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Editor’s Note: Warning; vulgarity used in title. Communications and Marketing student writer Alyssa Samuels ’25 shares her experience as musical director for the spring theatre production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ play Fucking A, which opens on April 14.
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Anne Washburn's 10 Out of 12 is a behind-the-scenes look at how theatre is made, inviting the audience into the complicated and fascinating rehearsal process, and ultimately reminding us of the joys of live performance.
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Juliet Davidson ’23 is spending her summer as a reporter for The Hudson Independent, a newspaper that covers the Westchester, N.Y., “Rivertowns” of Irvington, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Scarborough-on-Hudson, Ardsley-on-Hudson, and Dobbs Ferry.
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Household names like Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, and Stephen Colbert are just a few notable pat members of the Chicago improv group The Second City. This summer, Ben Leit ’22 will be studying comedy in a program hosted by this very group, in conjunction with Columbia College Chicago.
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The COVID-19 quarantine was often defined by feelings of boredom, loneliness, and anxiety. But for David Li ’24, the slog of pandemic “Blursdays” gave way to something far more positive: artistic inspiration. This summer, Li will be working on a dramatization of the quarantine experience through an Emerson project titled “Time(s) Out of Joint: Dramatizing Time Perceived in Social Isolation.”
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Theatre and psychology double major Gus Gonzalez ’21 was recently accepted into the Atlantic Acting School, where he will enter a two-and-a-half-year program that focuses on acting and the theatre business. Here, Gonzalez discusses the application process and his time at Hamilton.
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Anna Rasmussen’s ’21 summer internship at Freddie Mac served as a launch pad for her post-Hamilton career. Below are some of the economics major’s thoughts about her job search and college experience.
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From a desert in Somaliland to a campus residence hall room, a cast of Hamilton students and alumni will perform a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets this week in a production that explores the meaning of community during the pandemic that has altered life around the globe.
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Back home this summer, Christian Hanna ’23 organized a peaceful community demonstration to celebrate the lives of Black Americans killed by the police. He's committed to activism on campus, too.
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Theatre adapts, reflects, and, most importantly, survives. The industry is no stranger to abrupt, closure when the unexpected happens. Shakespeare himself lived through several recurrences of the plague, writing through quarantine restrictions, and imagining the new stories, characters, and worlds that would go on to be celebrated for hundreds of years.
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