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production then moved to New York and he lost track of it. Five years later, Hobson decided that it was time to go to New York City. He arrived in New York on a Friday in fall 2008. The following Monday, he was trying out for parts in “Next to Normal,” the renamed “Feeling Electric.” Feeling he might look too young for the part, he donned a suit and tried to grow a beard for his first audition. After that Monday tryout, he got a callback. And then another. After several months, he was offered the role of

, Regency Room Join the conversation with PLU staff, faculty and community partners as they consider questions of vocation and justice centered around food production and consumption. 4:30 p.m.: Lute Talks: What’s Your Passion? and storytelling workshop | Session III Anderson University Center, Room 201 6 p.m. Keynote speech: Dune Ives: “How PLU Prepared Me to Tackle Some of the World’s Biggest Challenges” Anderson University Center, Regency Room Ives discusses her journey from graduate school at PLU to

knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience

. Interesting. I feel like that rhetoric is still common in airports. Yes, absolutely. You’ll encounter it a lot when you travel. This rhetoric is trying to make us lower the threshold for reporting what we see or what we hear in our everyday environment to law enforcement.Department of Communication, Media & Design Arts A strategic and creative curriculum to prepare students for careers in diverse fields including print and digital design, journalism, PR & advertising, film & media production, and studio

dedication to the craft. Are you ready to work, HARD? Twelve hour days, for weeks on end including weekends, most of your career, hard? Are you ready to smile when then someone well-intentioned says, “Oh Theatre, that’s FUN!” but you haven’t had a single day off in three weeks? At 18 you are so full of energy, I remember. However, a  life in theatre is a marathon, not a sprint; a marriage not a tryst. A bohemian lifestyle seems romantic at 18, but the romance fades. If you can really look at that reality

dedication to the craft. Are you ready to work, HARD? Twelve hour days, for weeks on end including weekends, most of your career, hard? Are you ready to smile when then someone well-intentioned says, “Oh Theatre, that’s FUN!” but you haven’t had a single day off in three weeks? At 18 you are so full of energy, I remember. However, a  life in theatre is a marathon, not a sprint; a marriage not a tryst. A bohemian lifestyle seems romantic at 18, but the romance fades. If you can really look at that reality

known as green millet, the grain is a high-protein food staple and more nutritionally dense than rice. The National Science Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control

acclaimed and commercially successful video game series of all time, generating sales in excess of $1 billion. And it wasn’t just video games – the franchise included best-selling novels, soundtracks and so on. Then, after completing pre-production of Halo 3 and developing a partnership between Microsoft and Peter Jackson, the Academy Award-winning director of the Lord of the Rings films, Parsons did what many would consider unthinkable. He quit. For Parsons, this decision goes back to the same question

Spring Happenings: On-Campus Events This May at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / May 5, 2015 May 5, 2015 TACOMA, Wash. (May 4, 2015)— May is a busy month here at PLU. In fact, no other month comes close to packing-in as many on-campus events.Featuring a highly anticipated theatre production, numerous music ensemble performances, Scandinavian heritage events, countless Capstone presentations, and much more, May’s assortment of happenings serves as a countdown to graduation and represents the

PLU professor composes music for ‘timeless’ Chinese opera featuring student and faculty performers, libretto by Zhang Er Posted by: Kari Plog / October 17, 2016 October 17, 2016 By Matthew Salzano '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 20, 2016)- In the opera titled “Fiery Jade — Cai Yan,” the ancient story of Chinese poet Cai Yan proves an excellent example of diverse perspectives and student-faculty collaboration.The opera’s first production runs Nov. 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov