OPENING SOON!

The Pacific University Department of Theatre & Dance presents The Independent Female, a high-energy comedy about feminist agitation, corporate greed, and outdated assumptions.  The play, by Joan Holden, provides a hilarious commentary on the attitudes that provoked the second-wave feminism of the 20th century as well as that movement’s idealism and excesses.

The show runs a brisk 45 minutes and features a cast of five student actors—Case Middleton, Madalyn Clemence, Haley Hadduck, Sean Lindsay, and Tori Galiel—supported by stage managers Sarah Layton and Kimberly Stites. 

The Independent Female will have four performances in the Tom Miles Theatre, Warner Hall, at Pacific University’s Forest Grove Campus.  The show will run Thursday through Saturday, October 9 through 11, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, October 12, March 9 at 2:00 PM.  For tickets and information, please call the Pacific University Box Office at (503) 352 – 2918.

From Pacific Theatre graduates to working professionals: 

• Elizabeth Houghton (2008 grad) is in rehearsal for
  Artists Repertory Theatre's production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.
• Matthew Sa (2007 grad), back in Portland after a year at
  Actor's Theatre of Louisville, has just been cast in Neil Simon's
  Biloxi Blues at Profile Theatre. 

In other news, we are pleased to welcome TAL SANDERS, who
joins the department as an Assistant Professor of Theatrical Design and Technology.  Tal has designed scenery and lighting for theatre and entertainment for more than twenty years. His credits include design projects for Lincoln Center, Universal Studios Theme Park, and everywhere in between. 

Dance professor Jennifer Camp is currently in rehearsal with
Polaris Dance Theatre of Portland for their Fall 2008 season.

This summer, theatre professor Ellen Margolis has had her plays
produced at City Theatre (Miami, Florida), Toy Box Theatre (New
York), and Portland Theatre Works.  Her short play A Little Chatter, commissioned by Mile Square Theatre in 2006, is forthcoming in a  volume of baseball plays from Playscripts, Inc. 

A special welcome to two new instructors:

Gemma Whelan (Acting) and
Mary Hunt (Contemporary Dance).

The Department of

Theatre and Dance

offers high-quality performing arts to the campus and
community while providing an outstanding theatre
education to students within the liberal arts context.

The department offers Major and Minor degrees in Theatre,
and a Minor in Dance.  Students in these programs develop
skills in acting, directing, dance, choreography, playwriting,
design, communication, and management. Our programs prepare
students for graduate school or careers in theatre, television,
film, teaching, or public relations.

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