So I'm out at the Ovation Awards here in LA (they're LA's version of the Tonys) and who to my wondering eyes doth both present and WIN an Ovation for Best Actor (as Martin Kerner in Secrets of the Trade at the Black Dahlia Theatre) but fellow Towson Alumni John Glover! Yay! Here's some pictures of one of our own doing great!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyduck/sets/72157609430292243/

(...and yah, that's Jimmy Smits handing him the award...)

OK. I have 0 degrees of separation.
I went to school with Jimi and of course know John.

Jay

hi

found this stuff thought I would respond and post.

Paul-dude when you get back to the east please look me up, I miss you brother.

So its been a crazy couple years. here is what is going on.

Living just outside DC in Silver Spring.

Closing "The Marriage of Figaro" with Constellation Theatre company this week (performance Thursday-Sunday) www.constellationtheatre.org

My company, The Inkwell, just celebrated its 1st year of exisistance and annouced that we recieved 9,000 dollars from the DC Arts Commision towards our festival in the middle of August at H Street Theatre. The company has been helping the growth of New Works in DC and creating a hub for new works and artists in the DC area.

Working at WILL Interactive as an Associate producer and a film editor. very cool stuff www.willinteractive.com

Lots of other things in the hopper for this year...but would love to see anyone and everyone if you want to come down our out to DC.

Lee

Hey all,

Just wanted to pass along news that I will be appearing in as many as three Orioles commercials for MASN this season. It is part of their "Defining Moments" campaign. It should start airing very soon since baseball season is upon us and I signed a release for them to air it all season. One of them will just be me and there may be two others that I have one or two lines in. It was one of the most fun things I've ever done and can't wait to see it. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm on Facebook if you haven't added me yet, so please do add me and keep in touch! All the best for the rest of 2009!

Hey all you fellow Alums!

I just wanted to report from The Windy City that the Towson legacy will live on.

Lights Out Theatre Company is a brand new theatre company based in Chicago and will be opening its first play this July, Lights Out Theatre Company's One Night Stand, a night of short plays and one-acts including two world premiers written by Mary Rose O'Connor and R Alex Kliner.

LOTC is an ensemble of 8 fellow gradutes: Mary Rose O'Connor, R Alex Kliner, Emily Levin, Michael Carothers, Christopher Moore, Haily Wineland, Jessica Neilson, Jason Crutchfield, with friends Caitlin Fitzwater as our NY based web designer, Allison Ernst as our Baltimore based Graphic Designer, and DC based Eric Guerrero as our print designer.

check us out on the web at
www.lightsouttheatre.org
or on Facebook.

Hey all, one of my commercials for the Orioles is currently online. Check it out at http://www.mymasn.com/video/video/show?id=2025894%3AVideo%3A9270

Gershon,

Great Commercial. I enjoyed seeing it.

Jay

Hi All,

I guess I can make a post. I am unfortunately out of the theatre business for a little bit. I was working as the PA with the Baltimore Opera Company, but as I'm sure you all know BOC filed for chapter 11 in November, and eventually chapter 7 and liquidated all of their assets. Now I am working downtown with the Oxford Club, an affiliate of Agora Financial. But hopefully at some point in the future, I'll be able to find my way back to the stage. Hope everyone is doing well.

I wound up in a very strange area of theatre: ticketing. I spent over 3 years at Arena Stage in DC (including winning the International Ticketing Association's 2009 Outstanding Box Office honor out of 23 countries and 1200 members). Then the Washington Nationals hired me on to do Ticket Operations for them, so here I am...in sports. I keep calling the afternoon games matinees! Let me know if anyone wants in for a game if you're in DC.

Still Stage Managing on the side, including being Tim Gunn's SM for a benefit last year, as well as doing DC Fringe for a second year in a row.

Hey TU folk,

Just wanted to pass along the good news that I will be starting graduate school at Ohio University in the fall, where I will be pursuing an MFA in playwriting.

I'm back in Bmore at the moment spending some time with my girlfriend before heading to OU in September (I spent an AWESOME and pretty theatrically successful year in Chicago last year for those who don't know). If you're around, I'd love to catch up!

Otherwise same ole same ole. Writing plays. Playin music. Workin office jobs. My play "SPLIT" will finally receive a reading in the Windy City this coming May at Route 66 theatre company. And I've got some other projects up my sleeve which will hopefully come to fruition soon. Until then, I'm just pluggin' away!

Hope to see some of you at the Alumni thinger tonight!
Ira

PS: Robert, Agora is awesome! I used to work at Pub Services.

Hi Everyone!

I finish my Master's this summer (in teaching). Teaching full time theatre (and English:( ) I have piloted the program at the High School (where theatre was non-existent until I arrived). We have done 2 shows with bare minimum essentials and that included our inaugural dinner theatre!:)

Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight!

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Hello TU Fam,
I am currently in the process of publishing my first children’s book. It will be unleashed unto the world in the fall of 09…more details to come...As far as theatre, I am in the process of creating a afterschool theatre program with Riverside County Public Schools in CA. My hope is to have the program ready by the fall of 09 as well. I hope all is will with everyone and we all continue to CREATE!

Hey everybody!

Got hitched in September 2008. Completed the internship program at the Kennedy Center where I interned for Theater for Young Audiences, and am now the Program Assitant for American College Theater Festival. We just hosted the KCACTF National Festival a couple of weeks ago, which was an incredible experience. No dramaturgical projects right now, but doing some self-motivated research on whatever catches my fancy.

Definately happy and looking forward to what the future might bring. Hope you've all been well.

XOXO Taylor

Sorry I missed the shindig last night! I'm hoping to make it back there for something official eventually. I got married last September 6th during Hurricane Hanna. More dramatic lighting than anything I've ever seen on stage. I am still with the Delaware Shakespeare Festival and was promoted from Production Manager to General Manager last fall. Please send me your resumes because I'd really like to give work to my fellow Towson grads. lauren@delshakes.org.
Best,
Lauren

Heylo all. Great to see familiar faces at the Alumni Night. My wife Brandi and I just celebrated our 2 year anniversary. We have also been chasing around our bouncing baby boy Logan. I am currently working with Economy Auto Rental in Towson Maryland. It pays the bills. By the end of the year, if not before, Brandi, Logan and I are moving down to Orlando Florida to take advantage of the Theatre scene there.
It is always good to hear good news and looks like there is a good amount posted here. :)
-GRAIL