Audrey Visscher 22′ is a double major in theatre and film/media. She was recently awarded first place at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Works for her presentation on her experience working as the light designer for URI’s play, Silent Sky.
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The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department opens an uncertain season next month with a play about a pioneering group of women “computers” who helped scientists map the stars and night sky.
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While the pandemic has dropped the curtain on theater productions from Broadway to Kingston, the URI Theatre Department has come up with a creative alternative.
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For the 2020 Tony Awards, Andrew Burnap ’13 was nominated for BEST ACTOR in a leading role (play) for his role as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance. The Broadway production received 11 nominations in total, including “Best Play.”
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New Assistant Professor of Theatre Technology and Design James Horban says he’s always searching for ways to integrate interactive technologies into learning environments so that his students are exposed to the most current production methods.
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When our theatre season ended abruptly this semester because of the coronavirus pandemic, so too did Jeremy Chiang’s expected stage swansong. Chiang, who enjoys any excuse to sing, was to play the equally song-obsessed Prince Herbert in the season-ending musical, “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”
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Theatre – Stage Manangement
“It is encouraging to see how applicable my stage management skills are throughout the entertainment industry and it is reassuring to be able to enter the job market knowing I enjoy managing a variety of performing arts.”
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Theatre and Communication Studies
“I am most proud of my independent project that I started called “Our Voices” where I received a $2,000 grant from the Dean of Libraries to purchase plays and theatre works about people or color and or written by people of color.”
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Anthropology, Political Science, and Theatre
“The College of Arts and Sciences allowed me to tailor my academic experience to my interests and goals, and I’m very prepared for life after graduation because of it.”
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URI’s first theater production of the semester, “Richard III,” has been transformed from Shakespeare’s second longest play into a 90-minute, fast-paced, action drama.
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Tony Estrella ’93 graduated with a double major in English and Theatre. He now works as an actor, director, writer, producer, artistic director of The GAMM Theatre in Warwick, Rhode Island, and instructor in our Department of Theatre.
Continue reading "Tony Estrella ’93 on His Accomplishments in the Worlds of Theatre, Film, and Academia"Two of our recent graduates are competing in the final stages of selection for two of the most renowned international scholarships for postgraduate study. Madison Cook-Hines, of Coventry, a 2019 graduate in theater, and Autumn Guillotte, of North Kingstown, a 2018 graduate in history and philosophy, are finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship; Cook-Hines is also a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship.
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Erick Betancourt ’12 visited URI Theatre students to talk about the power of theatre to transform lives. For him, it gave a sense of purpose after two years in prison for a felony drug conviction. Since graduating from URI, Erick has gotten his master’s degree at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, earned membership to the legendary Actors Studio, appeared in numerous TV shows (including a recurring role on the CBS hit “Blue Bloods”) and is currently performing in Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company in “The Prince of Providence.”
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The current renovations underway at our Fine Arts Center are just the first stage of transformation for this vibrant space of arts and culture on campus.
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Amanda Downing Carney, South Kingstown, RI, native, entered URI as an undecided major. She states that her advisor encouraged her to take a diverse courses in help her find her niche. She enrolled in Professor David Howard’s costume history class, influenced by the artsy shows she watched on television and memories of her grandmother had […]
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