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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

meet urgent needs in Northwest Syria.Turkish troops, Syrian and Russian armies, and opposition forces negotiated and battled over resources and land. As the emergency coordinator for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Lander was on the ground in Southern Turkey, directing resources for the approximately 1.4 million internally displaced populations just over the border in Syria.    “Millions of people are crowded into tent camps, struggling to survive and constantly worried about

, and opposing teams would often begin directing their cheers at us, always in good spirit. The strangest US fan outfit I saw, was at the USA vs. Solvenia match. Three men wearing full body leotards and cowboy hats ran through the crowd before the match. One wore red, and the others white and blue. The leotards even covered their entire head and face.  I chased them down for a picture with another US family member. I imagine it was hot under there, but their dedication was appreciated and amazing

and information. Bannon left his adviser’s office inspired. “She helped me see that something I was really passionate about could be found in libraries,” he says. “I never would’ve made that connection.” Later that spring, Bannon was accepted into the University of Washington’s Master of Library and Information Science program. Now, 26 years later, Bannon is the New York Public Library’s first-ever Merryl and James Tisch Director, responsible for directing NYPL’s 88 neighborhood branches as well