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. “Wait, I think I hear it over there,” said Smith, stopping a conversation about the how wrens seem to be drowning out all the other calls in this forest – and directing her microphone, with a parabolic reflector attached, at the call. Both listen intently, mics at the ready. After about a minute, the pair, satisfied they have captured a good sound track, turn off  their recorders and start up the conversation again. “I know I should probably study something else,” said Smith.”But I just love these

music directing for “Company,” and he created a small musical theater concert called “Not Your Grandma’s Showtunes” along with Kirsten deLohr Helland ’10. (Helland also performed alongside Huertas in “Lizard Boy;” the third part in the cast — a three-person folk rock band — was played by William A. Williams.) “A lot of us yearned for musical theater, so we created our own opportunities here and there,” Huertas said of his time on campus. Huertas is thankful that he’s able to work in theater full

starring role in The Fern Shakespeare Company’s “Othello,” which opens December 6.Wallace, 23, attended high school in Texas, and chose Pacific Lutheran University for his fine arts undergraduate degree focused on acting and directing. He moved around a lot as a child. “I never felt like I belonged somewhere, and wanted that community feeling.” He found it at PLU.    Our signature rain and grey isn’t quite the weather found in the Dallas suburbs, where Wallace grew up. “But the weather encourages you

seemed like they produced really cool stuff there. I was delighted to find that their internship program is really robust and very supportive of interns, and it’s really rooted in the idea of introducing newer theater artists in training to theater practitioners who are already in the industry and have experience. There were two internships that I was looking at … the directing one and the teaching intern one, which is the one that I got. Both of them were really exciting to me, and they were also

. Now there are closer to a dozen—but probably still no other program quite like PLU’s. Rubin and Kitchen built PLU’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program from scratch—and now, after directing it since its inception, they are stepping away from leadership roles. As of June 1, PLU Associate Professor of English Rick Barot is stepping in—with excitement, and with gratitude. “Stan and Judith have been an incredible force,” Barot said. “They created a program that is very intricate, with a

, sister and brother died there. She was young, yet old enough to be put to work in the camp and survived not only the camp, but a forced labor camp in Germany, where she sabotaged bombs she was supposed to be creating to fight American troops, and then living in the woods after escaping with some friends from a forced march. But the story that brought out tissues to many in the audience Friday was the farewell glance from Ban’s mother. The last time she saw them, an S.S. officer was directing those