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Meet the Artist Series--
This program was created to serve the IUPUI as well as the surrounding community. This program gives insight to various artists, the process of creating art, with a question and answer session afterwards. This program is in the first year and is offered once a semester. (See sample speaker bio inforamtion below.) Next year's speakers have been chosen and that information will appear on the Communication Studies web site and in the next Communication Corner newsletter.
Meet The Artist Series: Sponsored by the Theatre and Performance Certificate Program, The Department of communication Studies, and The School of Liberal Arts--
October 4, 2006 Speaker: This season is Ms. Allen's tenth at the artistic helm of the IRT. Her time at the theatre spans 24 of the company's 34 years: beginning as the IRT's first literary manager-dramaturg in 1980, Allen then served ten years as associate artistic director under mentors Tom Haas and Libby Appel before she was named the IRT's fourth artistic director in 1996. During Allen's tenure, the IRT has significantly expanded its education services, establishing the Discovery Series (a fully produced, curriculum-based series of plays for Indiana yourth), a year-round program of classes for children, an adult continuing education program, a teacher-training program, and a summer Conservatory for Yourth. Her collaboration with Still has brought the theatre two prestigious grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, as well as numerous grants to support the creation of new work from the National Endowment for the Arts. That passion for nurturing new work extends to the inauguration of a new Central Indiana playwrighting for youth competition this year (YPIP), and the IRT's hosting of the Bonderman Playwrighting for Yourth Symposium that biennially gathers playwrights from across the country.
March 7, 2007 Speaker: Robert Neal has been working in the professional theatre for 20 years. Some of the theatres he has worked with include the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Blackstone Theatre and Bailwick Repertory Theatre, both in Chicago, American Players' Theatre in Wisconsi, the Oklahoma, Kentucky, and former Indianapolis Shakespeare Festivals, Shadowape Theatre Company, The Brown County Playhouse, The Phoenix Theatre, and Pennsylvania Center Stage to name a few. He has also performed throughout Germany in a two-person show, All About Shakespeare, which he co-wrote and directed as well as playing Prospero in The Tempest at the English-American Theatre Festival of Dusseldorf, Germany. From 1996 to 1999, Neal was the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Indiana Shakespeare Company in Bloomington, Indiana.
Watch for next year's series announcements with details.
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Summer Camp Program--
The Theatre and Performance Certificate Program is happy to announce that along with the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Liberal Arts will offer summer camps. Please see https://www.iunat.iupui.edu/registration/sessions.asp?action=get_session_list&session_type_id=30 for details and sign-up information.