.aol.com/rbarnard/
CARSON BECKER - (playwright) - [Chicago]
Graduate playwright at U of Iowa. .... Currently, Member of Chicago
Dramatists Workshop.
email: carsongb@aol.com
KIM BERG - (actor) - [Los Angeles]
University of Iowa student (actor)
email: saim@pacbell.net
JENNIFER BILLS - (actor) - [Chicago]
University of Iowa student (actor) from 1988 to 1992 (BA)
JOHN BLISS - (writer, director, would-be
pornographer) -
[Chicago]
Playwrights Workshop 1983-86. Newly 40 year old freelance writer,
filmmaker, and seeker of
funds. Founder (with Brian Perkinson, Iowa film grad) of Barbecuing in
the Rain
Productions. Three years later, we're still working on Money Dance, our
documentary opus
about male strippers. Investors, call today!
email: J_Bliss@excite.com
RYAN BOLLETINO - (actor) - [Chicago]
(BA '98)
Ryan's a company member with The Hypocrites (www.the-hypocrites.com),
just coming off their most successful season to date and acting in
their
productions of Machinal (Winner of 6 Jeff Awards and 3 After
Darks and
the critically acclaimed Balm in Gilead). Been in Chicago since
graduation.
email: thebollo@yahoo.com, ryan.bollo@the-hypocrites
SCOTT BRADLEY (nee SMITH) -
(Director/performer/writer/Artistic
Director) - [Seattle]
('84-'89)
Currently Artistic Director for Open Circle Theater in Seattle,
recently featured in
Seattle Magazine (Sept.99) and L.A.'s PARABASIS Playwright's Journal
(Oct.99). His
production of Jeff Goode's POONA THE FUCKDOG will complete a
record-breaking five-month
run when it closes at Seattle's Re-bar in September 99. Scott is
currently developing for
the stage an adaptation of the book "An Evening at The Garden Of
Allah", a
"memory" of Seattle's infamous 1940's gay Burlesque scene, slated for
March
2000. Visit www.opencircletheater.org for updates (when it's updated,
of course)
email: jonnystax@yahoo.com
CARA BROSTROM - [Edinburgh, Scotland]
(BA'
04)
Currently residing in Edinburgh, Scotland. Theatre-making in
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
email: caraeb@gmail.com
DAN BROOKS - (playwright) - [New York]
(BA '00)
Dan is a playwright and actor living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the capital
of the world. He
is a frequent winner and even more frequent near-miss at the Poetry
Slam at the Nuyorican
Poets Cafe and the Urbana Slam Open, and is currently working on a new
full-length play, a
novel, a collection of poems and short plays, and two screenplays.
Theoretical works of
art do not pay the rent, so he is also employed at Performance Space
122 in the East
Village.
email: danpbrooks@hotmail.com
LYLE BROWNE - (actor, playwright) - [Chicago]
Currently graduate student at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
email: altb@mail.idt.net
ADAM BURTON - (actor, graphic artist, board
op, stage manager,
writer) - [Iowa City]
Adam is still living in Iowa City and enjoying the heck out of it. He
eventually
finished his degree in French Literature (??!?) and has managed to
meander from
one techie-type job to another, finally landing at NCS where he shares
a
double-wide cubicle with John Smick. They both have the boss-types
totally
hoodwinked into believing that they know how educational testing
software should
work, so they are tasked with designing interfaces which are then
inflicted on
hundreds of thousands of hapless high school students every year.
Once in
a blue moon Adam still makes it to No Shame Theatre, but Smick almost
always
bails -- hence the term "pulling a Smick" as in "He was going to
go, but then he pulled a Smick on me."
email: adam@avalon.net
DAVE BUSCH - (actor) - [Los Angeles]
(BA '94)
David lives in Los Angeles producing animated commercials for a company called Klasky Csupo. David also does voice work for animation on the side, having recently done voices for the movie "Racing Stripes," an upcoming cartoon pilot called "Tiffany" to be aired on Nickelodeon, and a series of shorts for the reality show "Bridezilla."
Dave also just got married 6 weeks ago to the beautiful Cadry Nelson, another Iowa Theatre alumni. (Class of
1997)
email: spikeandjezebel@yahoo.com
NICOLE BUTLER - (actor) - [Los Angeles]
email: heavnsgirl@aol.com
MELISSA BUTTS - - [Los Angeles]
email: mbutts0321@excite.com
KRIS BYERLY - (stage
manager) - [Dayton, OH]
(BA '02)
Kris moved to Dayton at
the beginning of the year to take a job as stage manager at La Comedia Dinner
Theatre. Kris moved to a better apartment (in a safer suburb) south of
Dayton in June and is preparing for Miss Saigon rehearsals now.
email: phantmchic@hotmail.com
AARON CAIN - (actor, voiceover actor) - [Los
Angeles]
email: sortof@earthlink.net
CHRISSY CALKINS - (actor) - [Chicago]
Chrissy lives in Chicago with husband, Jeff and 2 year old daughter,
Annalicia. She loves
being a mother -- trips to the park, zoo, potty training, etc. She
hasn't done as much
theatre since Annalicia's arrival, although she spent much of the last
year working with
The Moving Dock Theatre Company. They performed a very interesting
piece of movement
theatre this past summer and hope to do more of the same kind of work.
