Campus InSight: The e-mail newsletter of the Department of Theatre, School of Arts and Performance, SUNY Brockport
Photo: Davida Bloom Dr. Davida Bloom (left) appeared in the title role of The Allergist’s Wife at the Jewish Community Center last spring; and this past fall, longtime associate faculty member Susan Hopkins, assistant professor Ruth Childs (right), and 2005 graduate Liam Scahill appeared at the same theatre in Brooklyn Boy.
 Photo: Ruth Childs

In the meantime, across town, faculty scene designer P. Gibson Ralph designed scenery for Shipping Dock Theatre’s fall production of Kilt.

Department alumna and associate faculty member Maria Scipione has been directing for TYKES (Theatre Young Kids Enjoy), a new children’s theatre based in Rochester, co-founded by Brockport alumna Gina Donohue (nee Magnera).
Photo: Bill Hulfish

Music faculty member Bill Hullfish has been playing regional engagements around Rochester (including Fourth of July in Brockport) with his Golden Eagle String Band.
 

Further afield, costume faculty member Gail Argetsinger (photo right), at the invitation of the Hill Cumorah Pageant, assembled a display of costumes she had created for the pageant over the years.

Department Chair Frank Kuhn directed Michael Frayn’s Noises Off  for the Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado last summer.

  
Photo: Michael Krickmire

Associate faculty member Michael Krickmire directed a production that became a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Festival in New York City last July.

  

Professor Oh-Kon Cho recently had seven articles accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre.

 

Gary Musante has received a $3,000 Technology Initiative Grant from the College to install a new computer and software for sound design.