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The Spring 2010 New News Starts Now

The Spring  2010 News, as it happens:

From David Kahn: The Bay Area Critics Circle Award Nominations came out yesterday, and THE KITE RUNNER is nominated for nine awards, including:

Best Original Script (the other nominations in this category include new plays by Sarah Ruhl and Tony Kushner)
Entire Production
Principle Performance, Male
Director
Ensemble
Set Design
Sound Design
Fight Choreography
Lighting Design

Congratulations to Matt Spangler and all involved with the development of THE KITE RUNNER at SJSU and at SJ Rep.

TRFT Alumni Coby Bell joins USA series

Dr. Alison McKee’s TA 201 seminar from the Department of Television-Radio-Film-Theatre performs "An Education in Musical Chairs" at SJSU's CFA-sponsored Day of Action against cuts in public education on March 4, 2010. The piece was written, directed, and performed entirely by TRFT students (with an assist from Mari Aranoff).

Super Hero Party Clown test Screening at Cinequest, below:

SUPER HERO PARTY CLOWN, Feb. 28 at 9:30 pm at the California Theatre (Cinequest screening) Read the San Jose Mercury News article on this and other Spartan Film Studio Films

Cheer Up Sam story in the Mercury News This Spartan Film Studios feature premiered Thursday night at the Camera 3 in downtown San Jose. CHEER UP, SAM directed by recent alum Matt Falkenthal, produced by Spartan Film Studios (crewed by 40 TRFT students) had its World Premiere theatrical release sponsored by Wave Magazine and Emerging Artists Productions) 

This just in from professor Kathleen Normington about her play "An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein" at the Dragon Theatre in Palo Alto. " The big news is that we have many current and former students from our department involved in all aspects of production.

Graduates Caitlin Dissinger and Joey Sandin are wonderful in the production, hilarious! Drew Jones, a current student is also fabulous and an actor to watch. Will Brown, a graduate student here rounds out the cast. Simone Hamilton is our very efficient and professional stage manager and Michelle Escoto has been a huge help back stage. Faculty member, Steve Shumway created an amazing lighting design. The students are all being paid for their work and have impressed everyone at the theatre. Reviews for our production have been extremely positive. All in all I think we have done our department proud!

If you could share this in the news letter, Barnaby, that would be great!" The show runs through Feb 14th. Here's the link for ticket info:

DRIFTING ELEGANT directed by Amy Glazer, produced by Spartan Film Studios (crewed by 40  TRFT students) and featuring SJSU alum Coby Bell has been distributed by Cenetic Media and is available for purchase and to rent at Amazon.com.

Mark Tran’s All About Dad was named one the top ten films by an Asian American director in 2009.   Also making the list Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock (ranked 9th – just after All About Dad!

Check the link for the entire list:

More good news: SUPER HERO PARTY CLOWN (directed by recent SJSU alum Jeremy Inman last summer and crewed by 40 SJSU students will have a test screening on February 28 at 9:30 pm in the California Theatre.

Here the link for ticket info:

Also see our student shorts:

Elizabeth Engelman will be presenting at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences to be held June 2-5 in Honolulu. Elizabeth is in the Theatre Arts Master’s program, and her paper, “Idiot's Delight: Censorship and the Adaptation Process,” is a product of Dr. Ethel Walker’s TA 221 Performance History class. Congratulations to both Elizabeth and Dr. Walker.

Go see TRFT Acting professor Marc Pinate at the Magic Theatre in OEDIPUS EL REY. The show runs through Feb 28.

Alumni on TV! Matt McTighe appeared in the new Ray Romano drama: MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE and OMAR MILLER is a featured performer on CSI: MIAMI