She teaches
creative movement and drama in and around Chicago to kids 2 years old
through high school.
At least the day job is creative.
email: westeeles@juno.com
JOHN CAMERON - [Iowa City] Currently, new
Head of Acting
Department, University of Iowa!
email: john-cameron@uiowa.edu
THERESA CARSON - [Fargo, ND]
During the winter of 1994 Theresa moved to Durango, Colorado to become
a park ranger at
Mesa Verde National Park - giving tours through the ancient cliff
dwellings. In 1997 she
decided to go back to graduate school to get her Masters so that she
could teach.
She graduated from the University of Utah in May 2000 with a MFA in
Directing. In
her last year there she was awarded the Utah Teaching Assistant
Award. This summer
Theresa moved back to the Midwest. She accepted an Assistant
Professor position at
Minnesota State University - Moorhead. "It's great to be back in
the Midwest
but I sure do miss those mountains..."
email: Treecarson@aol.com
CHRISTIAN CARTANO - [Los Angeles]
email: cartano@elvis.com
KATIE CENSKY - [Los Angeles]
email: ktskee@peoplepc.com
DOMINIC CHACON - [Philadelphia, PA]
BA 2002
Dominic Chacon is living and working as a lighting designer in Philadelphia,
PA.
email: domchacon@gmail.com
CRAIG CHESLER - [New York]
email: cornfly@netzero.net
SEAN CLARK - [Los Angeles]
MFA Playwriting 1988
Supervising Producer, "Early Edition" (CBS - Saturday nights);
effective August
1999 - joining faculty of University of Nevada, Las Vegas to teach
Screenwriting in a new
graduate film program; Wife--Stephanie; Daughter--Ciara
email: pclark1@flash.net
RICK CLEVELAND - [Los Angeles]
MFA Playwriting 1995
Rick Cleveland is a writer and Co-Executive Producer on HBO's "Six Feet
Under." Before that he was a writer and co-producer on "The West
Wing," for which he won an Emmy Award. He is also a commentator
for
NPR's "All Things Considered."
email: gus213@aol.com
DAVID COFFMAN - [San Francisco]
MFA '93 ... Currently, he is production manager at the San Francisco
Opera.
email: Stephanddave@mindspring.com
or dcoffman@sfopera.com (at
work)
CLINT CORLEY - (actor, director, writer) -
[Chicago]
BFA University of Evansville; MFA University of Iowa
Clint Corley received a BFA from the University of Evansville and a MFA
from the
University of Iowa. He recently wrote and directed The Art of War:
a Play on
Relationships for the Bailiwick Directors' Festival. He directed
the play Desert
Drive-in by Brett Neveu for Room 41/Suck productions. He served as
director and script
consultant on the one person show Villains by Charles Picard
which was commissioned
by the Chicago Sherlock Holmes Society. He has also directed projects
for the Naked
"i" Festival and the Around the Coyote Festival. While at the
University of Iowa
he wrote and directed a sketch comedy show called Clint's Shame.
email: clintc@nwu.edu
JULIE CROSSEN - (actor) - [Chicago]
UI graduate, '83-'87
Julie currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband Keith
Youngmann and their
three cats Alex, Schatzi and Tedd. Since moving to Chicago, she has
worked at several
theatres including the Dreamstreet, Lifeline, Ivanhoe(with UI alums
James Finney and
Chrissy Calkins), Bailiwick Rep, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble and is a
company member of
Kaleidoscope Children's Theatre. She also had the great pleasure of
working with the late
Michael Barto at the Body Politic. Julie does commercials, industrial
films and print work
and recently shot a film called "Out of the Blue" which also featured
UI alum
Jane deLaubenfels. This fall she'll be doing the new Theater for Young
Audiences at
Northbrook.
email: k.youngmann@gte.net
ERIC SCOTT CURTIS - (actor) - [Chicago]
'99
After returning to Chicago from studying Shakespeare at the Oxford
School of Drama in
August 1999, Eric has kept himself busy. He has been doing sketch
comedy with the
Big Fat Nude Hippo Show. He has recently been cast in a multi
ethnic performance of
"The Empress of China" at Tinfish. He is understudying one of the
leads
and is in the Ensemble. The play opens September 29, 2000 and
goes through November
18. It is a 10 week, 40 performances run. He has also been
cast in the season
of The Excalibur Shakespeare Company. He will be doing something
for them in January
or so. He is also currently studying Improv at the Second City to
go along with some
other acting classes.
email: ecurtis7@hotmail.com